List of children of the Presidents of the United States
This is a list of children of U.S. Presidents, including stepchildren, adopted children, and alleged illegitimate children. All full names with married names are given.
Presidential children have been studied individually, and as a class. As individuals, they are more often notable in their own right than most individuals: They disproportionately circulate amongst political and social leaders and the wealthier classes, and they are more likely to be scrutinized as part of celebrity culture. Additionally, as individuals they frequently have significant influence on other notable family members. So, for instance, a child who may appear otherwise non-notable as an individual may, in fact, have had a significant influence on the child's parent: acting as a sounding board, or having behavioral issues that affected the parent's beliefs or performance.
As a class, the children of presidents have also occasioned significant study. Study has generally followed two paths: The issue of what access and inclusion within the circles of power does to individuals' lives, aspirations, and outcomes;[1] and the issue of their influence on society and politics.[2]
George and Martha Washington
- No children together. The following were raised by Washington as his own:
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Parke Custis nickname: Jacky |
1751–1781 | Eleanor Calvert | Stepson; father was Daniel Parke Custis
Father of:
| |
Martha Parke Custis nickname: Patsy |
1756–1773 | not married | Stepdaughter; father was Daniel Parke Custis | |
Eleanor Parke Custis nickname: Nelly |
1779–1852 | Lawrence Lewis | Adopted daughter; daughter of stepson John Parke Custis | |
George Washington Parke Custis nickname: Wash |
1781–1857 | Mary Lee Fitzhugh | Legal ward; son of stepson John Parke Custis
Father of:
|
John and Abigail Adams
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abigail Adams nickname: Nabby or Amelia |
July 14, 1765 – Aug. 15, 1813 | William Stephens Smith | Mother of:
| |
John Quincy Adams | July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848 | Louisa Catherine Johnson | 6th President of the United States, see below at John Quincy and Louisa Adams | |
Susanna Adams | Dec. 28, 1768 – Feb. 4, 1770 | no spouse | Affectionately called "Suky", died aged three. | |
Charles Adams | May 29, 1770 – Nov. 30, 1800 | Sarah Smith | Father of:
| |
Thomas Boylston Adams | Sep. 15, 1772 – Mar. 13, 1832 | Ann Harrod | ||
Elizabeth Adams | July 11, 1777 | no spouse | stillborn |
Thomas Jefferson
with Martha Jefferson
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Martha Washington Jefferson nickname: Patsy |
Sep. 27, 1772 – Oct. 10, 1836 | Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. |
Mother of:
| |
Jane Randolph Jefferson | Apr. 3, 1774 – Sep. 1775 | no spouse | cause of death Heart-Attack | |
unnamed son | May 28 – June 14, 1777 | no spouse | died in infancy | |
Mary Jefferson nickname: Polly or Maria |
Aug. 1, 1778 – Apr. 17, 1804 | John Wayles Eppes | Mother of Francis Wayles Eppes VII (1801 – 1881) | |
Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson (I) | Nov. 3, 1780 – Apr. 15, 1781 | no spouse | died of an unspecified illness | |
Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson (II) | May 8, 1782 – Oct. 13, 1784 | no spouse | died of "teething, worms, and whooping cough" |
with Sally Hemings
- Alleged children with Sally Hemings; see Jefferson DNA data
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Children | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Jefferson Hemings nickname: Tom |
1790 – 1879 | Jemima Price | Father of:
| |
Harriet Hemings (I) | 1795 – 1797 | no spouse | died of unknown causes | |
Edy Hemings | 1796 | no spouse | died in infancy | |
William Beverly Hemings | 1798 – 1899 | Darek Joseph | one daughter, unknown name | |
