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Cemeteries Ranked by Number of Politicians Buried There From 1850 to 1899

  1. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. (77)
  2. Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio (49)
  3. Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. (35)
  4. Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. (32)
  5. Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. (31)
  6. Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y. (30)
  7. Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. (30)
  8. Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. (28)
  9. Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (27)
  10. Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex. (27)
  11. Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. (26)
  12. Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (25)
  13. Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. (24)
  14. Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. (24)
  15. Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine (24)
  16. Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif. (24)
  17. Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio (23)
  18. Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. (22)
  19. Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn. (22)
  20. Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y. (21)
  21. Laurel Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif. (21)
  22. Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I. (20)
  23. Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y. (18)
  24. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. (18)
  25. Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn. (18)
  26. Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. (17)
  27. Mt. Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark. (17)
  28. Nashville City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. (16)
  29. Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. (16)
  30. Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. (16)
  31. Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. (16)
  32. Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn. (16)
  33. Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind. (16)
  34. Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis. (15)
  35. Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. (15)
  36. Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (15)
  37. Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, La. (15)
  38. Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. (15)
  39. Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala. (14)
  40. Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala. (14)
  41. Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine (13)
  42. Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. (13)
  43. Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga. (13)
  44. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J. (13)
  45. Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa. (12)
  46. Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C. (12)
  47. Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Ga. (12)
  48. Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio (12)
  49. Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. (12)
  50. Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind. (12)
  51. Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio (11)
  52. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. (11)
  53. Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Ga. (11)
  54. Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Ala. (11)
  55. Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La. (11)
  56. Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. (11)
  57. Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa. (11)
  58. Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (11)
  59. Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y. (11)
  60. Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. (10)
  61. Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. (10)
  62. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. (10)
  63. Riverside Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine (10)


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Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
 The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 180,022 politicians, living and dead.

The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. Web hosting is provided by Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on June 16, 2008.