The last living grandson of President John Tyler — who left the White House in 1845 — has died.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415207/president-tyler-grandson-harrison-ruffin-tyler
Wow, some late in life reproduction there. To think being only four generations from the formation of the country.
Both Tyler and the person's father remarried younger women after their first wives died.
Bad president. Great genes.
Looking around, that leaves Kennedy through Trump remain having presidential children.
And Cleveland, Taft, Harding (via Nan Britton), and Hoover through Trump (minus Reagan and Obama) are presidential grandfathers.
Cleveland has a grandkid still around? I guess since he married a young woman while in the White House that makes sense.
Definitely an ick factor to that marriage (Cleveland was his future wife's unofficial guardian following her father's untimely death when she was eleven years old)...
FWIW, Reagan's adopted son Michael has two children, and his late daughter Maureen adopted a child, too.
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The last living grandson of President John Tyler — who left the White House in 1845 — has died.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415207/president-tyler-grandson-harrison-ruffin-tyler
Wow, some late in life reproduction there. To think being only four generations from the formation of the country.
Both Tyler and the person's father remarried younger women after their first wives died.
Bad president. Great genes.
Looking around, that leaves Kennedy through Trump remain having presidential children.
And Cleveland, Taft, Harding (via Nan Britton), and Hoover through Trump (minus Reagan and Obama) are presidential grandfathers.
Cleveland has a grandkid still around? I guess since he married a young woman while in the White House that makes sense.
Definitely an ick factor to that marriage (Cleveland was his future wife's unofficial guardian following her father's untimely death when she was eleven years old)...
FWIW, Reagan's adopted son Michael has two children, and his late daughter Maureen adopted a child, too.