Thenia Hemings | 1799 – 1802 | no spouse | died in early childhood | |
Harriet Hemings (II) | 1801 – unknown | unknown | ||
James Madison Hemings | 1805 – 1877 | Mary Hughes McCoy | ||
Eston Hemings | 1808 – 1856 | Julia Ann Isaacs | Father of John Wayles Jefferson (1835 – 1892) |
James and Dolley Madison
No children together, but raised the older of Dolley's 2 sons from her first marriage:
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Payne Todd | 1792 – 1852 | no spouse | raised by James Madison; father was John Todd, Jr. | |
William Temple Todd | July 4 – Oct. 24, 1793 | no spouse | died in infancy |
James and Elizabeth Monroe
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe | Dec. 5, 1786 – 1835 | George Hay | ||
James Spence Monroe | May 1799 – Sep. 28, 1801 | no spouse | died of unknown causes | |
Maria Hester Monroe | 1804 – 1850 | Samuel Laurence Gouverneur |
John Quincy and Louisa Adams
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
George Washington Adams | Apr. 12, 1801 – Apr. 30, 1829 | none | ||
John Adams II | July 4, 1803 – Oct. 23, 1834 | Mary Catherine Hellen | ||
unnamed son | 1806 | no spouse | ||
Charles Francis Adams | Aug. 18, 1807 – Nov. 21, 1886 | Abigail Brown Brooks |
Father of:
| |
Louisa Catherine Adams | 1811 – 1812 | no spouse | died from "winter illness" |
Andrew and Rachel Jackson
- No biological children together, adopted two:
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Jackson, Jr. | Dec. 4, 1808 – Apr. 17, 1865 | Sarah Yorke | adopted at birth; biological son of Severn Donelson | |
Lyncoya Jackson | c. 1811 – 1828 | no spouse | adopted Creek Indian orphan,[3] died of tuberculosis |
- Andrew and Rachel also served as guardians to eight children:
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Samuel Donelson | before 1817 – 1817 | unknown | Orphaned nephews of Rachel, sons of Samuel Donelson who died in 1804 | |
Andrew Jackson Donelson | 1799–1871 | Emily Tennessee Donelson | ||
Elizabeth Martin Randolph | ||||
Daniel Smith Donelson | 1801–1863 | Margaret Donelson | ||
Andrew Jackson Hutchings | 1812–1841 | Mary Coffee | Orphaned grandnephew of Rachel | |
Caroline Butler | before 1817 – 1817 | unknown | Orphaned children of family friend Edward Butler | |
Eliza Eleanor Butler | 1791–1850 | unknown | ||
Edward George Butler | 1800–1888 | unknown | ||
Anthony Wayne Butler | 1803–1824 | unknown |
Martin and Hannah Van Buren
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abraham Van Buren | Nov. 27, 1807 – Mar. 15, 1873 | Angelica Singleton | ||
John Van Buren | Feb. 10, 1810 – Oct. 13, 1866 | Elizabeth Van der Poel | ||
Martin Van Buren, Jr. | Dec. 20, 1812 – Mar. 19, 1855 | no spouse | ||
Winfield Scott Van Buren [4] | 1814 | |||
Smith Thompson Van Buren | Jan. 16, 1817 – 1876 | Ellen King James Henrietta Eckford Irving |
7 children between 2 wives | |
unnamed daughter [5] | (stillborn, date unknown) |
William Henry Harrison
with Anna Harrison
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Bassett Harrison nickname: Betsy |
1796 – 1846 | John Cleves Short | ||
John Cleves Symmes Harrison | 1798 – 1830 | Clarissa Pike | 6 children | |
Lucy Singleton Harrison | 1800 – 1826 | David K. Estes | 4 children | |
William Henry Harrison, Jr. | 1802 – 1838 | Jane Findlay Irwin | 2 children | |
John Scott Harrison | 1804 – 1878 | Lucretia Knapp Johnson | 3 children | |
Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin | 10 children, including Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901) | |||
Benjamin Harrison | 1806 – 1840 | Louisa Smith Bonner | ||
Mary Raney | ||||
Mary Symmes Harrison | 1809 – 1842 | John Henry Fitzhugh Thornton | ||
Carter Bassett Harrison | 1811 – 1839 | Mary Anne Sutherland | ||
Anna Tuthill Harrison | 1813 – 1865 | William Henry Harrison Taylor | ||
James Findlay Harrison | 1814 – 1819 | no spouse | died of unknown causes |
