Which US Senator are you most closely connected to?

Question

This week in the Connection Finder, we're featuring US Senators to honor the recent death of Senator Bob Dole.

Featured alongside him are other US Senators:

• Edward Brooke, Massachusetts
• Margaret Chase Smith, Maine
• Jean-Noël Destréhan, Louisiana
• Everett Dirksen, Illinois
• Stephen Arnold Douglas, Illinois
• John Glenn, Ohio
• Daniel Ken Inouye, Hawaii
• John Percival Jones, Nevada
• Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts
• Rand Paul, Kentucky

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 24.4 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Special feature: Check out how you're connected to other Kansas Senators by using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page. Browse related categories like US Senators from Illinois and Presidents Pro Tempore of the US Senate.

Let us know how you're related below! If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Bob Dole and Ted Kennedy. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

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Answer 1

3 with American MRCA:

Margaret (Chase) Smith 3C5R, Mayflower Samson  desc

Bob Dole 9C1R, MRCA Experience Mitchell Plymouth

Stephen Douglas 5C5R Anne (Mattle) Douglas

Answer 2

• 14 degrees from Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813 - 1861) - 4C 5r
• 18 degrees from Margaret Madeline (Chase) Smith (1897 - 1995) - 10C 3r
• 20 Degrees from John Herschel Glenn Jr (1921 - 2016) - 19C 1r
• 20 degrees from Jean Noël Destréhan (1759 - 1823)
• 20 degrees from John Percival Jones (1829 - 1912)
• 21 degrees from Robert Joseph Dole (1923 - 2021) - 15C 2r
• 21 degrees from Rand Paul M.D. - 17C
• 22 degrees from Edward Moore Kennedy (1932 - 2009)
• 23 degrees from Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
• 24 degrees from Edward William Brooke III (1919 - 2015)
• 25 degrees from Daniel Ken Inouye (1924 - 2012)

Answer 3

Rand Paul - 12th cousins once removed

Bob Dole - 14th cousins 1x removed

Margaret Chase - 19th cousins 7x removed

Stephen Douglas - 19th cousins 9x removed

John Glenn - 21st cousins 6x removed

Answer 4

• Bob Dole, 15th cousins once removed, 21 degrees
• Edward Brooke, 24 degrees
• Margaret Chase Smith, 10th cousins five times removed, 20 degrees
• Jean-Noël Destréhan, 19 degrees
• Everett Dirksen, 24 degrees
• Stephen Arnold Douglas, 6th cousins 8 times removed, 15 degrees
• John Glenn, 17th cousins four times removed, 19 degrees
• Daniel Ken Inouye, 25 degrees
• John Percival Jones, 19 degrees
• Ted Kennedy, 22 degrees
• Rand Paul, 16th cousins twice removed, 20 degrees

Answer 5

15 degrees from Margaret (Chase) Smith, Chase-2926

15 degrees from Stephen Arnold Douglas, Douglas-3130

18 degrees from John Herschel Glenn Jr, Glenn-16

19 degrees from Robert Joseph Dole, Dole-371

19 degrees from Ted Kennedy

20 degrees from John Jones

22 degrees from Jean-Noël Destréhan

24 degrees from Daniel Inouye

24 degrees from Rand Paul MD, Paul-2326

24 degrees from Everett Dirksen

26 degrees from Edward Brooke

Answer 6

I'm 11 degrees from Daniel Ken Inouye from Hawai'i.

Answer 7

My closest is Stephen Douglas at 17 degrees, followed closely by John Jones and Rand Paul at 18.

Answer 8

I am a nine degree relative to Pioneer Abolitionist Vermont US Senator Luke Potter Poland Poland-413.

Answer 9

Bob Dole and I are 8th cousins.  

I just updated John Ackley-68 our mutual great grandfather.  I sourced and wrote biography, inline citations, removed ged com junk.

Answer 10

My wife is a 7c4r of Margaret Chase Smith.

Answer 11

Rand Paul and I are 17th Cousin

 16th cousin Bob Dole

Answer 12

Margaret Chase Smith - 17th cousin

Answer 13

Ancestors and Cousins

• 17 degrees - John Glenn (9th cousin, 1x removed)
• 17 degrees - Stephen Douglas (11th cousin, 6x removed)
• 18 degrees - Margaret Chase Smith (14th cousin, 5x removed)
• 20 degrees - Bob Dole (10th cousin, 2x removed)
• 20 degrees - Rand Paul (18th cousin, 3x removed)

Connections

• 17 degrees - Jean-Noël Destréham
• 18 degrees - John Percival Jones 
• 18 degrees - Ted Kennedy
• 24 degrees - Edward Brook
• 24 degrees - Everett Dickson
• 25 degrees - Daniel Inouye

Answer 14

26 degrees from Bob Dole
28 degrees from Edward Brooke
25 degrees from Margaret Chase Smith
26 degrees from Jean-Noel Destrehan
31 degrees from Everett Dirksen
21 degrees from Stephen Arnold Douglas
27 degrees from John Glenn
30 degrees from Daniel Ken Inouye
20 degrees from John Percival Jones
24 degrees from Ted Kennedy
29 degrees from Rand Paul
 

Answer 15

I have a couple of relationships worth mentioning...

John Glenn - 7th cousin 2x removed

Margaret Chase Smith - 8th cousin 4x removed