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

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