with a slave
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dilsia | 1809 – before 1900 | Unknown | Daughter conceived by one of his slaves.[6] |
John Tyler
with Letitia Tyler
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Tyler | 1815 – 1848 | Henry Lightfoot Jones | ||
Robert Tyler | 1816 – 1877 | Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper | ||
John Tyler III | 1819 – 1896 | Martha Rochelle | ||
Letitia Tyler nickname: Letty |
1821 – 1907 | James Allen Semple | no children | |
Elizabeth Tyler nickname: Lizzie |
1823 – 1850 | William Nevison Waller | ||
Anne Contesse Tyler | 1825 | no spouse | died in infancy | |
Alice Tyler | 1827 – 1854 | Henry Mandeville Denison | ||
Tazewell Tyler | 1830 – 1874 | Nannie Bridges |
Alleged child with a slave
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
John William Dunjee | 1833 – 1903 | Lydia Ann Taylor | allegedly the son of John Tyler; unproven as of 2011[7] |
with Julia Tyler
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
David Gardiner Tyler nickname: Gardie |
1846 – 1927 | Mary Morris Jones | ||
John Alexander Tyler nickname: Alex |
1848 – 1883 | Sarah Griswold Gardiner | ||
Julia Gardiner Tyler | 1849 – 1871 | William H. Spencer | ||
Lachlan Tyler | 1851 – 1902 | Georgia Webb Powell | ||
Lyon Gardiner Tyler | 1853 – 1935 | Anne Baker Tucker | Father of:
| |
Sue Ruffin | Father of:
| |||
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler | 1856 – 1927 | Fannie Glenn | at least 3 children | |
Pearl Tyler | 1860 – 1947 | William Munford Ellis |
James and Sarah Polk
No biological children
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marshall Tate Polk, Jr. | 1831 – 1884 | Evalina McNeal Bills | Legal ward; nephew, son of brother Marshall Tate Polk |
Zachary and Margaret Taylor
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ann Mackall Taylor | 1811 – 1875 | Dr. Robert Crooke Wood | Mother of four children, including John Taylor Wood (1830 – 1904) | |
Sarah Knox Taylor nickname: Knoxie |
1814 – 1835 | Jefferson Finis Davis | died from malaria as a newlywed | |
Octavia Pannell Taylor | 1816 – 1820 | no spouse | died from malaria | |
Margaret Smith Taylor | 1819 – 1820 | no spouse | died from malaria | |
Mary Elizabeth Taylor nickname: Betty |
1824 – 1909 | William Wallace Smith Bliss | Betty Bliss served as President Taylor's White House hostess, as the First Lady was an invalid. | |
Philip Pendleton Dandridge | ||||
Richard Taylor nickname: Dick |
1826 – 1879 | Louise Marie Myrthe Bringier | Planter, military historian, Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army, and author of the book Destruction and Reconstruction (1879) |
Millard and Abigail Fillmore
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Millard Powers Fillmore | 1828 – 1889 | no spouse | ||
Mary Abigail Fillmore nickname: Abby |
1832 – 1854 | no spouse | Served as Acting First Lady during her mother's illness |
Franklin and Jane Pierce
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Franklin Pierce, Jr. | 1836 | no spouse | died in infancy | |
Franklin Robert Pierce | 1839 – 1843 | no spouse | died of typhus fever | |
Benjamin Pierce | 1841 – 1853 | no spouse | died in train accident in front of his parents, weeks before his father was inaugurated |
James Buchanan
- No biological children
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Elizabeth Speer Lane | 1826 – 1855 | George Washington Baker | Adopted daughter; niece (daughter of sister Jane Buchanan and Elliot Tole Lane) | |
Harriet Rebecca Lane | 1830 – 1903 | Henry Elliott Johnston | Adopted daughter; niece (daughter of sister Jane Buchanan and Elliot Tole Lane); served as Acting First Lady Mother of:
|
Abraham and Mary Lincoln
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Todd Lincoln | 1843 – 1926 | Mary Eunice Harlan | Father of:
| |
Edward Baker Lincoln nickname: Eddie |
