Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s ancestors are as diverse a group as one might expect for a man born to a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya. Using interviews with family members and genealogists, a study of archives and records, and Obama’s book, “Dreams from My Father,” the Chicago Sun-Times has cobbled together biographies of 16 of Obama’s ancestors, from the noble to the, well, not-so-noble.
And his family tree has its share of surprises. Take, for instance, the distant relation to three U.S. presidents – Harry S. Truman, George W. Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush – as well as to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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