List of U.S. presidential relatives

During the history of the United States, many presidential relatives have become notable in their own right.

Relatives of Barack Obama - 44th President

• Michelle Obama - wife First Lady of the United States
• Natasha "Sasha" Obama - daughter
• Malia Obama - daughter
• Barack Hussein Obama I - father
• Stanley Ann Dunham - mother
• Maya Soetoro-Ng - half-sister
• Zeituni Onyango - aunt (political asylum/illegal residency case)
• Lolo Soetoro - stepfather
• Stanley Armour Dunham - maternal grandfather
• Madelyn Lee Payne - maternal grandmother
• Onyango Obama - paternal grandfather
• Habiba Akumu Obama - paternal grandmother
• Craig Robinson - brother-in-law, brother of Michelle Obama, former Oregon State University men's basketball head coach

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
• Laura Bush - wife
• twin daughters:

• Barbara Bush
• Jenna Bush Hager, current correspondent on NBC's Today

• Jeb Bush - his brother, former governor of Florida, 2016 presidential candidate
• Marvin Bush - brother
• Neil Bush - brother (S&L Scandal, Grace Semiconductor deal, divorce and scandal)
• Dorothy Bush Koch - sister
• Prescott Bush - grandfather, United States Senator from Connecticut
• Lauren Bush-Lauren - niece, fashion model
• Noelle Bush - niece, daughter of Jeb Bush
• George P. Bush - nephew, son of Jeb Bush.
• Jeb Bush, Jr. - nephew, son of Jeb Bush.
• John Prescott Ellis - cousin, called the 2000 presidential election for Bush on Fox News.
• Billy Bush - first cousin, host of Access Hollywood.
• Franklin Pierce - distant cousin, both are descendants of Thomas Pierce, an early settler of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• John Steinbeck - distant cousin, both are descendants of Thomas Pierce, an early settler of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Relatives of Bill Clinton - 42nd President

• Hillary Rodham Clinton - wife, former US First Lady, former US Senator, 2016 and 2008 US presidential candidate, former US Sec of State
• Chelsea Clinton - only daughter
• Roger Clinton - half-brother, cocaine trafficking, DWI and disorderly arrest
• Hugh Rodham - wife's brother, pardon and commutation scandal
• Tony Rodham – wife's other brother, assorted controversies

Relatives of George H. W. Bush - 41st President

• George Walker Bush - eldest son, 43rd President of the United States, 46th Governor of Texas,
• Jeb Bush - second son, 43rd Governor of Florida, 2016 Presidential Candidate
• Prescott Bush - father, US Senator from Connecticut
• John M. Walker, Jr. - first cousin, appointed him to the US 2nd Circuit Appeals Court (1989–present)
• Jonathan Bush brother,banker, founded J. Bush & Co. which provided discreet banking services for the Washington D.C. embassies of foreign governments for many years. Father of Jonathan S. Bush, founder of athenahealth

Relatives of Ronald Reagan - 40th President

• Jack Reagan - father, radio station manager
• Nelle Wilson Reagan - mother
• Neil Reagan - brother, CBS senior producer and senior vice president of McCann Erickson
• Jane Wyman - first wife (1940 - 1949)
• Nancy Reagan - second wife (1952 - 2004; his death)
• Maureen Reagan - daughter, actress and political activist
• Michael Reagan - adopted son, radio host
• Patti Davis - daughter, actress and writer
• Ron Reagan - son, political commentator and talk show host, hosted Saturday Night Live on February 8, 1986

Relatives of Jimmy Carter - 39th President

• Ruth Stapleton - sister. She was a noted author, evangelist and faith healer.
• Billy Carter - brother
• James Earl Carter, Sr. - father. Businessman, member of the Georgia House of Representatives
• Lillian Carter (Miss Lillian) - mother. Nurse, social and political activist, became a Peace Corps volunteer when she was in her 70s.
• Rosalynn Carter (née Smith) - wife
• Amy Carter - daughter
• Jack Carter - son
• Jason Carter - grandson, Georgia State Senator
• Hugh Carter - first cousin, Georgia State Senator
• June Carter Cash - distant cousin, singer and second wife of Johnny Cash
• Berry Gordy - distant cousin through his mother. Founder of Motown Records.

