Famous Kin of
Carole Lombard
Movie Actress
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Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Simon Willard
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
5th cousin 5 times removed via Martha Reade
James Brolin
TV and Movie Actor
6th cousin 2 times removed via Ephraim Wetherbee
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
7th cousin via Simon Dakin
Ethan Hawke
Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Novelist
7th cousin 2 times removed via Simon Dakin
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
7th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Willard
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
7th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Reade
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Moore Jr.
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Moore Jr.
Kate Upton
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model
8th cousin 2 times removed via Joshua Brooks
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
8th cousin 2 times removed via Martha Reade
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
8th cousin 2 times removed via Martha Reade
Francis Edward Hinckley
Co-Founder of the University of Chicago
8th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund Reade
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
9th cousin via John Cheney
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
9th cousin 2 times removed via Edmund Reade
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
9th cousin 6 times removed via John Denton
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
10th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Reade
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
10th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. William Noyes
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
10th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Reade
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
10th cousin 10 times removed via Sir John Howard
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
12th cousin 3 times removed via John Denton
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
12th cousin 4 times removed via John Brome
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
12th cousin 4 times removed via John Brome
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh Shirley
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
13th cousin 3 times removed via John Brome
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
14th cousin 1 time removed via John Denton
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh Shirley
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard