How Many U.S. Presidents, since President Abraham Lincoln, Descend from Royalty / Foreign Countries?

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Answer 1

Discounting any Illuminati or Reptilian connections, Burke's Peerage has noted that the following United States Presidents have traceable ties to royalty:

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams:  Edward I of England

Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt:  descendants of Dutch nobility

Jimmy Carter: ties to Scottish and English royalty

Ronald Reagan: alledgedly a direct descendant of an 11th century High King of Ireland (or maybe his best acting work was in the 1942 film, "King's Row")

George Hubert Walker Bush:  William the Conqueror, Henry II, and Charles II

George W. Bush: William the Conqueror, Henry II, and Charles II as well as the French Bourbon kings, the Scandanavian monarchies, and members of the Russian, Spanish, and German monarchies (all through his mother, Barbara Pierce Bush).

If their genealogies are correct, six U. S. Presidents since Lincoln have had very distant ties to European "royalty".

P. S. I've found a second web site that doesn't note from whom the Presidents are descended, only that they have royal ancestors:  

Washington

Jefferson

Madison

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Taylor

Pierce

Buchannan

Hayes

Cleveland

Teddy Roosevelt

Taft

Coolidge

Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gerald Ford

George H. W. Bush

George W. Bush

( http://worldroots.com/brigette/famous/p/... )

Actually, royal ancestry isn't that unusual since genealogists estimate that up to one-half of all Americans have traceable royal European descent,   most particularly those Americans who can trace their lineage back to colonial New England, the Quaker colonists of Pennsylvania, or the Southern planters of Virginia.  Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, 25 percent of the British population descend from the Plantagenets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_desce...

Finally, the media has revealed that the 2008 Democratic and Republican Presidental candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, are both descendants of William I of Scotland.

http://genealogyblog.geneanet.org/index....

Answer 2

George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush,  Grover Cleveland, John Calvin

Coolidge, Gerald Ford, Ulysses S.Grant,Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Rutherford

Birchard Hayes,Theodore and  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Evelyn:the poster asked for presidents AFTER Lincoln!