1846 – 1850 | no spouse | died of "chronic consumption" | |
William Wallace Lincoln nickname: Willie |
1850 – 1862 | no spouse | died from typhoid fever | |
Thomas Lincoln nickname: Tad |
1853 – 1871 | no spouse | died from tuberculosis |
Andrew and Eliza Johnson
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Martha Johnson | 1828 – 1901 | David Trotter Patterson | ||
Charles Johnson | 1830 – 1863 | no spouse | ||
Mary Johnson | 1832 – 1883 | Daniel Stover | ||
William Browne | ||||
Robert Johnson | 1834 – 1869 | no spouse | died after suicide | |
Andrew Johnson, Jr. | 1852 – 1879 | Bessie May Kumbaugh |
Ulysses and Julia Grant
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Frederick Dent Grant | 1850 – 1912 | Ida Marie Honoré | Father of:
| |
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. nickname: Buck |
1852 – 1929 | Frances Josephine Chaffee | Father of 5 children, including Ulysses Simpson Grant IV (1893 – 1977) | |
America Workman Will | no children | |||
Ellen Wrenshall Grant nickname: Nellie |
1855 – 1922 | Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris | Mother of:
| |
Frank Hatch Jones | ||||
Jesse Root Grant | 1858 – 1934 | Elizabeth Chapman | Father of two, including Chapman Grant (1887 – 1983) | |
Lillian Burns |
Rutherford and Lucy Hayes
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sardis Birchard Austin Hayes | 1853 – 1926 | Mary Nancy Sherman | ||
James Webb Cook Hayes | 1856 – 1934 | Mary Otis Brinkerhoff Miller | ||
Rutherford Platt Hayes | 1858 – 1927 | Lucy Hayes Platt | ||
Joseph Thompson Hayes nickname: Jody |
1861 – 1863 | no spouse | died of dysentery | |
George Crook Hayes | 1864 – 1866 | no spouse | died of scarlet fever | |
Frances Hayes nickname: Fanny |
1867 – 1950 | Harry Eaton Smith | ||
Scott Russell Hayes | 1871 – 1923 | Maude Anderson | ||
Manning Force Hayes | 1873 – 1874 | no spouse | died in infancy |
James and Lucretia Garfield
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Eliza Arabella Garfield nickname: Trot |
1860 – 1863 | no spouse | died of diphtheria in infancy | |
Harry Augustus Garfield nickname: Hal |
1863 – 1942 | Belle Hartford Mason | ||
James Rudolph Garfield | 1865 – 1950 | Helen Newell | Father of:
| |
Mary Garfield nickname: Mollie |
1867 – 1947 | Joseph Stanley-Brown | ||
Irvin McDowell Garfield | 1870 – 1951 | Susan Emmons | ||
Abram Garfield | 1872 – 1958 | Sarah Granger Williams | ||
Helen Grannis Matthews | ||||
Edward Garfield | 1874 – 1876 | no spouse | died of whooping cough |
Chester and Ellen Arthur
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Lewis Arthur | 1860 – 1863 | no spouse | died of "convulsions" | |
Chester Alan Arthur II | 1864 – 1937 | Myra Townsend | ||
Rowena Graves | ||||
Ellen Herndon Arthur nickname: Nell |
1871 – 1915 | Charles Pinkerton |
Grover Cleveland and Maria Halpin
- See also section on Grover and Frances Cleveland
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Oscar Folsom Cleveland | 1874 – 1947 | unknown | alleged illegitimate child; adopted as "James E. King" into the family of James King in 1879 |
Benjamin Harrison
with Caroline Harrison
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Russell Benjamin Harrison | 1854 – 1936 | May Angeline Saunders | born Russell Farnum Lord Harrison
Father of 2, including William Henry Harrison (1896 – 1990) | |
Mary Scott Harrison nickname: Mamie |
1858 – 1930 | James Robert McKee | served as acting First Lady | |
unnamed daughter | 1861 | no spouse | died in infancy |
with Mary Harrison
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Harrison Walker | 1897 – 1955 | James Blaine Walker |
Grover and Frances Cleveland
- See also section on Grover Cleveland and Maria Halpin
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ruth Cleveland nickname: Baby Ruth |
1891 – 1904 | no spouse | died of diphtheria | |
