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• John Adams (1735-1826) — also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of Independence"; "Father of the American Navy" — of Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., October 30, 1735. Son of John Adams and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; third cousin of Samuel Adams; married, October 25, 1764, to Abigail Smith (1744-1818) (aunt of William Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813) (who married William Stephens Smith) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); grandfather of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; ancestor of William Rush Merriam, Vinson Martlow Whitley and Eugene H. Nickerson; great-great-grandfather of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); great-great-great-grandfather of Thomas Boylston Adams. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice President of the United States, 1789-97; President of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820. Unitarian. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., July 4, 1826. Original interment at Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass. Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about John Adams: John Ferling, John Adams: A Life; Joseph J. Ellis, The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams; David McCullough, John Adams; Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson; John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800; James Grant, John Adams : Party of One
  
  
• Henry Clay (1777-1852) — also known as "The Sage of Ashland"; "The Great Compromiser" — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born in Hanover County, Va., April 12, 1777. Son of John Clay and Elizabeth (Hudson) Clay; first cousin once removed of Matthew Clay (1754-1815) and Green Clay; brother of Porter Clay; third cousin of Clement Comer Clay; second cousin of Matthew Clay (1795?-1827), Brutus Junius Clay (1808-1878) and Cassius Marcellus Clay; father of Thomas Hart Clay and James Brown Clay; third cousin once removed of Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.; granduncle of Ellen Hart Ross (who married James Reily); second cousin once removed of Brutus Junius Clay (1847-1932); grandfather of Henry Clay (1849-1884). Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1803; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1806-07, 1810-11, 1831-42, 1849-52; died in office 1852; U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1811-14, 1815-21, 1823-25 (5th District 1811-13, at-large 1813-14, 2nd District 1815-21, 3rd District 1823-25); Speaker of the U.S. House, 1811-14, 1815-20, 1823-25; candidate for President of the United States, 1824, 1832 (National Republican), 1844 (Whig); U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-29. Member, Freemasons. In 1809, he fought a duel with Humphrey Marshall, in which both men were wounded. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appeared on some U.S. currency issued in the 19th or early 20th century. Died in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852. Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Clay counties in Ala., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kan., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex. and W.Va. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about Henry Clay: Robert Vincent Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union; Maurice G. Baxter, Henry Clay the Lawyer; Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History; Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
  
  
• Peter Cooper (1791-1883) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 12, 1791. Uncle by marriage of Daniel F. Tiemann; father-in-law of Abram Stevens Hewitt. Manufacturer, inventor, philanthropist, creator of first U.S. steam locomotive; founder of Cooper Union.; Greenback candidate for President of the United States, 1876. Unitarian. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., April 4, 1883. Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • See also Hewitt-Cooper-Tiemann family of New York
  
  
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 17, 1706. Uncle of Franklin Davenport; great-grandfather of Mary Bache (who married Robert John Walker) and Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867; physicist). Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S. Minister to France, 1778-85; President of Pennsylvania, 1785; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society; Freemasons. Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the U.S. $100 bill; from 1948 to 1963, his portrait also appeared on the U.S. half dollar (50 cent coin). Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 17, 1790. Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa. Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are named for him.
  • See also Claiborne family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books by Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place (1744, out of print)
  • Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin; Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin; Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America; Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin; Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin : An American Life; Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin; Philip Dray, Stealing God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
  
  
• Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) — also known as Ulysses S. Grant; "Savior of the Union"; "Lion of Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of American Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender Grant"; "The Galena Tanner"; "The Silent Soldier"; "The Silent General" — of Galena, Jo Daviess County, Ill. Born in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, April 27, 1822. Married, August 22, 1848, to Julia Boggs Dent; father of Frederick Dent Grant and Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; President of the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1880. Methodist. Scottish ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the U.S. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5 silver certificates in 1887-1927. Died of throat cancer, at Mt. McGregor, Saratoga County, N.Y., July 23, 1885. Interment at General Grant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y. Grant counties in Ark., Kan., La., Minn., Neb., N.M., N.Dak., Okla., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and W.Va. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Horace Porter; Ayres Phillips Merrill
  • See also Grant family of New York and Ohio
  • See also: Wikipedia article.
  • Books about Ulysses S. Grant: Jean Edward Smith, Grant; Frank J. Scaturro, President Grant Reconsidered; William S. McFeely, Grant : A Biography; William S. McFeely, Ulysses S. Grant: An Album: Warrior, Husband, Traveler, Emancipator, Writer; Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865; Brooks D. Simpson, Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868; James S. Brisbin, The campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (out of print); Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses S. Grant; Michael Korda, Ulysses S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero; Edward H. Bonekemper, A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius; Harry J. Maihafer, The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana
  • Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents
  • Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Grant Comes East; Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Never Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
  
