Ecerpt from the genealogy page @ about.com
http://genealogy.about.com/od/presidents/p/bush_sources.htm
"important individuals in the Bush family tree include the Spencer family that produced Diana, Princess of Wales, which makes George W. Bush a 17th cousin to Prince William of Wales. The great great great grandmother of President George W. Bush, Harriet Smith (wife of Obidiah Newcomb Bush's wife) and her descendants, are distant cousins of John Kerry."
Also wikipedia says he is related to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family
Samuel P. Bush through his mother Harriet Fay.The same family line makes the Bushes distant cousins of Presidents George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge.
George Bush (1796-1859), a biblical scholar who wrote a book Life of Mohammed, was a cousin of Obadiah Bush.
First Lady Barbara Bush mother of George W. Bush is related to Franklin Pierce the14th president.
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