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Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia

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These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  Edward Shippen (1639-1712) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Methley, Yorkshire, England, March 5, 1639. Merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1701-03. Quaker. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 2, 1712 (age 73 years, 211 days). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of William Shippen and Mary Shippen; married 1671 to Elizabeth Lybrand; married 1689 to Rebecca (Howard) Richardson; married 1706 to Esther (Wilcox) James; grandfather of Edward Shippen (1703-1781), Anne Nancy Shippen (who married Charles Willing) and William Shippen (1712-1801); great-grandfather of Edward Shippen (1729-1806) and Thomas Willing; second great-grandfather of Charles Willing Byrd; third great-grandfather of John Brown Francis and Edward Shippen (1823-1904); fourth great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr. and Bertha Shippen Irving; fifth great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Richard Randolph (1690-1748) — Born in Henrico County, Va., 1690. Planter; merchant; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1727-48; died in office 1748. Died in Bath, England, December 17, 1748 (age about 58 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Randolph and Mary (Isham) Randolph; married 1724 to Jane Kennon Bolling; uncle of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); grandfather of John Randolph of Roanoke; granduncle of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; great-granduncle of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; second great-grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second great-granduncle of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; third great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; third great-granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; fourth great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; fourth great-granduncle of Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fifth great-granduncle of William Welby Beverley; first cousin thrice removed of John Wayles Eppes; first cousin five times removed of William Henry Robertson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Joshua Fry (1699-1754) — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, 1699. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1740. Surveyor and co-author with Peter Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's father) of a famous early map titled "Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia, containing the whole province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina." Upon his death, the young George Washington took command of Virginia's military forces. Died, of injuries received in a fall from his horse, near Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., May 31, 1754 (age about 54 years). Original interment somewhere in Allegany County, Md.; reinterment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland, Md.
  Relatives: Father of John Fry and Henry Fry; second great-grandfather of James Speed; third great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; fourth great-grandfather of Olive Speed (who married Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr.) and William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967).
  Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Edward Shippen (1703-1781) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 9, 1703. Merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1744-45. Died in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa., September 25, 1781 (age 78 years, 78 days). Interment at St. James' Episcopal Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Abigail (Grosse) Shippen and Joseph Shippen; brother of Anne Nancy Shippen (who married Charles Willing) and William Shippen; married, September 20, 1725, to Sarah Plumley; father of Edward Shippen (1729-1806); uncle of Thomas Willing; grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); granduncle of Charles Willing Byrd; great-grandfather of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); great-granduncle of John Brown Francis; second great-grandfather of Bertha Shippen Irving; second great-granduncle of Edward Overton Jr.; third great-granduncle of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The borough of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, which he founded, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Richard Bland (1710-1776) — of Virginia. Born in Orange County, Va., May 6, 1710. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774. Died in Williamsburg, Va., October 26, 1776 (age 66 years, 173 days). Interment in private or family graveyard.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Bland (1665-1720) and Elizabeth (Randolph) Bland; married to Martha Macon; nephew of Richard Randolph; uncle of Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); granduncle of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; great-granduncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; second great-granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee; fourth great-granduncle of William Welby Beverley; first cousin of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; first cousin twice removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; first cousin five times removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin twice removed of John Wayles Eppes; second cousin four times removed of William Henry Robertson.
  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).
  Bland County, Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Charles Willing (1710-1754) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Bristol, England, May 18, 1710. Merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1748-49, 1754; died in office 1754. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., November 30, 1754 (age 44 years, 196 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas B. Willing and Anne (Harrison) Willing; married 1731 to Anne Nancy Shippen (sister of Edward Shippen (1703-1781); granddaughter of Edward Shippen (1639-1712)); father of Thomas Willing and Elizabeth Willing (who married Samuel Powel); grandfather of Charles Willing Byrd; great-grandfather of John Brown Francis; second great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr.; third great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  William Shippen (1712-1801) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 1, 1712. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778. Died in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., November 4, 1801 (age 89 years, 34 days). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Abigail (Grosse) Shippen and Joseph Shippen; brother of Edward Shippen (1703-1781); uncle of Edward Shippen (1729-1806) and Thomas Willing; grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); granduncle of Charles Willing Byrd; great-granduncle of John Brown Francis and Edward Shippen (1823-1904); second great-granduncle of Edward Overton Jr. and Bertha Shippen Irving; third great-granduncle of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry Harrison (c.1713-1766) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Lancashire, England, about 1713. Ship captain; merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1762-63. Anglican. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., January 3, 1766 (age about 53 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Harrison and Elizabeth Cattlett (Battaile) Harrison; married, April 13, 1748, to Mary Watson Aspden; fourth great-granduncle of Frank White; first cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) — of Caroline County, Va. Born in Caroline County, Va., September 9, 1721. Planter; lawyer; justice of the peace; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1776; justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1777; chief justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1788-1803; died in office 1803; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Caroline County, 1788. Anglican. Died in Richmond, Va., October 23, 1803 (age 82 years, 44 days). Original interment at Edmundsbury Graveyard, Bowling Green, Va.; reinterment in 1907 at Bruton Parish Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Pendleton and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton; married, January 21, 1741, to Elizabeth Roy; married, January 20, 1745, to Sarah Pollard; uncle of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; granduncle of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; great-granduncle of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second great-granduncle of William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third great-granduncle of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; first cousin once removed of John Penn; first cousin twice removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; first cousin thrice removed of Coleby Chew; first cousin four times removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; first cousin five times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Pendleton counties in Ky. and W.Va. are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) — of Virginia. Born in Williamsburg, Va., 1721. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 22, 1775 (age about 54 years). Interment at College of William and Mary Chapel, Williamsburg, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Randolph and Susanna (Beverley) Randolh; brother-in-law of Benjamin Harrison; married to Elizabeth 'Betty' Harrison; nephew of Richard Randolph; uncle of Edmund Jenings Randolph; granduncle of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph; second great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph Cocke; third great-granduncle of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Richard Bland; first cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin twice removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Edmund Jennings Lee, Dabney Carr and Henry St. George Tucker; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; first cousin five times removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin six times removed of William Welby Beverley; second cousin twice removed of John Wayles Eppes; second cousin thrice removed of Coleby Chew; second cousin four times removed of St. Clair Ballard, Lewis Ballard and William Henry Robertson; second cousin five times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk.
  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).
  Randolph County, N.C. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
  Archibald Cary (1721-1787) — also known as "Old Iron" — Born in Chesterfield County, Va., January 24, 1721. Planter; iron foundry business; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1756-76. Died in Chesterfield County, Va., February 26, 1787 (age 66 years, 33 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Cary and Ann (Edwards) Cary; married, May 31, 1744, to Mary Randolph; grandfather of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; great-grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; third great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) — also known as "The Signer" — of Charles City County, Va. Born in Charles City County, Va., April 5, 1726. Planter; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1749-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1776-81, 1787-91; Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1778-81; Governor of Virginia, 1781-84; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles City County, 1788. Died in Charles City County, Va., April 24, 1791 (age 65 years, 19 days). Interment at Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Harrison (1693-1745) and Ann (Carter) Harrison; brother-in-law of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); married 1748 to Elizabeth Bassett; father of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (who married Anna Tuthill Symmes); uncle of Beverley Randolph; grandfather of John Scott Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison; second great-grandfather of Russell Benjamin Harrison; second great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; third great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); ancestor *** of James Thomas Harrison; first cousin of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin once removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes and William Welby Beverley; first cousin five times removed of Francis Beverley Biddle and Harry Flood Byrd; first cousin six times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice 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 County, W.Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  Edward Shippen (1729-1806) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., February 16, 1729. Lawyer; justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1791; chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1799-1806. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 16, 1806 (age 77 years, 59 days). Interment at First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Shippen (1703-1781) and Sarah (Plumley) Shippen; married, November 29, 1753, to Margaret Francis; nephew of William Shippen; granduncle of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); great-granduncle of Bertha Shippen Irving; first cousin of Thomas Willing; first cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd; first cousin twice removed of John Brown Francis; first cousin thrice removed of Edward Overton Jr.; first cousin four times removed of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Fleming (1729-1795) — of Staunton, Va.; Botetourt County, Va. Born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, February 19, 1729. Physician; Governor of Virginia, 1781; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Botetourt County, 1788. Scottish ancestry. Died August 5, 1795 (age 66 years, 167 days). Interment at Bellmont Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Leonard Fleming and Dorthea Fleming; married 1763 to Anne Christian (sister of William Christian).
  Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780) — Born in Hanover County, Va., January 28, 1729. Lawyer; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1755-61, 1766-75. Died in Hanover County, Va., November, 1780 (age 51 years, 0 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Hanover County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of George Nicholas and Elizabeth (Carter) Nicholas; married to Anne Cary; father of Elizabeth Nicholas (who married Edmund Jenings Randolph), George Nicholas (1753-1799), Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; grandfather of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); great-grandfather of Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; great-granduncle of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; second great-grandfather of Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; third great-grandfather of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); first cousin once removed of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin twice removed of John Scott Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); first cousin four times removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley; first cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin six times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett.
  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).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Cabell (1730-1798) — of Amherst County (part now in Nelson County), Va. Born in Goochland County, Va., March 13, 1730. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765-75; member of Virginia state senate, 1776; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Amherst County, 1788. Died in Amherst County (part now in Nelson County), Va., March 23, 1798 (age 68 years, 10 days). Interment at Union Hill Cemetery, Near Wingina, Nelson County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Cabell (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Burks) Cabell; married 1756 to Margaret Meredith Jordan; father of William Cabell Jr.; uncle of William Henry Cabell; grandfather of Paulina Cabell Rives (who married Richard Pollard); granduncle of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Frederick Mortimer Cabell and Edward Carrington Cabell; great-granduncle of John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; third great-granduncle of Earle Cabell.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Willing (1731-1821) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., December 19, 1731. Lawyer; merchant; city court justice, 1759; justice of the court of common pleas, 1761; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1763-64; justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1767; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; banker. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., January 19, 1821 (age 89 years, 31 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Anne (Shippen) Willing and Charles Willing; brother of Elizabeth Willing (who married Samuel Powel); married 1763 to Anne McCall; nephew of Edward Shippen (1703-1781) and William Shippen; uncle of Charles Willing Byrd; granduncle of John Brown Francis; great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr.; second great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane; second great-granduncle of Francis Fisher Kane; first cousin of Edward Shippen (1729-1806); first cousin twice removed of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); first cousin thrice removed of Bertha Shippen Irving.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Martha Washington (1731-1802) — also known as Martha Dandridge; Martha Dandridge Custis — Born in New Kent County, Va., June 13, 1731. First Lady of the United States, 1789-97. Female. Slaveowner. Died in Fairfax County, Va., May 22, 1802 (age 70 years, 343 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
  Relatives: Daughter of John Dandridge and Frances (Jones) Dandridge; married 1759 to Daniel Parke Custis; married, January 6, 1759, to George Washington (uncle of Bushrod Washington); mother of John Parke Custis; aunt of Burwell Bassett; first cousin five times removed of Edith Wilson.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Jackson-Lee family; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Clay family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Dandridge, Tennessee, is named for her.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
George Washington George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. 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, Freemasons; Society of the Cincinnati; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Fairfax County, Va., December 14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January 6, 1759, to Martha Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell Bassett); step-father of John Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles Magill Conrad; granduncle of John Thornton Augustine Washington and George Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Howell Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand Sutherland Ross and David Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker Peyton Conway, Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas Henry Ball Jr., William de Bruyn=Kops, Horace Lee Washington, Edwin McPherson Holden, Claude C. Ball, Arthur Wesley Holden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; King family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Henry Lee — Joshua Fry — Alexander Dimitry — Tobias Lear — David Mathews — Rufus Putnam
  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.
  The city of Washington, D.C., is named for him.  — The state of Washington is named for him.  — Mount Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: George Washington Lent MarrGeorge Washington HeardGeorge Washington BarnettGeorge Washington DavisGeorge W. OwenGeorge W. TolandGeorge W. LayGeorge W. PattersonGeorge W. B. TownsGeorge Washington AdamsGeorge Washington HockleyGeorge W. SmythG. W. IngersollGeorge W. HopkinsGeorge Washington MontgomeryJoseph George Washington DuncanGeorge W. KittredgeGeorge W. JonesGeorge W. HarrisonGeorge Washington EwingGeorge Washington SeabrookGeorge W. MorrisonGeorge Washington WoodwardGeorge Washington WrightGeorge Washington TriplettGeorge Washington GlasscockGeorge W. SchuylerGeorge Washington HolmanGeorge W. GreeneGeorge W. WolcottGeorge W. PaschalGeorge Washington DunlapGeorge Washington WarrenGeorge Washington HillGeorge Washington LoganGeorge W. GetchellGeorge W. WrightGeorge W. JulianGeorge Washington DyalGeorge W. LaddGeorge W. PeckGeorge Washington NesmithGeorge W. MorganGeorge Washington BrooksGeorge Washington CowlesGeorge W. GeddesGeorge Washington WhitmoreGeorge Washington BridgesGeorge W. CateGeorge W. HoukGeorge W. WebberGeorge W. BemisGeorge Washington FairbrotherGeorge Washington GlickGeorge W. JonesGeorge W. BakerGeorge W. ShellGeorge W. AndersonGeorge W. CrouseGeorge W. HulickGeorge W. AllenGeorge W. F. HarperGeorge Washington ClarkGeorge Washington McCraryGeorge W. GordonGeorge W. KingsburyGeorge W. CovingtonGeorge Washington FleegerGeorge W. SteeleGeorge W. WilsonGeorge W. MartinGeorge W. E. DorseyGeorge W. PlunkittGeorge W. FurbushGeorge W. SuttonGeorge W. CurtinGeorge W. RayGeorge W. RooseveltGeorge W. SmithGeorge W. KippGeorge W. CampbellGeorge W. TaylorGeorge W. StoneGeorge W. BartchGeorge W. ShonkGeorge W. PaulGeorge W. CookGeorge W. MurrayGeorge W. FarisGeorge W. FithianGeorge W. PrinceGeorge W. BucknerGeorge W. CromerGeorge W. DonagheyGeorge W. AldridgeGeorge Washington WagonerGeorge Washington GoethalsGeorge W. ArmstrongGeorge W. LovejoyGeorge W. OakesGeorge W. HaysGeorge W. EdmondsGeorge W. LindsayGeorge Washington JonesT. G. W. TarverGeorge W. DardenGeorge Washington JonesGeorge W. MeadGeorge W. GibbonsGeorge W. ListGeorge W. CalkinGeorge W. RauchGeorge W. MichellGeorge Washington JacksonGeorge W. BlanchardGeorge Washington HerzGeorge W. BristowGeorge Washington HardyGeorge W. BallardGeorge W. McKownGeorge Thomas WashingtonGeorge W. CollinsGeorge A. Washington
  Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His portrait also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  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 — David Barton, The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care — Wendie C. Old, George Washington (for young readers)
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  William Smallwood (1732-1792) — of Charles County, Md. Born in Charles County, Md., 1732. Tobacco grower; merchant; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of Maryland, 1785-88; member of Maryland state senate, 1791-92. Anglican. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died in Charles County, Md., February 14, 1792 (age about 59 years). Interment at Smallwood State Park, Rison, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Priscilla (Heaberd) Smallwood and Bayne Smallwood; brother of Eleanor Smallwood (who married William Grayson); uncle of Alfred William Grayson; great-granduncle of Sophonisba Grayson Preston (who married Carter Henry Harrison); second great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin once removed of Samuel Nicholls Smallwood; second cousin four times removed of James Lester Smallwood.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Paul Carrington (1733-1818) — of Charlotte County, Va. Born in Charlotte County, Va., March 16, 1733. Lawyer; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1760; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charlotte County, 1788; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1789-1807; resigned 1807. Died in Halifax County, Va., June 23, 1818 (age 85 years, 99 days). Interment at Mulberry Hill Cemetery, Charlotte Court House, Va.
  Relatives: Son of George Carrington and Ann (Mayo) Carrington; married 1755 to Margaret Read; married 1792 to Pricilla Sims; father of Ann 'Nancy' Carrington (who married William Cabell Jr.); uncle of William Henry Cabell; granduncle of Edward Carrington Cabell; first cousin twice removed of Cameron Erskine Thom; first cousin thrice removed of Erskine Mayo Ross.
  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 Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Morris (1734-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Liverpool, England, January 31, 1734. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1785; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-95. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process. Imprisoned for debt from February 1798 to August 1801. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 8, 1806 (age 72 years, 97 days). Entombed at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married, March 2, 1769, to Mary White; father of Thomas Morris and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married James Markham Marshall); great-grandfather of John Augustine Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and 1880s.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Robert Morris: Charles Rappleye, Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
  William Russell (1735-1793) — Born in Culpeper County, Va., March 6, 1735. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1785; member of Virginia state senate, 1788-91. Died in Shenandoah County, Va., January 14, 1793 (age 57 years, 314 days). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Married 1755 to Tabitha Adams; married 1783 to Elizabeth (Henry) Campbell (sister of Patrick Henry; widow of William Campbell); father of William Russell (1758-1825); great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison; second great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison II.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Russell County, Va. is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Grayson (1736-1790) — of Virginia. Born in Prince William County, Va., 1736. Lawyer; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1784-85, 1788; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1785-87; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1789-90; died in office 1790. Slaveowner. Died in Dumfries, Prince William County, Va., March 12, 1790 (age about 53 years). Interment a private or family graveyard, Prince William County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Grayson and Susannah (Monroe) Grayson; married to Eleanor Smallwood (sister of William Smallwood); father of Alfred William Grayson; uncle of Alexander Dalrymple Orr and Beverly Robinson Grayson; grandfather of William Grayson Carter; second great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison II; second great-granduncle of John Brady Grayson; first cousin once removed of James Monroe (1758-1831); first cousin twice removed of Thomas Bell Monroe and James Monroe (1799-1870); first cousin thrice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Victor Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Corinne Robinson Alsop; first cousin six times removed of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Grayson counties in Ky. and Va. are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
Patrick Henry Patrick Henry (1736-1799) — of Prince Edward County, Va. Born in Studley, Hanover County, Va., May 29, 1736. Lawyer; planter; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of Virginia, 1776-79, 1784-86; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Prince Edward County, 1788; member of Virginia state senate, 1799. Scottish and English ancestry. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1920. Died near Brookneal, Campbell County, Va., June 6, 1799 (age 63 years, 8 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Henry and Sarah (Syme) Henry; brother of Anne Henry (1738-1790; who married William Christian) and Elizabeth Henry (who married William Russell and William Campbell); married 1754 to Sarah Shelton; married, October 25, 1777, to Dorothea Dandridge; father of Anne Henry (who married Spencer Roane); uncle of Priscilla Christian (who married Alexander Scott Bullitt) and Sarah Buchanan Campbell (who married Francis Smith Preston); grandfather of William Henry Roane; granduncle of Valentine Wood Southall, William Campbell Preston, Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and John Smith Preston; great-granduncle of Stephen Valentine Southall, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; third great-grandfather of Robert Lee Henry; cousin *** of Isaac Coles.
