Pringle and Hickenlooper welcomed a baby boy via surrogate in December 2022. Family background Hickenlooper is of partial Dutch descent. His mother's family were practicing Quakers. He spent a summer in his teens volunteering with the American Friends Service Committee in Robbinston, Maine, helping establish a volunteer-run free school. In 2010, Hickenlooper told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he and Thorpe attended Quaker meetings and tried to live by Quaker values. In a 2018 speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Hickenlooper said "I'm not a Quaker", but spoke about the role of Quaker teaching in his approach to government. A cousin, George Hickenlooper (1963–2010) was an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker. He is the great-grandson of Civil War Brivet Brigadier General Andrew Hickenlooper and the grandson of federal judge Smith Hickenlooper. Other relatives include pianist Olga Samaroff (née Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper), the first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski, and great-uncle Bourke Hickenlooper, who served as governor of Iowa and a U.S. senator from Iowa. Writer Kurt Vonnegut was a friend of Hickenlooper's father. Meeting later in life, Vonnegut offered advice that came to guide Hickenlooper's life: "Be very careful who you pretend to be, because that's who you're going to be." In his 2016 memoir, Hickenlooper mentioned that he watched the 1972 pornographic movie Deep Throat with his mother alongside one of his friends. He later recounted the event during his 2020 presidential campaign. Hickenlooper is an avid squash player and continues to compete as a ranked player in national tournaments. As of 2019, Hickenlooper's net worth was more than $8 million. Health Hickenlooper lives with prosopagnosia, commonly known as "face blindness". In popular culture Hickenlooper appears in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Timequake. The author had been college friends with Hickenlooper's father. For a 2004 roast of the then-mayor of Denver, Vonnegut declared in a joke video that he was Hickenlooper's real father. In November 2012, Esquire interviewed Hickenlooper as one of the "Americans of the Year 2012". Hickenlooper made a cameo appearance in his cousin George Hickenlooper's 2010 film Casino Jack. Electoral history References Further reading External links Senator John Hickenlooper official U.S. Senate website John Hickenlooper for Colorado campaign website Hickenlooper family 1952 births Living people 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American politicians American Quakers American food industry businesspeople American geologists American gun control activists American people of Dutch descent American real estate businesspeople American restaurateurs Businesspeople