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Genealogist: Obama and Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown related
January 29, 2010 | 9:37 am
Never mind Brad Pitt or Warren Buffett.
President Obama has found another long-lost cousin: Scott Brown, the Republican state senator from Massachusetts who won the Senate seat long held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
The president and the senator-elect from Massachusetts are 10th cousins, according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Experts there report that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descended from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass. He died in 1687 at 102.
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