MacVeagh Family
The MacVeagh family has several noted names in the history of the United States:
- Lincoln’s grandfather Wayne MacVeagh was attorney general in the cabinet of President James Garfield.
- Lincoln’s father Charles MacVeagh was President Calvin Coolidge’s ambassador to Japan.
- Lincoln’s great-uncle Franklin MacVeagh was Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of President William Howard Taft.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“The family: I believe more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other—I mean the attempt to prolong family connection unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)