The Political Graveyard: France

France

France information:

Population: 59,551,227
Land area 211,209 square miles.
Capital: Paris

See also: Corsica

Neighboring areas:

North: English Channel; Belgium
Northeast: Luxembourg; Germany
East: Switzerland
Southeast: Italy; Monaco
South: Mediterranean Sea; Spain; Andorra
West: Bay of Biscay

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to France
U.S. Consuls in France
U.S. Politicians who were born in France
U.S. Politicians who lived in France
U.S. Politicians who died in France
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in France

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to France

Benjamin Franklin (Minister 1778-85) Thomas Jefferson (Minister 1785-89) William Short (Charge d'Affaires 1790-92) Gouverneur Morris (Minister 1792-94) James Monroe (Minister 1794-96) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Minister 1796-97) Robert R. Livingston (Minister 1801-04) John Armstrong, Jr. (Minister 1804-10) Jonathan Russell (Charge d'Affaires 1810-11) Joel Barlow (Minister 1811-12) William H. Crawford (Minister 1813-15) Albert Gallatin (Minister 1815-23) James Brown (Minister 1823-29) William Cabell Rives (Minister 1829-32) Levitt Harris (Charge d'Affaires 1833) Edward Livingston (Minister 1833-35) Lewis Cass (Minister 1836-42) William R. King (Minister 1844-46) Richard Rush (Minister 1847-49) William Cabell Rives (Minister 1849-53) John Y. Mason (Minister 1853-59) Charles J. Faulkner (Minister 1860) William L. Dayton (Minister 1861-64) John Bigelow (Minister 1865-66) John A. Dix (Minister 1866-69) Elihu B. Washburne (Minister 1869-77) Edward Follansbee Noyes (Minister 1877-81) Levi P. Morton (Minister 1881-85) Robert Milligan McLane (Minister 1885-89) Whitelaw Reid (Minister 1889-92) T. Jefferson Coolidge (Minister 1892-93) James B. Eustis (Ambassador 1893-97) Horace Porter (Ambassador 1897-1905) Robert S. McCormick (Ambassador 1905-07) Henry White (Ambassador 1906-09) Robert Bacon (Ambassador 1909-12) Myron T. Herrick (Ambassador 1912-14) William G. Sharp (Ambassador 1914-19) Hugh Campbell Wallace (Ambassador 1919-21) Myron T. Herrick (Ambassador 1921-29) Walter E. Edge (Ambassador 1929-33) Jesse Isidor Straus (Ambassador 1933-36) William C. Bullitt (Ambassador 1936-40) William D. Leahy (Ambassador 1940-42) Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador 1944-49) David K. E. Bruce (Ambassador 1949-52) James Clement Dunn (Ambassador 1952-53) C. Douglas Dillon (Ambassador 1953-57) Amory Houghton (Ambassador 1957-61) James M. Gavin (Ambassador 1961-62) Charles E. Bohlen (Ambassador 1962-68) R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. (Ambassador 1968-70) Arthur Kittredge Watson (Ambassador 1970-72) John Nichol Irwin II (Ambassador 1973-74) Kenneth Rush (Ambassador 1974-77) Arthur Adair Hartman (Ambassador 1977-81) Evan Griffith Galbraith (Ambassador 1981-85) Joe M. Rodgers (Ambassador 1985-89) Walter J. P. Curley, Jr. (Ambassador 1989) Pamela Harriman (Ambassador 1993-97) Felix Rohatyn (Ambassador 1997) Howard H. Leach (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in France

(may be incomplete!)