  
• Washington Irving (1783-1859) — of New York. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., April 3, 1783. U.S. Minister to Spain, 1842-46. essayist; historian; author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories; elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Tarrytown, Westchester County, N.Y., November 28, 1859. Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
  • Books about Washington Irving: George S. Hellman, Washington Irving Esquire : Ambassador at Large from the New World to the Old
  
  
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) — also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of Monticello"; "Friend of the People"; "Father of the University of Virginia" — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Albemarle County, Va., April 13, 1743. Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton (died 1782); third cousin once removed of John Marshall; father-in-law of Thomas Mann Randolph and John Wayles Eppes; uncle of Dabney Carr; second cousin once removed of William Segar Archer; granduncle of Dabney Smith Carr; grandfather of Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas Philip Trist), Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; great-great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; ancestor of Lloyd Lee Gravely. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782; U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S. Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice President of the United States, 1797-1801; President of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican), 1796. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2 bill since the 1860s. Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., July 4, 1826. Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph at University of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Jefferson M. Levy; Joshua Fry
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile.
  • Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson; Willard Sterne Randall, Thomas Jefferson : A Life; R. B. Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson; Joyce Appleby, Thomas Jefferson; Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson; John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800; Susan Dunn, Jefferson's Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800; Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello; Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson : Author of America
  • Critical books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
  
  
• 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 in Fishkill, N.Y. Kent County, Mich. is named for him.
  • See also: Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) — also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The Illinois Baboon" — of Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill. Born in a log cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue County), Ky., February 12, 1809. Married, November 4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (1818-1882) (grandniece of David Rittenhouse Porter; sister-in-law of Ninian Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of N. H. R. Dawson); father of Robert Todd Lincoln; fourth cousin twice removed of John Joseph Lincoln, Sr.. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; lawyer; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S. Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856; candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1858; President of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865. English ancestry. His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this, redefined American nationhood. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding House, across the street, the following day, April 15, 1865. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $1 to $500. Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary Park, Washington, D.C. Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.; Isham N. Haynie; William M. Stone; John Pitcher; Stephen Miller; John T. Stuart; William H. Seward; Henry L. Burnett; Judah P. Benjamin; Robert Toombs; Richard Taylor Jacob; George W. Jones; James Adams; John G. Nicolay; Edward Everett; Stephen T. Logan; Francis P. Blair; John Hay
  • See also Porter-Edwards-Lincoln-Todd family of Illinois
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile.
  • Books about Abraham Lincoln: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln; George Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography; G. S. Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American Icon; Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 (out of print); Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief; David Herbert Donald, We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends; Edward Steers, Jr., Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Mario Cuomo, Why Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever; Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies; Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness; John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered; Ronald C. White, Jr., The Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words; Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln President; Michael Lind, What Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President; Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay; Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln's Body; Roy Morris, Jr., The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America; Karen Judson, Abraham Lincoln (for young readers)
  • Critical books about Abraham Lincoln: Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
  • Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore Vidal, Lincoln: A Novel
  
