Descendant

Distinguished Mayflower Descendants

by SMDPA

It is reported that currently there are over 10 million living descendants of the 52 Mayflower Pilgrims who had children. Are you one of them? Click on "Join Us" above to join. Click on any of the highlighted names below for more information about the descendant. Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. External sites are not endorsed by the SMDPA.

John Adams (2nd U.S. President) — John Alden & William Mullins

John Quincy Adams (6th U.S. President) — John Alden & William Mullins

Maude Adams (stage actress) — John Howland

Humphrey Bogart (film actor) — John Howland

Marie Corinne ("Lindy") Morrison Claiborne Boggs (US Ambassador to the Vatican, Congresswoman) — William Brewster

Phillips Brooks (wrote "O Little Town of Bethlehem") — John Howland

William Cullen Bryant (poet) — John Alden & William Mullins

George Herbert Walker Bush (41th U.S. President) — John Howland, Francis Cooke and John Tilley

Barbara Bush (U.S. First Lady) — John Howland & Henry Samson

George W. Bush (43nd U.S. President) — John Howland, Francis Cooke, Henry Samson, and John Tilley

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (Florida Governor) — John Howland, Francis Cooke, John Tilley and Henry Samson

Bing Crosby (film star & singer) — William Brewster

Bob Crosby (Big Band Leader, Bing's Brother) — William Brewster

Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet) — John Howland & John Tilley

James A. Garfield (20th U.S. President) — John Billington

Nathaniel Gorham (Continental Congress President) — John Howland

Ulysses Grant (U.S. General & 18th President) — Richard Warren

Hugh Hefner (founder of Playboy Magazine) — William Bradford

Esther Allen Howland (produced the first American Valentines) — John Howland

Josiah Granville Leach (originator of Flag Day, June 14th) — Francis Cooke

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (U.S. Senator) — John Howland

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) — John Howland

Marilyn Monroe (actress) — John Alden & William Mullins

Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (20th century American primitive painter) — Francis Cooke

Dan Quayle (U.S. Senator & Vice President) — Myles Standish, John Alden & William Mullins

Cokie Roberts (Political Analyst for ABC and NPR) — Elder William Brewster

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President) — Isaac Allerton, Francis Cooke, John Howland, Degory Priest, John Tilley, Richard Warren

Lillian Russell (stage & film actress) — John Howland

Deborah Samson (took part in Revolutionary War battles disguised as a man) — William Bradford, Myles Standish, John Alden, and William Mullins

Alan B.Shepard, Jr. (first American in space and fifth man to walk on the moon) — Richard Warren

Joseph Smith (founder, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) — John Howland

Zachary Taylor (12th U.S. President) — William Brewster & Isaac Allerton

John Trumbull (painter of Revolutionary War scenes, soldier and aide to General Washington) — John Alden

James Mitchell Varnum (Brigadier General, Continental Army) — Francis Cooke

Noah Webster (author of the first American dictionary) — William Bradford

Orson Wells (stage & film actor, director, producer) — John Alden, Francis Cooke, and Richard Warren

Leonard Wood (U.S. General, colonial administrator and surgeon; commander of "Rough Riders") — Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins & Richard Warren*
* GSMD Governor General 1915-1921