Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Francis Malbone (1759-1809) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., March
20, 1759.
U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1793-97; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1807; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1809; died in office 1809.
Slaveowner.
Died on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., June 4,
1809 (age 50 years, 76
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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Henry Wilson (1812-1875) —
also known as Jeremiah Jones Colbaith —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Farmington, Strafford
County, N.H., February
16, 1812.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1841-42; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1844-46, 1850-52; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1848; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1852; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1853; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1855-73; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1856 ;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868;
Vice
President of the United States, 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died, of a stroke,
in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., November
22, 1875 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Dell
Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass.
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Alpheus Starkey Williams (1810-1878) —
also known as Alpheus S. Williams —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Saybrook, Middlesex
County, Conn., September
20, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; probate judge in Michigan, 1839; recorder's court judge
in Michigan, 1842; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
postmaster at Detroit,
Mich., 1849-53; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1866; U.S. Minister to Salvador, 1866-69; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1875-78; died in
office 1878.
Suffered a stroke
and died in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., December
21, 1878 (age 68 years, 92
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.; statue erected 1921 at Belle
Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.
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William Preston Taulbee (1851-1890) —
also known as William P. Taulbee —
of Salyersville, Magoffin
County, Ky.
Born in Morgan
County, Ky., October
22, 1851.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1885-89.
Shot
and mortally
wounded, by Charles E. Kincaid, a journalist with whom he had
quarreled, in the U.S. Capitol Building, and died eleven days
later at Providence Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1890 (age 38 years, 140
days). Kincaid pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty of
murder in 1891.
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Morgan County, Ky.
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Augustus Hill Garland (1832-1899) —
also known as Augustus H. Garland —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Tipton
County, Tenn., June 11,
1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; delegate
to Arkansas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 3rd District, 1862-64;
Senator
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1868;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1874-77; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1877-85; U.S.
Attorney General, 1885-89.
Slaveowner.
Died suddenly while arguing a case before the Supreme
Court, in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., January
26, 1899 (age 66 years, 229
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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William John Browning (1850-1920) —
also known as William J. Browning —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., April
11, 1850.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; postmaster at Camden,
N.J., 1889-94; insurance
business; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 1st District, 1911-20; died in
office 1920.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the barber shop of the U.S. Capitol Building,
Washington,
D.C., March
24, 1920 (age 69 years, 348
days).
Interment at Harleigh
Cemetery, Camden, N.J.
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Martin Barnaby Madden (1855-1928) —
also known as Martin B. Madden —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Wolviston, England,
March
21, 1855.
Republican. Stone quarry
business; director, Metropolitan Trust and Savings Bank;
member Chicago City Council, 1889-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1896
(speaker),
1900,
1912,
1916,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1905-28; died in
office 1928.
Died in the House Appropriations Committee meeting room, in the
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., April
27, 1928 (age 73 years, 37
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Near Hinsdale, DuPage County, Ill.
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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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Thomas Chalkley Coffin (1887-1934) —
also known as Thomas C. Coffin —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Caldwell, Canyon
County, Idaho, October
25, 1887.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Pocatello, Idaho, 1931-33; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 2nd District, 1933-34; died in office
1934.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Struck
by an automobile on a driveway in the south grounds of the
U.S. Capitol, June 4, 1934, and died four days later at
Providence Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 8,
1934 (age 46 years, 226
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Pocatello, Idaho.
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Wallace Edgar Pierce (1881-1940) —
also known as Wallace E. Pierce —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.
Born in Black Brook, Clinton
County, N.Y., December
9, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Clinton County, 1917-19; chair of
Clinton County Republican Party, 1927-40; U.S.
Representative from New York 31st District, 1939-40; died in
office 1940.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the Congressional physician's
office, in the U.S. Capitol, Washington,
D.C., January
3, 1940 (age 58 years, 25
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
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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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Lawrence Henry Smith (1892-1958) —
also known as Lawrence H. Smith —
of Racine, Racine
County, Wis.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., September
15, 1892.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1941-58; died in
office 1958.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., January
22, 1958 (age 65 years, 129
days).
Interment at West
Lawn Memorial Park, Racine, Wis.
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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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Hjalmar Carl Nygaard (1906-1963) —
of Sharon, Steele
County, N.Dak.
Born near Sharon, Steele
County, N.Dak., March
24, 1906.
Republican. Member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1949-60; Speaker of
the North Dakota State House of Representatives, 1959; U.S.
Representative from North Dakota, 1961-63 (at-large 1961-63, 1st
District 1963); died in office 1963.
Died in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., July 18,
1963 (age 57 years, 116
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Enderlin, N.Dak.
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