Bayonne: Joseph Lamoliatte (Consular Agent 1797-1807) Pte. Lanne (Consular Agent 1807) Bernard Chevalier Lanne (Consular Agent 1845-53) August Furtado (Consul 1847-53) John P. Sullivan (Consul 1853-56) Bernardo D'Arcangues (Consular Agent 1856-62) William Moran, Jr. (Consul 1862) Gersam Leon (Consular Agent 1862-76) Samuel R. Campbell (Consul 1865-68)
Biarritz: Roy McWilliams (Consular Agent 1919) Sam Park (Vice Consul 1924-32) Roy McWilliams (Vice Consul 1924-32)
Bordeaux: John Bondfield (Consular Agent 1778-90) Joseph Fenwick (Consul 1790-97) Jonathan Jones (Consul 1793) Thomas Crafts (Consul 1797-99) Isaac Cox Barnet (Consul 1799-1801) Theodore Peters (Vice Commercial Agent 1801-04) William Lee (Commercial Agent 1801-16) Christopher Meyer (Vice Consul 1810-11) William Bass (Consul 1813) Daniel Strobel (Consul 1816-24) George Strobel (Consul 1824-41) John Warren Grigsby (Consul 1841-49) Frederick Kahl (Consul 1849-54) Thomas Ewing Miller (Consul 1856-57) Benjamin Gerrish, Jr. (Consul 1874) V. Olgiati (Vice Consul 1874) George W. Roosevelt (Consul 1881-89) Horace G. Knowles (Consul 1889-93) John Preston Beecher (Vice & Deputy Consul 1893) John McClure Wiley (Consul 1893-97) John Preston Beecher (Vice & Deputy Consul 1894-97) Albion W. Tourgee (Consul 1897-98) A. T. Martinsen (Vice Consul 1898) Dominic I. Murphy (Consul 1905-09) Alfred K. Moe (Consul 1909-14) John Douglas Wise (Vice Consul 1914-19) George A. Bucklin, Jr. (Consul 1914-19) James D. Child (Vice Consul 1919-29) Theodore Jaeckel (Consul 1919-23) S. Bertrand Jacobson (Vice Consul 1919) John A. Scott (Vice Consul 1919) Walter H. McKinney (Consul 1924-25) Lucien Memminger (Consul 1924-29) Frank Cussans (Vice Consul 1926-32) John G. Erhardt (Consul 1930-33) Reginald P. Mitchell (Vice Consul 1932) Archibald E. Gray (Vice Consul 1932) Harold D. Finley (Consul 1933-36) William Perry George (Consul 1936-39) James G. Carter (Consul 1940) Wainwright Abbott (Consul General 1945) Russell M. Brooks (Consul General 1949) David M. Bane (Consul 1950-53) Robert Anderson (Consul 1959-61) D. Chadwick Braggiotti (Consul General 1964)
Boulogne-sur-Mer: Paul Moleux (Consular Agent 1897) William Hale (Consular Agent 1898) William Whitman (Consular Agent 1914-19) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1923) William W. Corcoran (Vice Consul 1924-29) Thomas D. Davis (Consul 1932) Worthington E. Hagerman (Vice Consul 1932)
Brest: Alfred Pitel (Consular Agent 1897-1914) Sample B. Forbus (Consul 1919-20) John Y. Jordan, Jr. (Vice Consul 1919)
Calais: Charles W. Shepard (Consul 1894-97) James B. Milner (Consul 1898-1916) William McKone Milner (Vice Consul 1914) Kenneth S. Patton (Consul 1916-19) Thomas D. Davis (Consul 1919-24) George Milner (Vice Consul 1919) Gaston Smith (Consul 1926) James G. Carter (Consul 1927-40)
Cette: L. S. Namens (Consular Agent 1897-98) Paul H. Cram (Consul 1919) Milton J. Bryan (Vice Consul 1919) Alphonse J. Lespinasse (Consul 1920)
