Mitch McConnell

=== Family ===
McConnell is a [[Southern Baptist]], baptized at age 8.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Autry |first1=Lisa |title=Religious Leaders Press McConnell on Social Issues |url=https://www.wkyufm.org/post/religious-leaders-press-mcconnell-social-issues |access-date=December 16, 2020 |work=WKU Public Radio Service of Western Kentucky University |date=August 14, 2014 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303214214/https://www.wkyufm.org/post/religious-leaders-press-mcconnell-social-issues |url-status=live }}</ref> He was married to his first wife, Sherrill Redmon, from 1968 to 1980 and had three daughters, Porter, Eleanor (Elly), and Claire.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief How Mitch McConnell became Trump's enabler-in-chief] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919035353/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief |date=September 19, 2020 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Jane Mayer, April 12, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2021.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mitch McConnell Fast Facts|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/13/us/mitch-mcconnell-fast-facts/|work=[[CNN]]|access-date=February 9, 2017|date=February 5, 2017|archive-date=April 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427230100/http://edit/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/facts/Mitch-McConnell : Facts & Related Content] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107155045/https://www.britannica.com/facts/Mitch-McConnell |date=November 7, 2021 }}, ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2021.</ref> Porter McConnell is the campaign director for Take on Wall Street, a left-wing advocacy coalition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walsh |first=Kathleen |date=August 17, 2020 |title=How Daughters of High-Profile Republicans Became Progressive Icons |url=https://www.instyle.com/politics-social-issues/choose-2020/daughters-of-republicans-progressive-icons |access-date=February 8, 2023 |website=InStyle |language=en |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208023119/https://www.instyle.com/politics-social-issues/choose-2020/daughters-of-republicans-progressive-icons |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1, 2022 |title=Unimpressed with post office banking trial, backers eye new initiative |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2022/03/01/unimpressed-with-usps-banking-trial-backers-eye-new-initiative/ |access-date=February 8, 2023 |website=Roll Call |language=en |archive-date=February 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228223739/https://rollcall.com/2022/03/01/unimpressed-with-usps-banking-trial-backers-eye-new-initiative/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Following her divorce from McConnell, Redmon became a feminist scholar at [[Smith College]] and director of the [[Sophia Smith Collection]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Horowitz|first=Jason|title=Girding for a Fight, McConnell Enlists His Wife|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/politics/girding-for-a-fight-mcconnell-enlists-his-wife.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 9, 2017|date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225235117/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/politics/girding-for-a-fight-mcconnell-enlists-his-wife.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sherrill Redmon Retires |url=https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/news/redmon.html|publisher=Smith College|access-date=February 9, 2017|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211075630/https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/news/redmon.html|archive-date=February 11, 2017}}</ref>

McConnell's second wife, whom he married in 1993, is [[Elaine Chao]], [[United States Secretary of Labor|Secretary of Labor]] under [[Presidency of George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]] and Secretary of Transportation under [[Presidency of Donald Trump|President Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/elaine-chao-transportation-confirmation/|date=January 31, 2017|title=Chao confirmed as transportation secretary|work=[[CNN]]|first=Ted|last=Barrett|access-date=August 2, 2018|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314201510/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/elaine-chao-transportation-confirmation/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2019, McConnell's brother-in-law [[Gordon Hartogensis]], who is married to Chao's sister Grace, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), a part of the Labor Department.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mangan |first1=Dan |last2=Breuniger |first2=Kevin |date=May 15, 2018 |title=Trump nominates brother-in-law of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and Transportation Secretary Chao to run pension agency |website=[[CNBC]] |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/trump-nominates-mitch-mcconnell-in-law-gordon-hartogensis-for-job.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921023942/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/trump-nominates-mitch-mcconnell-in-law-gordon-hartogensis-for-job.html |archive-date=September 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kullgren |first=Ian |date=December 17, 2018 |title=Want to run an agency? It helps to know Mitch McConnell |website=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/17/mitch-mcconnell-know-run-agency-1033119 |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527060748/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/17/mitch-mcconnell-know-run-agency-1033119 |archive-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 3, 2019 |title=Senate Confirms Gordon Hartogensis as Director of PBGC |website=Chief Investment Officer |url=https://www.ai-cio.com/news/senate-confirms-gordon-hartogensis-director-pbgc/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707131519/https://www.ai-cio.com/news/senate-confirms-gordon-hartogensis-director-pbgc/ |archive-date=July 7, 2019}}</ref> McConnell voted to confirm.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 30, 2019 |title=Roll Call Vote 116th Congress – 1st Session |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00083 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710041403/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00083 |archive-date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref>