Famous Kin of
Hoyt Vandenberg

2nd Director Central Intelligence

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William Carpenter

(c1605 - 1658/9)
Bevis passenger 1638

7th great-grandfather

George Watson

(c1602 - 1688/9)
Great Migration Immigrant 1631

8th great-grandfather

Thomas Bliss

(c1588 - c1649)
Great Migration Immigrant 1639

8th great-grandfather

John Shaw

(c1597 - c1663/4)
Great Migration Immigrant 1627

8th great-grandfather

Robert Hicks

(c1578 - 1647)
Fortune passenger 1621

9th great-grandfather

Stephen Hopkins

(c1582 - 1644)
Mayflower 1620 & Jamestowne 1610

9th great-grandfather

Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

2nd cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Paine Jr.

Amy Grant

Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter

5th cousin 2 times removed
via Obadiah Carpenter

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Jane G. Austin

Author

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Jonathan Shaw

William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Paine Jr.

General William Tecumseh Sherman

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

5th cousin 4 times removed
via William Preston

William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Shaw

Edwin Bryant

California Expedition Journalist

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Shaw

Cadwallader Washburn

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

5th cousin 4 times removed
via George Watson

Israel Washburn

29th Governor of Maine

5th cousin 4 times removed
via George Watson

Elihu Washburne

25th U.S. Secretary of State

5th cousin 4 times removed
via George Watson

Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

6th cousin 1 time removed
via Ebenezer Tyler

Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

6th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Paine

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Edith (Carow) Roosevelt

First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Job Tyler

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Paine Jr.

John Wellborn Root

1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect

6th cousin 2 times removed
via William Carpenter

William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Paine Jr.

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Jackson Browne

Singer and Songwriter

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Samuel Keep

William Haile

26th Governor of New Hampshire

6th cousin 2 times removed
via William Carpenter

Frank W. Woolworth

Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company

6th cousin 3 times removed
via William Preston

Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Lizzie Doten

American Poet

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Charles Dudley Warner

Author

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

E. C. Segar

Cartoonist (Popeye creator)

7th cousin
via William Carpenter

James Garfield

20th U.S. President

7th cousin 1 time removed
via William Carpenter

Hoyt Vandenberg photo by U.S. Air Force