Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home...

• Born: 1576, Yardley-Hastings, Northampton, England
• Political position: Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Massachusetts Bay Colony
  The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England, including portions...
  
   1634, 1640, 1645, 1650
• Father of Anne Dudley (aka Anne Bradstreet
  Anne Bradstreet
  Anne Dudley Bradstreet was New England's first published poet. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.-Biography:...
  
  , the poet) who married Simon Bradstreet
  Simon Bradstreet
  Simon Bradstreet was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony but became its governor only in 1679...
  
  
• Father of Joseph Dudley
• Grandfather of Paul Dudley
• Great grandfather of Rt. Hon. Andrew Wiggin
• 2nd great grandfather of Oliver Partridge
• 3rd great grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 3rd great grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Wade
• 4th great grandfather of Nicholas Gilman
  Nicholas Gilman
  Nicholas Gilman, Jr. was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, representing New Hampshire. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives during the first four...
  
  , a signer of the United States Constitution
  United States Constitution
  The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.The first three...
  
  
• 5th great grandfather of educator Daniel Coit Gilman
  Daniel Coit Gilman
  Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
  
  
• Double 5th great grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932...
  
  
• 5th great grandfather of Schuyler Colfax (the younger one)
• Double 6th great grandfather of Edward Partridge, Jr.
• 7th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• 9th great grandfather of Katrina Lynn Ellis
• Died: 1653 Roxbury, MA
• Buried: Roxbury, MA

Joseph Dudley

Joseph Dudley

Joseph Dudley was an English colonial administrator. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts and son of one of its founders, he had a leading role in the administration of the unpopular Dominion of New England , and served briefly on the council of the Province of New York, where he oversaw the trial...

• Born: 23 Sep 1647, Roxbury, MA
• Son of Thomas Dudley
• Brother of Anne Dudley (aka Anne Bradstreet, the poet) who married Simon Bradstreet
• Father of Ann Dudley who married John Winthrop, son of Wait Still Winthrop
• Father of Paul Dudley
• 2nd great grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 6th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Political position: Colonial Governor of Massachusetts 1702-1715 (Also served as a member of British Parliament in 1693, and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Wight)
• Died: 2 Apr 1720, Roxbury, MA

Paul Dudley

• Born: September 3, 1675
• Son of Joseph Dudley
• Grandson of Thomas Dudley
• Political positions: Attorney-general of Massachusetts (1702–1718)
• Died: January 25, 1751

Simon Bradstreet

Simon Bradstreet

Simon Bradstreet was a colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was almost constantly involved in the politics of the colony but became its governor only in 1679...

• Born: March 18, 1603
• Married Anne Dudley ((aka Anne Bradstreet, the poet) daughter of Thomas Dudley and sister of Joseph Dudley)
• Grandfather of Rt. Hon. Andrew Wiggin
• Great grandfather of Oliver Partridge
• 2nd great grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Wade
• Double 4th great grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• 4th great grandfather of Schuyler Colfax (the younger one)
• Double 5th great grandfather of Edward Partridge, Jr.
• 8th great grandfather of Herbert Clark Hoover
• 8th and 9th great grandfather of David Hackett Souter
• Political position: Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1679-86
• Died: March 27, 1697

Thomas Lindall Winthrop

Thomas L. Winthrop

Thomas L. Winthrop was a Massachusetts politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1826 to 1833....

• Born: 6 March 1760, New London, CT
• He married Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple, granddaughter of James Bowdoin
  James Bowdoin
  James Bowdoin II was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court in the colonial era and was president of the state's constitutional convention...
  
  
• Great grandson of Joseph Dudley
  Joseph Dudley
  Joseph Dudley was an English colonial administrator. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts and son of one of its founders, he had a leading role in the administration of the unpopular Dominion of New England , and served briefly on the council of the Province of New York, where he oversaw the trial...
  
  
• Great grandson of Wait Still Winthrop
• 2nd Great grandson of John Winthrop, Jr.
  John Winthrop, the Younger
  John Winthrop , generally known as John Winthrop the Younger, was governor of Connecticut.He was born in Groton, England, the son of John Winthrop, founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
  
  
• 2nd great grandson of Thomas Dudley
  Thomas Dudley
  Thomas Dudley was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home...
  
  
• 3rd Great grandson of John Winthrop
  John Winthrop
  John Winthrop was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer, and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of...
  
  
• Father of Robert Charles Winthrop
  Robert Charles Winthrop
  Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives....
  
  
• 3rd great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1822–32
• President of Massachusetts Historical Society, 1835–41
• Died: 22 Feb. 1841 Boston, Suffolk, MA

Robert Charles Winthrop

Robert Charles Winthrop

Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives....

