Symington family (United States)

• James S. Wadsworth, a candidate for Governor of New York 1862. He was the father of James Wolcott Wadsorth.
• * James Wolcott Wadsworth, the New York Comptroller 1880–1881, U.S. Representative from New York 1881–1885, 1891–1907. The son of James S. Wadsworth.
• * John Hay, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1897–1898, the U.S. Secretary of State 1898–1905. The father-in-law of James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.
• ** James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., a New York Assemblyman 1905–1910, a U.S. Senator from New York 1915–1927, a U.S. Representative from New York 1933–1951. The son of James Wolcott Wadsworth.
• *** Stuart Symington, the Secretary of the Air Force 1947–1950, a U.S. Senator from Missouri 1953–1976, a candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1960. The son-in-law of James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.
• *** J. Fife Symington Jr., a candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland in 1958, 1960, and 1962, the U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago 1969–1971. A cousin of Stuart Symington.
• *** John Hay Whitney, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1957–1961. A grandson of John Hay.
• **** James W. Symington, a U.S. Representative from Missouri, and the son of Stuart Symington.
• **** Fife Symington III, Governor of Arizona, 1991–97. Son of J. Fife Symington Jr.
• **** W. Stuart Symington IV The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, to Rwanda, and to Djibouti. The son of Stuart Symington Jr., and Janey Studt Symington, and a grandson of Stuart Symington. Whitney's wife, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, was also the former wife of U.S. Representative James Roosevelt.