Famous Kin of
Brandon Routh

TV and Movie Actor

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John Billington

Mayflower Passenger

12th great-grandfather

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Susan B. Anthony

Women's Rights Advocate

3rd cousin 7 times removed via John Lapham Jr.

Stephen Hopkins

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 10 times removed via William Hopkins

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James Garfield

20th U.S. President

4th cousin 6 times removed via James Ballou

Lewis Henry Lapham

Co-Founder of Texaco

4th cousin 6 times removed via John Lapham Jr.

Hetty Green

“The Witch of Wall Street”

4th cousin 6 times removed via John Lapham Jr.

John Wellborn Root

1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect

4th cousin 6 times removed via Jotham Carpenter

Elizabeth (Kortright) Monroe

First Lady of President James Monroe

4th cousin 8 times removed via John Russell

Benedict Arnold

Traitor of the American Revolution

4th cousin 10 times removed via Nicholas Arnold

Increase Sumner

5th Governor of Massachusetts

4th cousin 10 times removed via William Clap

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Stephen A. Douglas

Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates

5th cousin 6 times removed via Obadiah Bowen Sr.

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Shanghai Pierce

Texas Cattleman

5th cousin 6 times removed via Henry Head

Cadwallader Washburn

Co-founder of General Mills and 11th Governor of Wisconsin

5th cousin 7 times removed via John Fobes

Israel Washburn

29th Governor of Maine

5th cousin 7 times removed via John Fobes

Elihu Washburne

25th U.S. Secretary of State

5th cousin 7 times removed via John Fobes

William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 8 times removed via Thomas Mitchell

Christopher Lloyd

Movie Actor

6th cousin 4 times removed via John Lapham Jr.

John Ritter

TV and Movie Actor

6th cousin 4 times removed via John Aldrich

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Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

6th cousin 4 times removed via John Lapham Jr.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President

6th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Head

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William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

6th cousin 6 times removed via John Hill

Henry Crapo

14th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 6 times removed via John Russell

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Horatio Alger

Author

6th cousin 6 times removed via John Fobes

Lavinia Warren

Dwarf Circus Performer

6th cousin 6 times removed via Francis Billington

Abraham Lincoln

16th U.S. President

6th cousin 7 times removed via Rev. Obadiah Holmes

Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

6th cousin 7 times removed via Thomas Mitchell

Horace Gray

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

6th cousin 7 times removed via Thomas White

Lewis Henry Morgan

Pioneering Anthropologist

6th cousin 8 times removed via William Clap

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Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

7th cousin 3 times removed via Benjamin Wilbur

John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

7th cousin 3 times removed via Jotham Carpenter

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