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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Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) —
of Westmoreland
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., January
20, 1732.
Democrat. Planter; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-79, 1784-85, 1787; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1777, 1780, 1785; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1789-92.
Slaveowner.
Died in Westmoreland
County, Va., June 19,
1794 (age 62 years, 150
days).
Interment at Burnt
House Field Cemetery, Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.;
memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., October
14, 1734.
Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1764; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia
state senate, 1778.
Died, from pleurisy,
in Richmond
County, Va., January
11, 1797 (age 62 years, 89
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Va.; memorial
monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Arthur Lee (1740-1792) —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., December
20, 1740.
Physician;
lawyer;
member of Virginia state legislature, 1781; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1782.
Died in Middlesex
County, Va., December
12, 1792 (age 51 years, 358
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1744.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1776-80, 1782-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1786; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1789-93; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1810-12; defeated, 1801, 1812; Vice
President of the United States, 1813-14; died in office 1814.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
The word gerrymander ("Gerry" plus "salamander") was coined to
describe an oddly shaped Massachusetts senate district his party
created in 1811, and later came to mean any unfair districting.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1814 (age 70 years, 129
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gerry; married, January
12, 1786, to Ann
Gerry; grandfather of Elbridge
Thomas Gerry; great-grandfather of Peter
Goelet Gerry; third cousin of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | The town
of Elbridge,
New York, is named for
him. — The town
of Gerry, New
York, is named for
him. — The town
of Gerry (now Phillipston,
Massachusetts), was named for
him until 1812. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Elbridge
G. Baldwin
— Elbridge
G. Knowlton
— Elbridge
G. Creacraft
— Elbridge
G. Spaulding
— Elbridge
G. Gale
— Elbridge
Gerry
— Elbridge
G. Lapham
— Eldridge
Gerry Pearl
— Elbridge
G. Moulton
— Elbridge
G. Cracraft
— Elbridge
G. Kelley
— Elbridge
G. Haynes
— Elbridge
G. Brown
— Elbridge
G. Davis
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Elbridge Gerry: George
Athan Billias, Elbridge
Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman |
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Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819) —
of Maryland.
Born near Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., October
29, 1745.
Governor
of Maryland, 1779-82, 1792-94; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1782-83; delegate
to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; member of Maryland
state senate, 1794.
Anglican;
later Catholic.
Died in Middleton Valley, Frederick
County, Md., November
9, 1819 (age 74 years, 11
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.;
reinterment in 1888 at Mt.
Carmel Roman Catholic Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.
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Levi Lincoln (1749-1820) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass., May 15,
1749.
Democrat. State court judge in Massachusetts, 1775; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1796; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1797; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1800-01; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1801; U.S.
Attorney General, 1801-05; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1807-09; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1808-09.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
14, 1820 (age 70 years, 335
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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Paul Fearing (1762-1822) —
of Ohio.
Born in Wareham, Plymouth
County, Mass., February
28, 1762.
Lawyer;
member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1801; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1801-03.
Died in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, August
21, 1822 (age 60 years, 174
days).
Interment at Harmar
Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.
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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.
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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 |
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Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782-1868) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
25, 1782.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1812-13, 1844-45; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1814-22; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822-23; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1823-24; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1824-25; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1825-34; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1834-41; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1841-43; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1848-49; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Massachusetts.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., May 29,
1868 (age 85 years, 217
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) —
also known as "Old Rough and Ready" —
Born in Orange
County, Va., November
24, 1784.
Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the
U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; President
of the United States, 1849-50; died in office 1850.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of gastroenteritis,
in the White
House, Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1850 (age 65 years, 227
days). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains
were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the
theory.
