List of children of presidents of the United States This is a list of children of U.S. presidents with stepchildren, adopted children, and alleged illegitimate children included. Full names are given including middle, maiden and married names. This list also includes the children's spouses and any known children they had and a “?” for an unknown number of children.
Presidential children have been studied individually, and as a group. As individuals, they are more often notable than most individuals: they know many political and social leaders and are part of the richer, upper classes. They are more likely to be viewed as a part of celebrity culture.
No children together. Martha's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis (October 15, 1711 – July 8, 1757), had four children, two of whom were still living at the time of her marriage to Washington (those who did not survive were Daniel Parke Custis, Jr. [November 19, 1751 – February 19, 1754] and Frances Parke Custis [April 12, 1753 – April 1, 1757]):
John “Jacky” Parke Custis (stepson) (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781)
m. Eleanor Calvert. His wife remarried and took two oldest of four children. The other two, “Nelly” and “Wash”, were raised but not formally adopted by George and Martha (see below). Martha “Patsy” Parke Custis (stepdaughter) (1756 – June 19, 1773) no children, died from epilepsy Martha's grandchildren who were raised by the Washingtons:
Abigail “Nabby” Adams Smith (July, 14, 1765 – August 15, 1813), also nicknamed "Amelia"
m. William Stephens Smith, 4 children John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) 6th U.S. President
Susanna Adams (December 28, 1768 – February 4, 1770), cause of death unknown
Charles Adams (May 29, 1770 – November 30, 1800)
m. Sally Smith, 2 children Thomas Boylston Adams (September 15, 1772 – March 12, 1832)
m. Ann Harold, 7 children Elizabeth Adams (July 11, 1777) stillborn
Martha had one son, John Wayles Skelton (November 7, 1767 – June 10, 1771) with her first husband Bathurst Skelton (1744–1768). John died months before her marriage to Jefferson. Martha “Patsy” Washington Jefferson Randolph (September 27, 1772 – October 10, 1836)
Jane Randolph Jefferson (April 3, 1774 – September 1775), named after her paternal grandmother , cause of death unknown
unnamed son (May 28, 1777 – June 14, 1777)
Mary “Polly” “Maria” Jefferson Eppes (August 1, 1778 – April 17, 1804)
m. John Wayles Eppes, 3 children Lucy Elizabeth (I) Jefferson (November 3, 1780 – April 15, 1781), died from illness
Lucy Elizabeth (II) Jefferson (May 8, 1782 – October 13, 1784), died from "teething, worms and Whooping Cough" as the doctor wrote Alleged children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Tom Hemings (1790–?) (Evidence concerning this child is contradictory.)
Harriet Hemings (I) (October 5, 1795 – December 1797)
Beverly Hemings (possibly born William Beverly Hemings) (April 1, 1798 – after 1873)
m. (wife's name unknown), 1 child
daughter (possibly named Thenia, after Hemings's deceased sister) (December 7, 1799 – ca. 1802)
Harriet Hemings (II) (May 1801 – after 1863)
m. (husband's name unknown), several children
Madison Hemings (possibly born James Madison Hemings) (January 1805 – 1877)
m. Mary Hughes McCoy, 10 children Eston Hemings (possibly born Thomas Eston Hemings) (May 1808 – 1856)
m. Julia Ann Isaacs, 3 children
No children together, but raised Dolley's son from her first marriage
John Payne Todd (stepson) (February 29, 1792 – 1852) was the first son of Dolley's first husband, John Todd, Jr. (1764–1793). Their second son William Temple Todd (b./d. 1793) died the same year as his father in a yellow fever epidemic.
No biological children together, adopted two:
Andrew Jackson Jr. (December 4, 1808 – 1865) (adopted at birth, twin of Thomas Jefferson Donelson, and a nephew of Rachel, son of Severn Donelson)
m. Sarah Yorke, 5 children Lyncoya Jackson (c. 1812 – June 1, 1828) (adopted orphaned Creek Indian) Archived 2012-05-16 at the Wayback Machine Also guardians of eight additional children including:
Orphaned nephews of Rachel, sons of Samuel Donelson who died in 1804;
Orphaned grandnephew of Rachel;
Andrew Jackson Hutchings (1812–1841)
Orphaned children of family friend Edward Butler;
Caroline Butler
Eliza Butler
Edward Butler
Anthony Butler
Abraham Van Buren (November 27, 1807 – March 15, 1873)
John Van Buren (February 18, 1810 – October 13, 1866)
m. Elizabeth Van der Poel Martin Van Buren, Jr. (December 20, 1812 – March 19, 1855)Unnamed son (1814) [ permanent dead link ]
Smith Thompson Van Buren (January 16, 1817 – 1876) (7 children between 2 wives)
m. Ellen King James, ?, ?
