The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with B. NOTE: Info may be incomplete.

Babbitts

Babcocks and Weekses

Bacas

Bachmanns

Bacons

Bacons of Massachusetts and New York

Bacons and Howards

Backus and Woodbridges

Baileys

Baileys of Texas

Bairds

Bairds of Indiana

Bakers, Dirksens, and Landons

Bakers of Indiana

Bakers of Indiana and Kansas

Baldaccis and Mitchells

Baldriges

Baldwins

Baldwins and Barlows

Ballances

Ballards

Bambergers

Bankheads and Brockmans

Three Senators and one Speaker of the House.

Bankstons

Barbers

Barbours

Barcelós

Barhams

Barksdales

NOTE: Ethelbert Barksdale was also brother-in-law of Confederate States politician James B. Owens.

Barnes

Barnums

Barnwells

Barrases

Barreres

Barretts

Barretts of Wyoming

Barringers

Barlows, Smalleys, and Jacksons

Barrows

Barrys and Blackburns

NOTE: Luke P. Blackburn and Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn were also distant cousins of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay.

Barrys of Mississippi

Bartletts

Bartletts of New Hampshire

NOTE: John D. O'Rear was also third cousin of Kentucky Court of Appeals Judge Edward Clay O'Rear.

Bartletts of New York

Bartletts of Oklahoma

Bartleys

NOTE: Thomas W. Bartley was also the brother-in-law of Senator John Sherman and General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Bartolomeos

Bartons

Bartons and Hamlins

Barwigs

Bashfords

Bass

Batchelders

Batemans

Bateses

Three brothers: NOTE: Frederick Bates, Edward Bates and James Woodson Bates were also third cousins once removed of U.S. Representative Samuel H. Woodson (1777–1827), Missouri Governor Silas Woodson (1819–1896), Kansas Territory Governor Daniel Woodson (1824–1894) and Montana legislator John Archibald Woodson, and third cousin twice removed of Democratic National Committeeman Urey Woodson (1859–1939). James Woodson Bates was also stepfather of Arkansas State Representative Matthew C. Moore.

Bates of Massachusetts

Bates and Thayers

Battins

Battles

Battons

Baxters

Baxters of North Carolina and Wyoming

Bayard family

Bayhs

Baylieses

Baylys

Beakes

Beales, Blaines, and Ewings

NOTE: Truxtun Beale was also son of U.S. Minister Edward Fitzgerald Beale.

Bealls

Beaupres and Marshes

Beauregards, Slidells, and Villeres

Beckers

Bedfords and Reads

NOTE: John Read was also son-in-law of Continental Congressional Delegate Samuel Meredith.

Bedingers

Beechers

Bees

NOTE: Hamilton Prioleau Bee was also nephew of U.S. Representative James Hamilton Jr.

Begiches

Behms, Orths, and Rahms

NOTE: C. Henry Orth was also father-in-law of U.S. Representative Luther Reily.

Belfords

Belknaps

Bells

Bells/Myers of Pennsylvania

Bells and Brabsons

Bells and Keebles

Belmonts

See also The Perry Family NOTE: John Slidells's brother-in-law, Matthew C. Perry, was also brother-in-law of George Washington Rodgers, Rodgers' brother, John Rodgers, was father-in-law of Montgomery C. Meigs, who was grandnephew of U.S. Postmaster General Return J. Meigs Jr. Slidell was also grandfather-in-law of U.S. diplomat Joseph Grew and great-grandfather-in-law of U.S. diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat. August Butler was also first cousin by marriage of U.S. Senator Matthew C. Butler.

Benjamins and Hyams

Bennets

Bennetts

Bennetts and Memmingers

Bennetts of Missouri

Bensons

Bensons of New York

Bentleys

Bentons

Bentons, Browns, Clays, Fremonts, and McDowells

The Benton-Brown-Fremont-Clay-McDowell family is a family of politicians from the United States. Below is a list of members:

Bentons and Dargans

Bentsens

Bergens

Berrys

Berrys and Johnsons

Beshears

Bevills

Bibbs and Graves

Bibbs and Scotts

Biddles

Bidens and Blewitts

Biggs

Biglers

Bilbrays

Billings

Bilirakis

Binghams

Binghams of New Hampshire

Binghams and Wardens

Binghams and Willings

Bishops

Bivinses and Dewhursts

Blacks of Alabama, Florida, and New Mexico

Blacks of Georgia

Blacks of Pennsylvania

NOTE: Chauncey Forward Black was also son-in-law of U.S. Representative John Littleton Dawson.

