Silly B Man: When Kermit III was born his father was Junior and his grandpa was Senior. His GGF was not alive. So Kermit was called III for that reason. They’re not a dynasty. When his grandfather died, he already had an established professional identity, so he didn’t want to change his name.

TIL there is a Kermit Roosevelt III, son of Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Kermit Roosevelt (central figure in Operation Ajax), great-grandson of Kermit Roosevelt, and great-great-grandson of Teddy Roosevelt www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

An America that you won’t recognize’: Legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III on SCOTUS and Project 2025www.msnbc.com The Supreme Court’s latest term revealed just how fundamentally the ultraconservative supermajority has changed the dynamics on the court, as well as how dire its ethics issues are. The justices, howe...

on the numbers he should be IV, but apparently they rejiggered them a couple times

if he was born in 1971, how'd he change from iv to iii when his great-grandfather died in 1943

huh, you know I didn't spot that. perhaps Wikipedia is calling him IV just to distinguish him from the others, and he was always going to be III because the prior change

I actually know about this from the horse’s mouth,

When Kermit III was born his father was Junior and his grandpa was Senior. His GGF was not alive. So Kermit was called III for that reason. They’re not a dynasty. When his grandfather died, he already had an established professional identity, so he didn’t want to change his name.

Wikipedia wants it to be like Habsburgs and shit but they’re not. It was literally just to distinguish which of the living Kermits you were talking about.

And yes he also has a Kermit son. He has joked that it was at his wife’s insistence, that she would not be the one to break the chain. The informal shortening of Kermit is Kim.

He is, I should stress, a very smart guy, a very nice person, and a great teacher. I love him.

We were classmates for a year at St Albans. How fun to get these updates, and see him prospering, all these years later!

He’s the lead editor/author of the next Restatement of Conflict of Laws

See, this is what social media can be ❤️

I feel very silly asking this, as the family first name obvs. came LONG before Jim Henson, but... how does he feel about a certain Muppet emcee? (I don't know whether I'm rooting for "big fan" or "eww, get away from me with that")

I have never asked

I doubt that I would, either! I would just always be curious...

I see, makes sense

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