On August 6, 2008, the National Enquirer published what it claimed was a photo of former Senator John Edwards holding his alleged "love child" with Rielle Hunter, Frances Quinn Hunter.National Enquirer: The Photos Everyone's Been Waiting For! (August 6, 2008) Another photo of the child was published by FOX News on March 5, 2009, purporting to show the girl celebrating her first birthday.FOX News: John Edwards Mess: Baby's 1st Birthday Picture (March 5, 2009)

• Madison Hemings and Eston Hemings: The sons of President Thomas Jefferson by Sally Hemings, his slave.Monticello.org: Brief Biography of Sally Hemings

• Oscar Folsom Cleveland: The alleged son of bachelor President Grover Cleveland by Maria Crofts Halpin. Oscar's existence dogged Cleveland in the 1884 election, when Republicans concocted the derisive campaign slogan, "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?"Washington Post: Grover Cleveland for President (October 4, 1998)

• Essie Mae Washington-Williams: The daughter of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond and Thurmond's black teenage housekeeper, Carrie Butler. Thurmond fathered the child when he was 22 and Butler was 16. Washington-Williams only came forward with the revelation once Thurmond had died at the age of 100.CNN: Strom Thurmond's Family Confirms Paternity Claim (December 16, 2003)

• Elizabeth Ann Blaesing: The alleged daughter of President Warren G. Harding and mistress Nan Britton. Britton contended that Harding had agreed to support Elizabeth, but could not prove the allegation after Harding's death in office in 1923. Blaesing died in 2005.History News Network: A DNA Test to Determine if Nan Britton and Harding Were Lovers? (June 12, 2006)