m. Henrietta Eckford Irving, ? unnamed daughter (stillborn, date unknown)Archived 2018-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
Elizabeth “Betsy” Bassett Harrison Short (September 29, 1796 – September 26, 1846)
m. John Cleves Short, One Child John Cleves Symmes Harrison (October 28, 1798 – October 30, 1830)
m. Clarissa Pike, 6 children Lucy Singleton Harrison Este (September 1800 – April 7, 1826)
m. David K. Este, one child William Henry Harrison, Jr (September 3, 1802 – February 6, 1838)
m. Jane Findlay Irwin, 2 children John Scott Harrison (October 4, 1804 – May 25, 1878)
Benjamin Harrison (May 5, 1806 – June 9, 1840)
m. Louisa S. Bonner, one child
m. Mary Raney, 2 children Mary Symmes Harrison Thornton (January 22, 1809 – November 16, 1842)
m. John Henry Fitzhugh Thornton, one child Carter Bassett Harrison (October 26, 1811 – August 12, 1839)
m. Mary Anne Sutherland, one child
Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor (October 28, 1813 – July 5, 1865)
m. William Henry Harrison Taylor, a cousin, number of children debated James Findlay Harrison (May 5, 1814 – April 6, 1819)
Mary Tyler Jones (April 15, 1815 – June 17, 1848)
m. Henry Lightfoot Jones, 3 children Robert Tyler (September 9, 1816 – December 3, 1877)
John Tyler, Jr. (April 27, 1819 – January 26, 1896)
m. Martha “Mattie” Rochelle, 3 children Letitia “Letty” Tyler Semple (May 11, 1821 – December 28, 1907)
m. James Semple, no children, separated Elizabeth “Lizzie” Tyler Waller (July 11, 1823 – June 1, 1850)
m. William Waller, 5 children Anna Contesse Tyler (April 1825 – July 1825), cause of death unknown
Alice Tyler Denison (March 23, 1827 – June 8, 1854)
m. Henry Mandeville Denison, 2 children Tazewell Tyler (December 6, 1830 – January 8, 1874)
m. Married, divorced
m. Second wife (debate: 2 children or 7 children) Alleged son of John Tyler and a slave
David Gardiner “Gardie” Tyler (July 12, 1846 – September 5, 1927)
m. Mary Morris Jones, 5 children John Alexander “Alex” Tyler (April 7, 1848 – September 1, 1883)
m. Sarah Griswold Gardiner, one child Julia Tyler Spencer (December 25, 1849 – May 8, 1871)
m. William H. Spencer, one child Lachlan Tyler (December 2, 1851 – January 26, 1902)
m. Georgia Powell, no children Lyon Gardiner Tyler (August 1853 – February 12, 1935)
m. Annie Baker Tucker, 3 children
m. Sue Ruffin, 2 children Robert Fitzwalter Tyler (March 12, 1856 – December 30, 1927)
m. Fannie Glenn, 3 children Pearl Tyler Ellis (June 20, 1860 – June 30, 1947)
m. Major William Mumford Ellis, 8 children
No natural children, but raised Polk's nephew as their ward:
After the death of James, Sarah was guardian of:
Anne Margaret Mackall Taylor Wood (April 9, 1811 – December 2, 1875)
m. Robert C. Wood, 4 children Sarah "Knox” Taylor Davis (March 6, 1814 – September 15, 1835)
Octavia Pannell Taylor (August 16, 1816 – July 8, 1820), died from malaria
Margaret Smith Taylor (July 27, 1819 – October 22, 1820), died from malaria
Mary Elizabeth Taylor Bliss Dandridge (April 20, 1824 – July 26, 1909)
Richard Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879)
m. Louise Marie Myrthe Bringier, 5 children
Franklin Pierce, Jr. (February 2, 1836 – February 5, 1836), cause of death unknown
Frank Robert Pierce (August 27, 1839 – November 14, 1843), died from typhus fever
Benjamin “Bennie” Pierce (April 13, 1841 – January 16, 1853), died in train accident in front of his parents, weeks before his father was inaugurated
No children; served as guardian to two nieces:
Mary Elizabeth Speer Lane (1826–1855)
Harriet Rebecca Lane (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903)
m. Henry Elliott Johnston, 2 children
Martha Johnson Patterson (October 25, 1828 – July 10, 1901)
Charles Johnson (February 19, 1830 – April 4, 1863)Mary Johnson Stover Brown (May 8, 1832 – April 19, 1883)
m. Daniel Stover, 3 children, divorced