• Son of Thomas L. Winthrop
• Great grandson of James Bowdoin
• 2nd great grandson of Joseph Dudley
• 2nd great grandson of Wait Still Winthrop
• 3rd great grandson of John Winthrop, Jr.
• 3rd great grandson of Thomas Dudley
• 4th great grandson of John Winthrop
• 2nd great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Married Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard, the great aunt of Endicott Peabody
  Endicott Peabody (educator)
  The Reverend Endicott Peabody was the American Episcopal priest who founded the Groton School for Boys , in Groton, Massachusetts in 1884. Peabody served as headmaster at the school from 1884 until 1940, and also served as a trustee at Lawrence Academy at Groton...
  
  , founder of the Groton School, great aunt of Alice Hathaway Lee, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
  
  , and great great great aunt of Endicott Peabody
  Endicott Peabody
  Endicott "Chub" Peabody was the 62nd Governor of Massachusetts from January 3, 1963 to January 7, 1965.-Early life:...
  
  , Governor of Massachusetts

John Winthrop

John Winthrop

John Winthrop was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer, and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of...

• Born: 12 Jan 1587/8 Edwardstone
  Edwardstone
  Edwardstone is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. The parish contains the hamlets of Mill Green, Priory Green, Round Maple and Sherbourne Street, and the Edwardstone Woods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest...
  
  , Suffolk
  Suffolk
  Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
  
  , England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  
• Father of John Winthrop, Jr.
• Grandfather of Wait Still Winthrop
• 3rd great grandfather of Thomas L. Winthrop
• 4th great grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 8th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• 10th great grandfather of Katrina Lynn Ellis
• Uncle of mother of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard
  Solomon Stoddard
  Solomon Stoddard was the pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, MA. He succeeded the Rev. Eleazer Mather, marrying his widow around 1670...
  
  ; Stoddard was the grandfather of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards; Edwards was the father-in-law of the Rev. Aaron Burr, Sr.
  Aaron Burr, Sr.
  The Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr., was a notable divine and educator in colonial America. He was a founder of the College of New Jersey and the father of the third United States Vice President, Aaron Burr , who killed Alexander Hamilton.-Biography:A native of Connecticut, Burr was born in 1716 in...
  
  ; Burr was the father of Vice-President Aaron Burr
  Aaron Burr
  Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...
  
  ; Edwards was also the 3rd great grandfather of Edith Carow, who married Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
  
  
• Political position: Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630-33, 1637–39, 1642–43, 1646–48
• Of note: Winthrop, Massachusetts is named after him
• Died: 26 March 1649 Boston, Suffolk, MA
• Buried: King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.

John Winthrop, the Younger

John Winthrop, the Younger

John Winthrop , generally known as John Winthrop the Younger, was governor of Connecticut.He was born in Groton, England, the son of John Winthrop, founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...

• Born: February 12, 1606 Groton, England
• Son of John Winthrop
• Father of Fitz-John Winthrop
• Father of Wait Still Winthrop
• Great-grandfather of Rebecca Winthrop who married Gurdon Saltonstall Jr-son of Governor of Connecticut Gudron Saltonstall of the Massachusetts Nathaniel Saltonstall
  Nathaniel Saltonstall
  Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for the special Court of Oyer and Terminer, a specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people, mostly women, for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692...
  
   family. Gurdon and Rebecca were the parents of Dudley Saltonstall
  Dudley Saltonstall
  Dudley Saltonstall was an American naval commander during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known as the commander of the naval forces of the 1779 Penobscot Expedition, which ended in complete disaster, with all ships lost...
  
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• 2nd great grandfather of Thomas L. Winthrop
• 3rd Great grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 7th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Political position: Governor, Colony of Connecticut 1657-1658, 1659–1662, 1662–1676
• Died: April 5, 1676
• Buried: King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wait Still Winthrop

Wait Winthrop

Wait Winthrop was a colonial magistrate, military officer, and politician of New England. Named Waitstill at birth, he preferred the shortened name "Wait"...

• Born: 27 Feb. 1642 Boston, Suffolk, MA
• Son of John Winthrop, Jr.
• Grandson of John Winthrop
• Brother Fitz-John Winthrop
• Great grandfather of Thomas L. Winthrop
• 2nd great grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 6th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Political position: Massachusetts Governors Council 1691; Chief Justice of Massachusetts
• Military service: Major General in Massachusetts Militia
• Died: 7 Nov. 1717 Boston, Suffolk, MA

Fitz-John Winthrop

Fitz-John Winthrop

Fitz-John Winthrop was the governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1698 to 1707....

