Selected officials of Middlesex County

(not intended to be complete)

George Augustus Sanderson (District Attorney, 1902-07) Robert T. Bushnell (District Attorney, 1927-31)

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Middlesex County

• Arlington St. Paul's Cemetery
• Cambridge Cambridge Cemetery
• Cambridge Mt. Auburn Cemetery
• Cambridge Old Cambridge Cemetery
• Concord Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Dracut Varnum Cemetery
• Everett Woodlawn Cemetery
• Framingham Unknown location
• Framingham Edgell Grove Cemetery
• Groton Groton Cemetery
• Groton Town Cemetery
• Holliston Lake Grove Cemetery
• Hopkinton St. John's Cemetery
• Hudson Forestvale Cemetery
• Lexington Munroe Cemetery
• Lexington Old Burying Ground
• Lowell Hildreth Cemetery
• Lowell Lowell Cemetery
• Lowell St. Patrick's Cemetery
• Malden Unknown location
• Malden Holy Cross Cemetery
• Marlborough Immaculate Conception Cemetery
• Medford Unknown location
• Medford Oak Grove Cemetery
• Medford Salem Street Burial Ground
• Melrose Wyoming Cemetery
• Natick Dell Park Cemetery
• Natick Old Dell Park Cemetery
• Natick St. Patrick's Cemetery
• Newton Newton Cemetery
• Newton Old Burial Ground
• Newton Lower Falls, Newton St. Mary's Cemetery
• Newtonville, Newton Newton Cemetery
• Reading Unknown location
• Reading Forest Glen Cemetery
• Tewksbury Pine Hill Cemetery
• Wakefield Forest Glade Cemetery
• Wakefield Lakeside Cemetery
• Waltham Grove Hill Cemetery
• Winchester Wildwood Cemetery
• Woburn Calvary Cemetery
• Woburn Montefiore Cemetery
• Woburn Pride of Boston Cemetery
• Woburn Salem Street Cemetery

Politicians buried here:

• J. Frank Facey (1863-1943) — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in 1863. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932. Died in 1943. Interment at St. Paul's Cemetery.
  
  

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Politicians buried here:

• Charles Francis Hurley (1893-1946) — also known as Charles F. Hurley — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born November 24, 1893. Democrat. Governor of Massachusetts, 1937-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1940, 1944. Died March 24, 1946. Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• William Dean Howells (1837-1920) — of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio, March 1, 1837. Son of William Cooper Howells and Mary (Dean) Howells; married, December 24, 1862, to Elinor G. Mead. U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author; editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine, 1872-81. Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 11, 1920. Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
  
  
• William Parmenter (1789-1866) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 30, 1789. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1837-45. Died in East Cambridge, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., February 25, 1866. Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Edward J. Sennott — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924. Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
  
  

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Politicians buried here:

• Samuel Dexter (1761-1816) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 14, 1761. Father of Samuel W. Dexter. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1788; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1793-95; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1799-1800; U.S. Secretary of War, 1800; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1801. Died in Athens, Greene County, N.Y., May 4, 1816. Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Richard Olney (1835-1917) — of Massachusetts. Born in Oxford, Worcester County, Mass., September 15, 1835. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1873; U.S. Attorney General, 1893-95; U.S. Secretary of State, 1895-97; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1904. Presbyterian. Died April 8, 1917. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Edward Everett (1794-1865) — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass.; Charlestown (now part of Boston), Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Dorchester (now part of Boston), Suffolk County, Mass., April 11, 1794. Son of Rev. Oliver Everett and Lucy (Hill) Everett; brother of Alexander Hill Everett; married 1822 to Charlotte Gray Brooks (sister-in-law of Charles Francis Adams); father of William Everett. Unitarian minister; college professor; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1825-35; Governor of Massachusetts, 1836-40; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1841-45; president, Harvard College, 1846-49; U.S. Secretary of State, 1852-53; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1853-54; Constitutional Union candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860; Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, 1864. Unitarian. Delivered a lengthy speech immediately preceding Abraham Lincoln's brief Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $50 silver certificate in the 1880s. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 15, 1865. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) — also known as Robert C. Winthrop — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 12, 1809. Great-great-grandfather of John Forbes Kerry. Whig. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1835-40; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1838-40; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1840-42, 1842-50; resigned 1842, 1850; Speaker of the U.S. House, 1847-49; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1850-51; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1851; Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, 1852. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 16, 1894. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Heinz-Forbes-Kerry-Winthrop family of Massachusetts
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Robert Bacon (1860-1919) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 5, 1860. Son of William B. Bacon and Emily C. (Low) Bacon; married, October 10, 1883, to Martha Waldron Cowdin; father of Robert Low Bacon. Republican. Financier; U.S. Secretary of State, 1909; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1909-12; candidate in primary for U.S. Senator from New York, 1916; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I. Presbyterian. English ancestry. Died, from complications following surgery for mastoiditis, in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., May 29, 1919. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Bacon family of New York
  