Esther Cleveland | 1893 – 1980 | William Sydney Bence Bosanquet | First Presidential child to be born in the White House. Mother of Philippa Ruth Bosanquet (1920 – 2010) | |
Marion Cleveland | 1895 – 1977 | William Stanley Dell | ||
John Harlan Amen | ||||
Richard Folsom Cleveland nickname: Dick |
1897 – 1974 | Ellen Douglas Gailor | ||
Jessie Maxwell Black | ||||
Francis Grover Cleveland | 1903 – 1995 | Alice Erdman |
William and Ida McKinley
Child | Lifetime | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Katherine McKinley nickname: Katie |
1871 – 1875 | died of typhoid fever | |
Ida McKinley | 1873 | died in infancy |
Theodore Roosevelt
with Alice Roosevelt
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alice Lee Roosevelt nickname: Princess Alice |
1884 – 1980 | Nicholas Longworth IV | Mother of Paulina Longworth (1925 – 1957) |
with Edith Roosevelt
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. nickname: Ted |
1887 – 1944 | Eleanor Butler Alexander | Father of:
| |
Kermit Roosevelt | 1889 – 1943 | Belle Wyatt Willard | Father of:
| |
Ethel Carow Roosevelt | 1891 – 1977 | Richard Derby | Mother of:
| |
Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt nickname: Archie |
1894 – 1979 | Grace Lockwood | Father of:
| |
Quentin Roosevelt nickname: Quentyquee or Quinikins |
1897 – 1918 | no spouse | died in combat in World War I |
William and Helen Taft
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Alphonso Taft | 1889 – 1953 | Martha Wheaton Bowers | Father of:
| |
Helen Herron Taft Manning | 1891 – 1987 | Frederick Johnson Manning | Mother of:
| |
Charles Phelps Taft II | 1897 – 1983 | Eleanor Kellogg Chase | Father of:
|
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Margaret Woodrow Wilson nickname: Nistha |
1886–1944 | no spouse | Served as acting First Lady for a brief period | |
Jessie Woodrow Wilson | 1887–1933 | Francis Bowes Sayre | ||
Eleanor Randolph Wilson | 1889–1967 | William Gibbs McAdoo |
Warren G. Harding
No proven biological children
with Florence Harding
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marshall Eugene DeWolfe nickname: Pete |
1880–1915 | Esther Naomi Neely | stepson from Florence's first marriage, to Henry Athenton DeWolfe |
with Nan Britton
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Ann Britton nickname: Emma or Ann |
1919–2005 | Henry Edward Blaesing | allegedly the daughter of Warren G. Harding; unproven as of 2011[8] |
Calvin and Grace Coolidge
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Coolidge | 1906–2000 | Florence Trumbull | Father of:
| |
Calvin Coolidge, Jr. | 1908–1924 | no spouse | Died of blood poisoning |
Herbert and Lou Hoover
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Herbert Clark Hoover, Jr. | 1903–1969 | Margaret Ava Watson | Served as Under Secretary of State (October 4, 1954 - February 5, 1957) in the Eisenhower Administration. Variously named as "Herbert Hoover, Jr.,"[9] "Herbert Charles Hoover,"[10] and "Herbert Clark Hoover."[11] | |
Allan Hoover | 1907–1993 | Margaret Coberly |
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt | 1906–1975 | Curtis Bean Dall | Mother of:
| |
Clarence John Boettiger | Mother of John Roosevelt Boettiger (1939–present) | |||
James Addison Halsted | ||||
James Roosevelt nickname: Jimmy |
1907–1991 | Betsey Maria Cushing | Father of Sara Delano Roosevelt (1932–present) | |
Romelle Theresa Schneider | Father of James Roosevelt, Jr. (1945–present) | |||
Gladys Irene Owens | ||||
Mary Lena Winskill | ||||
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (I) | 1909 | no spouse | died as an infant | |
Elliott Roosevelt | 1910–1990 | Elizabeth Browning Donner | Father of William Donner Roosevelt (1932–2003) | |
Ruth Josephine Googins | Father of:
| |||
Faye Margaret Emerson | ||||
Minnewa Bell | ||||
Patricia Peabody | ||||
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (II) | 1914–1988 | Ethel du Pont | Father of:
