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What they've said about the Political Graveyard

2008

  • Apr 21: "Love the website."
  • Apr 17: "Your Political Graveyard website is most impressive with its enormous amount of information. You've done an incredible amount of work, and I think it's great."
  • Apr 15: "Thanks for answering my email and even greater thanks for the Herculean effort you make for this web site!!!!!"
  • Apr 6: "I was doing some reading online this morning and came across your informative site (thank you for all of your hard work)."
  • Apr 5: "I was pleased to find information about my Grandfather, ... on your website."
  • Apr 1: "Thanks, I love the website..."
  • Feb 22: "There is no need to respond to my email. I know you're busy and I appreciate your efforts with your website."

2007

  • Nov 30: "Many thanks for providing this WONDERFUL website! I'm sure it's grown bigger than you (and your wife!) ever imagined."
  • Nov 30: "Thank you for providing this very informative website."
  • Nov 25: "Thank you for the work you do..keeping up with this!"
  • Nov 25: "Thank-you for your work!"
  • Nov 24: "Your website is wonderful. Please keep up the great work."
  • Sep 10: "Thanks for putting [together] such a wonderful site."
  • Sep 10: "You are amazing . . . you make being a mere work-a-holic seem like laziness."
  • Aug 16: "Thank you for providing this extraordinary resource."
  • Aug 16: "This site is fantastic. Through your Political Graveyard site I found [relatives]. You have so much information."
  • Aug 8: "Thank you for including my father in your informative web site.... Again, thanks for your very useful site."
  • Aug 6: "I do appreciate your website, which was most helpful."
  • Aug 4: "You have an interesting set of pages and thank you for putting the entire collection together."
  • Jul 11: "Thanks for all your hard work!"
  • Jul 7: "I love your site ... My best to all who make your website so wonderful and kudos to all...."
  • Jul 6: "Thanks for what you do. It's an amazing resource."
  • Jun 11: "The graveyard [web site] is quite interesting, and I would be happy to be associated with it [in the acknowledgements]."
  • Jun 4: "Dear Political Graveyard, Thanks for maintaining this."
  • Jun 4: "Great webpage."
  • Jun 4: "God bless you on all the fine research you are doing."
  • May 31: "Thank you very much for creating this informative web-site."
  • May 30: "I very much appreciate your Website. Its value is beyond that of money. The information contained therein just isn't found anywhere else."
  • May 30: "Thank you for the wonderful site!"
  • May 29: "Thanks for maintaining a great website (and a great resource)."
  • May 29: "Thank you for this service."
  • May 28: "Thanks very much for maintaining your website!"
  • May 28: "Thank you for your site."
  • May 26: "[My great-uncle] spoiled me the short time and I knew him and think it is great you have a web site dedicated to those who served the public."
  • May 21: "I certainly appreciate your dedication to your website. it is a solid reference for history researchers and writers. I write [books about a specific region] and have several biographies in mind once I get to them. Keep up the good work on your website."
  • May 12: "Thank you for your outstanding webite."
  • May 8: "I have very much enjoyed The Political Graveyard website, and tagged as a favorite. Old graveyards are a fascination of mine."
  • May 1: "You have put together a very informative web site. I applaud you."
  • Apr 30: "I found your page to be quite useful in this and other projects."
  • Apr 9: "What a website! It must have been a huge amount of work.... I appreciate what you have done."
  • Apr 9: "Thanks for running such a fun site."
  • Apr 6: "I find your 'Political Graveyard' site very interesting."
  • Apr 6: "I love the website."
  • Apr 5: "I think your site is great, I have a poli-sci degree ... and enjoy politics."
  • Mar 30: "Thanks for a very helpful website."
  • Mar 23: "Thanks most of all for your website!"
  • Mar 23: "Thank you for your commitment to this project which provides a valuable political and historical resource."
  • Mar 22: "I have referred to your web site - The Political Graveyard - on several occassions and have found it to be a good historical and political reference resource. I expect that it would be a good resource for anyone wishing to do research on political history."
  • Mar 22: "Thank you again for all of the work you do with the Political Graveyard!"
  • Mar 22: "Thank you for your interesting web site."
  • Mar 21: "I write to laud your elucidation efforts."
  • Mar 19: "P.S. Your site continues to be terrific."
  • Mar 18: "Thank you ... for the very informational website."
  • Mar 17: "Love your website."
  • Mar 13: "Thank you for compiling this website. It is very interesting. I was quite surprised to see that my grandfather was a delegate to the Dem. Nat'l. Convention. I never knew that!"
  • Mar 12: "Nice Archiving! Thanks!"
  • Mar 10: "Your website has been of great assistance to my research. You are helping a lot of historicans."
  • Mar 6: "As a writer trained as an historian, I'm a tremendous fan of your website! Congratulations."
  • Mar 4: "Mr. Kestenbaum, I certainly appreciate what you are doing; both as educator and this site you have started."
  • Mar 2: "I love your site! It provides a really cool service for looking up politicians."
  • Mar 1: "I love your website."
  • Feb 28: "Nice usable data ya have on your site."
  • Feb 18: "Amazing site!"
  • Feb 18: "Thank you for your efforts."
  • Feb 17: "I'm totally impressed with your mission here. Interesting stuff. Good luck with it all, and thanks for the efforts."
  • Feb 12: "I greatly admire the work you do at The Political Graveyard."
  • Feb 11: "It is very interesting and obviously represents a huge amount of work on your part."
  • Feb 3: "Fabulous Site!"
  • Feb 2: "Excellent resource you have created."
  • Feb 1: "As a relatively new genealogy buff I am constantly amazed at sites like yours built by ordinary people."
  • Jan 31: "You do a good service."
  • Jan 30: "Nice job with the site, BTW; keep up the good work."
  • Jan 29: "I have enjoyed your site for some time."
  • Jan 28: "I am currently writing an alternative history novel set in the years 1932-1941 and I have had occasion to use your site frequently. It is a great site and has been very helpful in my research."
  • Jan 11: "Your website has so much info that's useful I'm glad to be able to help add to it!"
  • Jan 3: "Neat site."
  • Jan 3: "I ran across your very interesting site while doing a Google search."
  • Jan 3: "Your site is very interesting. Thank you for all the work you've done!"

