The Descendents of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Laura Eisenhower is definitely my favorite.

If I haven’t made it too clear, I don’t think much of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I might be one of the very few who does not like Ike.

I laid out my thoughts on the Eisenhower brothers, Milton and Dwight, in this prior piece.

Politica classic - “Ike's Red Brother: Milton Stover Eisenhower“

Ike the original NeoCon: pictured with a knife pointed at Iran

But even though I might personally dislike a historical figure, that doesn’t mean that their familial relations and descendents aren’t interesting for some weird reason.

I’ll admit that the level of detail in here can be… a little off-putting perhaps.

I think we’re all a peeper to these kind of D-grade historical celebrities. At least that’s what I tell myself.

I previously wrote about the descendents of Soviet spies Alger Hiss, Victor Perlo, and Harold Ware.

Mamie and Dwight had two sons, one survived to adulthood. The oldest son died from Scarlet fever, aged three. Scarlet fever is relatively unknown today, but is a rash, cold-like symptoms, and fever. Before the advent of antibiotics, it had a 15-20% death rate. When the infection from scarlet fever spreads to your body, it causes the body to release toxins and the body goes into ‘toxic shock syndrome.’

Their surviving son, John, had four children: one boy and three girls. These were Ike’s first four grandchildren, of seven in total. Their son married Julie Nixon on December 22, 1968, daughter of Ike’s Vice President Richard Nixon. Their marriage was just three months before Eisenhower died, on March 22, 1969. The three Eisenhower girl granddaughters had one child each.

So in case you’re keeping track so far:

Dwight and Mamie (2)
Doud and John (2)
John’s children (4)
Great-Grandchildren (8)
Great-Great-Grandchildren ()

So, generationally, 2:2:4:8 so far.

The only ones in the fourth generation, the great-grandchild generation in relation to Dwight, who have had male children so far is David’s daughter Jennifer and his son Alex. Meaning that, there is only one potential boy to carry on the Eisenhower surname at present, Kaeden Eisenhower born in 2013.

Mamie (1896-1979) and Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Supposedly, Dwight’s long-time mistress was his assistant Kay Summersby. This is all still open to some dispute. There are no known children between Dwight and Summersby.

Kay Summersby (1908-1975)

CHILDREN OF DWIGHT AND MAMIE (2)

Doud Dwight Eisenhower (1917-1921), aged 3.
Born in San Antonio, Texas, died in Fort Meade, Maryland. Buried alongside his parents in Abilene, Kansas.

John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (1922-2013), aged 91
Born in Denver, Colorado, died in Trappe, Maryland. Buried at West Point.
m. Barbara Thompson (1926-2014) (married: 1947-1986), with whom he had four children: David, Anne, Susan, Mary Jean
m. Joanne Thompson (1932-2017) (married: 1988-2013)
He was a Brigadier General when he died. Author of over ten books.
Left the Republican Party in 2004 to become an Independent and endorsed John Kerry.

1959, John and Jeanne Thompson

John’s second wife, Joanne Thompson

GRANDCHILDREN OF DWIGHT AND MAMIE (4), CHILDREN OF JOHN & BARBARA

John & Barbara had four children, all still living. They are the only grandchildren of Dwight.

The four:

• David Eisenhower (b. 1948)

• Anne Eisenhower (b. 1949)

• Susan Eisenhower (b. 1951)

• Mary Jean Eisenhower (b. 1955)
  

David Eisenhower

David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon

Julie Nixon in more recent years.

Dwight David Eisenhower II (b. March 31, 1948), aged 76
Born in West Point, New York.
m. Julie Nixon (b. 7/5/1948) (married: 12/22/1968), daughter of then-former Vice President Richard Nixon
Three children. Two daughters: Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhower, (b. 8/15/1978), and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower Sergio (b. 1984), and one son: Alexander Richard Eisenhower (b. 1980).

Anne Eisenhower

Anne and Wolfgang Flöttl

Barbara Anne Eisenhower (May 30, 1949-July 30, 2022), aged 72
Born in West Point, New York, died in New York.
m. Fernando Echavarría-Uribe (b. ~1943) (married: 11/1968-???), a Colombian Insurance salesman
m. Wolfgang Flöttl (b. 1955) (married: 1980s-2018), a billionaire hedge fund and art dealer
One daughter: Adriana Echavarría, (b. May 29, 1969), with Echavarría-Uribe.
Interior designer.

