List of U.S. presidential relatives

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During the history of the United States, many presidential relatives have been noted in the media, often because of their "controversial", "scandalous" or otherwise notable behavior.

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[edit] Relatives of George W. Bush - 43rd President

  • George H. W. Bush - father, 41st President of the United States
  • Barbara Bush - mother, former First Lady of the United States
  • Barbara and Jenna Bush - his twin daughters
  • Neil Bush - his brother
    • Was on the board of directors of Silverado Savings and Loan during the 1980s, instrumental in causing the Savings and Loan scandals that cost American taxpayers over $1 billion. [1] [2]
    • Curious deal earning $2 million with Grace Semiconductor, run by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin [3]
    • Divorce and the usual other woman [4] "The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them."
  • Prescott Bush - his grandfather
    • Companies Prescott managed were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act because they were fronts for Nazi Industrialist Fritz Thyssen, a financier of Hitler's Third Reich.[5]
    • Urban legend has it that he robbed the grave and stole the skull of the Native American warrior Geronimo as part of an initiation into Yale's Skull and Bones Society.[6]
  • Lauren Bush - his niece, daughter of Neil Bush. She is a fashion model and a student at Princeton University.
  • Jeb Bush, brother of George W., former governor of Florida
  • Noelle Bush - his niece, the daughter of former governor of the State of Florida Jeb Bush, niece of President George W. Bush and the granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush. Has been arrested multiple times for various drug and alcohol offenses, prescription forgery, and served time in jail in 2002.
  • George P. Bush - his nephew, son of Jeb Bush, broke into his ex-girlfriend's family house and drove circles in their front yard with his car during a fit of rage. [7]
  • John E. Bush, Jr. - his nephew, son of Jeb Bush.
    • As a teenager, was caught by the police, literally, with his pants down in a parking lot, having sex with a teen-age girl.[8]
    • Arrested for public drunkenness and resisting arrest down in Texas.[9]
  • John Prescott Ellis - cousin of George W. Bush; called the 2000 presidential election for Bush for Fox News.
  • Billy Bush - his first cousin, son of Jonathan Bush (former CEO of Investment Management Company of Riggs Bank), host of the NBC-Universal's television show "Access Hollywood."
  • Chief Judge John Mercer Walker, Jr. - Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, cousin of George H.W. Bush. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, serving as a judge from 1989 to the present, and since 2000 as the Chief Judge of the Second Circuit.

[edit] Relatives of Bill Clinton - 42nd President

[edit] Relatives of Ronald Reagan - 40th President

[edit] Relatives of Jimmy Carter - 39th President

  • Billy Carter - brother
    • Spokesman and inspiration for Billy Beer. [15]
    • Claimed he could drink 20-30 cans of beer each day.
    • Travelled to Libya in 1978, a time of strained relations between the two countries, and hosted a Libyan delegation in Atlanta, Georgia. [16]
    • Quote: "Beer is not a good cocktail party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is."
  • Lillian Carter (Miss Lillian) - mother. Nurse, social and political activist, became a Peace Corps volunteer when she was in her 70s.

[edit] Relatives of Gerald Ford - 38th President

[edit] Relatives of Richard Nixon - 37th President

[edit] Relatives of Lyndon B. Johnson - 36th President

[edit] Relatives of John F. Kennedy - 35th President

[edit] Relatives of Dwight D. Eisenhower - 34th President

[edit] Relatives of Harry S. Truman - 33rd President

  • Margaret Truman - daughter. Author, historian, biographer of her parents, singer.

[edit] Relatives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd President

  • Theodore Roosevelt - cousin, uncle-in-law through marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt
    • 26th President of the United States
  • Tadd Roosevelt - nephew: son of his much older half-brother, James Roosevelt (Rosy).
    • Tadd was about the same age as Franklin and they attended Harvard at the same time. However Tadd dropped out, moved to New York, and married a Hungarian born prostitute with whom he stayed until her death forty years later. He was disowned by his father and all relations with the family were ended. He never touched the inheritance left from his grandmother's side of the family (the Astors, unrelated to Franklin) and left it all to the Salvation Army upon his death.
Source: 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom' by Conrad Black.

[edit] Relatives of Calvin Coolidge - 30th President

  • Calvin Coolidge, Jr. - son, died of blood poisoning at age 16 during the 1924 presidential election campaign
  • Sollace Burroughs Coolidge, Jr. - Sherwin-Williams paint company

[edit] Relatives of Woodrow Wilson - 28th President

[edit] Relatives of William Howard Taft - 27th President

[edit] Relatives of Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President

[edit] Relatives of Benjamin Harrison - 23rd President

[edit] Relatives of Grover Cleveland - 22nd/24th President

  • Rose Cleveland - sister, served as White House hostess during his first year in office
  • Ruth Cleveland - daughter, namesake of the "Baby Ruth" candy bar
  • Esther Cleveland - daughter, only child of a President born in the White House

[edit] Relatives of Chester A. Arthur - 21st President

[edit] Relatives of James A. Garfield - 20th President

[edit] Relatives of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President

[edit] Relatives of Andrew Johnson - 17th President

[edit] Relatives of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President

[edit] Relatives of James Buchanan - 15th President

  • Harriet Lane - niece, White House hostess during her uncle's term

[edit] Relatives of Franklin Pierce - 14th President

[edit] Relatives of Millard Fillmore - 13th President

[edit] Relatives of Zachary Taylor - 12th President

[edit] Relatives of John Tyler - 10th President

[edit] Relatives of William Henry Harrison - 9th President

[edit] Relatives of Martin Van Buren - 8th President

[edit] Relatives of Andrew Jackson - 7th President

[edit] Relatives of John Quincy Adams - 6th President

[edit] Relatives of James Monroe - 5th President

[edit] Relatives of Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President

[edit] Relatives of John Adams - 2nd President

  • John Quincy Adams - son, 6th President of the United States
  • Samuel Adams - cousin, signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Elihu Adams - brother, died serving in the Continental Army during the American Revolution

[edit] Relatives of George Washington - 1st President (1789-1797)

[edit] See also

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