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1. As much as I hate him, doesn’t George Bush count? His dad had the same first and last name and one of the same middle names. Do all the names have to be the same to be junior or does the title have to be given by the parents?

   posted by Nick on 10-30-2009 at 8:22 am

2. I believe it has to be completely the same, so George HW and George W are not senior and junior. My husband has the first name as his dad, but not middle. He is not a jr. I have seen some people use II, rather than jr., but I think technically, they would be a jr.

   posted by Hyacinth on 10-30-2009 at 9:12 am

3. This was a good one. I was confused because I knew that Gerald Ford was originally name Leslie King, Jr. , but I didn’t realize he was a junior as Ford as well.

   posted by Barbara on 10-30-2009 at 1:23 pm

4. @Nick – I’m certainly not a big fan of Dubya either, but I don’t “hate” him so much that I’m hesitant to even mention his name! Wow!

   posted by B on 10-30-2009 at 1:47 pm

5. I sort of guessed on this one and looked them up to be sure.

   Same goes for John Q Adams. The middle name differentiates them.

   posted by Nerak on 10-30-2009 at 3:58 pm

6. Well, if you want to be technically, Bill Clinton was the only President to be a 3rd.

   His birth name was William Jefferson Blythe III. His father, Bill Blythe, Jr., died in an auto accident three months after his son was born. Four years later, his mother married Roger Clinton and a decade after that, Bill Blythe III legally changed his name to Bill Clinton.

   posted by KaiSen on 10-30-2009 at 9:39 pm

7. Technical, not “technically.”

   posted by KaiSen on 10-30-2009 at 9:42 pm

8. My first thought was that they were all mousketeers…but then, I just woke up, so I’m not thinking too clearly. oops!

   posted by lorbie on 10-31-2009 at 12:45 am

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