 As with many other colonial American settlers, Anne Hutchinson has numerous descendants, many of whom have reached great prominence. Three United States presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, are among her descendants, as are the three United States presidential aspirants Stephen A. Douglas, George W. Romney, and Mitt Romney. Her grandson, Peleg Sanford, was a colonial governor of Rhode Island. Other descendants include Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Melville Weston Fuller, and Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr .; a Lord Chancellor of England, John Singleton Copley, Jr. who was the first Lord Lyndhurst; and a President of Harvard University, Charles William Eliot. One descendant bearing the Hutchinson name was her ill-fated great-great-grandson, Thomas Hutchinson, who was a loyalist Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay at the time of the Boston Tea Party, an event leading to the American Revolutionary War.
