Very incomplete list!
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum"; "Cincinnatus of the
West" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles
City County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio
state senate, 1819-21; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia
or typhoid,
at the White House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of
Carter
Bassett Harrison; married, November
22, 1795, to Anna
Tuthill Symmes (daughter of John
Cleves Symmes); father of John
Scott Harrison; grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; second cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle and Harry
Flood Byrd; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Monroe Harrison. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Harrison counties in Ind., Iowa, Miss. and Ohio are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Harrison,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
H. Harrison Taylor
— W.
H. H. Eba
— William
H. H. Clayton
— William
H. H. Allen
— William
H. H. Beadle
— William
H. H. Varney
— William
H. H. Cowles
— William
H. H. Stowell
— William
H. H. Miller
— William
H. H. Cook
— William
H. H. Flick
— William
H. Heard
— William
H. H. Llewellyn
— William
H. Harrison
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| | | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too." |
| | | 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 William Henry Harrison:
Freeman Cleaves, Old
Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —
Norma Lois Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — David
Lillard, William
Henry Harrison (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Letitia Tyler (1790-1842) —
also known as Letitia Christian —
Born in New Kent
County, Va., November
12, 1790.
Second
Lady of the United States, 1841; First Lady
of the United States, 1841-42; died in office 1842.
Female.
Died, following a stroke,
in the White House, Washington,
D.C., September
10, 1842 (age 51 years, 302
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, New Kent County, Va.
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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) —
also known as "Old Rough and Ready" —
Born in Orange
County, Va., November
24, 1784.
Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the
U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; President
of the United States, 1849-50; died in office 1850.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of gastroenteritis,
in the White House, Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1850 (age 65 years, 227
days). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains
were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the
theory.
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family
graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, June 21,
1810, to Margaret
Mackall Smith (niece of Benjamin
Mackall IV and Thomas
Mackall); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married Jefferson
Finis Davis); granduncle of Edmund
Haynes Taylor Jr.; ancestor *** of Victor
D. Crist; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin of James
Madison and William
Taylor Madison; second cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee, John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton, George
Madison, Coleby
Chew, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin twice removed of John
Walker, John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis
Walker; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro, Daniel
Micajah Pendleton and Max
Rogers Strother; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton; third cousin of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, Meriwether
Lewis, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Lee, John
Tyler (1790-1862), Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson, Fitzhugh
Lee, William
Barret Pendleton, James
Francis Buckner Jr., Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton, John
Overton Pendleton and Francis
Preston Blair Lee; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, John
Lee Carroll, Charles
Kellogg, James
Sansome Lakin and Edward
Brooke Lee; fourth cousin of Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Thomas
Walker Gilmer, Aylette
Buckner, David
Gardiner Tyler and Lyon
Gardiner Tyler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd, Charles
John Helm and Hubbard
Dozier Helm. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: David
R. Atchison — Thomas
Ewing |
| | | Taylor counties in Fla., Ga., Iowa and Ky. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Zachary
T. Coy
— Zachary
T. Bielby
— Zachary
T. Harris
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| | | Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor
never surrenders." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack
Bauer, Zachary
Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old
Southwest — Elbert B. Smith, The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard
Fillmore |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Elisha Hunt Allen (1804-1883) —
also known as Elisha H. Allen —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in New Salem, Franklin
County, Mass., January
28, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1835-40, 1846-47; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1838; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Maine, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent
Organization; member, Committee to Notify Nominees); U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1841-43; defeated, 1842;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1849-50; U.S. Consul in Honolulu, 1849-53; became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii;
Minister of Finance for King Kamehameha III; member, Hawaii House of
Nobles, 1854-56; Kingdom of Hawaii Minister to the United States,
1856-83; chief justice, Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court, 1857-77.
Died suddenly from heart
disease, while attending a diplomatic reception
at the White House, Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1883 (age 78 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Clesson Allen and Mary (Hunt) Allen; married 1828 to Sarah
Elizabeth Fessenden; married, March
11, 1857, to Mary Harrod Hobbes; father of William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin of Gouverneur
Morris; second cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; second cousin twice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Chester
Ashley; third cousin once removed of Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Abijah
Blodget, Albert
Asahel Bliss and Philemon
Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Josiah
Meigs, Daniel
Pitkin, Oliver
Morgan Hungerford, Judson
H. Warner and Josiah
Quincy; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; fourth cousin of Joseph
Churchill Strong, Theodore
Davenport, Chester
William Chapin, Harrison
Blodget, John
William Allen, William
Alfred Buckingham, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); fourth cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse, Jonathan
Brace, Martin
Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Timothy
Pitkin, James
Kilbourne, Amaziah
Brainard, Henry
Meigs, Charles
Jared Ingersoll, Joseph
Reed Ingersoll, Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Charles
Anthony Ingersoll, John
Adams Taintor, Henry
G. Taintor, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, John
Hill Walbridge, Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Walter
Harrison Blodget, Henry
E. Walbridge, Edwin
W. Kellogg, Alfred
Wolcott and Samuel
Herbert Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Caroline Harrison (1832-1892) —
also known as Caroline Lavinia Scott —
Born in Oxford, Butler
County, Ohio, October
1, 1832.
Music
teacher; First Lady
of the United States, 1889-92; died in office 1892.
Female.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Died, in the White House, Washington,
D.C., October
25, 1892 (age 60 years, 24
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Frank P. Hastings (1852-1897) —
of Hawaii.
Born in Calais, Washington
County, Maine, May 21,
1852.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Honolulu, 1877-86; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Honolulu, 1886-89; secretary of the Republic of Hawaii legation
in Washington, 1893-97, and served as Charge d'Affaires ad interim.
Became ill at a reception in the White House, and died ten
days later, in Washington,
D.C., May 29,
1897 (age 45 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
American Monthly Review of Reviews, July, 1897 |
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Ellen Wilson (1860-1914) —
also known as Ellen Louise Axson —
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., May 15,
1860.
First Lady of New Jersey, 1911-13; First Lady
of the United States, 1913-14; died in office 1914.
Female.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in the White House, Washington,
D.C., August
6, 1914 (age 54 years, 83
days).
Interment at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.
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