  Political family: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Henry counties in Ala., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Va. are named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Patrick H. DavisPatrick HenryPatrick H. RochePatrick H. McCarrenPatrick H. McGarryPatrick HenryPatrick Henry McCarthyPatrick Henry CallahanPatrick H. KelleyPatrick H. O'BrienP. H. MoynihanPatrick H. QuinnPatrick H. DrewryPatrick Henry KennedyJ. H. CulkinDat Barthel
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Patrick Henry: Harlow Giles Unger, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation — Thomas S. Kidd, Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) — of Maryland. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., September 19, 1737. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-81; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-1800; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1789-92. Catholic. Slaveowner. Died in Baltimore, Md., November 14, 1832 (age 95 years, 56 days). Interment at Doughoregan Manor Chapel, Ellicott City, Md.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth (Brooke) Carroll; married, June 5, 1768, to Mary Darnell; father of Catharine 'Kitty' Carroll (who married Robert Goodloe Harper); grandfather of Louisa Carroll (who married Isaac Rand Jackson), Mary Sophia Carroll (who married Richard Henry Bayard) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (who married John Lee); great-grandfather of John Lee Carroll and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married Charles Oliver O'Donnell); second great-grandfather of John Howell Carroll; third great-grandfather of Suzanne Howell Carroll (who married John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill); third great-granduncle of John Duffy Alderson; first cousin of Daniel Carroll; second cousin of Charles Carroll, Barrister; second cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Alexander Contee Hanson and Alexander Contee Magruder; second cousin thrice removed of John Read Magruder; third cousin twice removed of Reuben Handy Meriwether; third cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Levin Irving Handy.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Carroll family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Carroll counties in Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Md., Miss., Mo., N.H., Ohio and Va., East Carroll Parish, La. and West Carroll Parish, La., are named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Charles C. WalcuttCharles C. FitchCharles C. FrickCharles Carroll Glover, Jr.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  John Fry (1737-1778) — of Virginia. Born April 7, 1737. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1761-65. Anglican. Died in 1778 (age about 41 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Joshua Fry; brother of Henry Fry; great-grandfather of James Speed; second great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; third great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967).
  Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cuthbert Bullitt (1740-1791) — Born in Fauquier County, Va., 1740. Lawyer; planter; shot and killed John Baylis in a duel on September 24, 1765; later tried for the killing and acquitted; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776. Anglican; later Episcopalian. Died in Prince William County, Va., August 27, 1791 (age about 51 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Bullitt and Sarah Elizabeth (Harrison) Bullitt; married, August 27, 1761, to Helen Scott; father of Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816); second great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932); second great-granduncle of Hugh Kennedy Bullitt; third great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967).
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  John Penn (1741-1788) — of Granville County, N.C. Born near Port Royal, Caroline County, Va., May 17, 1741. Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of North Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1777. Died in Granville County, N.C., September 14, 1788 (age 47 years, 120 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Granville County, N.C.; reinterment in 1894 at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Moses Penn and Catherine (Taylor) Penn; married, July 28, 1763, to Susannah Lyne; first cousin once removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; second cousin once removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison, Philip Clayton Pendleton, Zachary Taylor, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, Coleby Chew, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of William Barret Pendleton, George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton, John Overton Pendleton, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk, Charles Sumner Pendleton and Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin twice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John Penn (built 1941-42 at Wilmington, North Carolina; torpedoed and lost in the Greenland Sea, 1942) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Theodorick Bland (1742-1790) — of Prince George County, Va. Born in Cawsons, Prince George County, Va., March 21, 1742. Physician; planter; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Prince George County, 1788; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1789-90; died in office 1790. Slaveowner. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 1, 1790 (age 48 years, 72 days). Original interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1828 at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Theodorick Bland (1708-1803) and Frances Elizabeth (Bolling) Bland; married 1768 to Martha Dangerfield; nephew of Richard Bland; uncle of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; granduncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; first cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; second cousin of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, John Wayles Eppes, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin thrice removed of William Lewis Cabell, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II, Frederick Madison Roberts and Douglass Townshend Bolling; second cousin four times removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg, Benjamin Earl Cabell, John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt, Francis Beverley Biddle and Richard Walker Bolling; second cousin five times removed of Henry De La Warr Flood, Joel West Flood and Earle Cabell; third cousin of David Meriwether (1755-1822), James Meriwether (1755-1817) and Meriwether Lewis; third cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; third cousin twice removed of George Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben Handy Meriwether; third cousin thrice removed of William Henry Robertson.
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Jacquelin Ambler (1742-1798) — of Virginia. Born August 9, 1742. Virginia state treasurer, 1780. Died in Richmond, Va., January 10, 1798 (age 55 years, 154 days). Interment at St. John's Church Cemetery, Church Hill, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Ambler and Elizabeth (Jacquelin) Ambler; married, May 24, 1764, to Rebecca Lewis Burwell; father of Mary Willis Ambler (who married John Marshall); grandfather of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) — Born in Riverhead, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., July 21, 1742. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1777-87; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1785-86; justice of Northwest Territory supreme court, 1788-1802. Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, February 26, 1814 (age 71 years, 220 days). Interment at Congress Green Cemetery, North Bend, Ohio; memorial monument at Ludlow Park, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Timothy Symmes and Mary (Cleves) Symmes; married, October 30, 1760, to Anna Tuthill; married, September 10, 1794, to Susannah Livingston (daughter of William Livingston; sister-in-law of John Jay; sister of Henry Brockholst Livingston; niece of Robert Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston and Philip Livingston; first cousin of Peter Robert Livingston, Walter Livingston and Philip Peter Livingston); father of Anna Tuthill Symmes (who married William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)); grandfather of John Scott Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of Russell Benjamin Harrison; third great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990).
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
Thomas Jefferson 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. 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. Deist. English ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., July 4, 1826 (age 83 years, 82 days). 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.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton; father of Martha Jefferson (who married Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.) and Maria Jefferson (who married John Wayles Eppes); uncle of Dabney Carr; grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Francis Wayles Eppes, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas Philip Trist), Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; granduncle of Dabney Smith Carr; great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; second great-granduncle of Edith Wilson; first cousin once removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin twice removed of John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; second cousin of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker and William Segar Archer; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Edmund Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke and John Augustine Marshall; second cousin four times removed of William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of William Henry Robertson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Jefferson M. Levy — Joshua Fry
  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.
  Mount Jefferson (third highest peak in the Northeast), in Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Thomas Jefferson KennardThomas Jefferson CampbellThomas J. GazleyThomas J. DrakeThomas Jefferson HeardThomas Jefferson GreenThomas J. RuskThomas Jefferson WithersThomas J. ParsonsThomas J. WordThomas J. HenleyThomas J. DryerThomas J. FosterThomas J. BarrThomas Jefferson JenningsThomas J. HendersonThomas J. Van AlstyneThomas Jefferson CasonT. J. CoghlanThomas Jefferson BufordT. Jefferson CoolidgeThomas J. MegibbenThomas J. BunnThomas J. HardinThomas J. McLain, Jr.Thomas J. BrownThomas Jefferson SpeerThomas J. BoyntonThomas J. HudsonThomas J. BradyThomas J. SelbyThomas Jefferson DeavittThomas Jefferson MajorsThomas Jefferson WoodT. J. JarrattThomas Jefferson NunnThomas J. StraitThomas J. HumesT. J. AppleyardThomas J. ClunieThomas J. SteeleThomas J. BoyntonThomas J. O'DonnellThomas J. HalseyThomas J. GrahamT. J. MartinThomas Jefferson LillyThomas J. RandolphTom J. TerralT. Jeff BusbyThomas Jefferson MurphyThomas J. HamiltonTom ManganThomas J. RyanTom J. MurrayTom SteedThomas Jefferson Edmonds, Jr.Thomas J. AndersonThomas Jefferson RobertsThomas J. Barlow III
  Coins and currency: His portrait has appeared on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2 bill since the 1860s.
  Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  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 — David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the myths you've always believed about Thomas Jefferson — David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson — Donald Barr Chidsey, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson
  Critical books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  John Lowell (1743-1802) — also known as "The Old Judge" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Newburyport, Essex County, Mass., June 17, 1743. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1778, 1780-82; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1780; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1782; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1784-85; Judge, Massachusetts Court of Appeals, 1784-89; U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts, 1789-1801; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1801-02. Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk County), Mass., May 6, 1802 (age 58 years, 323 days). Original interment at Central Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; reinterment in 1895 at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. John Lowell and Sarah (Champney) Lowell; married, January 8, 1767, to Sarah Higginson; married, May 31, 1774, to Susanna Cabot; married, December 25, 1778, to Rebecca (Graves) Tyng; second great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge and Augustus Peabody Gardner; fourth great-grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Christian (c.1743-1786) — Born in Staunton, Va., about 1743. Lawyer; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1773-75; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Manx ancestry. Killed while fighting Indians in what is now Clark County, Ind., April 9, 1786 (age about 43 years). Interment at Bullitt Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Israel Christian and Elizabeth (Starke) Christian; brother of Anne Christian (who married William Fleming); married to Anne Henry (sister of Patrick Henry); second great-granduncle of William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Christian counties in Ill., Ky. and Mo. are named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Walker (1744-1809) — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Albemarle County, Va., February 13, 1744. Planter; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1790. Died in Orange County, Va., December 2, 1809 (age 65 years, 292 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Walker and Mildred (Thornton) Walker; brother of Francis Walker; married 1764 to Elizabeth Moore; uncle of Mildred Gilmer (who married William Wirt); granduncle of Thomas Walker Gilmer; first cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; first cousin four times removed of Hubbard T. Smith; first cousin five times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Aylett Hawes; second cousin once removed of Robert Brooke, George Madison, Richard Aylett Buckner, Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Zachary Taylor, Francis Taliaferro Helm, Aylette Buckner, David Shelby Walker and Aylett Hawes Buckner; second cousin thrice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Charles John Helm, Hubbard Dozier Helm, James David Walker, David Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin four times removed of James Francis Buckner Jr., Key Pittman and Vail Montgomery Pittman; second cousin five times removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Max Rogers Strother.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Tyler family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass.; Luzerne County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., July 17, 1745. Farmer; Essex County Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S. Postmaster General, 1791-95; U.S. Secretary of War, 1795; U.S. Secretary of State, 1795-1800; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts Governor's Council, 1817-18. Puritan; later Unitarian. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Censured by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction of secrecy. Died in Salem, Essex County, Mass., January 29, 1829 (age 83 years, 196 days). Interment at Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering; married, April 8, 1776, to Rebecca White; granduncle of Dudley Leavitt Pickman; second great-granduncle of John Gardner Coolidge and Augustus Peabody Gardner; third great-granduncle of John Lee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle of Leverett Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall, William Gurdon Saltonstall, John Lee Saltonstall Jr. and William Amory Gardner Minot; fifth great-granduncle of William Lawrence Saltonstall and John Forbes Kerry; ancestor *** of Susan Walker FitzGerald; first cousin once removed of John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed of John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); first cousin four times removed of Charles Sinclair Weeks; second cousin twice removed of John Albion Andrew; second cousin thrice removed of Isaac Libbey, John Forrester Andrew and Henry Hersey Andrew; second cousin four times removed of Llewellyn Libby and William F. Nason; second cousin five times removed of Augustine B. Libby, Albanah Harvey Libby and Frederick Edwin Hanscom; third cousin once removed of Luther Walter Badger; third cousin twice removed of Amos Tuck; third cousin thrice removed of Hiram Augustus Huse (1840-1907) and Hiram Augustus Huse (1843-1902).
  Political families: Rodney family of Delaware; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Timothy Pickering: David McLean, Timothy Pickering and the Age of the American Revolution — Gerald H. Clarfield, Timothy Pickering and the American Republic
  Thomas Tudor Tucker (1745-1828) — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Port Royal, Bermuda, June 25, 1745. Physician; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1776, 1782-83, 1785, 1787-88; Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1787-88; U.S. Representative from South Carolina at-large, 1789-93; treasurer of the United States, 1801-28. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., May 2, 1828 (age 82 years, 312 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Tucker and Ann (Butterfield) Tucker; brother of St. George Tucker; uncle of George Tucker and Henry St. George Tucker; granduncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Pendleton Jr. (1749-1806) — of Richmond, Va. Born in Virginia, 1749. Governor of Virginia, 1799. Died in Richmond, Va., August 9, 1806 (age about 57 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Pendleton and Phebe (James) Pendleton; married to Mary Shore; married, January 24, 1786, to Sarah 'Sally' Banks; nephew of Edmund Pendleton; granduncle of Joseph Henry Pendleton; great-granduncle of William Barret Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; first cousin of Nathaniel Pendleton; first cousin once removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and George Hunt Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Francis Key Pendleton and Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton; first cousin four times removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; second cousin of John Penn; second cousin once removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Coleby Chew; second cousin thrice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
James Madison 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. 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. He was elected in 1905 to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Slaveowner. Died in Montpelier, Orange County, Va., June 28, 1836 (age 85 years, 104 days). Interment at Montpelier Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
  Relatives: Son of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison; brother of William Taylor Madison; married, September 15, 1794, to Dolley Todd (sister-in-law of Richard Cutts and John George Jackson); first cousin once removed of George Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary Taylor; second cousin once removed of John Penn, John Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel Pendleton and Coleby Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton, Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles Sumner Pendleton and Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement F. Dorsey, Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel Slaughter, Andrew Dorsey, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert Pryor Henry, John Flournoy Henry, Gustavus Adolphus Henry, David Shelby Walker, Alexander Warfield Dorsey, William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Rice Slaughter, James David Walker, David Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  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.
  The city of Madison, Wisconsin, is named for him.  — Mount Madison, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — Fort Madison (1808-13), and the subsequent city of Fort Madison, Iowa, were named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James Madison (built 1942 at Houston, Texas; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: James Madison BroomJames Madison Hite BealeJames Madison PorterJames M. BuchananJames Madison GreggJ. Madison WellsJames M. TarletonJames Madison HughesJames M. MarvinJames M. EdmundsJames Madison GaylordJames M. LeachJames TurnerJames M. HarveyJames M. SeymourJames Madison BarkerJames Madison MullenJames M. CandlerJames Madison McKinneyJames M. MortonJames Madison Barrett, Sr.James M. Gudger, Jr.James Madison Morton, Jr.James Madison WoodardJames M. Waddell, Jr.
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  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 — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, James Madison and the Making of America
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
SAINT_George Tucker St. George Tucker (1752-1827) — of Chesterfield County, Va. Born in Port Royal, Bermuda, July 10, 1752. Lawyer; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Chesterfield County Commonwealth Attorney, 1783-86; judge of Virginia general court, 1788-1803; judge of Virginia state supreme court of appeals, 1803-11; U.S. District Judge for Virginia, 1813-19; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1819-25; resigned 1825. Died in Nelson County, Va., November 10, 1827 (age 75 years, 123 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Tucker and Anne (Butterfield) Tucker; brother of Thomas Tudor Tucker; married, September 23, 1778, to Frances (Bland) Randolph; married to Lelia Skipwith; father of Henry St. George Tucker; uncle of George Tucker; grandfather of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  Edmund Jenings Randolph (1753-1813) — of Virginia. Born in Williamsburg, Va., August 10, 1753. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; Virginia state attorney general, 1776-82; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1779-82; Governor of Virginia, 1786-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1788; U.S. Attorney General, 1789-94; U.S. Secretary of State, 1794-95. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Millwood, Clarke County, Va., September 12, 1813 (age 60 years, 33 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Randolph and Ariana (Jenings) Randolph; married, August 29, 1776, to Elizabeth Nicholas (daughter of Robert Carter Nicholas; sister of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas); father of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); nephew of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); grandfather of Edmund Randolph; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; great-grandfather of Edmund Randolph Cocke; second great-grandfather of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin once removed of Richard Bland; second cousin of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr and Henry St. George Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; second cousin four times removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; second cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes; third cousin twice removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin thrice removed of St. Clair Ballard, Lewis Ballard and William Henry Robertson.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Randolph County, Ill. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Edmund Jenings Randolph: John J. Reardon, Edmund Randolph : A Biography
  George Nicholas (1753-1799) — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Williamsburg, Va., August 11, 1753. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1781; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albemarle County, 1788; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1789, 1793; delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Kentucky state attorney general, 1792. Died in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., July 25, 1799 (age 45 years, 348 days). Interment at Old Episcopal Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780) and Ann (Cary) Nicholas; brother of Elizabeth Nicholas (who married Edmund Jenings Randolph), Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; married to Mary Smith; father of Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Henrietta Morrison Nicholas (who married Richard Hawes); uncle of Peyton Randolph; granduncle of Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; great-grandfather of Harry Bartow Hawes; great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph Cocke; second great-granduncle of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); first cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; second cousin of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); second cousin once removed of John Scott Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); second cousin thrice removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); second cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; third cousin of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice removed of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of James Lawrence Blair, Francis Preston Blair Lee and Gist Blair.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Nicholas County, Ky. is named for him.
