Family Members

Zoey Bartlet

• The Bartlet's youngest daughter, Zoey was living in Hanover, New Hampshire -- where Dartmouth is located -- before she came to D.C. for school  [1.5].
• Zoey started Georgetown in the spring semester of 2000 [1.5], and is a sophomore [2.3]. In her first semester at Georgetown she took Intro to Cinema and Nineteenth Century Studies, but no math [1.17].
• Zoey lives on campus. The Secret Service has a room across the hall from hers [1.17]. 
• She carries a panic button that instantly alerts the Secret Service in case of an emergency [1.6].
• Zoey was nineteen when she started Georgetown [1.6]. Then again, she was seventeen and needed her parents to sign her health forms¹ [2.19].
• Her father's chili is her favorite food -- at least according to him [1.5].
• Zoey is dating Charlie Young [1.11].  Was dating Charlie [4.11].  Is confused about Charlie, though she blew off Jean-Paul to meet Charlie at the National Arboretum where they had, three years before, buried a bottle of champagne to celebrate her graduation from Georgetown on 5/7/2003 [4.22].
• Now, Zoey is dating Jean-Paul Claude Charpentiér, Vicomte de Condé de Bourbon [4.11], who is uncomfortable with the fact that Charlie is still pursuing her.  Despite Zoey's Dear John email, Charlie respectfully refuses to stop [4.18].
• One of the Secret Service agents assigned to Zoey is Gina Toscano [1.16], and another is Mike [1.18].  Zoey's Secret Service nickname is "Bookbag" [1.17]. 
• White Supremacist groups have been making death threats against Zoey and Charlie [1.17], forcing them occasionally to change their plans [1.17].  Thirteen weeks before the 2000 midterm elections, three homicidal racists opened fire on the President and his entourage, but the intended target was Charlie [2.1].
• On May 7, 2003, Zoey graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown.  Jed delivered the commencement address, a last-minute speech about creativity and the logical mind and possibly Eudora Welty [4.22].

• Zoey's Kidnapping
  • Graduation night, Zoey was apparently kidnapped from a techno club in D.C.  She disappeared to splash water on her face, and when she didn't return, Secret Service Agent Wesley Davis found her panic button in an alley near the body of Agent Molly O'Connor [4.22].  
  • Her boyfriend, Jean-Paul, put what he thought was ecstasy in her drink, but what appears to have been GHB, a date-rape drug that knocks its victim out very quickly [4.23].  More than six hours after her disappearance, Zoey's father invoked the 25th Amendment and handed his presidential powers to the Speaker of the House [4.23].
  • For 72 hours, Zoey was locked in a closet in the back bedroom of the kidnappers' hideout.  On day two, a photograph of Zoey holding USA Today surfaced on al-Jazeera with a threat that she would be shot if the kidnappers' demands weren't met [5.2].  
  • Zoey was rescued by chance when a woman had a fight with her boyfriend and was ditched in the middle of nowhwere -- and noticed something about the house in which Zoey was being held. She called 911 and the FBI stormed the house and all three kidnappers died.  Zoey's injuries included a fractured clavicle and several bruises, and she was at Walter Reed for at least one night for treatment [5.2].
  • Zoey received upwards of 10,000 letters from well-wishers [5.3].
  • On the Fourth of July, Zoey did a walk for the press to show she was recovering; she was still wearing a sling for her broken clavicle and still has faint bruising on her face, but waved and smiled for the cameras [5.3].  (Timeline issue -- Bartlet references "the last three weeks" as being difficult times, implying that Zoey was kidnapped in mid-June instead of early May [5.3])
  • Zoey was haunted by the memory of hands grabbing her; she had trouble falling asleep without reliving it [5.3].
  • In the fall, Zoey gave an interview to Diane Mathers, a Barbara-Walters-esque interviewer with a reputation for making dictators cry [5.7].

