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John Lothropp (1584-1653) was my 9th-great grandfather on the Crosby side. He emigrated from England in 1639 and it is estimated that he now has over 80,000 direct descendants in America; two of those descendants were featured at the recent Republican National Convention.
Nothing against my distant cousin Mitt, but I personally find it much more interesting being a distant cousin to Clint Eastwood, AKA: Josey Wales, (Dirty) Harry Callahan and the nameless drifter from the high plains.
Other famous descendants of John Lothropp — and distant cousins to me — were/are:
- United States Presidents:
- George W. Bush
- George H.W. Bush
- Millard Fillmore
- James Garfield
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- State Governors:
- Mitt Romney
- Jeb Bush
- Sarah Palin
- Joseph Smith, Mormon leader and founder
- Wild Bill Hickock, Lawman & Gunfighter
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- John Pierpont Morgan, millionaire and financier
- Shirley Temple
- Brook Shields
- Clint Eastwood
Sources:
- John Lothropp: A Puritan Biography And Genealogy ; Richard Price, 1984
- Wikipedia.com – John Lothropp