Susan Eisenhower

Susan and first husband Alexander Bradshaw

Susan’s second husband, John Mahon

Susan and third husband Roald Sagdeev

Susan Elaine Eisenhower (b. Dec. 31, 1951), aged 72
Born in Fort Knox, Kentucky
m. Alexander Hugh Bradshaw (b. ~1941) (married: 1/9/1971-1978), a British attorney
m. John F. Mahon (8/18/1931-8/24/1997) (married: 6/9/1979-1983), a New York attorney
m. Roald Sagdeev (b. 1932) (married: 2/9/1990-2007), Russian former head of the USSR Space Research Institute
Three children, all daughters, one/two youngest with Mahon. Caroline Bradshaw (b. ~1972), Laura Magdalene Bradshaw Eisenhower Mahon (b. ~1974), Amelia Eisenhower Mahon, (b. 1981)
Endorsed Barack Obama on August 21, 2008, spoke at the 2008 DNC Convention, and endorsed him again in 2012. She has a website where she styles herself a policy analyst.

Mary Jean Eisenhower

Mary Jean Eisenhower (b. Dec. 21, 1955), aged 68
Born in Washington, D.C.
m. Army Officer Lt. James Brewton Millard (b. 1952) (married: 6/1/1976-???)
m. Ralph Willis Atwater IV (b. 1949) (married: 7/5/1989-???)
Mother of one son: Merill Eisenhower Atwater (b. 1981)
Chairman of People to People International, which went bankrupt on March 22, 2022 leaving a lot of families who bought into their programs in the lurch. She had been the head of the organization since 1999. She somewhat awkwardly hired her son to work on the non-profit before it failed, paying him a six-figure salary. It might be innocent, but I’ll say it doesn’t look on the up-and-up.

GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF DWIGHT AND MAMIE (8)

David has three, Anne has one, Susan has three, Mary Jean has one.

Dwight David Eisenhower II’s three children:

1. Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhower (b. Aug. 15, 1978)
   m. Anthony Richard Cheslock (b. May 15, 1977) (married 6/22/2011-2017)
   m. Sara Neville (b. ~1988) (married 10/10/2020-present)
   Actress and Realtor.
   Has one child with Anthony Cheslock, Chloe Ann, born June 27, 2013.

Jennie Eisenhower (b. 1978)

Jennie’s ex-husband, Dr. Anthony Richard Cheslock

Jennie Eisenhower and her wife Sara Neville

Jennie is a Democrat, who supported and voted for Barack Obama in 2012. She was an actress, and is now a realtor in Philadelphia. Maybe it doesn’t matter, but the granddaughter of Richard Nixon and great-granddaughter of Dwight Eisenhower has political opinions strongly at odds with what those Presidents likely would have expressed.

Jennie maintains a pretty active IG account. Her ex’s is locked.

2. Alexander Richard Eisenhower (b. Oct. 10, 1980)
   m. Tara Brennan (b. 1979)
   One daughter: Kaia Eisenhower, and one son: Kaeden Eisenhower.

   

   

   Alex is a social worker in Pennsylvania at the Horsham Clinic.

3. Melanie Catherine Eisenhower Sergio (b. 1984)
   m. Joe Sergio III (b. ~1985) (married: November 11, 2017)
   has two children, a girl and a boy: June (b. 2020) and Reed Eisenhower (b. 2022).
   Her IG is locked, but Joe’s is open.

Melanie Catherine Eisenhower (b. 1984)

Joe and Melanie Sergio

Joe Sergio III

Melanie Catherine Eisenhower Sergio

Barbara Anne Eisenhower’s one child: Adriana Echavarría, (b. May 29, 1969), with Echavarría-Uribe. Echavarría is an Interior designer. She had at least one daughter, Camila Mendoza with the father Eduardo Mendoza de la Torre.

Adriana Echavarria

Adriana Echevarria

Adriana Echavarria Eisenhower

Susan Elaine Eisenhower’s three children: three daughters, two of the daughters have twins

1. Caroline Bradshaw, (b. ~1972)

   

   Caroline Bradshaw Eisenhower de Carvalho, who has four children: Feliciano (17), Susanna (13), Angelina (8) and Melissa (6).
   

2. Laura Magdalene Bradshaw Eisenhower Mahon, (b. ~1974)

Mother of twins. Stepmother of one daughter. Laura appears to be the black sheep of the family. She’s not listed in family trees. She’s given interviews about Eisenhower meeting aliens. Her website is “Cosmic Gaia.”

