Selected officials of Dutchess County

(not intended to be complete)

William W. Woodworth (County Judge, 1838) Samuel K. Phillips (County Judge, 1896)

Politicians who were born in Dutchess County

• No city given: Jediah Prendergast 1766 Smith Thompson 1768 Duncan McArthur 1772 Henry Brush 1778 Roswell Beebe 1795 Stallham W. LaDu 1823 Jacob S. Deuel 1830 W. Irving Latimer 1836
• Amenia: Obadiah German 1766 John Miller 1774 Samuel Herrick 1779 Fitch R. Williams 1824
• Beacon: Austin Hoyt 1915
• Beekman: Ransom Halloway c.1793
• Clinton town: Henry A. Gildersleeve 1840
• Dover: Thomas Taber II 1785 Nathan Soule 1790 Stephen Taber 1821
• Dover Plains: John H. Ketcham 1832 Henry B. Ketcham 1865
• Fishkill: Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook 1821
• Near Fishkill: Theodorus Bailey 1758
• Hyde Park: William Nelson 1784 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882
• Mansfield: O. Vincent Coffin 1836
• Matteawan (now part of Beacon): James V. Forrestal 1892
• Pawling: Howard N. Allen 1873
• Pine Plains: Nicholas Van Slyck 1829
• Pleasant Valley: Walter Case 1776 John R. Drake 1782 Gilbert Dean 1819
• Poughkeepsie: Jonas Platt 1769 Daniel LeRoy 1775 Stephen Randall Harris 1802 Philip S. Crooke 1810 Richard E. Connell 1857 Edmund Platt 1865 John E. Mack 1874 Benjamin A. Gilman 1922
• Near Poughkeepsie: John Edwards 1781 Thomas J. Oakley 1783 Charles Bodle 1787
• Rhinebeck: John A. Quitman 1799 Richard Schell 1810 Augustus Schell 1812
• Shekomeko: Abraham Bockee 1784
• Stanford: Joel Thompson 1760 James Tallmadge, Jr. 1778 Isaac R. Sherwood 1835 B. Platt Carpenter 1837
• Wappingers Falls: Frederick W. Rowe 1863
• Wassaic: Walter H. Jaycox 1863
• See also N.Y. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

