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William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV but changed his name to Clinton when his mother married Roger Clinton. Clinton's family is primarily a southern family, with ancestors emigrating from the southeastern states (VA, NC, SC) through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky to Arkansas. Clinton is not related to any other President, although his is the third cousin twice removed of James Alexander Lockhart, who served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in the mid-1800s and was the son-in law of Thomas Samuel Ashe, also an North Carolina Legislator. Ashe's grandfather, Samuel Ashe, was a delegate to the 1776 North Carolina Convention. Clinton's maternal line is of Irish descent.
Surnames (with earliest recorded date and place of birth/residence) include: Blythe (1801, SC); Farr (1765, PA); Gresham/Grisham (1792, NC); Lockhart (1765, VA); May (1812, NC); Payne (1768, SC); Reaves (1799, KY); Russell (1790, NC); Slate (1798), NC); Snelgrove (1792, SC); Spradley (1737, VA); Wilson (1791, KY).
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. was born in Washington DC, the son of a U.S. Representative. Although Gore was born in the Nation's Capital, his family is essentially southern. Of primarily English descent, Gore's ancestors settled mainly in VA, PA and NJ, moving south to TN and AR. Al Gore is
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