Wentworth family

The Wentworth family was a prominent American political family, mostly based in the British colony and later U.S. state of New Hampshire. Prominent members of the family include:

• William Wentworth (1616-1697), patriarch of the family, and one of the early settlers of New Hampshire
• John Wentworth (1671-1731), grandson of William Wentworth, and Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Hampshire. As the Governor of New Hampshire at the time was simultaneously Governor of the Province of Massachusetts, the Lieutenant Governors of New Hampshire served with considerable power over the colony.
• Benning Wentworth (1696-1770), first independent colonial Governor of New Hampshire who was not also Governor of Massachusetts
• John Wentworth (1719-1781), a grandson of Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth, and cousin to the colonial governor of the same name, the 1st Baronet Wentworth. He was a judge, a colonel in the colonial militia, and sided with the revolutionary cause against his cousin.
• Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737-1820), a grandson of Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth through his son Mark, nephew of Benning Wentworth, and loyalist colonial Governor of New Hampshire during the American Revolution.
• John Wentworth Jr. (1745-1787), son of Judge John Wentworth, and New Hampshire representative to the Continental Congress. Like his father, he was a revolutionary sympathizer and member of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety.
• Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846), poet
• Stephen G. Wentworth (1811–1897), descendant of William Wentworth and founder of the Wentworth Military Academy and College in Missouri.
• Erastus Wentworth (1813-1816), a Christian missionary to China
• John Wentworth (1815-1888), born in New Hampshire, but migrated to Chicago where he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and also Mayor of Chicago
• Moses J. Wentworth, nephew of Mayor John Wentworth of Chicago, and his protégé. He would himself serve in the Illinois House of Representatives.