Politicians who lived in Dutchess County

• No city given:
  • Lived in No city given, 1770-1779: Dirck Brinckerhoff - Annanias Cooper - Joseph Crane, Jr. - Samuel Dodge - Jacob Evertson - Anthony Hoffman - Gilbert Livingston - Henry Ludenton - Andrew Moorhouse - Brinton Paine - Nathaniel Sacket - John Schenck - Jacobus Swartwout
  • Lived in No city given, 1780-1789: Jonathan Akin - Samuel A. Barker - Benjamin Birdsall - Isaac Bloom - Abraham Brinckerhoff - Dirck Brinckerhoff - Peter Cantine, Jr. - Ebenezer Cary - Annanias Cooper - Joseph Crane, Jr. - Jonathan Dennis - John De Witt - John De Witt, Jr. - Samuel Dodge - Lewis Duboys - Morris Graham - Jacob Griffin - Anthony Hoffman - Cornelius Humfrey - Ebenezer Husted - Gilbert Livingston - Henry Ludenton - Abraham Paine - Brinton Paine - Nathaniel Sacket - Guisbert Schenck - Thomas Storm - Jacobus Swartwout - James Tallmadge - Isaac J. Talman
  • Lived in No city given, 1790-1799: Abraham Adriance - Jonathan Akin - Samuel A. Barker - William Barker - Isaac Bloom - Jacob Bockee - James Bockee - David Brooks - Lemuel Clift - Joseph Crane, Jr. - Richard Davis - John De Witt, Jr. - Henry Dodge - William Emott - Joseph C. Field - Daniel Graham - Jacob Griffin - Josiah Holly - Luther Holly - Ebenezer Husted - Robert Johnston - Ebenezer Mott - Jesse Oakley - Barnabas Payen - William Pearce - Joseph Potter - Jacob Radclift - William Radclift - Henry Schenck - Philip J. Schuyler - Isaac Sherwood - Jacob Smith - Platt Smith - Jonathan Soule - Solomon Sutherland - William Taber - James Tallmadge - Isaac J. Talman - John Thomas - Jesse Thompson - Samuel Towner - John Van Benthuysen - David Van Ness - Isaac Van Wyck - William B. Verplanck - William Wheeler
  • Lived in No city given, 1800-1809: Abraham Adriance - Albro Akin - Benjamin Akin - Devoue Bailey - Samuel A. Barker - William Barker - Elisha Barlow - George Bloom - Derick A. Brinckerhoff - David Brooks - Barnabas Carver - George Casey - Lemuel Clift - Job Crawford - Cyrenus Crosby - Koert Dubois - Nicholas H. Emigh - William Emott - Joseph C. Field - Harry Garrison - Joseph E. Haff - Ebenezer Haight - John Haight - Aaron Hazen - Benjamin Herrick - Isaac Hunting - John Jewett - Robert Johnston - John Martin - Thomas Mitchell - Ebenezer Mott - Alexander Neely - John Patterson - Theron Rudd - Zalman Sanford - Abraham H. Schenck - Isaac Sherwood - Alexander Spencer - Philip Spencer, Jr. - John Storm - Tobias L. Stoutenbergh - William Taber - Benajah Thompson - Jesse Thompson - John Thompson - Smith Thompson - John M. Thurston - Samuel Towner - John Van Benthuysen - Isaac Van Wyck - Theodorus R. Van Wyck - William D. Williams - Martin E. Winchel - James Winchell - Veniah Wooley
  • Lived in No city given, 1810-1819: Samuel A. Barker - David Brooks - Lemuel Clift - Koert Dubois - Ebenezer Haight - Alexander Neely - Shadrach Sherman - Isaac Van Wyck
  • Lived in No city given, 1820-1829: Peter R. Livingston
  • Lived in No city given, 1830-1839: Joel Benton - Robert Coffin - Samuel B. Halsey - Eli Hamblin - William Hooker - Michael S. Martin - Israel Shadbolt - John E. Townsend
  • Lived in No city given, 1850-1859: Augustus L. Allen - William H. Bostwick - Cornelius N. Campbell - Jacob B. Carpenter - Franklin Dudley - Albert Emans - John S. Emans - William H. Feller - Stephen Haight - John M. Keese - D. C. Marshall - Augustus Martin - Peter P. Montfoort - Charles Robinson - Howland R. Sherman - George W. Sterling - Minor C. Story - Daniel O. Ward - James H. Weeks
  • Lived in No city given, 1900-1909: Platt N. Chase - Welcome H. Lawson - Daniel B. Sampson - Richard Tompkins - W. Martin Watson
  • Lived in No city given, 1910-1919: Madison Aldrich - Fred Crum - Francis R. Curran - Kate T. Griffin - Bird Kendall - William H. B. Obre - Alfred C. Perkins - Joseph C. Rothery - D. J. Williams
  • Lived in No city given, 1920-1929: Alonzo Abbott - Claude Coumbe - Silas L. Davis - Charles J. DeMask - George S. Halstead - Harold Hasbrouck - Judson Hey - J. Edward Laird - Edward H. MacDonald - Joseph J. Maher - James B. Peattie - Alfred C. Perkins - Paul A. Rieser - Joseph C. Rothery - Cecil D. Sherow - Charles S. Tanner - Thomas J. Todarelli - Willard H. Tompkins - Fred H. Vanderwater - George Worrall
