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31. President Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933) 

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First Lady and her sons
Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Born August 8, 1903, died of cancer on April 9, 1969.) He graduated from Stanford University and taught briefly at Harvard Business School. Junior married Margaret Watson and had three children. He is considered one of the more successful presidential children, respected not only for his career as a geologist, inventor and diplomat, but because of his refusal to trade on his father's name.
Allan Henry Hoover
Born July 17, 1907, died November 8, 1993.) He married Margaret Coberly, had three children and became wealthy as a California rancher. In latter years he moved to Connecticut, where he promoted his father's legacy through the numerous Hoover foundations and non-profit organizations. 


32. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) 

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FDR and his family
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted
Born May 3, 1906, died of cancer December 1, 1975.) Caught in a triad of three strong willed persons--her father FDR; her mother; and her grandmother, the domineering Sara Roosevelt--Anna had to grow up quickly. She would marry three times, have two children and squeeze in a sometimes gutsy but ultimately doomed career as a journalist. Anna, who accompanied her father on the trip to Yalta, was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their dysfunctional marriage.
James "Jimmy" Roosevelt
Born December 23, 1907, died August 13, 1991.) A Harvard graduate, Jimmy Roosevelt was a war hero, author, White House secretary for his father, and a six-term U. S. Congressman. Lifelong business scandals hampered his political ambitions. He ran for mayor of Los Angeles and lost, then ran for governor of California and lost. Married four times, James was the father of three children.
Franklin Roosevelt
Born March 18, 1909, died at eight months on November 8, 1909.)
Elliott Roosevelt
Born September 23, 1910, he died of congestive heart failure on October 27, 1990.) His heroics in World War II earned him many medals, nevertheless, as in the case of his older brother, charges of exploiting his father's name for personal gain made him an often controversial figure. He was the author of numerous books, including a famous, bestselling mystery series. Married five times, he was the father of four children.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
Born August 17, 1914, died on August 17, 1988.) Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., was educated at Harvard and earned a law degree at the University of Virginia Law School. He served with honor in World War II and was appointed by President Truman to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. In 1965, President Johnson appointed him as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission. He served repeatedly as a New York Representative in Congress. Two attempts to win the governor's office in New York ended in defeat. Democrat FDR, Jr. was married four times, including a marriage to Republican heiress Ethel Dupont, in an event that captured headlines. He had four children.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt
Born March 13, 1916 at Hyde Park, NY; died of a heart attack on April 27, 1981.) John lived his life quietly, although a "small" wedding to Boston debutante, Anne Lindsay Clark, drew 30,000 uninvited spectators along the wedding route. John served with distinction in the Navy during World War II and later developed a successful career as a retailer and an investment banker. In later years, the previously non-political John Roosevelt surprisingly chose to support Republican causes, and campaigned openly for Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan. He was married twice and had three children. 


33. President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) 

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(Mary) Margaret Truman Daniel
Born February 17, 1924.) Margaret Truman was still studying voice at George Washington University when her father was thrust into the presidency in the middle of a world war. Her lifelong dream of becoming a concert singer was dampened by harsh critics who demanded a fully matured classical musician. Later in life, Margaret found a gift for writing, producing biographies of her parents, historical works and a bestselling series of murder mysteries that earned her fame and a considerable fortune. In 1956, Margaret married E. Clifton Daniel, Jr., a journalist who went on to become the managing editor of The New York Times. They had four sons. She continues to serve as Honorary Chair of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute Board of Directors, although her son, Clifton Truman Daniel, now serves on the Board of the Library and has begun to carry more of the load as spokesman for the family. Margaret lives in an apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan. 


34. Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)

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John Eisenhower, military historian
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower
Born August 3, 1922- ) A decorated hero, John Eisenhower found his World War II military career thwarted at every turn by fears for his safety and concern from the top brass that his capture would be an unwanted distraction to Ike, the Allied Commander. He served as a White House aide to his father and as U. S. ambassador to Belgium in the Nixon administration. John's greatest achievements came as a military historian, his numerous books popular with readers and reviewers alike. His most famous history, The Bitter Woods, is considered to be the definitive study on the Battle of the Bulge. Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I was published in 2001 when John Eisenhower was nearly 79 years of age. John Eisenhower, the oldest living presidential child lives in Kimberton, Pennsylvania. He married Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10, 1947, but they divorced in 1986. The Eisenhower's had four exceptional children including Dwight David, II who married Julie Nixon, herself a presidential daughter. 


