Family Trees of Politicians

Boris Johnson Family Tree

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born June 19, 1964) is known as the Mayor of London as of 4 May 2008. Johnson is the oldest of four children of a former Conservative MEP, employee of the European Commission and World Bank, and the granddaughter of Sir James Fawcett, a prominent barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights. His paternal grandmother Irene Williams nicknamed “Granny Butter” in the family, relates Mr. Johnson to George II.
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Barack Obama Family Tree

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office and serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator.
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Abraham Lincoln

(February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a week after the war’s end. Lincoln was married with Mary Todd and the couple had four children.

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Nicholas Sarkozy Family Tree

Nicolas, Paul, Stéphane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa (born January 28, 1955) is president of the Republic of France. He was leading the centre-right party (UMP) before and had served as the Minister of the Interior and Minister of Finances during Jacques Chirac’s presidency under Jean-Pierre Raffarin and de Villepin. Sarkozy is known for his strong stance on law and order issues and his strive to strenghten the French economy.
“Sarko” has been married to Marie-Dominique Culioli and Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz before going out with the model Carla Bruni in December and finally marrying her in early 2008.
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Silvio Berlusconi Family Tree

Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and is expected to be appointed prime minister of Italy, a position he has held twice before. He is the leader of the Forza Italia political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 1993. Berlusconi’s victory in the general election paved the way for a third term as prime minister.
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Dmitry Medvedev Family Tree

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born September 14, 1965) is a Russian politician, President-elect of Russia and the country’s current First Deputy Prime Minister. He was elected President of Russia on March 2, 2008. According to final election results, Medvedev won 70.28% of votes. He is expected to take office on May 7, 2008. Formerly Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Medvedev is also the Chairman of Gazprom’s board of directors.
Medvedev is married to Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva, they have one son.
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Nelson Mandela Family Tree

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born July 18, 1918) is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
He spent 27 years in prison, much of it on Robben Island, on convictions for “crimes” committed while he spearheaded the struggle against apartheid. Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, Mandela became a symbol of freedom and equality.
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Mustafa Atatürk Family Tree

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (born 1881, died November 10, 1938) was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President.
Atatürk established himself as a successful and extremely capable military commander at the Battle of Gallipoli and during World War I. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the Allies, and the subsequent plans for its partition, Mustafa Kemal led the Turkish national movement. An admirer of the Enlightenment, Atatürk sought to transform the ruins of the Ottoman Empire into a modern, democratic, secular, nation-state.
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Lech Kaczynski Family Tree

Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS). Kaczyński served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration.
He is the identical twin brother of the former Prime Minister of Poland, Jarosław Kaczyński.
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Benazir Bhutto Family Tree

Benazir Bhutto (born June 21, 1953, died December 27, 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996).
Bhutto went into self-imposed exile in 1998 after corruption charges. She returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, after an agreement with President Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty. Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008 where she was a leading opposition candidate.
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Ursula von der Leyen Family Tree

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (born 8 October 1958 in Brussels) is a German politician (CDU) and is now Federal Minister for “Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth” in the government of Angela Merkel. Ursula von der Leyen studied economics and medicine at the universities of Göttingen, Münster (WWU), Hannover, The London School of Economics, as well as at Stanford University. From 1987 to 1992, she worked as assistant doctor at the medical university of Hannover. She has got seven kids and promotes opportunities for women to raise kids and pursue a career.
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