Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Philip Livingston (1716-1778) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
15, 1716.
Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1769, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-78; died in office
1778; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1777-78; died in office 1778.
Presbyterian.
Died while attending the sixth session of the Continental
Congress in York, York
County, Pa., June 12,
1778 (age 62 years, 148
days).
Entombed at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catrina (Van Brugh) Livingston;
brother of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and William
Livingston; married, April
14, 1740, to Christina Ten Broeck; nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; uncle by marriage of James
Duane and William
Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas
Bayard), Susannah Livingston (who married John
Cleves Symmes), Susanna Livingston (who married John
Kean (1756-1795)), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John
Jay) and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; grandfather of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer
Westerlo and Edward
Philip Livingston; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Philip
Schuyler, Edward
Livingston (1796-1840) and Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer; great-granduncle of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William
Duer (1805-1879), Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; second great-grandfather of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer; second great-granduncle of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean (1852-1914), Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third great-grandfather of Robert
Reginald Livingston; third great-granduncle of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson
Murray Cutting, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston; fourth great-grandfather of John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; fourth great-granduncle of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; ancestor *** of Robert
Livingston Beeckman; first cousin of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler, John
Cruger Jr., Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and John
Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Samuel Hardy (c.1758-1785) —
of Virginia.
Born in Isle of
Wight County, Va., about 1758.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1778, 1780-82; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-85; died in office
1785.
Died while attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia,
Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
17, 1785 (age about 27
years).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Samuel John Atlee (1739-1786) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., 1739.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-82; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1782, 1785-86.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died at a session of the Pennsylvania Assembly at
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
25, 1786 (age about 47
years).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Abner Nash (1740-1786) —
of Jones
County, N.C.
Born near Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., August
8, 1740.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-65; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777-78, 1782, 1784-85; member of North
Carolina state senate from Jones County, 1779; Governor of
North Carolina, 1780-81; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-86; died in
office 1786.
Welsh
ancestry.
Died while attending a session of the Continental Congress, in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
2, 1786 (age 46 years, 116
days).
Original interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Pembroke
Plantation Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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Benjamin Andrew (1730-1790) —
of Georgia.
Born in Dorchester, Charleston District (now Dorchester
County), S.C., 1730.
Planter;
member of Georgia
State Executive Council, 1777; elected Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia 1780, but did not serve.
Died on the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives, in
the then state
capitol building, Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., December
16, 1790 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Caldwell (1757-1804) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., 1757.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1792; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1804; died in office 1804.
Died, of an "inflammation of the brain" (probably a stroke),
while presiding over the Kentucky State Senate, at the then state
capitol building, Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., 1804
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Thomas Tyler Bouldin (1781-1834) —
of Virginia.
Born near Charlotte Court House, Charlotte
County, Va., 1781.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1829-33, 1833-34 (5th District
1829-33, 8th District 1833-34); died in office 1834.
Slaveowner.
Died while addressing the House of Representatives in the U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., February
11, 1834 (age about 52
years).
Interment in private or family graveyard; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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.
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 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Adams and Abigail
Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith); married, July 26,
1797, to Louisa
Catherine Johnson (daughter of Joshua
Johnson; sister-in-law of John
Pope; niece of Thomas
Johnson); 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); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin of William
Cranch; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Adams; second cousin twice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Arthur
Chapin; second cousin five times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; third cousin of Joseph
Allen; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Sewall, Josiah
Quincy, Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868) and John
Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of William
Vincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Jeremiah
Mason, Josiah
Quincy Jr., George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Smith — Thurlow
Weed |
| | | Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Quincy Adams, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon
Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Q. A. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
Q. A. Reber
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | 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 — Joseph Wheelan, Mr.
Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary
Post-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John C. Bell (c.1831-1860) —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.
Born about 1831.
Member of California
state assembly 18th District, 1860; died in office 1860.
During an argument just outside the Assembly session in the California
State Capitol, was shot and
stabbed
by Dr. W. H. Stone, mortally
wounded, and died four days later, in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., April
15, 1860 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Sacramento
City Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.
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Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (1821-1864) —
also known as Muscoe R. H. Garnett —
of Essex
County, Va.
Born in Essex
County, Va., July 25,
1821.
Democrat. Delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850-51; member of
Virginia
state house of delegates, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1856-61; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Essex & King-and-Queen
counties, 1861; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; died in
office 1864.
Slaveowner.
Contracted typhoid
fever while attending the Confederate Congress, in the
Virginia State
Capitol, Richmond, Va., and died at his home in Essex
County, Va., February
14, 1864 (age 42 years, 204
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Essex County, Va.
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Jeremiah Weldon South (1805-1880) —
also known as Jere South; "The Father of Breathitt
County" —
of Owsley
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., July 10,
1805.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1840; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1843-47.
Died on the floor of the Kentucky State Senate, old State
Capitol Building, Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., April
15, 1880 (age 74 years, 280
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Leonidas Johnson Rountree (1868-1923) —
also known as Lee J. Rountree —
of Texas.
Born in Dripping Springs, Hays
County, Tex., July 15,
1868.
Newspaper
publisher; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Died of a stroke,
after giving a passionate speech in the House of
Representatives, in the Texas Capitol,
Austin, Travis
County, Tex., May 2,
1923 (age 54 years, 291
days).
Interment at Bryan
City Cemetery, Bryan, Tex.
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Edward Everett Eslick (1872-1932) —
also known as Edward E. Eslick —
of Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born near Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., April
19, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1925-32; died in
office 1932.
Died suddenly while addressing the U.S. House of
Representatives, in the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., June 14,
1932 (age 60 years, 56
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Pulaski, Tenn.
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Morris Michael Edelstein (1888-1941) —
also known as M. Michael Edelstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Meseritz (Międzyrzec), Poland,
February
5, 1888.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1940-41; died in
office 1941.
Jewish.
Completed delivery of a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, and then died nearby in the House cloakroom, in
the U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., June 4,
1941 (age 53 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt.
Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens, N.Y.
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Russell Vernon Mack (1891-1960) —
also known as Russell V. Mack —
of Hoquiam, Grays
Harbor County, Wash.
Born in Hillman, Montmorency
County, Mich., June 13,
1891.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
publisher; U.S.
Representative from Washington 3rd District, 1947-60; died in
office 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Elks.
Died suddenly, from a coronary
occlusion, on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, in the U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1960 (age 68 years, 289
days).
Interment at Fern
Hill Cemetery, Aberdeen, Wash.
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William B. Hoyt (c.1938-1992) —
also known as Bill Hoyt —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born about 1938.
Democrat. School
teacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1972;
member of New York
state assembly 144th District, 1975-92; died in office 1992;
candidate for mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1989.
Suffered a heart
attack and collapsed, during an Assembly session, in the
State
Capitol Building, and died soon after in the Albany Medical
Center, Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March
25, 1992 (age about 54
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Married to Susan Curran. |
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