Three Generations, 44 Presidents!

[indianasmith]

President John Tyler was born in 1792, the same year that George Washington was unanimously chosen by the Electoral College for a second term as President of the United States.  He served one unremarkable term as America's first "accidental" President, from 1841-1845, following the death of William Henry Harrison 29 days after taking office.  He is best remembered for getting kicked out of the Whig Party that elected him as Vice President, and for annexing Texas into the Union.  He was also the only one of five living  former Presidents who sided with the Confederacy when the Civil War began.

But he is also remembered for siring more children (in wedlock) than any other U.S. President - 14 children by two different wives!  One of those children, Lyon Tyler, was born in 1858 and, like his father, remarried after the death of his first wife, when he was in his late 60's.  Lyon Tyler had a son, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who was born in 1928, when his father would have been right at 70.  And guess what?

Harrison Ruffin Tyler is still alive today!  Born 136 years after his grandfather, he is currently 82 years of age and lives in a home that President Tyler built in Virginia.  In three generations, this family has lived through the administration of every single U.S. President, from George Washington to Barack Obama!

How cool is that?