   

• Zoey is friends with David Arbor and has been trying to get him to stop using drugs.  She is also friends with Stacy, another Georgetown student [1.18].
• She speaks fluent Italian [2.3], and is studying French at Georgetown [1.18].
• Her middle name is Patricia [3.3], and she rode horses as a girl [5.3].

Notable Quotes

"You look like death on a triscuit!" [1.5]

"Baby pictures, he's heckling me with, and visa card bills. Now he's walking the rope line. Is there ever a chance he's going to walk past a crowd of people?" [1.22]

"Here's another good one:  Dear, Zoey, I hope they won't kill you, but if they do, that it'll be quick." [5.3]

Eleanor Bartlet

• The mild-mannered middle Bartlet daughter, Ellie is 24 years old [2.15].
• Ellie is a med student at Johns Hopkins, considering specializing in oncology or possibly neurology. She enjoys med school and likes her professors, especially her pathophysiology teacher [2.15].
• After graduation, Ellie became a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, where she studied the Human Papilloma Virus [5.16].
• She clashed with her father over public statements she made in support of surgeon general, Millicent Griffith, who also happens to be her godmother [2.15].
• She wasn't around much during her father's presidential campaign and believes she is not his favorite.  According to her godmother, she's afraid of him. Jed believes that she has "always belonged to Abbey" [2.15].
• Eleanor has a boyfriend that her father hates [2.20].
• Her middle name is Emily [3.3].
• When her father received his Nobel Prize, he bragged to the King of Sweden that Ellie was reading at a fifth-grade level, even though she was in third-grade, and he told about her soccer game [3.14].

Notable Quotes

"She was doing exactly what she is supposed to do. She--I'm sorry. She was asked a question and she said what she knew to be true, and when you start firing doctors for that, you've crossed a line somewhere." [2.15]

• The eldest daughter of the president and first lady [1.1]. Abbey says she was very, very young when she had Elizabeth [3.0].
• To her father's dismay, Liz dumped a Rhodes Scholar in favor of her dim husband Doug [5.8].
• Liz doesn't want to be in politics because she claims her parents weren't around and she won't do that to her kids.  Even though she doesn't want Doug to be in politics either, she supports his effort to run for the House because he's her husband [5.8].
• Liz has a daughter named Annie, who was 12 in 1999 [1.1], and a younger son, Gus [5.8].

• The husband of Jed and Abbey's eldest daughter, for whom Elizabeth dumped a Rhodes Scholar.  Josh thinks he's a perfectly nice guy, while CJ notes that you have to talk slowly when speaking to Doug [5.8]
• Doug wants to run for the House; specifically, the first district of New Hampshire [5.8].

• Elizabeth's young daughter, who was 12 in 1999 [1.1].
• Annie was interviewed by a teen magazine and talked about a woman's right to choose. A fringe group called the Lambs of God sent her a Raggedy Ann doll with a knife stuck through its throat [1.1].
• Annie once brought her grandfather a news clipping about a little girl in Chile who had sliced open a tomato and the flesh of the tomato was in the shape of a rosary. The theologians commented that she was a very impressive girl and Annie told her grandfather she thought it was a very impressive tomato [1.1].

• Son of Elizabeth and Doug, Gus is a little bit out of control [5.8].
• When Gus was too scared to light the White House Christmas tree with his grandfather Jed in front of a big crowd, his aunt Zoey stepped in and did it for him [5.8].

• The president's brother, he once locked Jed in a steamer trunk with seafood. He is now heading up the Bartlet Presidential Library Commission [2.16].
• John was one of the seventeen original people who knew about the president's MS [2.19].