Cherbourg: H. J. E. Hainneville (Consular Agent 1897) Charles C. Broy (Consul 1920-22) John Corrigan, Jr. (Consul 1924) L. Pittman Springs (Vice Consul 1924) Fred H. Houck (Vice Consul 1926-32) Samuel H. Wiley (Consul 1926-29) Tyler Thompson (Vice Consul 1932) H. Tobey Mooers (Consul 1932) Royal H. Fowler, Jr. (Vice Consul 1945) Leslie A. Weisenburg (Consul 1949)
Cognac: John Preston Beecher (Consul 1893-94) Frederick Fitz Gerald (Consul 1897) Archibald W. Pollock (Vice & Deputy Consul 1897) George H. Jackson (Consul 1908) Kenneth S. Patton (Consul 1913-15) Elisée Jouard (Vice Consul 1914)
Dieppe: Raoulle Bourgeois (Consular Agent 1897) Frederick C. Fairbanks (Consular Agent 1924-32)
Dunkirk (Dunkerque): Benjamin Morel (Consular Agent 1897-1919) John S. Calvert (Consul 1922-23) George D. Hopper (Consul 1924-25)
Grenoble: Samuel H. Keedy (Consul 1897) George B. Anderson (Consul 1897-99) Clarence Carrigan (Consul 1913-15) Thomas W. Murton (Vice Consul 1914) William Perry George (Vice Consul 1916-17) Thomas D. Davis (Consul 1916-17)
La Rochelle: George H. Jackson (Consul 1899-1908) Kenneth S. Patton (Consul 1915-16) James H. Goodier (Consul 1917) William W. Brunswick (Consul 1919-24) Davis B. Levis (Vice Consul 1919) Elisée Jouard (Vice Consul 1919-24) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1923) William J. Yerby (Consul 1925-26)
Le Havre: Alexander M. Thackara (Consul 1897-1905) Cicero Brown (Vice Consul 1897) John Preston Beecher (Deputy Consul 1897-99) Alphonse Gaulin (Consul 1905-09) John Ball Osborne (Consul 1912-19) John Preston Beecher (Vice & Deputy Consul 1914) Robert R. Bradford (Consul 1917-18) John Q. Wood (Consul 1919) Richard M. Hamilton (Vice Consul 1919) John Ball Osborne (Consul General 1919-20) Lewis V. Boyle (Consul 1920) Augustus E. Ingram (Consul General 1922) Lester Maynard (Consul 1923-29) Samuel J. Fletcher (Vice Consul 1924) Davis B. Levis (Vice Consul 1924) Leonard G. Bradford (Vice Consul 1926) George C. Cobb (Vice Consul 1926) Samuel J. Fletcher (Consul 1926) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1928-29) R. Borden Reams (Vice Consul 1929-31) Rudolph J. Blais (Vice Consul 1929) Edwin Carl Kemp (Consul 1932) Dale W. Maher (Consul 1932) Charles A. Cooper (Vice Consul 1932) William O. Boswell (Vice Consul 1939) James E. Parks (Consul 1949)
Lille: Albro L. Burnell (Consul 1920) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1921-23) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1923) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1923) James E. Parks (Vice Consul 1924) Paul C. Squire (Consul 1924-26) William C. Young (Vice Consul 1925) Harold Playter (Consul 1929-32) George P. Wilson (Vice Consul 1932)
Limoges: Eugene L. Belisle (Consul 1906-24) Charles Roy Nasmith (Vice Consul 1907-11) John J. Ernster (Vice Consul 1914) Reginald H. Williams (Vice Consul 1919-26) Howard F. Withey (Consul 1926)
