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Tammy Duckworth

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Tammy Duckworth

U.S. Senator from Illinois


Who is Tammy Duckworth?

Tammy Duckworth is a United States Senator from Illinois. She is a purple heart Iraqi war veteran who lost both of her legs when she was shot down in Iraq in 2004. She retired from the military ten years later with a rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Tammy Duckworth also served as an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the Obama administration, and as a Congresswoman in the U. S. House of Representatives before becoming a U.S. Senator.

Tammy Duckworth has achieved a few historic milestones. She is one of the first female Black Hawk pilots to fly in combat, the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, the first person born in Thailand to be elected to Congress, the first female double amputee in the U.S. Senate, and the first Senator to give birth while in office, and that was labeled a geriatric pregnancy since she was over 50 at the time. She was said to be on former Vice President Joe Biden’s short list as a potential running mate in the presidential election in 2020.

Daughter of the American Revolution

Tammy Duckworth was born in Thailand to a Thai mother and an American father. Her ancestry became a big news item in 2016 after a televised debate with the incumbent Senator Mark Kirk. When she brought up the fact that her ancestors had fought in every American war since the revolution, Kirk remarked that he was surprised her ancestor would come all the way from Thailand to help George Washington. Kirk's remark spurred numerous genealogists to start researching her ancestry to determine if what she said was accurate. They discovered that she had a couple of ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War and that she was a member of the DAR. However, her connections to the Revolution are much more numerous than what was reported as she has no fewer than eight ancestors who served in the Revolution. She also has a couple of descents from Mayflower passenger John Howland.

Famous Kin

Tammy Duckworth is among those who can trace their ancestry all the way back to Charlemagne due to her royal ancestry. Other notable ancestors are William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, several French and English Kings, quite a few Magna Carta sureties, and a Mayflower passenger. She also has kinship to a number of signers of both the U. S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

U. S. presidential kin for Tammy Duckworth include John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester Arthur, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, both Presidents Bush, and a number of others. She also has a number of state governors in her family tree including Jonathan Trumbull (CT), Mitt Romney (MA), Thomas Dewey (NY), Jeb Bush (FL), Bill Weld (MA), Sarah Palin (AK), and many others.

Some celebrities that are kin to Tammy Duckworth include singer-songwriter James Taylor, TV personality Dick Clark, actress Jane Fonda, actor Humphrey Bogart, and many others.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Tammy Duckworth

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

11th cousin
via Stephen Hopkins

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Joseph Loomis

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Ingram

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Wright

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin
via Joseph Loomis

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

21st cousin
via John de Mowbray

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

17th cousin
via John Talbot

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

16th cousin
via William Mainwaring

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

17th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Robert Corbet

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Joseph Loomis

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

20th cousin 1 time removed
via John de Mowbray

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

16th cousin 1 time removed
via John Talbot

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

15th cousin 1 time removed
via William Mainwaring

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

17th cousin
via Sir Robert Corbet

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard FitzAlan

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

14th cousin 6 times removed
via Sir John Throckmorton

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

14th cousin 2 times removed
via John Aston

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John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Katherine Pabenham

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

21st cousin
via Richard FitzAlan

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

21st cousin
via Sir William de Bohun

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas Aylesbury

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Thomas Mowbray

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