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family groupings listed on
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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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William Bradford (1729-1808) —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in Plympton, Plymouth
County, Mass., November
4, 1729.
Physician;
lawyer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1764-65; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1798-1802; Speaker
of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1764-65, 1766-67, 1780,
1780-86, 1787-88, 1789-90, 1791-93; Deputy
Governor of Rhode Island, 1775-78; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1793-97.
Slaveowner.
Died in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., July 6,
1808 (age 78 years, 245
days).
Original interment at Bristol Town Common, Bristol, R.I.; reinterment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
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James De Wolf (1764-1837) —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March
18, 1764.
Democrat. Slave
trader; built an early cotton
mill; manufacturer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1800; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1819-21; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1821-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
21, 1837 (age 73 years, 278
days).
Original interment at De
Wolf Family Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.; reinterment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
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James DeWolf Perry (1815-1876) —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in 1815.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1864,
1868
(member, Credentials
Committee); member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1860.
Died in 1876
(age about
61 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Matthew Calbraith Butler (1836-1909) —
also known as Matthew C. Butler —
of Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born near Greenville, Greenville District (now Greenville
County), S.C., March 8,
1836.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1860, 1866; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1870; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1877-95; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President).
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April
14, 1909 (age 73 years, 37
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William
Butler Jr. and Jane (Perry) Butler; married, February
25, 1858, to Maria Simkins Pickens (daughter of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens); nephew of Oliver Hazard Perry, Matthew
Calbraith Perry, Andrew
Pickens Butler and Pierce
Mason Butler; grandson of William
Butler; first cousin of James
DeWolf Perry and Caroline Slidell Perry (who married August
Belmont (1816-1890)); first cousin once removed of Perry
Belmont, August
Belmont (1853-1924) and Oliver
Hazard Perry Belmont. |
|  | Political families: Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell
family of Edgefield, South Carolina; Bradford-DeWolf-Butler-Perry
family of Bristol, Rhode Island (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
|  | Books about Matthew Calbraith Butler:
Samuel J. Martin, Southern
Hero : Matthew Calbraith Butler, Confederate General, Hampton
Redshirt, and U.S. Senator |
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LeBaron Bradford Colt (1846-1924) —
also known as LeBaron B. Colt —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 25,
1846.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1879-81; U.S.
District Judge for Rhode Island, 1881-84; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1884-1913; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1913-24; died in office 1924.
Died in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., August
18, 1924 (age 78 years, 54
days).
Interment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
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