2006

  • Dec 28: "Awesome concept and website!"
  • Dec 27: "I was browsing through your Web site and am amazed at all the information you have compiled in one location.... You've done some amazing work on your Web site."
  • Dec 12: "I have loved your site for some time. As a local history writer, I find it is an invaluable resource."
  • Dec 12: "Thanks for keeping this up ... It is much appreciated!"
  • Nov 23: "Congratulations on the fascinating web site."
  • Nov 20: "I love your site ... and love that the internet brings all of this information together in one place like that. It's great that people like you, with a specialized interest, conceive of and then execute a grand scheme like this. And like Wikipedia, we can all contribute to make it more accurate and more complete. So, I am glad to help out."
  • Nov 16: "I just stumbled across your website -- fascinating!"
  • Nov 16: "I admire your site."
  • Oct 30: "You do an extraordinary job with your graveyard 'hobby'! It's an excellent resource!"
  • Oct 27: "Thanks for the labor of love, the Political Graveyard!"
  • Oct 27: "Thanks for the great service you provide, and thanks to your family for sharing you with us!"
  • Oct 14: "Thank you for this great website. I am often referring to it for document information.... Continue with this outstanding project you are offering to many."
  • Oct 13: "Your site is unique and very informative; keep up the good work!"
  • Oct 11: "I appreciate your website. My Grandpa [name] was a Democrat and my Grandpa [different name] was a Republican, even though they did not see eye-to-eye they both loved their town, county, state and country. Thanks for remembering them!"
  • Sep 26: "Congratulations on this site...It is overwhelming!!"
  • Sep 20: "I find your website fascinating - an excellent resource for researchers and hobbyists alike. Thank you for your efforts."
  • Sep 19: "Awesome! Way to go with that site; it's a really good resource."
  • Sep 18: "I recently came across your website, The Political Graveyard, while researching some family history. I found your site quite impressive and informative."
  • Sep 18: "You do a great service for everyone. You don't need to apologize, ever!"
  • Sep 17: "By the way, I like your website. Lot of interesting 'stuff' on it."
  • Sep 15: "Very interesting site."
  • Sep 12: "You have a great site!"
  • Sep 12: "I find your web loaded with information and a vary valuable research tool."
  • Sep 12: "As a radio news director who happened to need data from your invaluable site on the same day I saw the following material on the AP wire, I thought I'd pass it on."
  • Sep 10: "Thank you for all the work you do on the political graveyard site. It is a very useful resource."
  • Sep 7: "I am absolutely AMAZED that you basically do this alone with a family and full time job. I have used it for years off and on .... Thanks for your dedication and willingness to share your life with a project like this."
  • Sep 5: "I have used your information extensively — and like you say — it is unfortunately incomplete."
  • Sep 3: "Very nice job on your website."
  • Aug 31: "AMAZING JOB. CONGRATULATIONS!"
  • Aug 31: "You have an interesting hobby."
  • Aug 27: "I found your site interesting because I have limited knowledge of [my great-grandfather] and this helps a lot. Thank you."
  • Aug 27: "Enjoy your Political Graveyard site."
  • Aug 25: "Have to tell you the political graveyard web site is a fun read. You can tell it's a labor of love."
  • Aug 17: "I was passed the link to your website from a friend. It is an impressive website."
  • Aug 16: "Thanks for the site - very useful."
  • Aug 13: "Thanks for your great work. I have found a great deal of information about many of my relatives who were in the political field from your site."
  • Aug 13: "You have given yourself a HUGE job! ... Thank you for all your hard work, your website is a wonderful source of information!"
  • Aug 13: "Your site is very interesting to read."
  • Aug 12: "Your website is fascinating and wonderful -- thank you!"
  • Aug 10: "Hi! Interesting site!"
  • Aug 6: "Thanks for the excellent website!!"
  • Aug 5: "It's you who deserve the thanks for doing this!"
  • Aug 5: "Good work on the site."
  • Aug 4: "I enjoy your website!"
  • Aug 3: "Great Website. Will peruse through it more thoroughly at a later time."
  • Aug 3: "Thanks for all that you do to remember the political events and politicians of our county."
  • Aug 2: "Thank you for having such great information on your website. It's helped me a lot."
  • Aug 2: "P.S. I like your website !!!"
  • Aug 2: "I want to compliment you on a great website."
  • Aug 2: "When I put my grandfather's name in a general search, I discovered the Political Graveyard, truly an amazing 'undertaking,' (a pun you must hear often) ... thanks for your all-encompasing site!"
  • Jul 25: "I've visited your site many times before and found it to be excellent."
  • Jul 22: "Congratulations on a wonderful website in the form of your 'Political Graveyard,' which I've enjoyed perusing."
  • Jul 22: "It is a HUGE task I am sure keeping updated on all the political people you have listed on your Political Website Grave Yard!! My hat goes off to you for doing such a fine job!"
  • Jul 21: "Thank you for such a GRAND website too. I as well as many folks that I know who do genealogy use your we web site often."
  • Jul 21: "I enjoyed checking your site and finding my grandmother and my uncle!"
  • Jul 21: "I recently stumbled upon the Political Graveyard site...Really neat website."
  • Jul 19: "I stumbled onto your website quite by accident. It's so amazing what you can find on the Internet."
  • Jul 19: "Thanks for your good work. You have a great site and one that is very useful."
  • Jul 18: "You have a fantastic site."
  • Jul 14: "Many thank-yous for your creation of the Political Graveyard."
  • Jul 13: "I thoroughly enjoy using your outstanding website, The Political Graveyard. You have an amazing collection of valuable information."
  • Jul 12: "I think your site is terrific. I have referenced it on several occasions. Keep up the good work!"
  • Jul 12: "Thanks for having this page, it's an interesting resource."
  • Jul 12: "Your site is great and useful."
  • Jul 12: "Thanks for your helpful site!"
  • Jul 12: "I enjoyed the website and plan a more lengthy discovery of its jewels."
  • Jul 10: "Your Political Greaveyard is fabulous. Keep up the good work."
  • Jul 9: "Tremendous website!!!!!!!!!!!! How in the world were you able to do it? I'm the opposite of you politically, but forget that---political graveyard.com is the greatest."
  • Jul 9: "By the way, thanks for your neat site - in doing genealogical research, I've found some of my Louisiana and Virginia ancestors there."
  • Jul 8: "Thanks for a very interesting site."
  • Jul 7: "Thank you for maintaining this website, as it helped me learn a little more about my heritage."
  • Jul 6: "Your website on Political Graveyard facinates me. Thank YOU for an outstanding site."
  • Jul 5: "I love your website and refer to it almost daily at times."
  • Jul 5: "I loved your very comprehensive website."
  • Jul 2: "Thank you for the great work you do on the Political Graveyard website."
  • Jul 2: "Thank you for making this website interesting and available to the public. It has helped me tremendously."
  • Jul 2: "I have spent some of the afternoon reading your TPG site. What a monumental task it is. It is a wonderful web site and I can't wait to share it with others."
  • Jul 2: "I found the site very interesting."
  • Jun 29: "I found mention of [a relative] in your very interesting and well done site."
  • Jun 29: "What an interesting site you have! ... Thanks for keeping such a great site!"
  • Jun 28: "thank you for taking on this monumental task"
  • Jun 26: "Thanks for your web resources!"
  • Jun 3: "I've been a fan of politicalgraveyard.com for a long time. It's great to see people doing high-quality work with such passion."
  • May 29: "Keep up the good work, what you are doing is very useful."
  • May 29: "I've very much enjoyed reading your informative website regarding the burial places of American politicians and embassy staff throughout the world."
  • May 29: "What a site you have! I just typed in my grandfather's name and there he appeared on your site! This is quite an undertaking that you have and I applaud you."
  • May 29: "Great site you have there. I use it often."
  • May 28: "I came across your website via google and was quite impressed! ... Thanks for the great website, it is enjoyable!"
  • May 9: "I want to thank you for the tremendous work you have done on the Political Graveyard. It is a fantastic internet resource especially when you are hunting for obscure political figures."
  • May 9: "Thanks for taking on such an ambitious project; it must be a labor of love."
  • May 4: "I really enjoy your website - all kinds of interesting stuff."
  • Apr 13: "I appreciate your website. It is very interesting."
  • Apr 8: First, let me say I value and appreciate all of your work on The Political Gravesite website! It is amazing; the amount of data you have accumulated in unbelievable, as well as a wonderful resource! ... I know your site will have a lasting place in my class!"
  • Apr 3: "I just happened on the site again last night and remembered how much I appreciate the enormous effort you have obviously put into this project. Thank you for your hard work and intriguing information."
  • Apr 3: "I use your site often for reference."
  • Apr 2: "Thank you for your efforts in keeping up the records of many great men and women."
  • Mar 31: "I enjoyed browsing your website and will be in touch."
  • Mar 31: "Very interesting website you have.... Enjoyed your site."
  • Mar 28: "First, I would like to thank you for all the time that you have spent on gathering and compiling the information in the Political Graveyard. It was very helpful while recently researching individuals who had held political office ... Thank you for your consideration and efforts in creating this website ... Once again, it was a very helpful site for my research and I really appreciate all your efforts. I am sure that it is a useful site to many others."
  • Mar 28: "Thank you for your work in this field of history."
  • Mar 28: "I have found your site useful in my research over the years."
  • Mar 17: "You have a very interesting website."
  • Mar 17: "I stumbled upon your website and can see that it is a wealth of information. As a Social Studies teacher I will definitely be using it in the future."
  • Mar 13: "It's a wild, weird website to many, but for me, the Political Graveyard is quite an unusual spot to drop into from time to time. Thanks for doing it!"
  • Mar 8: "Thank you for undertaking to create and maintain this valuable resource."
  • Mar 1: "I occasionally pop by to your site -- great idea! It's really helpful when I need to 'ballpark' dates and stuff."
  • Feb 28: "Love your site; hope you can persuade your child to help when older."
  • Feb 28: "Thanks for the website as it is very interesting."
  • Feb 26: "You have a very useful web site."
  • Feb 1: "LOVE your site! Have used it to locate famous people in areas where the wife and I travel. We are big cemetary fans....the older the better."
  • Jan 21: "This is a very wonderful informative site you have created."
  • Jan 13: "The Political Graveyard is the coolest site. Everyone that I have sent there absolutely marvels at it."
  • Jan 10: "I think you have done an amazing job regarding this undertaking and wanted [to] email you and let you know how much I appreciate the work you are doing."
  • Jan 6: "I really really love your web site. It is a tremendous resource - to researches, scholars - everyone."
  • Jan 5: "Thank you for establishing the Political Graveyard. I was asked to look up some birthdates of politicians born in the early 1920's. I tried several Web sites, but could not find them. I came across yours, which had them all. Thank you, and keep up the good work."

