Kicker: Slow growing family tree

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NICK EICHER, HOST: Sounds impossible, but true: The grandson of President John Tyler—born during the George Washington presidency—has just passed away during Trump 47.

Here’s the generational math: President Tyler had a son at age 63. That son became a dad at 75, and that boy—Harrison Ruffin Tyler—made it well into 2025: age 96.

Three generations—two-plus centuries. The archive audio from CBS:

TYLER: My grandfather was born in 1790. My father was born in 1853. I was born in 1928. And so that’s how we get to where we are.

He did speak to the family habit of late-in-life arrows in the quiver.

TYLER: I got one wife who’s still going strong and that’s enough. We’re not going that route again. [laughs]

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