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John McCain

Ancestry of
John McCain

U.S. Senator from Arizona


Who is John McCain?

John McCain is a U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was the son and grandson of four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. John McCain was a naval aviator during the Vietnam War piloting ground-attack aircraft off of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. In 1967 he was seriously injured when he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese. He remained a prisoner of war until 1973 and experienced multiple episodes of torture while in captivity. In 2008 he was the Republican presidential nominee in the race for U.S. President. He lost the election to Sen. Barack Obama.

Famous Kin

Senator John McCain has a number of kinships to former presidents of the United States including George Washington, James Madison, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and both Presidents Bush. Most of his famous kin are through royal connections that include King Henry VIII and a few of his wives, and more recently Queen Elizabeth II and the late Princess Diana.

John McCain has a few kinships to signers of the Declaration of Independence that include Benjamin Harrison V, Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Nelson, Caesar Rodney, William Floyd, Roger Sherman, and William Ellery.

False Claims

Actress Anjelica Huston

There are a number of online sources that claim that Sen. John McCain and actress Anjelica Huston are cousins through their common ancestors of Joseph Scales and Mary Fox. The most prominent of these claims is on the late William Reitwiesner's website wargs.com. Unfortunately the claim is false as the connection from Anjelica Huston becomes invalid with the proposed parentage of her great-grandfather John Gore.

The claim is that John Gore, who married Adelia Richardson, was the son of Edward Gore and Mary Jane Camp. However primary sources show that their son John actually married Cora C. Miller in 1884 and remained married to her into the mid-1900s. Anjelica Huston's great-grandfather was the son of William C. Goar (Gore) and Jane Farley, both of Virginia.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for John McCain

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

18th cousin 2 times removed
via John de Welles

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

14th cousin 2 times removed
via Nicholas Brome

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Reynold de Grey

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Reynold de Grey

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

16th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir William de Ros

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

15th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Reynold de Grey

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Henry B. Quinby

52nd Governor of New Hampshire

16th cousin 2 times removed
via John de Welles

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Betty Gilpin

TV and Movie Actress

14th cousin 1 time removed
via Nicholas Brome

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Meldrim Thomson Jr.

73rd Governor of New Hampshire

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Mike Castle

69th Governor of Delaware

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Hugh Shirley

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Walter Blount

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

15th cousin 3 times removed
via John Brome

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Reynold de Grey

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George Plimpton

Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist

13th cousin 1 time removed
via Nicholas Brome

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

19th cousin
via Sir Reynold de Grey

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Andrew Card

21st White House Chief of Staff

18th cousin 1 time removed
via John de Welles

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

20th cousin
via John de Botetourte

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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