2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Sibling comparison

Accumulatively, our presidents have 219 biological siblings, consisting of 113 brothers and 106 sisters. President James Buchanan has the biggest brood, with 10 (four brothers and six sisters). Presidents B. Harrison, Polk and Washington share second place with nine siblings each. President Franklin Roosevelt is the only single child out of the bunch.

Famous Siblings

John Ellis Bush (younger brother of President George W. Bush)
Governor of Florida

Roger Clinton Jr. (half-brother of President Bill Clinton)
Musician and actor

Milton Stover Eisenhower (younger brother of President Dwight Eisenhower)
Scholar and president of three universities (John Hopkins, Kansas State and Penn State)

Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (younger sister President John Kennedy)
Also known as Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, after her marriage to William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, she fell victim to the ‘Kennedy Curse’ and died in an airplane crash in Ardèche, France.

Robert ‘Bobby’ Kennedy (younger brother President John Kennedy)
Bobby served as Attorney General under his brother’s administration and was elected Senator several years later. While campaigning for the presidency in 1968, Bobby was assassinated, in yet another instance of the ‘Kennedy Curse’.

Neil Reagan (elder brother of President Ronald Reagan)
Producer, media personality and voice actor

Maya Soetoro-Ng (Half-sister to President Barack Obama)
Author, teacher and lecturer

Presidents	Brother(s)	Sister(s)
George Washington	5	4
John Adams	2	0
Thomas Jefferson	2	6
James Madison	4	4
James Monroe	3	1
John Quincy Adams	2	1
Andrew Jackson	2	0
Martin van Buren	4	3
William H. Harrison	2	4
John Tyler	2	5
James Polk	5	4
Zachary Taylor	5	3
Millard Fillmore	5	3
Franklin Pierce	4	3
James Buchanan	4	6
Abraham Lincoln	1	1
Andrew Johnson	1	0
Ulysses S. Grant	2	3
Rutherford B. Hayes	1	2
James A. Garfield	2	2
Chester A. Arthur	2	6
Grover Cleveland	3	5
Benjamin Harrison	6	3
William McKinley	3	5
Theodore Roosevelt	1	2
William H. Taft	2	3
Woodrow Wilson	1	2
Warren G. Harding	2	5
Calvin Coolidge	0	1
Herbert Hoover	1	1
Franklin D. Roosevelt	0	0
Harry Truman	1	1
Dwight Eisenhower	6	0
John F. Kennedy	3	5
Lyndon Johnson	1	3
Richard Nixon	4	0
Gerald Ford	4	2
Jimmy Carter	1	2
Ronald Reagan	1	0
George H.W. Bush	3	1
Bill Clinton	1	0
George W. Bush	3	2
Barack Obama	6	2

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Speaker of the House

Newt Gingrich

Gingrich Siblings

Gingrich has three younger stepsisters from his mother’s marriage to his adopted father, Lt (Rtd) Robert Bruce Gingrich. The youngest is Candace Gingrich-Jones (born in 1966), who is a respected Washington-based gay activist. The middle sister, Roberta Gingrich Brown (born 1950), is a public servant, while the eldest is Susan Gingrich (born in 1948).

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Political Consultant & Gay Rights Activist

Fred Karger

Karger Siblings

Karger has a single younger brother, Richard C. Karger.

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate

Kathyern Lane

Lane Siblings

•William Scott Beals
•Brenda Gail Beals
•James Dewayne Babbitt

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
U.S. Representative from the State of Texas

Ron Paul

Paul Siblings

• Ron Paul has four brothers.

• David Paul and another of the brothers entered the ministry.

• His brother Wayne is a CPA

• Another brother is a math professor.

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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of Massachusetts

Mitt Romney

Romney Siblings

Romney was the youngest in a brood of four

Sister: Margo Lynn Romney Keenan (1935)
Sister: Jane LaFont Romney Robinson (1938)
Brother: G. Scott Romney (June 7, 1941); Lawyer and Politician