NOTE: Robert J. Walker was also grandson-in-law of Congressional Delegate Benjamin Franklin.
Senator Andrew Jackson Houston[37] and cousin of U.S. Representative David Hubbard.
Senator Elijah Hunt Mills,[79] great-grandsons of U.S. Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,[80] grandsons of U.S.
[85] John Davis Lodge was also brother-in-law of U.S. Consul General D. Chadwick Braggiotti.
Note: Samuel's oldest son Walter Erskine Dimmick married Mary Scott Lord, but he died three months later, without issue.
[249] NOTE: Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver was also cousin of U.S. Representative William G. Brown Jr.[254] A political family from rural Alleghany County in the North Carolina mountains, they rose to considerable power in both Congress and the state government of North Carolina.
NOTE: James E. Doyle Jr. is also nephew by marriage of U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird,[286] great-grandson-in-law of Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor William D. Connor and great-great-grandson-in-law of Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robert Connor.
Notable members include: NOTE: Robert Lansing was also son-in-law of U.S. Secretary of State John W.
The du Pont political dynasty is based on the family's manufacturing empire in Delaware.