As Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks for a location for the retailing behemoth's new HQ2, two cities in Texas have come up as possible candidates. Austin is one of them. Dallas is the other.

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But, as the Dallas Morning News pointed out back in Sept. 2017, there is a Texas connection to Bezos that some might have missed: King George himself.

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Yeah, you read that right. I didn’t know this either, and only found out while doing some George Strait research for another article. But, as the DMN says:

Bezos spent 10 hot summers on his grandfather's cattle ranch in Cotulla, Texas, and his cousin is country singer George Strait.

An earlier DMN article from 1997 details the New Mexico-born Bezos’ time spent in Houston, where he lived as a child after his stepfather’s work with Exxon brought the family to Texas.

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According to Wikipedia, sourcing the 2017 DMN blog, Bezos’ tie to Strait is through his maternal grandmother, Mattie Louise Gise (née Strait).

It seems neither strait nor Bezos have publicly commented on each other’s careers for some time (or, if they have, it’s hard to find).

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As of right now, Amazon’s HQ2 location has still not been announced.