Notable People

Other notable Mayflower Descendants who are my distant cousins are President Gerald R. Ford, Governor Sarah Palin, Richard Gere, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Cullen Bryant, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma Moses), Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Carson, Alan B. Shepard, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wilbur & Orville Wright and Amelia Earhart. For a definition of what all of these relationships mean, see
What is a First Cousin, Twice Removed?

• Clinton W. Pearson My paternal grandfather, who is the key to all the other Notable People
• Francis Cooke My 10th great-grandfather
• Richard Warren My 10th great-grandfather
• Edward Starbuck, Jr. My 9th great grandfather
• Mary Coffin Starbuck My 8th great-grandmother
• Lawrence Southwick My 9th great-grandfather
• General Nathaniel Greene My 1st cousin 7 times removed
• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt My 7th cousin 4 times removed and 8th cousin 2 times removed and 8th cousin 3 times removed and 9th cousin 2 times removed
• President Ulysses S. Grant My 6th cousin 5 times removed
• President Abraham Lincoln My 6th cousin 4 times removed and 6th cousin 5 times removed
• Sir Winston Churchill My 8th cousin 1 time removed
• Lucretia Coffin Mott My 4th cousin 6 times removed and 5th cousin 5 times removed