  The city of Nicholasville, Kentucky, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Beverley Randolph (1754-1797) — of Virginia. Born in Henrico County, Va., 1754. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1777-80; Governor of Virginia, 1788-91. Died in Cumberland County, Va., February 7, 1797 (age about 42 years). Interment at Westview Cemetery, Farmville, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Peter Randolph and Lucille (Bolling) Randolph; married, February 14, 1775, to Martha Cocke; nephew of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); grandnephew of Richard Randolph; third great-granduncle of William Welby Beverley; first cousin of William Henry Harrison; first cousin once removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), John Wayles Eppes and John Scott Harrison; first cousin twice removed of Francis Wayles Eppes and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); first cousin thrice removed of Douglass Townshend Bolling; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg and Richard Walker Bolling; second cousin of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin thrice removed of William Lewis Cabell, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; second cousin four times removed of Benjamin Earl Cabell, John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed of Henry De La Warr Flood, Joel West Flood and Earle Cabell; third cousin twice removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin thrice removed of St. Clair Ballard, Lewis Ballard and William Henry Robertson.
  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).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Parke Custis (1754-1781) — also known as Jacky Custis — of Fairfax County, Va. Born in New Kent County, Va., November 27, 1754. Planter; member of Virginia state house of delegates from Fairfax County, 1778-81. Died, probably from typhus or dysentery, in New Kent County, Va., November 5, 1781 (age 26 years, 343 days). Interment at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
  Relatives: Step-son of George Washington; son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis; married, February 3, 1774, to Eleanor Calvert; first cousin of Burwell Bassett; second cousin four times removed of Edith Wilson; fourth cousin once removed of William Henry Bagwell Custis.
  Political family: Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
John Marshall John Marshall (1755-1835) — of Virginia. Born in Germantown, Fauquier County, Va., September 24, 1755. 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. Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Phi Beta Kappa. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., July 6, 1835 (age 79 years, 285 days). Interment at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall; brother-in-law of William McClung, George Keith Taylor and Joseph Hamilton Daviess; brother of James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); married, January 3, 1783, to Mary Willis Ambler (daughter of Jacquelin Ambler); father of Thomas Marshall (1784-1835), Mary Marshall (who married Jacquelin Burwell Harvie) and James Keith Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas Alexander Marshall; uncle of Edward Colston, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Alexander Keith McClung, Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall; granduncle by marriage of Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872); granduncle of John Augustine Marshall; great-grandfather of Lewis Minor Coleman; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; great-granduncle of Hudson Snowden Marshall, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841); first cousin once removed of William Marshall Anderson and Charles Anderson; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith Wilson and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Tuck-Claude family of Annapolis, Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Marshall counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Miss., Tenn. and W.Va. are named for him.
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John Marshall (built 1941-42 at Mobile, Alabama; scrapped 1971) was named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: John Marshall StoneJohn Marshall MartinJohn Marshall HarlanJ. Marshall HagansJohn M. ClaiborneJohn M. HamiltonJohn M. RaymondJohn M. RoseJohn M. SlatonJohn M. WolvertonJohn M. RobsionJohn Marshall HutchesonJohn M. ButlerJohn Marshall HarlanJohn M. Robsion, Jr.John Marshall BrileyJohn Marshall Lindley
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the $20 U.S. Treasury note in the 1880s, and on the $500 bill in the early 20th century.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  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
  Image source: New York Public Library
  David Meriwether (1755-1822) — of Georgia. Born in Albemarle County, Va., March 27, 1755. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1797-1800; Speaker of the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1797-1800; U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1801-02, 1803-07 (at-large 1801-02, 1803-05, 3rd District 1805-07); candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia. Died near Athens, Clarke County, Ga., November 16, 1822 (age 67 years, 234 days). Interment in private or family graveyard.
  Relatives: Son of James Meriwether (1729-1801) and Judith Hardenia (Burnley) Meriwether; married, November 14, 1782, to Frances Wingfield; father of James Meriwether (1788-1852); uncle of David Meriwether (1800-1893); first cousin of James Meriwether (1755-1817); first cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis and James Archibald Meriwether; first cousin twice removed of George Rockingham Gilmer, Reuben Handy Meriwether and Frances Meriwether (who married Anson Rainey); second cousin five times removed of Arthur Sidney Demarest; third cousin of Theodorick Bland; third cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Meriwether County, Ga. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  James Meriwether (1755-1817) — of Georgia. Born in Albemarle County, Va., June 4, 1755. Georgia state comptroller general, 1799-1804. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., October 25, 1817 (age 62 years, 143 days). Interment somewhere in Louisville, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of David Meriwether (1726-1772) and Mary (Weaver) Meriwether; married, May 22, 1790, to Susannah Hatcher; father of James Archibald Meriwether; first cousin of David Meriwether (1755-1822); first cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis, James Meriwether (1788-1852) and David Meriwether (1800-1893); first cousin twice removed of George Rockingham Gilmer, Reuben Handy Meriwether and Frances Meriwether (who married Anson Rainey); second cousin five times removed of Arthur Sidney Demarest; third cousin of Theodorick Bland; third cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Carter Bassett Harrison (c.1756-1808) — of Virginia. Born in Charles City County, Va., about 1756. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1784-86, 1805-08; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1793-99 (13th District 1793-97, at-large 1797-99). Died in Prince George County, Va., April 18, 1808 (age about 52 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (who married Anna Tuthill Symmes); married to Mary Allen Howell; uncle of John Scott Harrison; granduncle of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-granduncle of Russell Benjamin Harrison; second great-granduncle of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of 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..
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry Lee (1756-1818) — also known as "Light Horse Harry" — of Westmoreland County, Va. Born in Prince William County, Va., January 29, 1756. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1786-88; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Westmoreland County, 1788; Governor of Virginia, 1791-94; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1801. Eulogized George Washington as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.". Slaveowner. Died in Cumberland Island, Camden County, Ga., March 25, 1818 (age 62 years, 55 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Camden County, Ga.; reinterment in 1913 at Lee Memorial Chapel, Lexington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of Charles Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; married 1782 to Matilda Ludwell Lee; married, June 18, 1793, to Ann Hill Carter; father of Robert E. Lee; grandfather of Fitzhugh Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee; grandnephew of Richard Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee and Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Sim Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; second cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Lee and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John Lee Carroll and Edward Brooke Lee; second cousin four times removed of William Welby Beverley, Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; third cousin of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846), Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Zachary Taylor; third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham Lincoln, John Gardner Coolidge, James Sansome Lakin, Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  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).
  Lee County, Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  Nathaniel Pendleton (1756-1821) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in New Kent County, Va., 1756. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Georgia state attorney general, 1785-86; district judge in Georgia, 1780; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1789; U.S. District Judge for Virginia, 1789-96; member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1816-17; county judge in New York, 1821. Served as a second to Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr. Died in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 20, 1821 (age about 65 years). Interment at St. James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Pendleton (1715-1794) and Elizabeth Anne (Clayton0 Pendleton; married, October 4, 1785, to Susan Bard; father of Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; nephew of Edmund Pendleton; uncle of Philip Clayton Pendleton; grandfather of George Hunt Pendleton; great-grandfather of Francis Key Pendleton; first cousin of John Pendleton Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of William Barret Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; first cousin four times removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; second cousin of John Penn; second cousin once removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Coleby Chew; second cousin thrice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
James Monroe James Monroe (1758-1831) — of Spotsylvania County, Va.; Loudoun County, Va. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., April 28, 1758. 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; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Spotsylvania County, 1788; 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, 1811-17; 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. Slaveowner. Died, probably of tuberculosis, in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 4, 1831 (age 73 years, 67 days). 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.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, February 16, 1786, to Eliza Kortright and Elizabeth Kortright; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married George Hay) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married Samuel Laurence Gouverneur); nephew of Joseph Jones; uncle of Thomas Bell Monroe and James Monroe (1799-1870); granduncle of Victor Monroe; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne Roosevelt Robinson); second great-granduncle of Theodore Douglas Robinson and Corinne Robinson Alsop; third great-granduncle of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop; first cousin once removed of William Grayson; second cousin of Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II and John Brady Grayson.
  Political family: Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  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.
  The city of Monrovia, Liberia, is named for him.  — Mount Monroe, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — Fort Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James Monroe (built 1942 at Terminal Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: James MonroeJames MonroeJames M. PendletonJames M. JacksonJames Monroe LettsJames M. RitchieJames M. RosseJames M. ComlyJames Monroe BufordJames M. SeibertJ. Monroe DriesbachJames M. LownJames M. MillerJames Monroe JonesJames Monroe HaleJames Monroe SpearsJ. M. AlfordJames M. Lown, Jr.James M. Miley
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  Charles Lee (1758-1815) — Born in Westmoreland County, Va., July, 1758. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1789; U.S. Attorney General, 1795-1801; U.S. Secretary of State, 1800. Died in Fauquier County, Va., June 24, 1815 (age 56 years, 0 days). Interment at Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of Henry Lee (1756-1818), Richard Bland Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; married 1789 to Anne Lee; married 1809 to Margaret Scott; grandnephew of Richard Bland; granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed and son-in-law of Richard Henry Lee; first cousin once removed of Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee and Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Sim Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; second cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Lee and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John Lee Carroll and Edward Brooke Lee; second cousin four times removed of William Welby Beverley, Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; third cousin of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846), Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Zachary Taylor; third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham Lincoln, John Gardner Coolidge, James Sansome Lakin, Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  William McClung (1758-1811) — of Kentucky. Born in Rockbridge County, Va., July 12, 1758. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1793; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1794-96; member of Kentucky state senate, 1796-1800; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 6th Circuit, 1801-02. Died in Mason County, Ky., 1811 (age about 52 years). Interment in private or family graveyard.
  Relatives: Brother-in-law of John Marshall; father of Alexander Keith McClung.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  William Russell (1758-1825) — of Fayette County, Ky. Born in Culpeper County, Va., March 6, 1758. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1790-91; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1792, 1796-1800, 1802, 1823; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Died in Fayette County, Ky., July 3, 1825 (age 67 years, 119 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Tabitha (Adams) Russell and William Russell (1735-1793); married to Anne 'Nancy' Price; grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison; great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison II.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Russell County, Ky. is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article
  William Cabell Jr. (1759-1822) — Born March 25, 1759. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1789-97; sheriff. Died November 22, 1822 (age 63 years, 242 days). Interment at Union Hill Cemetery, Near Wingina, Nelson County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Cabell; married, November 20, 1780, to Ann 'Nancy' Carrington (daughter of Paul Carrington); uncle of Paulina Cabell Rives (who married Richard Pollard); first cousin of William Henry Cabell; first cousin once removed of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Frederick Mortimer Cabell and Edward Carrington Cabell; first cousin twice removed of John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin thrice removed of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin four times removed of Earle Cabell.
  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; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841) — of Kentucky. Born in Orlean, Fauquier County, Va., 1760. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Fayette County, 1788; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1793-94, 1807-09; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1795-1801. In 1809, he opposed Henry Clay's proposal to require all Kentucky legislators to wear domestic homespun instead of British broadcloth; this clash resulted in a duel in which both men were wounded. Author of the first history of Kentucky, published in 1812. Slaveowner. Died near Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., July 3, 1841 (age about 81 years). Interment in private or family graveyard.
  Relatives: Father of Thomas Alexander Marshall; grandfather of Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872); first cousin and brother-in-law of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin once removed and uncle by marriage of Edward Colston, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Birney family of Danville, Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Richard Bland Lee (1761-1827) — Born in Prince William County, Va., January 20, 1761. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1784; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1789-95 (at-large 1789-91, 4th District 1791-93, 17th District 1793-95); judge in District of Columbia, 1827. Slaveowner. Died in Madison County, Ky., March 12, 1827 (age 66 years, 51 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1975 at Sully, Chantilly, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1729-1787) and Lucy Ludwell Gaines (Grymes) Lee; brother of Henry Lee (1756-1818) and Charles Lee; married to Elizabeth Collins Lee; grandnephew of Richard Bland; granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee; third great-grandfather of Lee Marvin; first cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee; third cousin of Zachary Taylor.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Mason family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761-1820) — also known as Wilson C. Nicholas — of Charlottesville, Va. Born in Virginia, January 31, 1761. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1784-88, 1789, 1794-1800; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albemarle County, 1788; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1799-1804; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1807-09 (21st District 1807-09, 20th District 1809); Governor of Virginia, 1814-16. Slaveowner. Died October 10, 1820 (age 59 years, 253 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780) and Anne (Cary) Nicholas; brother of Elizabeth Nicholas (who married Edmund Jenings Randolph), George Nicholas and John Nicholas; father of Jane Hollins Nicholas (who married Thomas Jefferson Randolph); uncle of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); granduncle of Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; second great-granduncle of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); first cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; second cousin of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); second cousin once removed of John Scott Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); second cousin thrice removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); second cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; third cousin of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice removed of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of James Lawrence Blair, Francis Preston Blair Lee and Gist Blair.
  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).
  Nicholas County, W.Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography
  Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816) — of Kentucky. Born near Dumfries, Prince William County, Va., 1761. Delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792, 1799; member of Kentucky state senate, 1792-99; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1800-04. Died in Jefferson County, Ky., April 13, 1816 (age about 54 years). Interment at Oxmoor-Bullitt Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Helen (Scott) Bullitt and Cuthbert Bullitt; married 1786 to Priscilla Christian (niece of Patrick Henry); great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932); second great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); first cousin thrice removed of Hugh Kennedy Bullitt.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Bullitt County, Ky. is named for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Tobias Lear (1762-1816) — of Virginia. Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H., September 19, 1762. Private secretary to George Washington, 1790-99; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Cape Hatien, 1801-03. Killed himself, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 11, 1816 (age 54 years, 22 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Married to Mary 'Polly' Long and Frances (Bassett) Washington (sister of Burwell Bassett).
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Taylor Madison (1762-1843) — also known as William Madison — of Madison County, Va. Born in Orange County, Va., May 1, 1762. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1791-94, 1804-11 (Culpeper County 1791-94, Madison County 1804-11); general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died in Madison County, Va., July 19, 1843 (age 81 years, 79 days). Interment at Montpelier Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
  Relatives: Son of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison; brother of James Madison (1751-1836) (who married Dolley Madison); married, December 20, 1783, to Francis Throckmorton; first cousin once removed of George Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary Taylor; second cousin once removed of John Penn, John Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel Pendleton and Coleby Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton, Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles Sumner Pendleton and Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement F. Dorsey, Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel Slaughter, Andrew Dorsey, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert Pryor Henry, John Flournoy Henry, Gustavus Adolphus Henry, David Shelby Walker, Alexander Warfield Dorsey, William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Rice Slaughter, James David Walker, David Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Burwell Bassett (1764-1841) — of Williamsburg, Va. Born in New Kent County, Va., March 18, 1764. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1787-89, 1819-21; member of Virginia state senate, 1794-1805; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1805-13, 1815-19, 1821-29 (at-large 1805-07, 12th District 1807-09, 22nd District 1809-11, 12th District 1811-13, 13th District 1815-19, 8th District 1821-29). Slaveowner. Died, after a fall from his horse, in New Kent County, Va., February 26, 1841 (age 76 years, 345 days). Interment at Eltham Plantation, New Kent County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Burwell Bassett (1734-1793) and Anna Marie (Dandridge) Bassett; brother of Frances Bassett (who married Tobias Lear); married to Ann Claiborne; nephew of Martha Dandridge Custis (who married George Washington); first cousin of John Parke Custis, Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin once removed of John Scott Harrison; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); first cousin thrice removed of Russell Benjamin Harrison; first cousin four times removed of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); second cousin once removed of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin four times removed of Edith Wilson and William Welby Beverley; third cousin of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; third cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph, Thomas Marshall, Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and James Keith Marshall; third cousin twice removed of Peter Myndert Dox, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin thrice removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and Harry Bartow Hawes.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  John Nicholas (1764-1819) — of Williamsburg, Va.; Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y. Born in Williamsburg, Va., January 19, 1764. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1793-1801 (15th District 1793-97, at-large 1797-1801); member of New York state senate Western District, 1805-09; common pleas court judge in New York, 1806-19. Slaveowner. Died in Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y., December 31, 1819 (age 55 years, 346 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Geneva, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780) and Anne (Cary) Nicholas; brother of Elizabeth Nicholas (who married Edmund Jenings Randolph), George Nicholas and Wilson Cary Nicholas; uncle of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); grandfather of Peter Myndert Dox; granduncle of Edmund Randolph; great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; second great-granduncle of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); first cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; second cousin of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); second cousin once removed of John Scott Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); second cousin thrice removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); second cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; third cousin of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice removed of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of James Lawrence Blair, Francis Preston Blair Lee and Gist Blair.
