Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
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.
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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.
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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 Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— Joseph
George Washington Duncan
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
Washington Seabrook
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
W. Schuyler
— George
Washington Holman
— George
W. Greene
— George
W. Wolcott
— George
W. Paschal
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
W. Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
W. Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
W. Bemis
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington Clark
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. Martin
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George
W. Ray
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Bartch
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Paul
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Wagoner
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
W. Lovejoy
— George
W. Oakes
— George
W. Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— T.
G. W. Tarver
— George
W. Darden
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Mead
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Calkin
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
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| | 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.
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| | 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) |
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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.
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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 |
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Matthew Clay (1754-1815) —
of Halifax, Halifax
County, Va.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., March
25, 1754.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1790-94; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1797-1813, 1815 (at-large
1797-1807, 14th District 1807-13, 15th District 1815); died in office
1815.
Slaveowner.
Died suddenly while
making a speech at Halifax Court House, Halifax
County, Va., May 27,
1815 (age 61 years, 63
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Pittsylvania County, Va.
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Green Clay (1757-1826) —
Born in Powhatan
County, Va., August
14, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; surveyor;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1788-89; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-94; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1795-98, 1807; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; general in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in White Hall, Madison
County, Ky., October
31, 1826 (age 69 years, 78
days).
Interment at White
Hall Family Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) —
of Alexandria,
Va.; Richmond,
Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., June 5,
1762.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia state legislature, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Westmoreland County, 1788; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1798-1829; died in office 1829.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
26, 1829 (age 67 years, 174
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
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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.
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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 |
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Archibald Henderson (1768-1822) —
of Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., August
7, 1768.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1799-1803; member of
North
Carolina house of commons, 1807-09, 1814, 1819-20.
Slaveowner.
Died in Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C., October
21, 1822 (age 54 years, 75
days).
Interment at Lutheran
Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
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Leonard Henderson (1772-1833) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Granville
County, N.C., October
6, 1772.
State court judge in North Carolina, 1808; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1818; chief
justice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1829-33.
Died in Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., August
13, 1833 (age 60 years, 311
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Vance County, N.C.
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Robert Overton Williams (1773-1821) —
Born in Surry
County, N.C., January
12, 1773.
Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1792-95; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1797-1803 (3rd District
1797-99, at-large 1799-1803).
Slaveowner.
Died in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., May 27,
1821 (age 48 years, 135
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Marmaduke Williams (1774-1850) —
of North Carolina; Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born in Caswell
County, N.C., April 6,
1774.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1802; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1803-09 (9th District
1803-05, at-large 1805-07, 9th District 1807-09); delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1819; candidate for
Governor
of Alabama, 1819; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1821-39; Tuscaloosa
County Judge, 1832-42.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., October
29, 1850 (age 76 years, 206
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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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.
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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 Randolph
— Meriwether
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 |
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Henry Clay (1777-1852) —
also known as "The Sage of Ashland"; "The
Great Compromiser" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., April
12, 1777.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1803; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1806-07, 1810-11, 1831-42, 1849-52; died
in office 1852; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1811-14, 1815-21, 1823-25 (5th
District 1811-13, at-large 1813-14, 2nd District 1815-21, 3rd
District 1823-25); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1811-14, 1815-20, 1823-25; candidate for President
of the United States, 1824, 1832 (National Republican), 1844
(Whig); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1825-29; candidate for Whig nomination for
President, 1839.
Member, Freemasons.
In 1809, he fought a duel
with Humphrey
Marshall, in which both men were wounded. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 29,
1852 (age 75 years, 78
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Clay and Elizabeth (Hudson) Clay; brother of Porter
Clay; married, April
11, 1799, to Lucretia (Hart) Erwin; father of Thomas
Hart Clay, Henry
Clay Jr. and James
Brown Clay; grandfather of Henry
Clay (1849-1884); granduncle of Ellen Hart Ross (who married James
Reily); first cousin once removed of Matthew
Clay (1754-1815) and Green
Clay; second cousin of Matthew
Clay (c.1795-1827), Brutus
Junius Clay (1808-1878) and Cassius
Marcellus Clay; second cousin once removed of Brutus
Junius Clay (1847-1932); second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Carroll Clay; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Clement
Comer Clay; third cousin once removed of Clement
Claiborne Clay Jr.. |
| | Political family: Clay
family of Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Clay counties in Ala., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kan., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | Mount
Clay (also called Mount Reagan), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Clay (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Henry
Clay Longnecker
— Henry
Clay Dean
— H.