Lyon: James Fenimore Cooper (Consul 1826-28) Cornelius Bradford (Consul 1829-31) Samuel Allinson (Consul 1831-36) Thomas W. Oldfield (Consul 1836-39) Samuel Allinson (Consul 1840-43) N. Berry (Consul 1843) Hooper C. Eaton (Consul 1843-47) John A. Jones (Commercial Agent 1847-48) John A. Jones (Consul 1848-49) James Heudebert (Consul 1849-52) George King Rogers (Consul 1852) Charles Goodrich (Consul 1852-54) William Day (Consul 1854-56) Joel W. White (Consul 1857-60) James Lesley, Jr. (Consul 1861-65) L. W. Viollier (Vice Consul 1863-67) Frank E. Hyde (Consul 1897) Carlton Bailey Hurst (Consul 1910-13) Clarence Carrigan (Vice Consul 1912-13) Marin Vachon (Vice Consul 1914) John Edward Jones (Consul 1916-17) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1917-19) Clarence Carrigan (Consul 1918-20) Grady Corbitt (Vice Consul 1919) Frank B. Hall (Vice Consul 1919) Hugh H. Watson (Consul 1924-32) Cyrus B. Follmer (Vice Consul 1924) William W. Adams (Vice Consul 1930-32) Charles B. Beylard (Vice Consul 1942) H. Tobey Mooers (Consul 1949)
Marseille: Sieur Etienne Cathalan (Consul 1790-1801) Sieur Etienne Cathalan (Commercial Agent 1805-19) Joshua Dodge (Consul 1819-29) Daniel C. Croxall (Consul 1829-49) John L. Hodge (Consul 1849-50) George W. Morgan (Consul 1855-58) Alexander Derbes (Consul 1858-61) George W. Van Horn (Consul 1861-65) P. Miraval (Vice Consul 1864) Claude M. Thomas (Consul 1893-97) Robert P. Skinner (Consul 1897-1901) Charles P. Pressly (Vice Consul 1897) Robert P. Skinner (Consul General 1901-08) Alphonse Gaulin (Consul General 1909-20) Paul H. Cram (Vice Consul 1914) Edwin Carl Kemp (Consul 1916) John Q. Wood (Consul 1917) James P. Davis (Consul 1919-20) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1919-21) Damon C. Woods (Consul 1920) Wesley Frost (Consul 1921-24) Hooker A. Doolittle (Vice Consul 1923-26) Alfred D. Cameron (Vice Consul 1924) Walter J. Linthicum (Vice Consul 1924) Wesley Frost (Consul General 1924-28) Bernard F. Hale (Consul 1925-29) Julius C. Holmes (Vice Consul 1926) William E. DeCourcy (Vice Consul 1926) John S. Calvert (Consul 1929-32) Francis B. Moriarty (Vice Consul 1929) John A. Gamon (Consul General 1929-32) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1929) John P. Palmer (Vice Consul 1932) James P. Moffitt (Consul 1932) Charles B. Beylard (Vice Consul 1932) Charles Roy Nasmith (Consul 1932) John P. Hurley (Consul General 1938) Robert D. Longyear (Consul 1938) George M. Abbott (Consul 1938) Hiram Bingham, Jr. (Vice Consul 1939-41) V. Lansing Collins II (Vice Consul 1939) Harry F. Hawley (Consul 1942) Tyler Thompson (Consul 1944) Hervé J. L'Heureux (Consul General 1944-48) Leonard G. Bradford (Vice Consul 1945) Marcel E. Malige (Consul General 1949)
Nancy: Paul H. Cram (Consul 1920) Winthrop R. Scott (Consul 1923) Joseph I. Touchette (Vice Consul 1924) George N. Ifft (Consul 1924-26) George C. Cobb (Vice Consul 1926)
