Time fly's: Does it?

There have been 21 total census done by the United States Government. Of those only 14 are available for public review as the law says a Census can't be released for 70 years after its taken.

That  leaves 14 Census open to public review. The first six of those 14 addressed property owing white men an how many slaves they owned.  in other-words 43% of all the available data about American citizens cares only about white men and slavery.

In 1848  Zachary Taylor was elected president. His grandson is still alive!

As you all probably realize John Tyler had a LOT of children (15 by two wives) and many of these rather late in life. So if you work out the math, it isn't that surprising that Tyler still has a living grandson.Harrison Tyler, 81, the grandson of John Tyler, still resides at Tyler's plantation, Sherwood Forest. There are tours of the house by appointment even though the family still lives there. In addition, you can take a virtual tour.

If you are interested in the genealogy, here is the breakdown and some information on Harrison Tyler:
Let's back up. John Tyler was president from 1841-45. How can a guy who became president 168 years ago have a living grandson?

It helps if he's a distinguished horndog who keeps fathering children until he's 70 years old. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, his 13th child, was born in 1853, when John Tyler was 63. 

Going his father one better, Lyon Tyler lived to be 81 and fathered a son at age 75, in 1928. That son was Harrison Tyler -- born 66 years after the death of his grandfather and still living today.

John Tyler was the 10th president, and Barack Obama is the 44th, so 34 presidencies have passed between John Tyler and his grandson. For that matter, President Tyler was born in 1790, when George Washington was president... so the three Tyler generations span every single president of the United States.

Harrison Tyler went to the College of William & Mary (like his grandpa) and became a chemical engineer. He still lives in Sherwood Forest Plantation and seems like a good egg. Keeping up the Tyler political tradition, he even donated $1250 to the Virginia Republican Party in 2008.And he's got a sense of humor about the family fecundity. Here he is encountering some college kids pitching woo near busts of his ancestors at William & Mary:  

 http://www.american-presidents.org/2009/03/john-tyler-has-living-grandson.html

we sometimes wonder why race is still such a large issue in the great country with the Civil ending so long ago. But, as you can see it was only 16 Census's an one presidential grandson ago, that president left office 11 years before the Civil War began. Maybe time doesn't fly after all.