Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Meriwether Lewis Randolph (1810-1837) —
of Whelan Springs, Clark
County, Ark.
Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., January
31, 1810.
Secretary
of Arkansas Territory, 1835-36.
Died, of malaria, in Whelan Springs, Clark
County, Ark., September
24, 1837 (age 27 years, 236
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Clark County, Ark.
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Presumably named
for: Meriwether
Lewis |
| | | Relatives: Son of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha
Jefferson Randolph; brother of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; married to Elizabeth Anderson Martin (who later
married Andrew
Jackson Donelson); uncle of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; grandson of Thomas
Jefferson; granduncle of John
Gardner Coolidge; great-grandson of Archibald
Cary; second great-grandson of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of Francis
Wayles Eppes; first cousin once removed of Dabney
Carr, John
Wayles Eppes and Frederick
Madison Roberts; first cousin twice removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin thrice removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Dabney
Smith Carr; second cousin once removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph and Edith
Wilson; third cousin of Thomas
Marshall, John
Jordan Crittenden, Thomas
Turpin Crittenden, Robert
Crittenden, James
Keith Marshall and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Alexander
Parker Crittenden, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden, John
Augustine Marshall and Carter
Henry Harrison II; third cousin twice removed of Thomas
Theodore Crittenden Jr., William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; fourth cousin of Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, Edmund
Randolph, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Jones Hardeman, Bailey
Hardeman, Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Kirby Allen (1810-1838) —
of Texas.
Born in Canaseraga, Allegany
County, N.Y., 1810.
Major in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836.
One of the founders of the city of Houston.
Died of malaria, August
15, 1838 (age about 28
years).
Interment at Founders
Memorial Park, Houston, Tex.
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John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) —
also known as John T. Mason —
of near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., January
8, 1787.
Secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1830-31.
Died, of malaria, in the Fremont House hotel,
Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., April
17, 1850 (age 63 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton (1822-1863) —
of Missouri.
Born in Loudoun
County, Va., February
8, 1822.
Member of Missouri
state senate, 1858; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Delegate
from Missouri to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1862; Senator
from Missouri in the Confederate Congress, 1862-63; died in
office 1863.
Died, apparently of malaria contracted while while defending
Vicksburg, in Bladon Springs, Choctaw
County, Ala., September
3, 1863 (age 41 years, 207
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) —
also known as Jefferson Davis —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, Miss.; Warren
County, Miss.
Born in a log
cabin, Fairview, Christian County (now Todd
County), Ky., June 3,
1808.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War;
candidate for Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1843; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Mississippi; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1845-46; served in the
U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-51, 1857-61; candidate for Governor of
Mississippi, 1851; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1853-57; President
of the Confederacy, 1861-65.
Captured
by Union
forces in May 1865 and imprisoned
without trial for about two years.
Slaveowner.
Died of bronchitis
and malaria in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
6, 1889 (age 81 years, 186
days).
Original interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1893 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Memorial Avenue, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane (Cook) Davis; married, June 17,
1835, to Sarah Knox Taylor (daughter of Zachary
Taylor and Margaret
Taylor); married, February
25, 1845, to Varina Howell (granddaughter of Richard
Howell); uncle of Mary Bradford (who married Richard
Brodhead); granduncle of Jefferson
Davis Brodhead and Frances Eileen Hutt (who married Thomas
Edmund Dewey). |
| | | Political families: Taylor-Brodhead
family of Easton, Pennsylvania; Davis-Howell-Morgan-Agnew
family of New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana (subsets of the
Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jesse
D. Bright — John
H. Reagan — Horace
Greeley — Solomon
Cohen — George
W. Jones — Samuel
A. Roberts — William
T. Sutherlin — Victor
Vifquain — Charles
O'Conor |
| | | Jeff Davis
County, Ga., Jefferson Davis
Parish, La., Jefferson Davis
County, Miss. and Jeff Davis
County, Tex. are named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jefferson Davis (built 1942 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: J.
