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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.

	Matthew Thornton (1713-1803) — of Merrimack, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 17, 1713. Physician; President of New Hampshire, 1775-76; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1776-82; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-77, 1780-81, 1785-86; member of New Hampshire state senate from Hillsborough County, 1784-87. Presbyterian. Died in Newburyport, Essex County, Mass., June 24, 1803 (age 90 years, 99 days). Interment at Thornton's Ferry Cemetery, Merrimack, N.H.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of James B. Thornton, Jr. and Elizabeth Keturah (Jenkins) Thornton; married 1760 to Hannah Jack; second great-grandfather of Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
	Luther Lawrence (1778-1839) — of Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., September 28, 1778. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1812-22; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822; mayor of Lowell, Mass., 1838-39; died in office 1839. While showing a visitor around his woolen mill, he accidentally fell into a wheel pit, hit his head, and died soon after, in Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass., April 17, 1839 (age 60 years, 201 days). Interment at Groton Cemetery, Groton, Mass.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Lawrence and Susanna (Parker) Lawrence; brother of Abbott Lawrence; married, June 19, 1805, to Lucy Bigelow; uncle of Amos Adams Lawrence and Samuel Abbott Green; second great-granduncle of Leverett Saltonstall and Richard Saltonstall; third great-granduncle of William Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Moore Bancroft; third cousin once removed of Alonzo M. Garcelon; third cousin twice removed of John Albion Andrew, Charles Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield Scott Holden and Alonzo Marston Garcelon; third cousin thrice removed of John Forrester Andrew, Henry Hersey Andrew, Charles Wayne Holden and Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article
	Levi Woodbury (1789-1851) — of Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H. Born in Francestown, Hillsborough County, N.H., December 22, 1789. Democrat. Lawyer; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1816-23; Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-24; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1825; Speaker of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1825; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1825-31, 1841-45; resigned 1845; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1831-34; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-41; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-51; died in office 1851; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1848. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H., September 4, 1851 (age 61 years, 256 days). Interment at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H.   Relatives: Son of Peter Woodbury and Mary (Woodbury) Woodbury; married to Elizabeth Williams Clapp; father of Charles Levi Woodbury and Mary Elizabeth Woodbury (who married Montgomery Blair); grandfather of Gist Blair; granduncle of Gordon Woodbury and Charlotte Eliza Woodbury; fourth cousin once removed of Isaac Stuart Raymond.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Woodbury County, Iowa is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855) — of Massachusetts. Born in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., December 16, 1792. Whig. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1835-37, 1839-40; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1849-52. Unitarian. Died August 18, 1855 (age 62 years, 245 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Lawrence and Susanna (Parker) Lawrence; brother of Luther Lawrence; uncle of Amos Adams Lawrence and Samuel Abbott Green; second great-granduncle of Leverett Saltonstall and Richard Saltonstall; third great-granduncle of William Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Moore Bancroft; third cousin once removed of Alonzo M. Garcelon; third cousin twice removed of John Albion Andrew, Charles Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield Scott Holden and Alonzo Marston Garcelon; third cousin thrice removed of John Forrester Andrew, Henry Hersey Andrew, Charles Wayne Holden and Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Zachariah Chandler (1813-1879) — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Bedford, Hillsborough County, N.H., December 10, 1813. Republican. Dry goods merchant; mayor of Detroit, Mich., 1851-52; Whig candidate for Governor of Michigan, 1852; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1856; member of Republican National Committee from Michigan, 1856-60, 1870-72; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1876-79; U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1857-75, 1879; died in office 1879; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1875-77; Michigan Republican state chair, 1878-79. Died, from a brain hemorrhage, in his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Cook County, Ill., November 1, 1879 (age 65 years, 326 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Chandler and Margaret (Orr) Chandler; married, December 10, 1844, to Letitia Douglass; father of Mary Douglas Chandler (who married Eugene Hale); nephew of John Chandler and Thomas Chandler; grandfather of Frederick Hale; second great-granduncle of Rodney Dennis Chandler; second cousin once removed of Isaac Stuart Raymond; second cousin thrice removed of Stuart Edmond Haseltine; third cousin once removed of Gordon Woodbury; third cousin thrice removed of Joshua Coit.   Political family: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Library of Congress
	Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) — of Missouri; Maryland. Born in Franklin County, Ky., May 10, 1813. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Missouri, 1840-44; common pleas court judge in Missouri, 1843-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1844, 1852; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1860; U.S. Postmaster General, 1861-64; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1878; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1882. Episcopalian. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., July 27, 1883 (age 70 years, 78 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair; brother of Francis Preston Blair Jr.; married 1836 to Caroline Buckner; married 1846 to Mary Elizabeth Woodbury (daughter of Levi Woodbury; sister of Charles Levi Woodbury); father of Gist Blair; uncle of James Lawrence Blair and Francis Preston Blair Lee; grandson of James Blair; granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Eager Howard and Joseph Wingate Folk; second cousin thrice removed of Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin of William Julian Albert; third cousin once removed of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard, Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill; third cousin twice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas.   Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Charles Levi Woodbury (1820-1898) — of Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H.; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H., May 22, 1820. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1856; U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1857-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1880 (member, Resolutions Committee). Member, Freemasons. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 1, 1898 (age 78 years, 40 days). Interment at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H.   Relatives: Son of Levi Woodbury and Elizabeth (Clapp) Woodbury; brother of Mary Elizabeth Woodbury (who married Montgomery Blair); uncle of Gist Blair; first cousin once removed of Gordon Woodbury and Charlotte Eliza Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Charles Courtney Pinkney Holden (1827-1905) — also known as Charles C. P. Holden — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Groton, Grafton County, N.H., August 9, 1827. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; land agent for Illinois Central Railroad; helped to organize and build the Chicago and Illinois River Railroad; Republican candidate for mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1862, 1871; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; Cook County Commissioner, 1874. Member, Sons of the American Revolution. Died in Matteson, Cook County, Ill., February 5, 1905 (age 77 years, 180 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, Ill.   Relatives: Son of Phineas Hemmenway Holden and Elizabeth 'Betsey' (Parker) Holden; married, September 17, 1855, to Sarah Jane Reynolds; married, April 28, 1875, to Louise R. Jones; married, July 11, 1888, to Thelena M. McCoy; first cousin of Ebenezer Gregg Danforth Holden; first cousin once removed of Charles Wayne Holden; first cousin twice removed of Charlotte H. McMorran; third cousin of Winfield Scott Holden; third cousin twice removed of Luther Lawrence, John Davis and Abbott Lawrence; fourth cousin once removed of Isaac Davis, Alonzo M. Garcelon, Amos Adams Lawrence, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Samuel Abbott Green, Horace Davis and Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also OurCampaigns candidate detail
	Ebenezer Gregg Danforth Holden (1834-1912) — also known as Ebenezer G. D. Holden — of Michigan. Born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 18, 1834. Secretary of state of Michigan, 1875-78. Member, Grange. Died in Coquille, Coos County, Ore., August 20, 1912 (age 78 years, 184 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Rhodes Holden and Joanna Reed (Danforth) Holden; married 1858 to Elizabeth Smith; father of Charles Wayne Holden; first cousin of Charles Courtney Pinkney Holden; first cousin twice removed of Charlotte H. McMorran; third cousin of Winfield Scott Holden; third cousin twice removed of Luther Lawrence, John Davis and Abbott Lawrence; fourth cousin once removed of Isaac Davis, Alonzo M. Garcelon, Amos Adams Lawrence, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Samuel Abbott Green, Horace Davis and Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
	Winfield Scott Holden (1845-1919) — also known as Winfield S. Holden — of Covington, Kenton County, Ky.; Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, February 22, 1845. U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 6th Kentucky District, 1879. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., August 30, 1919 (age 74 years, 189 days). Burial location unknown.   Presumably named for: Winfield Scott   Relatives: Son of William Green Holden and Malinda (Shinkle) Holden; married, November 8, 1866, to Elizabeth Amanda Batelle; third cousin of Charles Courtney Pinkney Holden and Ebenezer Gregg Danforth Holden; third cousin once removed of Charles Wayne Holden; third cousin twice removed of Luther Lawrence, John Davis, Abbott Lawrence and Charlotte H. McMorran; fourth cousin once removed of Isaac Davis, Alonzo M. Garcelon, Amos Adams Lawrence, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Samuel Abbott Green, Horace Davis and Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