  • Lived in No city given, 1930-1939: Ethel S. Brasseit - James A. Buckley - Denwood Chapin - Francis G. Crispi - George Elsbree, Jr. - Helen G. H. Estelle - Emory J. Hey - Robert F. Jones - Martha Koopman - Max Leiberman - Ralph Lovelock - Bernard F. MacDonald - Gerald E. MacDonald - Thomas D. Mahar - Stanley F. Odell - Hans Peters - Clara Rogers - Joseph C. Rothery - Samuel Scheib - Cecil D. Sherow - Michael Stefanik - Charles Townsend - David N. Wilber - Delbert Williams
  • Lived in No city given, 1940-1949: Leo A. Burns - Merrill S. Effron - Christopher Kiernan - Ralph Lovelock - Lloyd H. Nichols - E. Valentine Thompson - Edmund Weil
  • Lived in No city given, 1950-1959: Austin K. Knickerbocker - Gus Leo - James B. Russell - James Stearns, Jr.
• Amenia: E. Darwin Morse - Abiah W. Palmer
• Arlington: Margaret Mack
• Arthursburg: Fred B. Pulling
• Barrytown: Margaret C. Aldrich - Jean P. Bordewich - William Chamberlain - Lewis S. Chanler - William A. Chanler - Gore Vidal
• Beacon: Samuel Beskin - Nina Blanchfield - J. Lewis Bolton - Robert L. Cahill - Thomas J. Cunningham - Thomas H. DeLaire - Robert W. Doughty - James V. Forrestal - J. Albert Frost - Irving J. Justus - Henry A. Kennelly - E. A. Macomber - Samuel K. Phillips - Robert T. Pugsley - Alfred P. Russell - J. Gordon Tompkins - Charles F. Wolf
• Chestnut Ridge: Edgar Vincent
• Clinton Corners: Joseph F. Hawkins - J. Griswold Webb
• Clinton Hollow: Wesley Butts
• Dover Plains: James A. Benson - John J. Hall - John H. Ketcham - Anna Vincent - George E. Whalen
• Federal Store: James Hammond
• Fishkill: Elizabeth Brilliant - Walter G. Russell - Leonard J. Supple - Daniel C. Verplanck
• Fishkill Landing (now part of Beacon): John F. Schlosser
• Fishkill-on-Hudson (now part of Beacon): Ferdinand A. Hoyt - James Mackin - John T. Smith
• Glenham (now part of Beacon): J. Gordon Flannery
• Hopewell Junction: Samuel Lesher - Patrick R. Manning - Elinor F. Morgenthau - Henry Morgenthau, Jr. - Benjamin P. Roosa, Jr.
• Hyde Park: David Collins, Jr. - Marion Dickerman - Lucille P. Pattison - Edmund H. Pendleton - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Elmer Van Wagner - J. Griswold Webb - William W. Woodworth
• Matteawan (now part of Beacon): Joseph Howland - William H. Mase - Samuel K. Phillips
• Millbrook: James T. Aspbury - Frederic H. Bontecou - Hamilton Fish, Jr. - Michael Murphy - Thomas Riggs, Jr. - Myron Smith - Oakleigh Thorne, Sr.
• Millerton: Daniel J. Gleason - Edward H. Thompson
• New Hamburg: Alexander Hamilton
• Pawling: Howard N. Allen - Alger B. Chapman - Thomas E. Dewey - John B. Dutcher
• Pleasant Valley: Vincent D. Gleason - Chester Husted
• Poughkeepsie:
  • Lived in Poughkeepsie, 1750-1799: James Kent
  • Lived in Poughkeepsie, 1800-1849: Thomas J. Oakley - Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
  • Lived in Poughkeepsie, 1850-1899: Stephen Baker - Benjamin S. Broas - B. Platt Carpenter - Richard E. Connell - Gilbert Dean - Harvey Gridley Eastman - James W. Hinckley - Homer Augustus Nelson - Francis A. Sanford - John A. Vandewater - Albert Van Kleeck
  • Lived in Poughkeepsie, 1900-1949: Raymond E. Aldrich - Ralph F. Butts - Alexander Caven - Charles F. Close - Andrew Cogan - Mary W. Conger - Frank M. Doran - Emerson D. Fite - Frank L. Gardner - Horace S. Graham - John M. Hackett - Ernest I. Hatfield - Robert Hey - William Bancroft Hill - George M. Hine - Willet E. Hoysradt - Robert H. Hunter - John A. Kelly - Frank B. Lovelace - Thomas M. Lynch - John E. Mack - Margaret Mack - Joseph Morschauser - Frederick Northrup - Edward E. Perkins - Edmund Platt - Robert Watson Pomeroy - Allan A. Ryan, Jr. - John K. Sague - William H. Schrauth - George V. L. Spratt - James Townsend - Everett H. Travis - Daniel W. Wilbur
  • Lived in Poughkeepsie, 1950-1999: Emeel S. Betros - Richard J. Brady - J. Thomas Dietz - Frederica Goodman - Ernest I. Hatfield - Joseph F. Hawkins - Albert L. Hecht - Clarence Johnson - Frances A. Knapp - Joel Miller - Daniel E. O'Keefe - Jay P. Rolison, Jr. - Stephen M. Saland - Jeanne Selmer - Robert E. Stevens - Victor C. Waryas
  • Lived in Poughkeepsie, 2000-2008: Michael Kasper - Joel Miller
• Red Hook: Egbert Benson - Henry Staats - Thomas Tillotson
• Rhinebeck: Helen Astor - George Esselstyn - William Kelly - Morgan Lewis - Allan A. Ryan, Jr.
• Rhinecliff: William A. Tripp
• South Dover: Obed Wheeler
• Staatsburg: Charles H. W. Arnold - Francis G. Landon - William Smalley
• Stanfordville: Glenn E. Warren
• Tivoli: Ethel L. Block - Johnston L. De Peyster
• Verbank: Richard Collins
• Wappingers Falls: Pauline Egan - Donald H. McMillen
• Wassaic: Robert Watson Pomeroy
• See also N.Y. areas not assigned to counties.

