John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he entered politics as a Democrat and represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999.
Glenn received a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. On October 29, 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on Discovery (STS-95). As of 2010, Glenn and M. Scott Carpenter are the last living members of the Mercury Seven.
John Glenn, U.S. Senator is my 8th cousin twice removed.
You
→ Mom
your mother → Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran
her father → Burrell H Hancock
his father → Rhoda Lawrence Hancock
his mother → Susan Frances Lawrence
her mother → Rhoda O'Bryan
her mother → Pvt. Drury Holland, Revolutionary Soldier
her father → Charles Holland
his father → Peter Holland
his father → Nehemiah Holland
his father → Gabriel Francis Holland
his father → Anthony Holland
his son → Capell Holland
his son → Capell Holland, II
his son → Cassandra Gordon
his daughter → Delilah Shriver
her daughter → Jane White
her daughter → Mary Margaret Glenn
her daughter → John Herschel Glenn
her son → John Glenn, U.S. Senator
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