Relatives of Gerald Ford - 38th President

• Betty Ford - wife, First Lady, breast cancer, addiction problem and advocacy, Betty Ford Center
• Michael Ford - oldest child, eldest son
• John Ford - second child
• Steven Ford - third child, actor
• Susan Ford - fourth child, only daughter
• Thomas Gardner Ford - half brother, member of the Michigan House of Representatives

Relatives of Richard Nixon - 37th President

• Donald Nixon - brother
• Edward Nixon - brother
• Patricia Nixon Cox - daughter
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower - daughter (married to David Eisenhower, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson)
• Jessamyn West - second cousin (through the Milhous family), author

Relatives of Lyndon B. Johnson - 36th President

• Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. - father
  • Member of Texas House of Representatives
• Sam Houston Johnson - brother
  • Used to get drunk and talk to the press until the Secret Service put him under surveillance.
• Chuck Robb - son-in-law
  • former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator
• Philip Bobbitt - nephew
  • Noted Constitutional law scholar, military strategist, and national security adviser

Relatives of John F. Kennedy - 35th President

• Joseph P. Kennedy - father
  • US Ambassador to Great Britain under FDR, and early opponent of US entry into World War II
• P.J. Kennedy - grandfather
  • Massachusetts state legislator
• John F. Fitzgerald - grandfather
  • Mayor of Boston and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
• Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. - brother
  • Killed in action in the Second World War.
• Robert Kennedy - brother
  • Attorney General under his brother. Elected to the United States Senate from New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in the 1968 election until he was shot in Los Angeles, CA on June 5, 1968 after winning the California primary election. He died on June 6.
• Rosemary Kennedy - sister
  • Was institutionalized because of a failed 1941 lobotomy, which was in response to mild mental retardation. ^[1]
• Edward "Ted" Kennedy - brother
  • U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1962-2009.
  • Involved in a fatal car accident in 1969, when he drove his car off of Dike Bridge in Chappaquiddick, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
  • Unsuccessful Democratic primary challenger to President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
• Jean Kennedy Smith - sister
  • U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
  • Founder of VSA arts.
  • Board member of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
• Maria Shriver - daughter of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy, who is a sister of JFK, Robert and Edward Kennedy. Wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1986-2011.
• Christopher Lawford - Son of Peter Lawford, and Patricia Kennedy, who is sister of JFK.

Relatives of Dwight D. Eisenhower - 34th President

• John Eisenhower - son. Military officer, author, Presidential aide.(d. 2013)
• Milton Eisenhower - brother. College administrator, serving as president of Kansas State University, The Pennsylvania State University, and The Johns Hopkins University.
• Edgar N. Eisenhower - brother. Lawyer
• Earl D. Eisenhower - brother. Member of Illinois House of Representatives.
• David Eisenhower - grandson. Married to Pres. Richard Nixon's daughter Julie Nixon.
  • Camp David is named after him.
• Susan Eisenhower - daughter of John Eisenhower and granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower. Consultant, author and expert on international security and relations between the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

Relatives of Harry S. Truman - 33rd President

• Bess Truman - wife
• Margaret Truman Daniel - daughter. Author, historian, biographer of her parents, singer.
• Martha Ellen Young Truman - mother

Relatives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd President

• Eleanor Roosevelt - wife, social activist, active in the United Nations
• Theodore Roosevelt - fifth 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.

Relatives of Herbert Hoover - 31st President

• Herbert Hoover, Jr. - son, served as United States Department of State Under Secretary
• Allan Hoover - son, businessman
• Margaret Hoover - great-granddaughter, political commentator
• Lou Henry Hoover - wife, cultivated scholar and lingiust

Relatives of Calvin Coolidge - 30th President

• Grace Coolidge - wife
• John Coolidge - son, businessman
• John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. - father, businessman, served in the Vermont General Assembly
• Calvin Galusha Coolidge - grandfather, farmer, served in the Vermont General Assembly