Politicians who died in Dutchess County

• No city given: Isaac Bloom 1803 Jacob S. Deuel ?
• Amenia: Ephraim Paine 1785
• Fishkill: Walter Case 1859
• Near Fishkill: Daniel C. Verplanck 1834
• Fishkill-on-Hudson (now part of Beacon): William Few 1828
• Hyde Park: Nathaniel Pendleton 1821 James Kirke Paulding 1860
• Pleasant Valley: Jacob Evertson 1807
• Poughkeepsie: David Brooks 1838 Smith Thompson 1843 Charles H. Ruggles 1865 Gilbert Dean 1870 Richard E. Connell 1912 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. 1988
• Red Hook: John Armstrong, Jr. 1843
• Rhinebeck: Peter R. Livingston 1847
• Shekomeko: Abraham Bockee 1865
• Wingdale: Jacob Falconer 1928
• See also N.Y. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Dutchess County

• South Amenia Cemetery
• Private or family graveyards
• Near Amenia Red Meeting House Cemetery
• Beacon Dutch Reform Churchyard
• Beacon Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
• Dover Plains Valley View Cemetery
• Fishkill Unknown location
• Fishkill Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery
• Fishkill Dutch Reformed Churchyard
• Fishkill Fishkill Rural Cemetery
• Fishkill Rural Cemetery
• Fishkill Trinity Church Cemetery
• Fishkill Trinity Churchyard
• Gardner Hollow Apoquage Friends Meeting Burial Ground
• Hyde Park Roosevelt Home
• Hyde Park St. James Cemetery
• Hyde Park St. James' Churchyard
• Millbrook Nine Partners Burial Ground
• Pawling Pawling Cemetery
• Pine Plains Pine Plains Cemetery
• Pleasant Valley Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Churchyard
• Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Cemetery
• Poughkeepsie Unknown location
• Poughkeepsie Calvary Cemetery
• Poughkeepsie Christ Episcopal Church Burying Ground
• Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie Cemetery
• Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
• Poughkeepsie St. Peter's Cemetery
• Rhinebeck Unknown location
• Rhinebeck Dutch Reformed Church
• Rhinebeck Old Dutch Cemetery
• Rhinebeck Rhinebeck Cemetery
• Rhinebeck Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church
• Staatsburg St. James Churchyard
• Tivoli St. Paul's Churchyard
• Washington Hollow Pittsbury Presbyterian Churchyard

Politicians buried here:

• Elisha Barlow (c.1749-1828) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1800-02; member of New York state senate Middle District, 1806-10. Died December 30, 1828. Interment at South Amenia Cemetery.
  
