Genealogy of the Mandarin Class

Part of the ongoing series where the intergenerational sinecures of the Mandarin Class are passed on and where inter-affiliative relationships are commercially and politically shared in a fashion inaccessible to ordinary citizens. Earlier examples included

Vice President Al Gore, son of Albert Gore Sr., a U.S. Representative who later served for 18 years as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee.

NPR Cokie Roberts, daughter of ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana. He was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and a member of the Warren Commission. He was lost on a plane which disappeared over Alaska on October 16, 1972. Her late sister, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her late brother Tommy Boggs was a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney and lobbyist.

NPR Legal Affairs Nina Totenberg, widow of U.S. Senator Floyd K. Haskell (D-Colorado). In March 2010, Totenberg's sister Amy Totenberg was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

Democratic House Leader and Representative of San Francisco, CaliforniaNancy Pelosi - When Nancy was born, her father was a Democratic Congressman from Maryland and he became Mayor of Baltimore seven years later. Pelosi's mother was also active in politics, organizing Democratic women and teaching her daughter the value of social networking. Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.

President George Walker Bush, son of President George Herbert Walker Bush. Brother of Jeb Bush, 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007.

I came across a couple of more today.

Julian Castro, brother of United States Representative Joaquin Castro. In the news for doxxing political donors in an apparent to attempt to deprive others of their civil rights. Reported here.

Seems like there was one other similar account for a different politician - someone with unexpected familial relationships within the federal government. Unfortunately I let it slip by and cannot now find it.

UPDATE: Ah, here it is. From Another Headline the New York Times Has to Rewrite by James Freeman. In the article, Freeman mentions Palin's recently reinstated lawsuit against the New York Times for malicious slander. Freeman mentions:

The [Palin lawsuit] alleges that, from 2006 to 2016, Bennet was the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, where “he was responsible for the content of, reviewed, edited and approved the publication of numerous articles confirming there was no link between Mrs. Palin and Loughner’s shooting.”
... By crediting Bennet’s testimony, the district court rejected a permissible inference from the articles: that one who had risen to editor-in-chief at The Atlantic knew their content and thus that there was no connection between Palin and the Loughner shooting...

The [Palin complaint] also includes allegations suggesting that Bennet in particular was more likely than the average editor-in-chief to know the truth about the Loughner shooting because he had reason to be personally hostile toward Palin, her political party, and her pro-gun stance. Bennet’s brother, a Democrat, had served as a United States Senator for Colorado since 2009. In 2010, Senator Bennet was endorsed by two House members whose districts had been targeted by the SarahPAC map. Two days before the Loughner shooting, a man threatened to open fire on Senator Bennet’s offices, and thereafter both Bennet brothers became “outspoken advocate[s] for gun control.” Also, during the 2016 election, Palin endorsed Senator Bennet’s opponent and Representative Giffords endorsed Senator Bennet.

So the editor who defamed Palin also has a brother who is a US Senator from Colorado, her home state. That's convenient.