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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Benjamin Huntington (1736-1800) —
of Norwich, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., April
19, 1736.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1771-80; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1780-84, 1787-88;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1781-89, 1791-92; mayor
of Norwich, Conn., 1784-96; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; superior court
judge in Connecticut, 1793-98.
Died in Rome, Oneida
County, N.Y., October
16, 1800 (age 64 years, 180
days).
Interment at Norwichtown
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Huntington and Rachel (Wolcott) Huntington; married, May 5,
1765, to Anne Huntington; father of Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; grandfather of Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth great-grandfather of Randolph
Appleton Kidder; first cousin once removed of Samuel
Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington and Abel
Huntington; first cousin thrice removed of William
Woodbridge, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Isaac
Backus, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Charles
Phelps Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington and Henry
Titus Backus; first cousin four times removed of Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington and William
Clark Huntington; first cousin five times removed of Roger
Wolcott, William
Barret Ridgely, Josiah
Quincy, Henry
Arthur Huntington and Arthur
Evarts Lord; first cousin six times removed of Austin
Eugene Lathrop, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, John
Foster Dulles, Allen
Welsh Dulles and Helen
Huntington Hull; first cousin seven times removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Lathrop, Bela
Edgerton, Theodore
Davenport, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Phineas
Taylor Barnum and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed of
Heman
Ticknor, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, William
Henry Barnum, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Augustus
Frank, Rhamanthus
Menville Stocker and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin five times removed of
Samuel
Lathrop Bronson, Frederick
Dent Grant, Charles
William Barnum, Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr., Clement
Phineas Kellogg, Herbert
Vinton Beardsley, Hiram
Bingham and Clarence
Elmer Sargent. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Abel Merrill (1763-1838) —
of Warren, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Atkinson, Rockingham
County, N.H., November
19, 1763.
Member of New
Hampshire state senate 12th District, 1821.
Died in Warren, Grafton
County, N.H., March
23, 1838 (age 74 years, 124
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Emerson) Merrill and John Merrill; married to Tamar Kimball;
third cousin once removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Daniel
Davis and Anthony
Colby; third cousin twice removed of Aaron
Augustus Sargent, Hiram
Augustus Huse and Charles
L. Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Eaton
Dudley Sargent; fourth cousin of Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill and Noah
Davis; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Clement Fessenden, Greene
Carrier Bronson, John
Russell Kellogg, John
Adams Dix, George
Smith Catlin, Francis
William Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Ayres
Phillips Merrill and Joseph
Pomeroy Root. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Daniel Davis (1768-1847) —
of Connecticut.
Born in West Stafford, Stafford, Tolland
County, Conn., October
26, 1768.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1811-12.
Congregationalist.
Died in West Stafford, Stafford, Tolland
County, Conn., October
27, 1847 (age 79 years, 1
days).
Interment at Meeting
House Hill Cemetery, West Stafford, Stafford, Conn.
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![Daniel Webster](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/062/19.45.jpg) |
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) —
also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the
Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the
Constitution" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack
County, N.H., January
18, 1782.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned
1827; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President
of the United States, 1836; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852.
Presbyterian.
English
ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass., October
24, 1852 (age 70 years, 280
days).
Interment at Winslow
Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at State House Grounds, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail (Eastman) Webster; married, May 29,
1808, to Grace Fletcher; second cousin once removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse; second cousin twice removed of Edwin
George Eastman; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake and John
Leffingwell Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Rowell and Amos
Tuck. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political families: Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster
family; Eastman-Webster-Blake-Rowell
family; Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French
family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Other politicians named for him: Daniel
Webster Wilder
— Daniel
W. Mills
— Daniel
W. Jones
— Daniel
Webster Comstock
— Daniel
W. Waugh
— Daniel
W. Tallmadge
— Daniel
Webster Heagy
— Daniel
W. Whitmore
— Daniel
W. Hamilton
— Daniel
W. Allaman
— Webster
Turner
— Dan
W. Turner
— Daniel
W. Hoan
— Daniel
W. Ambrose, Jr.
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| ![](hand.gif) | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $10 U.S. note from the 1860s until the early 20th
century. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| ![](hand.gif) | Books about Daniel Webster: Robert
Vincent Remini, Daniel
Webster : The Man and His Time — Maurice G. Baxter, One
and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union —
Robert A. Allen, Daniel
Webster, Defender of the Union — Richard N. Current,
Daniel
Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism —
Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — John
F. Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| ![](hand.gif) | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Charles Rowell (1785-1867) —
of Allenstown, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Salem, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
2, 1785.
Farmer;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 4th District, 1856-58.
Died in Suncook, Allenstown, Merrimack
County, N.H., January
11, 1867 (age 81 years, 343
days).
Burial location unknown.
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![Thaddeus Stevens](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/480/10.66.jpg) |
Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) —
of Gettysburg, Adams
County, Pa.; Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Danville, Caledonia
County, Vt., April 4,
1792.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1833-35, 1837, 1841; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1838; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1849-53, 1859-68 (8th District
1849-53, 9th District 1859-68); died in office 1868; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1856
(speaker),
1860.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
11, 1868 (age 76 years, 129
days).
Interment at Shreiner-Concord
Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Anthony Colby (1792-1873) —
of New London, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in New London, Merrimack
County, N.H., November
13, 1792.
Governor
of New Hampshire, 1846-47.
Died in New London, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 13,
1873 (age 80 years, 242
days).
Interment at Old
Main Street Cemetery, New London, N.H.
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James Shepard Pike (1811-1882) —
also known as James S. Pike —
of Calais, Washington
County, Maine; Robbinston, Washington
County, Maine.
Born in Calais, Washington
County, Maine, September
8, 1811.
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1861-66.
Died in Calais, Washington
County, Maine, November
24, 1882 (age 71 years, 77
days).
Interment somewhere
in Washington County, Maine.
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Benjamin Franklin Flanders (1816-1896) —
also known as Benjamin F. Flanders —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Bristol, Grafton
County, N.H., January
26, 1816.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1862-63; Governor of
Louisiana; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1870-72; candidate for Louisiana
state treasurer, 1888.
Episcopalian.
Opposed secession in 1861; driven out of New Orleans, leaving his
family behind; returned in 1862 when the city was taken by Union
troops.
Died near Youngsville, Lafayette
Parish, La., March
13, 1896 (age 80 years, 47
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Frederick Augustus Pike (1816-1886) —
also known as Frederick A. Pike —
of Calais, Washington
County, Maine.
Born in Calais, Washington
County, Maine, December
9, 1816.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Calais, Maine, 1852; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1858-60, 1870-71; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1861-69 (6th District 1861-63, 5th
District 1863-69).
Died in Calais, Washington
County, Maine, December
2, 1886 (age 69 years, 358
days).
Interment at Calais
Cemetery, Calais, Maine.
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![Noah Davis](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/400/03.94.jpg) |
Noah Davis (1818-1902) —
of Albion, Orleans
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Haverhill, Grafton
County, N.H., September
10, 1818.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1857-68, 1873-87; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1869-70; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1870-72.
Presided over the two trials of William
M. Tweed in 1873.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
20, 1902 (age 83 years, 191
days).
Interment at Mt.
Albion Cemetery, Albion, N.Y.
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Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826-1885) —
also known as Joseph P. Root —
of Connecticut; Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Greenwich (now part of Quabbin Reservoir), Hampshire
County, Mass., April
23, 1826.
Physician;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1855; member
Kansas territorial council, 1857; Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1861-63; served in the Union Army during the
Civil War; U.S. Minister to Chile, 1870-73; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kansas, 1884.
Died in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., July 20,
1885 (age 59 years, 88
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Root and Lucy (Reynolds) Root; married, September
9, 1851, to Frances Eveline Alden; second great-grandnephew of William
Pitkin and Abraham
Davenport (1715-1789); fifth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; first cousin twice removed of Daniel
Davis; first cousin thrice removed of John
Davenport and James
Davenport; first cousin five times removed of Roger
Wolcott; second cousin once removed of Noah
Davis; second cousin twice removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Abraham
Davenport (1767-1837) and Theodore
Davenport; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Daniel
Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin once removed of Thaddeus
Betts; third cousin twice removed of Aaron
Burr, Theodore
Dwight, Elijah
Hunt Mills, Gold
Selleck Silliman, Henry
Waggaman Edwards and Benjamin
Silliman; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah
Cowles, Moses
Seymour, Aaron
Kitchell, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; fourth cousin of Frederick
Walker Pitkin; fourth cousin once removed of Abel
Merrill, Charles
Robert Sherman, Gideon
Hard, Elisha
Hunt Allen, Benjamin
Douglas Silliman, Gouverneur
Morris, Aaron
Augustus Sargent, John
Robert Graham Pitkin and Walter
Harrison Blodget. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Bolton-Whitney-Brainard-Wolcott
family of Ohio and New York; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827-1887) —
also known as "The Senator for the Southern Pacific
Railroad" —
of Nevada City, Nevada
County, Calif.
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., September
28, 1827.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of California
state senate, 1856; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1861-63, 1869-73 (at-large
1861-63, 2nd District 1869-73); U.S.
Senator from California, 1873-79; U.S. Minister to Germany, 1882-84.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
14, 1887 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.; Cremated; ashes
scattered; cenotaph at Pioneer Cemetery, Nevada City, Calif.
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Sanford Winslow Abbey (1857-1935) —
also known as Sanford W. Abbey —
of Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Richmond, Ontario
County, N.Y., January
11, 1857.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Ontario County, 1890, 1910; postmaster at Canandaigua,
N.Y., 1916.
Presbyterian.
Member, Eagles;
Freemasons.
Died in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 18,
1935 (age 78 years, 188
days).
Interment at Lakeview Cemetery, Honeoye, N.Y.
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Eaton Dudley Sargent (1870-1944) —
also known as Eaton D. Sargent —
of Winchendon, Worcester
County, Mass.; Nashua, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla.
Born in Bradford, Orange
County, Vt., August
13, 1870.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1918; mayor of
Nashua, N.H., 1924-27; candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1926, 1928; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1928
(member, Credentials
Committee); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1930.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died of heart
failure while pruning an orange tree, in Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla., March
27, 1944 (age 73 years, 227
days).
Interment at Edgewood
Cemetery, Nashua, N.H.
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Clarence Elmer Sargent (1887-1957) —
also known as Clarence E. Sargent —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Yokohama, Japan,
of American parents, November
1, 1887.
U.S. Consular Marshal in Newchwang, 1909-11; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Newchwang, 1910-11; electrician.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
22, 1957 (age 69 years, 325
days).
Burial location unknown.
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