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Terry--Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
The 41-year-old twin brothers are each currently serving political office in the State of Virginia. Terry has a moustache and Jerry doesn't (Terry shaved his moustache to help media and officials have an easier time telling them apart). It's also interesting that each twin has one son and one daughter and all four children's first names begin with the letter 'K' (each has a daughter, Kayla, Terry has a son, Kyle, and Jerry has a son, Klarke).
Don--Democratic Party Candidate for Jasper County (MO) Coroner
56-year-old twin brothers who faced each other for the county coroner spot with Ron defeating Don by a total vote count of 22,859 to 13,247. This was a mean-spirited campaign with accusations of one of the brothers (Don), penciling in his name on his brother's political signs (crossing off 'Vote for Ron' with messages that say 'Vote for Don'). Ron was the incumbent. We don't know which twin brother is older.
The late King Hussein of Jordan had twins, Zein and Ayeshia, born on 4/23/68. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also has twins, Mark and Carol (8/21/53). She was the second British Prime Minister with twin ties as Harold Wilson had twin grand-daughters. President Mary McAleese of Ireland has 15-year-old boy/girl twins, Sara and Justin. Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, had a boy/girl set of twins with Marc Anthony. They were named Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene. Louis XV, the King of France, had twin boys. Princess Mumtaz Mahal had two sets of twins with her husband, Shah Jahan of Persia. He built the Taj Mahal in her honor.
The mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, Skip Rimsza, has 6-year-old triplets (Alexander, Taylor and Nicole, born 6/6/96). The former mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jim Baca, has a twin brother. The newly-elected mayor of Detroit, Michigan, Kwame Kilpatrick, is a 31-year-old dad of five-year-old twin boys, Jalil and Jelani. Andrew Cuomo, Federal Housing Secretary, is the father of twin daughters, Mariah Matildia Kennedy Cuomo and Cara Ethel Kennedy Cuomo (born Jan. 11, 1995). Their mother is Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, daughter of Ethel and the late Robert Kennedy. She is also the aunt of twins as her brother Joseph Kennedy also has twin boys, Joe and Matt. Madeline Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, has grown twin daughters. Nelson Rockefeller, former U.S. Vice President had a boy/girl set of twins.
Matt Walsh, the former Governor of Indiana, has twin girls. As mentioned above, former Michigan Governor John Engler has seven-year-old triplets, Madeleine, Margaret and Hannah (born 11/13/94). The state of Massachusetts' former Governor, Jane Swift, gave birth to twin girls, Lauren and Sydney, on May 15, 2001. Ann Richards, the former Governor of Texas, has twin grandchildren (she was replaced in office by Bush). Coming full circle, the former head of the George W. Bush transition team and newly-named deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, Clay Johnson, has twin boys.
For those interested in aristocrats, the most recently deceased Marquess of Linlithgow and Baron Glendevon were twins ,and the 2nd and 3rd Viscounts Knutsford were twins. The heir presumptive to the present Marquess of Tweeddale is his twin brother.