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Francis Walker (1764-1806) — of Virginia. Born in Albemarle County, Va., June 22, 1764. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1788-91, 1797-1801; U.S. Representative from Virginia 14th District, 1793-95. Slaveowner. Died in Albemarle County, Va., March, 1806 (age 41 years, 0 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Walker and Mildred (Thornton) Walker; brother of John Walker; married to Jane Byrd Nelson; uncle of Mildred Gilmer (who married William Wirt); granduncle of Thomas Walker Gilmer; first cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; first cousin four times removed of Hubbard T. Smith; first cousin five times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Aylett Hawes; second cousin once removed of Robert Brooke, George Madison, Richard Aylett Buckner, Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Zachary Taylor, Francis Taliaferro Helm, Aylette Buckner, David Shelby Walker and Aylett Hawes Buckner; second cousin thrice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Charles John Helm, Hubbard Dozier Helm, James David Walker, David Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin four times removed of James Francis Buckner Jr., Key Pittman and Vail Montgomery Pittman; second cousin five times removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Max Rogers Strother.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Tyler family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Markham Marshall (1764-1848) — of Kentucky. Born in Fauquier County, Va., March 12, 1764. Delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1791; Judge of Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, 1801-03; resigned 1803. Died in Fauquier County, Va., April 26, 1848 (age 84 years, 45 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Warren County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall; brother of John Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); married, April 9, 1795, to Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (daughter of Robert Morris); uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas Alexander Marshall; uncle of Thomas Marshall (1784-1835), Edward Colston, James Keith Marshall, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall; grandfather of John Augustine Marshall; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; great-granduncle of William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey Marshall; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith Wilson and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  Gabriel Slaughter (1767-1830) — of Kentucky. Born in Culpeper County, Va., December 12, 1767. Justice of the peace; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1797; member of Kentucky state senate, 1801; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1808-12, 1816; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor of Kentucky, 1816-20. Baptist. Died in Mercer County, Ky., September 19, 1830 (age 62 years, 281 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Mercer County, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Slaughter and Susannah (Harrison) Slaughter; married, March 9, 1797, to Sarah Hord; married, October 3, 1811, to Elizabeth Thomason; granduncle of Charles Rice Slaughter; first cousin twice removed of Luke Pryor Blackburn and Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn; first cousin thrice removed of Daniel French Slaughter; first cousin four times removed of Smith Alford Blackburn and Daniel French Slaughter Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Charles Milton Blackburn; second cousin four times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin once removed of James Madison and William Taylor Madison; fourth cousin once removed of John Strother Pendleton and Albert Gallatin Pendleton.
  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).
  See also National Governors Association biography
  Aylett Hawes (1768-1833) — of Virginia. Born in Culpeper County, Va., April 21, 1768. Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1802; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1811-17 (9th District 1811-15, 10th District 1815-17). Slaveowner. Died August 31, 1833 (age 65 years, 132 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Rappahannock County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Hawes, Jr. and Ann (Walker) Hawes; uncle of Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes; granduncle of Aylett Hawes Buckner; great-granduncle of Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin of John Walker and Francis Walker; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Walker Gilmer.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (1768-1828) — of Virginia. Born in Goochland County, Va., October 1, 1768. Democrat. Planter; member of Virginia state legislature, 1800; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1803-07; Governor of Virginia, 1819-22. Slaveowner. Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., June 20, 1828 (age 59 years, 263 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Mann Randolph and Anne (Cary) Randolph; married, February 23, 1790, to Martha Jefferson (daughter of Thomas Jefferson); father of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas Philip Trist), Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; grandson of Archibald Cary; grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; great-grandson of Richard Randolph; great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; first cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; second cousin twice removed of John Augustine Marshall; second cousin thrice removed of William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; third cousin of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; third cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Edmund Randolph, Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Edith Wilson and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Henry De La Warr Flood, Francis Beverley Biddle, Joel West Flood and Earle Cabell; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Jones Hardeman, Bailey Hardeman and Douglass Townshend Bolling.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Collin Buckner (1768-1836) — of Lynchburg, Va. Born in Caroline County, Va., 1768. Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va., 1815-18. Presbyterian. Died in Lynchburg, Va., February 29, 1836 (age about 67 years). Interment at Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
  Relatives: Married 1816 to Martha Doswell (sister-in-law of Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; aunt of William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell).
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Floyd (1769-1839) — of Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga. Born in Beaufort, Beaufort County, S.C., October 3, 1769. Planter; shipbuilder; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1820-27; U.S. Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1827-29. Slaveowner. Died near Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga., June 24, 1839 (age 69 years, 264 days). Interment at Floyd Family Cemetery, Woodbine, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Floyd and Mary (Fendin) Floyd; married, December 12, 1793, to Isabella Maria Hazzard; great-grandfather of William Gibbs McAdoo.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Floyd County, Ga. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Nicholas Ware (1769-1824) — of Georgia. Born in Caroline County, Va., 1769. Member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1808-11, 1814-15; mayor of Augusta, Ga., 1819-21; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1821-24; died in office 1824. Slaveowner. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., September 7, 1824 (age about 55 years). Interment at Grace Church Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.
  Relatives: Father of Susan Margaret Ware (who married Francis Wayles Eppes).
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  George Keith Taylor (1769-1815) — of Virginia. Born in Petersburg, Va., March 16, 1769. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1795-96, 1798-99; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1801. Died November 9, 1815 (age 46 years, 238 days). Interment somewhere in Petersburg, Va.
  Relatives: Brother-in-law of John Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Anderson-Marshall family of Ohio and West Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Charles Willing Byrd (1770-1828) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Charles City County, Va., July 26, 1770. Lawyer; secretary of Northwest Territory, 1800-03; delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County, 1802; Governor of Northwest Territory, 1802-03; U.S. District Judge for Ohio, 1803-28; died in office 1828. Died in Sinking Spring, Highland County, Ohio, August 25, 1828 (age 58 years, 30 days). Interment at Byrd Cemetery, Sinking Spring, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of William Evelyn Byrd and Mary Shippen (Willing) Byrd; married, April 6, 1797, to Sarah Waters Meade; married, October 8, 1818, to Hannah Miles; nephew of Thomas Willing; grandson of Charles Willing; grandnephew of Edward Shippen (1703-1781) and William Shippen; great-granduncle of Connally Findlay Trigg and Richard Evelyn Byrd; second great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); second great-granduncle of Harry Flood Byrd; third great-granduncle of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; first cousin once removed of Edward Shippen (1729-1806) and John Brown Francis; first cousin twice removed of Edward Overton Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane; first cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; second cousin once removed of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); second cousin twice removed of Bertha Shippen Irving; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin five times removed of William Bradley Umstead and Angier Biddle Duke; third cousin twice removed of John Penn, John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison, Philip Clayton Pendleton, Zachary Taylor, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton.
  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).
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825) — of Kentucky. Born in Fauquier County, Va., January 11, 1770. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1797-1801. Died in Mason County, Ky., February 7, 1825 (age 55 years, 27 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall; brother of John Marshall and James Markham Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas Alexander Marshall; uncle of Thomas Marshall (1784-1835), Edward Colston, James Keith Marshall, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall; granduncle of John Augustine Marshall; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; great-granduncle of William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey Marshall; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith Wilson and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Robert Monroe Harrison (1770-1858) — of Virginia. Born in Halifax County, Va., April 16, 1770. U.S. Consul in Kingston, 1831-58, died in office 1858. Died in Kingston, Jamaica, May 25, 1858 (age 88 years, 39 days). Interment at St. Andrew's Churchyard, Half Way Tree, Jamaica.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Hanson Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin Harrison; fourth cousin once removed of William Henry Harrison.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Thomas Morris (1771-1849) — of Ontario County, N.Y. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., February 26, 1771. Member of New York state assembly from Ontario County, 1793-96; member of New York state senate Western District, 1796-1801; member of New York council of appointment, 1797; U.S. Representative from New York 10th District, 1801-03. Slaveowner. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 12, 1849 (age 78 years, 14 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Morris and Mary (White) Morris; granduncle of John Augustine Marshall.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
William H. Cabell William Henry Cabell (1772-1853) — also known as William H. Cabell — of Virginia. Born in Cumberland County, Va., December 16, 1772. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1796-1805; candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia; Governor of Virginia, 1805-08; state court judge in Virginia, 1808-11; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1830-51. Died in Richmond, Va., January 12, 1853 (age 80 years, 27 days). Interment at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Col. Nicholas Cabell and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell; married 1795 to Elizabeth Cabell; married 1805 to Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble (sister-in-law of William Wirt); father of Edward Carrington Cabell; nephew of William Cabell and Paul Carrington; first cousin of William Cabell Jr.; first cousin once removed of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge and Frederick Mortimer Cabell; first cousin twice removed of John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin thrice removed of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin four times removed of Earle Cabell; second cousin once removed of Cameron Erskine Thom; second cousin twice removed of Erskine Mayo Ross.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cabell County, W.Va. is named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Huntington Through Seventy-Five Years (1947)
William Wirt William Wirt (1772-1834) — of Virginia. Born near Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Md., November 8, 1772. Lawyer; prosecuting attorney at the treason trial of Aaron Burr, 1807; U.S. Attorney for Virginia, 1816-17; U.S. Attorney General, 1817-29; Anti-Masonic candidate for President of the United States, 1832. Presbyterian. German and Swiss ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., February 18, 1834 (age 61 years, 102 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Jacob Wirt and Henrietta Wirt; married, May 28, 1795, to Mildred 'Millie' Gilmer (niece of John Walker and Francis Walker; aunt of Thomas Walker Gilmer); married, September 7, 1802, to Elizabeth Washington Gamble (sister-in-law of William Henry Cabell); father of Catherine Gratten Wirt (who married Alexander Randall); grandfather of John Wirt Randall; great-grandfather of Hannah Parker Randall (who married William Bladen Lowndes).
  Wirt County, W.Va. is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Wirt AdamsWilliam Wirt VirginWilliam Wirt WatkinsWilliam Wirt VaughanWilliam W. WarrenWilliam Wirt CulbertsonWilliam Wirt HerodWilliam W. DixonWilliam Wirt HendersonWilliam W. HastingsW. Wirt Courtney
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about William Wirt: Gregory Kurt Glassner, Adopted Son: The Life, Wit & Wisdom of William Wirt, 1772-1834
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  Samuel Nicholls Smallwood (1772-1824) — also known as Samuel N. Smallwood — of Washington, D.C. Born in Charles County, Md., September 5, 1772. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1819-22, 1824. Died in Washington, D.C., September 29, 1824 (age 52 years, 24 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Smallwood and Martha Ann (Berry) Smallwood; married, February 28, 1801, to Ruth Beall; second cousin once removed of William Smallwood; second cousin thrice removed of James Lester Smallwood; third cousin of Alfred William Grayson; third cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; third cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin of Samuel H. Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington and Elisha Mills Huntington.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edmund Jennings Lee (1772-1843) — of Alexandria, D.C. (now Va.). Born in Prince William County, Va., May 20, 1772. Lawyer; mayor of Alexandria, D.C., 1815-18. Died in Alexandria, Va., May 30, 1843 (age 71 years, 10 days). Interment at Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of Henry Lee (1756-1818) and Charles Lee; married to Sarah Caldwell Lee; grandnephew of Richard Bland; granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee and Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Sim Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; second cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Lee and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John Lee Carroll and Edward Brooke Lee; second cousin four times removed of William Welby Beverley, Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; third cousin of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846), Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Zachary Taylor; third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham Lincoln, John Gardner Coolidge, Elliot Woolfolk Major, James Sansome Lakin, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Muhlenberg-Hiester family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) — also known as Patsy Randolph; Martha Jefferson — Born in Albemarle County, Va., September 27, 1772. First Lady of Virginia, 1819-22. Female. Died in Albemarle County, Va., October 10, 1836 (age 64 years, 13 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha (Wayles) Jefferson; married, February 23, 1790, to Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; mother of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; aunt of Francis Wayles Eppes; grandmother of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; grandaunt of Frederick Madison Roberts; great-grandmother of John Gardner Coolidge; great-grandniece of Richard Randolph; first cousin of Dabney Carr and John Wayles Eppes; first cousin once removed of Dabney Smith Carr; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin thrice removed of Edith Wilson; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; third cousin of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Edmund Randolph and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; third cousin twice removed of William Lewis Cabell, Fitzhugh Lee, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall and William Henry Robertson; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg, Benjamin Earl Cabell, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of Thomas Jones Hardeman and Bailey Hardeman.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Wayles Eppes (1773-1823) — of Charles City, Charles City County, Va. Born in Chesterfield County, Va., April 19, 1773. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1801-03; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1803-11, 1813-15 (at-large 1803-07, 16th District 1807-09, 22nd District 1809-11, 16th District 1813-15); U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1817-21. Slaveowner. Died in Buckingham County, Va., September 13, 1823 (age 50 years, 147 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Buckingham County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Eppes and Elizabeth (Wayles) Eppes; married to Maria Jefferson (daughter of Thomas Jefferson); father of Francis Wayles Eppes; first cousin of Martha Jefferson Randolph; first cousin once removed of Beverley Randolph, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; first cousin thrice removed of Richard Randolph and John Gardner Coolidge; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland; second cousin twice removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Douglass Townshend Bolling; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg and Richard Walker Bolling; second cousin four times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Edmund Jenings Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; third cousin twice removed of William Lewis Cabell, George Craighead Cabell and William Henry Robertson; third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Earl Cabell and Edith Wilson; fourth cousin of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Thomas Jones Hardeman and Bailey Hardeman; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jackson-Lee family; Lincoln-Lee family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
William Henry Harrison 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.
  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 TaylorW. H. H. EbaWilliam H. H. ClaytonWilliam H. H. AllenWilliam H. H. BeadleWilliam H. H. VarneyWilliam H. H. CowlesWilliam H. H. StowellWilliam H. H. MillerWilliam H. H. CookWilliam H. H. FlickWilliam H. HeardWilliam H. H. LlewellynWilliam H. Harrison
  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)
John Randolph %Roan John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833) — of Charlotte County, Va. Born in Cawsons, Prince George County, Va., June 2, 1773. U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1799-1813, 1815-17, 1819-25, 1827-29, 1833 (at-large 1799-1807, 15th District 1807-13, 16th District 1815-17, 1819-21, 5th District 1821-25, 1827-29, 1833); died in office 1833; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1825-27; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1830. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 24, 1833 (age 59 years, 356 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.; reinterment at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Randolph and Frances (Bland) Randolph; half-brother of Henry St. George Tucker; nephew of Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); uncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; grandson of Richard Randolph; grandnephew of Richard Bland; first cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; first cousin four times removed of John Gardner Coolidge; second cousin of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph, Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell, Fitzhugh Lee and George Craighead Cabell; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Edith Wilson and Frederick Madison Roberts; second cousin four times removed of Henry De La Warr Flood, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt, Francis Beverley Biddle, William Welby Beverley, Joel West Flood and Earle Cabell; second cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd; third cousin of John Wayles Eppes and Theodorick Bland (1776-1846); third cousin once removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822), James Meriwether (1755-1817) and Meriwether Lewis; third cousin twice removed of Douglass Townshend Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg, William Henry Robertson and Richard Walker Bolling; fourth cousin of Thomas Jones Hardeman, James Meriwether (1788-1852), Bailey Hardeman, David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of George Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben Handy Meriwether.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John Randolph (built 1941 at Baltimore, Maryland; mined and sank, in the Denmark Strait, 1942) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  Dabney Carr (1773-1837) — Born in Richmond, Va., April 27, 1773. Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1824-37. Died in Richmond, Va., January 8, 1837 (age 63 years, 256 days). Interment at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Dabney Carr (1743-1773) and Martha (Jefferson) Carr; married 1800 to Elizabeth Carr; nephew of Thomas Jefferson; uncle of Dabney Smith Carr; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin of Martha Jefferson Randolph; first cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; first cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; third cousin of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Edmund Randolph and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke and John Augustine Marshall; third cousin thrice removed of William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) — of Missouri. Born near Ivy, Albemarle County, Va., August 18, 1774. Governor of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1807-09; died in office 1809. English and Welsh ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Commanded expedition with William Clark to Oregon, 1803-04. Died from gunshot wounds under mysterious circumstances (murder or suicide?) at Grinder's Stand, an inn on the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn., October 11, 1809 (age 35 years, 54 days). Interment at Meriwether Lewis Park, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once removed of Howell Lewis, John Walker, David Meriwether (1755-1822), James Meriwether (1755-1817), Francis Walker and George Rockingham Gilmer; first cousin five times removed of Arthur Sidney Demarest; second cousin of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George Washington, Howell Cobb (1772-1818), Thomas Walker Gilmer, David Shelby Walker and Reuben Handy Meriwether; second cousin twice removed of Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Hubbard T. Smith; second cousin four times removed of Archer Woodford; third cousin of Theodorick Bland, Robert Brooke, Bushrod Washington, George Madison and Richard Aylett Buckner; third cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke, Henry St. George Tucker, John Thornton Augustine Washington, Zachary Taylor, Francis Taliaferro Helm and Aylette Buckner; third cousin twice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett Hawes Buckner, Charles John Helm, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Hubbard Dozier Helm; third cousin thrice removed of James Francis Buckner Jr., Key Pittman, Claude Pollard and Vail Montgomery Pittman; fourth cousin once removed of Henry Rootes Jackson.
  Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: George F. Shannon
  Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are named for him; Lewis and Clark County, Mont. is named partly for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Meriwether Lewis RandolphMeriwether Lewis Walker
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to 1927.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C. Danisi, Uncovering the Truth About Meriwether Lewis — Donald Barr Chidsey, Lewis and Clark: The Great Adventure
  Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) — also known as Joe Daviess — of Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born in Bedford County, Va., March 4, 1774. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Welsh ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Around 1801, he served as a second to John Rowan in his duel with James Chambers; after Chambers was killed, he fled to avoid prosecution as accomplice to murder, and became a fugitive, but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal counsel. Shot and killed in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe County, Ind., November 7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248 days). Interment at Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, Battle Ground, Ind.
  Relatives: Brother-in-law of John Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Anderson-Marshall family of Ohio and West Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Daviess counties in Ind., Ky. and Mo., and Jo Daviess County, Ill., are named for him.
