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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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Howell Lewis (1731-1813) —
of Granville
County, N.C.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., September
13, 1731.
Member of North
Carolina state senate from Granville County, 1785-86; member of
North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1787.
Died in Granville
County, N.C., November
29, 1813 (age 82 years, 77
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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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.
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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
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| ![](hand.gif) | 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). |
| ![](hand.gif) | Cross-reference: George
F. Shannon |
| ![](hand.gif) | Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are
named for him; Lewis and Clark
County, Mont. is named partly for him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Other politicians named for him: Meriwether
Lewis Randolph
— Meriwether
Lewis Walker
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| ![](hand.gif) | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to
1927. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| ![](hand.gif) | 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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Francis Hoyte Demarest (1852-1909) —
also known as Francis H. Demarest —
of Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 31,
1852.
Democrat. Postmaster at Englewood,
N.J., 1887-91.
Died October
31, 1909 (age 57 years, 153
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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Clayton Abraham Demarest (1865-1940) —
also known as Clayton Demarest —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Schraalenburgh (now Dumont), Bergen
County, N.J., December
15, 1865.
Dry candidate for delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment from Bergen
County, 1933.
Baptist.
Died in Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J., April
30, 1940 (age 74 years, 137
days).
Interment at Hackensack
Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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Elmer Wilson Demarest (1870-1930) —
also known as Elmer W. Demarest —
of Hudson
County, N.J.; Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J.; Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Eastwood (now part of River Vale), Bergen
County, N.J., May 15,
1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1897.
Died, from angina
pectoris, in Cannes, France,
July
20, 1930 (age 60 years, 66
days).
Cremated.
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Arthur Sidney Demarest (1921-2013) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Oak Park, Cook
County, Ill., September
13, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for New York
state senate 23rd District, 1952.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died April
17, 2013 (age 91 years, 216
days).
Interment at Calverton
National Cemetery, Calverton, Long Island, N.Y.
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