Blacks and Starks of Florida

Blackburns and Gales

Blackfords

Blackledges

Blagojeviches and Mells

The Blairs

NOTE: Montgomery Blair was also son-in-law of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury.

Blairs of Michigan and New York

Blairs of Missouri

Blairs of Tennessee

Blairs of Virginia

Blakemans

Blakes and Lintons

Blanchards

Blatchfords

Blatts

Bleases

Bledsoes and Chiltons

Bleeckers of Albany, N.Y.

Bliss

Bliss of Michigan

Blitches

Bloods

Bloomers

Blounts

NOTE: Hill McAlister was also great-grandson of U.S. Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown (1795–1859). McAlister was also the son-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–1895).

Blounts of Georgia

NOTE: James H. Blount Jr. was also former son-in-law of U.S. Senator Braxton B. Comer.

Blows

Blumenthals

Blunts

The Blunts of Delaware

Boardmans

Boehnes

Boggses

Bolands

Bolins

Boltons

Bonamicis and Simons

Bonds and Grosvenors

Bonhams and Brooks

NOTE: Preston S. Brooks was also first cousin of U.S. Senator Matthew Butler.

Boniors

Bonnens

Bontecous and Metcalfs

NOTE: Frederic H. Bontecou was also fourth cousin once removed of Waukegan, Illinois Mayor Asiel Z. Blodgett.

Booths

NOTE: Booth Tarkington was also son of Indiana State Representative John Stevenson Tarkington and grandnephew of Indiana State Senator William Clayborne Tarkington. John Tarkington Jameson and Donald Ovid Butler Jameson were also sons of Indiana State Representative Ovid Butler Jameson.

Boozmans

Borahs and McConnells

Note: It has been generally accepted that William Borah was the likely birth father of Paulina Longworth Strum, daughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. (At the time, Paulina's father was assumed to be House Speaker Nicholas Longworth, a Republican from Ohio.)

Borens and Ryans

Botts and Lewis

NOTE: Lunsford L. Lews was also brother of U.S. Senator John F. Lewis.

Bottums

NOTE: May be incomplete.

Boucks

NOTE: Charles C. Bouck's daughter, Katherine Lawyer, was also daughter-in-law of New York Governor Alonzo B. Cornell.

Boudreauxs

Boudinots, Bradfords, and Stocktons

Bouldins and Steeles

Boulignys

Bournes

Boustanys, Edwardses, Reggies and Kennedys

Bowdens

Bowdles and Eyres

NOTE: Joseph L. Eyre was also a descendant of Pennsylvania State Representative John Larkin Jr.

Bowdoins

Bowdons and Bowies

Bowens and Hardys

Bowies and Johnsons

NOTE: Robert Bowie was also brother-in-law of Maryland House Delegates Benjamin Mackall IV and Thomas Mackall.

The Bowleses

Boyds and Burleighs

Boylands

The Boyles

Bradfords and DeWolfs

NOTE: James DeWolf Perry was also first cousin of U.S. Senator Matthew C. Butler.

Bradfords and Tauls

Bradleys

NOTE: J.G. Bradley was also grandson of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron and grandson-in-law of U.S. Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard Sr.

Bradleys of Vermont

Bradleys and Hendersons

Bradleys, Hornblowers, and Woodruffs

Bradleys and Morrows

NOTE: Christine Bradley South is also connected to the South-Cockrell-Hargis family.

Bradstreets and Wiggins

Bradys

Brainerds and Smiths

Branches

Brandegees

Brandeis, Nagels, and Taussigs

Branstads, Garlands, and Rosenmans

Brantleys

Brauns

Braxtons, Brockenbroughs, and Stevensons

NOTE: William Brockenbrough was also father-in-law of U.S. Representative Edward Colston and uncle of U.S. Representative William H. Brockenbrough. William Tyler Page was also a relative of Virginia Governor John Tyler Sr.