Clay Dickinson
— Henry
C. Brockmeyer
— H.
Clay Cockerill
— Henry
Clay Ewing
— Henry
Clay Caldwell
— Henry
Clay Hall
— Henry
Clay Gooding
— Henry
Clay Naill
— Henry
C. Myers
— Henry
C. Cole
— H.
Clay Harris
— Henry
C. Miner
— Henry
C. Warmoth
— Henry
Clay Cleveland
— H.
Clay Evans
— Henry
C. Payne
— Henry
C. Bates
— H.
Clay Foster
— Henry
C. McCormick
— Henry
C. Ide
— Henry
Clay Williams
— Henry
C. Simms
— Henry
Clay Ferguson
— Henry
C. Glover
— H.
Clay Park
— Henry
C. Hansbrough
— Henry
C. Snodgrass
— H.
Clay Maydwell
— Henry
C. Gleason
— Henry
C. Loudenslager
— H.
Clay Van Voorhis
— Henry
C. Clippinger
— H.
Clay Crawford
— H.
Clay Bascom
— H.
Clay Michie
— H.
Clay Chisolm
— H.
Clay Howard
— Henry
C. Hall
— Henry
Clay McDowell
— H.
Clay Jones
— H.
Clay Day
— Henry
Clay Hines
— H.
Clay Heather
— Henry
Clay Meacham
— Henry
Clay Calloway
— H.
Clay Suter
— H.
Clay Hall
— H.
Clay Warth
— Henry
Clay Elwood
— H.
Clay Kennedy
— H.
Clay Davis
— H.
Clay Needham
— Henry
Clay Etherton
— H.
Clay Mace
— H.
Clay Armstrong
— H.
Clay Baldwin
— H.
Clay Haynes
— H.
Clay Burkholder
— Mrs.
H. Clay Kauffman
— H.
Clay Bentley
— Henry
C. Greenberg
— H.
Clay Gardenhire, Jr.
— Henry
Clay Cox
— H.
Clay Myers, Jr.
— H.
Clay Johnson
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on some U.S. currency issued in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Books about Henry Clay: Robert Vincent
Remini, Henry
Clay: Statesman for the Union — Maurice G. Baxter, Henry
Clay the Lawyer — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney,
Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Scott
Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry
Clay: The Essential American — Fergus M. Bordewich, America's
Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That
Preserved the Union |
| | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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John Williams (1778-1837) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Surry
County, N.C., January
29, 1778.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1815-23; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Central America, 1825-26; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1827-28.
Slaveowner.
Died near Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., August
10, 1837 (age 59 years, 193
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Porter Clay (1779-1850) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., 1779.
Minister;
Kentucky
auditor of public accounts, 1810.
Died in Camden, Ouachita
County, Ark., February
16, 1850 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Camden, Ark.
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Lewis Williams (1782-1842) —
of Panther Creek, Surry
County, N.C.
Born in Surry
County, N.C., February
1, 1782.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1813-14; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 13th District, 1815-42; died
in office 1842.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1842 (age 60 years, 22
days).
Interment at Panther
Creek Cemetery, Surry County, N.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clement Comer Clay (1789-1866) —
also known as Clement C. Clay —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., December
17, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member
Alabama territorial council, 1817-18; state court judge in
Alabama, 1819-23; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1827-28; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1829-35; Governor of
Alabama, 1835-37; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1837-41; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1843.
Fought a duel
in 1823 with Dr. Waddy Tate.
Slaveowner.