  
• Horace Mann (1796-1859) — of Massachusetts. Born in Franklin, Norfolk County, Mass., May 4, 1796. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives; member of Massachusetts state senate; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1848-53; Free Soil candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1852. Leader in achieving major reforms of public schools; elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, August 2, 1859. Interment at North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• John Marshall (1755-1835) — of Virginia. Born in Germantown, Fauquier County, Va., September 24, 1755. Third cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson; married, January 3, 1783, to Mary Willis Ambler (1766-1831) (daughter of Jacquelin Ambler); brother-in-law of William McClung, George Keith Taylor and Joseph Hamilton Daviess; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841); brother of James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke; father of Thomas Marshall, Mary Marshall (who married Jacquelin Burwell Harvie) and James Keith Marshall; uncle of Edward Colston, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Alexander Keith McClung, Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas Alexander Marshall; granduncle by marriage of Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872); granduncle of John Augustine Marshall. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1782-96; U.S. Attorney for Virginia, 1789; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1800; U.S. Secretary of State, 1800-01; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1801-35; died in office 1835; received 4 electoral votes for Vice-President, 1816. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Phi Beta Kappa. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appeared on the $20 U.S. Treasury Note in the 1880s, and the $500 bill in the early 20th century. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., July 6, 1835. Interment at Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Marshall counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Miss., Tenn. and W.Va. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about John Marshall: Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall : Definer of a Nation; Charles F. Hobson, The Great Chief Justice : John Marshall and the Rule of Law; Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835; Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815; Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman 1789-1801; Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker; David Scott Robarge, A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court; R. Kent Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
  
  
• 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, Cambridge, Mass. Story County, Iowa is named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Harry A. Blackmun
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country" — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January 6, 1759, to Martha (Dandridge) Custis; uncle of Bushrod Washington; uncle by marriage of Burwell Bassett; granduncle of George Corbin Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles Magill Conrad. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President of the United States, 1789-97. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 dollar bill. His portrait also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., December 14, 1799. Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Mt. Vernon, Va.; statue erected 1860 at Washington Circle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at National Mall, Washington, D.C. Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Henry Lee; Joshua Fry; Alexander Dimitry; Tobias Lear; David Matthews; Rufus Putnam
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington; James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man; Willard Sterne Randall, George Washington : A Life; Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation; Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America; James MacGregor Burns, George Washington; Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington; Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson; Wendie C. Old, George Washington (for young readers)
  
  
• Daniel Webster (1782-1852) — also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the Constitution" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack County, N.H., January 18, 1782. Whig. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned 1827; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President of the United States, 1836; U.S. Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852. Presbyterian. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appeared on the $10 U.S. Note from the 1860s until the early 20th century. Died in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass., October 24, 1852. Interment at Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are named for him.
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about Daniel Webster: Robert Vincent Remini, Daniel Webster : The Man and His Time; Maurice G. Baxter, One and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union; Robert A. Allen, Daniel Webster, Defender of the Union; Richard N. Current, Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism; Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
  
  
• John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) — also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts Madman" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., July 11, 1767. Son of John Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams (1744-1818); brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813) (who married William Stephens Smith); married, July 26, 1797, to Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775-1852) (niece of Thomas Johnson; daughter of Joshua Johnson; sister-in-law of John Pope); first cousin of William Cranch; father of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; great-grandfather of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); great-great-grandfather of Thomas Boylston Adams. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1802; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S. Secretary of State, 1817-25; President of the United States, 1825-29; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District 1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office 1848; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1834. Unitarian. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Suffered a stroke while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in the Speaker's office, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1848. Original interment at Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: John Smith; Thurlow Weed
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life; Lynn Hudson Parsons, John Quincy Adams; Robert V. Remini, John Quincy Adams
  
  
• 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, Cambridge, Mass.
  
  
• James Madison (1751-1836) — also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights" — of Virginia. Born in Port Conway, King George County, Va., March 16, 1751. Son of James Madison and Eleanor (Conway) Madison; married, September 15, 1794, to Dolly (Payne) Todd (brother-in-law of John George Jackson); second cousin of George Madison and Zachary Taylor; second cousin thrice removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); U.S. Secretary of State, 1801-09; President of the United States, 1809-17. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Died in Montpelier, Orange County, Va., June 28, 1836. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill from about 1915 until 1946. Interment at Montpelier Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va. Madison counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Tenn., Tex. and Va. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about James Madison: Ralph Louis Ketcham, James Madison : A Biography; Garry Wills, James Madison; Robert Allen Rutland, The Presidency of James Madison; Charles Cerami, Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and The Revolution That Created The Constitution; Samuel Kernell, ed., James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government
  
  
• William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) — Born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, February 8, 1820. Son of Charles Robert Sherman; adoptive son of Thomas Ewing; brother of John Sherman; uncle by marriage of James Donald Cameron and Nelson Appleton Miles; father of Eleanor M. Sherman (1859-1915) (who married Alexander Montgomery Thackara). Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Secretary of War, 1869. Member, Loyal Legion. In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta, Georgia. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 14, 1891. Interment at Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley P. Hirshson, The White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T. Sherman
  
  
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) — of Massachusetts. Born in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., December 17, 1807. Poet; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1835. Quaker. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, N.H., September 7, 1892. Interment at Union Cemetery, Amesbury, Mass.
  