2005

  • Dec 29: "I'm the archivist at [an historical museum]. Your political graveyard web site is great. I've used it numerous times to locate information. Today I had some undated political tickets. Your site was provided the date for these tickets. Thanks."
  • Dec 21: "Your pages are looking greater than ever. I soon hope to have some new information for you. That is hard to find anymore!"
  • Dec 14: "I commend you for having one fantastic web site. What an amazing collection of political information!"
  • Dec 3: "Thank you for your interesting website. My son emailed me that he had found his great-grandfather listed there."
  • Nov 28: "I truly enjoy your site. It has been the sounding board to further my research."
  • Nov 28: "Hi - I enjoy your site."
  • Nov 27: "Over the past couple of years, I have found the information on your 'Political Graveyard' website to be very useful, particularly in my position as professor of history."
  • Nov 23: "I love the site!"
  • Nov 13: "Your website is full of valuable material so hats off to you for creating it. You did a great job and love the title."
  • Oct 28: "This is truly a great site that you have."
  • Oct 20: "I do enjoy your site and appreciate how well it is organized and maintained. It is so nice to be able to quickly find a date, a place, or a link. Thanks for all of your hard work."
  • Oct 20: "I find this site very interesting to say the least."
  • Oct 20: "Thanks, I appreciate your work."
  • Oct 19: "I have to say, you have put a lot of work in making this web page. I don't really know how I came across it. But it is very interesting."
  • Oct 16: "yours is a great site"
  • Oct 16: "Thanks for doing this."
  • Oct 13: "Thanks for your work on this web site."
  • Oct 5: "What a grand website!"
  • Oct 2: "I enjoy your website - thanks for maintaining it!"
  • Sep 30: "I enjoy using the website."
  • Sep 29: "I think it's great that you have created this kind of site. So little about the local history (of many states) is carried forward and catalogued as you have done.... Thank you for making such an effort."
  • Sep 28: "Hi! Just stumbled on your website. Love it!"
  • Sep 15: "I must say that I was very impressed with your research in this area. All of it fascinating stuff."
  • Sep 12: "I like your website. It's as comprehensive as any I have found anywhere."
  • Sep 12: "Hope this helps a little for the wonderful site that I have enjoyed for years. Thanks!!!!!"
  • Sep 11: "I happened upon your site and was quite simply shocked and amazed at the insane amount of information you have and how well you've categorized and easily referenced it. Bravo! Your site is amazing!"
  • Sep 9: "Dear...Lawrence, is it? Having stumbled on the Political Graveyard whilst on a cyber quest, I must write to express my fascination with its concept and content. What detail! What organization! Though a technophobe at heart, I dashed around your website like a seasoned surfer, thanks to its careful design. Even the Q&A's kept me reading...You ARE a learned and dedicated soul with a fine team! Please accept my sincere compliments."
  • Sep 6: "Thank you so much!!!!! I will go to my public library soon! Again I say, your website is great and I really appreciate your help!!!!"
  • Jul 29: "Thank you for your work."
  • Jul 22: "Thanks for keeping that wondeful site of yours up and runing. It means a great deal to me as well as others."
  • Jul 18: "Congratulations on your excellent work. I enjoy being in the Political Graveyard."
  • Jul 8: "You've done an amazing job on your Political Graveyard-- marvelous site!"
  • Jun 30: "Great Website!"
  • Jun 22: "Your website is invaluable. I appreciate it very much."
  • Jun 22: "I just ran into your Political Graveyard site. On a conceit, admittedly. For the first time, I typed my name into a search engine. Anyhow, it is of inestimable value for research on officeholders/candidates not normally covered and I am grateful for your numberless hours of data collection. For an INsignificant 1978 state senate candidate such as myself, it was a cheap thrill today to find my name in virtual print."
  • Jun 21: "Thank you for a superb website."
  • Jun 21: "I have visited your site many times over the past few years. Thank you for all your efforts."
  • Jun 9: "BTW - [your] site is GREAT!"
  • Jun 8: "The Political Graveyard is a great site. How did you find time to do all this research? Do you have indentured servants? Really the site is terrific."
  • Jun 6: "Thank you for creating and maintaining this information. I sometimes worry that the Web will only be a research tool for information developed after 1990, so sites like yours are a valuable resource for research and remembrance."
  • Jun 4: "Thanks for creating this very interesting web site."
  • Jun 4: "Congratulations -- it's a fantastic website."
  • May 30: "First, let me say that I really enjoy your site."
  • May 26: "The site just keeps getting better, and we use it often!"
  • May 26: "Also...you have a GREAT site...I really like it!"
  • May 24: "Keep up the good work!"
  • May 21: "The Graveyard is an amazing piece of work! Thanks for doing it."
  • May 18: "Thank you for maintaining this site."
  • May 15: "You are doing a great job!"
  • May 12: "I found your internet site interesting."
  • May 12: "Thanks for the website, it's incredibly interesting."
  • May 12: "I stumbled across your website on accident and found it quite interesting.... Again, I enjoyed your site."
  • May 3: "This website/database is a very interesting source of information about a wide range of noted people - certainly useful for journalists and others!"
  • May 2: "Your data base is amazing."
  • May 1: "Your website is greatly appreciated. It must be a humongous amount of work just to keep it updated let alone in it's original designing. Keep up the 'good work'."
  • May 1: "This is a great website! Thanks for providing it."
  • May 1: "I've really enjoyed reading through your site."
  • Apr 25: "Your site is very cool."
  • Apr 14: "Your website is excellent."
  • Apr 10: "I've enjoyed the site - it's quite amazing. Keep it up."
  • Apr 10: "Your web site is wonderful !!"
  • Apr 9: "Thank you for an amazing work - I use the Political Graveyard site frequently, and am always finding updated and valuable information."
  • Apr 9: "Keep up the good work."
  • Apr 5: "You do a great job with the Political Graveyard. I can see how much work it is."
  • Apr 4: "Thank you for your time effort and care you give to this website it is wonderful to look at all."
  • Apr 4: "Thank you for maintaining such a great historical record!"
  • Apr 4: "Thank you for this interesting, challenging, and demanding 'labor of love.' It really is very engaging. Thanks much!"
  • Apr 4: "Thank you for all the great work you've done and continue to do!"
  • Mar 27: "Great website!"
  • Mar 25: "You have a great site."
  • Mar 18: "Thank you so much for putting together this exhaustive and very informative website. While I could not be further from you in the political sphere, I also share a fascination with those who have gone before us and tried to serve our great country. Kudos to you, my friend."
  • Mar 4: "The graveyard is a great website, by the way."
  • Mar 3: "Thank you for what a wonderful job you are doing."
  • Mar 2: "Thanks for the website!:
  • Mar 1: "I just visited your site for the first time. Very interesting! Since I am [a county historian], I especially appreciate all of this information being available to the general public. It makes my job a lot easier! ... Thanks again for all of this invaluable information."
  • Feb 21: " to the general public. It makes my job a lot easier! ... Thanks again for all of this invaluable information."
  • Feb 21: "Thanks for running such a fun, interesting site."
  • Feb 19: "Your site is really great.I've used it often!"
  • Feb 18: "My compliments on a fine and useful site."
  • Feb 11: "I use your political graveyard site often for information and am grateful for your work."
  • Feb 10: "I appreciate your web site and use it often to locate men of whom I am conducting historical research."
  • Jan 20: "Thank you so much for maintaining the Political Graveyard website. I use it regularly for my work and appreciate your information."