| |
Suzanne Perrin | ||||
Felicia Schiff Warburg | ||||
Patricia Luisa Oakes | ||||
Linda McKay Stevenson | ||||
John Aspinwall Roosevelt | 1916–1981 | Anne Lindsay Clark | Father of:
| |
Irene Elder Boyd |
Harry and Bess Truman
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Note | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Margaret Truman | 1924–2008 | Elbert Clifton Daniel, Jr. | Mother of:
|
Independence, Missouri |
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Doud Dwight Eisenhower nickname: Icky |
1917–1921 | no spouse | died of scarlet fever | San Antonio, Texas | |
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower | 1922–2013 | Barbara Jean Thompson |
Father of:
|
Denver, Colorado | |
Joanne Thompson |
John and Jackie Kennedy
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arabella Kennedy | 1956 | no spouse | stillborn | ||
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy | 1957 – present | Edwin Arthur Schlossberg | currently the United States Ambassador to Japan
Mother of:
|
Manhattan, New York | |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. nickname: John-John |
1960 – 1999 | Carolyn Jeanne Bessette | killed in an airplane crash | Washington, D.C. | |
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy | 1963 | no spouse | died after a premature birth | Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts |
Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lynda Bird Johnson | 1944–present | Charles Spittal Robb | Currently the oldest living Presidential child
Mother of:
|
Washington, D.C. | |
Luci Baines Johnson | 1947–present | Patrick John Nugent | Mother of:
|
Washington, D.C. | |
Ian Johnstone Turpin |
Richard and Pat Nixon
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patricia Nixon nickname: Tricia |
1946–present | Edward Ridley Finch Cox | Mother of Christopher Nixon Cox (1979–present) | Whittier, California | |
Julie Nixon | 1948–present | Dwight David Eisenhower II | Mother of:
|
Washington, D.C. |
Gerald and Betty Ford
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Gerald Ford | 1950–present | Gayle Ann Brumbaugh | Father of:
|
||
John Gardner Ford nickname: Jack |
1952–present | Juliann Felando | Father of:
|
||
Steven Meigs Ford | 1956–present | no spouse | East Grand Rapids, Michigan | ||
Susan Elizabeth Ford | 1957–present | Charles Vance | Mother of:
|
Washington, D.C. | |
Vaden Bales |
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
John William Carter nickname: Jack |
1947 – present | Juliet Langford | Father of:
|
Portsmouth, Virginia | |
Elizabeth Brasfield | |||||
James Earl Carter III nickname: Chip |
1950 – present | Caron Griffin | Father of James Earl Carter IV | Honolulu, Hawaii | |
Ginger Hodges | Father of Margaret Alicia Carter | ||||
Becky Payne | |||||
Donnell Jeffrey Carter nickname: Jeff |
1952 – present | Annette Jene Davis | Father of:
|
New London, Connecticut | |
Amy Lynn Carter | 1967 – present | James Gregory Wentzel | Mother of Hugo James Wentzel (1999–present) | Plains, Georgia |
Ronald Reagan
with Jane Wyman
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maureen Reagan | 1941–2001 | John Filippone | Los Angeles, California | ||
David Sills | |||||
Dennis C. Revell | |||||
Michael Reagan | 1945–present | Pamela Gail Putnam | Los Angeles, California | ||
Colleen Sterns | Father of:
| ||||
Christine Reagan | 1947 | died shortly after birth |
with Nancy Reagan
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Patti Davis | 1952–present | Paul Grilley (1984–1990) | Los Angeles, California | |
Ron Reagan | 1958–present | Doria Palmieri | Los Angeles, California |
George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
George W. Bush | 1946–present | Laura Bush | 43rd President of the United States
Father of:
|
New Haven, Connecticut | |
Pauline Robinson Bush | 1949–1953 | died of leukemia | |||