  George Tucker (1775-1861) — of Lynchburg, Va.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in St. Georges, Bermuda, August 20, 1775. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1815; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1819-25 (15th District 1819-21, 6th District 1821-25); university professor. Slaveowner. Died in Sherwood, Albemarle County, Va., April 10, 1861 (age 85 years, 233 days). Interment at University of Virginia Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Tucker and Elizabeth Jane Tucker; married 1802 to Maria Ball Carter; married to Louise A. Bowdoin; nephew of Thomas Tudor Tucker and St. George Tucker; first cousin of Henry St. George Tucker; first cousin once removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Anna Harrison (1775-1864) — also known as Anna Tuthill Symmes — Born in Morristown, Morris County, N.J., July 25, 1775. First Lady of the United States, 1841. Female. Died in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, February 25, 1864 (age 88 years, 215 days). Interment at Harrison Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
  Relatives: Daughter of Anna (Tuthill) Symmes and John Cleves Symmes; married, November 22, 1795, to William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (son of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); brother of Carter Bassett Harrison); mother of John Scott Harrison; grandmother of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandmother of Russell Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandmother of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); third cousin twice removed of Bertha Mapes.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  William Logan (1776-1822) — of Kentucky. Born in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., December 8, 1776. Democrat. Delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1803-06; Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1804-06; state court judge in Kentucky, 1808; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1819-20. Slaveowner. Died in Shelby County, Ky., August 8, 1822 (age 45 years, 243 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Shelby County, Ky.
  Relatives: Married 1801 to Priscilla Christian Wallace; great-grandfather of William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) — of Baltimore, Md. Born in Dinwiddie County, Va., December 6, 1776. Lawyer; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1809; district judge in Maryland, 1812-17; U.S. District Judge for Maryland, 1819-24; resigned 1824. Died, from heart disease, in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., November 16, 1846 (age 69 years, 345 days). Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Theodorick Bland and Sarah (Fitzhugh) Bland; married, July 14, 1801, to Sarah Glen; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland and Henry Harrison; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); third cousin of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Mason family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Brockenbrough (1778-1838) — of Virginia. Born in Essex County, Va., July 10, 1778. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1802-03, 1807-09. Died in Richmond, Va., December 10, 1838 (age 60 years, 153 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father-in-law of Edward Colston; father of John White Brockenbrough; uncle of William Henry Brockenbrough; grandson-in-law of Carter Braxton.
  Political families: Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Edward Lloyd (1779-1834) — of Wye Mills, Talbot County, Md.; Easton, Talbot County, Md. Born in Talbot County, Md., July 22, 1779. Democrat. Member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1800-05; U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1806-09 (at-large 1806-07, 7th District 1807-09); Governor of Maryland, 1809-11; member of Maryland state senate, 1811-14, 1826-29; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1819-26. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., June 2, 1834 (age 54 years, 315 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Talbot County, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Lloyd (1744-1796) and Elizabeth (Tayloe) Lloyd; married 1797 to Sally Scott Murray; uncle of Philip Barton Key; grandfather of Henry Lloyd; granduncle of Francis Key Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Matthew Tilghman; first cousin thrice removed of William Welby Beverley; second cousin once removed of Charles Carroll, Barrister, James Joseph Tilghman and William Tilghman; third cousin of Frisby Tilghman; third cousin once removed of Tench Tilghman and Edward Tilghman Paca.
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) — of Virginia. Born in Gloucester County, Va., January 1, 1779. Governor of Virginia, 1811-12. Died in Amelia County, Va., December 26, 1828 (age 49 years, 360 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Amelia County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Elizabeth Carter (Nicholas) Randolph and Edmund Jenings Randolph; married 1806 to Maria Ward; father of Edmund Randolph; nephew of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; grandson of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); grandnephew of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); granduncle of Edmund Randolph Cocke; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; great-granduncle of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin once removed of Peter Myndert Dox; first cousin twice removed of Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), John Randolph of Roanoke, Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; third cousin of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Henry St. George Tucker and John Scott Harrison; third cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, John Augustine Marshall, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Carter Henry Harrison II, Frederick Madison Roberts and William Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt, Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); fourth cousin of John Wayles Eppes; fourth cousin once removed of Coleby Chew, Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr..
  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).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Dudley Leavitt Pickman (1779-1846) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., 1779. Shipowner; importer and exporter; investor and stockholder in cotton and woolen mills and railroads; financier; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1820. Died November 4, 1846 (age about 67 years). Interment at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of William Pickman and Eliza (Leavitt) Pickman; married, September 6, 1810, to Catherine Saunders (sister-in-law of Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845)); grandnephew of Timothy Pickering; first cousin of Benjamin Pickman Jr.; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Toppan Pickman; first cousin twice removed of George Bailey Loring; first cousin thrice removed of George Peabody Wetmore; first cousin four times removed of Maude Alice Keteltas Wetmore; second cousin once removed of John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); second cousin twice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Augustus Peabody Gardner; second cousin thrice removed of John Lee Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Richard Saltonstall, William Gurdon Saltonstall, John Lee Saltonstall Jr. and William Amory Gardner Minot; second cousin five times removed of William Lawrence Saltonstall and John Forbes Kerry; third cousin once removed of John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); third cousin twice removed of Charles Sinclair Weeks; fourth cousin of John Albion Andrew; fourth cousin once removed of Luther Walter Badger, Isaac Libbey, John Forrester Andrew and Henry Hersey Andrew.
  Political families: Rodney family of Delaware; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Philip Clayton Pendleton (1779-1863) — also known as Philip C. Pendleton — of Berkeley County, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Berkeley County, Va. (now W.Va.), November 24, 1779. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates from Berkeley County, 1805-08, 1809-10; U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1825; resigned 1825; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30. Died in Berkeley County, Va (now W.Va.), April 3, 1863 (age 83 years, 130 days). Interment at Norborne Parish Cemetery, Martinsburg, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son of Philip Pendleton and Agnes (Patterson) Pendleton; married to Sarah Ann Boyd; nephew of Nathaniel Pendleton; grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin of Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; first cousin once removed of John Pendleton Jr. and George Hunt Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Francis Key Pendleton; second cousin once removed of John Penn, Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of William Barret Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; third cousin once removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin twice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) — of Virginia. Born in Chesterfield County, Va., December 29, 1780. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1815-19; member of Virginia state senate, 1819-23; law professor; chancellor, 4th District, 1824-31; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1831-41. Slaveowner. Died in Winchester, Va., August 28, 1848 (age 67 years, 243 days). Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Frances (Bland) Tucker and St. George Tucker; half-brother of John Randolph of Roanoke; married, September 23, 1806, to Ann Evelina Hunter; father of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and John Randolph Tucker; nephew of Theodorick Bland (1742-1790) and Thomas Tudor Tucker; grandfather of Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932); grandnephew of Richard Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin of George Tucker; first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; second cousin four times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, John Wayles Eppes, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); third cousin once removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822), James Meriwether (1755-1817), Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of William Lewis Cabell, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II, Frederick Madison Roberts and Douglass Townshend Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg, Benjamin Earl Cabell, John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt, Francis Beverley Biddle and Richard Walker Bolling; fourth cousin of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of George Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben Handy Meriwether.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Tucker County, W.Va. is named for him.
  The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry St.G. Tucker (built 1942 at Baltimore, Maryland; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alfred William Grayson (1780-1810) — of Fayette County, Ky. Born in Prince William County, Va., April 16, 1780. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1809. Died October 10, 1810 (age 30 years, 177 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of William Grayson and Eleanor (Smallwood) Grayson; married, October 28, 1804, to Letitia Preston Breckinridge (daughter of John Breckinridge; sister of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; later married to Peter Buell Porter); nephew of William Smallwood; great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin of Beverly Robinson Grayson; first cousin thrice removed of John Brady Grayson; second cousin of James Monroe (1758-1831); second cousin once removed of Thomas Bell Monroe and James Monroe (1799-1870); second cousin twice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Victor Monroe; second cousin four times removed of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Corinne Robinson Alsop; second cousin five times removed of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop; third cousin of Samuel Nicholls Smallwood; third cousin thrice removed of James Lester Smallwood.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1781-1849) — also known as Benjamin W. Leigh — of Richmond, Va. Born in Chesterfield County, Va., June 18, 1781. Whig. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1811; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1834-36; delegate to Whig National Convention from Virginia, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization; member, Balloting Committee; speaker). Slaveowner. Died February 2, 1849 (age 67 years, 229 days). Interment at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Brother-in-law of Edward Colston; father of Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Jr.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853) — also known as John W. Weeks — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in Greenland, Rockingham County, N.H., March 31, 1781. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New Hampshire state senate 12th District, 1826-29; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1829-33. Died in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., April 3, 1853 (age 72 years, 3 days). Interment at Old Cemetery, Lancaster, N.H.
  Relatives: Son of John Weeks and Deborah (Brackett) Weeks; married, November 17, 1805, to Martha Weeks Brackett; married, March 15, 1821, to Persis de la Fayette Everett; granduncle of John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); great-granduncle of Charles Sinclair Weeks; first cousin once removed of Timothy Pickering; second cousin once removed of Dudley Leavitt Pickman; second cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Augustus Peabody Gardner; second cousin four times removed of John Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Leverett Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall, William Gurdon Saltonstall, William Amory Gardner Minot and John Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Isaac Libbey and Eugene Harvey Libby; third cousin thrice removed of Llewellyn Libby, William F. Nason and Alvin Gardner Weeks; fourth cousin of Luther Walter Badger; fourth cousin once removed of Eleazer Pomeroy and Amos Tuck.
  Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Beverly Robinson Grayson (1782-1843) — also known as Beverly R. Grayson — Born in Prince William County, Va., September 3, 1782. Member Mississippi territorial council, 1814. Died in Benton County, Miss., July 29, 1843 (age 60 years, 329 days). Interment at Bethany Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Midway, Miss.
  Relatives: Son of Spencer Monroe Grayson and Mary Elizabeth (Wagener) Grayson; married to Sarah Chew; nephew of William Grayson; great-granduncle of John Brady Grayson; first cousin of Alfred William Grayson; first cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin of James Monroe (1758-1831); second cousin once removed of Thomas Bell Monroe and James Monroe (1799-1870); second cousin twice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Victor Monroe; second cousin four times removed of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Corinne Robinson Alsop; second cousin five times removed of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
Zachary Taylor 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.
  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. CoyZachary T. BielbyZachary T. Harris
  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)
  Thomas Marshall (1784-1835) — Born in Richmond, Va., July 21, 1784. Delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829. During a storm, he took shelter in the burned ruins of the Baltimore County Courthouse, and was struck in the head by a brick dislodged by lightning; he suffered a fractured skull, and died a week later, in Baltimore, Md., June 29, 1835 (age 50 years, 343 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Marshall and Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall; brother of James Keith Marshall; married, October 19, 1809, to Margaret W. Lewis; nephew of James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall; grandson of Jacquelin Ambler; great-grandnephew of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of John Augustine Marshall; first cousin twice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Nicholas, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); second cousin of William Marshall Ambler; second cousin once removed of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison and John Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, Peter Myndert Dox, George Wythe Randolph and Edmund Randolph; third cousin once removed of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Burwell Bassett, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Henry St. George Tucker, John Scott Harrison, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; third cousin twice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); fourth cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh Lee, Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Frederick Madison Roberts and William Welby Beverley.
  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).
  William Appleton (1786-1862) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass., November 16, 1786. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55, 1861 (1st District 1851-53, 5th District 1853-55, 1861); defeated, 1854, 1856. Died in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., February 15, 1862 (age 75 years, 91 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Joseph Appleton and Mary (Hook) Appleton; married to Mary Ann Cutler; father of Sarah E. Appleton (who married Amos Adams Lawrence) and Mehitable Sullivan 'Hetty' Appleton (who married Thomas Jefferson Coolidge); second great-grandfather of Leverett Saltonstall and Richard Saltonstall; third great-grandfather of William Lawrence Saltonstall; first cousin of Nathan Appleton, James Appleton and Nathan Dane Appleton; first cousin once removed of John Appleton (1804-1891), Jane Pierce and John Appleton (1815-1864); first cousin thrice removed of Arthur Taggard Appleton; first cousin four times removed of Randolph Appleton Kidder; third cousin once removed of Thomas Passmore Treadwell; third cousin twice removed of Robert Odiorne Treadwell; fourth cousin of John Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas Appleton and Leonard White; fourth cousin once removed of John James Appleton and John Larkin Payson.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edward Colston (1786-1852) — of Virginia. Born near Winchester, Frederick County, Va., December 25, 1786. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1812-14, 1816-17, 1823-28, 1833-35; U.S. Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1817-19. Slaveowner. Died in Berkeley County, Va (now W.Va.), April 23, 1852 (age 65 years, 120 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Berkeley County, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son-in-law of William Brockenbrough; brother-in-law of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and John White Brockenbrough; nephew of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin and second cousin of Thomas Alexander Marshall; first cousin of Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall; first cousin once removed and nephew by marriage of Humphrey Marshall.
  Political families: Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  John Jordan Crittenden (1787-1863) — also known as John J. Crittenden — of Illinois; Russellville, Logan County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky. Born near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., September 10, 1787. Lawyer; Illinois territory attorney general, 1809-10; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1811-17, 1825-29; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1817-19, 1835-41, 1842-48, 1855-61; candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1827-29; secretary of state of Kentucky, 1834-35; U.S. Attorney General, 1841, 1850-53; Governor of Kentucky, 1848-50; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1861-63. Two of his sons were generals on opposite sides in the Civil War; a grandson of his was killed in Gen. Custer's expedition against the Sioux in 1876. Slaveowner. Died in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., July 26, 1863 (age 75 years, 319 days). Interment at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of John Crittenden and Judith Turpin (Harris) Crittenden; brother of Thomas Turpin Crittenden and Robert Crittenden; married 1811 to Sarah O. Lee; married 1826 to Maria Knox Innes; married 1853 to Elizabeth Moss; father of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; uncle of Alexander Parker Crittenden and Thomas Theodore Crittenden; granduncle of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson; second cousin once removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Dabney Carr; third cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; third cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Crittenden County, Ky. is named for him.
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John J. Crittenden (built 1942-43 at Jacksonville, Florida; scrapped 1968) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) — also known as Robert C. Nicholas — of Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La. Born in Hanover County, Va., January 10, 1787. Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; sugar cane planter; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1836-41; secretary of state of Louisiana, 1845; Louisiana Superintendent of Education, 1849-53. Slaveowner. Died in Terrebonne Parish, La., December 24, 1857 (age 70 years, 348 days). Entombed at St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans, La.
  Relatives: Son of George Nicholas and Mary (Smith) Nicholas; brother of Henrietta Morrison Nicholas (who married Richard Hawes); married to Susan Adelaide Vinson; nephew of Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; grandson of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); granduncle of Harry Bartow Hawes; first cousin of Peyton Randolph; first cousin once removed of Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and Edmund Randolph Cocke; first cousin thrice removed of Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin once removed of Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; third cousin of John Scott Harrison; third cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett, Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin twice removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); fourth cousin once removed of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr..
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  James Meriwether (1788-1852) — of Georgia. Born in Wilkes County, Ga., June 22, 1788. Member of Georgia state legislature, 1820; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1825-27. Slaveowner. Died in Madison County, Tenn., July 13, 1852 (age 64 years, 21 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Clarke County, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of David Meriwether (1755-1822) and Frances (Wingfield) Meriwether; first cousin of David Meriwether (1800-1893); first cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1755-1817); second cousin of Meriwether Lewis and James Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George Rockingham Gilmer, Reuben Handy Meriwether and Frances Meriwether (who married Anson Rainey); third cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland; fourth cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Edmund Henry Pendleton (1788-1862) — also known as Edmund H. Pendleton — of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., 1788. Lawyer; Dutchess County Judge, 1830-40; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1831-33. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 25, 1862 (age about 73 years). Entombed at St. James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Pendleton and Susan (Bard) Pendleton; brother of Nathanael Greene Pendleton; married to Frances M. Jones; uncle of George Hunt Pendleton; grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; granduncle of Francis Key Pendleton; first cousin of Philip Clayton Pendleton; first cousin once removed of John Pendleton Jr.; second cousin once removed of John Penn, Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of William Barret Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; third cousin once removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin twice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Jones Hardeman (1788-1854) — of Texas. Born near Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., January 31, 1788. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Texas Republic House of Representatives, 1837-39; judge of Texas Republic, 1843; member of Texas state legislature, 1847-51. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Bastrop County, Tex., January 15, 1854 (age 65 years, 349 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1937 at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Hardeman and Mary (Perkins) Hardeman; brother of Bailey Hardeman; married 1814 to Mary Ophelia Polk (aunt of James Knox Polk and William Hawkins Polk); married, October 26, 1836, to Eliza DeWitt; fourth cousin of Martha Jefferson Randolph, John Wayles Eppes and John Randolph of Roanoke; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Francis Wayles Eppes, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Hardeman County, Tenn. is named for him; Hardeman County, Tex. is named partly for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823) — also known as Cabell Breckinridge — of Kentucky. Born in Albemarle County, Va., July 24, 1788. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1817-18; secretary of state of Kentucky, 1820-23; died in office 1823. Presbyterian. Died in an epidemic, in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., September 1, 1823 (age 35 years, 39 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Fayette County, Ky.; reinterment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of John Breckinridge and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Brecinridge; brother of Letitia Preston Breckinridge (who married Peter Buell Porter and Alfred William Grayson) and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; married to Mary Clay Smith; father of John Cabell Breckinridge (who married Mary Cyrene Burch); uncle of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; grandfather of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge; grandnephew of William Preston and William Cabell; granduncle of Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin of James Douglas Breckinridge and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; first cousin once removed of William Cabell Jr., Francis Smith Preston, William Henry Cabell, James Patton Preston, Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin thrice removed of Earle Cabell; second cousin of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston, George Rogers Clark Floyd and Edward Carrington Cabell; second cousin once removed of John William Leftwich.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Epitaph: "The Righteous Shall Be In Everlasting Remembrance."