  

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• Abraham Bockee (1784-1865) — of New York. Born in Shekomeko, Dutchess County, N.Y., February 3, 1784. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1820; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1829-31, 1833-37; member of New York state senate 2nd District, 1842-45; state court judge in New York, 1843; county judge in New York, 1846. Died in Shekomeko, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 1, 1865. Interment at at a private or family graveyard.
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Politicians formerly buried here:

• Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835) — also known as Philip J. Schuyler — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., January 21, 1768. Son of Philip John Schuyler; brother of Elizabeth Schuyler (who married Alexander Hamilton). Republican. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1797-98; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1817-19. Died, of consumption (tuberculosis), in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 21, 1835. Original interment at New York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequent interment at at a private or family graveyard; reinterment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  • See also Schuyler family of New York
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

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• Ephraim Paine (1730-1785) — of New York. Born in Canterbury, Windham County, Conn., August 19, 1730. County judge in New York, 1778-81; member of New York state senate Middle District, 1779-81, 1782-85; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1784. Expelled from the New York State Senate on March 15, 1781, for neglect of duty. Died in Amenia, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 10, 1785. Interment at Red Meeting House Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

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• Abraham Henry Schenck (1775-1831) — also known as Abraham H. Schenck — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in New York, January 22, 1775. Uncle of Isaac Teller. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1804-06; U.S. Representative from New York 4th District, 1815-17. Died June 1, 1831. Interment at Dutch Reform Churchyard.
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• William Few (1748-1828) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Maryland, June 8, 1748. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Georgia state legislature, 1777-79; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1780-85; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1789-93; state court judge in Georgia, 1796-99; member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1801-05. Methodist. Died in Fishkill-on-Hudson (now part of Beacon), Dutchess County, N.Y., July 16, 1828. Original interment at Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery; reinterment at St. Paul's Churchyard, Augusta, Ga.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

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Politicians buried here:

• John Henry Ketcham (1832-1906) — also known as John H. Ketcham — of Dover Plains, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Dover Plains, Dutchess County, N.Y., December 21, 1832. Father of Henry B. Ketcham. Republican. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County 1st District, 1856-57; member of New York state senate 11th District, 1860-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Representative from New York, 1865-73, 1877-93, 1897-1906 (12th District 1865-73, 13th District 1877-85, 16th District 1885-93, 18th District 1897-1903, 21st District 1903-06); died in office 1906; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1874-77. Suffered a fall about 1903, which affected his health, and died three years later, in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., November 4, 1906. Interment at Valley View Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

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• James Kent (1763-1847) — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Doansburg, Putnam County, N.Y., July 31, 1763. Married to Elizabeth Bailey. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1790-91, 1792-93, 1796-97 (Dutchess County 1790-91, 1792-93, New York County 1796-97); candidate for U.S. Representative from New York, 1793; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1798. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Author of Commentaries on American Law, the first comprehensive treatment of the subject. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., December 12, 1847. Interment somewhere. Kent County, Mich. is named for him.
  • See also: Wikipedia article.
  
  

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• Bartow White (1776-1862) — of New York. Born in New York, 1776. U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1825-27. Died in 1862. Interment at Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery.
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• William William Van Wyck (1777-1840) — of New York. Born in New York, 1777. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York, 1821-25 (4th District 1821-23, 5th District 1823-25). Died in 1840. Interment at Dutch Reformed Churchyard.
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• Walter Case (1776-1859) — of New York. Born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N.Y., 1776. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York 6th District, 1819-21. Died in Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 7, 1859. Interment at Fishkill Rural Cemetery.
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• Isaac Teller (1799-1868) — of New York. Born in New York, 1799. Nephew of Abraham Henry Schenck. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1854-55. Died in 1868. Interment at Rural Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

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• Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (1762-1834) — also known as Daniel C. Verplanck — of Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 19, 1762. Father of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York 6th District, 1803-09; common pleas court judge in New York, 1828-30. Died near Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., March 29, 1834. Interment at Trinity Church Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

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• Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870) — also known as Gulian C. Verplanck — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., August 6, 1786. Son of Daniel Crommelin Verplanck. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1820-23; U.S. Representative from New York, 1825-33 (2nd District 1825-27, 3rd District 1827-33); Whig candidate for mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1834; member of New York state senate 1st District, 1838-41; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1867-68. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 18, 1870. Interment at Trinity Churchyard.
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• Ebenezer Cary (1745-1815) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in 1745. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1780-81, 1784-85. Died May 18, 1815. Interment at Apoquage Friends Meeting Burial Ground.
  
