He was a distant cousin of MartinVanBuren and Franklin Roosevelt.
US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were related. Theodore Roosevelt was FDR's 5th cousin.
Yes, they were 5th cousins and also related through marriage
Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) married Eleanore Roosevelt. FDR was Eleanor's 8th Cousin. This was legal back then . (:
Well, I don't know how distant, but Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were related to each other.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by blood or marriage, was related to 11 other former presidents: John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft and, of course, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR's fifth cousin.
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Yes. He was Franklin's 5 cousin and Eleanor's uncle.
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) share a famous name but were only distantly related: they were fifth cousins. Teddy Roosevelt was more closely related to Franklin's wife Eleanor, who was his niece. (She was the daughter of Teddy's brother Elliot.) Bonus relatives: Martin Van Buren was a third cousin twice removed to Theodore Roosevelt, and Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) was a fourth cousin thrice removed to FDR. The Roosevelts were the only two presidents in this loop (to date) to serve more than one term.
Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were distant (fifth) cousins. Franklin's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt , was Theodore's niece .