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Pete Buttigieg

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Pete Buttigieg

19th U.S. Secretary of Transportation


Who is Pete Buttigieg?

Pete Buttigieg is the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a Democratic candidate for President in the 2020 presidential election. He was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and served in Afghanistan in 2014. Pete Buttigieg is said to be the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate. He is often referred to simply as Mayor Pete.

Famous Kin

Mayor Pete’s ancestry can be traced back to Magna Carta Surety Robert de Ros, King Alfred the Great, and Charlemagne. Other royal kin include the late Princess Diana. U.S. Presidential kin include George Washington, John Adams, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and at least seven others.

Celebrities connected to Mayor Pete include Bill Nye the Science Guy, actor Humphrey Bogart, comedian Chevy Chase, singer Bing Crosby, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, and singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Other notable cousins include astronaut Alan Shepard, Sir Winston Churchill, actor John Wayne, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, author Nathaniel Hawthorne, legendary Buffalo Bill, and many others.

Surprising Mayflower Connection

Pete Buttigieg is the descendant of John and Lydia Sprague of Duxbury, Massachusetts and Lebanon, Connecticut, a distinction he shares with actor John Wayne and Sir Winston Churchill.

John Sprague (c1655-1727/8) was said to be the son of John and Ruth (Bassett) Sprague as he was referred to as such in a couple of court documents. However, the NEHGS's Christopher Challender Child has shown through a Y-DNA analysis that John Sprague senior was not the biological father, but rather Samuel Fuller, son of Samuel and Bridget (Lee) Fuller (See Mayflower Descendant, Summer 2019, pp. 117-149). Samuel Fuller was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Samuel Fuller, thus making Pete Buttigieg, Sir Winston Churchill and actor John Wayne descendants as well.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Pete Buttigieg

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Adam Hawkes

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George Palmer Putnam

Founder, G.P. Putnam's Sons

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Adam Hawkes

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Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Dr. Matthew Fuller

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Burgess

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Samuel Mayo

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Horatio Collins King

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

8th cousin 5 times removed
via Edmund Reade

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Walter F. Lansil

American Painter

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Mayo

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Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bassett

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William H. Avery

37th Governor of Kansas

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Peter Worden Jr.

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Dr. Matthew Fuller

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

12th cousin
via Rev. John Mayo

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Jon Meacham

Author and Historian

11th cousin
via Edward Bangs

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Wallace Rider Farrington

6th Terr. Governor of Hawaii

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Mayo

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Richard Thomas

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Dr. Matthew Fuller

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Roland L. Bragg

Silver Star Recipient - WWII
Fort Bragg Namesake (2025)

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Rev. Richard Chase

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Ruth Gordon

Actress, Playwright and Screenwriter

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Ruth Gordon

Actress, Playwright and Screenwriter

8th cousin 4 times removed
via Rev. John Mayo

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward Dillingham

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

9th cousin 1 time removed
via John Chase

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

11th cousin
via Edward Bangs

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Alonzo H. Clark

Editor of Smithsonian Institution

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Mayo

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Alonzo H. Clark

Editor of Smithsonian Institution

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Pete Buttigieg photo by Lorie Shaull (CC BY-SA 2.0)