• He fought in Korea.  When he returned, he benefited from the GI Bill and went to college [3.12].
• After college, became a teacher. Instead of retiring as Superintendent of the Ohio Valley Free school district, he retired as the head of the math dept at William Henry Harrison Jr. High, which CJ blames on affirmative action programs [3.12].
• In 2001, CJ and her family celebrated his 70th birthday by getting together in Napa [2.17].
• CJ feels she doesn't keep in touch with him enough, though she sends him emails which she signs "Claudia" [2.17].
• He is starting to forget things [3.12], and has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, though he refuses CJ's offer to quit her job to take care of him [4.13].
• CJ jokes that after her mother died, Tal's job was getting married [4.13].
• Tal is working on a book called Numerical Idiocy, to help the new generation of mathematically illiterate teach math to students [4.13].
• Tal has a cat named Archimedes [4.13].

Notable Quotes

"I like your man. His economic theories -- so generous, so good. But he hides his light under a bushel. Why is that?" [4.13]

"I'd much rather see you on TV, darling, than sitting opposite me watching a demolition derby go on in my brain." [4.13]

"I'm not alone. I have my book and a cat, right?" [4.13]

• CJ's former English teacher and current stepmother who had a longstanding romantic interest in Tal Cregg that was foiled by bad timing. Once Tal and Molly finally married, Alzheimer's was already stripping away his mind, which caused her to leave him. Until CJ confronted her [4.13].

• CJ's old classmate and current stepsister [4.13].

Hogan Cregg

• CJ's niece. She's so named because CJ's brothers are "golf crazies" [3.20].

• Josh Lyman's father was a litigator [2.2] and a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton [1.18].
• He was also an old friend of Leo McGarry [2.1].
• Either Noah or his wife had a father who survived the Birkenau concentration camp [1.18].
• In October of 1997, Noah Lyman was undergoing chemotherapy for an unspecified type of cancer. He had been hospitalized, but the doctors felt they had gotten it all “this time.” He still insisted on working 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and spending his weekends cleaning out his gutters and admonishing squirrels [2.1].
• The day of the 1998 Illinois primary he went in for his chemotherapy and unexpectedly developed pulmonary embolism. It went to his heart, causing cardiac arrest [2.2]. He died on the night Jed Bartlet won the Illinois primary [1.18], three hours before the primary results were announced [2.2].
• Josh thinks his father probably would have preferred grandchildren to having a son in politics, but he liked that Josh was working for Bartlet; he often bragged about his son to his friends and neighbors [2.2]. 

• Either she or her husband had a father who survived the Birkenau concentration camp [1.18].
• She's been known to buy Josh shoes [2.16].
• Although she lived in Westport, Connecticut for many years, she moved to West Palm Beach, Florida in January of 2001, a fact that doesn't seem to sink in with Josh [3.7].
• After the shooting, she wanted Josh to quit his job [3.0].

• Josh Lyman's older sister who died when they were young [1.5].
• Joanie loved music, wished to be a conductor, and used to listen to Ave Maria over and over again in her room [1.5].
• Joanie used to babysit Josh; one night, the popcorn maker somehow started a fire. Josh managed to escape, but Joanie died -- a fact which haunts Josh [1.5].  Donna says that Joanie stayed behind to try to put out the fire while Josh ran outside [4.22].

Mallory O’Brien

• The daughter of Jenny and Leo McGarry [1.1] who was nearly born at exit 32 of the Long Island Expressway (which is the Little Neck Parkway exit) [4.22].  Leo thought she was angry with him over the divorce, but she took him out to breakfast, volunteered to help him find an apartment, and wanted to be there when he made the announcement about his alcoholism [1.12].
• Mallory teaches fourth grade at Clearlake Elementary School [1.1].
• She attended a private primary school, private high school and a private college, but is a staunch supporter of increased funding for public education [1.18].
• Mallory and Sam Seaborn went out a few time; she still must get her father's permission before she has lunch with fascists [1.18].
• Sam never called her to explain after the picture of him and Laurie appeared in the paper. Consequently, Mallory is dating a hockey player named Richard Andrewchuk, and claims they are having lots of sex [2.9].  Mallory moved to New York with Richard, but they broke up around the same time as he was traded to a Chicago team [4.2].
• When Leo and Mallory go out to dinner, she names all the lobsters in the tank to prevent Leo from eating them [3.22].