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Jacquelin Burwell Harvie (1788-1856) — also known as J. B. Harvie — of Richmond, Va. Born in Richmond, Va., October 9, 1788. Whig. Delegate to Whig National Convention from Virginia, 1839; member of Virginia state senate, 1830. Died in Richmond, Va., February 9, 1856 (age 67 years, 123 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married to Mary Marshall (daughter of John Marshall).
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Anderson-Marshall family of Ohio and West Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1788-1832) — also known as Thomas T. Crittenden — of Kentucky. Born in Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., April 10, 1788. Secretary of state of Kentucky, 1828-32. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., December 25, 1832 (age 44 years, 259 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Crittenden and Judith Turpin (Harris) Crittenden; brother of John Jordan Crittenden and Robert Crittenden; married to Mary Wilson Parker; father of Alexander Parker Crittenden and Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1825-1905; Union general); uncle of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden and Thomas Theodore Crittenden; granduncle of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson; second cousin once removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Dabney Carr; third cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; third cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  William Segar Archer (1789-1855) — also known as William S. Archer — of Amelia County, Va. Born in Amelia County, Va., March 5, 1789. Whig. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1812-19; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1820-35 (17th District 1820-21, 3rd District 1821-35); defeated, 1834; delegate to Whig National Convention from Virginia, 1839; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1841-47. Slaveowner. Died in Amelia County, Va., March 28, 1855 (age 66 years, 23 days). Interment at Archer Family Cemetery at The Lodge, Amelia County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Maj. John Archer and Elizabeth (Eggleston) Archer; nephew of Joseph Eggleston; first cousin once removed of Branch Tanner Archer; second cousin of Joseph Cary Eggleston; second cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson.
  Political family: Archer-Eggleston-Jefferson family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Rockingham Gilmer (1790-1859) — also known as George R. Gilmer — of Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Ga. Born near Lexington, Wilkes County (now Oglethorpe County), Ga., April 11, 1790. Lawyer; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1818-19, 1824; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1821-23, 1827-29, 1833-35; Governor of Georgia, 1829-31, 1837-39; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia. Slaveowner. Died in Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Ga., November 16, 1859 (age 69 years, 219 days). Interment at Presbyterian Cemetery, Lexington, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Meriwether Gilmer and Elizabeth (Lewis) Gilmer; first cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; first cousin twice removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822) and James Meriwether (1755-1817); second cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; third cousin of Reuben Handy Meriwether; third cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland; fourth cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker.
  Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Gilmer County, Ga. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Richard Pollard (1790-1851) — of Virginia. Born in King and Queen County, Va., 1790. Lawyer; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant; U.S. Consul in Mexico City, 1833-34; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Chile, 1834-42. Died in Washington, D.C., February 19, 1851 (age about 60 years). Interment at Oak Ridge Estate Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Va.
  Relatives: Married 1814 to Paulina Cabell Rives (niece of William Cabell Jr.; granddaughter of William Cabell).
  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 U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Brown Francis (1791-1864) — of Warwick, Kent County, R.I. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 31, 1791. Democrat. Member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1821; member of Rhode Island state senate, 1831, 1845-56; Governor of Rhode Island, 1833-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1840; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1844-45. Died in Warwick, Kent County, R.I., August 9, 1864 (age 73 years, 70 days). Interment at North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of John Francis and Abigail (Brown) Francis; married 1822 to Anne Carter Brown; married 1832 to Elizabeth (Francis) Harrison; grandson of John Brown; grandnephew of Thomas Willing; great-grandson of Charles Willing; great-grandnephew of Edward Shippen (1703-1781) and William Shippen; third great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); first cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd; first cousin twice removed of Edward Shippen (1729-1806) and Francis Fisher Kane; second cousin once removed of Edward Overton Jr.; second cousin twice removed of James Rieman Macfarlane; third cousin of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); third cousin once removed of Bertha Shippen Irving; fourth cousin of John Appleton and Jane Pierce.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  Thomas Bell Monroe (1791-1865) — also known as Thomas B. Monroe — of Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky. Born in Albemarle County, Va., October 7, 1791. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1816; secretary of state of Kentucky, 1823-24; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1833-34; U.S. District Judge for Kentucky, 1834-61; resigned 1861; Delegate from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62. Died in Pass Christian, Harrison County, Miss., December 24, 1865 (age 74 years, 78 days). Interment at Live Oak Cemetery, Pass Christian, Miss.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Augustine Monroe and Ann (Bell) Monroe; half-brother of James Monroe (1799-1870); married, November 3, 1812, to Eliza Palmer Adair (daughter of John Adair); father of Victor Monroe; nephew of James Monroe (1758-1831); great-granduncle of Theodore Douglas Robinson and Corinne Robinson Alsop; second great-granduncle of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop; first cousin twice removed of William Grayson; second cousin once removed of Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; third cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II and John Brady Grayson.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857) — also known as James G. Birney — of Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; Huntsville, Madison County, Ala.; Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; New York, New York County, N.Y.; Lower Saginaw, Saginaw County (now Bay City, Bay County), Mich. Born in Danville, Boyle County, Ky., February 4, 1792. Lawyer; studied law in the office of Alexander J. Dallas in Philadelphia; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1816-18; member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1819-20; solicitor general of Alabama, 1823-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; mayor of Huntsville, Ala., 1829; abolitionist; Liberty candidate for President of the United States, 1840, 1844; candidate for Governor of Michigan, 1843, 1845. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; American Anti-Slavery Society. While traveling in 1845, the horse he was riding bucked; he fell and was injured; his condition worsened over time, leading to tremors and paralysis, and he died as a result, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, N.J., November 25, 1857 (age 65 years, 294 days). Interment at Williamsburgh Cemetery, Groveland, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of James Gillespie Birney and Mary Reed Birney; married, February 16, 1816, to Agatha McDowell; married 1840 to Elizabeth Potts Fitzhugh (sister of Henry Fitzhugh); father of James M. Birney; uncle of Humphrey Marshall; grandfather of Arthur Alexis Birney.
  Political family: Birney family of Danville, Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS James G. Birney (built 1943 at Terminal Island, California; scrapped 1967) was named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875) — also known as Thomas J. Randolph — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Charlottesville, Va., September 12, 1792. Democrat. Planter; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850; delegate to Virginia secession convention from Albemarle County, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1872. Slaveowner. Injured in a carriage accident, and died soon after, in Albemarle County, Va., October 7, 1875 (age 83 years, 25 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph; married 1815 to Jane Hollins Nicholas (daughter of Wilson Cary Nicholas); grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Archer-Eggleston-Jefferson family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Nathanael Greene Pendleton (1793-1861) — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., August 25, 1793. Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Ohio state senate, 1825-29; delegate to Whig National Convention from Ohio, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization); U.S. Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1841-43. Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 16, 1861 (age 67 years, 295 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Pendleton and Susan (Bard) Pendleton; brother of Edmund Henry Pendleton; married, May 10, 1820, to Jane Frances Hunt; father of George Hunt Pendleton; grandfather of Francis Key Pendleton; grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin of Philip Clayton Pendleton; first cousin once removed of John Pendleton Jr.; second cousin once removed of John Penn, Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of William Barret Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; third cousin once removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin twice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell (1793-1862) — also known as Benjamin W. S. Cabell — of Danville, Va. Born in Buckingham County, Va., May 10, 1793. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1820; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30. Died in Pittsylvania County, Va., March 19, 1862 (age 68 years, 313 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, Danville, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Pocahontas Rebecca (Bolling) Cabell and Joseph Cabell; married 1816 to Sarah Epes 'Sallie' Doswell (sister-in-law of Collin Buckner); father of William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; grandfather of Benjamin Earl Cabell; grandnephew of William Cabell; great-grandfather of Earle Cabell; great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of William Cabell Jr., William Henry Cabell, John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin thrice removed of Henry De La Warr Flood and Joel West Flood; first cousin four times removed of Harry Flood Byrd; first cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin of Frederick Mortimer Cabell and Edward Carrington Cabell; second cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke and John William Leftwich; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Beverley Randolph and Edith Wilson; third cousin of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; third cousin once removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph, John Wayles Eppes, Henry St. George Tucker, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; third cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; third cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge; fourth cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Jones Hardeman, Bailey Hardeman and Douglass Townshend Bolling.
  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
  Thomas Alexander Marshall (1794-1871) — also known as Thomas A. Marshall — of Paris, Bourbon County, Ky. Born near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., January 15, 1794. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1827; U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1831-35 (2nd District 1831-33, 12th District 1833-35); state court judge in Kentucky, 1835. Slaveowner. Died April 17, 1871 (age 77 years, 92 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Humphrey Marshall; nephew and first cousin once removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin and second cousin of Edward Colston, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
James K. Polk James Knox Polk (1795-1849) — also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory"; "Napoleon of the Stump" — of Tennessee. Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg County, N.C., November 2, 1795. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th District 1833-39); Speaker of the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of Tennessee, 1839-41; President of the United States, 1845-49. Presbyterian or Methodist. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Slaveowner. Died, of cholera, in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., June 15, 1849 (age 53 years, 225 days). Original interment at Polk Place Grounds (which no longer exists), Nashville, Tenn.; reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William Hawkins Polk; married, January 1, 1824, to Sarah Childress (daughter of Joel Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall Tate Polk and Tasker Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk (who married George Davis) and Richard Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus King Polk and Frank Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles Polk and Augustus Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert Fawcett Polk.
  Political families: Ashe-Polk family of North Carolina; Polk family; Manly-Haywood-Polk family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Aaron V. Brown — John Charles Frémont
  Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are named for him.
  The city of Polk City, Florida, is named for him.  — The city of Polk City, Iowa, is named for him.  — The borough of Polk, Pennsylvania, is named for him.  — James K. Polk Elementary School, in Alexandria, Virginia, is named for him.  — James K. Polk Elementary School, in Fresno, California, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington, North Carolina; torpedoed in the North Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: James Knox Polk HallJames P. LattaJames K. P. FennerJ. K. P. Marshall
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail — Tennessee Encyclopedia
  Books about James K. Polk: Sam W. Haynes, James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H. Bergeron, The Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene Irving McCormac, James K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War 1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career 1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History — John Seigenthaler, James K. Polk: 1845 - 1849
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  Bailey Hardeman (1795-1836) — of Texas. Born near Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., February 26, 1795. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from District of Matagorda, 1836; signer, Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1836. Died in Caney Creek, Matagorda County, Tex., October 12, 1836 (age 41 years, 229 days). Original interment somewhere in Matagorda County, Tex.; reinterment in 1936 at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Hardeman and Mary (Perkins) Hardeman; brother of Thomas Jones Hardeman; fourth cousin of Martha Jefferson Randolph, John Wayles Eppes and John Randolph of Roanoke; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Francis Wayles Eppes, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Hardeman County, Tex. is named partly for him.
  Richard Hawes (1797-1877) — of Winchester, Clark County, Ky. Born near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va., February 6, 1797. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1828; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1837-41; Confederate provisional governor of Kentucky, 1862-65. Slaveowner. Died in Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., May 25, 1877 (age 80 years, 108 days). Interment at Paris Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Hawes (1772-1829) and Clara Stubbs (Walker) Hawes; brother of Albert Gallatin Hawes; married, November 13, 1818, to Henrietta Morrison Nicholas (daughter of George Nicholas; sister of Robert Carter Nicholas); nephew of Aylett Hawes; grandfather of Harry Bartow Hawes; first cousin once removed of Aylett Hawes Buckner; second cousin once removed of John Walker and Francis Walker; third cousin once removed of Thomas Walker Gilmer.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Robert Crittenden (1797-1834) — of Arkansas. Born near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., January 1, 1797. Secretary of Arkansas Territory, 1819-29. Mortally wounded Henry Wharton Conway in a duel on October 29, 1827. Died in Vicksburg, Warren County, Miss., December 18, 1834 (age 37 years, 351 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Crittenden and Judith Turpin (Harris) Crittenden; brother of John Jordan Crittenden and Thomas Turpin Crittenden; uncle of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden and Thomas Theodore Crittenden; granduncle of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson; second cousin once removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Dabney Carr; third cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; third cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Crittenden County, Ark. is named for him.
  James Monroe (1799-1870) — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; Orange, Essex County, N.J. Born in Albemarle County, Va., September 10, 1799. Whig. U.S. Representative from New York 3rd District, 1839-41; member of New York state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1850, 1852. Died in Orange, Essex County, N.J., September 7, 1870 (age 70 years, 362 days). Entombed at Trinity Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Presumably named for: James Monroe
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Augustine Monroe and Ann (Bell) Monroe; half-brother of Thomas Bell Monroe; married, April 17, 1822, to Elizabeth Mary Douglas; nephew of James Monroe (1758-1831); uncle of Victor Monroe; grandfather of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne Roosevelt Robinson); great-grandfather of Theodore Douglas Robinson and Corinne Robinson Alsop; second great-grandfather of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop; first cousin twice removed of William Grayson; second cousin once removed of Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; third cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II and John Brady Grayson.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) — also known as Andrew J. Donelson — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.; Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., August 25, 1799. Whig. Lawyer; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Texas Republic, 1844-45; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1846-49; candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1856. Died, of a heart attack, in Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn., June 26, 1871 (age 71 years, 305 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
  Presumably named for: Andrew Jackson
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Donelson and Mary Polly (Smith) Donelson; married, September 16, 1824, to Emily Tennessee Donelson; married 1841 to Elizabeth (Martin) Randolph (widow of Meriwether Lewis Randolph); nephew of Rachel Donelson (who married Andrew Jackson); grandson of Daniel Smith; first cousin once removed of Donelson Caffery; first cousin twice removed of Charles Duval Caffery, John Murphy Caffery and Edward Caffery; first cousin thrice removed of Jefferson Caffery and Patrick Thomson Caffery.
  Political family: Caffery family of Louisiana (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Tennessee Encyclopedia
  Books about Andrew Jackson Donelson: Mark R. Cheathem, Old Hickory's Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson
  David Meriwether (1800-1893) — Born in Louisa County, Va., October 30, 1800. Democrat. Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1832; candidate for U.S. Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1847, 1851; delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; secretary of state of Kentucky, 1851-52; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1852; Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1853-57; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1858-85; Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1859. Slaveowner. Died near Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., April 4, 1893 (age 92 years, 156 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of William Meriwether and Elizabeth (Winslow) Meriwether; married, February 22, 1822, to Sarah Hoar Leonard; nephew of David Meriwether (1755-1822); cousin by marriage of Franklin Pierce; first cousin of James Meriwether (1788-1852); first cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1755-1817); second cousin of Meriwether Lewis and James Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George Rockingham Gilmer, Reuben Handy Meriwether and Frances Meriwether (who married Anson Rainey); third cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland; fourth cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871) — of Kentucky. Born near Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., March 8, 1800. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1825-28; ordained minister; president, Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College), 1845-47; Kentucky superintendent of public instruction, 1849-53; candidate for delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Danville, Boyle County, Ky., December 22, 1871 (age 71 years, 289 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of John Breckinridge and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Breckinridge; brother of Letitia Preston Breckinridge (who married Peter Buell Porter and Alfred William Grayson) and Joseph Cabell Breckinridge; married, March 11, 1823, to Ann Sophronisba Preston; married, April 1, 1847, to Virginia Hart Shelby; married, November 5, 1868, to Margaret F. White; father of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; uncle of John Cabell Breckinridge and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); grandfather of Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; grandnephew of William Preston and William Cabell; granduncle of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin of James Douglas Breckinridge and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; first cousin once removed of William Cabell Jr., William Henry Cabell, James Patton Preston, Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin thrice removed of Earle Cabell; second cousin of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston, George Rogers Clark Floyd and Edward Carrington Cabell; second cousin once removed of John William Leftwich.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Nicholas Philip Trist (1800-1874) — also known as Nicholas P. Trist — of Alexandria, Va. Born in Albemarle County, Va., 1800. Republican. U.S. Consul in Havana, 1833-41; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1834; postmaster at Alexandria, Va., 1870-74. Died in 1874 (age about 74 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married 1824 to Virginia Jefferson Randolph (daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; sister of George Wythe Randolph; granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson).
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary
  James Keith Marshall (1800-1862) — Born in Richmond, Va., February 13, 1800. Member of Virginia state senate, 1850. Died in Fauquier County, Va., December 2, 1862 (age 62 years, 292 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Fauquier County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Marshall and Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall; brother of Thomas Marshall; married, December 22, 1821, to Claudia Hamilton Burwell; nephew of James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall; grandson of Jacquelin Ambler; great-grandnephew of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of John Augustine Marshall; first cousin twice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Nicholas, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); second cousin once removed of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison and John Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, Peter Myndert Dox, George Wythe Randolph and Edmund Randolph; third cousin once removed of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Burwell Bassett, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Henry St. George Tucker, John Scott Harrison, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; third cousin twice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Francis Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); fourth cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh Lee, Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Frederick Madison Roberts and William Welby Beverley.
  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).
  Joseph Iasigi (1800-1877) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, August 20, 1800. Merchant; shipowner; Consul for Turkey in Boston, Mass., 1864-77. Armenian ancestry. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 22, 1877 (age 76 years, 275 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
  Relatives: Married, January 3, 1846, to Eulalie Loir; father of Oscar Anthony Iasigi and Joseph Andrew Iasigi; grandfather of Nora Iasigi (who married William Marshall Bullitt).
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Francis Marshall (1801-1864) — of Versailles, Woodford County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky.; Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., June 7, 1801. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1832-36, 1838-39, 1854; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1841-43; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Slaveowner. Died near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., September 22, 1864 (age 63 years, 107 days). Interment at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
  Relatives: Brother of Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884) and Edward Colston Marshall; nephew of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin and second cousin of Thomas Alexander Marshall; first cousin of Edward Colston and Charles Alexander Marshall; first cousin once removed and nephew by marriage of Humphrey Marshall.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Francis Wayles Eppes (1801-1881) — also known as Francis W. Eppes — of Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla. Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., September 20, 1801. Cotton planter; justice of the peace; mayor of Tallahassee, Fla., 1841-44, 1856-57, 1866. Died May 30, 1881 (age 79 years, 252 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando, Fla.
