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{{quote|'''Josh:''' Peyton Cabot Harrison the Third. [[Unfortunate Implications|He sounds like he should be a Supreme Court justice.]]<br />
'''Donna:''' It's a good name.<br />
'''Josh:''' [[Boarding School|Phillips Exeter]], [[Ivy League|Princeton]], [[Oxbridge|Rhodes Scholar]], [[Ivy League for Everyone|Harvard Law Review]], for which he was, oh yeah, the ''editor'' -- did I ''mention'' he was dean of Harvard Law School? Did I mention that his father was Attorney General to ''[[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]''?<br />
'''Donna:''' Peyton Cabot Harrison the Third.<br />
'''Josh:''' That's right.<br />
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* There have been several American presidents whose names qualify, especially [[Ulysses S. Grant]] (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but the Congressman who nominated him to West Point forgot the "Hiram" on the paperwork) and some of the subsequent Gilded Age "what did he do again?" presidents ([[Rutherford B. Hayes]], [[Grover Cleveland]]), and of course [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].
** [[Zachary Taylor]] would've been on this list 30 years ago but the name caught on big time with new parents in the '80s and '90s.
* He was never President, but [[Added Alliterative Appeal|Hubert Horatio Humphrey]] cannot be overlooked.
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