Keeping It In The Family: Political Family Ties
Which famous families have spawned politicians?
June 18, 2012 -- intro: Political Dynasties are no stranger to American politics. With family ties becoming par for the course with the Adams and Kennedy clans, who knows which ones of these modern political families will go down in history.
quicklist: 1title: Nancy Pelosi and the Mayorstext: Nancy Pelosi was not always known as a Speaker of the House. When she was younger she was "the mayor's daughter." Pelosi's father, Thomas D'Alesandro, served four terms as a member of Congress from Maryland's third congressional district, and then became mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. Nancy Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, was also mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.
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quicklist: 2title: Colin and Michael 'Powell Struggle'text: Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State, passed on his political genes to his son Michael Powell, who was appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission by President George W. Bush in 2001. Powell served until March 2005. Though father and son have both served in Washington, they've sometimes had differing politics. In 2008, Michael Powell supported the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, his father crossed party lines to endorse Barack Obama.
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quicklist: 3title: The Bush Boystext: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, father-and-son presidents, come from a long political line. George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, was a U.S. senator from Connecticut for nine years. All three of the Bush men attended Yale University and joined Yale's secret "Skull and Bones" society.
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quicklist: 4title: Al Gore First and Secondtext: Al Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, followed in his dad's footsteps as a senator from Tennessee. Albert Arnold Gore Sr. was elected to the House in 1938, and served, with an interruption for military duty in World War II, until he moved on to the Senate in 1953. He lost to a Republican challenger in 1970, partly because of his opposition to the War in Vietnam.
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quicklist: 5title: The Romney Clantext: Business-savvy politicians George and Mitt Romney have more than a father-son political bond. Mom was involved too. George Romney was governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969; Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Mitt Romney's mother, Lenore, ran for the Senate from Michigan in 1970 but lost. Lenore's father, Harold LaFount, served on the Federal Radio Commission under President Calvin Coolidge.
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