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family
graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, June 21,
1810, to Margaret
Mackall Smith (niece of Benjamin
Mackall IV and Thomas
Mackall); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married Jefferson
Finis Davis); granduncle of Edmund
Haynes Taylor Jr.; ancestor *** of Victor
D. Crist; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin of James
Madison and William
Taylor Madison; second cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee, John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton, George
Madison, Coleby
Chew, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin twice removed of John
Walker, John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis
Walker; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro, Daniel
Micajah Pendleton and Max
Rogers Strother; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton; third cousin of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, Meriwether
Lewis, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Lee, John
Tyler (1790-1862), Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson, Fitzhugh
Lee, William
Barret Pendleton, James
Francis Buckner Jr., Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton, John
Overton Pendleton and Francis
Preston Blair Lee; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, John
Lee Carroll, Charles
Kellogg, James
Sansome Lakin and Edward
Brooke Lee; fourth cousin of Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Thomas
Walker Gilmer, Aylette
Buckner, David
Gardiner Tyler and Lyon
Gardiner Tyler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd, Charles
John Helm and Hubbard
Dozier Helm. |
| | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: David
R. Atchison — Thomas
Ewing |
| | Taylor counties in Fla., Ga., Iowa and Ky. are
named for him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Zachary
T. Coy
— Zachary
T. Bielby
— Zachary
T. Harris
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| | Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor
never surrenders." |
| | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack
Bauer, Zachary
Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old
Southwest — Elbert B. Smith, The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard
Fillmore |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) —
of Paris, Oxford
County, Maine.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., December
28, 1788.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1818-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1821-26 (at-large 1821-25, 5th
District 1825-26); Governor of
Maine, 1827-29; died in office 1829.
Died October
8, 1829 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at State
of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
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David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born near Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
31, 1788.
Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1819; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 8th District, 1836-38; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1839-45.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., August
6, 1867 (age 78 years, 279
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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George Bryan Porter (1791-1834) —
also known as George B. Porter —
Born in Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
9, 1791.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Adjutant
General of Pennsylvania, 1824-29; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1827; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1831-34; died in office 1834.
Presbyterian.
Died in a cholera
epidemic in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 6,
1834 (age 43 years, 147
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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James Madison Porter (1793-1862) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., January
6, 1793.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; law
professor; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1843-44; member of Pennsylvania state
legislature, 1849.
Presbyterian.
Founder,
in 1826, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
Died in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., November
11, 1862 (age 69 years, 309
days).
Interment at Easton
Cemetery, Easton, Pa.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English
ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | The city
of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Ninian Wirt Edwards (1809-1889) —
also known as Ninian W. Edwards —
of Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., April
15, 1809.
Democrat. Illinois
state attorney general, 1834-35; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-41, 1849-53; member of Illinois
state senate, 1845-49; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Sangamon County,
1847; Illinois
superintendent of public instruction, 1854-57.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., September
2, 1889 (age 80 years, 140
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) —
also known as Mary Ann Todd —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., December
13, 1818.
First
Lady of the United States, 1861-65.
Female.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 16,
1882 (age 63 years, 215
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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James Harlan (1820-1899) —
of Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa.
Born in Clark
County, Ill., August
26, 1820.
Republican. Iowa
superintendent of public instruction, 1847; president
of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1853-55, 1869-70; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1855-57, 1857-65, 1867-73; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1865-66; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1868.
Methodist.
Died in Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa, October
5, 1899 (age 79 years, 40
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
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Frederick Robie (1822-1912) —
of Maine.
Born August
12, 1822.
Governor
of Maine, 1883-87.
Died February
3, 1912 (age 89 years, 175
days).
Interment somewhere
in Gorham, Maine.
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Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson (1829-1895) —
also known as N. H. R. Dawson —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
14, 1829.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1860;
Speaker
of the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1880.
Episcopalian.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., February
1, 1895 (age 65 years, 352
days).
Interment at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831-1863) —
also known as Ben Hardin Helm —
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., June 2,
1831.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1855-56; declined appointment as
paymaster of the Union Army; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Shot
during the Battle of
Chickamauga, and died soon after, Chickamauga, Walker
County, Ga., September
21, 1863 (age 32 years, 111
days).
Interment at Helm Cemetery, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky.
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Emily Todd Helm (1836-1930) —
also known as Emily T. Helm; Emilie Pariet
Todd —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
11, 1836.
Her husband was offered a position as paymaster of the Union Army,
but chose to become a Confederate general, and was killed at the
Battle of Chickamauga in 1863; she was granted safe passage to come
to the White House and stay with President Abraham
Lincoln and his family, despite harsh criticism in the Northern
press for harboring a Confederate; postmaster at Elizabethtown,
Ky., 1883-96.
Female.
Member, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., February
20, 1930 (age 93 years, 101
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Horace Porter (1837-1921) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Huntingdon, Huntingdon
County, Pa., April
15, 1837.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; received
the Medal
of Honor for action at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863; executive
secretary to Pres. Ulysses
S. Grant, 1869-73; vice-president, Pullman Palace Car Co. (railroad
cars); president, New York West Shore & Buffalo Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1892;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1897-1905.
