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- Said to have been a son of Huguenot emigres.
Nathaniel Landon (1664-1718) = Hannah (d. 1701)
Daniel Landon (d. ~1766)
Daniel Landon (1719-~1774) = Catherine Simon (~1722-~1751)
William Landon (1727-1779) = Mercy Orange (1729-1786)
Thomas Landon (1752-1847) = Nancy Hopkins (1756-1803)
Thomas Landon (1789-1873) = Luama Jones (1787-1846)
Emanuel Landon (1823-1894) = Mary Fetterman (1828-1919)
John Manuel Landon (1856-1938) = Annie Mossman (1855-1914)
Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon (1887-1987) * = Theo Cobb (1899-1996)
Nancy Landon Kassenbaum (1932- ) **
* Governor of Kansas, 1933-37; 1936 Republican presidential nominee. Lost to FDR in a historic landslide, winning only the 8 electoral votes of Maine and Vermont.
** Senator [R] from Kansas, 1978-1997. Her second husband, who she married in 1996, was former Republican Senate majority leader Howard Baker, senator from Tennessee 1967-1985, White House Chief of Staff 1987-88, US Ambassador to Japan 2001-2005, died 2014. She is still alive, a vociferous critic of Donald Trump. In the 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election, she endorsed the Democratic candidate, Laura Kelly, who went on to defeat vote-supressing supervillain Kris Kobach.
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