• Born: March 14, 1637/8, Ipswich, Massachusetts
• Son of John Winthrop, Jr.
• Grandson of John Winthrop
• Brother Wait Still Winthrop
• Elected positions: Governor, Colony of Connecticut, 1698–1707
• Died: November 27, 1707
• Buried: King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rt. Hon. Andrew Wiggin

• Born: March 17, 1671
• Great grandson of Thomas Dudley
• Grandson of Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Wiggin.
• Brother: Bradstreet Wiggin
• Political position: Speaker of the House of Representatives of the New Hampshire Colony 1727-37
• Died: April 14, 1756

James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin II was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court in the colonial era and was president of the state's constitutional convention...

• Born: 7 Aug. 1726
• Great grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 5th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Political Position: Governor of Massachusetts 1785-87
• Of note: Bowdoin College is named for him
• Died: 6 Nov. 1790

James Bowdoin III

James Bowdoin III

James Bowdoin III was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He has born to James Bowdoin in Boston, and graduated from Harvard University in 1771. James then studied law at Oxford and traveled widely in Europe until 1775. When he got the news of the Battle of...

• Born: September 22, 1752
• Son of James Bowdoin
• Elected positions: Massachusetts State Assembly; Delegate to Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1779,80
• Died: October 11, 1811 Naushon Island, Dukes Co., Massachusetts

Jeremiah Mason

• Born: 27 Apr. 1768 Lebanon, CT
• Married Mary Means, the aunt of Jane Appleton who married Franklin Pierce
  Franklin Pierce
  Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...
  
  
• 3rd great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Political positions:
• Attorney General of New Hampshire 1802-1805
• U.S. Senator from New Hampshire 1813-17
• New Hampshire State house of representatives 1820-1821
• Died: 14 Oct. 1848 Boston, Suffolk, MA

Jacob Blackwell

• Born: 20 Nov 1717, NY
• 5th great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry
• Political position: Representative to New York Provincial Congress 1774
• Died: 23 Oct. 1780 Newtown, Queens, NY

John Forbes Kerry

• 2nd great grandson of Robert Charles Winthrop
• 3rd great grandson of Jeremiah Mason
• 5th great grandson of Jacob Blackwell
• 5th great grandson of James Bowdoin
• 6th great grandson of Joseph Dudley
• 6th great grandson of Wait Still Winthrop
• 7th great grandson of Thomas Dudley
• 7th great grandson of John Winthrop, Jr.
• 8th great grandson of John Winthrop
• 4th cousin twice removed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932...

• Son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat...
  
  , the poet
• Double 4th great grandson of Simon Bradstreet
• Double 5th great grandson of Thomas Dudley
• 1st cousin of Robert Treat Paine
  Robert Treat Paine (Boston)
  Robert Treat Paine, Jr. was a Boston lawyer, philanthropist and social reformer and grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence...
  
  
• 4th cousin twice removed of Benjamin Franklin Wade

Benjamin Franklin Wade

• Senator from Ohio
  Ohio
  Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
  
  
• 2nd great grandson of Simon Bradstreet
• 3rd great grandson of Thomas Dudley
• 4th cousin twice removed of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Uncle of Ellen Maria Wade who married Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax, Jr. was a United States Representative from Indiana , Speaker of the House of Representatives , and the 17th Vice President of the United States . To date, he is one of only two Americans to have served as both House speaker and vice president.President Ulysses S...

• Married Ellen Maria Wade, niece of Benjamin Franklin Wade
• Political Positions: Vice President
  Vice president
  A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...
  
   of the United States (1868–1873)

Schuyler Colfax

• Son of Schuyler Colfax
• Great nephew of Benjamin Franklin Wade
• Great nephew of Edward Wade
• 4th Great grandson of Simon Bradstreet
• 5th great grandson of Thomas Dudley
• Elected positions: Mayor of South Bend, Indiana 1898-1902

Oliver Partridge

• Born: June 13, 1712 Hatfield, MA
• Massachusetts representative to the Albany Congress 1754; Stamp Act Congress of 1765
• Great grandson of Simon Bradstreet
• Great great grandson of Thomas Dudley

Edward Partridge, Jr.

• 25 Jun 1833 - 17 Nov 1900
• Utah Territorial Legislature 1873; Delegate to 1895 Utah Constitutional Convention
• Brother of Emily Dow Partridge who married Brigham Young
  Brigham Young
  Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...
  
   of the Richards-Young Family
  Richards-Young family
  The Richards–Young family is the name of a U.S. political family. Besides politics many of its members have been prominent in religion and in military affairs...
  
