Anyone related to current or former senators or congress members?

[alwynsw]

I have a couple in the family tree - Jamie Whitten D-MS, deceased and Wendall Ford, D-KY, retired. Both are distant cousins.

[UrbScotty]

1. AWD's kids are related to a future Congressman!

;-)

[HEyHEY]

2. My Aunt was a MLA

Now she's retired......I'm so sorry to say she was an MLA for the CA

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Well, quite a while ago...

ANDERSON, Richard Clough, Jr., a Representative from Kentucky; born at ÔSoldiersÕ Retreat,Õ near Louisville, Ky., August 4, 1788; attended private schools; was graduated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Louisville; member of the State house of representatives in 1815; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1820; again a member of the State house of representatives, in 1821 and 1822, serving as speaker the latter year; appointed the first United States Minister to the Republic of Colombia January 27, 1823; took his leave June 7, 1823, having been commissioned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Panama Congress of Nations, but died, en route to his post, in Turbaco, near Cartagena, Colombia, July 24, 1826; interment at ÔSoldiersÕ Retreat,Õ near Louisville, Ky.

The cool part was that his grandmother was a sister of Roger Clark, of Lewis and Clark . The sad part was that his wife died before his death and their two girls were 'orphaned and adopted' thus no direct connection/stories to go with the blood connection, you know, no cool sword or something to drag out and show off.

[bubba_fett]

4. I have a friend who was

related to Joe McCarthy by marriage.

He is a strict democrat, but still laughs when he tells the story.

[RebelOne]

5. Related on my mother's side

to the junior senator from Delaware in the 1950s. I think his name was Covey. I can't verify it 'cause my mother passed away in 1993. But that's what she told me. I don't know whether he was Republican or Democrat. I really never checked it out. I think my mother leaned to the right because she thought Reagen was the cat's pajamas.

[UrbScotty]

6. John J. Williams (R) or Joseph Frear (D)

Williams:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000518

Frear (Junior Senator):

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000356