Notable Quotes

"Don't 'Hey, baby' me, you addle-minded, Machiavellian jerk!" [1.8]

"Great, but they're not all Boston Latin and Bronx Sciences.  And since when are liberals the other guys in conversations you're having?" [1.18]

"I'm asking as a taxpayer. It cost $165 million just to lose the thing. How much more money is it going to cost to make sure you're never going to find it?" [2.9]

• The ex-wife of Leo McGarry; Jenny and Leo have a daughter, Mallory [1.1 ].
• Leo and Jenny had a maid named Ruth [1.1 ].
• Jenny dislikes Sam Seaborn because he once made a pass at her at a party fund-raiser [1.1 ].
• After Leo admitted that he considered his job more important than his marriage, Jenny left him [1.4]. 
• Jenny asked Leo for a divorce. President Bartlet is very fond of Jenny [1.6], but Abbey and Jed preferred to keep Leo company instead of attend Jenny's wedding when she remarried [5.12].

• Leo McGarry's sister, President Bartlet has known her for 25 years and he's not wild about her -- He thinks she's All About Eve [2.8].
• Leo once made her return some stolen Milk Duds [2.8]. 
• She has a Ph.D. in education from Cornell, six years of experience as a principal, and has served as superintendent of the Atlanta school district for four years. She is also on the board of visitors at her church and teaches Sunday mornings at Immaculate Heart of Mary [2.8].
• Josie is a controversial figure because she vigorously enforced a prohibition on school prayer; she used to call a photojournalist named Odabee Jones to let him know when she was about to do something newsworthy. 
• She was a candidate for assistant secretary for primary and secondary education, but Leo ordered her to withdraw her nomination to avoid controversy -- he doesn't disagree with her, necessarily, but he dislikes her figurative 'strutting' [2.8].
• She has kids [2.8].

• The sister of Charlie Young [1.3]. Charlie takes care of her because their father's gone and their mother's dead.
• She plays varsity basketball [3.13].
• Deanna went off to school -- presumably college -- in fall of 2002 [4.1].

• Charlie's mother was a police officer, killed in the line of duty in June of 1999. She was shot with a Westing .38 revolver firing KTWs (cop-killer bullets) [1.3]. 
• She wasn't originally supposed to work that night; Charlie asked her to switch [2.3].

• Son of Toby Ziegler and Andrea Wyatt who was born on May 7, 2003 [4.23].
• Huck was named for Andy's grandfather, and Toby promises his newborn son that he won't pass the buck again, but the name is Andy's fault (because she apparently felt life doesn't present enough challenges on its own)  [4.23].

• Daughter of Toby Ziegler and Andrea Wyatt who was born on May 7, 2003 [4.23]. 
• Molly was named for Molly O'Connor, the Secret Service Agent who was killed during Zoey Bartlet's abduction on the day little Molly was born. When he heard of the tribute, Jed Bartlet called the gesture "nice"  [4.23].

• The brother of Toby Ziegler  [1.22].
• David Ziegler holds post-graduate degrees in physiology and biology, and has been a payload specialist on four space shuttle missions. He is studying red-bellied newts in the absence of gravity because their ears are very similar to humans'. He calls them "astro-newts" [1.22]. 
• During his fourth space shuttle flight there was a problem with the cargo bay doors, causing some concern that the shuttle might be in jeopardy. The problem was fixed and the shuttle landed safely [1.22].
• Toby and his brother seem to be somewhat estranged; the president told Toby to fly out to Houston and talk to his brother only a few hours before the shooting at Rosslyn [1.22].

• Toby Ziegler's father [4.11]. 
• Julie made ladies' raincoats and worked for Murder, Incorporated, under Albert Anastasia [4.11].

• Died in 1990 [3.10].