Jan 29, 2010

Obama, Sen. Scott Brown are 10th cousins via a 17th-century politician

10:42 AM

President Obama and Mass. Sen.-elect Scott Brown are 10th cousins, the New England Historic Genealogical Society says.

See the family tree below.

The NEHGS in Boston says Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass., who died in 1687 at the age of 102.

Singletary was also a politician, having served as town selectman in both Salisbury and Haverhill, Mass., in the 1650s.

Brown, a Republican, was elected last week to fill the seat long held by Edward Kennedy.

Obama - Brown Family Tree http://www.scribd.com/doc/26047000/Obam ... amily-Tree

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