![]() ![]() Payne the younger was an Essex County freeholder and a Newark city councilman, and had been a local party leader since the 1990s. won a 2012 special election to replace his late father, Donald Payne, Sr., who had represented the North Jersey 10th District since 1989. He won the general election, 56-44 percent, and hasn’t faced a competitive race since. John Grant dropped his bid, in part due to Bilirakis’s institutional support. He faced nominal opposition in the GOP primary after former state Sen. The younger Bilirakis had served eight years in the state legislature, and had previously interned for President Ronald Reagan and the National Republican Congressional Committee. He succeeded his father, Michael Bilirakis, who had represented the Tampa Bay-area district for 24 years, from its creation in 1982 onward. Of those, two directly succeeded their parents in office.įlorida Republican Gus Bilirakis was first elected to Congress in 2006. Seven of those members occupy the same seats as their fathers. They range from first-term members to longtime backbenchers to a former Speaker. Some of the names are familiar, but many are not.Įleven sitting members of the House of Representatives - six Democrats, five Republicans - are the children of former House members. These are the politicians who followed their parents or other relatives into politics - sometimes immediately and in the same districts - or whose family situations helped them to Congress in another way. ![]() Inside Elections has compiled a nearly exhaustive list of the “nepo babies” of the House of Representatives. And dozens beyond them also hail from political families of some kind. Three more succeeded their husbands in office. Another eight have close relatives who served before them. But Congress is filled with less-known political families, some that have persisted for generations.Įleven current House members have parents that previously served in the House. Most Americans know the dynasties of politics: Adams, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Bush, Rockefeller. ![]() Quincy Adams’ own son, Charles, would follow in his father’s footsteps to the House of Representatives. Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams, might rightfully be called the “First Nepo Baby'' of American politics, when he followed in his fathers footsteps to the White House. Even in America, which jettisoned hereditary succession back in 1776, political power never stopped flowing from parent to child. Politics has always been a nepotism game. She responded on Twitter that “The nepo babies y’all should be worrying about are the ones…working in politics, if we’re talking about real world consequences.” One celebrity included in the story, singer Lily Allen (daughter of an actor and a producer, and older sister to an actor), took issue with the whole endeavor. Think Allison Williams, Zoe Kravitz, even A-listers including Oscar winners George Clooney and Jamie Lee Curtis. In its last issue of 2022, New York magazine published an exploration of Hollywood’s so-called “nepo babies.” The article cataloged the countless famous children of famous and well-connected parents across film, television, sports, music and modeling. The ‘Nepo Babies’ of the House of Representatives by Jacob Rubashkin Ma ![]()
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