Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) —
Born in Scotland,
March
23, 1734.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1785-87; Governor
of Northwest Territory, 1788-1802; Federalist candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1790.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Injured in a fall from
an overturned horsedrawn
cart, and died a few days later, near Youngstown, Westmoreland
County, Pa., August
31, 1818 (age 84 years, 161
days).
Interment at Old
St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pa.
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Amos Lane (1778-1849) —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.
Born near Aurora, Cayuga
County, N.Y., March 1,
1778.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1833-37.
Died September
2, 1849 (age 71 years, 185
days).
Original interment at Lawrenceburg
Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; reinterment at Greendale
Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
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George W. Lane (b. 1812) —
of Aurora, Dearborn
County, Ind.
Born in Burlington, Boone
County, Ky., November
7, 1812.
Newspaper
publisher; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847, 1856; assistant Treasurer
of the United States; superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Denver,
Colorado.
Burial location unknown.
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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) —
also known as James H. Lane; "Liberator of
Kansas"; "Fighting Jim" —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., June 22,
1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1853-55; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1855, 1857; Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1855; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1861-66; died in office 1866; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Deranged, and charged
with financial irregularities, he was mortally wounded by a self-inflicted
gunshot
on July 1, 1866, and died ten days later, near Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., July 11,
1866 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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