Famous Kin of
John Adams
2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
2nd cousin via Benjamin White
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
2nd cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Boylston Jr
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
3rd cousin 2 times removed via William Cogswell
James Youngs Smith
29th Governor of Rhode Island
3rd cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Gardner Jr
Sir Robert Laird Borden
8th Prime Minister of Canada
3rd cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Gardner Jr
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
3rd cousin 4 times removed via William Cogswell
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
3rd cousin 4 times removed via William Cogswell
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Cogswell
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Cogswell
Charles Edward Merrill
Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company
3rd cousin 5 times removed via John Alden
Nancy (Davis) Reagan
First Lady of President Ronald Reagan
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Samuel Bass
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
3rd cousin 9 times removed via John Alden
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
4th cousin 2 times removed via John Cogswell
Charles Dawes
30th U.S. Vice-President
4th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Gardner
Francis Harrington Glidden
Co-Founder of Glidden Company
4th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Squire
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
4th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Squire
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
4th cousin 5 times removed via John Cogswell