  
• George Bancroft (1800-1891) — of Massachusetts. Born in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., October 3, 1800. Son of Aaron Bancroft and Lucretia (Chandler) Bancroft; married, March 1, 1827, to Sarah H. Dwight (died 1837); married 1838 to Elizabeth (Davis) Bliss; brother of Eliza Bancroft (who married John Davis). Democrat. U.S. Collector of Customs for Boston, Mass., 1832-34; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1844; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1844; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1845-46; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1846-49; Prussia, 1867-71; Germany, 1871-74. Congregationalist. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1910. Died in Washington, D.C., January 17, 1891. Interment at Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
  • See also Davis-Bancroft family of Massachusetts
  
  
• Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) — also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of Tennessee"; "King Andrew the First" — of Tennessee. Born, in a log cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster County, S.C., March 15, 1767. Son of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson; married to Rachel (Donelson) Robards; uncle of Andrew Jackson Donelson. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S. Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor of Florida Territory, 1821; President of the United States, 1829-37. Presbyterian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel, May 30, 1806; also duelled with Thomas Hart Benton. Censured by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. On January 30, 1835, while attending funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity). Died, of dropsy (congestive heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., June 8, 1845. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1910. His portrait appears on the U.S. $20 bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait appeared on on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $5 to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes. Interment at The Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson Square, New Orleans, La. Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County, Mo., are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Francis P. Blair
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert Vincent Remini, The Life of Andrew Jackson; Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832; Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew Jackson : The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845; Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821; Andrew Burstein, The Passions of Andrew Jackson; David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler, Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire; Donald B. Cole, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson; H. W. Brands, Andrew Jackson : His Life and Times
  
  
• John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) — also known as J. Lothrop Motley — of Massachusetts. Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., April 15, 1814. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives; U.S. Minister to Austria, 1861-67; Great Britain, 1869-70. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1910. Died in Dorset, England, May 29, 1877. Interment at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England.
  
  
• 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, Cambridge, Mass.
  • See also Choate family of Massachusetts
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article.
  
  
• Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) — of New York County, N.Y. Born in Charles Town, Nevis, January 11, 1757. Son of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married 1780 to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip John Schuyler; sister of Philip Jeremiah Schuyler); father of William Stephen Hamilton. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1782; member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95. Episcopalian. Scottish and French ancestry. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. His portrait appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $2 to $1,000. Shot and mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 12, 1804. Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury Building Grounds, Washington, D.C. Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Nathaniel Pendleton; Robert Troup; John Tayler
  • See also Schuyler family of New York
  • See also: congressional biography; Wikipedia article; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton, American; Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography; Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror : Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton; Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America; Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr; Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life; John Harper, American Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy; Stephen F. Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth; Charles Cerami, Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and The Revolution That Created The Constitution
  
  
• Patrick Henry (1736-1799) — of Virginia. Born in Studley, Hanover County, Va., May 29, 1736. Cousin of Isaac Coles; uncle by marriage of Francis Preston; uncle of Priscilla Christian (who married Alexander Scott Bullitt); grandfather of William Henry Roane; granduncle of William Campbell Preston; great-great-great-grandfather of Robert Lee Henry; ancestor of Lloyd Lee Gravely. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of Virginia, 1776; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; member of Virginia state senate, 1799. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1920. Died near Brookneal, Campbell County, Va., June 6, 1799. Interment at Red Hill Cemetery, Brookneal, Va. Henry counties in Ala., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Va. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• James Monroe (1758-1831) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., April 28, 1758. Nephew of Joseph Jones; son of Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married 1786 to Eliza Kortright; distant cousin of Thomas Bell Monroe; uncle of James Monroe (1799-1870); great-great-granduncle of Theodore Douglas Robinson and Corinne Robinson Alsop. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S. Secretary of State, 1811-14, 1815-17; U.S. Secretary of War, 1814-15; President of the United States, 1817-25; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1930. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s. Died, probably of tuberculosis, in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 4, 1831. Originally entombed at New York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequently entombed at New York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1858 at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are named for him.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article.
  • Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
  
  
• Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) — also known as Stephen Grover Cleveland; "Uncle Jumbo"; "The Veto Mayor"; "Grover The Good"; "The Sage of Princeton"; "Dumb Prophet"; "Buffalo Hangman"; "The Veto President"; "Beast of Buffalo"; "Big Steve" — of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.; Princeton, Mercer County, N.J.; Tamworth, Carroll County, N.H. Born in Caldwell, Essex County, N.J., March 18, 1837. Son of Rev. Richard F. Cleveland and Ann (Neel) Cleveland; married, June 2, 1886, to Frances Folsom; father of Richard F. Cleveland. Democrat. Lawyer; Erie County Sheriff, 1870-73; mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-85; President of the United States, 1885-89, 1893-97; defeated, 1888. Presbyterian. Member, Sigma Chi. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1935. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $20 bill from 1914 to 1928, and on the $1,000 bill from 1928 to 1946. Died in Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., June 24, 1908. Interment at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J. Cleveland counties in Ark. and Okla. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Henry T. Ellett; Wilson S. Bissell; David King Udall; Edward S. Bragg; Thomas F. Grady
  • See also: National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile.
  • Books about Grover Cleveland: Alyn Brodsky, Grover Cleveland : A Study in Character; H. Paul Jeffers, An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland; Mark Wahlgren Summers, Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President, 1884; Henry F. Graff, Grover Cleveland; Jeff C. Young, Grover Cleveland (for young readers)
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) — also known as "T.R."; "Teddy"; "The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan Hill"; "The Rough Rider"; "Trust-Buster"; "The Happy Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 27, 1858. Great-great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch; nephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831-1878) and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt (1835-1884); married, October 27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee (died 1884); married, December 2, 1886, to Edith Kermit Carow; fourth cousin once removed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945); uncle of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) (who married Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)) and Corinne Robinson Alsop; father of Alice Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas Longworth) and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; granduncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and John DeKoven Alsop; great-grandfather-in-law of William Floyd Weld. Member of New York state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884, 1900; candidate for mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of New York, 1899-1901; Vice President of the United States, 1901; President of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916. Christian Reformed. Dutch ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Union League; Alpha Delta Phi; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa. Received the Medal of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee, Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1950. Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., January 6, 1919. Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Gifford Pinchot; David J. Leahy; William Barnes, Jr.; Oliver D. Burden
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America; H. W. Brands, T.R : The Last Romantic; Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex; Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; John Morton Blum, The Republican Roosevelt; Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895; Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt; James Chace, 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country; Patricia O'Toole, When Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White House; Candice Millard, The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey; Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt : His Mind in Action (out of print)
  
  
• Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) — also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in Politics" — of New Jersey. Born in Staunton, Va., December 28, 1856. Married, June 24, 1885, to Ellen Louise Axson (died 1914); married, December 18, 1915, to Edith Bolling Galt; father-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo. Democrat. University professor; president of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13; President of the United States, 1913-21. Presbyterian. Member, Phi Alpha Delta; Phi Kappa Psi. Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1950. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate which was issued in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks. Died in Washington, D.C., February 3, 1924. Interment at Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
  • Cross-reference: William C. Bullitt; Bainbridge Colby; Joseph E. Davies; Joseph P. Tumulty; Thomas H. Birch
  • See also: National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis Auchincloss, Woodrow Wilson; Herbert Hoover, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson; James Chace, 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country; Anne Schraff, Woodrow Wilson (for young readers)
  • Critical books about Woodrow Wilson: Jim Powell, Wilson's War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II
  
  
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) — also known as "The Great Dissenter" — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 8, 1841. Son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Amelia Lee (Jackson) Holmes; married, June 17, 1872, to Fanny Dixwell. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1882-1902; chief justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1899-1902; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1902-32. Unitarian. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1965. Died in Washington, D.C., March 6, 1935. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  • Cross-reference: Francis Biddle; Laurence Curtis; Lewis Einstein; Erland F. Fish
  • Books by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The Common Law
  • Books about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Gary J. Aichele, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : Soldier, Scholar, Judge (out of print); G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self; Sheldon M. Novick,