Are you related to any politicians?

[last_texas_dem]

This weekend, I found out that Lyndon Johnson was my great great grandmother's half-sister's husband's second cousin. How's that for a distant relation?!? haha

[KamaAina]

1. Well, my stepfather was once basically promised a seat in the House

but he declined, because a) he would have had to move to the state in question, and b) being kind of "mavericky", he knew perfectly well he'd never get re-elected!

[arbusto_baboso]

2. I'm related to George Graham Vest.

On my mother's side. He was prominent in the mid to late 1800s. Interesting character.

[old mark]

3. My SIL's family is related to Al Gore-to the degree that she gets warnings

instead of speeding tickets down in Alabama, and my doctor is a Sottomayor, Sonia's cousin's wife...


mark

[abq e streeter]

5. Got a doctor relation too, but unfortunately, it's Rahm Emmanuel's father

he was my pediatrician, and as a little kid, I thought Dr. Emmanuel was really nice . Rahm I'm not so crazy about. ( Never have met him BTW which is fine with me)

[TZ]

4. My Uncle is a retired but well know Poli Scientist

and my Aunt is a lobbyist..So in a sense, yes I am...;)

[foxfeet]

6. James K. Polk, 11th President of the US

Nobody more recent that I know of (yet).

[Captain Hilts]

7. Does Robert the Bruce count?

So Dad was eligible for the House of Lords

[tigereye]

13. cool, he apparently threw one branch of my family out of Scotland way back

when.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Yeah, we ran a friend of mine's family off the island, too. Just weren't as good of

murderers and horse thieves as we were....

[proteus_lives]

43. Family legend has it...

That the first member of my father's family in America left Scotland to avoid a sheriff's noose.

[Captain Hilts]

46. Your family and a lot of others! How desperate would you have to be to make that voyage? nt

[Kali]

8. Great Grandfather in the state legilature

Grandfather on local school board:P oh and his brother ran for constable once:rofl:

[SoxFan]

9. I am one, actually!

Served three terms in the state legislature and one on the city council, plus a gig on the Democratic State Committee years ago.

My grandfather was a member of the Democratic committee in Somerville, Mass and knew most of the party bigshots in the 1950s and 1960s. Michael Dukakis came to the house, Gov. Chub Peabody was a friend, and Tip O'Neil, who lived about a mile away, attended his wake and funeral.

[tigereye]

14. so should I ask for the inside scoop about why we lost Teddy's seat?

what the hell was up with that? My dad grew up in Worcester, so I tend to take Mass politics a bit more seriously.


:hi:

[SoxFan]

15. Coakley ran a dreadful campaign

No message, no energy, prone to gaffes that made her sound out of touch (that "Curt Schilling is a Yankees fan" thing had more of an impact you can imagine).

[tigereye]

32. but why did they pick her in the first place?

Couldn't they have picked someone more electable?

[Crystal Clarity]

29. Cool!!! I'm suprised so few have given the accolades you deserve!

Are you currently serving in NH? If so God bless you! Are they still only compensating you folks $100 bucks p/yr?

Thank You so much for serving! :yourock:

[LibDemAlways]

10. No. The closest I come to being related to someone in the public eye is

Michael Moore. His step-daughter is married to my sister-in-law's cousin. I guess I'll take that tenuous connection over most politicians anyway!

[frogmarch]

11. George W. Bush

Cousin George and I are related through hanged Salem "witch" Mary Ayer Parker.

[tigereye]

12. yes, to someone who works in the West Wing, but not anyone elected...

[hobbit709]

17. Thankfully, no.

[burrfoot]

18. Aaron Burr.

Now the question is, do we think it would be better or worse if politicians still had duels?

[lazarus]

19. two, possibly

I'm fairly sure I'm related to Sen Jim Webb, but I haven't finished the genealogy yet.

An another branch, I'm supposedly related to one of the knights who force King John to sign the Magna Carta.

[mitchum]

20. I am a descendant of Caligula's horse

[brendan120678]

21. Hmmm...my uncle's ex-wife is cousins with...

Ollie North. Therefore my cousin (their daughter) is second-cousins with Ollie North.

I guess that sort of counts.

Oh yeah - and my wife is on our local Board of Education, and her brother is the former City Clerk.

[Unvanguard]

22. I'm related to all human beings.

Except George W. Bush.

[Schema Thing]

23. A state Senator in AR who was murdered

He was from a branch of the family estranged to mine, but your post reminds me I'd like to find out that story.


Also, I just found out that my half-brother and sister's stepfather was the Mutual Broadcasting System panelist for the first Kennedy/Nixon debate in 1960.

[Forkboy]

24. Supposedly Nixon.

My aunt and my mother are both heavily into genealogy and they both say the same thing, so I'll accept their word, even though I don't want to.

[redwitch]

25. yup.

:-)

My hubby, da mayor.

[kimmerspixelated]

26. Well, dang! You and I might actually be related, too!

Seriously, I was told as a kid that one of my parents was a sixth cousin to LBJ!

[Old Troop]

27. My grandfather was a dem rep to the convention that selected

FDR for his first term

[applegrove]

28. I'm descended from the politician who introduced the temporary income tax act to Canadian Parliament

in 1917.

[bookworm65t]

30. Me!

I'm a council member for my village, pop. 325.

Despite our size, it's more work than I ever realized.

Local government is not for wusses! Here's to all you other local officials ! :applause:

[Xipe Totec]

31. Several

In Mexico.

Most forcibly retired by gunshot wounds.

[HipChick]

33. Lady Shirley Williams..

One of the original founders of the UK Liberal Democrats..

[LeftishBrit]

38. That also makes you related to her mother, Vera Brittain...

author of that great book, 'Testament of Youth'.

[Initech]

34. No but I've been inside a house belonging to a guy who was featured in the top 10.

That's the closest I've been.

[Robeson]

35. Augustus Caesar....

...is a direct relative.

[ThoughtCriminal]

36. Bill Clinton and possibly Strom Thurmond

pretty weird - but it requires digging way back to get to the common ancestors (especially with Thurmond).

[blue_roses_lib]

37. No politicians but...

Found out last year that I'm supposedly related to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anderson_(Civil_War)


According to my mother, someone in the family has the geneology papers to back it up. If that's true then I am distant cousins with the woman I just hired six months ago. SNIRK. Too funny.

Very distantly related to this gentleman on my father's side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

Supposedly the forerunners of the family came to England with William the Conqueror.


Love geneology... quite fascinating.

[hedgehog]

39. Congressman Murtha was a cousin to my grandfather.

We were very proud of both men.

[femmocrat]

48. John Murtha's brother was my landlord!

Many years ago! :hi:

[BarbaRosa]

40. My great great grandfather

was State Treasurer of West Virgina way back when.

On edit: that's as much info as I care to give out in that I was named after him, and that would be more info than I want to go out on the internets.

[MrScorpio]

41. Yes

Other than the cousin who ran for Mayor of Detroit there is another. He's pretty famous. And I'm not going to say who he is.

[yellowdogintexas]

42. my cousin is in the Kentucky State Legislature and running for

re election!

[csziggy]

44. Remotely related to Grover Cleveland - so is Mr. csziggy

A closer connection (in time) is that my grandmother taught Governor Lawton Chiles in Sunday School when he was a child. And she was good friends with Governor and Senator Spessard Holland's wife.

ETA: some of my cousins married right wing nut politicians downstate in Polk County, but they don't count - I've never met the hubbies and haven't seen the cousins other than in passing for 30-40 years.

[HEyHEY]

45. Just my dad.

But he's only local.

[zabet]

47. Direct descendant of...

Patrick Henry.