The following POLITICAL ancestral ties appear in my family tree. Please keep in mind that some of these are very distant relations and may technically not be called “family”, but nonetheless, they appear as distant cousins in the tree research to date:
George H. W. Bush*
George W. Bush*
Laura Welch Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton*
Zachary Taylor*
George Wythe
Samuel Huntingdon
Lyndon Baines Johnson*
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
Elizabeth II Royal of England
George Ross
Frances Lightfoot Lee
Angelica Van Buren
Harriet Lane
William Henry Harrison*
Gerald Ford*
Claudia Taylor Johnson (Lady Bird)
Rutheford Birchard Hayes*
James Earl Carter*
Benjamin Harrison*
Roger Sherman
James Abram Garfield*
Julia Gardner Tyler
Millard Fillmore*
Lou Henry Hoover
Andrew Johnson*
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman
Edith Carrow Kermit Roosevelt
William Ellery
Richard Millhouse Nixon*
George Clymer
Caeser Rodney
Button Gwinnett
Franklin Pierce*
Robert Treat Paine
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
Mamie Eisenhower
Dwight D Eisenhower*
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
Jane Means Appleton Pierce
Ida Saxton McKinley
Catherine The Great (Russia)
Nancy Astor
Theodore Roosevelt*
William Williams
William Whipple
Robert Laird Borden
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
William Howard Taft*
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Byron “Whizzer” White (Supreme Court Justice)
James Abram Garfield*
Woodrow Wilson*
John F Kennedy*
Alfred Deakin (Australia)
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman
John F Kennedy Jr
Lyman Hall
William Ellery
Julia Gardiner Tyler
Jaqueline Kennedy
Robert Morris
John Glenn
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Thomas McKean
Florence Kling Harding
William Howard Taft*
Richard Bedford Bennett (Canadian Prime Minister)
Barbara Pierce Bush
Peter Alekseyevich (Russian Emperor)
Edward Rutledge
Margaret I (Denmark)
Anna of Russia
Pinkney Benton Stewart Pinchback
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Samuel Adams
Ronald Reagan*
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
Chester Alan Arthur*
Robert Laird Borden (Canadian Prime Minister)
Marry Harrison McKee
Mary Todd Lincoln
Samuel Chase
Carter Braxton
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Davy Crockett
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison
James Buchanan*
Sir John Alexander MacDonald (Canadian Prime Minister)
Mary McElroy
John Hancock
Lyman Hall
Matthew Thornton
* = president of the United States
Non-Politically tied ancestors (just plain famous people) include:
Booker Taliaferro Washington (my father’s side were southerners so there are slave ties – this one I can be
proud of)
Frank James (outlaw)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)
Robert Penn Warren (author)
Katharine Hepburn (actress)
John Parker (Revolutionary War Hero)
George Washington Gray (Revolutionary War Hero)**
Richard Lovelace (English Poet)
Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
Buck Barrow (Clyde’s brother who participated with Bonnie & Clyde’s escapades)
Raymond Massey (Canadian actor)
Joan Crawford (actress)
Ray Boone (Baseball player)
Ruth Benedict (anthropologist)
Robert Frost (American poet)
Lillian Gish (silent screen actress)
Elvis Presley (King of Rock & Roll)
Norman Rockwell (American artist)
Walt Disney (founder of Disney World and Disneyland)
Judy Garland (Frances Gumm – American Actress)
Joe Ball (American serial killer)
Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart)
William Faulkner (Amereican author)
Willa Cather (American author)
George Eliot (real name Mary Anne Evans, pen name George Eliot – English author)
Oscar Stanton DePriest (Civil Rights Advocate)
Truman Capote (American Author)
Charles Kingford Smith (Australian aviator)
Helen Adams Keller (American author and activist)
Bob Hope (American actor)
Aldus Huxley (English author)
Marlon Brando (American author)
William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens – American author)
Gore Vidal (American writer)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (English poet)
Edwin Hubble (American astronomer after whom the Hubble Space telescope is named)
John Browning (American gunsmith)
William Holden (American actor)
Pretty Boy Floyd (outlaw)
Isaac Newton (scientist, mathemetician)
Mary Edwards Walker (American activist and surgeon – only woman to receive Medal of Honor)
J P Morgan (American banker)
Edward Tilly (Mayflower passenger)
James “Jimmy” Stewart (American actor)
Edward Jenner (English physician)
George Orwell (British author)
Audrey Hepburn (British-American actress)
Oliver Winchester (American gunsmith)
Henry David Thoreau (author)
John Cage
Julia Childs (American gourmet chef and author)
Eli Whitney (cotton gin inventor)
Louisa May Alcott (American author)
George Soule (Mayflower passenger)
Edward Winslow (Mayflower passenger)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (American author)
William W Winchester (American gun company owner)
Daniel Wesson (American gunsmith)
Agatha Christie (English author)
William Wordsworth (English poet)
Stephen Crane (American author)
Edgar Allan Poe (American poet)
Robert Frost (American poet)
Bette Davis (Amereican actress)
Humphry Davy (English inventor)
Ruby Dee (actress)
Butch Cassidy (outlaw)
Laurence Olivier (British actor, director, producer)
John McCrae (author, military, physician)
William Thomson (Irish-Scottish scientist)
** direct ancestor
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