List of U.S. presidential relatives

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.

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
*Jeb Bush - his brother, former governor of Florida
*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. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35297-2003Dec27?language=printer] [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A81085]
**Curious deal earning $2 million with Grace Semiconductor, run by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin [http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/bush.brother.reut/]
**Divorce and the usual other woman [http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/bush.brother.reut/] "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, a United States Senator from Connecticut
**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. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html]
**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. [http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20000923roddy.asp]
*Lauren Bush - his niece, daughter of Neil Bush. She is a fashion model and a student at Princeton University.
*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. [http://www.thesmokinggun.com:80/archive/georgep1.html]
*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. [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jebby1.shtml]
**Arrested for public drunkenness and resisting arrest down in Texas. [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0916052bush1.html]
*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.

Relatives of Bill Clinton - 42nd President

*Roger Clinton - half-brother
**Convicted of selling cocaine and jailed for one year. [http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/02/22/burton.rich.02/]
**Arrested for driving while intoxicated and disorderly conduct in Hermosa Beach, California. [http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/rogerclinton010403.html]
**"Accused of trying to broker pardons at the end of President Clinton's administration." [http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/bush.brother.reut/]
*Hugh Rodham - brother of first lady Hillary Clinton (brother-in-law of Bill Clinton)
**Received around $400,000 for services regarding the pardon of Glenn Braswell and the commutation of Carlos Vignali [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/10/25/brothers.html] [http://www.temple-telegram.com/archives/2001/n0222.htm]

Relatives of Ronald Reagan - 40th President

*Maureen Reagan - daughter
**Political activist
*Michael Reagan - son
**Radio host
*Patti Davis - daughter
**Posed nude for "Playboy"
*Ron Reagan - son
**Political commentator and talk show host
**Hosted "Saturday Night Live" on February 8, 1986, performing his own version of the "underwear dance" made famous by Tom Cruise in "Risky Business"

Relatives of Jimmy Carter - 39th President

*Billy Carter - brother
**Spokesman and inspiration for Billy Beer. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/05/26/earlyshow/saturday/main48690.shtml]
**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. [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/p_bcarter.html]
**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.

*Amy Carter - daughter

*Jack Carter - son

Relatives of Gerald Ford - 38th President

* Steven Ford - son, actor

Relatives of Richard Nixon - 37th President

*Donald Nixon - brother
**Howard Hughes loaned Donald $205,000 to bail out his drive-in restaurant in Whittier, California. The restaurant (called "Nixon's") served up a delicacy named the Nixonburger. It went bankrupt less than a year later, and the loan was never repaid. [http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/casey/2223441]
*Patricia Nixon Cox - daughter
*Julie Nixon Eisenhower - daughter (married to David Eisenhower, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson)

Relatives of Lyndon B. Johnson - 36th President

*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

* see also Kennedy family, List of descendants of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
*Joseph P. Kennedy - father
**US Ambassador to Great Britain under FDR, and early opponent of US entry into World War II
**Was accused of participation in organized crime and anti-semitism. [http://hnn.us/articles/697.html] [http://www.time.com/time/sampler/printout/0,8816,93697,00.html]
*Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. - brother
**Killed in action in the second world war.
*Robert Kennedy - brother
** Was the attorney general under his brother's presidency, and later a U.S. Senator from New York. He was the front runner for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination at the time he was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968.
*Rosemary Kennedy - sister
**Was institutionalized because of a failed 1941 lobotomy, which was in response to mild mental retardation. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfkjr/timeline.htm]
*Edward "Ted" Kennedy - brother
**U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 1962.
**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. (Many experts allege that he was drunk).
**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. Now also married to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
*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.
*Milton Eisenhower - brother. College administrator, serving as president of 3 major universities.
*David Eisenhower - grandson. Married to Pres. Richard Nixon's daughter Julie Nixon.
**Camp David is named after him.

Relatives of Harry S. Truman - 33rd President

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

=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."

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

Relatives of Woodrow Wilson - 28th President

* Margaret Woodrow Wilson - daughter, served as First Lady following her mother's death
* 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 Taft - son, former U.S. Senator and 1952 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
* See also: Taft family

Relatives of Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President

* Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter
* 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 - cousin, 32nd President of the United States
* Eleanor Roosevelt - niece, First Lady of the United States during husband Franklin's tenure as President
* Susan Roosevelt Weld - great-granddaughter, former First Lady of Massachusetts
* See also: Roosevelt family

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
* See also: Harrison family

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

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

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 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

Relatives of Andrew Johnson - 17th President

* David T. Patterson - son-in-law, U.S. Senator from Tennessee

Relatives of Abraham Lincoln, 16th 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
* Tad Lincoln - youngest son of Abraham Lincoln.

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

Relatives of Millard Fillmore - 13th President

* Mary Abigail Fillmore - daughter, served as White House hostess during her father's term

Relatives of Zachary Taylor - 12th President

* 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 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
* Harrison Ruffin Tyler - grandson, current owner of Sherwood Forest Plantation

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 of another

Relatives of Martin Van Buren - 8th President

* Abraham Van Buren - 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

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
* George Washington Adams - son, Massachusetts State Representative
* See also: Adams family

Relatives of James Monroe - 5th President

* Samuel L. Gouverneur - son-in-law, Postmaster of New York City (1828-1836).

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 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 (1789-1797)

* Bushrod Washington - nephew, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* Lawrence Washington - half-brother and mentor

ee also

*List of U.S. political families
*List of children of the Presidents of the United States

External links

* [http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90138&page=1 Embarrassing Relatives Plague Presidents (ABC News)]
* [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/03/05/hughie.html Life with baby Hughie (CNN)]