Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 8th Cousins, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 9th Cousins----Barack Obama is the eighth cousin of US Vice-President Dick Cheney. Barack Obama is also a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt and his political lineage also includes President George Bush.

President Obama is the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya.

His political lineage includes not just President Bush but also Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S Truman, Dick Cheney and Winston Churchill.

The connection made with Hollywood star Brad Pitt adds a welcome splash of glamour to his family tree.

Mr Obama was descended from Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot. His son married the granddaughter of one Richard Cheney, Susannah, who arrived in Maryland from England in the late 1650s.
Mr Obama is an 11th cousin of President George Bush.