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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Henry Southard (1747-1842) —
of Basking Ridge, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Hempstead, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
7, 1747.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1792-99,
1811; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1801-11, 1815-21 (3rd District
1801-03, at-large 1803-05, 6th District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09,
5th District 1809-11, 2nd District 1815-21).
Slaveowner.
Died in Basking Ridge, Somerset
County, N.J., May 22,
1842 (age 94 years, 227
days).
Interment at Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, N.J.
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Josiah Ogden Hoffman (1766-1837) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April
14, 1766.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1790-95, 1796-97, 1812-13;
New
York state attorney general, 1795-1802; appointed 1795; New York
City superior court judge, 1828-37; died in office 1837.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
24, 1837 (age 70 years, 285
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Isaac Southard (1783-1850) —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Basking Ridge, Somerset
County, N.J., August
30, 1783.
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1831-33.
Slaveowner.
Died in Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J., September
18, 1850 (age 67 years, 19
days).
Interment at Old
Cemetery, Somerville, N.J.
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Samuel Lewis Southard (1787-1842) —
also known as Samuel L. Southard —
of Hunterdon
County, N.J.; Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Basking Ridge, Somerset
County, N.J., June 9,
1787.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1815;
resigned 1815; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1815-20; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Jersey; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1821-23, 1833-42; died in office 1842;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1823-29; New
Jersey state attorney general, 1829-33; Governor of
New Jersey, 1832-33; chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1832-33.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fredericksburg,
Va., June 26,
1842 (age 55 years, 17
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Ogden Hoffman (1793-1856) —
also known as Josiah Ogden Hoffman —
of Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1793.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1826, 1828 (Orange County 1826, New York County
1828); U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1837-41; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1841-45; New York
state attorney general, 1854-55.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1856 (age 62 years, 364
days).
Entombed at St.
Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Ogden Hoffman Jr. (1822-1891) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
16, 1822.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of California, 1851-66,
1886-91; died in office 1891; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1852-54;
U.S.
District Judge for California, 1866-86.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
9, 1891 (age 68 years, 297
days).
Interment at Mt.
Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, Calif.
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