QUESTIONS:
1. President Bush is the grandson of Sen. Prescott Bush (R.-Conn.). Who is the only other President in the 20th Century who had a grandfather who served in Congress?
2. President Bush is also the son of a former ambassador to the United Nations. Name the last President whose father was an ambassador.
3. Name the only President in this century whose father was a state legislator?
4. Who was the only President to have been a state attorney general?
5. John Kennedy was the first President born in the 20th Century. Who was the first major party nominee for President born in this century?
ANSWERS:
1. John Kennedy, whose maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, was a Democratic House member from Massachusetts.
2. Kennedy, whose father Joseph was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 1939-40.
3. Lyndon B. Johnson, whose father Sam had been a Democratic state representative in Texas.
4. Bill Clinton, attorney general of Arkansas from 1976-78.
5. Thomas E. Dewey, Republican nominee in 1944 and ’48, who was born in 1902.