	Isaac Stuart Raymond (1849-1915) — also known as Isaac S. Raymond — of Raymond Township, Champaign County, Ill. Born in Union County, Ohio, January 29, 1849. Democrat. Farmer; banker; University of Illinois trustee, 1893-99. Died in Champaign County, Ill., July 15, 1915 (age 66 years, 167 days). Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Urbana, Ill.   Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Raymond and Melissa (Stuart) Raymond; married, October 27, 1875, to Edith Eaton; grandfather of Stuart Edmond Haseltine; second cousin once removed of Zachariah Chandler; third cousin once removed of Frederick Hale; fourth cousin of Gordon Woodbury; fourth cousin once removed of Levi Woodbury, George Anson Starkweather, Samuel Starkweather, David Austin Starkweather and Florence H. Pendleton.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial
	Frederick William Holden (b. 1858) — also known as Frederick W. Holden — of Ansonia, New Haven County, Conn. Born in White River Junction, Hartford, Windsor County, Vt., July 28, 1858. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1889-90; member of Connecticut state senate 7th District, 1891-94. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Jane (Doonan) Holden and Milton Dana Holden; fourth cousin once removed of Gordon Woodbury.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
	Gist Blair (1860-1940) — of St. Louis, Mo.; Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md.; Kensington, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Washington, D.C., September 10, 1860. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1912 (alternate), 1916. Died in Washington, D.C., December 16, 1940 (age 80 years, 97 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Montgomery Blair and Mary Elizabeth (Woodbury) Blair; married, March 4, 1912, to Laura Ellis Lawson; nephew of Charles Levi Woodbury and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; grandson of Levi Woodbury and Francis Preston Blair; great-grandson of James Blair; first cousin of James Lawrence Blair and Francis Preston Blair Lee; first cousin once removed of Edward Brooke Lee; first cousin twice removed of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin of Gordon Woodbury and Charlotte Eliza Woodbury; second cousin thrice removed of John Eager Howard; third cousin once removed of William Julian Albert and Joseph Wingate Folk; third cousin twice removed of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard and Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin thrice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin of Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill.   Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial
	Gordon Woodbury (1863-1924) — of Bedford, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in New York, September 17, 1863. Democrat. Farmer; candidate for U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1916; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1920. Died in Manchester, Hillsborough County, N.H., June 17, 1924 (age 60 years, 274 days). Interment at Bedford Center Cemetery, Bedford, N.H.   Relatives: Son of Freeman Perkins Woodbury and Harriet Ann (McGaw) Woodbury; married, April 18, 1894, to Charlotte Eliza Woodbury; grandnephew of Levi Woodbury; second great-grandson of Matthew Thornton; first cousin once removed of Charles Levi Woodbury; second cousin of Gist Blair; third cousin once removed of Zachariah Chandler; third cousin thrice removed of Luther Lawrence and Abbott Lawrence; fourth cousin of Isaac Stuart Raymond; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield Scott Holden, Frederick William Holden and Frederick Hale.   Political families: Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial
	Charlotte Eliza Woodbury (1873-1966) — also known as Charlotte E. Woodbury — of Bedford, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in Methuen, Essex County, Mass., March 28, 1873. Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire. Female. Died August 14, 1966 (age 93 years, 139 days). Interment at Bedford Center Cemetery, Bedford, N.H.   Relatives: Daughter of George Edwin Woodbury and Harriette Emily (Reed) Woodbury; married, April 18, 1894, to Gordon Woodbury; grandniece of Levi Woodbury; first cousin once removed of Charles Levi Woodbury; second cousin of Gist Blair.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial
	Frederick Hale (1874-1963) — of Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., October 7, 1874. Republican. Lawyer; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1905-06; member of Republican National Committee from Maine, 1912-18; U.S. Senator from Maine, 1917-41. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Delta Phi; American Bar Association. Died in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, September 28, 1963 (age 88 years, 356 days). Interment at Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.   Relatives: Son of Eugene Hale and Mary Douglas (Chandler) Hale; nephew of Clarence Hale; grandson of Zachariah Chandler; first cousin of Robert S. Hale; third cousin once removed of Isaac Stuart Raymond; fourth cousin once removed of Gordon Woodbury and Stuart Edmond Haseltine.   Political family: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial