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Other Presidential Cousins

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Martin Van Buren (born Maarten Van Buren; December 5, 1782 – July 24,
1862) was an American statesman who served as the eighth president of
the United States from 1837 to 1841. He was the first president to speak a
native language other than English (Dutch) and the first born after the
United States had declared its independence. A founder of the Democratic
Party, he had previously served as the ninth governor of New York, the

Martin Van Buren tenth United States secretary of state, and the eighth vice president of the
United States.

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23,
1885) was an American soldier and politician who served as the
18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his
presidency, Grant led the Union Army as Commanding General of the
United States Army in winning the American Civil War. As president, Grant
Ulysses S. Grant worked with the Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction of the Union.

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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was an American
politician and lawyer who served as the 30th president of the United
States from 1923 to 1929. In 1930, he was elected vice president of the
United States, and he succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death
of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a
reputation as a small government conservative and also as a man who said
very little and had a rather dry sense of humor.
Calvin Coolidge

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an
American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who
served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He
served as the 25th vice president from March to September 1901 and as
the 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. His face is depicted
on Mount Rushmore alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
and Abraham Lincoln. He is generally ranked in polls of historians and
Theodore Roosevelt political scientists as one of the five best presidents.

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