  
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) — of Beverly, Essex County, Mass. Born in Nahant, Essex County, Mass., July 5, 1902. Great-great-great-grandson of George Cabot; great-great-grandson of Elijah Hunt Mills; great-grandson of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge; nephew of Constance Lodge (1872-1941) (who married Augustus Peabody Gardner); son of George Cabot Lodge (1873-1909) and Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen (Davis) Lodge; married, July 1, 1926, to Emily Sears (c.1906-1992) (great-great-granddaughter of Jonathan Mason; sister-in-law of Archibald Stevens Alexander); brother of John Davis Lodge; first cousin once removed of William Amory Gardner Minot; father of George Cabot Lodge (1927-). Republican. Newspaper reporter; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1933-36; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1937-44, 1947-53; resigned 1944; defeated, 1952; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1953-60; candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1960; U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, 1963-64, 1965-67; , 1967-68; Germany, 1968-69; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1964. Died in Beverly, Essex County, Mass., February 27, 1985. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • Cross-reference: Maxwell M. Rabb; Jacob J. Spiegel
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Internet Movie Database profile; Find-A-Grave page.
  
  
• Anson Burlingame (1820-1870) — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in New Berlin, Chenango County, N.Y., November 14, 1820. Member of Massachusetts state senate, 1852; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1855-61; U.S. Minister to China, 1861-67. Died in St. Petersburg, Russia, February 23, 1870. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1773-1851) — also known as Benjamin W. Crowninshield — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., December 29, 1773. Brother of Jacob Crowninshield; grandfather of Fanny Cadwalader Crowninshield (1840-1911) (who married John Quincy Adams); great-grandfather of Charles Francis Adams. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1811; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1812; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1815-18; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1823-31. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., February 3, 1851. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855) — of Massachusetts. Born in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., December 16, 1792. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1835-37, 1839-40; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1849-52. Died August 18, 1855. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) — of Massachusetts. Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., February 22, 1819. Writer, poet, critic, and abolitionist; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1877-80; Great Britain, 1880-85. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Died of cancer, in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., August 12, 1891. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831-1920) — also known as T. Jefferson Coolidge — Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., August 26, 1831. Great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson; grandson of Thomas Mann Randolph; son of Joseph Coolidge and Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Coolidge; married 1852 to Hetty Sullivan Appleton (daughter of William Appleton). Republican. Manufacturer; cotton mill business; president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and other companies; U.S. Minister to France, 1892-93. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 17, 1920. Cremated; ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  
  
• Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) — of Nahant, Essex County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 12, 1850. Great-grandson of George Cabot; son of John Ellerton Lodge (1807-1862) and Anna Sophie (Cabot) Lodge (1821-1900); married, June 29, 1871, to Anna Cabot Mills 'Nannie' Davis (1850-1915) (granddaughter of Elijah Hunt Mills; daughter of Admiral Charles Henry Davis; sister-in-law of Brooks Adams); father of Constance Lodge (1872-1941) (who married Augustus Peabody Gardner) and George 'Bay' Lodge (1873-1909) (grandson-in-law of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen); grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and John Davis Lodge; great-grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot and George Cabot Lodge. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1880-81; Massachusetts Republican state chair, 1883; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1887-93; resigned 1893; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924; died in office 1924; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1904, 1908, 1916, 1920, 1924. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died, after a severe stroke, at Charlesgate Hospital, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., November 9, 1924. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • Cross-reference: Louis A. Coolidge; Albert Henry Washburn
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861) — of Massachusetts. Born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., January 9, 1781. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1811-14, 1820, 1829; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1821-22; chief justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1830-60. Drew up the first charter of the city of Boston in 1822-23; wrote the decision in Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842, which exempted labor unions from the criminal conspiracy law. Related by marriage to the author Herman Melville. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 30, 1861. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Charles Sumner (1811-1874) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Massachusetts, 1811. U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1851-74; died in office 1874. In May, 1856, he suffered severe injuries in an assault by South Carolina Rep. Preston S. Brooks, who was furious over an anti-slavery speech. Died in 1874. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • Cross-reference: Laurence Massillon Keitt
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 8, 1765. Son of Elizabeth (Gray) Otis and Samuel Alleyne Otis; married, May 31, 1790, to Sally Foster (1770-1836); third cousin once removed of Oran Gray Otis, Asa H. Otis, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); third cousin twice removed of Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis, Norton Prentiss Otis, Lauren Ford Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; grandfather of James Otis (1836-1898); great-great-grandfather of Robert Helyer Thayer. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1796; U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1796; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1797-1801; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1805; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1814; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1817-22; Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1823; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1829-31. Harrison, Maine, is named for him. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 28, 1848. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Otis family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• William Eustis Russell (1857-1896) — also known as William E. Russell — of Massachusetts. Born January 6, 1857. Democrat. Governor of Massachusetts, 1891-94; defeated, 1888, 1889. Died July 14, 1896. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Roger Wolcott (1847-1900) — of Massachusetts. Born July 13, 1847. Republican. Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1893-97; Governor of Massachusetts, 1896-1900. Died December 21, 1900. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848) — of Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H. Born in Connecticut, 1768. New Hampshire state attorney general, 1802-05; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1813-19; member of New Hampshire state legislature. Died in 1848. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Rufus Choate (1799-1859) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in Hog Island, Ipswich, Essex County, Mass., October 1, 1799. Brother of George Choate; uncle of Joseph Hodges Choate. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1831-35; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1841-45; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1853-54; resigned 1854. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. Died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1859. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Choate family of Massachusetts
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Horace Gray (1828-1902) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 24, 1828. Lawyer; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1864-81; chief justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1873-81; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-1902. Unitarian. Died September 15, 1902. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • Cross-reference: Louis D. Brandeis
  
