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Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) — also known asEverett M. Dirksen;"The Wizard ofOoze" —of Pekin,TazewellCounty, Ill.Born in Pekin,TazewellCounty, Ill.,January4, 1896.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;merchant;U.S.Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1933-49; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Illinois,1940(alternate),1948,1952(speaker),1956(member,ResolutionsCommittee;speaker),1960(member,CredentialsCommittee),1964(delegation chair),1968(delegation chair);U.S.Senator from Illinois, 1951-69; died in office 1969.ChristianReformed. Member,AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars;Freemasons;Order of theEastern Star;Shriners;Eagles;Elks;Moose;American BarAssociation;OddFellows;IzaakWalton League.Died, oflungcancer, at theWalterReed Army Medical Center,Washington,D.C.,September7, 1969 (age73 years, 246days).Interment atGlendaleMemorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.

Alfred Mossman Landon (1887-1987) — also known asAlf M. Landon — of Independence,MontgomeryCounty, Kan.; Topeka,ShawneeCounty, Kan.Born in West Middlesex,MercerCounty, Pa.,September9, 1887.Republican.Oilproducer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;KansasRepublican state chair, 1928;Governor ofKansas, 1933-37; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Kansas,1940(member,ResolutionsCommittee),1944,1948.Methodist.EnglishandScotch-Irishancestry. Member,Freemasons;OddFellows;Elks;PhiGamma Delta;PhiDelta Phi;AmericanLegion.Died in Topeka,ShawneeCounty, Kan.,October12, 1987 (age100 years,33 days).Interment atMt.Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.   Relatives: Sonof Anne (Mossman) Landon and John Manuel Landon; married,January9, 1915, to Margaret Euphemia Fleming; married,January15, 1930, toTheoCobb; father ofNancyJosephine Landon (who marriedHowardHenry Baker Jr.).   Political family:Bakerfamily of Kansas and Tennessee.   Cross-reference:FredA. Seaton   See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial   Books by Alfred M. Landon:Americaat the Crossroads   Books about Alfred M. Landon: Donald R.McCoy,Landonof Kansas — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology]   Image source: Official Report of the21st Republican National Convention (1936)

	Relatives:Father of Joy Dirksen (who marriedHowardHenry Baker Jr.).
		Political family:Bakerfamily of Kansas and Tennessee.
		Cross-reference:HaroldE. Rainville
		The Dirksen Senate OfficeBuilding(opened 1958), inWashington,D.C., isnamed forhim.
		See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile
		Books about Everett Dirksen: Byron C.Hulsey,EverettDirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped AmericanPolitics
		Image source: U.S. postage stamp(1981)