  

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• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt; "F.D.R." — of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y., January 30, 1882. Great-great-grandson of Edward Hutchinson Robbins; son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt (1854-1941); fourth cousin once removed of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); half-uncle of Helen Roosevelt Robinson; married, March 17, 1905, to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) (niece of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne Douglas Robinson); second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married William Phillips); first cousin of Warren Delano Robbins; fifth cousin of Nicholas Roosevelt; father of James Roosevelt (1907-1991) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New York state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920, 1924, 1928; contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of New York, 1929-33; President of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February 15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak were shot at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded. Episcopalian. Member, Grange; Freemasons; Elks; Knights of Pythias; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa. Served as president during the Depression and World War II. His portrait appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). Died of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Ga., April 12, 1945. Interment at Roosevelt Home.
  • Cross-reference: Ross T. McIntire; Milton Lipson; W. W. Howes; Bruce Barton; Hamilton Fish, Jr.; Joseph W. Martin, Jr.; Samuel I. Rosenman; Rexford G. Tugwell
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America; Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II; Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR : 1882-1945; Bernard Bellush, Franklin Roosevelt as Governor of New York; Robert H. Jackson, That Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Jonas Klein, Beloved Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello; Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom; Charles Peters, Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World; Steven Neal, Happy Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever; Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin D. Roosevelt (for young readers)
  • Critical books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression; John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth
  • Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Philip Roth, The Plot Against America: A Novel
  
  

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• Peter Goelet Gerry (1879-1957) — also known as Peter G. Gerry — of Newport, Newport County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent County, R.I.; Providence, Providence County, R.I. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., September 18, 1879. Great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry; son of Elbridge Thomas Gerry and Louisa Matilda (Livingston) Gerry; married to Edith Stuyvesant (Dresser) Vanderbilt (1873-1958). Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1912, 1916, 1932; U.S. Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1913-15; defeated, 1914; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1917-29, 1935-47; defeated, 1930; member of Democratic National Committee from Rhode Island, 1932-36. Episcopalian. Died October 31, 1957. Interment at St. James Cemetery.
  • See also Gerry family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Morgan Lewis (1754-1844) — of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 16, 1754. Son of Francis Lewis and Elizabeth (Annesley) Lewis; married, May 11, 1779, to Gertrude Livingston (granddaughter of Robert Livingston; daughter of Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); sister of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813) and Edward Livingston; sister-in-law of John Armstrong, Jr.). Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1789-90, 1791-92 (New York County 1789-90, Dutchess County 1791-92); New York state attorney general, 1791-92; appointed 1791; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1792-1801; Governor of New York, 1804-07; member of New York state senate Middle District, 1810-14; general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., April 7, 1844. Interment at St. James Cemetery. Lewis County, N.Y. is named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1914-1988) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Campobello, New Brunswick, August 17, 1914. Grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt; half-first cousin of Helen Roosevelt Robinson; son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; brother of James Roosevelt; married, June 30, 1937, to Ethel du Pont (1916-1965) (first cousin twice removed of Henry Algernon du Pont). Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Representative from New York 20th District, 1949-55; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964; candidate for New York state attorney general, 1954; Liberal candidate for Governor of New York, 1966. Member, Americans for Democratic Action. Died, of lung cancer, in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 17, 1988. Interment at St. James Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  

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• Nathaniel Pendleton (1756-1821) — Born in New Kent County, Va., 1756. Nephew of Edmund Pendleton; cousin of John Penn. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Georgia state attorney general, 1785-86; district judge in Georgia; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1789; U.S. District Judge for Virginia, 1789-96; county judge in New York, 1821. Served as a second to Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr. Died in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 20, 1821. Interment at St. James' Churchyard.
  • See also Pendleton family of Virginia
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Edmund Henry Pendleton (1788-1862) — also known as Edmund H. Pendleton — of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Georgia, 1788. U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1831-33. Died in 1862. Interment at St. James' Churchyard.
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• Geraldine L. Thompson (d. 1967) — of Red Bank, Monmouth County, N.J.; Lincroft, Monmouth County, N.J. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1940, 1948, 1952. Female. Died September 9, 1967. Interment at St. James' Churchyard.
  
  

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• Obadiah Titus (1789-1854) — of New York. Born in New York, 1789. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1837-39. Died in 1854. Interment at Nine Partners Burial Ground.
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• Robert Coffin (c.1778-1842) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1832. Died November 28, 1842. Interment at Nine Partners Burial Ground.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) — also known as Thomas E. Dewey — of Pawling, Dutchess County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Owosso, Shiawassee County, Mich., March 24, 1902. Nephew of Edmond O. Dewey; son of George Martin Dewey and Annie (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16, 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (c.1903-1970) (grandniece of Jefferson Finis Davis). Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940; Governor of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1952, 1956. Episcopalian. English and French ancestry. Member, American Bar Association; Farm Bureau; Grange; Council on Foreign Relations; Freemasons; Phi Delta Phi; Phi Mu Alpha. Died, from a heart attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel, Bal Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade County), Fla., March 16, 1971. Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling Cemetery.
  • Cross-reference: Herbert Brownell, Jr.; Charles C. Wing; Martin T. Manton
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M. Stolberg, Fighting Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E. Dewey; Barry K. Beyer, Thomas E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political Leadership (out of print); Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (out of print)
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Gwinn (1884-1962) — also known as Ralph W. Gwinn — of Bronxville, Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Ind., March 29, 1884. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York 27th District, 1945-59; defeated, 1940, 1942. Methodist or Christian Reformed. Member, Freemasons; Phi Kappa Psi. Died of a heart attack, in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, Fla., February 27, 1962. Interment at Pawling Cemetery.
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• John B. Dutcher — of Pawling, Dutchess County, N.Y. Member of New York state senate 11th District, 1864-65. Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling Cemetery.
  
  

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• Ebenezer Husted (c.1736-1811) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1781-84, 1789-90. Died November 16, 1811. Interment at Pine Plains Cemetery.
  
  

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• Jacob Evertson (1734-1807) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in South Amboy, Middlesex County, N.J., January 3, 1734. Father of Margaret Evertson (1764-1837) (who married John Cotton Smith). Member of New York provincial congress, 1774-75; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Presbyterian. Dutch ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N.Y., May 1, 1807. Interment at Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Churchyard.
  
  

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• Gilbert Dean (1819-1870) — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 14, 1819. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York, 1851-54 (8th District 1851-53, 12th District 1853-54); resigned 1854; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1854-55; appointed 1854. Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 12, 1870. Original interment at Presbyterian Cemetery; reinterment at Portland Evergreen Cemetery, Brocton, N.Y.
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• Randall S. Street (1780-1841) — of New York. Born in Catskill, Greene County, N.Y., 1780. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 4th District, 1819-21. Died November 21, 1841. Interment somewhere.
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• John E. Mack (b. 1874) — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 10, 1874. Democrat. Justice of New York Supreme Court 9th District, 1930; appointed 1930; candidate for New York state assembly from Dutchess County 2nd District, 1935; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1940, 1944. Catholic. Member, Elks; Knights of Columbus. Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
  
  

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• Charles Johnston (1793-1845) — of New York. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., February 14, 1793. U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1839-41. Died September 1, 1845. Original interment at Christ Episcopal Church Burying Ground; reinterment in 1861 at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Smith Thompson (1768-1843) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Dutchess County, N.Y., January 17, 1768. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1800-01; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; state court judge in New York, 1802-14; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1819-23; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1823-43; died in office 1843; candidate for Governor of New York, 1828. Presbyterian. Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., December 18, 1843. Interment at Poughkeepsie Cemetery.
  