2004

  • Dec 28: "Fascinating web site."
  • Dec 22: "I enjoy your web site."
  • Dec 21: "Great site!"
  • Dec 21: "Found your most exciting website."
  • Dec 8: "Good job on the website."
  • Dec 8: "Great site!"
  • Dec 7: "I can't tell you how much I used the Political Graveyard for research."
  • Dec 7: "Great website!"
  • Dec 7: "Thanks for your efforts on the site, which is excellent."
  • Dec 6: "You are doing a worthwhile service, thank you."
  • Dec 5: "Thank you for the information in PoliticalGraveyard.com."
  • Dec 5: "Thank you for your great site."
  • Dec 3: "Thanks for your useful 'the Political Graveyard' web site."
  • Nov 24: "I've been using your web site for some time now to find information on people for reports, it really is a great resource, I greatly appreciate it."
  • Nov 20: "I very much appreciate your fascinating 'political graveyard' site."
  • Nov 13: "Sir, I love your site."
  • Nov 12: "I enjoyed your website and will peruse it some more in the future."
  • Nov 12: "Interesting website you have."
  • Nov 2: "I really like you website, very interesting!"
  • Oct 31: "I use your web site in my reserch constantly. Without it, my research would be much harder, and not so far reaching as it is."
  • Oct 30: "I'm a political reporter who uses the site all the time. Thanks for all your time and effort."
  • Oct 16: "My son came across your site and I was very pleased to see you had created this."
  • Oct 15: "What a great website!"
  • Oct 8: "What a task! Great resource, thanks."
  • Oct 8: "p.s. great site..."
  • Oct 6: "You provide a great service! Keep it up!"
  • Oct 2: "Political Graveyard remains one of my favorite web destinations."
  • Sep 27: "You [have] created a wonderful site for us political junkies and otherwise good people to check out history!!"
  • Sep 26: "Great Website."
  • Sep 23: "Just wanted you to know that I am doing research for a professor and your site saved me!!! Thank you so much for the work you do."
  • Sep 13: "It's a wonderful site!!!"
  • Sep 10: "Thanks for your work in maintaining the site; I have found it most useful."
  • Sep 6: "Love your site."
  • Sep 4: "Thanks also for the wonderful Graveyard, which saves me hours of seeking."
  • Sep 2: "I found your website to be a tremendous resource. I don't know how you have been able to compile all of that information in a lifetime!"
  • Aug 27: "I found your site to be very interesting and informative.... I enjoyed perusing your site, with its valuable information."
  • Aug 27: "I stumbled upon your site and found it really, really interesting."
  • Aug 22: "I appreciate your fine work."
  • Aug 22: "Thank you for your site."
  • Aug 21: "The political gravesite is a great site."
  • Aug 21: "Dear Political Graveyard, I am a grave junkie and I love your site! ... Thank you so much for your dedicated work."
  • Aug 12: "This is a great site you have!!! I am really enjoying the info available."
  • Aug 12: "Hello, and thank you so much for your Political Graveyard website.... Again, thank you so much for your contribution to our Politicians."
  • Aug 11: "Thanks for maintaining this website -- it is quite a service."
  • Jul 29: "First, let me thank you for your hard work on the Political Graveyard website, which I have frequently found to be useful in my work as a newspaper reporter in tracking down what would otherwise be hard-to-find facts."
  • Jul 28: "i've only recently started using your site. it's wonderful.... thank you for doing this."
  • Jul 19: "I want to commend you for the fantastic website you have created. It is a real gold mine of knowledge for people seeking information about many thousands of politicians."
  • Jul 19: "Thank you for such a great site. It has been extremely helpful in researching the biographies of politicians, and I feel I can trust the information you provide."
  • Jul 19: "Thanks for your effort on ... your interesting and informative web site 'The Political Graveyard'."
  • Jul 17: "I recently visited your site and found it very interesting and informative. Thank you for your dedicated service."
  • Jul 16: "I find your site thrilling and I consult it pretty often; it's a great deal of fun."
  • Jul 15: "Thanks for the great resource."
  • Jul 13: "This is a great service you're providing --migwetch (thank you)."
  • Jul 9: "I cannot imagine what it takes to run such an informative website. I'm always amazed at what you have there. Keep up the fantastic work."
  • Jul 8: "Recently my son asked me if I was familiar with a website called the "Political Graveyard". I said no. He said I should check it out because I am in it. So I did and it is a very impressive piece of work, a contribution to historical knowledge which would likely go unrecorded. Thanks for including me even though I am old and no longer active."
  • Jul 8: "thank you for the political graveyard. very interesting."
  • Jul 8: "Thank you for your very interesting and informative website."
  • Jun 25: "Site is invaluable."
  • Jun 24: "I was delighted to find your excellent website."
  • Jun 23: "Thanks for the great work you do. I intend to make a contribution using PayPal, to help support your site."
  • Jun 21: "It's a great site; you do an outstanding job; and if I can help to make it just a little better, well, I'm happy to do so. Keep up the great work!"
  • Jun 20: "I was surprised and pleased to find my father's name on your website. Thank you for your fine work."
  • Jun 16: "Once again your Political Graveyard site just amazes me. I refer to it so often, not just for my genealogical quests but also for my regular research.... Again, thanks much for your site."
  • Jun 14: "I love your database. I think it's terrific to find all of that political information in one place. I'm sure it was a lot of hard work. Many kudos.... Keep up the good work. I intend to return to your website again. It was quite an educational experience. Thank you for your devotion to history."
  • Jun 8: "Thanks for putting the site up and I hope this helps."
  • Jun 5: "Your Political Graveyard website is very interesting."
  • Jun 4: "The site is truly outstanding. My compliments!"
  • Jun 4: "Thought I'd let you know that I've linked to your site from mine, and appreciate the resource immensely."
  • Jun 4: "more power to you. I realize it must be a tremendous work load to just stay even. good luck. wonderful resource."
  • Jun 1: "This site is a bury noble undertaking (pun intended :))!"
  • Jun 1: "I appreciate your selfless sacrifice of your time to compile all of this information. My hats off to you sir."
  • May 30: "Thanks for keeping history up to date."
  • May 26: "Great site, by the way."
  • May 25: "I was glad to help out. Your website is fascinating."
  • May 25: "Thank you for a great website."
  • May 25: "Thanks for providing the historical info on so many politicians."
  • May 24: "Thanks to you, Larry, for your long hours and dedicated work. You were cited to me by both the Smithsonian as well as the Library of Congress just recently for their HIGH opinion of your work."
  • May 24: "thnx for doing what you do. it is a handy web site."
  • May 24: "You are doing a great service for everyone."
  • May 24: "Thanks for maintaining your very useful website."
  • May 23: "Keep up the monumental good work!"
  • May 23: "I've come across your web site several times in the past and it's helped me settle some mild arguments. I really appreciate all the work you've put into it. Your database must be huge.... Anyway, thanks for the hard work you put into your site."
  • May 19: "Your Web site is quite wonderful and valuable."
  • May 17: "Your Web site is incredible; thanks for it."
  • May 16: "Hello..... found the Political Graveyard site today and got some information I didn't have before. Thank you, it is a wonderful site."
  • May 15: "Thank you for your help and for creating this project."
  • May 13: "I just think this site is the best!"
  • May 12: "This is an excellent site and I thank you for setting it up."
  • May 11: "I will be looking forward to the updated data base. The Political Graveyard is outstanding source both from a historical and geneological point of view."
  • May 11: "Thank you for your site. I have it on my favorites."
  • May 11: "You sir have provided a great service with your site, a very great service."
  • May 11: "You're welcome to the information. If it was not for nice people like you who go through all the time and trouble to set-up wonderful web-sites, I would still be looking for some of my Family Tree information. Thank you, and sending you the information is the least we can do!"
  • May 10: "Great web site."
  • May 10: "Enjoy your site."
  • May 9: "That's a nice website you have at the Political Graveyard."
  • May 9: "Just came across your website. Great resource. I am going to add it as a link on my ... website."
  • May 9: "Your site is a great service."
  • May 8: "First, I would like to thank you for your site. While I have no great interest in politics, I do have an interest in my family's history (on both sides)."
  • May 6: "I'm way overdue in complimenting you for your site. I have enjoyed it for months."
  • May 5: "I love your site and refer to it frequently."
  • May 5: "First of all, I would like to thank you many times over for your website, The Political Graveyard. I am a senior American Studies student ... and I am currently working on a project where I am analyzing a speech by Daniel Webster. Part of the project is documenting the names of politicians referred to in the speech. Your web site has been immensely helpful in filling in some of the blanks. It's made finding out who "the gentleman from Maryland" in the U.S. Senate in 1850 much, much easier.... Please again let me thank you for your web site. I am using it extensively now and will continue in the future."
  • May 5: "Your website is an excellent resource and very interesting."
  • May 4: "Keep up the good work."
  • May 4: "I find myself quite dependent on your site! It was a brilliant idea."
  • May 4: "I come across burial locations frequently ... if I see any more that will help you I'd be delighted to help you, it's a great project you have there."
  • May 4: "I'd be thrilled to be listed among your contributers!"
  • May 4: "Keep up the good work, Love your site."
  • May 3: "I'm a librarian and really appreciate your great site. There's been a lot of reseach put into this website."
  • May 3: "Thank you so much for creating such a comprehensive database of politicians, this is really wonderful. I happened across your site while doing a search, just on a whim, for a friend of mine... Thank you for your time, and thank you once again for maintaining such a wonderful database."
  • May 1: "Good luck with your project!"
  • Apr 28: "Thank you for your many hours in making Political Graveyard possible."
  • Apr 28: "I cannot tell you how valuable your site is to me in my work with papers of obscure politicians. So it is a pleasure to provide you with some more information."
