Family of Tom Kirkman

The **family of Tom Kirkman**, the 46th president of the United States, is an American family active in politics, architecture, real estate, and business. The immediate first family of Tom Kirkman is the current first family of the United States, as Kirkman is the incumbent U.S. president. They are part of the broader Kirkman family, which draws its roots back to Scotland and England. Kirkman has two children with Alexandra Booker.

## Immediate family

### Marriage

Kirkman married Alexandra Booker in 1998. Booker was of Russian descent. The two met at Stanford University in the early 1990s, where Kirkman was attending for a doctoral degree in architecture and Booker for constitutional law.

### Children

#### Leo Kirkman

*Main article: Leo Kirkman*

Leonard "Leo" Kirkman (born 1999) is the eldest child of Kirkman and Booker. In 2019, he gained national attention after he was discovered to be dating the daughter of Fatih Turan, the president of Turkey, who was attending school in the United States at the time. After protesting her father's visit to the U.S., an individual engaged in an altercation with Leo before he was restrained by the Secret Service. Leo graduated from Stanford, Kirkman's alma mater, in 2021 and currently lives in Washington, D.C. In 2020, he made several appearances with his father during his reelection campaign.

#### Penny Kirkman

*Main article: Penny Kirkman*

Penelope "Penny" Kirkman (born 2009) is the second and youngest child of Kirkman and Booker. She and her family moved to The Stewarts Landing, a 20-acre residence in Port Washington, New York, shortly after her birth. She was raised in Washington, D.C. at the Kirkman's home there, before further growing up at the White House when her father became president.

## Extended family

### Ancestry

Tom Kirkman's paternal history is traced outside of Manchester, England, in present day United Kingdom. Frederick Kirkman, born in 1831, moved to nearby Leeds where his grandson, Donald Kirkman, the grandfather of Tom Kirkman, was born in 1904. Donald Kirkman immigrated to the United States in 1920 at the age of 16, where he met his eventual wife, Elizabeth.

### Parents

#### William Kirkman

William Kirkman (born 1933), Tom Kirkman's father, was born in New York to Donald and Elizabeth Kirkman. In 1951 at age 18, he and his parents founded Kirkman Development, a real estate development and architectural firm in Port Washington. William Kirkman became president of the company and assumed oversight of its operation in 1963, serving in the position until 1994, when he stepped down from the position. Tom Kirkman subsequent;y became president of his father's real estate company, expanding its operations throughout the northeast as an architectural firm.

#### Francine Regina Kirkman

Francine Regina Kirkman (1932-2007) was born in Scotland to a low-income family. At age seven, she emigrated with her parents to the United States and settled outside of New York City. She gained U.S. citizenship in 1944. Francine Regina married William Kirkman in 1964, when they were both twenty nine years old.

### Grandparents

#### Donald Kirkman

Donald Kirkman, Tom Kirkman's grandfather, emigrated to the United States from Manchester, England in 1920, not far from Leeds where his grandfather had originated from. Shortly after he arrived, he began local work and met Elizabeth, his eventual wife. He gained U.S. citizenship in 1927.

#### Elizabeth Kirkman

Elizabeth Kirkman emigrated to the United States from a village outside of London, England, in 1922. She met Donald Kirkman, Tom Kirkman's grandfather, in 1924.

### Siblings

#### Trey Kirkman

*Main article: Trey Kirkman*

Trey Kirkman is Tom Kirkman's youngest brother and his only sibling. He is an investor and associate for a marketing firm in New York.