35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)

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Caroline and John, Jr.
Child, never named, stillborn in 1955.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
She was born November 27, 1957-.  As the only living child of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Caroline carries the burden of her family's considerable expectations on her capable shoulders. She earned a fine arts degree at Radcliffe and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1988. For a number of years she served as a member of the Office of Film and Television at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, coordinating special productions some of which have aired on Public Television. Reviewers have offered critical praise two books focusing on the Bill of Rights and the Right to Privacy, co-authored with law classmate, Ellen Alderman. Caroline Kennedy married brilliant artist and interactive museum designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986. They have three children and live in New York.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.
He was born November 25, 1960 in Washington, DC; died July 17, 1999 in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., was the founder and publisher of George magazine. He married elegant, blond Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996. John was a lawyer, an assistant district attorney, a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala after a severe earthquake, a tutor of underprivileged children, an amateur actor, an athlete, and an American icon. He had no children.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
He was born August 7, 1963 at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts.  He died August 9 1963, in Boston. 


36. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)

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Lucy and Linda Bird with their father.
Lynda Bird Robb
She was born March 19, 1944 -.  Lynda Bird married Charles S. Robb in the East Room of the White House. Her husband  would serve with distinction in Vietnam, and go on to become Lieutenant Governor, Governor and a two-term Senator for the State of Virginia. Until a recent tough political race damaged him, he was seen as an almost certain future Presidential candidate. Lynda Byrd Johnson Robb is chairman of the board of "Reading is Fundamental," the nation's largest children's literacy organization. She graduated from the University of Texas and holds Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Washington and Lee University and Norwich University, and has been honored with a plethora of civic awards for her public service. The couple has three daughters, Lucinda Desha Robb, Catherine Lewis Robb and Jennifer Wickliffe Robb.
Luci Baines Johnson Turpin
She was born July 2, 1947 - . Though just a teenager, Luci Baines Johnson married Pat Nugent in a high profile wedding. They had four children: Lyndon Nugent, now an attorney in San Antonio, Nicole, Rebekah and Claudia. The Nugent marriage was annulled in 1979. Today, Luci is Chairman of the Board and "hands on" manager of the LBJ Holding Company, a multimillion dollar media empire. She is married to Canadian financier Ian Turpin. She has served on multiple civic boards, raising funds for the American Heart Association, acting as trustee of Boston University, and as a member of the advisory board of the Center for Battered Women. 


37. Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974) 

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Julie and Tricia, recent photo
Tricia Nixon Cox
She was born February 21, 1946 -.  Tricia Nixon found tutoring inner city children more rewarding than glamorous White House functions. She married Ed Cox in a beautiful Rose Garden wedding on June 12, 1971. Characteristically, Tricia became a very private citizen and mother, staying home to care for their son, Christopher Nixon Cox, born March 1979.  She lives a quite life as the wife of a corporate attorney, living just off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. She serves on the boards of many medical-research institutions, as well as the Nixon Presidential Library and its adjunct, The Nixon Center in Washington, DC.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
She was born July 5, 1948 -. Julie Nixon married the son of a political legend. He was Dwight David Eisenhower II, son of presidential son John Eisenhower, and grandson of President and First Lady Eisenhower. They had met at the White House as children. David and Julie Eisenhower were positive public figures during the turbulent Vietnam-Watergate era. In subsequent years David studied law, and Julie wrote her first book, Special People, featuring fascinating stories of famous people she had met.  In recent years they have both gained stature as writers, editors, educators, political public speakers and historians. David spent ten years writing his grandfather's three-part biography which won critical acclaim. Julie wrote a well-received biography of her mother, Pat Nixon: The Untold Story. They live today in relaxed anonymity, living in suburban Philadelphia with their three children, Jennie, Alex and Melanie. 


38. Gerald Rudolph Ford (1974-1977)

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The Ford Family
Michael Gerald Ford
He was born March 14, 1950 -.  Michael studied at Wake Forest in North Carolina and then Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. In 1977, after ordination, he joined the ministerial staff of the Coalition for Christian Outreach at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1981 he was appointed student affairs director at Wake Forest University; Today, he is director of student development at Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Gayle, have three daughters, Sarah, Rebekah and Hannah.
John "Jack" Gardner Ford
He was born March 16, 1952- .  As a young man in the White House, Jack Ford was pursued by the media wherever he went. In latter years he co-founded a successful business, California Infotech, which supplies electronic-information kiosks to malls. And in 1996 he was asked to serve as executive director of the host committee for the San Diego Republican Convention. Jack Ford married Juliann Felando in 1989. They have two sons and live in California.
Steven Meigs Ford
He was born May 19, 1956 -.  Steve Ford was seventeen when his father became president and immediately went west, working on the professional rodeo circuit as a cowboy team roper and taking bit parts as an actor. Steve had a guest appearance on a television soap opera that turned into a lifetime career. He played "Andy Richards" on the Emmy-award winning daytime show. He appeared in dozens of films with Hollywood's most famous stars from Al Pacino to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Steve was Meg Ryan's boyfriend in the film When Harry Met Sally and most recently a soldier in Black Hawk Down. He owns his own ranch in San Luis Obispo, California, and has owned and bred thoroughbred racehorses. He is also in demand as a corporate motivational speaker and serves on the board of directors for the President Gerald R. Ford Museum. He has never married and has no children.
Susan Ford Vance Bales
She was born July 6, 1957 -.  Susan Ford, the only presidential daughter to have her senior prom in the White House, wrote a monthly column for Seventeen magazine during her father's term in office. She studied photography with the great Ansel Adams. Her photo credits include work with Associated Press, Newsweek, Ladies' Home Journal and numerous film projects. She recently wrote and published a mystery novel entitled Double Exposure: A First Daughter Mystery, giving an inside look at life in the White House from a "first daughter detective" viewpoint.  When her mother was suffering with alcoholism, Susan helped put the first lady on the road to recovery. It was a healing that would lead to the establishment of The Betty Ford.  Susan serves with her mother as board member of the Center. She is a past National Spokesperson for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and now lives with her two daughters and husband Vaden Bales in the Southwest. 


