With a bushy mustache and bright eyes, George Cleveland's is a face full of character.

Looking almost like a man from another era, you can easily picture him in black and white,

the spitting image of his ancestor, his grandfather, President Grover Cleveland.

I realize a lot of people find that a little weird, as how can I be the grandson of somebody who was born in 1837 regardless of whether he

happened to be president or not.

The answer is really quite simple.

It's a matter of sex and it's a matter of math.

Grover was born in 1837.

He married my grandmother in the White House in 1886. It was a romance

not unlike that that was described when Charles and Diana got together. You had an older

guy and a very attractive younger woman. But anyway, my father ended

up being born in 1897 and then he had three kids from his first marriage. He met and married my mother when she

was teaching his kids from that first marriage and she was about 25 years

younger than my father.

So basically, we dropped a whole generation.

George is a member of the Society of Presidential Descendants,

which is a group of individuals with a direct lineage to one or more of the 46 presidents of the United States,

a group that provides camaraderie, where the great granddaughter of Calvin Coolidge can shoot the breeze

with, say, the great-great-grandson of Ulysses S Grant.

It was kind of the brainchild of Tweed Roosevelt, the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.

We do have an unwritten rule.

Nobody rags on the other person's president.

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