  • Apr 28: "Your site is wonderful and lists many of my relatives."
  • Apr 28: "Thank you for all your work on this political graveyard project! Quite an undertaking."
  • Apr 28: "Thanks so much for maintaining this exceptionally helpful website - I refer to it often in my genealogical research."
  • Apr 27: "Thanks, and keep up the good work."
  • Apr 26: "I do enjoy your site. Keep up the good work."
  • Apr 25: "Keep up the great work on your website. It is very appreciated."
  • Apr 24: "I love your Website. Very well done, although I do have one correction for you."
  • Apr 24: "Thanks for loads of interesting info on www.politicalgraveyard.com."
  • Apr 24: "Thanks for your site. It's fun finding references to family members. Until I told my dad about your site, he had totally forgotten about this part of [his uncle]'s life."
  • Apr 21: "I love your website...Thanks for keeping it running."
  • Apr 21: "Hope this helps with your wonderful project."
  • Apr 21: "Enjoyed your site."
  • Apr 21: "Your site is always a help. Thanks for your time and effort."
  • Apr 20: "The site is great!!"
  • Apr 20: "Best with your wonderful project."
  • Apr 20: "I want to fill in information for [name] for your wonderful website.... Thank you for your website -- keep up the great work!"
  • Apr 19: "I am very impressed with your site and keep coming across it because many of my relatives appear there."
  • Apr 18: "I chanced upon your website (which, by the way, is marvelous)"
  • Apr 18: "Thanks again for all your hard work."
  • Apr 17: "Thank you for all the work you do and have done... it's a pleasure to find my family remembered."
  • Apr 16: "Your site is quite interesting and a good reference."
  • Apr 16: "First, let me congratulate you on your great site! I'm sure that assisting genealogists was not one of your primary goals, but nevertheless we applaud you!"
  • Apr 15: "Ran across your site, very informative."
  • Apr 15: "I'm happy to be of help. Your data was useful for me, so reciprocation is in order."
  • Apr 14: "Thanks again for the great work."
  • Apr 14: "Your site has been a great resource for researching politicians, so I don't mind helping at all."
  • Apr 14: "Thanks for what you're doing."
  • Apr 14: "Hi, I am an occasional user of your site and enjoy it very much! ... Keep up the great work!"
  • Apr 14: Enjoy your [site]... Thanks for your good work."
  • Apr 14: "Thanks for your efforts with this site."
  • Apr 13: "Sure, feel free to add me to the acknowledgements. I LOVE your site and I think it is wonderful. I am a stickler for correct information and it is nice to see someone who is actually keeping track of things! (I think it is the teacher in me!) You may get sick of me after a while so I will try to not correct things TOO frequently. LOL Keep up the terrific work!"
  • Apr 13: "Thank you for undertaking this project."
  • Apr 13: "Thanks for your great site. It is a good resource."
  • Apr 13: "I was pleased to find your website."
  • Apr 13: "I love The Political Graveyard but I really wish you'd change the name and get rid of the term 'Graveyard.' It's so misleading, since many of the politicians you list are still living. Please consider changing the name of your database to IPDb (Internet Political Database) [similar to the existing and highly-respected IMDb (Internet Movie Database)], or something similar."
  • Apr 12: "Many thanks again and congratulations again on an excellent resource you've pulled together."
  • Apr 11: "Interesting site, I'll say!"
  • Apr 11: "Great Site."
  • Apr 10: "I love the site by the way!"
  • Apr 9: "You have a great website!"
  • Apr 6: "Haven't had a lot of need to use the website, but it has helped me greatly several times."
  • Apr 5: "I ... will donate to your wonderful websit.... I also sent a fax to the powers that be telling them how important this site is to our American Heritage. Thanks for all the hard work you have put into this site. Took me years as you can see to just research this little part of my family so far and you have always been right there for me to go to for help. Thanks."
  • Apr 5: "You have a nice site!"
  • Apr 5: "I think you have a very good web-site! Thanks!"
  • Apr 4: "Great site."
  • Apr 2: "I came across your interesting site while doing some cancer epidemiology research."
  • Apr 2: "I am a fan of your site."
  • Apr 2: "What a terrific site you have made here ... many thanks for all your efforts and creativity.... Many thanks again for your work."
  • Apr 2: "Thanks for your good work."
  • Apr 2: "I salute you again for a fine, helpful web site that I return to again and again."
  • Mar 30: "I appreciate your fine website, it is a tremendous service for researching historical political figures."
  • Mar 29: "Thank you ... for maintaining your own site so well. It is one of my favorite research sites to which I refer many friends and acquaintances."
  • Mar 29: "Thanks Larry, and good luck in your continuing work, which many appreciate."
  • Mar 29: "[My father] would have appreciated the accuracy of your site.... I would be pleased to be listed as your source."
  • Mar 28: "You're welcome, of course--I've made occasional use of TPG, and it's a pleasure to give back in some small way."
  • Mar 26: "Stumbled across your website of graveyards of politicians...quite curious and interesting..."
  • Mar 26: "Thanks for all your work."
  • Mar 25: "This is yet another message of mine to you, coming again after making much use of your software, 'The Political Graveyard', and after recommending it as a very useful data-base to my MA Seminar students, studying the Presidency of JF Kennedy and L B Johnson."
  • Mar 23: "First off, nice site."
  • Mar 23: "Your site is interesting and useful."
  • Mar 23: "Love your site, been monitoring it for some time and love the consistency and information it provides."
  • Mar 22: "Your interesting 'Political Graveyard' website has a lot of information!"
  • Mar 21: "Thanks for all your work on this valuable website."
  • Mar 21: "Thank you for your efforts."
  • Mar 21: "I forgot to add that I love the website. You have performed a great service."
  • Mar 21: "I Have Been A Fan Of Your Site, For A Long Time."
  • Mar 21: "Thanks for all you do."
  • Mar 20: "Thanks again for the site!"
  • Mar 20: "The Political Graveyard is an extremely interesting website! It took a lot of creative thinking."
  • Mar 19: "Great site -- quite intriguing."
  • Mar 19: "Political Graveyard, a most excellent online resource."
  • Mar 19: "Your site has been helpful to me in many ways ... Thanks for your good work."
  • Mar 17: "Hi! Love your site, use it all the time.... Keep up the great work!"
  • Mar 17: "Great web site!"
  • Mar 16: "In any case, keep up all the good work!"
  • Mar 16: "Keep up the good work."
  • Mar 15: "Thank you for the work you and your co-worker are doing. It is immensely interesting and incredibly fascinating."
  • Mar 14: "In closing, let me say that I've used your site as a reference on a number of occasions, and appreciate it very much!"
  • Mar 12: "Thanks for maintaining "The Political Graveyard". It's a wealth of information!"
  • Mar 12: "I found your website to be very informative."
  • Mar 11: "I just wanted to send you a note on how much I appreciate the hard work you have put in to The Political Graveyard website. I ran across it a few years ago on a web search and have used it many times since to provide historical backgound on political figures in many board discussions. It is simply the most comprehensive site I have run across on the topic. And has helped to correct a few misconceptions about many of our political figures."
  • Mar 11: "Hello, and good job with the web site!"
  • Mar 8: "I truly appreciate the work you have done to create this site. There have been several instances where information has been located of significance for families I have been researching."
  • Mar 8: "Love your site."
  • Mar 8: "Thoroughly enjoy your website which I stumbled upon in my search."
  • Mar 5: "I ran across your web site while doing some county research here ... Very interesting and enjoyable to browse through."
  • Mar 3: "I just found your web site and I think it is great.... Please keep up the good work?"
  • Mar 3: "Keep up the good work."
  • Mar 2: "I look into your site from time to time and find it quite fascinating."
  • Mar 2: "THANK YOU FOR THE SITE THAT YOU MAINTAIN! Your work is appreciated."
  • Mar 1: "You deserve much thanks for your dedication to this amazing project."
  • Mar 1: "I very much appreciate, and make much use in my teaching, of your rich Internet site, Political Graveyard."
  • Feb 29: "Great site. Thank YOU for all the hours that you obviously spent on it."
  • Feb 28: "Your site is very interesting."
  • Feb 22: "Thanks for this terrific, interesting site.... Thanks again and good luck with your fascinating website."
  • Feb 22: "Nice site."
  • Feb 21: "Great website!"
  • Feb 16: "I've been a subscriber to the mailing list for some time as well as a regular visitor to the site for over six years. I'm a Republican myself and well aware you are a Democrat, so I think you deserve a special recognition for your efforts at keeping the site non partisan."
  • Feb 16: "Of course, feel free to use my name. I'd be honored to be associated with your fine web site."
  • Feb 16: "Love your site! So many leads come from there."
  • Feb 16: "Thank you for your above web site."
  • Feb 15: "Your political graveyard is very thorough."
  • Feb 13: "Thanks, anyway, for the great work you're doing."
  • Feb 12: "You have a terrific site here."
  • Feb 8: "Well, that is a fantastic amount of info and quite a project you are working on."
  • Feb 2: "Your site is an amazing achievement - congratulations!"
  • Feb 2: "Thank you for maintaining 'The Political Graveyard' website."
  • Feb 1: "Good luck with getting funding! You're doing a great thing!"
  • Feb 1: "What a lot of work you've gone to. Congratulations!"
  • Feb 1: "I happened upon your website. Thanks for putting this information out there!"
  • Jan 24: "JUST A GUY WHO SAVES POLITICAL PINS. A BIG GIANT THANK YOU - FOR THE GREAT WEB PAGE. I USE IT ALL THE TIME. THANX AGAIN"
  • Jan 24: "Thanks for your amazing work on this website."
  • Jan 22: "Your site is a classic."
  • Jan 15: "It is a great thing you are doing and all politicians want to live in 'infamy'!!"
  • Jan 14: "Thank you for your website."
  • Jan 14: "Hooray for Kestenbaum ... I was doing some research on Shriners and came upon your web, Political Graveyard. Fantastic, I haven't enjoyed cruising around a site in a VERY long time. Too much good stuff!! Thanks."
  • Jan 11: "Thanks for the great web site."
  • Jan 10: "Great website. I'm going to bookmark it. Thanks."
  • Jan 8: "Thanks for your work."
  • Jan 5: "What a fantasic website. I guess you hear that all the time.... Again, I love your site and have forwarded its address to a dozen or so family members for their lineage research."

