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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.
![Benjamin Franklin](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/370/29.47.jpg) |
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony
Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice
Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry
Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone";
"Martha Careful"; "Benevolus";
"Caelia Shortface" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.
Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Deist.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented
bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at
Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La
Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who
married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary
Blechenden Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William
Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert
Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel
Baugh Brewster and Elise
du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles
James Folger, Benjamin
Dexter Sprague and Wharton
Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George
Hammond Parshall. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Williams |
| ![](hand.gif) | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Mount
Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for
him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Hallett
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Saffold
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
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| ![](hand.gif) | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half
dollar coin (1948-63). |
| ![](hand.gif) | 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 |
| ![](hand.gif) | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| ![](hand.gif) | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
| ![](hand.gif) | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Jonas Mapes (1768-1824) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Southold, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
6, 1768.
Merchant
tailor; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1810-11; general in the U.S.
Army during the War of 1812.
Died in 1824
(age about
55 years).
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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David Gardiner (1784-1844) —
of New York.
Born in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 29,
1784.
Member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1824-27.
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 59 years, 275
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; later interred at South
End Cemetery, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Alfred Conkling (1789-1874) —
of New York.
Born in Amagansett, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
12, 1789.
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1821-23; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of New York, 1825-52;
U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1852-53.
Died in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
5, 1874 (age 84 years, 116
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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David Parshall Mapes (1798-1890) —
also known as David P. Mapes —
of Roxbury, Delaware
County, N.Y.; Ripon, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Coxsackie, Greene
County, N.Y., January
10, 1798.
Steamboat
business; member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1831; merchant;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin.
Principal founder
of Ripon College, 1850.
Died in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., May 18,
1890 (age 92 years, 128
days).
Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Ripon, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Mapes and Hannah (Brown) Mapes; married, April
14, 1822, to Ruth Frisbee; married, January
26, 1855, to Mary C. Frisbee; married, November
9, 1864, to Emeline (Huntsinger) Wilson; married, September
15, 1883, to Augusta R. Miles; father of Fannie
Mapes (who married Otto
Christian Neuman); first cousin once removed of Jonas
Mapes; third cousin once removed of George
Hammond Parshall; third cousin thrice removed of Irving
Anthony Jennings and Renz
L. Jennings; fourth cousin once removed of David
Gardiner and Bertha
Mapes. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Mapes Hall (built 1959), at Ripon College,
Ripon,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Epitaph: "In grateful recognition of
David P, Mapes, for his vision and valuable services as pioneer,
founder, benefactor and promoter of the City of Ripon and its
College, the citizens of Ripon dedicate this marker." |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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.
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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. |
| ![](hand.gif) | 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). |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Julia Tyler (1820-1889) —
also known as Julia Gardiner —
Born in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 29,
1820.
First
Lady of the United States, 1844-45.
Female.
Died, in the Exchange Hotel, Richmond,
Va., July 10,
1889 (age 68 years, 346
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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George Mortimer Beakes (1831-1900) —
also known as George M. Beakes —
of Bloomingburg, Sullivan
County, N.Y.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., January
2, 1831.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of New York
state assembly from Sullivan County, 1891-92.
Died in Bloomingburg, Sullivan
County, N.Y., June 18,
1900 (age 69 years, 167
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Hammond Parshall (b. 1843) —
also known as George H. Parshall —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., April
23, 1843.
Republican. Physician;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 7th District, 1897; candidate
for New York
state senate 5th District, 1900.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Harvey Denby Jr. (1861-1938) —
also known as Charles Denby —
of Indiana; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., November
14, 1861.
U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, as of 1907-09; Vienna, 1909-15; vice-president, Hupp Motor Car
Corporation, Detroit, 1915-17.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
14, 1938 (age 76 years, 92
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Fannie Neuman (1867-1926) —
also known as Fannie Mapes; Mrs. O. C.
Neuman —
of Wheaton, Traverse
County, Minn.
Born in Ripon, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., April, 1867.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1924.
Female.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., January
25, 1926 (age 58 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere in Wheaton, Minn.
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![O. C. Neuman](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/485/83.11.jpg) |
Otto Christian Neuman (1869-1938) —
also known as O. C. Neuman —
of Wheaton, Traverse
County, Minn.
Born in Dakota
County, Minn., June 29,
1869.
Democrat. Merchant;
land
business; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 48, 1917-32.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Wheaton, Traverse
County, Minn., May 30,
1938 (age 68 years, 335
days).
Interment somewhere in Wheaton, Minn.
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Edwin Denby (1870-1929) —
also known as Ned Denby —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., February
18, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1903-04; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1917; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1921-24; persuaded by Secretary of State
Albert
B. Fall to transfer control of the Navy's oil leases to the
Interior Department; Fall then accepted large bribes
to sell the leases to his friends, in what became known as the Teapot
Dome scandal;
in 1924, Denby was forced to
resign as Secretary of the Navy.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
8, 1929 (age 58 years, 356
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Bertha Mapes (1880-1967) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, December
21, 1880.
Lawyer;
Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Died in February, 1967
(age 86
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Irving Anthony Jennings (1896-1972) —
also known as Irving A. Jennings —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Taylor, Navajo
County, Ariz., May 21,
1896.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1940.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., July 6,
1972 (age 76 years, 46
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Renz L. Jennings (1899-1983) —
also known as Lorenzo Jennings —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Taylor, Navajo
County, Ariz., August
5, 1899.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1931-32; Maricopa
County Attorney, 1933-34; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1934, 1964; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arizona, 1942; superior court judge in
Arizona, 1949-60; justice of
Arizona state supreme court, 1960-64; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Arizona, 1960,
1968
(alternate).
Mormon.
Member, Eagles;
Moose;
Woodmen
of the World.
Suffered a heart
attack in his swimming
pool, and drowned,
in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., February
11, 1983 (age 83 years, 190
days).
Interment at Phoenix Memorial Park & Mortuary, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Renz D. Jennings (born c.1942) —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., about 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1969-70; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Arizona, 1972,
1988,
1996;
member, Arizona Corporation Commission, 1985-99.
Still living as of 2016.
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