Member, Union
League.
Died May 29,
1921 (age 84 years, 44
days).
Interment at Old
First Methodist Churchyard, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837-1927) —
also known as Elbridge T. Gerry; "Commodore
Gerry" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlestown, Washington
County, R.I., December
25, 1837.
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; founder
and president, New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (said to be the "parent of all child protective
organizations in the world"); governor of New York Hospital,
1878-1912; chairman, New York State Commission on Capital Punishment
(replaced hanging with the electric chair), 1886-88; trustee, New
York Life
Insurance Co.; chairman, New York City Commission on Insanity,
1892.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Broke his hip in a fall, and
died two weeks later, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1927 (age 89 years, 55
days).
Entombed at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Lansing Edgar Lincoln (1842-1916) —
also known as Lansing E. Lincoln —
of Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.; Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich.; Omer, Arenac
County, Mich.
Born in Groton, Tompkins
County, N.Y., November
23, 1842.
Progressive. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
farmer;
livestock
dealer; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Huron County, 1885-88;
defeated, 1914.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
While entering a country
store, he slipped and fell,
never regained consciousness, and died soon after, in Omer, Arenac
County, Mich., November
4, 1916 (age 73 years, 347
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Omer, Mich.
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Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., August
1, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman
(1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of railroad
cars; part owner of Chicago Edison Company electric
utility.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., July 25,
1926 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Martha Dee Todd (1858-1909) —
also known as M. D. Todd —
of Cynthiana, Harrison
County, Ky.
Born in Kentucky, September
19, 1858.
Postmaster at Cynthiana,
Ky., 1887-93.
Female.
Died in Harrison
County, Ky., January
12, 1909 (age 50 years, 115
days).
Interment at Battle
Grove Cemetery, Cynthiana, Ky.
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John Martin Poyer (1861-1922) —
also known as John M. Poyer —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in 1861.
U.S. Navy commander; Governor of
American Samoa; received the Navy Cross for protecting American
Samoa from the 1918 influenza epidemic.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1922 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Goelet Gerry (1879-1957) —
also known as Peter G. Gerry —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1932;
U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1917-29, 1935-47; defeated, 1928,
1930; member of Democratic
National Committee from Rhode Island, 1932-36.
Episcopalian.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
31, 1957 (age 78 years, 43
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Louisa Matilda (Livingston) Gerry and Elbridge
Thomas Gerry; married, May 26,
1910, to Mathilde Townsend (who later married Benjamin
Sumner Welles); married, October
22, 1925, to Edith Stuyvesant (Dresser) Vanderbilt;
great-grandson of Elbridge
Gerry, Ann
Gerry and Maturin
Livingston; great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847); second great-grandson of Morgan
Lewis; second great-grandnephew of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813) and Edward
Livingston; third great-grandson of Francis
Lewis and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Robert
Walton Goelet and Ogden
Livingston Mills; second cousin once removed of Peter
Goelet; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and John
Jacob Astor III; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin once removed of William
Waldorf Astor; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Gerrit
Smith and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; third cousin thrice removed of Levi
Lincoln, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler and Robert
Reginald Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer. |
| | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Burr Buchanan Lincoln (1881-1937) —
also known as Burr B. Lincoln —
of Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich.
Born in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., December
16, 1881.
Democrat. Farmer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Huron County, 1926; Michigan
agriculture commissioner, 1937.
Collapsed and died, from a cerebral
embolism, on a downtown street in Flint, Genesee
County, Mich., May 27,
1937 (age 55 years, 162
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Arthur Rumney Ringwalt (1899-1981) —
also known as Arthur R. Ringwalt —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., February
24, 1899.
U.S. Vice Consul in Shanghai, 1928-32; Yunnanfu, 1934, 1938; U.S. Consul in Kweilin, 1943-44; chief, U.S. State Department Division on
Chinese Affairs, 1946.
Died in Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., February
14, 1981 (age 81 years, 356
days).
Cremated.
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James Helme Lincoln (1916-2011) —
also known as James H. Lincoln —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich.
Born in Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich., August
26, 1916.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1953; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1957, 1959; Wayne
County Probate Judge, 1960-77; candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1980.
Died in Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich., July 23,
2011 (age 94 years, 331
days).
Interment at Rock
Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach, Mich.
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