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family groupings listed on
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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) —
also known as Dwight D. Eisenhower;
"Ike" —
Born in Denison, Grayson
County, Tex., October
14, 1890.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War II; president
of Columbia University, 1948-53; President
of the United States, 1953-61.
Presbyterian.
German
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Loyal
Legion.
Died, after a series of heart
attacks, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1969 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower and David Jacob Eisenhower;
brother of Milton
Stover Eisenhower; married, July 1,
1916, to Mamie
Eisenhower; father of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; grandfather of Dwight David Eisenhower
II (son-in-law of Richard
Milhous Nixon). |
| | Political family: Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Sherman
Adams — Carter
L. Burgess — Woodrow
Wilson Mann — Jacqueline
C. Odlum — George
E. Allen — Meyer
Kestnbaum — Bernard
M. Shanley |
| | The Eisenhower Expressway,
from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook
County, Illinois, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Tunnel
(opened 1973), which carries westbound I-70 under the Continental
Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Clear
Creek County to Summit
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Range of mountains,
in Victoria
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Mount
Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1 coin (1971-78). |
| | Campaign slogan: "I Like
Ike." |
| | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower
: Soldier and President — Fred I. Greenstein, The
Hidden-Hand Presidency : Eisenhower as Leader — Carlo
d'Este, Eisenhower
: A Soldier's Life — Robert F. Burk, Dwight
D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician — Wiley T.
Buchanan, Jr., Red
Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the
Eisenhower Administration — Jim Newton, Eisenhower:
The White House Years — William Lee Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous
World |
| | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1969) |
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John Duffy Alderson (1896-1975) —
also known as John D. Alderson —
of Richwood, Nicholas
County, W.Va.
Born in Nicholas
County, W.Va., August
23, 1896.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Died in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., August, 1975
(age about
79 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Mamie Eisenhower (1896-1979) —
also known as Mary Geneva Doud —
Born in Boone, Boone
County, Iowa, November
14, 1896.
Republican. First Lady
of the United States, 1953-61.
Female.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
1, 1979 (age 82 years, 352
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Milton Stover Eisenhower (1899-1985) —
also known as Milton S. Eisenhower —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Abilene, Dickinson
County, Kan., September
15, 1899.
Republican. President
of Kansas State University, 1943-50; Pennsylvania State University,
1950-56; and Johns Hopkins University, 1956-67 and 1971-72; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1964.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died, of cancer,
in Baltimore,
Md., May 2,
1985 (age 85 years, 229
days).
Interment at Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Pa.
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Pat Nixon (1912-1993) —
also known as Thelma Catherine Ryan;
"Starlight" —
of California.
Born in Ely, White Pine
County, Nev., March
16, 1912.
Republican. School
teacher; Second Lady
of the United States, 1953-61; First Lady
of the United States, 1969-74; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Female.
Protestant.
Irish
and German
ancestry.
Died, from lung
cancer, in Park Ridge, Bergen
County, N.J., June 22,
1993 (age 81 years, 98
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William M. Ryan, Sr. and Katherine (Halberstadt) Ryan;
married, June 21,
1940, to Richard
Milhous Nixon. |
| | Political families: Eisenhower-Nixon
family; Carroll
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | The Patricia Nixon Elementary
School (opened 1973; now Nixon Academy), in Cerritos,
California, is named for
her. — Pat Nixon Park
(established 1969), in Cerritos,
California, is named for
her. |
| | Epitaph: "Even when people can't speak
your language, they can tell if you have love in your
heart." |
| | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) —
also known as Richard M. Nixon; "Tricky
Dick"; "Searchlight" —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Yorba Linda, Orange
County, Calif., January
9, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
Vice
President of the United States, 1953-61; President
of the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for Governor of
California, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Order of
the Coif.
Discredited by the Watergate scandal,
as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of
impeachment against him, over obstruction
of justice, abuse
of power, and contempt
of Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly
implicated
him in the Watergate
break-in; with impeachment certain, he resigned;
pardoned
in 1974 by President Gerald
R. Ford.
Died, from a stroke,
at New York
Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1994 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married,
June
21, 1940, to Thelma
Catherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; granddaughter-in-law of Dwight
David Eisenhower); second cousin of John
Duffy Alderson. |
| | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Carroll
family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Maurice
H. Stans — John
H. Holdridge — Clark
MacGregor — Harry
L. Sears — Harry
S. Dent — Christian
A. Herter, Jr. — John
N. Mitchell — G.
Bradford Cook — Raymond
Moley — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Nils
A. Boe — Murray
M. Chotiner — Richard
Blumenthal — G.
Gordon Liddy — Robert
D. Sack — Edward
G. Latch — William
O. Mills — Meyer
Kestnbaum |
| | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's the
One!" |
| | Epitaph: "The greatest honor history
can bestow is the title of peacemaker." |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books by Richard M. Nixon: RN
: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Beyond
Peace (1994) — 1999:
Victory Without War (1988) — Leaders
(1982) — Memoirs —
Six
Crises (1962) — The
Challenges We Face (1960) — In
the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
(1990) — No
More Vietnams (1985) — The
Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) — Real
Peace (1984) — The
Real War (1980) — Seize
The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World
(1992) |
| | Books about Richard M. Nixon: Melvin
Small, The
Presidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff, Nixon
Reconsidered — Jonathan Aitken, Nixon
: A Life — Garry Wills, Nixon
Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — Thomas
Monsell, Nixon
on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in
Films, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.
Ambrose, Nixon
: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — Richard
Reeves, President
Nixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris, Richard
Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —
Robert Mason, Richard
Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority — Jules
Witcover, Very
Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon
& Spiro Agnew |
| | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,
The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Don Fulsom, Nixon's
Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled
President |
| | Image source: United States Mint
engraving |
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John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (1922-2013) —
Born in Denver,
Colo., August
3, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean conflict; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1969-71.
Died in Trappe, Talbot
County, Md., December
21, 2013 (age 91 years, 140
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.
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