BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames

Subject: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 04:27 PM

Inspired by the people with U.S. state names in their names.
This one is for people who have a U.S. President surname in their name.
Real people and fictional characters.

Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Robert Johnson.
Jefferson Hogg.
George Jefferson.

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: C. Ham
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 04:34 PM

Sam Bush

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 04:34 PM

Then there's our own Bobert (Harrison), with whom I share my maiden name.

Seamus Kennedy

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: bobad
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 04:48 PM

KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters Life!) - The U.S. election has triggered a new generation of mini Barack Obamas with parents in Kenya and the United States naming their newborns after the new president-elect.

At the Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu, western Kenya, Barack's ancestral homeland, several mothers were naming their babies after the U.S.'s first African-American president.

The mothers told Reuters Television that they wanted their babies to grow up to have the same successful traits as Obama.

"I would like that by the time he is in his 40s he becomes the president of this country," said Nancy Otieno proudly of her newborn son Barack Obama.

Another new mother, Millicent Akoth, named her new daughter Michelle Obama after the soon-to-be first lady.

Obama has been elevated to rock star status in the east African nation which has named a beer, "Senator," after him and where "Obama: The Musical" opened last weekend.

Obama, who was born in Hawaii to a white mother from Kansas and a Kenyan father, is idolized by many Africans in the way the Irish revered U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s -- as one of their own who succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

But it is not just Kenyans naming their babies after him.

South Florida couple Patrick and Sasha Hall were reported on Wednesday to be among the first since the election to bestow the name Obama on their child, Obama Hall, according to the Miami Herald.

The name Barack means blessed, according to Web site babynames.com, while Obama was the given name of his great-grandfather that became his grandfather's surname.

(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by David Fox)

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 05:50 PM

Robert Taylor, Denzel Washington, Moses Cleveland, Lorenzo Carter, Michael Jackson, Cary Grant, Blanche Lincoln, Henry Fillmore, Brian Garfield, Bill McKinley, Tonya Harding....

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 07:09 PM

We have one 'occasional' Mudcatter named VanBuren.

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: bobad
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 07:13 PM

Caroline Kennedy, Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton..........

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: michaelr
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 08:09 PM

Clinton Hammond, where are you?

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: Alice
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 08:24 PM

Cynthia Nixon

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 09:05 PM

NPR does a great thing where they go find people whose names are one of the tickets, like Clinton Gore. I don't think they found any Obama Biden's, though...

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 05:07 AM

Lin just this evening called my attention to a note on one of her genealogical sites that purports that if George Washington had taken the title of King of the new US as some urged him to do, and if hereditary reign was passed as was implied, our current king would be a 72 year old guy (identified in the report) living, I believe, in Washington(?) state.

We could'a come out ahead on that one, maybe. They didn't give his political bio.

John

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:00 AM

How about a thread about Presidents or famous people with Penis names?

Dick Nixon
Andrew Johnson
Peter O'Toole (a double phallic name)
Annette O'Toole (sorrowfully just single phallic)
Vera Wang
Slick Willie Clinton (that always struck me as pretty disgusting)
John Thomas Scopes (Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925 Tennessee)


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: goatfell
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:12 AM

a couple of friends of mine are called WILLIE AND DICK, it's a pity that I'm not called John Thomas

Subject: RE: BS: People With U.S. Presidents Surnames
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:22 AM

I once worked for a guy whose name was John Thomas.

Definitely a case of name and nature.