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David King Udall

(September 7, 1851 – February 18, 1938) was a representative to the Arizona Territorial Legislature and the founder of the Udall political family.


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Annkathrin Kammeyer

Born in Horn, Hamburg, she was raised in a political family, Kammeyer had an early interest in politics.

Ellis Hillman

Hillman was born into a political family, related both to American labour leader Sidney Hillman and Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel.

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

Jackie Bouvier

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier) (1929–1994), American political-family member and editor

Judith Tizard

Tizard was born in Auckland in 1956 into a political family - her mother, Dame Catherine Tizard, served as Mayor of Auckland and as Governor-General, and her father, Bob Tizard, was a prominent Labour Party cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

Khan Abdul Ali Khan

Born into a political family, Abdul Ali Khan was the youngest son of Bacha Khan, he remained apolitical his whole life and completed his Bachelors degree from Peshawar University, before travelling to England to complete his postgraduate studies from the University of Oxford.

Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena

Abeywardana was born in 1955 to a prominent political family in Matara District, in Southern Province, where his father held local and provincial leadership positions.

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

She comes from a political family with Polish roots (from Józef Tomasz Kościuszko 1743–1789, brother of the famous Tadeusz Kościuszko).

Oburu Odinga

Oburu is from well known Odinga political family, his brother Raila Odinga was second in the Presidential elections of December 2007 and March 2013.

Petronel Malan

Born into a political family in South Africa, of French Huguenot descent, she started piano lessons with her mother, an opera singer, at age four.

Robert W. Curran

A member of a prominent Maryland political family, Curran is the son of J. Joseph Curran, Sr., Baltimore City Councilman from 1953 through 1977, a brother to former Maryland attorney general J. Joseph Curran, Jr., brother to a former city councilman, Mike Curran.

Syeda Sughra Imam

Syeda Sughra Imam belongs to a political family: she is the daughter of two politicians, Syed Fakhar Imam and Syeda Abida Hussain, was born on November 14, 1972 in Lahore.

Tiberius Avidius Quietus

Quietus came from a wealthy, distinguished and well connected political family in Faventia (modern Faenza, Italy).