m. William Brown, no children Robert Johnson (February 22, 1834 – April 22, 1869), suicideAndrew Johnson, Jr. (August 6, 1852 – March 12, 1879)
m. Bessie May Kumbaugh, no children
Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 11, 1912)
Ulysses Simpson “Buck” Grant, Jr. (July 22, 1852 – September 25, 1929)
m. Fannie Josephine Chaffee, 5 children including Ulysses IV ; died
m. America Workman Will, no children together Ellen Wrenshall “Nellie” Grant Sartoris Jones (July 4, 1855 – August 30, 1922)
m. Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, 4 children; divorced
m. Frank Hatch Jones, no children Jesse Root Grant (February 6, 1858 – June 8, 1934)
m. Elizabeth Chapman, 2 children including Chapman ; divorced
m. Lillian Burns, no children together
Birchard Austin Hayes (November 4, 1853 – January 24, 1926)
m. Mary Sherman, 5 children James Webb Cook Hayes (March 20, 1856 – July 26, 1934)
m. Mary Otis Miller, no children Rutherford Platt Hayes (June 24, 1858 – July 21, 1927)
m. Lucy Hayes Platt, 3 children Joseph “Jody” Thompson Hayes (December 21, 1861 – June 24, 1863), died of dysentery
George Crook Hayes (September 29, 1864 – May 24, 1866), died of scarlet fever
Fanny Hayes Smith (September 2, 1867 – March 18, 1950)
m. Mary Eaton Smith, one child Scott Russell Hayes (February 8, 1871 – May 6, 1923)
m. Maude Anderson, no children Manning Force Hayes (August 1, 1873 – August 28, 1874), died of unknown causes
Eliza Arabella “Trot” Garfield (July 3, 1860 – December 3, 1863), died of diphtheria
Harry Augustus Garfield (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942)
m. Belle Hartford Mason, 4 children James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) 23rd U.S. Secretary of the Interior
m. Helen Newel, 4 children Mary “Molly” Garfield Stanley-Brown (January 16, 1867 – December 30, 1947)
m. Joseph Stanley-Brown, 3 children Irvin McDowell Garfield (August 3, 1870 – July 18, 1951)
m. Susan Emmons, 3 children Abram Garfield (November 21, 1872 – October 16, 1958)
m. Sarah Granger, 2 children, was outlived by Abram
m. Helen Grannis Mathews, no children together Edward Garfield (December 25 1874 – October 25, 1876), died of whooping cough
Alleged son of Grover Cleveland and Maria Crofts Halpin
Oscar Folsom Cleveland, (September 1874 – ?), adopted by James and Sarah King of Buffalo, New York before his fifth birthday; his name was changed to James E. King. Here, evidence becomes sketchy: he may have become a physician , died before the age of 30, and been buried in Warren, Pennsylvania .
Ruth Cleveland (October 3, 1891 – January 7, 1904)Esther Cleveland Bosanquet (September 9, 1893 – June 26, 1980)
m. Captain William Sydney Bence Bosanquet, 2 children Marion Cleveland Dell Amen (July 7, 1895 – June 18, 1977)
m. William Stanley Dell, 1 child, divorced
m. John Harlan Amen, 1 child Richard Folsom “Dick” Cleveland (October 28, 1897 – January 10, 1974)Francis Grover Cleveland (July 18, 1903 – November 8, 1995)
Katherine “Katie” McKinley (December 25, 1871 – June 25, 1875), died of typhoid fever
Ida McKinley (daughter) (April 1, 1873 – August 22, 1873), died of unknown causes
Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt, Jr. (September 13, 1887 – July 12, 1944)
m. Eleanor Alexander, 4 children Kermit Roosevelt (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943)
m. Belle Willard, 4 children Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (August 13, 1891 – December 10, 1977)
m. Richard Derby, 4 children Archibald “Archie” Bulloch Roosevelt (April 9, 1894 – October 13, 1979)
m. Grace Lockwood, 4 children Quentin Roosevelt (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918)
engaged to Flora Layne Whitney at time of death in WWI
No children together (Mrs. Wilson and her first husband, Norman Galt, had a son in 1903 who died a few days after birth.)