John E. Bush nickname: Jeb |
1953–present | Columba Bush | Father of:
|
Midland, Texas | |
Neil Bush | 1955–present | Sharon Smith | Father of:
|
Midland, Texas | |
Maria Andrews | |||||
Marvin P. Bush | 1956–present | Margaret Conway Molster | Father of:
|
Midland, Texas | |
Dorothy Bush Koch nickname: Doro |
1959–present | William LeBlond | Mother of:
|
Harris County, Texas | |
Bobby Koch | Mother of:
|
Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chelsea Clinton | 1980 – present | Marc Mezvinsky | Mother of:
|
Little Rock, Arkansas |
George W. and Laura Bush
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barbara Pierce Bush | 1981 – present | Never married | Dallas, Texas | ||
Jenna Bush Hager | 1981 – present | Henry Hager | Mother of:
|
Dallas, Texas |
Barack and Michelle Obama
Child | Lifetime | Spouse | Notes | Place of Birth | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Malia Ann Obama | 1998 – present | Never married | Chicago, Illinois | ||
Natasha "Sasha" Obama | 2001 – present | Never married | Youngest living child of any President | Chicago, Illinois |
Living Presidential children
As of December 2013, 26 presidential children are living. In age order, they are:
- Lynda Bird Johnson Robb – March 19, 1944
- Michael Reagan – March 18, 1945
- Tricia Nixon Cox – February 21, 1946
- George W. Bush – July 6, 1946 (Himself a President)
- Luci Baines Johnson – July 2, 1947
- Jack Carter – July 3, 1947
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower – July 5, 1948
- Michael Gerald Ford – March 16, 1950
- James E. Carter III – April 12, 1950
- John Gardner Ford – March 16, 1952
- Jeff Carter – August 18, 1952
- Patti Davis – October 21, 1952
- Jeb Bush – February 11, 1953
- Neil Bush – January 22, 1955
- Steven Ford – May 19, 1956
- Marvin P. Bush – October 22, 1956
- Susan Ford – July 6, 1957
- Caroline Kennedy – November 27, 1957
- Ron Reagan – May 20, 1958
- Dorothy Bush Koch – August 18, 1959
- Amy Carter – October 19, 1967
- Chelsea Clinton – February 27, 1980
- Barbara Pierce Bush – November 25, 1981
- Jenna Hager – November 25, 1981
- Malia Obama – July 4, 1998
- Sasha Obama – June 10, 2001
The most recent presidential child to die was John Eisenhower, on December 21, 2013.
References
- ↑ See, e.g., Angelo, First Families.
- ↑ See, e.g., Zwicker, "America's Royalty", Presidential Studies Quarterly.
- ↑
- ↑ , lythgoes.net
- ↑ , firstladies.org
- ↑ Kenneth Robert Janken, Walter White: Mr. NAACP, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, p.2
- ↑ Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation at library.buffalo.edu/exhibits/ForeverFree/index.htm
- ↑ Associated Press Wire Service. Secret Kept for Twenty Years: California Woman Says She is Daughter of Harding. Tri-City Herald, Pasco, Washington, p. 15, July 17, 1964.
- Dean, John; Schlesinger, Arthur M. Warren Harding (The American President Series), Times Books, 2004. ISBN 0-8050-6956-9
- ↑ Cameron Hawley, "The Honored Name I Bear?", Life, Oct 11, 1954
- ↑ Hoover Genealogy, Herbert Hoover National HIstoric Site, National Park Service
- ↑ "Herbert Clark Hoover (1903-1969)". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
- Bonnie Angelo, First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives, ISBN 0-06-056356-7
- William A. Degregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Wings Books, 1991
- Doug Wead, All the President's Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families, Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3
Further reading
- Larry D. Underwood. All the President's Children, Dageford Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-886225-85-0 (a children's book)
- Quinn-Musgrove, Sandra L. and Kanter, Sanford, America's Royalty: All the President's Children, Olympic Marketing, ISBN 0-313-23645-3
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