Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Barack Obama. Samuel Hinckley c - Hercules passenger 10th great-grandfather. Michael Bennet U. Senator from Colorado 17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas Stanley. Morrison Waite 7th Chief Justice of the U. Supreme Court 13th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Stanley. He says the president's white mother is a direct descendant of the first known slave in the American colonies through a family by the name of Bunch.
Eventually, we were able to make a connection with the earliest Bunch family members and a gentleman by the name of John Punch," Shumway notes. In , John Punch, an African, was a servant in Virginia who escaped, was caught and sentenced to remain in bondage to his master for life. As for the difference in the names - Punch with a "P" as opposed to Bunch with a "B" - researchers say that's not unusual, that early record-keepers wrote names as they sounded.
Though records are incomplete, the Ancestry. John Bunch's mother was white, and so was his wife, which means President Obama descends from the first known black and white couple who left traceable descendants. Inter -racial marriage wasn't as looked down upon until about the s and on upwards. Davis Lewis, who also served in the American Revolution. James thought this information would be useful to the Obama campaign and attempted to make contact to offer them his research.
No one from the campaign ever answered him, though. James speculates that the campaign may have been squeamish about family history information after last fall, when it became public that Vice President Dick Cheney is an eighth cousin of Obama. Talk radio in Lexington continues to spread the rumor that Obama is not an American, or is a Muslim, or both. The web site Ancestry. The New England genealogists found no royal strain either but established yet another Bush connection: McCain is a sixth cousin of the first lady, Laura Bush.
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