  
• Francis Cabot Lowell (1855-1911) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 7, 1855. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1895; U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts, 1898; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1905-11; died in office 1911. Member, American Bar Association. Died March 6, 1911. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Jonathan Mason (1756-1831) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., September 12, 1756. Great-great-grandfather of Emily Sears (who married Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.) and Jean Struthers Sears (who married Archibald Stevens Alexander); great-great-great-grandfather of George Cabot Lodge. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1786-96, 1805-08; member of Massachusetts Governor's Council, 1797-98; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1799-1800, 1803-04; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1800-03; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1817-20. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 1, 1831. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Edward Kent (1802-1877) — of Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine. Born January 8, 1802. Father of Edward Kent, Jr.. Mayor of Bangor, Maine, 1836-37; Governor of Maine, 1838-39, 1841-42; defeated, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1841; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856; justice of Maine state supreme court, 1859-73. Died of heart failure, May 19, 1877. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Peleg Sprague (1793-1880) — of Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Massachusetts, 1793. Grandfather of Charles Franklin Sprague. Whig. Member of Maine state legislature; U.S. Representative from Maine 4th District, 1825-29; U.S. Senator from Maine, 1829-35; candidate for Governor of Maine, 1834; delegate to Whig National Convention from Massachusetts, 1839. Died in 1880. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• George Cabot (1752-1823) — of Massachusetts. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., December 3, 1752. Married to Elizabeth Higginson (1756-1826); great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge; great-great-great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and John Davis Lodge; great-great-great-great-grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot and George Cabot Lodge. Delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1777; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1791-96. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., April 18, 1823. Original interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; reinterment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., February 4, 1772. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1804-05, 1813-20; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1805-13; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1821-22; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1823-28. Died in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., July 1, 1864. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Edward Kent, Jr. (1862-1916) — of Arizona. Born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, August 8, 1862. Son of Edward Kent. Chief justice of Arizona territorial supreme court, 1902-12. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., July 30, 1916. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Frederic Dodge (1847-1927) — of Massachusetts. Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., April 4, 1847. U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts, 1905-12; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1912-18. Died March 7, 1927. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• John Quincy Adams Brackett (1842-1918) — also known as John Q. A. Brackett — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Arlington, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Bradford, Merrimack County, N.H., June 8, 1842. Son of Ambrose S. Brackett and Nancy (Brown) Brackett; married, June 20, 1878, to Angie M. Peck. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1877-82, 1884-87; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1885-87; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1887-90; Governor of Massachusetts, 1890-91; defeated, 1890; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1892; Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, 1896, 1900. Died April 6, 1918. Entombed at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 5, 1798. Great-grandfather of Thomas Hopkinson Eliot. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1834; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1837-39; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1843; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1850-51. Died January 29, 1862. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Joseph Story (1779-1845) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass.; Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Marblehead, Essex County, Mass., September 18, 1779. Granduncle of Bert J. Storey. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1805-07; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1808-09; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1811-45. Unitarian. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., September 10, 1845. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Story County, Iowa is named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Harry A. Blackmun
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Joseph Albree Gilmore (1811-1867) — also known as Joseph A. Gilmore — of Concord, Merrimack County, N.H. Born June 10, 1811. Member of New Hampshire state senate 4th District, 1858-60; Governor of New Hampshire, 1863-65. Died April 7, 1867. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• John Prescott Bigelow (1797-1872) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., August 25, 1797. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1828; secretary of state of Massachusetts, 1836; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1849-51. Died July 4, 1872. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Nathan Matthews, Jr. (1854-1927) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 28, 1854. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, 1888; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1891-94. Episcopalian. Died, of a pulmonary embolism, in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., December 11, 1927. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Robert Luce (1862-1946) — of Somerville, Middlesex County, Mass.; Waltham, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, December 2, 1862. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1899, 1901-08; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1912-13; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1919-35, 1937-41 (13th District 1919-33, 9th District 1933-35, 1937-41); defeated, 1934, 1940. Unitarian. Member, Freemasons. Died April 7, 1946. Cremated; ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Emory Washburn (1800-1877) — of Massachusetts. Born February 14, 1800. Whig. Governor of Massachusetts, 1854-55. Died March 18, 1877. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Otis Norcross (1811-1882) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 2, 1811. Candidate for Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1861; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1867; member of Massachusetts Governor's Council, 1869. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., September 5, 1882. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Augustus Pearl Martin (1835-1902) — also known as Augustus Martin — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Abbot, Piscataquis County, Maine, November 23, 1835. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1884. Unitarian. Member, Loyal Legion. Died in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 12, 1902. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Charles Lee Underhill (1867-1946) — also known as Charles L. Underhill — of Somerville, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Richmond, Va., July 20, 1867. Son of Jesse Johnson Underhill and Sallie (Clements) Underhill; married, February 25, 1892, to Edith Lamprey. Republican. Blacksmith; hardware merchant; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1921-33. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Elks. Died in 1946. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Leopold Morse (1831-1892) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Germany, August 15, 1831. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1876, 1880; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1877-85, 1887-89 (4th District 1877-83, 5th District 1883-85, 3rd District 1887-89); defeated, 1870, 1872. Jewish. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., December 15, 1892. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Timothy Fuller (1778-1835) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Massachusetts, 1778. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1817-25 (13th District 1817-19, 1st District 1819-25). Died in 1835. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• William Appleton (1786-1862) — of Massachusetts. Born in Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass., November 16, 1786. Son of Rev. Joseph Appleton; cousin of Nathan Appleton; married to Mary Ann Cutler (1794-1860); first cousin once removed of John Appleton; father of Hetty Sullivan Appleton (who married Thomas Jefferson Coolidge). U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55, 1861 (1st District 1851-53, 5th District 1853-55, 1861); defeated, 1854, 1856. Died in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., February 15, 1862. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Charles Wells — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Mayor of Boston, Mass., 1832-33. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• Richard Fletcher (1788-1869) — of Massachusetts. Born in Vermont, 1788. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1837-39; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1848-53. Died in 1869. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• John Forrester Andrew (1850-1895) — also known as John F. Andrew — of Massachusetts. Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass., November 26, 1850. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1880-82; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1884-85; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1886; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1889-93; defeated, 1892. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 30, 1895. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Artemas Ward, Jr. (1762-1847) — of Massachusetts. Born in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Mass., January 9, 1762. Son of Artemas Ward. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1796-1800, 1811; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 1st District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts state senate, 1818-19; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; state court judge in Massachusetts, 1820-39. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., 1847. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Charles Franklin Sprague (1857-1902) — also known as Charles F. Sprague — of Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Massachusetts, 1857. Grandson of Peleg Sprague. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1897-1901. Died January 30, 1902. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) — Born in Vienna, Austria, November 15, 1882. Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62. Jewish. Member, American Civil Liberties Union; Council on Foreign Relations. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Suffered a heart attack, and died the next day, in George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1965. Cremated; ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • Books about Felix Frankfurter: H. N. Hirsch, The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter; James F Simon, The antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and civil liberties in modern America; Melvin I. Urofsky, Felix Frankfurter: Judicial Restraint and Individual Liberties; Robert A. Burt, Two Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land
  