Davis Brodhead
— Jefferson
D. Hostetter
— Jefferson
D. Blount
— Jefferson
Davis Carwile
— Jeff
Davis
— Jefferson
D. Helms
— Jefferson
Davis Wiggins
— Jefferson
Davis Parris
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States 50 cent notes in 1861-64.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Jefferson Davis: The
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
(1881) |
| | | Books about Jefferson Davis: William J.
Cooper, Jr., Jefferson
Davis, American : A Biography — Varina Davis, Jefferson
Davis : Ex-President of the Confederate States of America : A Memoir
by His Wife — William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald
Kennedy, Was
Jefferson Davis Right? — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson
Davis Gets His Citizenship Back — Herman Hattaway &
Richard E. Beringer, Jefferson
Davis, Confederate President — Felicity Allen, Jefferson
Davis: Unconquerable Heart — Clint Johnson, Pursuit:
The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of
Confederate President Jefferson Davis |
| | | Image source: Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861 |
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Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., February
26, 1840.
U.S. Consul in Moscow, 1866-69; Reval, 1869-70; Birmingham, 1878-79; U.S. Consul General in Constantinople, 1876-78; Rome, 1879-80; Bucharest, as of 1880-82; Athens, as of 1882-84; Cairo, 1889-90; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Romania, 1880; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Romania, 1880-82; U.S. Minister to Romania, 1882-84; Serbia, 1882-84; Greece, 1882-84.
Died, of malarial fever, in Venice, Italy,
July
16, 1890 (age 50 years, 140
days).
Interment at Cimitero
di San Michele, Venice, Italy; cenotaph at Ithaca
City Cemetery, Ithaca, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Matilda (Scriber) Schuyler and George
Washington Schuyler; married, July 8,
1877, to Gertrude Wallace King; third great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin once removed of Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler; first cousin four times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin five times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre
Van Cortlandt, William
Livingston, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Maturin
Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Peter
Augustus Jay, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, James
Alexander Hamilton, Philip
Schuyler, William
Jay, Charles
Ludlow Livingston, Hamilton
Fish, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Dwight Holton (1815-1892) —
also known as Edward D. Holton —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., April
28, 1815.
Abolitionist; wheat
trader; Liberty candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1845; founder,
Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railroad;
banker;
Free Soil candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1853; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Wisconsin; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin,
1856;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Milwaukee County 4th District, 1860.
Died, from malaria and erysipelas,
in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., April
21, 1892 (age 76 years, 359
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Relatives:
Married, October
14, 1845, to Lucinda Millard. |
| | | The city
of Holton,
Kansas, is named for
him. — Holton Hall, at the University
of Wisconsin Milwaukee,
is named for
him. — Holton Street,
in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Samuel Triplett (1830-1905) —
also known as Robert S. Triplett —
of Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky.
Born in Scott
County, Ky., January
29, 1830.
Steamboat
business; commission
merchant; railroad
builder; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1886-89.
Died, from malarial fever, in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
11, 1905 (age 75 years, 225
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Ky.
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Joseph Dominic Montedonico (1852-1909) —
also known as Joseph D. Montedonico —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., April 4,
1852.
Banker;
insurance
business; Consular
Agent for Italy in Memphis,
Tenn., 1875-77, 1892-96; member of Tennessee
state senate; elected 1884.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease and malaria, in Hotel
Pilgrim, Plymouth, Plymouth
County, Mass., September
8, 1909 (age 57 years, 157
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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Thomas J. Surpless (c.1875-1911) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1875.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1906-09.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from the effects of malaria and typhoid
fever, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
23, 1911 (age about 36
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Surpless. |
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Clarence Cecil Woolard (1873-1923) —
also known as Clarence C. Woolard —
of Idaho.
Born in Grafton, Taylor
County, W.Va., January
12, 1873.
U.S. Vice Consul in Cape Hatien, 1915-23, died in office 1923.
Died, from malaria, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
December
22, 1923 (age 50 years, 344
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Parkersburg, W.Va.
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