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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Teddy Roosevelt's teenage relative takes office in DC
The youngest elected leader in D.C., who was just sworn in Monday, is still looking forward to attending senior prom and choosing which college he will attend.
Quentin Colón Roosevelt, 18, is the great, great, great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, and now represents Spring Valley, the Palisades and Kent as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner. ANCs usually serve two-year terms, working directly with area residents on multiple issues and present their recommendations to D.C. government agencies.
The distant relative to the former president told WTOPs news partner at NBC Washington that he hoped to continue his familys legacy as public servants.
My grandfather was a lawyer for the CIA, Roosevelt said. His grandfather did politics and government stuff, as well. I think we just want to be involved in whats going on around us because we feel we have to give back to this country thats given my family so much.
https://wtop.com/gallery/dc/president-teddy-roosevelts-teenage-relative-takes-office-in-dc/
Buns_of_Fire
(17,242 posts)I was afraid this might have been George Santos' latest persona.
drray23
(7,641 posts)The distant relative to the former president
I wonder if this line coming from the article is accurate. He is not really a distant relative, he is a direct descendant or maybe you can use that term because its several generations?
Doc Sportello
(7,561 posts)Distant relative to me means something like a third cousin, twice removed, or an eighth cousin.
brush
(54,139 posts)as he is a distant relative.
applegrove
(119,196 posts)the direct niece of Teddy, his favourite niece. She married her third or fourth cousin FDR.
Deep State Witch
(10,510 posts)Kid's got a bright future ahead of him.
msfiddlestix
(7,294 posts)Presumably, he is a registered Democrat given his interests in improving education and other community needs.
His great great grandfather was not a Democrat, but that was so yesterday. Republicans do not come close to resembling anything remotely Republican in its more genuine and proud era.
SheilaAnn
(9,734 posts)definitely Democratic traits.
FSogol
(45,634 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,294 posts)My Macular Degeneration issues tend to affect my reading abilities which literally ghosted out the "DC" in the OP title.
Not an excuse, just an explanation as to why I didn't see it.
Don't know why, but I had presumed he was a Rep in a district somewhere in the state of New York, which could have gone either way.
Apologies.
FSogol
(45,634 posts)DenaliDemocrat
(1,478 posts)And blatantly so including anti-immigration. In other words, still a Republican
Boomerproud
(8,016 posts)His code name for it was "civilized society" and "uncivilized ". Many good books on what a complex character he was.
DenaliDemocrat
(1,478 posts)If you are one of the groups he discriminated against
DenaliDemocrat
(1,478 posts)And blatantly so including anti-immigration. In other words, still a Republican