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Siblings
Accumulatively, our presidents have 219 biological siblings, consisting of 113 brothers and 106 sisters. President James Buchanan has the biggest brood, with 10 (four brothers and six sisters). Presidents B. Harrison, Polk and Washington share second place with nine siblings each. President Franklin Roosevelt is the only single child out of the bunch.
Famous Siblings
John Ellis Bush (younger brother of President George W. Bush)
Governor of Florida
Roger Clinton Jr. (half-brother of President Bill Clinton)
Musician and actor
Milton Stover Eisenhower (younger brother of President Dwight Eisenhower)
Scholar and president of three universities (John Hopkins, Kansas State and Penn State)
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (younger sister President John Kennedy)
Also known as Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, after her marriage to William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, she fell victim to the ‘Kennedy Curse’ and died in an airplane crash in Ardèche, France.
Robert ‘Bobby’ Kennedy (younger brother President John Kennedy)
Bobby served as Attorney General under his brother’s administration and was elected Senator several years later. While campaigning for the presidency in 1968, Bobby was assassinated, in yet another instance of the ‘Kennedy Curse’.
Neil Reagan (elder brother of President Ronald Reagan)
Producer, media personality and voice actor
Maya Soetoro-Ng (Half-sister to President Barack Obama)
Author, teacher and lecturer
| Presidents |
Brother(s) |
Sister(s) |
| George Washington |
5 |
4 |
| John Adams |
2 |
0 |
| Thomas Jefferson |
2 |
6 |
| James Madison |
4 |
4 |
| James Monroe |
3 |
1 |
| John Quincy Adams |
2 |
1 |
| Andrew Jackson |
2 |
0 |
| Martin van Buren |
4 |
3 |
| William H. Harrison |
2 |
4 |
| John Tyler |
2 |
5 |
| James Polk |
5 |
4 |
| Zachary Taylor |
5 |
3 |
| Millard Fillmore |
5 |
3 |
| Franklin Pierce |
4 |
3 |
| James Buchanan |
4 |
6 |
| Abraham Lincoln |
1 |
1 |
| Andrew Johnson |
1 |
0 |
| Ulysses S. Grant |
2 |
3 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes |
1 |
2 |
| James A. Garfield |
2 |
2 |
| Chester A. Arthur |
2 |
6 |
| Grover Cleveland |
3 |
5 |
| Benjamin Harrison |
6 |
3 |
| William McKinley |
3 |
5 |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
1 |
2 |
| William H. Taft |
2 |
3 |
| Woodrow Wilson |
1 |
2 |
| Warren G. Harding |
2 |
5 |
| Calvin Coolidge |
0 |
1 |
| Herbert Hoover |
1 |
1 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
0 |
0 |
| Harry Truman |
1 |
1 |
| Dwight Eisenhower |
6 |
0 |
| John F. Kennedy |
3 |
5 |
| Lyndon Johnson |
1 |
3 |
| Richard Nixon |
4 |
0 |
| Gerald Ford |
4 |
2 |
| Jimmy Carter |
1 |
2 |
| Ronald Reagan |
1 |
0 |
| George H.W. Bush |
3 |
1 |
| Bill Clinton |
1 |
0 |
| George W. Bush |
3 |
2 |
| Barack Obama |
6 |
2 |
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Gingrich Siblings
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Gingrich has three younger stepsisters from his mother’s marriage to his adopted father, Lt (Rtd) Robert Bruce Gingrich. The youngest is Candace Gingrich-Jones (born in 1966), who is a respected Washington-based gay activist. The middle sister, Roberta Gingrich Brown (born 1950), is a public servant, while the eldest is Susan Gingrich (born in 1948).
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
3-Tour Combat Vet, Philosopher and Law Student
RJ Harris
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Harris Siblings
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Jennell Rightly, Melanie Derrick, Aaron Barnes
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of New Mexico
Gary Johnson
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Johnson Siblings
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Johnson is the oldest of three siblings.
His sister, Lori, is a special education teacher. His brother, Scott, is a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
(Information provided by Mr. Michael Hurdle)
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Karger Siblings
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Karger has a single younger brother, Richard C. Karger.
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Lane Siblings
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•William Scott Beals
•Brenda Gail Beals
•James Dewayne Babbitt
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Declared 2012
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Siblings
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President Barack Obama has a total of ten half-siblings from his mother’s two marriages, his father’s four, and another two from his former stepfather. He is the third eldest of the ten.
The eldest of the brood is Abon’go (Roy) Malik Obama, born in 1958. He is the first child from the marriage of Barack Obama Sr. and Kezia Obama. President Obama has a close relationship with Malik, and both served as the best men in each other’s wedding. He currently runs an electronic store in Nairobi, Kenya, but also owns a Washington-based consulting firm. Kezia gave birth to a daughter in 1960, Dr. Auma Obama. She is a London-based educator.
Obama Sr. married schoolteacher, Ruth Baker, five months after his divorce to Ann Dunham, the mother of President Obama. The relationship produced two sons, Mark Okoth Obama (1965) and David Opiya Obama (1967-1987). The couple filed for divorce in 1973 and Ruth remarried a year later to Tanzanian businessman, Ndesandjo, and the two boys took his name. Mark, who holds a BSc (Physics) from Brown, an MSc (Physics) from Stanford and an MBA from Emory, runs a China-based net consulting firm. His brother, David, died tragically in a motorcycle accident in 1987.
While still married to Baker, Obama Sr. is alleged to have sired two more sons with his first wife, Kezia. Abo Obama, who runs a retail outlet in Kenya, was born in 1968. Naturalized British citizen, Bernard Obama, meanwhile, was born in 1970 and currently lives in Bracknell, England.
President Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, remarried in 1965 to Indonesian Lolo Soetoro and from that union, Maya Kassandra Soetoro was conceived. Born in 1970, Maya is very close to her half-brother Barack, and was a key figure in his 2008 campaign. The educator currently lives in Honululu, Hawaii, with her husband and daughter.
The Soetoros
The last of the brood, George Hussein Onyango Obama, came in 1982, six months before Obama Sr. died in a road accident, from a relationship with fellow Kenyan, Jael. George currently resides in Huruma, Kenya.
President Obama technically has another two half-sisters. After the divorce of his former stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, and mother, Soetoro remarried and had a son and a daughter; Yusuf Aji Soetoro (1981) and Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (1987)
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Paul Siblings
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• Ron Paul has four brothers.
• David Paul and another of the brothers entered the ministry.
• His brother Wayne is a CPA
• Another brother is a math professor.
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Romney Siblings
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Romney was the youngest in a brood of four
Sister: Margo Lynn Romney Keenan (1935)
Sister: Jane LaFont Romney Robinson (1938)
Brother: G. Scott Romney (June 7, 1941); Lawyer and Politician
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Santorum Siblings
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Santorum was the middle child of his family, with a fiercely private older sister and a younger brother (Dan Santorum).
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