2003

  • Dec 30: "Thanks for having this website."
  • Dec 29: "Your work on the political graveyard for the Wilkes-Barre area is excellent."
  • Dec 22: "The Political Graveyard is one of my all time favorites. I stumbled across it a long time ago, and keep coming back."
  • Dec 18: "You have a great site there!"
  • Dec 18: "You have a wonderful website that has helped me in my research."
  • Dec 15: "What a great mission you have undertaken...Those dedicated politicians will NOT be erased now."
  • Dec 15: "I want to thank you for the info on the 'graveyard' site."
  • Dec 15: "I enjoyed your site and will be back."
  • Dec 14: "i enjoyed being discovered among your graveyard items ... it is truly a homeric undertaking, your amassed collection of political info.... in any case, keep up the good work. i look forward to visiting your web site for political data in the future."
  • Dec 13: "I love what you have done with this site and I think it' s full of needed and inetersting info. I know I was so excited just to see my ancestors name there. keep up the good work! and I will try to make donations when I can. It's for a good cause.Thanks!"
  • Dec 12: "Keep up the good work. Thanks."
  • Dec 12: "Thank you for your time, and your site is AMAZING!!"
  • Dec 12: "I was just reading your website. Very informative."
  • Dec 11: "Your website is excellent!"
  • Dec 9: "I came across your website www.politicalgraveyard.com., which I find very interesting, especially because of the many ways you categorize them (lived longest, professional sports, etc.)"
  • Dec 7: "Thanks, and as always, keep up the good work."
  • Dec 4: "Keep up the excellent work."
  • Dec 2: "I wish you luck with your interesting web site; I will let others know of it."
  • Dec 2: "First of all, I want to say how much I enjoy your site."
  • Dec 2: "I've consulted your useful site from time to time and commend you for it.... your site is outstanding."
  • Dec 2: "Thank you for the valuable public service you provide with 'The Political Graveyard.' I use it frequently to check facts in my work."
  • Dec 1: "Wow, what a wonderful site. But talk about a lot of work! ... Thanks for maintaining this site!"
  • Nov 29: "Nice Job on the website. I was just wondering when you started out with the idea of putting together such a comprehensive website, how did you go about it? The sheer amount of data is just staggering and it must have been enormously time consuming? What was your method of collecting and organizing your data?"
  • Nov 27: "The Political Graveyard is a fun concept (a little unnerving for those of us still breathing and in office) and a font of historical information."
  • Nov 25: "I very much enjoy visiting the 'Political Graveyard' site.... Thanks for taking the time to develop this wonderful resource."
  • Nov 25: "Your site has been useful in researching various things."
  • Nov 23: "You have a wonderful website and I refer to it often."
  • Nov 22: "KUDOS!!"
  • Nov 22: "Thank you for providing the Internet with the information that you have complied the Political Graveyard. I already have used it repeatedly to gain a better understanding of Michigan politics and I am sure that Google will take me to your site again."
  • Nov 21: "For a person who is not 'into' politics, I am enthralled with your website. It is fascinating! My husband teaches government and I have referred him to your site, as well."
  • Nov 21: "Very interesting site. Thanks."
  • Nov 14: "I use the political graveyard all of the time."
  • Nov 11: "I'm researching a book and have often referred to your site (especially when lost and needing helpful hints to get on track again...)"
  • Nov 10: "I love the site and imagine I'll be visiting a lot as I attempt to unravel the goings-on of my people."
  • Nov 6: "I liked your website. It's pretty in depth."
  • Nov 4: "Informative website!"
  • Nov 3: "Thank you for your website, it is an honor to [my grandfather's] service."
  • Nov 3: "Thanks for putting together such a wonderfully useful and comprehensive site."
  • Nov 3: "Hi: found your site fascinating."
  • Nov 2: "I am impressed with the files of the Political Graveyard."
  • Nov 1: "Impressive website!"
  • Nov 1: "I'll take this opportunity to let you know how wonderful it is to have a site like yours out there... Keep it up!"
  • Nov 1: "You have a neat site."
  • Oct 31: "Thanks for providing your service."
  • Oct 31: "Great site!"
  • Oct 30: "Thank you for your service!
  • Oct 29: "Political Graveyard is a first-class website."
  • Oct 29: "P.S. - I like your site."
  • Oct 23: "You have put together a splendid website. On behalf of everyone who enjoys it; I thank you."
  • Sep 29: "Thank you for the incredible site you maintain!"
  • Sep 19: "Love your web site!"
  • Sep 12: "Thanks for operating such an interesting and helpful site."
  • Sep 6: "Thanks for your work!"
  • Sep 4: "You have a very interesting site."
  • Aug 21: "We appreciate your work on this important website."
  • Aug 16: "Many thanks for your work in preserving our family, state and national history through your site."
  • Jul 17: "You are really doing the nation a good service with your website. You should look into getting a federal grant or a state grant so you can keep it online. Or even corporate sponsorship, from a monument company like Rock Of Ages or something."
  • Jul 4: "1. I am a politician in England. 2. I am not dead, not even in the political world! 3. If one enters a search engine and puts my name a featured result is your site, including my name!! It a bit disconcerting to say the least. However I appreciate your site."
  • Jul 4: "First of all, congratulations on a fabulous work. The Political Graveyard is so voluminous and on a personal note, contains the name of my late father."
  • Jul 4: "I have enjoyed your site immensely over the years. I only wish I was in the position of contributing to it."
  • Jul 1: "By the way - great site!!"
  • Jun 30: "I am very impressed with your site and keep coming across it because many of my relatives appear there."
  • Jun 29: "The political graveyard is a remarkable site."
  • Jun 25: "First, as a journalist and historian -- many thanks. Your website is one of the things that truly makes the Internet a great, great resource for researchers. If they gave medals for such things, you should get one. It is fantastically impressive and complete."
  • Jun 25: "Thanks again for a very interesting site!"
  • Jun 23: "The pages look nice. Technically well put-together."
  • Jun 23: "Well done, and awards are deserved!! Thank you for the graveyard."
  • Jun 21: "Your site helped me develop background info for an upcoming article.... Thanks."
  • Jun 16: "Your site is truly amazing."
  • Jun 16: "Interesting site, thanks."
  • Jun 13: "It's a great site. Keep up the good work."
  • Jun 11: "Keep up the good work on your web page. I will try to let you know when I die."
  • Jun 9: "I love your website and am grateful for all the work you put into it."
  • Jun 1: "Thanks for a great site!"
  • May 30: "Thank you for your public service."
  • May 29: "It is very useful and interesting -- a fantastic resource for which I'm sure you receive too little appreciation."
  • May 28: "I am truly impressed with the wealth of information on your website and am very pleased to be able to associate myself with it."
  • May 28: "I have just browsed politicalgraveyard.com and am astounded by the depth of information available on your website."
  • May 27: "Keep Up The Good Work!!!"
  • May 23: "My late grandfather ... served in the New Hampshire legislature for many years.... I found it most fascinating to type in his name and find your site. Thanks so much for making my day!"
  • May 21: "You have a very interesting website in 'the political graveyard' that has provided hours of fasinating reading.... Thank you for your time, and effort, in a great website."
  • May 20: "You have a great web site!"
  • May 17: "hullo, thanks for a great website..esp liked the plane crash list of politicians."
  • May 2: "Again, the site you have amazes me."
  • Apr 29: "Your site is just fascinating!"
  • Apr 27: "Wonderful Job you are doing!"
  • Apr 27: "I came across your remarkable website. It is saved, and will be used. I wanted to send thanks, and great job."
  • Apr 26: "Thanks for a delightful site."
  • Apr 22: "First of all . . . thanks for the website. It's proven to be a tremendously valuable resource as I've begun chasing down some of the people who have played significant roles in the history of our country."
  • Apr 22: "Ran across your Political web site this morning and have spent an inordinate amount of time browsing when I should have been working. However it was informative and entertaining."
  • Apr 21: "I am just someone who happened onto your site. I am astounded by the volume of your work. It is a testament (by me at least) of the demonstration of database management. This is a great contribution to the history of our nation. I felt a humanistic connection to our forbears reading through just some of the raw data (without hyperlinks). This is important data being preserved in a searchable format. You are to be commended for your efforts. Great success to you, for you have already succeeded at a grand endeavor. By the way, have a nice day!"