  
• Great grandson of Oliver Partridge (Massachusetts representative to the Albany Congress; Stamp Act Congress)
• Double 5th great grandson of Simon Bradstreet (Massachusetts Governor)
• 5th great grandson of George Wyllys (Connecticut Governor) of the Wyllys-Haynes Family
  Wyllys-Haynes Family
  -George Wyllys:*Born: 1590 at the manor of Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, England*Governor of Connecticut Colony, 1642-3*Great grandfather of George Wyllys *2nd great grandfather of Samuel Wyllys #2...
  
  
• 5th great grandson of John Haynes (Massachusetts Governor; Connecticut Governor)
• Double 6th great grandson of Thomas Dudley (Massachusetts Governor; Harvard founder)
• 1st cousin 4x removed of George Wyllys (Connecticut Secretary of State 1796 - 1810)

Dudley Leavitt Pickman

Dudley Leavitt Pickman

Dudley Leavitt Pickman was a Salem, Massachusetts, merchant who built one of the great Salem trading firms during the seaport's ascendancy as a trading power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pickman was a partner in the firm Devereux, Pickman & Silsbee and a state senator...

• 1779–1846
• Massachusetts State Senate
• Massachusetts House of Representatives
  Massachusetts House of Representatives
  The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...
  
  
• Salem, Massachusetts
  Salem, Massachusetts
  Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...
  
   merchant, industrialist and philanthropist
• descendant of Rev. Samuel Dudley, son of Gov. Thomas Dudley

Michael O. Leavitt

• Born: 1951
• Governor
  Governor
  A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
  
  , Utah
  Utah
  Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
  
  , 1993–2003
• Administrator
  Independent agencies of the United States government
  Independent agencies of the United States federal government are those agencies that exist outside of the federal executive departments...
  
   of the Environmental Protection Agency, 2003–2005
• United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
  United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
  The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet...
  
  , 2005–2009
• descendant of Rev. Samuel Dudley, son of Gov. Thomas Dudley

Frederick J. Polsky

• Born: 1972
• Alaskan Independence Party
  Alaskan Independence Party
  The Alaskan Independence Party is a political party in the U.S. state of Alaska that advocates an in-state referendum which includes the option of Alaska becoming an independent country...
  
   Candidate, Alaska House of Representatives
  Alaska House of Representatives
  The Alaska House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of about 15,673 people . Members serve two-year terms without term limits...
  
  , 1994
• 9th great grandson of Thomas Dudley

Robert Todd Giffin

• Born 23 Dec 1970
• Appointed to the Equal Opportunity Board of the City of Indianapolis, 1996–1998, by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith
  Stephen Goldsmith
  Stephen "Steve" Goldsmith is the former mayor of Indianapolis and most recently served as the Deputy Mayor of New York City for Operations, stepping down effective August 4, 2011 after a domestic violence arrest. He is also the Daniel Paul Professor of Government at the John F...
  
  
• Member of the Society of the Cincinnati
  Society of the Cincinnati
  The Society of the Cincinnati is a historical organization with branches in the United States and France founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the American Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges it had made to officers who fought for American...
  
   (Pennsylvania)
• Grandson of Robert H. Conn
  Robert H. Conn
  Robert Henry Conn was United States Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1984 and Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1984 to 1988....
  
  , CAPT USN Ret. (b. 1925), Comptroller and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management (1981–1989)
• Great grandson of Virginia Portia Royall Inness-Brown
  Virginia Portia Royall Inness-Brown
  Virginia Portia Royall Inness-Brown , noted proponent of the arts and first recipient of the Handel Medallion of New York City in 1959, was born in Medford, Massachusetts on May 4, 1901. She was the daughter of John Allen Crosskeys Royall and Agatha Caroline Freeman...
  
   (1901–1990), Consultant to the State Department for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Vice-Chairman of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA); Trustee of the Vivian Beaumont Allen
  Vivian Beaumont Allen
  Vivian Beaumont Allen , patroness of theatre in New York City, funded construction of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, which was completed after her death. Her father, J.E. Beaumont, founded the May Company department stores to which she was heiress.-External links:*...
  
   Foundation
• 3rd Great grandnephew of Painter George Inness
  George Inness
  George Inness was an American landscape painter; born in Newburgh, New York; died at Bridge of Allan in Scotland. His work was influenced, in turn, by that of the old masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism...
  
   (1825–1894)
• 10th Great grandson of John Winthrop
  John Winthrop
  John Winthrop was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer, and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of...
  
  

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• http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Genealogy/famousdescendants.php
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• http://books.google.com/books?id=bDlKAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA42&lpg=RA4-PA42&dq=%22reverend+samuel+dudley%22+exeter&source=web&ots=UjHJNvkCY5&sig=-2rza8_4-siy-nPc8OvH68VMalI#PRA4-PA42,M1 The First Annual Meeting of the Governor Thomas Dudley Association, Boston, Ma., Oct. 17, 1893