Famous Kin of Dr.
Peggy Whitson

NASA and Axiom Space Astronaut

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

Thomas Minor

(c1608 - 1690)
Great Migration Immigrant 1632

9th great-grandfather

John Elderkin

(c1616 - 1687)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

9th great-grandfather

John Howland

(c1598 - 1672/3)
Mayflower passenger 1620

10th great-grandfather

John Drake

(c1585 - 1659)
Great Migration Immigrant 1640

10th great-grandfather

John Stow

(c1581/2 - c1652)
Great Migration Immigrant 1634

10th great-grandfather

Walter Palmer

(c1589 - 1661)
Great Migration Immigrant 1629

10th great-grandfather

John Hall

(c1584 - 1673)
Great Migration Immigrant 1640

10th great-grandfather

William Denison

(c1571 - 1653/4) - Great Migration Immigrant 1631

10th great-grandfather

William Fowler

(c1572 - 1660/1)
Great Migration Immigrant 1639

10th great-grandfather

Rev. James Pierpont

Founder of Yale University

1st cousin 10 times removed
via John Stow

James Bates

(c1582 - 1655/6)
Elizabeth passenger 1635

1st cousin 12 times removed
via James Martin

Clement Bates

(c1594/5 - 1671)
Elizabeth passenger 1635

1st cousin 12 times removed
via James Martin

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

3rd cousin 5 times removed
via Joseph Denison

Nathaniel Gorham

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

3rd cousin 7 times removed
via John Gorham

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John Treadwell

21st Governor of Connecticut

3rd cousin 7 times removed
via Thomas Minor

Jonathan Trumbull

16th Governor of Connecticut

3rd cousin 8 times removed
via John Drake

Oliver Wolcott

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 8 times removed
via John Drake

Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 8 times removed
via Edmund Tapp Jr.

Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

3rd cousin 8 times removed
via John Howland

Jonathan Worth

39th Governor of North Carolina

4th cousin 6 times removed
via John Gorham

John Trumbull

American Painter

4th cousin 7 times removed
via John Drake

Aaron Burr

Killed Alexander Hamilton

4th cousin 7 times removed
via John Stow

Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.

20th Governor of Connecticut

4th cousin 7 times removed
via John Drake

Francis Edward Hinckley

Co-Founder, University of Chicago

5th cousin 4 times removed
via George Denison Jr.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 5 times removed
via John Gorham

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William Sprague

27th Governor of Rhode Island

5th cousin 5 times removed
via James Avery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Rev. Samuel Stow

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Edwin D. Morgan

21st Governor of New York

5th cousin 5 times removed
via James Avery

Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

5th cousin 5 times removed
via John Gorham

Henry Hastings Sibley

1st Governor of Minnesota

5th cousin 5 times removed
via John Gorham

Peggy Whitson photo by Bill Stafford (CC BY-SA 3.0)