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Charles Nelms Lewis (d. 1814) —
of Greenup
County, Ky.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1814; died in office 1814.
Died, of cholera, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., 1814.
Burial
location unknown.
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Gabriel Richard (1767-1832) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in La Ville de Saintes, France,
October
15, 1767.
Catholic
priest; founder
in 1817 of a school which later became the University of Michigan.;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1823-25.
Catholic.
Died, of cholera, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
13, 1832 (age 64 years, 334
days).
Entombed at St.
Anne's Church, Detroit, Mich.
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Daniel Lynn (1782-1833) —
also known as Dann Lynn —
of Indiana.
Born in Christian
County, Ky., January
24, 1782.
Delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816-18, 1819-20.
Died, of cholera, in West Franklin, Posey
County, Ind., 1833
(age about
51 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Posey County, Ind.
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William Shaler (c.1778-1833) —
of Massachusetts.
Born about 1778.
U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Mexico, 1810-12; Cuba, 1832; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1815-28; U.S. Consul in Havana, 1829-33, died in office 1833.
Died, of cholera, in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, March 28,
1833 (age about 55
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Buckner (1785-1833) —
of Jackson, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ky., 1785.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Cape Girardeu
County, 1820; member of Missouri state legislature; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1831-33; died in office 1833.
Died of Asiatic cholera during an epidemic, in Cape Girardeau,
Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., June 6,
1833 (age about 47
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Cape Girardeau County, Mo.;
reinterment in 1897 at City
Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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Abram Marshall Scott (1785-1833) —
of Mississippi.
Born in South Carolina, 1785.
Member of Mississippi
state senate, 1822, 1826-27; Governor of
Mississippi, 1832-33.
Died of cholera, July 12,
1833 (age about 48
years).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
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Ninian Edwards (1775-1833) —
of Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Md., March 17,
1775.
Son of Benjamin
Edwards.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1796-97; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1803; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1808; Governor of
Illinois Territory, 1809-18; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1818-24; Governor of
Illinois, 1826-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1832.
Baptist.
Died of cholera, in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., July 20,
1833 (age 58 years, 125
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Belleville, Ill.; reinterment in 1855 at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; statue at Ninian
Edwards Plaza, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Isaac Veatch (1786-1833) —
of Indiana.
Born in Tennessee, February
18, 1786.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1827-28; defeated, 1828.
Baptist.
Died of cholera, in Floyd
County, Ind., July 31,
1833 (age 47 years, 163
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Bryan Porter (1791-1834) —
also known as George B. Porter —
Born in Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
9, 1791.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Adjutant
General of Pennsylvania, 1824-29; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1827; Governor of
Michigan Territory, 1831-34; died in office 1834.
Presbyterian.
Died in a cholera epidemic in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 6,
1834 (age 43 years, 147
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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James Adams (1783-1843) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Simsbury, Hartford
County, Conn., January
24, 1783.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; one
of the first nine men to receive the "Endowment" ordinance from
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church; participated in a
long-running newspaper battle with Abraham
Lincoln, over the transfer of a city lot; probate judge in
Illinois; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1834.
Mormon.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cholera, in Nauvoo, Hancock
County, Ill., August
11, 1843 (age 60 years, 199
days).
Interment at Old
Nauvoo Burial Grounds, Nauvoo, Ill.
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Louis P. Cooke (1811-1849) —
of Texas.
Born in Tennessee, 1811.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-39, 1841-42; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1839-41.
Charged
in 1843 with the murder
of Captain Mark Lewis; at trial,
the jury deadlocked, and he escaped
before a second trial could be held. Wounded in an Indian raid on
Corpus Christi in 1844 and lost an
eye.
Died, of cholera, in Brownsville, Cameron
County, Tex., 1849
(age about
38 years).
Interment somewhere
in New Orleans, La.
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born near Little Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cholera, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1891 at Tennessee
State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.
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Relatives:
Nephew by marriage of Thomas
Jones Hardeman; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk; first cousin of William
Polk Dobson; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah Childress; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; second cousin by marriage of George
Davis; uncle and adoptive father of Marshall
Tate Polk; second cousin twice removed of Frank
Lyon Polk. See Polk-Ashe
family of North Carolina. |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Mo., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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William Grayson Carter (d. 1849) —
Son of John Carter and Hebe (Grayson) Carter.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1834-38.
Died, of cholera, in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 11,
1849.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joshua Mathiot (1800-1849) —
of Ohio.
Born in Connellsville, Fayette
County, Pa., April 4,
1800.
Mayor
of Newark, Ohio, 1834; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1841-43.
While attending a temperance convention,
contracted cholera, from which he later died, in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio, July 30,
1849 (age 49 years, 117
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio.
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William A. Sparks (d. 1849) —
of South Carolina.
U.S. Consul in Venice, 1845-49, died in office 1849.
Died, of cholera, Venice, Italy,
August
18, 1849.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Holdsworth Blake (1792-1849) —
also known as Thomas H. Blake —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Frederick
County, Md., July 25,
1792.
Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Indiana, 1816;
U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1817-18; state court judge in Indiana,
1818; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1819-20, 1823-24; member of Indiana
state senate, 1821-22, 1829-30; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1827-29; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1831, 1838.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of cholera in a hotel at
Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
28, 1849 (age 57 years, 126
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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James Clarke (1812-1850) —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., July 5,
1812.
Secretary
of Iowa Territory, 1839-41; mayor
of Burlington, Iowa, 1844-45; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Des Moines County,
1844; Governor of
Iowa Territory, 1845-46.
Died in a cholera epidemic, in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, July 28,
1850 (age 38 years, 23
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Joseph Darlington (1765-1851) —
of Fayette
County, Pa.; Limestone (now Maysville), Mason
County, Ky.; West Union, Adams
County, Ohio.
Born near Winchester, Frederick
County, Va., July 19,
1765.
Son of Meredith Darlington.
Member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1801; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Adams County, 1802;
member of Ohio state
senate, 1803.
Presbyterian.
Died, of cholera, in West Union, Adams
County, Ohio, August 2,
1851 (age 86 years, 14
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Metcalfe (1780-1855) —
also known as "Old Stonehammer" —
of Carlisle, Nicholas
County, Ky.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., March 20,
1780.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1812-16; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1819-28 (4th District 1819-23, 2nd
District 1823-28); resigned 1828; Governor of
Kentucky, 1828-32; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1834; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Kentucky, 1839 (Convention Vice-President; member, Balloting
Committee; member, Committee to Notify Nominees; speaker); U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1848-49.
During an epidemic, died of cholera, near Carlisle, Nicholas
County, Ky., August
18, 1855 (age 75 years, 151
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Nicholas County, Ky.
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Charles Frederick Brissel (c.1879-1916) —
also known as Charles F. Brissel —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1879.
Son of Marcus Brissel (c.1847-1917; leather business).
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Amoy, 1914; U.S. Consul in Baghdad, 1914-16, died in office 1916.
Died, of cholera, in Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq),
October
31, 1916 (age about 37
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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