  

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• Theodorus Bailey (1758-1828) — of New York. Born near Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 12, 1758. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1793-97, 1799-1801, 1801-03; member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1801-02; U.S. Senator from New York, 1803-04; postmaster of New York City, 1804-28. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., September 6, 1828. Original interment at Dutch Burying Ground, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1864 at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• John Joseph Kindred (1864-1937) — also known as John J. Kindred — of Astoria, Queens, Queens County, N.Y. Born near Courtland, Southampton County, Va., July 15, 1864. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York, 1911-13, 1921-29 (14th District 1911-13, 2nd District 1921-29). Died October 23, 1937. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• James Emott (1771-1850) — of Albany County, N.Y. Born in New York, 1771. Member of New York state assembly from Albany County, 1803-04; U.S. Representative from New York 4th District, 1809-13. Died in 1850. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835) — also known as Philip J. Schuyler — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., January 21, 1768. Son of Philip John Schuyler; brother of Elizabeth Schuyler (who married Alexander Hamilton). Republican. Member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1797-98; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1817-19. Died, of consumption (tuberculosis), in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 21, 1835. Original interment at New York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequent interment at a private or family graveyard, Dutchess County, N.Y.; reinterment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
  • See also Schuyler family of New York
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• David Brooks (1756-1838) — of New York County, N.Y.; Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., 1756. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1786-88, 1793-96, 1809-10 (New York County 1786-88, Dutchess County 1793-96, 1809-10); county judge in New York, 1795-1807; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1797-99. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 30, 1838. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Charles Johnston (1793-1845) — of New York. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., February 14, 1793. U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1839-41. Died September 1, 1845. Original interment at Christ Episcopal Church Burying Ground; reinterment in 1861 at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Edmund Platt (1865-1939) — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., February 2, 1865. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 26th District, 1913-20. Died in 1939. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Stephen Baker (1819-1875) — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., August 12, 1819. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1861-63. Died on a train en route to California, near Ogden, Weber County, Utah, June 9, 1875. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Homer Augustus Nelson (1829-1891) — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in New York, 1829. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1863-65; secretary of state of New York, 1868-71. Died in 1891. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• John Thompson (1809-1890) — of New York. Born in New York, 1809. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1857-59. Died in 1890. Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
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• Richard Edward Connell (1857-1912) — also known as Richard E. Connell — of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., November 6, 1857. Democrat. Newspaper editor; candidate for New York state assembly, 1898; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1900, 1904; U.S. Representative from New York 21st District, 1911-12; defeated, 1896; died in office 1912. Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 30, 1912. Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
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• Edward Livingston (1764-1836) — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, N.Y., May 28, 1764. Great-grandson of Robert Livingston (1654-1728); grandson of Robert Livingston (1688-1775); first cousin once removed of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston (1716-1778) and Henry Walter Livingston; son of Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); second cousin of Peter R. Livingston, Walter Livingston, Philip Livingston (1740-1810) and Henry Brockholst Livingston; brother of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Alida Livingston (who married John Armstrong, Jr.) and Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan Lewis); brother-in-law of Auguste Davezac; first cousin once removed and uncle by marriage of Edward Philip Livingston. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York, 1795-1801 (1st District 1795-99, 2nd District 1799-1801); mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1801-03; U.S. Attorney for New York, 1801-03; member of Louisiana state house of representatives, 1820; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1823-29; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1829-31; U.S. Secretary of State, 1831-33; U.S. Minister to France, 1833-35. Died May 23, 1836. Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Columbia County, N.Y.; reinterment somewhere. Livingston counties in Ill., Mich. and Mo. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
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• Peter R. Livingston (1766-1847) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in 1766. Member of New York state senate, 1815-22, 1826-29 (Southern District 1815-22, 2nd District 1826-29); Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1828. Died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., January 19, 1847. Original interment at Dutch Reformed Church; reinterment to unknown location.
  
  

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• Richard Schell (1810-1879) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., May 15, 1810. Son of Christian Schell; brother of Augustus Schell. Democrat. Member of New York state senate 6th District, 1858-59; U.S. Representative from New York 9th District, 1874-75. Christian Reformed. Dutch and German ancestry. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., November 10, 1879. Interment at Old Dutch Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.