  
• Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, N.H., October 6, 1779. Son of Isaac Appleton (1731-1806) and Mary (Adams) Appleton (1742-1827); married, April 13, 1806, to Maria Theresa Gold (1786-1833); married, January 8, 1839, to Harriet Coffin Sumner (1804-1867); cousin of William Appleton; father-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet). Merchant; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1815-16, 1821, 1823-24, 1827; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1831-33, 1842. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 14, 1861. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
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• Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874) — also known as Benjamin R. Curtis — of Massachusetts. Born in Watertown, Middlesex County, Mass., November 4, 1809. Father of Annie Wroe Scollay Curtis (who married Seth Low). Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1849; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1851-57. Episcopalian. Died September 15, 1874. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Butler-Straus-Belmont-Pickens family of New York
  
  
• Elisha Hunt Allen (1804-1883) — also known as Elisha H. Allen — Born in New Salem, Franklin County, Mass., January 28, 1804. Son of Samuel Clesson Allen. Member of Maine state house of representatives, 1835-40, 1846-47; Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives, 1838; U.S. Representative from Maine 1st District, 1841-43; defeated, 1842; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1849-50; U.S. Consul in Honolulu, 1849-53. Died suddenly while attending a diplomatic reception at the White House, Washington, D.C., January 1, 1883. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• John Wilson Candler (1828-1903) — also known as John W. Candler — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., February 10, 1828. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1881-83, 1889-91 (8th District 1881-83, 9th District 1889-91); defeated, 1890. Died in Providence, Providence County, R.I., March 16, 1903. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• William Everett (1839-1910) — also known as "Piggy" — of Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, 1839. Son of Edward Everett. College professor; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1893-95; defeated (Democratic), 1890 (6th District), 1892 (7th District); National Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1897. Died in 1910. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Frederick Simpson Deitrick (1875-1948) — also known as Frederick S. Deitrick — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pa., April 9, 1875. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1913-15; defeated, 1906 (8th District), 1908 (8th District), 1910 (8th District), 1914 (8th District), 1916 (8th District), 1932 (9th District). Died in Middleton, Essex County, Mass., May 24, 1948. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Peleg Coffin, Jr. (1756-1805) — of Massachusetts. Born in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., November 3, 1756. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1793-95. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 6, 1805. Original interment at Friends Burial Grounds, Boston, Mass.; reinterment in 1833 at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Asahel Stearns (1774-1839) — of Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, 1774. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1815-17. Died in 1839. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Edward Daniel Hayden (1833-1908) — also known as Edward D. Hayden — of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., December 27, 1833. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1880; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1885-89. Died in Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., November 15, 1908. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Albert Smith (1793-1867) — of Maine. Born in Massachusetts, 1793. Democrat. Member of Maine state legislature; U.S. Representative from Maine 8th District, 1839-41. Died in 1867. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• John Wiley Edmands (1809-1877) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 1, 1809. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1853-55. Died in Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., January 31, 1877. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Samuel Hurd Walley (1805-1877) — of Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, 1805. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1853-55. Died in 1877. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Selwyn Zadock Bowman (1840-1928) — of Somerville, Middlesex County, Mass.; Cohasset, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 11, 1840. Son of Zadock Bowman and Rosetta (Cram) Bowman; married, June 20, 1866, to Martha E. Tufts. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1870-71, 1873; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1876-77; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1879-83. Member, Freemasons. Died in Framingham, Middlesex County, Mass., September 30, 1928. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 2, 1796. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1847-49. Died in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., April 26, 1881. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• John McKeown Snow Williams (1818-1886) — of Massachusetts. Born in Virginia, 1818. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1873-75. Died in 1886. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Theodore Lyman (1833-1897) — of Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, 1833. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1883-85. Died in 1897. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (1907-1991) — also known as Thomas H. Eliot — of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., June 14, 1907. Great-grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862); son of Samuel Atkins Eliot and Frances Stone (Hopkinson) Eliot; married, October 10, 1936, to Lois A. Jameson. Democrat. Newspaper reporter; lawyer; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1941-43; defeated, 1938, 1942, 1944. Unitarian. Died in 1991. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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• George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Richmond, Va., 1834. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1869-71; municipal judge in Massachusetts, 1883. Black. First black graduate of Harvard Law School, 1869. Died in 1886. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  
• William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) — also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk), Va., November 28, 1868. Son of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis; married, September 26, 1896, to Elizabeth Baker. Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1902. Black. Baptist; later Catholic. Died, of heart failure, in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 1, 1949. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
  
