A file photo of Angelina Jolie and partner Brad Pitt at Santa Barbara Film Festival at the Arlington Theatre Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA. Saturday, February 2. Photo Credit: Splash NewsMarch 25, 2008 (Sawf News) - If Hillary Clinton were to become the next president Angelina Jolie will have a distant cousin in office and if Barrack Obama gets the vote Brad Pitt would have a distant cousin in the White House.
So what happens if John McCain wins? As Jay Leno would say it, McCain goes so far back in time, all of America would have a distant cousin in the White House!
More seriously, according to AP, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, says Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, descendants of Edwin Hickman, who died in Virgina in 1769.
Clinton and Jolie are also ninth cousins, twice removed, descendants of Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.
Actually, the United States is crawling with Clinton and Obama cousins, some of whom the candidates could be proud off.
Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, can count Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette amidst her distant cousins. Other Clinton cousins include Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles of England. Huh? That sounds credible doesn't it!
Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents his cousins - George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison.
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