No children together
Marshall Eugene “Pete” DeWolfe (stepson) (September 22, 1880 – January 1, 1915), was the son of Flossie's first husband, Henry Athenton (Pete) DeWolfe, whom she divorced
m. Esther Naomi Neely, 2 children
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halstead (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975)
m. Curtis Bean Dall, 2 children, divorced
m. (Clarence) John Boettiger, 1 child, divorced
m. James Addison Halstead, no children James “Jimmy” Roosevelt (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) (debate: 3 or 7 children total)
m. Betsey Maria Cushing, 2 children, divorced
m. Romelle Theresa Schneider, 3 children, divorced
m. Gladys Irene Kitchenmaster Owens, 1 adopted child, divorced
m. Mary Lena Winskill, 1 child Franklin Roosevelt (March 18, 1909 – November 8, 1909)
Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990)
m. Elizabeth Browning Donner, 1 child, divorced
m. Ruth Josephine Googins, 3 children, divorced
m. Faye Margaret Emerson (actress), no children, divorced
m. Minnewa Bell Burnside Gray Ross, no children, divorced
m. Patricia Peabody Whitehead, adopted her 4 children, 1 child together who died an infant Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988)
m. Ethel du Pont , 2 children (including FDR III ), divorced
m. Suzanne Perrin, 2 children, divorced
m. Felicia Schiff Warburg Sarnoff, no children, divorced
m. Patricia Luisa Oakes, 1 child, divorced
m. Linda McKay Stevenson Weicker, no children John Aspinwall Roosevelt (March 13, 1916 – April 27, 1981)
m. Anne Lindsay Clark, 4 children, divorced
m. Irene Boyd McAlpin, no children
Margaret Truman
Steven Mark Brown (December 27, 1950 – September 28, 1990) filed lawsuit for a share of LBJ's estate; died of cancer before suit was resolved
Tricia Nixon Cox
Susan Ford
Amy Carter John William “Jack” Carter (July 3, 1947 – )
m. Juliet “Judy” Lanford, 2 children
m. Elizabeth Brasfield, no children together, she has two James Earl “Chip” Carter III (April 12, 1950 – )
m. Caron Griffin, one child (James Earl Carter IV), divorced
m. Ginger Hodges, one child
m. Becky Payne, no children together Donnell Jeffrey “Jeff” Carter (August 18, 1952 – )
Amy Lynn Carter Wentzel (October 19, 1967 – )
m. James Gregory Wentzel, one child
Maureen Elizabeth Reagan Filippone Sills Revell (Adopted) (January 4, 1941 – August 3, 2001)
m. John Filippone, no children (div.)
m. David Sills, no children (div.)
m. Dennis Revell, one adopted child Michael Reagan (adopted) (March 18, 1945 – )
m. Pamela Putnam, no children (div.)
m. Colleen Sterns, 2 children Christine Reagan (June 27, 1947 – June 28, 1947) born too early to survive
George Walker Bush (July 6, 1946 – ) 43rd U.S. President
Pauline Robinson “Robin” Bush (December 20, 1949 – October 11, 1953)John Ellis “Jeb” Bush (February 11, 1953 – ) Governor of Florida
Neil Mallon Bush (January 22, 1955 – )
m. Sharon Smith, 3 children, divorced
m. Maria Andrews, no children together, she has at least one Marvin Pierce Bush (October 22, 1956 – )
m. Margaret Conway Molster, 2 adopted children Dorothy “Doro” Bush LeBlond Koch (August 18, 1959 – )
m. William “Billy” LeBlond, 2 children, divorced
m. Robert “Bobby” P. Koch, 2 children
Chelsea Clinton
Barbara and Jenna Bush
The Obama family in the Oval Office in December 2011 Malia Ann Obama (July 4, 1998 – )
Sasha Obama (June 10, 2001 – ) References
Bonnie Angelo, First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives , ISBN 0060563567
William A. Degregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Wings Books, 1991
Doug Wead, All the President's Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families , Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3 Further reading
Larry D. Underwood. All the President's Children , Dageford Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1886225850 (a children's book)
Quinn-Musgrove, Sandra L. and Kanter, Sanford, America's Royalty: All the President's Children , Olympic Marketing, ISBN 0313236453 
