Why are the families of early Presidents NOT more celebrated or distinguished in American culture?

[Anonymous]

Not a founding father, but FDR’s kids were a mess. Between the 4 of them, they had 19 marriages!

[Anonymous]

I know the descendants of Taft and Theodore Roosevelt (yes also called Theodore Roosevelt). They’re pretty normal people, nice and unassuming as you’d expect from people generations removed from their famous ancestors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the descendants of Taft and Theodore Roosevelt (yes also called Theodore Roosevelt). They’re pretty normal people, nice and unassuming as you’d expect from people generations removed from their famous ancestors.

Theodore's side was the sane one. Husband's family were close to them in the early 1900s. Said nobody cared for FDR's side and those cousins were "peculiar" as they would put it mildly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people that lived in the 1700s and reproduced have a lot of descendants. The "magic"' is diffused.

I'm a descendant of the father of John Quincy Adams. It hasn't been an important fact in my life.

Sorry, descendant of the father of John Adams, lol...that's how important it's been.

Don't you get urges to write pamphlets?

Or pithy foresights?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people that lived in the 1700s and reproduced have a lot of descendants. The "magic"' is diffused.

I'm a descendant of the father of John Quincy Adams. It hasn't been an important fact in my life.

Sorry, descendant of the father of John Adams, lol...that's how important it's been.

Don't you get urges to write pamphlets?

Or pithy foresights?

I often get a strong desire to fly a kite in a thunderstorm. No relation to Ben Franklin, though. At least, as far as I know. He was philanderer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A fact I find interesting: Teddy Roosevelt was actually Theodore Roosevelt Jr, but never went by that, so his son was legally Theodore Roosevelt III, but went by Jr. This has continued to the present day where Theodore Roosevelt V is actually VI.

Was he actually named after his father or someone else who happened to also be a Theodore. Either way, his name wasn't LEGALLY jr.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite factoid about presidential relatives: John Tyler (who was born in 1790) has a grandson who is still alive today.

Not anymore… still very cool though.

There was a second one that died not that long ago.