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Levi Parsons Morton

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Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President


Who was Levi Parsons Morton?

Levi Morton was a New York politician. He served as the 22nd Vice President of the United States and later as the 31st Governor of New York. In 1880, Republican presidential nominee James Garfield asked Levi Morton to be his running mate. Morton turned him down. Garfield would go on to become President and had Morton been his running mate, he would have succeeded as President after Garfield was assassinated. Instead, Levi Morton accepted a post as Minister to France. Ironically, Garfield's assassin Charles Guiteau reportedly killed Garfield after being rejected for the same post. A year later as Minister to France, Levi Morton would place the first rivet into the Statue of Liberty while it was being constructed in Paris.

Famous Kin

Levi Morton is a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. His U.S. Presidential kin include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, William H. Taft, Franklin Pierce, Gerald Ford, James Garfield, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He also kinship to the current royal family through connections to the late Princess Diana.

Levi Morton had a number of celebrities in his family tree including, but not limited to, S.I. swimsuit model Kate Upton, actors John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, Ben Affleck, and actresses Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, Glen Close, and Sally Field. Historical figures that have family connections to Levi Morton are banker J.P. Morgan, Whirlpool founder Frederick Upton, Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War spy Nathan Hale


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Levi Parsons Morton

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

6th cousin 1 time removed
via Cornet Robert Stetson

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Louis Comfort Tiffany

American Stained Glass Artist

5th cousin 1 time removed
via Job Lane

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Job Lane

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Bill Belichick

NFL Head Coach

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Job Lane

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

6th cousin 4 times removed
via George Morton

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Chester B. Jordan

48th Governor of New Hampshire

6th cousin
via George Soule

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Ray Stanton Avery

Founder, Avery Dennison Corp.

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Job Lane

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

6th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Styles Bridges

63rd Governor of New Hampshire

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Job Lane

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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

5th cousin 2 times removed
via Job Lane

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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Tuesday Weld

TV and Movie Actress

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Job Lane

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Admiral Richard Worsam Meade III

Union Navy - U.S. Civil War

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

5th cousin 6 times removed
via John Soule

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

6th cousin 7 times removed
via John Howland

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

5th cousin 6 times removed
via Andrew Ring

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

5th cousin 6 times removed
via David Thomas

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Zach Snyder

Filmmaker

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Foster

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Zach Snyder

Filmmaker

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

6th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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Vanessa Hudgens

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

6th cousin 6 times removed
via John Howland

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Martha Plimpton

TV, Movie & Stage Actress

7th cousin 6 times removed
via Henry Howland

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