People named after Presidents *

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People named after Presidents *

Frayed Knot
Apr 24 2013 10:52 AM

* or other famous folks for that matter seeing as how keeping it to just Presidents might be kind of limiting even if that's where I wanted to start.

This latest idea in time-wasting came to me the other day upon the discovery that Willie Howard Mays Sr, and by extension Willie Jr., was named for Prez William Howard Taft, and by the fact that the Mets tonight will face Dodger pitcher Theodore Roosevelt Lilly (the hurler's great-grandfather rode with Teddy R. up San Juan Hill or something of that nature).

also:
inventor George Washington Carver (or at least I'm assuming so)
singer Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (born in 1912, the year of - although months prior to - WW's election)

Anybody else got some that'll make some of us go; 'I didn't know that"?
I'm hoping for full names rather than the likes of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson but we'll see where this leads us.

Swan Swan H
Apr 24 2013 10:57 AM
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I can remember Lindsey Nelson invariably referring to Cal McLish, who was a player from 1944-1964 and a coach from 1965-1966 and 1969-1982 by his full name, Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 24 2013 11:11 AM
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A very famous example: Grover Cleveland Alexander.

Edgy MD
Apr 24 2013 11:28 AM
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That's certainly a goody. There's Washington Irving, born at the exact time when every other boy was being named Washington.

Fictionally, there's Benjamin Franklin Pierce.

George W. Bush was named after George H.W. Bush, among others.

Edgy MD
Apr 24 2013 11:30 AM
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And Jefferson Davis "J.D." "Boss" Hogg was named after a Confederate prsident.

Kong76
Apr 24 2013 11:35 AM
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Everyone named Jesus.

sharpie
Apr 24 2013 11:55 AM
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John Quincey Adams and George W. Bush

Fman99
Apr 24 2013 02:35 PM
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William Jefferson Clinton comes to mind.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Apr 24 2013 02:51 PM
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Woody Strode of Spartacus, Pork Chop Hill, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was a Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode at birth.

sharpie
Apr 25 2013 07:49 AM
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George Washington Goethals

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/ ... f=nyregion

RealityChuck
Apr 26 2013 10:07 AM
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Mickey Mantle was named for Mickey Cochrane.

Roosevelt Grier & et al.

Edgy MD
Apr 26 2013 10:53 AM
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wiend.

Edgy MD
Apr 26 2013 11:02 AM
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TheOldMole
Apr 28 2013 05:31 AM
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These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double-
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

By Franklin Pierce Adams

Frayed Knot
May 02 2013 07:55 PM
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TheOldMole wrote:
... By Franklin Pierce Adams

Not to be confused with Benjamin Franklin Pierce.

To move this away from presidents and into just general famous people named for famous people territory;
Martin Luther King was named for his father, but both their names at birth were Michael King. When the elder King, also a preacher, attended a world Baptist convention in Germany in 1934* he became enamored with the life story of 16th century father of the Protestant movement, Martin Luther. He soon began calling himself Martin Luther King and also altered the name of his then five year old son.

* and what's the deal with a Baptist convention in Nazi-era Germany?

Valadius
May 03 2013 01:05 PM
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My favorite is former Homeland Security official Clark Kent Ervin.

G-Fafif
May 03 2013 03:14 PM
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I know a mostly obscure author/blogger who was named for Gregory Peck.

Frayed Knot
May 12 2013 01:39 PM
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Francis Scott Key (F. Scott) Fitzgerald