  

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• Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) — of Massachusetts. Born in North Hampton, Rockingham County, N.H., February 23, 1751. Father of Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95, 1st District 1795-97); U.S. Secretary of War, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1822-24. Member, Freemasons. Died in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Suffolk County, Mass., June 6, 1829. Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834 at Mt. Auburn Cemetery; reinterment in 1848 at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. Dearborn County, Ind. is named for him.
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• Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., January 2, 1797. Member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1820; South Carolina state attorney general, 1830; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1832-36; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 5th District, 1837-39; U.S. Attorney General, 1841-43; died in office 1843. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., June 20, 1843. Original interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery; reinterment at Magnolia Cemetery, Near Charleston, Charleston County, S.C.
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Politicians buried here:

• Francis Dana (1743-1811) — of Massachusetts. Born in Charlestown (now part of Boston), Suffolk County, Mass., June 13, 1743. Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1777-78, 1784; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1778; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1780-83; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1785-1806; chief justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1791-1806. Died in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., April 25, 1811. Interment at Old Cambridge Cemetery.
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• Isaiah Lewis Green (1761-1841) — also known as Isaiah L. Green — of Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass. Born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., December 28, 1761. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1805-09, 1811-13. Died in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., December 5, 1841. Interment at Old Cambridge Cemetery.
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• Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895) — of Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., February 21, 1816. Grandson of Roger Sherman; son of Samuel Hoar and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar; first cousin of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Sherman Day and William Maxwell Evarts; married 1840 to Caroline Downes Brooks; brother of George Frisbie Hoar; uncle of Rockwood Hoar; father of Sherman Hoar; grandfather of Roger Sherman Hoar. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state senate, 1846; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1849-55; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1859-69; U.S. Attorney General, 1869-70; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1873-75. Died in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., January 31, 1895. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
  • See also Hoar-Baldwin-Foster-Sherman family of Massachusetts
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• George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) — also known as George F. Hoar — of Worcester, Worcester County, Mass. Born in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., August 29, 1826. Grandson of Roger Sherman; son of Samuel Hoar; brother of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; first cousin of William Maxwell Evarts; father of Rockwood Hoar; uncle of Sherman Hoar; granduncle of Roger Sherman Hoar. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1852; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1857; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1869-77 (8th District 1869-73, 9th District 1873-77); U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904; died in office 1904. Died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., September 30, 1904. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
  • See also Hoar-Baldwin-Foster-Sherman family of Massachusetts
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) — also known as Nathaniel Hathorne — of Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., July 4, 1804. Son of Nathaniel Hathorne; married, July 9, 1842, to Sophia Amelia Peabody (1809-1871); great-grandfather of Olcott Hawthorne Deming; great-great-grandfather of Rust Macpherson Deming. Famed novelist and short story writer; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57. English ancestry. Died in Plymouth, Grafton County, N.H., May 19, 1864. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; statue at Hawthorne Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
  • See also Deming family
  • See also: Wikipedia article; NNDB dossier.
  • Fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter; Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Books about Nathaniel Hawthorne: Brenda Wineapple, Hawthorne : A Life; Luther S. Luedtke, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient
  