  Relatives: Son of John Wayles Eppes and Maria (Jefferson) Eppes; married, November 18, 1822, to Mary Elizabeth Cleland Randolph; married 1837 to Susan Margaret (Ware) Crouch (daughter of Nicholas Ware); nephew of Martha Jefferson Randolph; grandson of Thomas Jefferson; second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; first cousin once removed of Dabney Carr, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; first cousin twice removed of Beverley Randolph and John Gardner Coolidge; first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Dabney Smith Carr; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke and Edith Wilson; third cousin of John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker, Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden, Carter Henry Harrison II and Douglass Townshend Bolling; third cousin twice removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg, Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr. and Richard Walker Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of William Welby Beverley; fourth cousin of Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Edmund Randolph and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Jones Hardeman, Bailey Hardeman, William Lewis Cabell, Fitzhugh Lee, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall and William Henry Robertson.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Mason family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) — of Virginia. Born in Gilmerton, Albemarle County, Va., April 6, 1802. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1829-36, 1838-39; Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1838-39; Governor of Virginia, 1840-41; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th District 1843-44); U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1844; died in office 1844. Slaveowner. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon accidentally burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., February 28, 1844 (age 41 years, 328 days). Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at a private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of George Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer; married to Anne Elizabeth Baker; nephew of Mildred Gilmer (who married William Wirt); grandnephew of John Walker and Francis Walker; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Aylett Hawes; third cousin once removed of Robert Brooke, George Madison, Richard Aylett Buckner, Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes; third cousin twice removed of Hubbard T. Smith; third cousin thrice removed of Archer Woodford; fourth cousin of Zachary Taylor, Francis Taliaferro Helm, Aylette Buckner, David Shelby Walker and Aylett Hawes Buckner; fourth cousin once removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Charles John Helm, Hubbard Dozier Helm, James David Walker, David Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry Bartow Hawes.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Jackson-Lee family; Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Clay family of Kentucky; Lewis-Pollard family of Texas (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Gilmer County, W.Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Strother Pendleton (1802-1868) — also known as John S. Pendleton; "The Lone Star" — of Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va. Born near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., March 1, 1802. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1830-33, 1836-39; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Chile, 1842-44; Argentina, 1851-54; U.S. Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1845-49. Slaveowner. Died near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., November 19, 1868 (age 66 years, 263 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Culpeper County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Pendleton and Nancy (Strother) Pendleton; brother of Albert Gallatin Pendleton; married, December 2, 1824, to Lucy Ann Williams; granduncle of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin of Aylett Hawes Buckner; first cousin twice removed of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of William Grayson; second cousin of Philip Coleman Pendleton; second cousin once removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Zachary Taylor, Edmund Henry Pendleton, Nathanael Greene Pendleton and Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of John Penn, James Madison, William Taylor Madison, George Madison, Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of John Walker, John Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis Walker; third cousin of Henry Gaines Johnson, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; third cousin once removed of William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert Brooke, Meriwether Lewis, Richard Aylett Buckner, John Tyler (1790-1862) and Max Rogers Strother; fourth cousin of Coleby Chew; fourth cousin once removed of Gabriel Slaughter, Francis Taliaferro Helm, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Aylette Buckner, George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, David Gardiner Tyler, James Francis Buckner Jr., Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Hubbard T. Smith, Carter Henry Harrison II, Charles M. Pendleton, John Brady Grayson and Daniel Micajah Pendleton.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary
  Dabney Smith Carr (1802-1854) — of Maryland. Born in Albemarle County, Va., March 5, 1802. Newspaper publisher; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1843-49. Died in Charlottesville, Va., March 24, 1854 (age 52 years, 19 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Hester (Smith) Carr and Peter Carr; married to Sidney Smith Nichols; nephew of Dabney Carr; grandnephew of Thomas Jefferson; second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph; first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson; third cousin of John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker, Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; third cousin twice removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; fourth cousin of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Edmund Randolph and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke and John Augustine Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary
  Frederick Mortimer Cabell (1802-1873) — also known as Frederick M. Cabell — of Nelson County, Va. Born in Buckingham County, Va., December 15, 1802. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1844-47; member of Virginia state senate, 1852-54; delegate to Virginia secession convention from Nelson County, 1861. Died in Nelson County, Va., March 2, 1873 (age 70 years, 77 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Nelson County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Frederick C. Cabell and Alice (Winston) Cabell; married, March 11, 1846, to Clara Hawes Coleman; grandnephew of William Cabell; first cousin once removed of William Cabell Jr. and William Henry Cabell; second cousin of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge and Edward Carrington Cabell; second cousin once removed of John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin thrice removed of Earle Cabell.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  St. Clair Ballard (1802-1873) — of Virginia. Born in Monroe County, Va. (now W.Va.), August 14, 1802. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1847. Introduced the legislation to name Boone County, Virginia (now West Virginia) for Daniel Boone, who had rescued his mother from Indians when she was a child. Died in Boone County, W.Va., December 26, 1873 (age 71 years, 134 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Boone County, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son of John C. Ballard and Chloe (Finn) Ballard; second cousin of Lewis Ballard; second cousin twice removed of Oscar Hampton Ballard, John Reginald Ballard and Sherman Hart Ballard; second cousin thrice removed of Wade Hampton Ballard III; second cousin four times removed of Peyton Randolph; third cousin once removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Chew, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph and Meredith Nicholson; fourth cousin once removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk.
  Political family: Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Coleby Chew (1802-1850) — also known as Colby Chew — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in Connecticut, November 17, 1802. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New London, 1838. Died in New London, New London County, Conn., October 26, 1850 (age 47 years, 343 days). Interment at Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Coleby Chew (1773-1802) and Frances (Learned) Chew; married to Mary Cecilia Law; first cousin thrice removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin once removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of John Penn, John Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel Pendleton, Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin thrice removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); third cousin once removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton, Nathanael Greene Pendleton, St. Clair Ballard and Lewis Ballard; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin Chew, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph, George Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Sumner Pendleton, Oscar Hampton Ballard, John Reginald Ballard and Sherman Hart Ballard; fourth cousin of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) — of Texas. Born in Washington, Mason County, Ky., February 2, 1803. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; wounded in a duel with Texas Gen. Felix Huston, Februay 7, 1837; Texas Republic Secretary of War, 1838-40; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Shot and killed while leading his forces at the Battle of Shiloh, Hardin County, Tenn., April 6, 1862 (age 59 years, 63 days). He was the highest-ranking officer on either side killed during the war. Original interment at St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1867 at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; statue at South Mall, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Dr. John Johnston and Abigail (Harris) Johnston; half-brother of Josiah Stoddard Johnston; married 1829 to Henrietta Preston (sister of William Preston); married 1843 to Eliza Griffin; grandfather of Henrietta Preston Johnston (who married Henry St. George Tucker).
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Johnston-Preston family of Kentucky and Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Politician named for him: Albert S. J. Lehr
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Scott Harrison (1804-1878) — of Cleves, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Vincennes, Knox County, Ind., October 4, 1804. U.S. Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1853-57. Died near North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, May 25, 1878 (age 73 years, 233 days). Interment at Harrison Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Anna Harrison; married 1824 to Lucretia Knapp; married, August 12, 1831, to Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin; father of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); nephew of Carter Bassett Harrison; grandson of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and John Cleves Symmes; grandfather of Russell Benjamin Harrison; great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin once removed of Beverley Randolph and Burwell Bassett; first cousin twice removed of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin once removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Nicholas and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II; third cousin of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; third cousin twice removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes and William Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of Francis Beverley Biddle and Harry Flood Byrd; fourth cousin once removed of Bertha Mapes.
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Albert Gallatin Hawes (1804-1849) — also known as Albert G. Hawes — of Hawesville, Hancock County, Ky. Born near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va., April 1, 1804. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1831-37 (11th District 1831-33, 2nd District 1833-37). Slaveowner. Died in Daviess County, Ky., March 14, 1849 (age 44 years, 347 days). Interment at Hawes-Taylor Cemetery, Daviess County, Ky.
  Presumably named for: Albert Gallatin
  Relatives: Son of Richard Hawes (1772-1829) and Clara Stubbs (Walker) Hawes; brother of Richard Hawes (1797-1877); married 1833 to Susan Aylette Hawyes; married, October 17, 1841, to Adele Combe; nephew of Aylett Hawes; granduncle of Harry Bartow Hawes; first cousin once removed of Aylett Hawes Buckner; second cousin once removed of John Walker and Francis Walker; third cousin once removed of Thomas Walker Gilmer.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Clay family of Kentucky; Lowndes-Gilmer family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Archibald Meriwether (1806-1852) — of Eatonton, Putnam County, Ga. Born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., September 20, 1806. Member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1831-36, 1838, 1843, 1851-52; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1841-43; superior court judge in Georgia, 1845-49. Slaveowner. Died in Eatonton, Putnam County, Ga., April 18, 1852 (age 45 years, 211 days). Interment at Union Cemetery, Eatonton, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of James Meriwether (1755-1817) and Susannah (Hatcher) Meriwether; first cousin once removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822); second cousin of Meriwether Lewis, James Meriwether (1788-1852) and David Meriwether (1800-1893); second cousin once removed of George Rockingham Gilmer, Reuben Handy Meriwether and Frances Meriwether (who married Anson Rainey); third cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland; fourth cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
  Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  John White Brockenbrough (1806-1877) — of Virginia. Born in Hanover County, Va., December 23, 1806. Lawyer; newspaper editor; law professor; U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1846-61; resigned 1861; Delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Confederate District Judge, 1861. Died in Lexington, Va., February 20, 1877 (age 70 years, 59 days). Interment at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Brockenbrough; brother-in-law of Edward Colston; great-grandson of Carter Braxton; first cousin of William Henry Brockenbrough.
  Political family: Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  William Marshall Anderson (1807-1881) — also known as W. Marshall Anderson — of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio; Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. Born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., January 24, 1807. Lawyer; explorer; surveyor; candidate for Congress from Ohio. Catholic. Died in Ohio, January 7, 1881 (age 73 years, 349 days). Interment at Oak Dale Cemetery, Urbana, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son-in-law of Duncan McArthur; son of Richard Anderson and Sarah (Marshall) Anderson; brother of Charles Anderson; granduncle of Larz Anderson; first cousin once removed of John Marshall.
  Political family: Anderson-Marshall family of Ohio and West Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Albert Gallatin Pendleton (1807-1875) — also known as Albert G. Pendleton — of Giles County, Va. Born in Culpeper County, Va., June 28, 1807. Member of Virginia state house of delegates from Giles County, 1855-56. Died in Giles County, Va., June 19, 1875 (age 67 years, 356 days). Interment at Chapman Cemetery, Ripplemead, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Pendleton and Nancy (Strother) Pendleton; brother of John Strother Pendleton; married to Elvina Chapman; grandfather of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin of Aylett Hawes Buckner; first cousin twice removed of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of William Grayson; second cousin of Philip Coleman Pendleton; second cousin once removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Zachary Taylor, Edmund Henry Pendleton, Nathanael Greene Pendleton and Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of John Penn, James Madison, William Taylor Madison, George Madison, Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of John Walker, John Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis Walker; third cousin of Henry Gaines Johnson, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; third cousin once removed of William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert Brooke, Meriwether Lewis, Richard Aylett Buckner, John Tyler (1790-1862) and Max Rogers Strother; fourth cousin of Coleby Chew; fourth cousin once removed of Gabriel Slaughter, Francis Taliaferro Helm, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Aylette Buckner, George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, David Gardiner Tyler, James Francis Buckner Jr., Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Hubbard T. Smith, Carter Henry Harrison II, Charles M. Pendleton, John Brady Grayson and Daniel Micajah Pendleton.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884) — of Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky. Born near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., February 11, 1808. Physician; delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1855-57; defeated, 1847. Slaveowner. Died near East Hickman, Fayette County, Ky., April 28, 1884 (age 76 years, 77 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Brother of Thomas Francis Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall; nephew of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin and second cousin of Thomas Alexander Marshall; first cousin of Edward Colston and Charles Alexander Marshall; first cousin once removed and nephew by marriage of Humphrey Marshall.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1808-1871) — also known as Benjamin F. Randolph — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Albemarle County, Va., July 16, 1808. Member of Virginia state senate from Albemarle County, 1853-56. Died in Albemarle County, Va., February 18, 1871 (age 62 years, 217 days). Interment at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Keene, Va.
  Presumably named for: Benjamin Franklin
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph; brother of Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; married to Sarah Champe Carter; 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
  Alexander Keith McClung (1809-1855) — also known as Alexander K. McClung; "The Black Knight of the South" — of Mississippi. Born in Virginia, 1809. Lawyer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1849-51. Killed his opponents in a number of duels. Died from a self-inflicted gunshot, with a dueling pistol, in a hotel room at Jackson, Hinds County, Miss., March 23, 1855 (age about 45 years). Interment at Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
  Relatives: Son of William McClung; nephew of John Marshall.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Alexander Marshall (b. 1809) — of Kentucky. Born May 2, 1809. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1840, 1855, 1859; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Nephew of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin and second cousin of Thomas Alexander Marshall; first cousin of Edward Colston, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884) and Edward Colston Marshall; first cousin once removed and nephew by marriage of Humphrey Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  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.
  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
  Connally Findlay Trigg (1810-1880) — of Abingdon, Washington County, Va.; Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn. Born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., March 8, 1810. Whig. Lawyer; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850; candidate for U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1855; U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1862-78; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1862-80; died in office 1880; U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1862-80; died in office 1880. Died in Bristol, Sullivan County, Tenn., April 25, 1880 (age 70 years, 48 days). Interment at Sinking Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Trigg and Rachel (Findlay) Trigg; married, May 23, 1833, to Mary Trigg Campbell; married 1868 to Seraphina Deery (widow of Randal William McGavock; who later married Augustus Herman Pettibone); uncle of Connally Findlay Trigg (1847-1907).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  James Thomas Harrison (1811-1879) — of Mississippi. Born near Pendleton, Anderson County, S.C., November 30, 1811. Delegate from Mississippi to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62. Died in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss., May 22, 1879 (age 67 years, 173 days). Interment at Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
  Relatives: Descendant *** of Benjamin Harrison.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872) — of Kentucky. Born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., January 13, 1812. Lawyer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1849-52, 1855-59; resigned 1852; U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to China, 1852-54; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65. Slaveowner. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., March 28, 1872 (age 60 years, 75 days). Interment at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
  Relatives: Father-in-law of John J. McAfee; nephew of James Gillespie Birney; grandson of Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841); grandnephew by marriage of John Marshall.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary
  James Speed (1812-1887) — of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky. Born in Jefferson County, Ky., March 11, 1812. Republican. Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1847; candidate for delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; member of Kentucky state senate, 1861-63; U.S. Attorney General, 1864-66; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868; candidate for U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1872. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., June 25, 1887 (age 75 years, 106 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of John Speed and Lucy Gilmer (Fry) Speed; married to Jane L. Cochran; great-grandson of John Fry; second great-grandson of Joshua Fry; first cousin once removed of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin twice removed of William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); second cousin once removed of Robert Pryor Henry, John Flournoy Henry, Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Thomas Stanhope Flournoy and Robert Goodloe Harper Speed; second cousin twice removed of Robert Loring Speed; third cousin twice removed of Richard Aylett Buckner; fourth cousin once removed of Aylette Buckner.
  Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Peter Myndert Dox (1813-1891) — also known as Peter M. Dox — of Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y.; Huntsville, Madison County, Ala. Born in Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y., September 11, 1813. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Ontario County, 1842; county judge in New York, 1855-56; delegate to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1865; U.S. Representative from Alabama 5th District, 1869-73; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1872. Died in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., April 2, 1891 (age 77 years, 203 days). Interment at Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
  Relatives: Son of Abraham Dox and Anne Cary (Nicholas) Dox; married, October 12, 1854, to Matilda Walker Pope; grandson of John Nicholas; grandnephew of George Nicholas and Wilson Cary Nicholas; great-grandson of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); second cousin of Edmund Randolph; second cousin once removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison and Francis Beverley Biddle; third cousin of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; third cousin once removed of John Scott Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Burwell Bassett; fourth cousin of Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); fourth cousin once removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley.
  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).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) — of Missouri; Maryland. Born in Franklin County, Ky., May 10, 1813. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Missouri, 1840-44; common pleas court judge in Missouri, 1843-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1844, 1852; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1860; U.S. Postmaster General, 1861-64; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1878; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1882. Episcopalian. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., July 27, 1883 (age 70 years, 78 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair; brother of Francis Preston Blair Jr.; married 1836 to Caroline Buckner; married 1846 to Mary Elizabeth Woodbury (daughter of Levi Woodbury; sister of Charles Levi Woodbury); father of Gist Blair; uncle of James Lawrence Blair and Francis Preston Blair Lee; grandson of James Blair; granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Eager Howard and Joseph Wingate Folk; second cousin thrice removed of Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin of William Julian Albert; third cousin once removed of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard, Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill; third cousin twice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas.
  Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Marshall Ambler (1813-1896) — also known as William M. Ambler — of Louisa County, Va. Born July 25, 1813. Lawyer; member of Virginia state senate, 1845; delegate to Virginia secession convention from Louisa County, 1861. Died in Louisa County, Va., August 25, 1896 (age 83 years, 31 days). Interment at Church of Our Savior Cemetery, Montpelier, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Col. John Ambler and Catherine (Bush) Norton Ambler; married, June 20, 1855, to Martha Elizabeth Coleman; second cousin of Thomas Marshall.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Victor Monroe (1813-1856) — Born in Glasgow, Barren County, Ky., November 27, 1813. Justice of Washington territorial supreme court, 1853. Died in Olympia, Thurston County, Wash., September 15, 1856 (age 42 years, 293 days). Interment at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Wash.
