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Nancy (Davis) Reagan

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Nancy (Davis) Reagan

First Lady of President Ronald Reagan


Who was Nancy Reagan?

Nancy Reagan was an American actress and First Lady of the United States. She was married to President Ronald Reagan. Nancy Reagan was born Anne Frances Robbins in 1921, but was often called Nancy from early on. Her mother remarried and in 1935, her stepfather formally adopted her, legally changing her name to Nancy Davis. In 1949, Nancy Davis met Ronald Reagan while he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Although they both continued their acting careers after they were married, they would only star in one movie together, Hell Cats of the Navy in 1957. Nancy Reagan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States highest civilian award, by President George W. Bush in 2002. She died in 2016.

Famous Kin

Nancy Reagan has a number of former U.S. Presidents in her family tree. These include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Gerald Ford, William Howard Taft, Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Coolidge, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Nixon, and both Presidents Bush. Her fellow First Ladies that she is related to include Ellen Wilson, Florence Harding, Edith Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, and Barbara Bush. She also has a connection to the current royal family through the late Princess Diana.

One of the more ironic family connections for Nancy Reagan is a family connection to John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate her husband just two months into his presidency. Other infamous kin of Nancy Reagan include Alexander Hamilton’s killer Aaron Burr, notorious outlaw leader Wash Loomis, and John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman. Some of her more prominent kin included Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, abolitionist John Brown, painter John Trumbull, gunfighter and lawman Wild Bill Hickok, stained glass artist Louis Tiffany, inventor Thomas Edison, artist Norman Rockwell, and aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers.

Nancy Reagan also has kinship to numerous celebrities including, but not limited to, Roy Rogers, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jodie Foster, Ken Burns, Kyra Sedgwick, Richard Gere, Bill Paxton, Ted Danson, Jane Fonda, Raquel Welch, John Lithgow, Clint Eastwood and many others.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Nancy (Davis) Reagan

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Samuel Bass

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Dwight

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Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Jonathan Deming

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Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

9th cousin
via Richard Beckley

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Treat

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Matthew Marvin

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

4th cousin 5 times removed
via Isaac Sheldon

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Matthew Marvin

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Matthew Marvin

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Orson Bean

TV Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert Foote

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via Thomas Newberry

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Wallace Rider Farrington

6th Terr. Governor of Hawaii

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Treat

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Dallas West

Hall of Fame Pool Player

11th cousin
via Simon Tuttle

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Dallas West

Hall of Fame Pool Player

9th cousin 1 time removed
via John Dunham

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Gates

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

7th cousin 3 times removed
via William Stebbins

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

6th cousin 3 times removed
via John Leonard

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

12th cousin 4 times removed
via John Fortescue

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Charles Dudley Warner

Author

8th cousin 2 times removed
via William Stebbins

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Charles Dudley Warner

Author

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Henry Burt

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Charles Dudley Warner

Author

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Stebbins

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Charles Dudley Warner

Author

6th cousin 3 times removed
via John Leonard

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Charles King

9th President of Columbia College

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Simon Sackett

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Simon Sackett

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Burt

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