Died in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., September
7, 1866 (age 76 years, 264
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
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John Speed Smith (1792-1854) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Kentucky, 1792.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1821-23.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1854
(age about
62 years).
Interment at Richmond
Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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Matthew Clay (c.1795-1827) —
of Alabama.
Born about 1795.
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1820-22; member of Alabama
state senate, 1825-27; died in office 1827.
Died, of pneumonia,
February, 1827
(age about
32 years).
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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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 |
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Thomas Hart Clay (1803-1871) —
also known as Thomas H. Clay —
of Kentucky.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., September
22, 1803.
Farmer;
U.S. Minister to Nicaragua, 1863; Honduras, 1863.
Died near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., March
18, 1871 (age 67 years, 177
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Brutus Junius Clay (1808-1878) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Richmond, Madison
County, Ky., July 1,
1808.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1840, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1863-65.
Slaveowner.
Died near Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky., October
11, 1878 (age 70 years, 102
days).
Interment at Auvergne
Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
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Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) —
also known as Cassius M. Clay; "The Lion of White
Hall" —
of Madison
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., October
19, 1810.
Probably the best-known Southern emancipationist; freed his own
slaves in 1844 and edited the only Southern antislavery newspaper
in 1845-47; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1835-37, 1840; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Kentucky, 1839 (speaker); shot
point-blank during a speech in 1843, he used a Bowie knife to cut off
the attacker's ear and nose and cut out one eye; tried
for mayhem
and found not guilty; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1860;
U.S. Minister to Russia, 1861-62, 1863-69; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Died, of kidney
failure, in Madison
County, Ky., July 22,
1903 (age 92 years, 276
days).
Interment at Richmond
Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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James Reily (1811-1863) —
of Texas.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, July 3,
1811.
Lawyer;
major in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840-41; Texas Republic
Minister to the United States, 1841-42; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853-54; U.S. Consul in St. Petersburg, as of 1856; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Killed
in the Battle of Camp Bisland, on Bayou Teche, near Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La., April
14, 1863 (age 51 years, 285
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Henry Clay Jr. (1811-1847) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., April
10, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1835-37; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War.
Episcopalian.
Killed
in action at the Battle of Buena Vista, Buena Vista, Coahuila,
February
23, 1847 (age 35 years, 319
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (1816-1882) —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., December
13, 1816.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1842; state court judge in
Alabama, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1853-61; Senator
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
Suspected of conspiring with other Confederates
to assassinate
President Abraham
Lincoln, he was imprisoned
for nearly a year after the war.
Slaveowner.
Died near Gurley, Madison
County, Ala., January
3, 1882 (age 65 years, 21
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
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Thomas Clay McCreery (1816-1890) —
of Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky.
Born near Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky., December
12, 1816.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1856;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1868-71, 1873-79.
Slaveowner.
Died in Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky., July 10,
1890 (age 73 years, 210
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Ky.
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James Brown Clay (1817-1864) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
9, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1849-50; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1857-59.
Slaveowner.
Died of tuberculosis,
in Montreal, Quebec,
January
26, 1864 (age 46 years, 78
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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David Clopton (1820-1892) —
of Tuskegee, Macon
County, Ala.
Born near Milledgeville, Putnam
County, Ga., September
29, 1820.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1859-61; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 7th District, 1862-65;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1878; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1884-92; died in office
1892.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., February
5, 1892 (age 71 years, 129
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Richard Taylor Jacob (1825-1903) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Oldham
County, Ky., 1825.
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1863-64.
Arrested
for alleged disloyalty,
removed
from office, and banished
from Kentucky, November 11, 1864; later allowed to return to the
state under direct orders from President Abraham
Lincoln.
Died in 1903
(age about
78 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Green Clay Smith (1826-1895) —
also known as Green C. Smith —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Richmond, Madison
County, Ky., July 4,
1826.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1861; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1863-66; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1866-68; Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1876.
Baptist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 29,
1895 (age 68 years, 360
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904) —
also known as William C. P. Breckinridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August
28, 1837.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1885-95; defeated
(Gold Democratic), 1896.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
In 1894, he was successfully sued for breach of promise by a former
mistress; he acknowledged the affair, affair, but the scandal
ended his political career.