  Relatives: Son of Eliza Palmer (Adair) Monroe and Thomas Bell Monroe; nephew of James Monroe (1799-1870); grandson of John Adair; grandnephew of James Monroe (1758-1831); first cousin twice removed of Theodore Douglas Robinson and Corinne Robinson Alsop; first cousin thrice removed of William Grayson, Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop; second cousin twice removed of Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; fourth cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison II and John Brady Grayson.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Anderson (1814-1895) — of Montgomery County, Ohio. Born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., June 1, 1814. Republican. Lawyer; member of Ohio state senate, 1844; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1864-65; Governor of Ohio, 1865-66. Died in Kuttawa, Lyon County, Ky., September 2, 1895 (age 81 years, 93 days). Interment at Kuttawa Cemetery, Kuttawa, Ky.
  Relatives: Brother of William Marshall Anderson; granduncle of Larz Anderson; first cousin once removed of John Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Anderson-Marshall family of Ohio and West Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Hawkins Polk (1815-1862) — of Tennessee. Born in Maury County, Tenn., May 24, 1815. Democrat. Member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1842-45; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Two Sicilies, 1845-47; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1851-53. Slaveowner. Died in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., December 16, 1862 (age 47 years, 206 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of James Knox Polk (who married Sarah Childress); married to Lucy Eugenia Williams; father of Tasker Polk; nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall Tate Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk (who married George Davis) and Richard Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus King Polk and Frank Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles Polk and Augustus Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert Fawcett Polk.
  Political families: Ashe-Polk family of North Carolina; Polk family; Manly-Haywood-Polk family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Aylett Hawes Buckner (1816-1894) — also known as Aylett H. Buckner — of Mexico, Audrain County, Mo. Born in Fredericksburg, Va., December 14, 1816. Democrat. Circuit judge in Missouri, 1857; U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1873-85 (13th District 1873-83, 7th District 1883-85). Slaveowner. Died in Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., February 5, 1894 (age 77 years, 53 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Mexico, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of Bailey Buckner and Mildred (Strother) Buckner; married, September 16, 1841, to Eliza L. Clark; grandnephew of Aylett Hawes; first cousin of John Strother Pendleton and Albert Gallatin Pendleton; first cousin once removed of Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes; first cousin twice removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; second cousin once removed of Zachary Taylor and Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin twice removed of John Walker, George Madison, Francis Walker and Richard Aylett Buckner; second cousin thrice removed of John Tyler (1747-1813); third cousin once removed of Aylette Buckner; third cousin twice removed of Robert Brooke, Meriwether Lewis, John Tyler (1790-1862) and Max Rogers Strother; fourth cousin of Thomas Walker Gilmer and James Francis Buckner Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert Pryor Henry, Francis Taliaferro Helm, John Flournoy Henry, Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Thomas Stanhope Flournoy, David Gardiner Tyler, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Key Pittman and Vail Montgomery Pittman.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Tyler family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edward Carrington Cabell (1816-1896) — also known as Edward C. Cabell — of Jefferson County, Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla. Born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816. Lawyer; delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from Jefferson County, 1838-39; U.S. Representative from Florida, 1845-46, 1847-53 (at-large 1845-46, 1847-51, 1st District 1851-53); colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Missouri state senate 32nd District, 1879-82. Slaveowner. Died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28, 1896 (age 80 years, 23 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of William Henry Cabell and Agnes Sarah Bell (Gamble) Cabell; married to Anna Marie Wilcox; grandnephew of William Cabell and Paul Carrington; first cousin once removed of William Cabell Jr. and John Wirt Randall; first cousin twice removed of Hannah Parker Lowndes; second cousin of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge and Frederick Mortimer Cabell; second cousin once removed of John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin thrice removed of Earle Cabell; third cousin of Cameron Erskine Thom; third cousin once removed of Erskine Mayo Ross.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870) — also known as Alexander P. Crittenden — of Santa Clara County, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey County, Nev. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., January 14, 1816. Lawyer; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California state assembly, 1849-51, 1852-53 (Los Angeles District 1849-51, 5th District 1852-53). Shot and mortally wounded by his ex-lover, Laura D. Fair, on board a ferry boat in San Francisco Bay, and died two days later, in San Francisco, Calif., November 5, 1870 (age 54 years, 295 days). Fair was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death, but the state supreme court ordered a new trial, and she was acquitted. Interment at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1788-1832) and Mary Wilson (Parker) Crittenden; brother of Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1825-1905; Union general); married to Clara Churchill; nephew of John Jordan Crittenden and Robert Crittenden; grandson of John Crittenden; first cousin of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden and Thomas Theodore Crittenden; first cousin once removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Jefferson; second cousin twice removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Dabney Carr; third cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; fourth cousin of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; fourth cousin once removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson.
  Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alvin Saunders (1817-1899) — of Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa. Born in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Ky., July 12, 1817. Republican. Delegate to Iowa state constitutional convention from Henry County, 1846; member of Iowa state senate, 1854-56, 1858-60; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1860; Governor of Nebraska Territory, 1861-67; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1868; U.S. Senator from Nebraska, 1877-83. Disciples of Christ. Died in Omaha, Douglas County, Neb., November 1, 1899 (age 82 years, 112 days). Interment at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
  Relatives: Son of Gunnell Saunders and Mary (Mauzy) Saunders; married to Marthena Barlow; father of Mary Angeline Saunders (who married Russell Benjamin Harrison); grandfather of William Henry Harrison.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Saunders County, Neb. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) — also known as George W. Randolph — of Richmond, Va. Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., March 10, 1818. Lawyer; delegate to Virginia secession convention from Richmond city, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Confederate Secretary of War, 1862; after the collapse of the Confederacy, fled to Europe to avoid capture; pardoned in 1866. Episcopalian. Died of pulmonary pneumonia, near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., April 3, 1867 (age 49 years, 24 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph; brother of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas Philip Trist); 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 Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, 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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on Confederate States $100 notes in 1862-64.
  Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 5, 1818. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1853-59; died in office 1859. Shot and killed by Daniel E. Sickles, in retaliation for Key's affair with his wife Teresa, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., February 27, 1859 (age 40 years, 328 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Westminster Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Scott Key and Mary Tayloe (Lloyd) Key; brother of Mary Alicia 'Alice' Key (who married George Hunt Pendleton); married, November 18, 1845, to Ellen Swan; nephew of Edward Lloyd (1779-1834) and Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (who married Roger Brooke Taney); uncle of Francis Key Pendleton; grandson of Edward Lloyd (1744-1796); grandnephew of Philip Barton Key (1757-1815); first cousin once removed of Henry Lloyd; first cousin twice removed of Philip Key; first cousin thrice removed of Matthew Tilghman; second cousin twice removed of Charles Carroll, Barrister, James Joseph Tilghman, William Tilghman and William Welby Beverley; third cousin once removed of Frisby Tilghman; fourth cousin of Tench Tilghman and Edward Tilghman Paca; fourth cousin once removed of Vinson Martlow Whitley.
  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).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (1819-1893) — also known as Thomas L. Crittenden — of Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky. Born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., May 15, 1819. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1849-53; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., October 23, 1893 (age 74 years, 161 days). Interment at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Sarah O. (Lee) Crittenden and John Jordan Crittenden; married to Catherine Lucy Todd; nephew of Thomas Turpin Crittenden and Robert Crittenden; grandson of John Crittenden; first cousin of Alexander Parker Crittenden and Thomas Theodore Crittenden; first cousin once removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Jefferson; second cousin once removed of Howell Cobb (1772-1818) and Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph and Dabney Carr; second cousin thrice removed of Howell Lewis; third cousin of Howell Cobb (1815-1868) and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb; third cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; third cousin twice removed of Meriwether Lewis, Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; third cousin thrice removed of George Washington; fourth cousin of John Lee, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; fourth cousin once removed of Hancock Lee Jackson, David Shelby Walker, Fitzhugh Lee, Francis Preston Blair Lee, John Gardner Coolidge and Edith Wilson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Samuel E. Dimmick (d. 1875) — of Honesdale, Wayne County, Pa. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1860, 1868; Pennsylvania state attorney general, 1873-75; died in office 1875. Died in 1875. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father of Joseph Benjamin Dimmick.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Edmund Randolph (1820-1861) — of California. Born in Virginia, June 9, 1820. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California state assembly from San Francisco District, 1849-51. Died in San Francisco, Calif., September 8, 1861 (age 41 years, 91 days). Original interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.; reinterment at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Maria (Ward) Randolph; grandson of Edmund Jenings Randolph; grandnephew of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; great-grandson of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); great-grandnephew of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Edmund Randolph Cocke; first cousin twice removed of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland and Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); second cousin of Peter Myndert Dox; second cousin once removed of Harry Bartow Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison and John Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; third cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Henry St. George Tucker and John Scott Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Burwell Bassett; fourth cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); fourth cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, John Augustine Marshall, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Carter Henry Harrison II, Frederick Madison Roberts and William Welby Beverley.
  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).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Nathaniel Beverly Tucker (1820-1890) — also known as Beverly Tucker — of Virginia. Born in Winchester, Va., June 8, 1820. Newspaper editor; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1857-61. Died in Richmond, Va., July 5, 1890 (age 70 years, 27 days). Interment somewhere in Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry St. George Tucker and Ann Evelina (Hunter) Tucker; married to Jane Shelton Ellis; nephew of John Randolph of Roanoke; grandson of St. George Tucker; grandnephew of Theodorick Bland (1742-1790) and Thomas Tudor Tucker; great-grandnephew of Richard Bland; second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of George Tucker; first cousin thrice removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin once removed of Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; third cousin once removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, John Wayles Eppes, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846), Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Fitzhugh Lee; third cousin twice removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822), James Meriwether (1755-1817) and Meriwether Lewis; third cousin thrice removed of William Welby Beverley; fourth cousin of Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; fourth cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893), James Archibald Meriwether, William Lewis Cabell, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II, Frederick Madison Roberts and Douglass Townshend Bolling.
  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).
  Reuben Handy Meriwether (b. 1820) — also known as R. H. Meriwether — of Decatur, Macon County, Ill. Born in Howard County, Md., June 20, 1820. Mayor of Decatur, Ill., 1876. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Beale Dorsey Meriweather and Maria (Handy) Meriweather; married, December 3, 1846, to Hester Austin; first cousin twice removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822) and James Meriwether (1755-1817); second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis, James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; third cousin of George Rockingham Gilmer and Frances Meriwether (who married Anson Rainey); third cousin twice removed of Daniel Carroll, Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Theodorick Bland; fourth cousin once removed of John Randolph of Roanoke, Henry St. George Tucker and Levin Irving Handy.
  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; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821-1875) — also known as Francis P. Blair, Jr. — of St. Louis, Mo. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., February 19, 1821. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, 1846; member of Missouri state house of representatives, 1852-56; U.S. Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1857-59, 1860, 1861-62, 1863-64; resigned 1860; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1860; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1868; U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1871-73. Slaveowner. Died in St. Louis, Mo., July 8, 1875 (age 54 years, 139 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair; brother of Montgomery Blair; married, September 8, 1847, to Appoline Alexander; father of James Lawrence Blair; uncle of Francis Preston Blair Lee and Gist Blair; grandson of James Blair; granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Eager Howard and Joseph Wingate Folk; second cousin thrice removed of Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin of William Julian Albert; third cousin once removed of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard, Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill; third cousin twice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas.
  Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Francis P. Blair: William Earl Parrish, Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative
  John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) — also known as John C. Breckinridge — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born near Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., January 16, 1821. Democrat. Lawyer; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1849-51; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1851-55; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856; Vice President of the United States, 1857-61; Southern Democratic candidate for President of the United States, 1860; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Confederate Secretary of War, 1865. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Expelled from the U.S. Senate on December 4, 1861 for his participation in the Confederate military. Fled to Cuba at the end of the war, and lived in England and Canada until 1869. Slaveowner. Died, from lung disease and liver cirrhosis, in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., May 17, 1875 (age 54 years, 121 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Mary Clay (Smith) Breckinridge and Joseph Cabell Breckinridge; married 1840 to Elizabeth Lucas; married, December 12, 1843, to Mary Cyrene Burch; father of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge; nephew of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; grandson of John Breckinridge; great-grandson of John Witherspoon; great-grandnephew of William Preston and William Cabell; first cousin of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of James Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of William Cabell Jr., Francis Smith Preston, William Henry Cabell and James Patton Preston; second cousin of Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston, George Rogers Clark Floyd, Edward Carrington Cabell, Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle Cabell; third cousin of John William Leftwich.
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The city of Breckenridge, Missouri, is named for him.  — The city of Breckenridge, Colorado, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John C. Breckinridge (built 1943 at Savannah, Georgia; scrapped 1960) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — BillionGraves burial record — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about John C. Breckinridge: William C. Davis, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government — Frank Hopkins Heck, Proud Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875 — William C. Davis, Breckinridge : Statesman, Soldier, Symbol
  Edward Colston Marshall (1821-1893) — Born in Woodford County, Ky., June 29, 1821. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Representative from California 1st District, 1851-53; candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1856; candidate for U.S. Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1874; California state attorney general, 1883-87. Died in San Francisco, Calif., July 9, 1893 (age 72 years, 10 days). Interment at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
  Relatives: Brother of Thomas Francis Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884); nephew of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin and second cousin of Thomas Alexander Marshall; first cousin of Edward Colston and Charles Alexander Marshall; first cousin once removed and nephew by marriage of Humphrey Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) — of Lexington, Va. Born in Winchester, Va., December 24, 1823. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1875-87 (6th District 1875-85, 10th District 1885-87). Slaveowner. Died in Lexington, Va., February 13, 1897 (age 73 years, 51 days). Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848); married to Laura Holmes; father of Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932).
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Johnston-Preston family of Kentucky and Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Epitaph: "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you."
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Edward Shippen Edward Shippen (1823-1904) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Lancaster County, Pa., November 16, 1823. Lawyer; Consul for Argentina in Philadelphia, Pa., 1872-88, 1892-95; Consul for Chile in Philadelphia, Pa., 1872-98; Consul for Ecuador in Philadelphia, Pa., 1873-97. Member, Sons of the Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars. Died, from pneumonia, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., March 14, 1904 (age 80 years, 119 days). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Dr. Joseph Galloway Shippen and Anna Maria (Buckley) Shippen; married, June 29, 1849, to Augusta Chauncey Twiggs; grandnephew of Edward Shippen (1729-1806); great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1703-1781); great-grandnephew of William Shippen; third great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); first cousin once removed of Bertha Shippen Irving; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Chew and Thomas Willing; second cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd; third cousin of George Howard, John Brown Francis, Benjamin Chew Howard and Sophia Dallas; third cousin once removed of John Lee Carroll and Edward Overton Jr.; third cousin twice removed of James Rieman Macfarlane, John Howell Carroll and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bache-Dallas family of Pennsylvania and New York; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carroll family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Philadelphia Times, December 20, 1891
  Stanley Matthews (1824-1889) — of Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, July 21, 1824. Republican. State court judge in Ohio, 1851; member of Ohio state senate, 1856; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1858-61; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1877-79; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-89; died in office 1889. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., March 22, 1889 (age 64 years, 244 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Johnson Matthews and Isabella (Brown) Matthews; married, February 15, 1843, to Mary Ann Black (sister-in-law of Harvey Magee Watterson); father of Jane Matthews (who married Horace Gray) and Grace Elizabeth Matthews (who married James Harlan Cleveland); grandfather of James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; great-grandfather of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood; third cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II.
  Political families: Gray-Matthews family of Boston, Massachusetts; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  Carter Henry Harrison (1825-1893) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born near Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., February 15, 1825. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1875-79; mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1879-87, 1893; died in office 1893; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1880, 1884; candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1884. Slaveowner. Shot and killed at his home, by Patrick Eugene Prendergast, in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., October 28, 1893 (age 68 years, 255 days). Prendergast, who was defended by famed trial lawyer Clarence Darrow, was tried for murder, convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged. Interment at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Carter Henry Harrison (1796-1825) and Caroline Evaline (Russell) Harrison; married to Sophonisba Grayson Preston (great-grandniece of William Smallwood); father of Carter Henry Harrison II; grandson of William Russell (1758-1825); great-grandson of William Russell (1735-1793); great-grandnephew of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and William Cabell; second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Cabell Jr., William Henry Cabell and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin of John Cabell Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin once removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Scott Harrison, Edward Carrington Cabell, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, George Nicholas, Beverley Randolph, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Nicholas, John Randolph of Roanoke and Earle Cabell; third cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, John William Leftwich and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker, Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857), Stanley Matthews, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Russell Benjamin Harrison and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of Burwell Bassett, John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); third cousin thrice removed of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; fourth cousin of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox, Edmund Randolph and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, John Augustine Marshall, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes, William Welby Beverley and James Harlan Cleveland Jr..
  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; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Robert E. Burke
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Cameron Erskine Thom (1825-1915) — also known as Cameron E. Thom — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Glendale, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., June 20, 1825. Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; Los Angeles County District Attorney, 1854-57, 1869-73, 1877-79; member of California state senate, 1858-59; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; mayor of Los Angeles, Calif., 1882-84. Protestant. Member, Freemasons. Died in Glendale, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 2, 1915 (age 89 years, 227 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of John Watson Triplett Thom and Abigail DeHart (Mayo) Thom; married 1858 to Susan Henrietta Hathwell; married 1874 to Belle Cameron Hathwell; uncle of Erskine Mayo Ross; first cousin twice removed of Paul Carrington; second cousin once removed of William Henry Cabell; third cousin of Edward Carrington Cabell; fourth cousin once removed of Douglass Townshend Bolling.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Epitaph: "He was a Man."
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John William