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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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George Albert Smith

8th President of the Mormon Church

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Nicholas Clap

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John Simmons

Founder of Simmons University`

5th cousin 1 time removed
via Moses Simmons

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Gillian Anderson

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

5th cousin 5 times removed
via John Howland Jr.

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Gillian Anderson

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Moses Simmons

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Gerard Way

Singer, Songwriter and Comic Book Writer
Co-creator of "The Umbrella Academy"

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Norman S. Case

55th Governor of Rhode Island

6th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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George Albert Smith

8th President of the Mormon Church

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Moses Simmons

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Gerard Way

Singer, Songwriter and Comic Book Writer
Co-creator of "The Umbrella Academy"

6th cousin 6 times removed
via John Howland

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Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

7th cousin 4 times removed
via William Cheney

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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George Palmer Putnam

Founder, G.P. Putnam's Sons

6th cousin 1 time removed
via William Cheney

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Brig. Gen. Henry Clay Wood

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

6th cousin
via John Howland

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

6th cousin 3 times removed
via George Morton

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Horatio Collins King

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

5th cousin
via Andrew Ring

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Roger B. Chaffee

Apollo 1 Astronaut

7th cousin 4 times removed
via John Johnson

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

4th cousin 1 time removed
via Isaac Sheldon

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Walter F. Lansil

American Painter

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

6th cousin 1 time removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

3rd cousin 1 time removed
via Joseph Parsons

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

7th cousin
via Alexander Carpenter

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

6th cousin 1 time removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

6th cousin 3 times removed
via George Soule

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