Ancestry of
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Button Gwinnett
General Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
General Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
18th cousin 3 times removed
via Alfonso VIII of Castile
General Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry of Huntingdon
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
17th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin
via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Seth Low
Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University
16th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Edmund Mortimer
Seth Low
Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University
18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
16th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Edmund Mortimer
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