Relatives of Warren Harding - 29th President

• Carolyn Harding Votaw - sister, public health official

Relatives of Woodrow Wilson - 28th President

• Edith Wilson - First Lady, unofficial acting President after Wilson's incapacitating stroke in September 1919
• Margaret Woodrow Wilson - daughter, served as First Lady following her mother's death
• Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre - daughter
• Eleanor Wilson McAdoo - daughter
• William Gibbs McAdoo - son-in-law, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and 1924 presidential candidate

Relatives of William Howard Taft - 27th President

• Alphonso Taft - father, Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Ulysses Grant
• Robert A. Taft - son, former U.S. Senator and perennial presidential candidate
• Charles Phelps Taft II - son, former Mayor of Cincinnati
• Bob Taft - great-grandson, former Governor of Ohio, convicted of 4 misdemeanors for failing to report gifts.

Relatives of Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President

• Alice Roosevelt Longworth – daughter
• Kermit Roosevelt – son
• Nicholas Longworth – son-in-law, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. – son, U.S. Army officer. Awarded Medal of Honor, WWII.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt – fifth cousin, 32nd president of the United States
• Eleanor Roosevelt – niece, first lady of the United States during husband Franklin's tenure as President
• Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. – grandson, orchestrated the coup against Mohammad Mossadeq that returned the Shah of Iran Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi to power
• Susan Roosevelt Weld – great-granddaughter, former first lady of Massachusetts
• Mark Roosevelt – great-grandson, superintendent, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Public Schools

Relatives of Benjamin Harrison - 23rd President

• John Scott Harrison - father, former U.S. Congressman, only son of one President and father of another
• William Henry Harrison - grandfather, 9th President of the United States
• Anna Harrison - grandmother, First Lady of the United States
• Mary Harrison McKee - daughter, served as First Lady following her mother's death
• Elizabeth Harrison - daughter, attorney
• Russell Benjamin Harrison - son, served in Indiana General Assembly
• Willam H. Harrison - grandson, member of the United States House of Representatives

Relatives of Grover Cleveland - 22nd/24th President

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

Relatives of Chester A. Arthur - 21st President

• William Lewis Herndon - father-in-law, U.S. Navy officer lost at sea
• Mary McElroy - sister - served as White House hostess during his term
• Chester Alan Arthur II - son
• Gavin Arthur - grandson

Relatives of James A. Garfield - 20th President

• James Rudolph Garfield - son, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior
• Harry Augustus Garfield - son, attorney

Relatives of Rutherford Hayes - 19th President

• Rutherford P. Hayes - son, librarian
• Webb Hayes - son, businessman, military officer, recipient of Medal of Honor

Relatives of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President

• Frederick Dent Grant - son, U.S. Army officer and Minister to Austria
• Ellen (Nellie) Wrenshall Grant - daughter, married in the White House during her father's term
• Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. - son, lawyer
• Jesse Root Grant - son, engineer
• Princess Cantacuzène - granddaughter, memoirist of the Russian Revolution
• Ulysses S. Grant III - grandson, soldier
• Ulysses S. Grant IV - grandson, scientist
• Chapman Grant - grandson, scientist

Relatives of Andrew Johnson - 17th President

• Eliza McCardle Johnson - wife
• David T. Patterson - son-in-law, U.S. Senator from Tennessee

Relatives of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President

• Samuel Lincoln - 4th great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln (captain) - grandfather of Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Lincoln - father of Abraham Lincoln
• Nancy Hanks - mother of Abraham Lincoln
• Sarah Bush Lincoln - stepmother of Abraham Lincoln
• Sarah Lincoln Grigsby - sister of Abraham Lincoln
• Mordecai Lincoln - uncle of Abraham Lincoln
• Mary Lincoln Crume - aunt of Abraham Lincoln
• Gatewood Lincoln - first cousin once removed of the president and two-time governor of American Samoa
• Mary Todd Lincoln - wife of the president
• Robert Todd Lincoln - son, served as U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Minister to Great Britain
• William Wallace Lincoln - son, died in the White House during his father's term
• Edward Baker Lincoln - second son, died at age 3.
• Tad Lincoln - youngest son of Abraham Lincoln.
• Abraham Lincoln II - grandson of Abraham Lincoln, son of Robert Todd Lincoln
• Mary "Mamie" Lincoln - granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln
• Jessie Harlan Lincoln - granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln
• James Madison-cousin