Nantes: Burrell Carnes (Consul 1790-93) P. F. Dobree (Consul 1794-99) Thomas T. Gantt (Commercial Agent 1802-03) William Patterson (Commercial Agent 1803-15) Daniel Strobel (Consul 1815-16) Henry Wilson (Consul 1817-21) Francis Columbus Fenwick (Consul 1821-38) Nathan Haley (Consul 1838-42) Essex R. Livingston (Consul 1842-48) Hypolite Rogues (Consul 1848-61) John De La Montagnie (Consul 1861-65) H. E. Brelet (Vice Consul 1864) Hiram D. Bennett (Vice Commercial Agent 1879-85) Hiram D. Bennett (Vice Consul 1885-1914) Joseph I. Brittain (Consul 1897-1902) Clement J. Dietrich (Consul 1897) Walter H. Schulz (Consul 1914) Clarence Carrigan (Consul 1915) George Wadsworth II (Vice Consul 1917-19) Milton B. Kirk (Consul 1917) G. Bie Ravndal (Consul General 1918-19) Charles E. Allen (Vice Consul 1918-19) Maxwell K. Moorhead (Consul 1919-20) Raoul E. Mouton (Vice Consul 1919) Marcel E. Malige (Vice Consul 1924) Fred D. Fisher (Consul 1924) Harold M. Collins (Consul 1926-29) Worthington E. Hagerman (Vice Consul 1926-29) William J. Yerby (Consul 1930-32) Davis B. Levis (Vice Consul 1930) Carleton A. Wall (Vice Consul 1932)
Nice: William Henry Vesey (Consul 1870-81) W. F. Rowland (Consul 1883) William H. Bradley (Consul 1889-93) Harold S. Van Buren (Consul 1897) Nathaniel I. Hall (Vice Consul 1897) Harry A. Lyons (Vice Consul 1914-24) William D. Hunter (Consul 1914-20) Otis A. Glazebrook (Consul 1924-29) J. Lee Murphy (Consul 1926) George Alexander Armstrong (Vice Consul 1928-29) Robertson Honey (Consul 1931-32) Prescott Childs (Consul 1932) Charles B. Beylard (Vice Consul 1938-42) William M. Gwynn (Consul General 1949)
Paris: Joseph Pitcairn (Vice Consul 1794-97) John Bigelow (Consul 1861-64) John G. Nicolay (Consul 1865-69) Jared Lawrence Rathbone (Consul General 1887) Samuel E. Morss (Consul General 1894-97) J. Allison Bowen (Deputy Consul General 1896-99) John K. Gowdy (Consul General 1897) Augustus E. Ingram (Vice Consul 1903) Augustus E. Ingram (Vice Consul 1905-06) Frank H. Mason (Consul General 1906) Ely E. Palmer (Vice Consul 1913-15) Alexander M. Thackara (Consul General 1913-24) Charles P. Pressly (Vice Consul 1914-19) Edward W. Biesel (Vice Consul 1915-17) Tracy Lay (Consul 1917-19) Eugene C. A. Reed (Vice Consul 1917-19) John Joseph Scanlan (Vice Consul 1918-19) Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (Consul 1919) Joseph F. McGurk (Vice Consul 1919) Marion D. De Tar (Vice Consul 1919) Marc L. Severe (Vice Consul 1919-32) Charles L. De Vault (Vice Consul 1919) Ernest L. Ives (Consul 1919-20) Azel D. Beeler (Vice Consul 1919) C. Edgar Davis (Vice Consul 1919) Allan J. Horton (Vice Consul 1919) Coert du Bois (Consul 1919-20) Clement S. Edwards (Consul 1920) Henry T. Wilcox (Consul 1920) Eugene C. A. Reed (Consul 1920) Winthrop R. Scott (Consul 1920-23) Philip Adams (Consul 1922-24) Raymond Davis (Consul 1924-29) John R. Wood (Vice Consul 1924-32) Samuel G. Ebling (Vice Consul 1924) Damon C. Woods (Consul 1924-31) Donald F. Bigelow (Vice Consul 1924) William Clarke Vyse (Vice Consul 1924) Charles D. Westcott (Consul 1924) Joseph A. Marquis (Vice Consul 1924) John A. Squiers (Vice Consul 1925-26) William C. Young (Vice Consul 1925) George Orr (Consul 1925-29) John F. Simons (Consul 1925) David Henry Slawson (Vice Consul 