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1. I'm not the president, I'm just a down home good old boy who enjoys the simple life. As a matter of fact, my peak of fame probably came from the beer that was advertised as being brewed just for me in 1977. Who am I?
2. Sometimes considered as American royalty, my family nonetheless did not approve of me, despite the fact that I married into British nobility, attaining the title of Marchioness of Hartington. My oldest brother was the only member of the family to attend my wedding. What was my maiden name?
3. No, I'm not the president, but my brother AND my father were presidents. I'm also not Jeb Bush. So who could I be?
4. I was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1752, the eighth of ten children. I married my first cousin in 1769, at the age of 17. My brother, the president, sent a relative of my husband's on a famous expedition. Who am I?
5. In addition to my younger brother, I and two other younger brothers all graduated from Yale, although we were born in Ohio. Many of our ancestors, who go back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, had careers in law. What is my name?
6. Like our older brother, we also had aspirations to build a family tradition in the White House. But one of us was assassinated while still in the Senate after serving as Attorney General, and the other was in his 47th year in the Senate when he passed away. Who are we?
7. Unlike my brother, I did not serve in the military. My chosen field was education and I was president of three universities during my career, including Penn State and Johns Hopkins. I was a graduate of Kansas State, the first university of which I served as president, which is also in my home state. Who am I?
8. At the death of my mother, I cared for my little brother (who would later become president), and our cousin, Dennis Hanks, until our father remarried. Later, two years after I myself was married, I died in childbirth, which my brother blamed on the failure of my husband to summon a doctor. Who am I?
9. I was the United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and later a member of the United States House of Representatives, but never president. That was my older brother. Oh, by the way, I also fought in the Mexican War. What's my name?
10. I was a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia and also founded the city of Alexandria, Virginia. I was the first of my family to live in our famous estate, and it was I who named it Mount Vernon, after my commanding officer in the War of Jenkins' Ear. I was proud to see my little (half-) brother become president. Who was I?
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