Relatives of James Buchanan - 15th President

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

Relatives of Franklin Pierce - 14th President

• Benjamin Pierce - father, two-term Governor of New Hampshire
• Barbara Bush - née Pierce, distant cousin, see Bush family

Relatives of Millard Fillmore - 13th President

• Millard Powers Fillmore - son, served as father's personal secretary
• Mary Abigail Fillmore - daughter, served as White House hostess during her father's term

Relatives of Zachary Taylor - 12th President

• James Madison - Second Cousin
• Sarah Knox Taylor - daughter, briefly married to future Confederate President Jefferson Davis
• Jefferson Davis - son-in-law
• Richard Taylor - son, served as Confederate Army General during the Civil War
• Mary Elizabeth Bliss - daughter, served as White House hostess during her father's term

Relatives of James K. Polk - 11th President

• William Polk Dobson - first cousin, member of the North Carolina State Senate
• William Hawkins Polk - brother, member of the United States House of Representatives,

Relatives of John Tyler - 10th President

• John Tyler, Sr. - father, former Governor of Virginia
• David Gardiner - father-in-law, killed in the Princeton explosion
• David Gardiner Tyler - son, U.S. Congressman
• Lyon Gardiner Tyler - son, President of the College of William and Mary
• Priscilla Cooper Tyler - daughter-in-law, White House hostess during part of her father-in-law's term
• Elizabeth Tyler - daughter, married in the White House during her father's term

Relatives of William Henry Harrison - 9th President

• Benjamin Harrison V - father, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Carter Bassett Harrison - brother, former U.S. Congressman from Virginia
• John Cleves Symmes - father-in-law. Member of the Continental Congress
• Benjamin Harrison - grandson, 23rd President of the United States
• Jane Irwin Harrison - daughter-in-law, served as White House hostess during his term
• John Scott Harrison - son, former U.S. Congressman, only son of one President and father

Relatives of Martin Van Buren - 8th President

• Abraham Van Buren - son, U.S. Army officer and secretary to his father
• Angelica Van Buren - daughter-in-law, served as White House hostess during her father-in-law's term
• John Van Buren - son, New York Attorney General

Relatives of Andrew Jackson - 7th President

• John Donelson - father-in-law, co-founder of present-day Nashville, Tennessee
• Emily Donelson - niece, served as White House hostess during her uncle's term
• Sarah Yorke Jackson - daughter-in-law, served as White House hostess during her father-in-law's term
• Andrew Jackson Donelson - nephew and adopted son, 1856 Know-Nothing Party Vice Presidential candidate
• Daniel Smith Donelson, - nephew, former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Confederate Army officer during the Civil War

Relatives of John Quincy Adams - 6th President

• John Adams - father, 2nd President of the United States
• Abigail Adams - mother, First Lady of the United States
• Charles Francis Adams, Sr. - son, served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain during the American Civil War
• Henry Brooks Adams - grandson (son of Charles F. Adams), author of the History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, posthumous winner of Pulitzer prize
• George Washington Adams - son, Massachusetts State Representative

Relatives of James Monroe - 5th President

• Samuel L. Gouverneur - son-in-law and nephew (by marriage), Postmaster of New York City (1828–1836)
• George Hay - son-in-law, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1826–1830)

Relatives of James Madison - 4th President

• William Madison - brother
• John Payne Todd - stepson
• Zachary Taylor - Second Cousin
• Abraham Lincoln- Distant cousin of James Madison

Relatives of Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President

• Martha Jefferson Randolph - daughter, served as White House hostess during her father's term
• Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. - son-in-law, former Governor of Virginia
• George W. Randolph, grandson - served as Confederate Secretary of War during the Civil War
• Thomas Jefferson Randolph - grandson, Chairman of the 1872 Democratic National Convention

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

Relatives of George Washington - 1st President

• Bushrod Washington - nephew, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Lawrence Washington - half-brother and mentor
• Charles Washington - youngest brother of siblings and founder of Charles Town, WV

References

1. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfkjr/timeline.htm

External links

• Embarrassing Relatives Plague Presidents (ABC News)
• Life with baby Hughie (CNN)

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