Slaveowner.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
18, 1904 (age 67 years, 82
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge and Ann Sophonisba (Preston) Breckinridge;
brother of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.; married, March
17, 1859, to Lucretia Hart Clay (daughter of Thomas
Hart Clay); married, September
19, 1861, to Issa Desha (granddaughter of Joseph
Desha); married to Louisa Rucks (Scott) Wing; father of Desha
Breckinridge; nephew of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; uncle of Levin
Irving Handy and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; grandson of John
Breckinridge and Francis
Smith Preston; grandnephew of James
Patton Preston; granduncle of John
Bayne Breckinridge; great-grandson of William
Preston and William
Campbell; great-grandnephew of William
Cabell and Patrick
Henry; first cousin of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin once removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd, George
Rogers Clark Floyd, Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of William
Cabell Jr. and William
Henry Cabell; second cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880), Edward
Carrington Cabell, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell; third cousin of John
William Leftwich and Stephen
Valentine Southall; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945). |
| | 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 |
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Charles Donald Jacob (1838-1898) —
also known as Charles D. Jacob —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born June 1,
1838.
Democrat. Mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1873-79, 1882-84, 1888-90; U.S. Minister to
Colombia, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1888.
Died December
25, 1898 (age 60 years, 207
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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William Cassius Goodloe (1841-1889) —
also known as W. Cassius Goodloe —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., June 27,
1841.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1868,
1872
(delegation chair), 1884,
1888;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871; defeated, 1867; member of
Republican
National Committee from Kentucky, 1872-; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1873; candidate for Kentucky
state attorney general, 1875; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1878-80.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
During a violent encounter in the lobby of the Lexington Post
Office, he repeatedly
stabbed and ultimately killed a political enemy, Col. Armistead
Swope, who meanwhile shot and
badly
wounded him; before any prosecution
could ensue, he died of his own wounds two days later, in the Phoenix
Hotel,
Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
8, 1889 (age 48 years, 134
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Brutus Junius Clay (1847-1932) —
also known as Brutus J. Clay —
of Richmond, Madison
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., February
20, 1847.
Republican. Grocer; cotton planter;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1904;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1905-10.
Presbyterian.
Died June 2,
1932 (age 85 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richmond
Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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Henry Clay (1849-1884) —
also known as Harry Clay —
of Kentucky.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal,
November
17, 1849.
Candidate for Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1883.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
22, 1884 (age 34 years, 310
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Laura Clay (b. 1849) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., February
9, 1849.
Democrat. President, Kentucky Equal Rights Association, advocating
votes for women, 1899-1912; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1920;
delegate
to Kentucky convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Burial location unknown.
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Oliver Carroll Clay (1849-1929) —
also known as Oliver C. Clay —
of Canton, Lewis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 27,
1849.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Lewis County, 1919-22.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Canton, Lewis
County, Mo., March 5,
1929 (age 79 years, 282
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Canton, Mo.
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Bainbridge Colby (1869-1950) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
22, 1869.
Lawyer;
attorney for author Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"); member of New York
state assembly from New York County 29th District, 1902; among
the founders
of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party in 1912; Progressive
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1914, 1916; member, U.S. Shipping Board,
1917-19; resigned 1919; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from District of Columbia, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1920-21; law partner of Woodrow
Wilson 1921-23; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1924.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Bemus Point, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., April
11, 1950 (age 80 years, 110
days).
Interment at Bemus
Point Cemetery, Bemus Point, N.Y.
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Archer Woodford (1899-1955) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky., June 11,
1899.
U.S. Vice Consul in Sao Paulo, as of 1924; Rio de Janeiro, as of 1927; Puerto Cortes, as of 1929; Berlin, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in Berlin, as of 1935; Maracaibo, 1936-39; Hamburg, 1940-41; Luanda, as of 1943-44.
Died September
10, 1955 (age 56 years, 91
days).
Interment at Paris
Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
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