have there ever been two presidents, same last name but of no relation in u.s. history?
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Yes. Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson. No relation at all.
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no they are the same with 2 different names
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This isn't the first time it has happened. John Quincy Adams (6th President) was the son of John Adams (2nd President). FDR and Teddy Roosevelt were 5th cousins. Should this be banned? Blood lines have nothing to do with it. They do not inherit the Presidency. They are elected to office. \n\nWhich brings up another point: Your comment "Due to the fact that the people dont actually elect the new president directly" is completely accurate. This is how it is outlined in the US Constitution. The President is actually elected by the States, not the people. It is up to the States to determine how they will vote.
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Nope, they are unrelated.\nP.W. Botha died earlier this week, he was the President os South\nAfrica from 1978?- 1990.\nPic Botha was an Aparthied Gov. official who gave an interview about this yesterday.
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It's a trick question! No U.S. president has ever had a twin themselves, and George W. Bush is the first president to be the father of twins (Jenna and Barbara)
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Benjamin Harrison is the only United States president from the state of Indiana. Not only was he the 23rd president (serving from 1889-1893), but he was also the centennial president, inaugurated 100 years after George Washington.
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Grover Cleveland, barely in the past century, did not attend college. Harry Truman was the last president to not have earned any higher education degree, but did attend school.
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There's no relation, there's never been a relation.\n\nThe Bush Administration simply exploited the fact that American's don't know the difference between Afghanastan and Iraq.\n\nIf they're Arabs, they must all be together, right?\n\nNot true.  Pretty sad too.
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Jefferson Davis-Kentucky, President of CSA\nand\nAbraham Lincoln-also of Kentucky, President of USA\nboth during the Civil War
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The 2 are not related, I think.
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Both are called "Mr. President."  It's up to them to remember whether they are currently in office or not!
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Well... Even though I think this was just posted by another uber-lib trying to take any crack at the administration that they can....\n\nWe know of at least 2 besides this recent accidental "shooting"... Aaron Burr, VP to Jefferson (The famous duel between Burr and Hamilton)... and Teddy Roosevelt (Not during his time as VP, but during his service time in military units)\n\nhard to get information on many of the older VP's on something like this. But we can probably assume more since the times in the earlier parts of US history had more people carrying around weaponry in places like the west. As well as others who may have served during the American Revolution etc....
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Both wrong. Three Presidents.\n\nJohn Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both on July 4, 1726.\nJames Monroe on July 4, 1731.
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Because one president, Grover Cleveland, was both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He is the only person to have served two non-consecutive terms.
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John Adams and John Quincy Adams is the correct answer.\n\nThere has also been a grandfather/grandson pair: William Henry Harrison (#9) and Benjamin Harrison (#23)
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There have been two that I know of:\n\nAndrew Johnson was voted into the Senate in 1874, 6 years after he completed Abraham Lincoln's term of office, and John Quincy Adams was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830, two years after being defeated in his bid for reelection to the Presidency.
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President\n\nGeorge Washington (1789-1797)\nJohn Adams (1797-1801)\nThomas Jefferson (1801-1809)\nJames Madison (1809-1817)\nJames Monroe (1817-1825)\nJohn Quincy Adams (1825-1829)\nAndrew Jackson (1829-1837)\nMartin Van Buren (1837-1841)\nWilliam Henry Harrison (1841)\nJohn Tyler (1841-1845)\nJames K. Polk (1845-1849)\nZachary Taylor (1849-1850)\nMillard Fillmore (1850-1853)\nFranklin Pierce (1853-1857)\nJames Buchanan (1857-1861)\nAbraham Lincoln (1861-1865)\nAndrew Johnson (1865-1869)\nUlysses S. Grant (1869-1877)\nRutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)\nJames A. Garfield (1881)\nChester Arthur (1881-1885)\nGrover Cleveland (1885-1889)\nBenjamin Harrison (1889-1893)\nGrover Cleveland (1893-1897)\nWilliam McKinley (1897-1901)\nTheodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)\nWilliam Howard Taft (1909-1913)\nWoodrow Wilson (1913-1921)\nWarren G. Harding (1921-1923)\nCalvin Coolidge (1923-1929)\nHerbert Hoover (1929-1933)\nFranklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)\nHarry S Truman (1945-1953)\nDwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)\nJohn F. Kennedy (1961-1963)\nLyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)\nRichard Nixon (1969-1974)\nGerald Ford (1974-1977)\nJimmy Carter (1977-1981)\nRonald Reagan (1981-1989)\nGeorge Bush (1989-1993)\nBill Clinton (1993-2001)\nGeorge W. Bush (2001- )