List of United States Political Families (F) - The Fitzgeralds, Gardners, Minots, and Pickerings

The Fitzgeralds, Gardners, Minots, and Pickerings

• Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), Essex County, Massachusetts Register of Deeds 1774–1777; Massachusetts Colony Common Pleas Court Judge 1775; member of the Massachusetts Legislature 1776; delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention 1789; Postmaster General of the United States 1791–1795; U.S. Secretary of War 1795; U.S. Secretary of States 1795–1800; Common Pleas Court Judge in Massachusetts 1802–1803; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1803–1811; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1813–1817; Massachusetts Governor's Councilman 1817–1818. Great-great-grandfather of Augustus P. Gardner.
  • Augustus P. Gardner (1865–1918), Massachusetts State Senator 1900–1901, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1902–1917. Great-great-grandson of Timothy Pickering.
  • Susan W. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts State Representative 1923–1924, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924. Descendant of Timothy Pickering.
    • William A.G. Minot (1916–1963), Connecticut State Representative 1959. Grand son of Augustus P. Gardner.

NOTE: Augustus P. Gardner was also son-in-law of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and uncle by marriage of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and U.S. Representative John Davis Lodge. William A.G. Minot was also great-great-great-great-grandson of U.S. Senator George Cabot and great-great-great-grandson of U.S. Senator Elijah Hunt Mills.