The Ten Presidents with Matching Last Names

There are ten presidents who share a last name with another president. But how are they all related? Are Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson related? How are Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt related? Find out in this History Left Behind video!

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“Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt with defense attorney W. H. Van Benschoten” (1915). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theodore_and_Franklin_D._Roosevelt_with_defense_attorney_W._H._Van_Benschoten_(cropped).jpg

“Eleanor Roosevelt wearing her wedding dress in New York City” (1905). https://catalog.archives.gov/id/195393

“John Adams” (c. 1800 – 1815). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gilbert_Stuart,_John_Adams,_c._1800-1815,_NGA_42933_(cropped).jpg

“Hon. John Q. Adams” (c. 1843 – 1848). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JQA_Photo_Crop_(cropped).jpg

“William Henry Harrison” (1835). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Harrison_by_James_Reid_Lambdin,_1835_crop_(cropped).jpg

“Benjamin Harrison, half length studio portrait, facing slightly left” (1896). https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004676808/

“Theodore Roosevelt” (1904). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theodore_Roosevelt_by_the_Pach_Bros.jpg

“Franklin Delano Roosevelt” (1944). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FDR_1944_Color_Portrait_(cropped)(b).jpg

“First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right” (1933). https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93508122/

“Andrew Johnson” (bef. 1875). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Johnson_photo_portrait_head_and_shoulders,_c1870-1880-Edit1.jpg.

“Lyndon B. Johnson” (1964). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:37_Lyndon_Johnson_3x4.jpg