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The grandson of US President Warren G. Harding has asked permission to unearth the Republican’s remains to “establish with scientific certainty” that they are related.
James Blaesing and his partner applied to court in May.
Harding’s legal heirs oppose the measure.
They say they already have accepted DNA evidence that Mr. Blaesing’s mother, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, was the daughter of the 29th President of the United States and Nan Britton.
Nan Britton is seen with her daughter Elizabeth Ann Blaesing
Harding’s extramarital affair with Britton came to light after his death while in office in 1923.
The feud looms as benefactors prepare to mark the centennial of Harding’s 1920 election with site improvements and a new presidential center in his hometown of Marion, Ohio.
Blaesing has reportedly said that he deserves “his story, his mother’s story and his grandmother’s story to be included in the sacred halls and museums of this city.”
You are not the first person to request the exhumation of a known figure in hopes of proving they are related.
María Pilar Abel Martínez, a Spanish tarot card reader, claimed to be the artist’s daughter Salvador Dali after his mother had an affair with him.
Salvador Dalí was exhumed after a tarot card reader claimed she was his daughter
A judge reportedly agreed that Dalí’s body could be exhumed and DNA tests later showed that she was not the artist’s daughter.
In January this year, relatives of American gangster John Dillinger are said to have called off their efforts to exhume the body of the Depression-era criminal.
The gangster’s nephew, Michael C Thompson, had reportedly requested the exhumation of Dillinger’s remains as part of a History Channel documentary.
The permit did not give a reason for the request, but the exhumation of the remains could have responded to a conspiracy theory that Dillinger is not buried in his marked grave.
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