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September 9, 2007

BY SCOTT FORNEK Political Editor

It sure would be an awkward family reunion. But, believe it or not, Barack Obama is

related to both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

OK, distantly related: Obama and Bush are 11th cousins.

That's because they share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-

great-great grandparents -- Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole Hinckley of 17th century Massachusetts.

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Barack Obama is distantly related to former President George H.W. Bush and

President George W. Bush.
(AP file)

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Barack Obama is distantly related to Vice President Dick Cheney.
(AP file)

That means Obama and former President George Herbert Walker Bush are 10th

cousins once removed.

Obama is related to Cheney through Mareen Duvall, a 17th century immigrant from

France.

Mareen and Susannah Duvall were Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-

great-great-great grandparents and Cheney's great-great-great-great-great-great-

great-great grandparents.

That makes Obama and Cheney ninth cousins once removed.

Cheney and Bush are related to one another by a completely different common

ancestor.

We leave it to you to figure out their relationship.