1926-32) Paul C. Betts (Vice Consul 1926-32) William G. O'Brien (Vice Consul 1926) Alfred D. Cameron (Vice Consul 1926-29) Marcel E. Malige (Consul 1926) Donald F. Bigelow (Consul 1926) William C. Young (Vice Consul 1926-29) Alphonse Gaulin (Consul General 1926-29) Harold L. Smith (Vice Consul 1926) William E. DeCourcy (Consul 1929-32) William M. Gwynn (Vice Consul 1929) Paul D. Thompson (Vice Consul 1929) H. Merle Cochran (Consul 1929) Charles H. Derry (Consul 1929-32) Mason Turner (Consul 1929) Carlton Hurst (Vice Consul 1929) Gordon P. Merriam (Vice Consul 1929) Leo J. Keena (Consul General 1929-32) Prentiss B. Gilbert (Consul 1930) Robert D. Murphy (Consul 1931-32) Tevis Huhn (Vice Consul 1931-32) Charles E. Bohlen (Vice Consul 1932) Raymond A. Hare (Vice Consul 1932) James S. Moose, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Edward Page, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) James E. Parks (Vice Consul 1932) Joseph L. Brent (Vice Consul 1932) Maurice Pasquet (Vice Consul 1932) Howard F. Withey (Consul 1932) Richard W. Morin (Vice Consul 1932) John J. Coyle (Vice Consul 1932) W. Winthrop Burr (Vice Consul 1932) John B. Faust (Vice Consul 1932) Norris B. Chipman (Vice Consul 1932) Bertil E. Kuniholm (Vice Consul 1932) Davis B. Levis (Vice Consul 1932) Clarence E. Gauss (Consul General 1935) Douglas MacArthur II (Vice Consul 1944) Gerald A. Drew (Vice Consul 1944) George M. Abbott (Consul 1944) Norris B. Chipman (Vice Consul 1944) Robert R. Cunningham (Vice Consul 1944) Hugh S. Fullerton (Consul General 1944) James E. Parks (Consul 1944) George W. Renchard (Consul 1944) Tyler Thompson (Consul 1944) Leslie A. Weisenburg (Vice Consul 1944) Boies C. Hart, Jr. (Vice Consul 1944) Cabot Sedgwick (Vice Consul 1945) Cecil W. Gray (Consul General 1949) Martin J. Hillenbrand (Consul 1952)
Pau: J. Morris Post (Consular Agent 1897) Robert Dickey, Jr. (Consular Agent 1932)
Rheims: Henry P. du Bellet (Consul 1897) Charles W. Ramsay (Vice Consul 1897) William Bardel (Consul 1908-15) Walter Stanford (Vice Consul 1914)
Roubaix: William P. Atwell (Commercial Agent 1890-93) Gaston Thiery (Vice Commercial Agent 1897) William P. Atwell (Commercial Agent 1897-99) Joseph E. Haven (Consul 1908-14) Charles H. Bellamy (Vice Consul 1914)
Rouen: Horatio R. Bigelow (Consul 1897) E. M. J. Dellepiane (Vice Consul 1897) Lucien Memminger (Consul 1914) René C. Reitenbach (Vice Consul 1914-19) Albro L. Burnell (Consul 1916-19) Thomas R. Hamilton (Vice Consul 1919) Milton B. Kirk (Consul 1920)
St. Etienne: Francis B. Loomis (Consul 1890-93) William H. Hunt (Consul 1906-26) William W. Brunswick (Vice Consul 1914) Davis B. Levis (Vice Consul 1917) Francis B. Moriarty (Vice Consul 1924-26)
St. Nazaire: G. Bie Ravndal (Consul General 1917-18) Walter S. Ruffner (Vice Consul 1919)
Strasbourg: John D. Johnson (Consul 1926-29) Leslie E. Woods (Consul 1926) Reginald H. Williams (Vice Consul 1929) John Q. Wood (Consul 1932) James D. Child (Vice Consul 1932) Sabin J. Dalferes (Consul 1949)