  • Apr 20: " I am adding your incredible site to my links page ... your 100,000 or so politicians...I am in awe. What a tremendous amount of work. Outstanding."
  • Apr 18: "My congratulations on a remarkable site."
  • Apr 15: "One question: What drives you to do this? It must be tedious. But it must also be interesting."
  • Apr 14: "Your Political Graveyard is a great site. Lots of fun."
  • Apr 11: "I just wanted to say how much I've enjoy using your web site, The Political Graveyard. I just finished writing a book about some very obscure politicans ... In researching the story, I used your site constantly and I've cited it in the Bibliography."
  • Apr 11: "I appreciate your colossal efforts."
  • Apr 8: "Keep up the good work."
  • Apr 3: "Thank you for your outstanding website!"
  • Apr 1: "I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know about a--well, not an error, an inconsistency on your otherwise fabulous site."
  • Apr 1: "Love the site. I frequently use it to find biographical info on politicians that I have been unable to find elsewhere."
  • Mar 25: "Thank you for your database. It is most interesting!"
  • Mar 25: "I very much enjoy your web site."
  • Mar 19: "Great website!"
  • Mar 18: "I'm very impressed with the scope of information, and have added it to my bookmarks. It's not just interesting, but I suspect it will be quite useful from time to time."
  • Mar 15: "This is a WONDERFUL site!"
  • Mar 13: "Thanks for the information and very useful website."
  • Mar 13: "A donation for your site. It is a great tool for me. Thanks for your work."
  • Mar 11: "Your website is so interesting!"
  • Mar 11: "I frequently perform research online & have used your Political Graveyard for information many times. Thank you for all the valuable information."
  • Mar 11: "I frequently perform research online & have used your Political Graveyard for information many times. Thank you for all the valuable information."
  • Mar 11: "We use your database often.... Again, thank you for sharing your work with us."
  • Mar 11: "Keep up the good work."
  • Mar 10: "Fascinating Website."
  • Mar 10: "Nice work."
  • Mar 10: "Thank you for the site....I had no idea my Grandad had run for a political office."
  • Mar 9: "I have found your database very useful for personal genealogical research. Well done. Your contribution to history and genealogy is greatly appreciated!"
  • Mar 8: "I was 'playing' around on my computer and came across the website The Political Graveyard. Much to my surprise I found my grandmother's name on this website.... I did not know that she was an alternate delegate to the 1936 Republican Convention, this was confirmed by my mother. It is much to my amazement that a woman was considered for delegate at that time in history. Very interesting thank you."
  • Mar 7: "I enjoyed browsing the wealth of information you have compiled for the Political Graveyard."
  • Mar 7: "I love your Political Graveyard Website!"
  • Mar 3: "You have a great website with lots of information on it. Keep up the good work!"
  • Mar 2: "Great site."
  • Mar 1: "Thanks for the online resource. Just found it today and am having fun with it--Will I find what I seek through your political graveyard? Let's hope!"
  • Mar 1: "I appreciate your work."
  • Mar 1: "What a marvelous resource, done as a vounteer enterprise! Highly commendable, many thanks!!!!!!"
  • Feb 28: "The site is looking marvellous!"
  • Feb 26: "Your site has been so helpful to me in providing information i wouldn't know where to get elsewhere...I even sent you a small donation a while back! (something I only do with public tv & radio).... Thanks again...I'm sure you're more popular than you even know."
  • Feb 24: "Really appreciate your efforts on this site. So much history, just seeing those names again brought back a flood of memeories..."
  • Feb 24: "Hi, love your site."
  • Feb 24: "I am sending information about me to help update you for your most impressive website. Please let me know if I can help you in any other way."
  • Feb 23: "I'm in the Tenth grade. I have used your site so much and i just felt it necessary to thank you for all your hard work that has helped me so much.... you don't even know how helpful the political graveyard has been for me. And i really like the idea of a site about where all of them are buried! that must have taken a lot of research to find. Well thank you so much again."
  • Feb 23: "I very much admire your dedication to your web site; you perform an amazing service."
  • Feb 23: "Your site is very useful to family historians like me. I hope you will be able to continue it comfortably."
  • Feb 22: "Sir, as often happens, pure chance and/or wrong keystrokes drops one into a website that proves to be interesting and informative. This is how I found the Political Graveyard."
  • Feb 22: "Thanks for all the great work you do!"
  • Feb 21: "Your site is really great and I hope I turned some folks on to it."
  • Feb 18: "Love your website."
  • Feb 17: "Great web site! I'm impressed!"
  • Feb 14: "Thank you for your web site it is very interesting. Good work!"
  • Feb 14: "It's a great web site, continue the good work."
  • Feb 13: "I recently ran across your political graveyard website and found it tremendously informative. Thank you for putting it online."
  • Feb 12: "What a nice website you have created!"
  • Feb 11: "I have written you before, I am always coming to your site and I love it.... Thank you very much for the website."
  • Feb 11: "First, my initial reaction to your site, is AWESOME! Since you say you only accept mail in text format, you can't tell I made the word "awesome" in bolded, oversized font! What an amazing site you have here! ... There is so much I am overwhelmed, but this definitely falls in the category of "KEEPER! ... Clearly your site is a researcher's dream for all the bio info you provide."
  • Feb 9: "I want you to know how much I enjoy your site. To me, political trivia is great fun, and you've done a beautiful job with The Political Graveyard."
  • Feb 8: "I was looking through your fascinating website and was surprised to see ..., my grandfather, listed."
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  • Feb 1: "You have done wonderful job with this site.... Keep up the good work."
  • Feb 1: "First, let me say that I love your Political Graveyard website. I don't know where you get the time to list all of this information."
  • Jan 31: "By the way, your site is an incredible feat. I'm going to share it with our county genealogy society. You're doing a great job and a wonderful service."
  • Jan 28: "I just came across the Political Graveyard website and found it very interesting."
  • Jan 27: "Since your site is so interesting, we'll be checking back from time to time! Thanks again."
  • Jan 27: "Interesting site. Stumbled on it, and spent an hour or so browsing."
  • Jan 26: "Great site!"
  • Jan 23: "Your project is admirable."
  • Jan 23: "We have enjoyed discovering your website on political activities."
  • Jan 22: "I must say...your website is unbelievable. The most informative, comprehensive, interesting and thorough site I have visited. And by far the lengthiest...which is a good thing! I spent 4 hours searching, reading, looking and I am sure I didn't see it all...which I am thinking what it must have taken to have put together this wonderful and awesome site? I have noted your pages and will pass along to others that I contact in my research of cemetery monuments."
  • Jan 22: "Hi! I've enjoyed your web page."
  • Jan 21: "Thank you for your web site. I use it for reference often."
  • Jan 21: "I've told several people about your great Website. Keep up the good work."
  • Jan 21: "Here's a small contribution to help with the upkeep of your great/informative/helpful site. I use it quite a bit to research political memorabilia & it's a big help."
  • Jan 20: "Just wanted to thank you for the cemetery site and all the work you have put into it."
  • Jan 20: "You probably hear this a lot (at least I hope you do) but THANK YOU for that wonderful Political Graveyard web site. It just helped solve an annoying problem that would have taken at least an hour of paper-based research."
  • Jan 14: "After spending a depressingly large part of the day perusing your site I must say, in all candor, that I suspect you are absolutely crazy. I say that with deepest respect and admiration. But as a fellow political junkie I am in awe of the detail and scope of your enterprise - good job!"
  • Jan 11: "You must have put a huge amount of work into that intriguing site."
  • Jan 11: "Thank you for a useful website."
  • Jan 9: "I just examined the political graveyard page for the first time ... I found it very helpful."
  • Jan 8: "Thank you for the information. It's very helpful for my topic."
  • Jan 7: "Very wonderful resource."
  • Jan 4: "I really enjoyed this website."
  • Jan 3: "Love your Web site...and its accuracy."
  • Jan 1: "First, thank you for all the work you do."

