William Brewster (Mayflower Passenger) - Notable Descendants

Notable Descendants

Elder Brewster's descendants number in the tens of thousands today. Notable among them are:

• Isaac Allerton Jr., merchant and Colonial Virginia officeholder
• Roger Nash Baldwin, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Moses Yale Beach, inventor and publisher who started the Associated Press
• Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, suffragist, granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, writer and suffragist, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lindy Boggs, first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana
• Bishop Benjamin Brewster, Episcopal Bishop of Maine, Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado
• Benjamin Brewster, industrialist, financier, original trustee of Standard Oil
• Benjamin C. Bradlee, Vice President at-large of the Washington Post, Fmr. Chief Executive Editor during Watergate, Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
• David Brewster, journalist
• Diane Brewster, television actress
• James Brewster, coachbuilder, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's song "You're the Top"
• Janet Huntington Brewster, philanthropist, writer, radio broadcaster, relief worker during World War II in London
• John Brewster, Jr., painter
• Jordana Brewster, actress
• Kingman Brewster, Jr., educator and diplomat
• Ralph Owen Brewster, United States Senator from Maine
• Julia Child, chef and television personality
• Bob Crosby, Dixieland bandleader and vocalist
• Bing Crosby, singer and actor
• Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby, hymnwriter
• Ted Danson, actor
• Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States, chaired committee that produced the Dawes Plan
• Howard Dean, physician, former Governor of Vermont and 2004 presidential candidate
• Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence (1953–61), member of the Warren Commission
• Avery Dulles, Jesuit priest, theologian, professor and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Richard Gere, actor
• Katharine Hepburn, actress
• Doris Humphrey, dancer and choreographer
• Brewster Jennings, president and chairman of Standard Oil Company of New York (which became Mobil Oil)
• Ernest Lester Jones, former head of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (USGS) and co-founder of the American Legion
• Ashley Judd, actress
• George Trumbull Ladd, philosopher and psychologist
• Oliver La Farge, writer and anthropologist
• John Lithgow, actor
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
• Seth MacFarlane, writer, producer and voice actor
• George B. McClellan, Civil War general and politician
• Edwin Markham, American poet,
• Paul Amos Moody, University of Vermont zoology professor, author of "Introduction to Evolution," and "Genetics of Man"
• Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Czech diplomat and politician
• Robert Noyce, inventor of the integrated circuit (or microchip)
• Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee
• Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Navy commander, "Hero of Lake Erie" in the War of 1812
• Commodore Matthew C. Perry, U.S. Navy commander who compelled the opening of Japan to the West
• James Leonard Plimpton, roller skates inventor
• Thomas Pynchon, novelist
• Cokie Roberts, journalist and author
• Jay Rockefeller, U.S. Senator from West Virginia
• Nelson Rockefeller, businessman, philanthropist, 49th Governor of New York and 41st Vice President of the United States
• Brewster H. Shaw, NASA astronaut
• Elisabeth Shue, actress
• Henry Stanton, abolitionist, social reformer, husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• David Souter, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Adlai Stevenson III, United States Senator from Illinois
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of The New York Times
• Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States
• Stuart Taylor Wood, CMG, ninth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Sewall Green Wright, geneticist
• Rudi Brewster, a United States Federal Judge