Unknown Location
Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Politicians buried here:

John E. Warren (1827-1896) — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., January 18, 1827. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, 1854-55; mayor of St. Paul, Minn., 1863-64. Died in Brussels, Belgium, July 6, 1896. Interment somewhere.

Unknown Location
Cambo-les-Bains, France

Politicians buried here:

Walter Stanford — U.S. Vice Consul in Rheims, 1914. Interment somewhere.

Holy Trinity Cemetery
Cannes, France

Politicians buried here:

Brand Whitlock (1869-1934) — of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Born in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, March 4, 1869. Author; mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 1906-13; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1914-19; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1919-21. Died in Cannes, France, May 24, 1934. Interment at Holy Trinity Cemetery.
- See also: Find-A-Grave page.

Normandy American Cemetery
Collevelle-sur-Mer, France

Politicians buried here:

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887-1944) — of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., September 13, 1887. Great-great-great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch; grandnephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; son of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt; half-brother of Alice Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas Longworth); married, June 20, 1910, to Eleanor Butler Alexander. Republican. Farmer; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1920-21; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924, 1928, 1940; candidate for Governor of New York, 1924; Governor of Puerto Rico, 1929-32; general in the U.S. Army during World War II. Member, American Legion. Principal founder of the American Legion in 1919. Participated in the invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions that day; died a month later, of exhaustion and heart failure, in Normandy, France, July 12, 1944. Interment at Normandy American Cemetery.
- See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family

Le Cimetiere Neuf
Marvejols, France

Politicians buried here:

Bellamy Storer (1847-1922) — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 28, 1847. Son of Bellamy Storer (1796-1875); uncle of Nicholas Longworth. Republican. U.S. Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1891-95; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1897-99; Spain, 1899-1902; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1902-06. Died November 12, 1922. Interment at Le Cimetiere Neuf.
- See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
- See also: congressional biography.

Unknown Location
Nice, France

Politicians buried here:

Charles B. Beylard (d. 1969) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. U.S. Vice Consul in Tunis, 1919-29; Marseille, 1932; Nice, 1938-42; Monaco, 1938; Lyon, 1942. Died December 5, 1969. Interment somewhere.

Père la Chaise Cemetery
Paris, France

Politicians buried here:

Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884) — also known as Judah P. Benjamin; Philippe Benjamin; "Poo Bah of the Confederacy" — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La.; London, England; Paris, France. Born in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, August 6, 1811. Son of Philip Benjamin and Rebecca (de Mendes) Benjamin; cousin of Henry Michael Hyams; married 1833 to Natalie St. Martin. Lawyer; member of Louisiana state house of representatives, 1842-44; delegate to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1845; Presidential Elector for Louisiana, 1848; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1853-61; Confederate Attorney General, 1861; Confederate Secretary of War, 1861-62; Confederate Secretary of State, 1862-65. Jewish. His portrait appeared on the Confederate States two-dollar note in 1861-64. He fled to Europe in 1865 to avoid arrest by Union forces; he was suspected of involvement in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Died in France, May 6, 1884. Interment at Père la Chaise Cemetery.
- See also: congressional biography.
- Books about Judah P. Benjamin: Robert Douthat Meade, Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman; Eli N. Evans, Judah P. Benjamin : The Jewish Confederate
Adam Seybert (1773-1825) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 16, 1773. Democrat. Physician; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1809-15, 1817-19. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in Paris, France, May 2, 1825. Interment at Père la Chaise Cemetery.
- See also: congressional biography.

Unknown Location
Versailles, France

Politicians buried here:

Alexander Montgomery Thackara (b. 1848) — also known as Alexander M. Thackara — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., September 24, 1848. Son of Benjamin Thackara and Mary E. Thackara; married, May 5, 1880, to Eleanor M. Sherman (1859-1915) (daughter of William Tecumseh Sherman). U.S. Consul in Le Havre, 1897-1905; U.S. Consul General in Berlin, 1905-13; Paris, 1913-24. Interment somewhere.
- See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family

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