Affleck and Obama are related through the Hinckleys from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the New England Historic Genealogical Society revealed in 2009, according to the Boston Herald. The pair are 11th cousins.
Brad Pitt is ninth cousins with former President Barack Obama. Brad Pitt and the 44th POTUS are linked through Edwin Hickman, a shared ancestor who died in Virginia in 1769, making them ninth cousins.
In honor of Independence Day, we've uncovered seven stars who are related to U.S. Presidents.
Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks lent his voice for the Abraham Lincoln documentary Killing Lincoln, which is fitting since he's reportedly related to our 16th president.
His mother was from a Portuguese family; their surname was originally "Fraga". His father had English ancestry, and through his line, Hanks is a distant cousin of President Abraham Lincoln and children's host Fred Rogers, both of whom he would portray in film roles. His parents divorced in 1960.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the USA - second cousin 6 times removed. John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA - 12th cousin thrice removed.
George Clooney is connected to the great emancipate, and Lucy Hanks is the woman we can thank. for this epic connection. According to Ancestry, Lucy is Lincoln's grandmother. and Clooney's fifth great grandmother, making them cousins.
With the exception of Martin Van Buren and perhaps Dwight D. Eisenhower, every president has ancestors from the British Isles, which in turn makes many of them distantly related to one another. John F. Kennedy was of pure Irish descent, Van Buren was of Dutch lineage; and Eisenhower was of German and Swiss heritage.
Meanwhile his Democratic rival, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, shares a common ancestor with Pitt's partner, actress Angelina Jolie. Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins twice removed linked by Jean Cusson of St. Sulpice, Quebec, who died in 1718.
Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, and the niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and geologist and volcanologist Barry Voight.
The common link: Mareen Duvall, a Frenchman who arrived in Maryland in the 1650s as an indentured servant and later became a successful, politically conservative land owner and merchant. Ancestry.com's research shows Duval is President Obama's 9th great-grandfather and Buffett's 6th great-grandfather.
Interestingly, Brad and Angelina are also distant cousins, as Henry II's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine was also the first wife of Louis VII of France, Philip II's father.
Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, said Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six US presidents his cousins: both Bushes, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and James Madison.
These endeavors — along with the six-figure pension all former presidents receive — have significantly contributed to the Obamas' net worth, which is at least $70 million, according to International Business Times.
Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married. Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time.
Abraham Lincoln has taken the highest ranking in each survey and George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt have always ranked in the top five while James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce have been ranked at the bottom of all four surveys.
Who is the only person never elected as president of the US?
Ford succeeded to the presidency when Nixon resigned in 1974, but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976. Ford is the only person to serve as president without winning an election for president or vice president.
Who is the closest living relative to Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln has no direct descendants alive today. Of his four sons he had with Mary Todd Lincoln, three died young. ... However, the last of the president's direct descendants, including his great-grandson Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died in 1985.
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.
Clooney has an older sister named Adelia (known as Ada). Cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was an aunt. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, who is married to singer Debby Boone.
