June 19, 2013

Politics

George Clooney and Abraham Lincoln are related

BY: JENNY ROGERS NOVEMBER 1, 2012 | 4:46 PM | MODIFIED: NOVEMBER 1, 2012 AT 4:50 PM
Leave a comment

Turns out George Clooney shares a family tree with someone slightly more famous than his celebrity Aunt Rosemary: Abraham Lincoln. E! reports that Ancestry.com, which has discovered connections between other famous folks like Justin Bieber and Ryan Gosling (cousins!), determined that Clooney is a descendant of Lucy Hanks, Lincoln's maternal grandmother. According to the genealogy site, that makes the actor the half-first cousin, five times removed, of the 16th president.

View article comments Leave a comment
Author:

Jenny Rogers

Staff Reporter - Yeas & Nays
The Washington Examiner

More from washingtonexaminer.com

From the Weekly Standard

  • June 17, 1953

    Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:

    Read More...
  • Frack to the Future

    Williston, N.D.

    Read More...
  • Downsize Ike

    The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...

    Read More...