de Rosière (1908–1995), Cartier's Chief Executive. Count Teofilo Guiscardo Rossi di Montelera (1902–1991), Italian bobsledder who competed in the early 1930s, and a world champion power boat racer, winning world championship in 1934, 1937, 1938, and was set to defend the Gold Cup in 1939 when war broke out. He was the heir of the aristocratic family Rossi di Montelera Baron Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007), owner of the Rothschild banking family of France and head of the French branch of the House of Rothschild Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979), Senate Majority Leader and Minority Leader and Chair of the Senate Republican Conference. Direct descendant of Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586–1661), and member of the prominent Saltonstall family Baron Axel de Sambucy de Sorgue, French financier. Member of the House of Sambucy de Sorgue and a member of the Royal House of France of Bourbon-Orléans through his mother Princess Chantal d’Orléans John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), artist, considered the leading impressionist portrait painter of his generation. Direct descendant of Epes Sargent (1690–1762), and scion of the patrician Sargent family, whose notable members include Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), Henry Sargent (1770–1845), or Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) His Imperial Highness Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie and son of Amha Selassie of the Ethiopian Empire. Current head of the Imperial House of Ethiopia Baron Ottavio Serena di Lapigio (1837–1914), Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, historian, and prominent figure in the Unification of Italy William Watts Sherman (1842–1912), businessman, member of the patrician Sherman family Viscomte Henri de Sibour (1872–1938), architect Count Alexander von Stauffenberg (1905–1964), German aristocrat and historian. His twin brother Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and younger brother Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg were among the leaders of the 20 July plot against Hitler in 1944. Member of the Schenk von Stauffenberg family which included prominent figures such as Prussian Field marshal Count August Neidhardt von Gneisenau Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant Jr. (1870–1953) New York landowner and last direct descendent of Peter Stuyvesant (1592–1672), the Dutch governor of New Netherland before it became New York. Scion of the prominent Stuyvesant family Baron David Swaythling (1928–1998), Member of the House of Lords and Chairman of many notable British companies, such as Rothschild & Co, Samuel Montagu & Co. or Midland Bank Nathaniel Thayer III (1851–1911), American banker and railroad executive. Scion of the Boston Brahmin Thayer family, and through his mother a descendant