Brays

Braytons

Breathitts

NOTE: John S. Marmaduke was also son of Missouri Governor Meredith Miles Marmaduke and nephew of Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson.

Breckinridges

See Breckinridge family

Brewers, Fields, and Wells

Brewers and Harts

NOTE: John Hart was also a descendant of Flushing, New York Clerk Edward Hart. Hart was also ancestor of Sarah Hart, who married New York State Senator George B. Guinnip.

Brewsters

Breyers

NOTE: Stephen Breyer is also the son-in-law of British politician John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham.

Brices

Briggs

Brights

Briley

Brimmers

Brinkerhoffs

Bristows and Drapers

NOTE: Ebenezer Sumner Draper was also brother of U.S. Representative William F. Draper.

Brittons and Davis

Brocks

Brodericks and Kennedys

Brodheads

NOTE: Jefferson Davis Brodhead was also grandnephew of U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.

Brookes

NOTE: Robert Brooke Sr.'s son; Baker; was son-in-law of Maryland Colony Governor Leonard Calvert. Thomas Brooke Jr. was also son-in-law of Maryland Colony Assemblyman Thomas Dent Sr.; father-in-law of U.S. Representatives Charles S. Sewall and William Barton Wade Dent and Maryland Colony Assemblyman Philip Lee Sr.

Brooks and Hinshaws

Brooks and Overtons

Brooks and Thomas

Brooms

Broomes

Broughtons

Brouns

Broussards

Browns of California

(The Browns are not related to Willie Brown, former Mayor of San Francisco, California and former Speaker of the California State Assembly.)

Browns of Georgia

Browns of Kentucky

Browns of Michigan

Browns of Michigan (II)

Browns of Ohio

Browns of Tennessee

Browns of West Virginia

NOTE: William Gay Brown Jr. was also cousin of U.S. Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver.

Browns and Howes

Browns, Bowens, and Francis

Browns and McMillins

Brownes

Brownlows

Bruces

NOTE: David K.E. Bruce was also former son-in-law of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon.

Bruckers

Brumms

Bryans

Bryans of Florida

Bryans of North Carolina and Tennessee

Bryans of Virginia

Bryans of Washington

Bryans and Wellers

Buchanans

Buchanans of Florida

Buchanans of Pennsylvania

Buchanans and Pous

Buchanans, Rieckers, and Towsleys

Bucks

Buckinghams

Buckleys

Buckleys of Maryland and Pennsylvania

Buffingtons

Bulkeleys, Brainards, and Morgans

NOTE: Edwin D. Morgan was also uncle of U.S. Consul W.F. Rowland.

Bullitts

Bullocks

Bullocks and Carrs

Bumperses

Bunnings

Burbanks and Kibbeys

NOTE: John A. Burbank was also brother-in-law of U.S. Senator Oliver P. Morton (1823–1877),. Joseph H. Kibbey was also son of Indiana Attorney General John F. Kibbey in the administration of Morton and also Morton's law partner.

Burdicks

Burgess, Gundersons, and Lees

Burks

Burkes of California

Burleighs

Burlesons

Burnets

Burneys

Burnhams

Burnses

Burrages

Burrs and Alstons

NOTE: Aaron Burr was also nephew of Continental Congressional Delegate Pierpont Edwards and first cousin of U.S. Representative Theodore Dwight and U.S. Senator Henry W. Edwards. Joseph Alston was also brother-in-law of South Carolina Governor John Lyde Wilson.

Burrells and Huffs

Burrows

Burrows and Connables

Burtons

Burtons of Indiana

Bushes, Davis, and Walkers

Bushfields

Bushongs and Roberts

Butlers

Butlers of Pennsylvania

NOTE: Thomas S. Butler was also son-in-law of U.S. Representative Smedley Darlington.

Butlers and Belmonts

See Butler-Belmont Family

Butlers and Walkers

Byas and Standifers

Byrds and Floods

(The Virginia Byrds are not related to Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who was born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. and renamed after his aunt and uncle Vlurma and Titus Byrd) NOTE: Harry F. Byrd Jr. is also brother-in-law of Virginia House Delegate James Thomson.

Byrns

Byrnes

Byrnes of South Carolina

Byrons

Note: William D. Byron was also grandson of Williamsport, Maryland Mayor William Byron.