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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 Three 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 Edwards (1753-1829) —
of Maryland.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., August
12, 1753.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1782-84; state court judge in Maryland,
1793; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1795.
Slaveowner.
Died in Elkton, Todd
County, Ky., November
13, 1829 (age 76 years, 93
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Todd County, Ky.
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Ninian Edwards (1775-1833) —
of Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Md., March
17, 1775.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1796-97; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1803; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1808; Governor
of Illinois Territory, 1809-18; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1818-24; Governor of
Illinois, 1826-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1832.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died of cholera,
in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., July 20,
1833 (age 58 years, 125
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Belleville, Ill.; reinterment in 1855 at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; statue at Ninian
Edwards Plaza, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Nathaniel Cook (1775-1852) —
of Madison
County, Mo.
Born in Orange
County, Va., 1775.
Delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Madison County,
1820.
Died in St.
Francois County, Mo., 1852
(age about
77 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Dillard Cook (1789-1852) —
also known as John D. Cook —
of Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born in Orange
County, Va., June 15,
1789.
Delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1820-23; appointed 1820; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1850-52; died in office 1852.
English
ancestry.
Died in Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., October
28, 1852 (age 63 years, 135
days).
Interment at Old Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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John McLean (1791-1830) —
of Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill.
Born in Guilford
County, N.C., February
4, 1791.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1818-19; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1821-23, 1827-29; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1824-25, 1829-30; died in office 1830.
Died in Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill., October
14, 1830 (age 39 years, 252
days).
Interment at Westwood
Cemetery, Shawneetown, Ill.
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Cyrus Edwards (1793-1877) —
of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Howard
County, Md., June 17,
1793.
Whig. Candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1838; postmaster at Alton,
Ill., 1841-43; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Madison County,
1847.
Baptist.
Died in Alton, Madison
County, Ill., August
31, 1877 (age 84 years, 75
days).
Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Alton, Ill.
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Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) —
of Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Scott
County, Ky., October
16, 1794.
Lawyer;
Illinois
state attorney general, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1819-27; U.S. Commercial
Agent (Consul) in Havana, 1827.
Died in Scott
County, Ky., October
16, 1827 (age 33 years, 0
days).
Original interment at Hutchinson Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; reinterment in 1866 at
Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Finis Ewing McLean (1806-1881) —
also known as Finis E. McLean —
of Elkton, Todd
County, Ky.; Andrew
County, Mo.; Greencastle, Putnam
County, Ind.
Born near Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., February
19, 1806.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1837; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1849-51.
Slaveowner.
Died in Greencastle, Putnam
County, Ind., April
12, 1881 (age 75 years, 52
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Greencastle, Ind.
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Benjamin Edwards Grey (1809-1875) —
also known as Benjamin E. Grey —
of Hopkinsville, Christian
County, Ky.
Born near Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., July 31,
1809.
Whig. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1838-39; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1847-51; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1851-55.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., March 7,
1875 (age 65 years, 219
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Ky.
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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 (1778-1851) and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln (1784-1818);
married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards (1809-1889); 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 Three
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 |
| | 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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John Pope Cook (1825-1910) —
also known as John P. Cook —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Ransom, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., June 12,
1825.
Mayor
of Springfield, Ill., 1855; Sangamon
County Sheriff, 1856; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War.
Died in Ransom, Hillsdale
County, Mich., October
12, 1910 (age 85 years, 122
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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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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James David Walker (1830-1906) —
also known as James D. Walker —
of Fayetteville, Washington
County, Ark.
Born near Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., December
13, 1830.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Presidential
Elector for Arkansas, 1876;
U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1879-85.
Died in Fayetteville, Washington
County, Ark., November
17, 1906 (age 75 years, 339
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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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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Richard Lee Metcalfe (1861-1954) —
also known as Richard L. Metcalfe —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Alton, Madison
County, Ill., October
11, 1861.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1928; mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 1930-33; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 1932.
Died in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., March
31, 1954 (age 92 years, 171
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Theodore W. Metcalfe (1894-1973) —
also known as Ted W. Metcalfe —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., August
16, 1894.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
developer; Lieutenant
Governor of Nebraska, 1931-33; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 2nd District, 1940; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1952,
1956,
1960.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., February
17, 1973 (age 78 years, 185
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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