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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

President and CEO of I.B.M.


Who was Thomas Waton, Jr.?

Thomas Watson Jr. was a President and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM). He followed in the footsteps of his father who served as the Chairman and CEO of IBM. While his father is credited with growing IBM into an international company based largely on sales of punched card tabulating machines, it was the son who redirected the company into computers and its eventual domination of mainframe computers. In 1987, Fortune magazine called him “the greatest capitalist in history”, and in 1999, Time magazine included him in its list of the “100 most influential people of the 20th century.”

Thomas Watson Jr. also served as the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America and the 16th U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1964, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. IBM’s Watson computer system that is capable of answering questions posed in natural language, and is often seen in quirky commercials, was name after Thomas Watson Sr. and Jr. who together led IBM for more than a half century.

Famous Kin

Thomas Watson Jr. is a descendant of Mayflower passenger William White. He has a number of former U.S. Presidents in his family tree including Millard Fillmore, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and both Presidents Bush.

Some of Thomas Watson Jr’s celebrity kin include Mark Wahlberg, Humphrey Bogart, Kyra Sedgwick, George Hamilton, Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster, Carole Lombard, Alexandra Breckenridge, and a number of others. Other notable kin include Declaration of Independence signers Robert Treat Paine, William Williams and Lyman Hall, author and poet Henry David Thoreau, inventor Thomas Edison, Mormon Church president Brigham Young, Battle of Bunker Hill General Joseph Warren, dictionary publisher Noah Webster, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, bank financier J.P. Morgan, Macy’s founder Rowland Macy, author Louisa May Alcott, and many others.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

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Stephen Harper

22nd Prime Minister of Canada

10th cousin
via William White

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Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 5 times removed
via John Howland

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Resolved White

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Rice

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via Richard Treat

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin
via John Howland

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via William Chaplin

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Chord Overstreet

Musician, TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Huckins

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

7th cousin 3 times removed
via William Chaplin

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Brigham

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Obadiah Wheeler Jr.

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

6th cousin 3 times removed
via John Howe

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Newton

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Huckins

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

9th cousin 1 time removed
via John Maynard

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Styles Bridges

63rd Governor of New Hampshire

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Morse

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Ray Stanton Avery

Founder, Avery Dennison Corp.

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Treat

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Ann B. Davis

TV Actress

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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Penn Jillette

Magician

11th cousin
via John Howland

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Jackson Browne

Singer and Songwriter

8th cousin 1 time removed
via George Abbott

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Rutherford B. Hayes

19th U.S. President

5th cousin 3 times removed
via George Abbott

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Abraham Belknap

(c1590 - 1643)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

9th great-grandfather

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Dr. Peggy Whitson

NASA and Axiom Space Astronaut

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Tapp Jr.

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Alan Taylor

Historian and Pulitzer Prize Author

9th cousin 1 time removed
via John Chipman

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