2002

  • Dec 28: "I am Most impressed by the comprehensive data that you have amassed."
  • Dec 9: "Thanks for a very enjoyable site."
  • Dec 8: "I am enjoying your websites. Thank you."
  • Dec 1: "Thanks for providing your information online."
  • Nov 22: "Thanks for the wonderful web site."
  • Nov 7: "I just wanted to email you and say thank you."
  • Nov 2: "Please accept this information as a major contribution to a site I find really neat and informative. If I can be of any more help PLEASE do not hesitate to contact me!"
  • Oct 28: "Thank you for what you do!"
  • Oct 25: "What a great website. So interesting."
  • Oct 24: "I enjoy your Graveyard site a great deal.... Keep up the great work."
  • Oct 23: "The Political Graveyard is a great site! But I have found an error.... I only bother to make this correction because I am impressed with the site in general. I appreciate your efforts and keep up the good work!"
  • Sept 25: "Mr. Kestenbaum: I commend you on your work."
  • Sep 11: "I just saw the revised site. It looks great. I can't tell you how useful your work has been."
  • Sep 10: "I love the site, and I have used it a great deal in my research."
  • Aug 8: "I love your site and hope this helps."
  • May 1: "Hi! Great website. Absolutely fantastic resource."
  • Jun 20: "I came across yout 'Political Graveyard' site, found it quite interesting."
  • Jun 15: "Enjoyed your site! my first time on and I'm new on the computer... I really enjoyed your web site, nice work."
  • Apr 18: [After pointing out an error] "Otherwise you have a super website that is very educational and a great source of trivia, pleasure and fun!!!"
  • Mar 20: "Thanks for all the work you've done. I consider it a prodigious task and most useful resource. I found several other relatives besides dear Uncle Frank!"
  • Mar 10: "Great site."
  • Feb 18: "Thanks again for your interesting website."
  • Feb 13: "Thank you for your fine website."
  • Feb 7: "The site is a most impressive piece of work. I'm sure many have found it quite useful."

2001

  • Nov 7: "You do good work."
  • Aug 6: "I LOVE YOUR SITE."
  • Jul 11: "I found your website to be very interesting and useful in running down some relatives."
  • May 17: "I enjoyed my first foray to 'Political Graveyard' - you have done a huge amount of work."
  • Mar 29: "The information you are working on and have assembled is excellant. Keep going!"
  • Jan 3: "I happened on your website 'The Political Graveyard' and found it interesting."

2000

  • Nov 23: "I have been enjoying your website very much."
  • Sep 27: "Came across your website. Fascinating."

1997

  • Jan 29: "I have enjoyed greatly your collection of dead politicians. It, I am sure will be of help to me in the future as I occasionally research and write in Texas history."
  • Jan 28: "Wonderful site."
  • Jan 28: "You have very good information, and a lot of work."
  • Jan 27: "Your site is done in good taste."
  • Jan 27: "I love the political graveyard. Your political graveyard is a very useful contribiton. Thank you so much.. My mother was a Carroll ... I see you've got all the relevant bodies accounted for: the two Charles Carrolls (who are often confused, by the way), Daniel, etc. But I was also amazed to find my great-uncle on my father's side ... who was a fine fellow but a completely unremarkable and obscure New Deal congressman... YOU REALLY ARE THOROUGH!!!!!!!!!! Congrats and many thanks once again."
  • Jan 22: "I love your page."
  • Jan 21: "You've done a great job with your Political Graveyard; however, you seem to have left out Creek County, Oklahoma."
  • Jan 16: "I recently discovered your web site and was quite impressed by its scope."
  • Jan 16: "I enjoyed the pages and will continue to review them. Thank you."
  • Jan 14: "Thank you for the work you've put into this."
  • Jan 11: "Hello, and thank you for your very useful cemetary site giving names of politicians and where they are buried."
  • Jan 7: "Yours is an interesting WEB page, sure to be a hit in the underground culture. Thanks for bringing to life an aspect of history that's been buried too long."
  • Jan 6: "WOW, what a website. I seriously don't know how you found (and find) the time. It is a wonderful resource to all of us out here.... Keep up the great work."
  • Jan 4: "We have enjoyed browsing the Political Cemetery. Very nice job."
  • Jan 1: " Your political graveyard site is interesting. I don't particularly have an interest in politics or politicians, but your site certainly adds something unique to the resources on the net."

1996

  • Dec 23: "I have enjoyed looking over names in the Political Graveyard."
  • Dec 23: "I liked your page very much."
  • Dec 23: "An interesting subject for study. Thanks for your time and energy."
  • Dec 19: "I'm really impressed by the amount of cross-referencing you've got.... Anyway, great idea for a site."
  • Dec 12: "I'm finding the Political Graveyard to be a fascinating site -- strange but fascinating."
  • Dec 9: "Your Political Graveyard WEB Site is just outstanding. It is a fact that genealogists have great interest in your work. I believe you have developed an invaluable service that will be visited by thousands when they discover your site. I will advertise your WEB page on the different discussion groups I belong to. You have 'DONE GOOD.'"
  • Dec 5: "What a great job you did on this listing. Thanks for posting this."
  • Dec 2: "Keep up the great work. Your site has a winning combination. It's visually attractive AND it has content. Sometimes its hard to find one with both!"
  • Nov 30: "Love your site. It is absolutely fascinating."
  • Nov 27: "I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you for the Political Graveyard information that you took the time to prepare and share."
  • Nov 17: "Thanks for making this page possible."
  • Nov 12: "Hope this will assist if you update your program, which I think is great."
  • Nov 12: "Love your page!"
  • Nov 12: "Your web site is wonderful! I want you to know that I have tried for a week to find a list of USA Presidents since 190l, & today I found you. I have bookmarked your site, as there are so many other things there that look interesting. Great! Really great! Keep up the good work and know that you are appreciated."
  • Nov 11: "Hi, I appreciate your web site."

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
The Political
Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 180,022 politicians, living and dead.

The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. Web hosting is provided by Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on June 16, 2008.