  
• Sherman Hoar (1860-1898) — of Massachusetts. Born in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., July 30, 1860. Great-grandson of Roger Sherman; grandson of Samuel Hoar; son of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; nephew of George Frisbie Hoar; second cousin of Simeon Eben Baldwin, Roger Sherman Greene, Maxwell Evarts, Thomas Day Thacher and Roger Kent; first cousin of Rockwood Hoar; father of Roger Sherman Hoar. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1891-93; U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893-97. Died October 7, 1898. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
  • See also Hoar-Baldwin-Foster-Sherman family of Massachusetts
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• William Whiting (1813-1873) — of Massachusetts. Born in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., March 3, 1813. Republican. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1873; died in office 1873. Died June 29, 1873. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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• George Merrick Brooks (1824-1893) — of Massachusetts. Born in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., July 26, 1824. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1858; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1859; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1869-72; probate judge in Massachusetts, 1872. Died in Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., September 22, 1893. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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• Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) — of Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Lincoln, Middlesex County, Mass., May 18, 1778. Married 1813 to Sarah Sherman (daughter of Roger Sherman); father of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar and George Frisbie Hoar; grandfather of Rockwood Hoar and Sherman Hoar. Whig. Lawyer; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1826, 1832-33; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1835-37; delegate to Whig National Convention from Massachusetts, 1839; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1850. Died November 2, 1856. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
  • See also Hoar-Baldwin-Foster-Sherman family of Massachusetts
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• George Washington Wright (1816-1885) — of California. Born in Massachusetts, 1816. U.S. Representative from California at-large, 1849-51. Died in 1885. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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• Joseph Bradley Varnum (1751-1821) — also known as Joseph B. Varnum — of Dracut, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Dracut, Middlesex County, Mass., January 29, 1751. Brother of James Mitchell Varnum. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1780-85; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1786-95, 1817-21; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1795-1811 (9th District 1795-97, at-large 1797-1805, 4th District 1805-11); Speaker of the U.S. House, 1807-11; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1811-17. Died in Dracut, Middlesex County, Mass., September 21, 1821. Interment at Varnum Cemetery.
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Politicians buried here:

• Ernest William Roberts (1858-1924) — also known as Ernest W. Roberts — of Chelsea, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in East Madison, Somerset County, Maine, November 22, 1858. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1894-96; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1897-98; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1899-1917 (7th District 1899-1913, 9th District 1913-17); defeated, 1916. Died in 1924. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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• Francis Ball Fay (1793-1876) — also known as Francis B. Fay — of Chelsea, Suffolk County, Mass.; Lancaster, Worcester County, Mass. Born in Southborough, Worcester County, Mass., June 12, 1793. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1830-31, 1834-36, 1840; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1843-45, 1848, 1868; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1852-53; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856; mayor of Chelsea, Mass., 1857. Died in South Lancaster, Lancaster, Worcester County, Mass., October 6, 1876. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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• Henry Souther (1826-1891) — of Ridgway, Elk County, Pa.; Erie, Erie County, Pa.; Lynn, Essex County, Mass. Born in Charlestown (now part of Boston), Suffolk County, Mass., March 5, 1826. Son of Joseph Souther and Hepsie (Armisted) Souther; married 1850 to Letitia Patterson; second cousin thrice removed of Marc Hubbard Souther. Republican. Lawyer; Elk County Treasurer, 1847; member of Pennsylvania state senate, 1855; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1860, 1868; county judge in Pennsylvania, 1871. English ancestry. Died in 1891. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
  
  
• James Power (1835-1876) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in 1835. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1876. Died in 1876. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• David Christopher Ahearn (1879-1925) — also known as David C. Ahearn — of Framingham, Middlesex County, Mass.; Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colo.; Denver, Colo. Born in Rotherham, England, November 4, 1879. Son of John Ahearn and Mary (Kerwin) Ahearn; married, December 27, 1909, to Jane Francis Shea. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1