The Blue-Blood Families That Made Fortunes in the Opium Trade

I had no idea that at least half of the US Presidents came from these families.

Franklin Pierce: 14th US President (1853-1857), whose wife Jane Means Appleton Pierce was from a Boston Brahmin family[23].

John F. Kennedy: 35th US President (1961-1963), from a prominent Brahmin family.

John Adams: Second U.S. President (1797-1801).

John Quincy Adams: Sixth U.S. President (1825-1829).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Thirty-second U.S. President (1933-1945).

John F. Kennedy: Thirty-fifth U.S. President (1961-1963).

William Howard Taft: Twenty-seventh U.S. President (1909-1913).

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