39. James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-1981) 

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Amy gets married
John William "Jack" Carter
He was born July 3, 1947 -.  Jack earned a degree in nuclear physics from Georgia Tech and a law degree from the University of Georgia. He practiced law in Georgia before taking a job with the Chicago Board of Trade. Today, he is an attorney who lives in Bermuda with his wife Elizabeth Brasfield Carter. Jack  has two children from his former wife, Jason James Carter, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa, and Sarah Rosemary Carter.
James Earl "Chip" Carter III
He was born April 12, 1950 -.  Chip worked in his father's peanut business, the Democratic National Committee and eventually co-founded a corporate consulting firm. In 2000 he became president of the Atlanta-based Friendship Force, a nonprofit international cultural exchange organization. He married Caron Griffin and had one son, James Earl Carter, IV but was divorced.  He married Ginger Hodges and had one daughter, Margaret Alicia Carter, before their divorce. He is currently married to Becky Payne.  Chip Carter is viewed as one of the more successful children of presidents.
Donnell Jeffrey "Jeff" Carter
He was born August 18, 1952 -.  Jeff graduated with honors from George Washington University with a degree in geography. He co-founded Computer Mapping Consultants, which he continues to run. He married Annette Jene Davis, and they have three children, Joshua Jeffrey Carter, Jeremy Davis Carter, and James Carlton Carter.
Amy Carter Wentzel
She was born October 19, 1967 -.  Amy, who as a child melted the hearts of America when she walked beside her father during his inaugural parade, is now in her mid-thirties. She has a master's degree in fine arts and art history from Tulane University. She has illustrated many of her father's books.  A gutsy political activist, she was arrested for protesting apartheid outside the South African embassy, and CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts.  Amy married James Gregory Wentzel in 1996, a website designer who works for the Southern Company in Atlanta. Their son, Hugo James Wentzel, was born July 29, 1999. 


40. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989) 

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Patti and Ron with Nancy Reagan at the presidents funeral
Maureen Reagan Revell
She was born January 4, 1941, and died August 8, 2001 of malignant melanoma skin cancer.  As a young actress, Maureen Reagan appeared in numerous movies. She was married to John Filippone in 1961, David Sills in 1964 and finally to Dennis Revell in 1981.  Maureen Reagan campaigned relentlessly for her father and other Republican candidates, eventually finding herself elected co-chairperson of the Republican National Committee. It was a first for the child of a president. In 1985, Maureen headed the U.S. delegation to the World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women in Nairobi, Kenya.  Secretary of State George Shultz appointed her as the United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. At her funeral, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni praised Maureen for her interest in human rights in his country.  They adopted a Ugandan girl her in 1994. Maureen Reagan fought to raise money and awareness of Alzheimer's, the disease that ravaged her father. She is credited for raising $60 million for Alzheimer's research.
Michael Reagan
He was born March 18, 1946 -.  Michael has a hugely successful national night time radio talk show . It is heard on more than one hundred twenty stations, and currently in his seventh year. He publishes The Monthly Monitor newsletter and maintains the Reagan Information Interchange.   Michael married Pamela Putnam in 1970, they divorced soon after. In 1975 he married Colleen Sterns. They have two children, son Cameron, and daughter Ashley Marie.
Patricia "Patti Davis" Ann Reagan
She was born October 22, 1952 - .  First daughter of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Patti publicly fought against her father's politics and wrote books that exposed the Reagan family. Eventually, she resolved her ongoing conflicts with her parents. Today she travels the country, giving seminars and speeches about the process of forgiveness, and the power of family. Patti was married once and is now divorced. She has never had children.
Ronald Prescott Reagan
He was born May 20, 1958-. Ron Jr. dropped out of Yale to pursue a dancing career with the Joffrey Ballet. He helped produce a film about AIDS prevention, and spoke out for more funding. Ron has worked for years as a print and television journalist. He lives in Seattle with his psychologist wife, Doria. They have no children. 


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