Now, all this being said, I ‘friended’ Laura on Facebook, she accepted, and I have to say that though I otherwise loathe and despite the Eisenhower family, I genuinely like Laura. Laura seems like an earnest and genuine person. No joking, no sarcasm, I became an actual fan of Laura.

The aliens and astrology stuff is batshit though.

Laura’s twin boys, born July 21, 1998.

Laura’s twin boys, all grown up, looking more like lumberjacks than great-great-grandchildren of the man who gave America Earl Warren. One of them is named Gavin and the other is Garrick.

There seems to be a kind of ambiguity about whether Bradshaw or Mahon was Laura’s father, so this self-identified post where she identifies someone who looks a lot like John Mahon, seems to suggest its Mahon. The issue is that Laura’s mother Susan had not divorced her first husband Bradshaw until 1978, but Laura was born in 1974, and then didn’t marry John Mahon until 1979. So she had Laura by Mahon while perhaps separated from Bradshaw.

Laura and her husband

She has a stepdaughter named “Tynah Hodges”

Laura with her aunt Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Laura with her grandfather John Eisenhower.

3. Amelia Eisenhower Mahon Van Dessel, (b. 1981)

Married Peter Gerard Van Dessel in New York City on 10/19/2009.

Mary Jean’s one child:

Merrill Eisenhower Atwater (b. 1981)

GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF DWIGHT AND MAMIE (14)

Dwight David’s lineage:

• Chloe (daughter of Jenny),

• Kaia (daughter of Alex),

• Kaeden (son of Alex),

• June Sergio (daughter of Melanie)

• Reed Sergio (son of Melanie)

Anne’s lineage:

• Camila Mendoza (daughter of Adriana Echavarria),

• Nico Mendoza (son of Adriana Echavarria)

Susan’s lineage:

• Feliciano (son of Caroline Bradshaw)

• Susanna (daughter of Caroline)

• Angelina (daughter of Caroline)

• Melissa (daughter of Caroline)

• Gavin (son of Laura)

• Garrick (son of Laura)

• Tynah (stepdaughter of Laura)

Mary Jean:

• No known children of Merrill Atwater

PICTURES OF THE YOUNGER GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN:

Chloe Eisenhower, with her mother Jenny

Kaia Eisenhower - no pictures found.

Kaeden Eisenhower - no pictures found.

Reed Eisenhower Sergio, with mother Melanie, born around March 23, 2022

Nico and Camile Mendoza:

Anne Eisenhower (Dwight’s granddaughter, daughter of John), with her grandchildren Nico (left) and Camila (right)

Camila Mendoza Echavarria is an NYC debutante. She studied Political Science at Sarah Lawrence University. Of course she went out of her way to countersignal Trump after his 2016 election. She’s a Huffington Post writer.

That’s the Eisenhower lineage of 2025.

I was a bit surprised to learn I am distantly a relation: eighth cousins. And through Mamie no less. Yikes!

I also made this more traditional rundown of the Eisenhower family tree, if this is perhaps more useful in understanding the people involved.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Mary Geneva Doud Eisenhower (1896-1979)
m. 1916-1969

Dwight David Eisenhower II (b. 1948)
m. Julie Nixon (b. 1948)

Jennie Eisenhower (b. 1978)
m. Anthony Cheslock (b. 1977)
Chloe Cheslock (b. 2013)
m. Sara Neville
Alex Eisenhower (b. 1980)
m. Tara Brennan (b. 1979)
Kaia Eisenhower (b. 2007)
Kaeden Eisenhower (b. 2013)
Melanie Eisenhower Sergio (b. 1984)
m. Joe Sergio III (b. 1985, m. 2017)
June Eisenhower Sergio
Reed Eisenhower Sergio (b. 2022)

Anne Eisenhower (1949-2022)
m. Fernando Echavarria-Uribe (1968-?)
Adriana Echavarria (b. 1969)
Camila Mendoza
Nico Mendoza
m. Wolfgang Flottl (1980s-2018)

Susan Eisenhower (b. 1951)
m. Alexander Hugh Bradshaw (m. 1971-1978)
Caroline Bradshaw (b. 1972)
Feliciano
Susanna
Angelina
Melissa
m. John Mahon (Rochester, NY)
Laura Elizabeth Eisenhower Mahon (b. 1974)
Garrick
Gavin
Tynah Hodges
Amelia Eisenhower Mahon (b. 1981)

Mary Jean Eisenhower (b. Dec. 21, 1955)
m. Kenneth Moore (Georgia)
m. Ralph Atwater
Merrill Eisenhower Atwater (b. 1981)

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