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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
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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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Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born near Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., December
17, 1757.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1780-82, 1784-85; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1791-1815 (at-large 1791-97,
5th District 1797-99, at-large 1799-1803, 6th District 1803-05,
at-large 1805-07, 6th District 1807-09, at-large 1809-11, 6th
District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 6th District 1815); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1801-05; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1815-28; resigned 1828; received 24
electoral votes for Vice-President, 1824;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835;
candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warren
County, N.C., June 29,
1837 (age 79 years, 194
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Warren County, N.C.
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Willis Alston (1769-1837) —
of Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C.; Hyde Park (unknown
county), N.C.
Born near Littleton, Halifax
County, N.C., 1769.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1790-92, 1820-24; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1794-96; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1799-1815, 1825-31 (at-large
1799-1803, 2nd District 1803-05, at-large 1805-07, 2nd District
1807-09, at-large 1809-11, 2nd District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15,
2nd District 1825-31).
Slaveowner.
Died in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., April
10, 1837 (age about 67
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Halifax County, N.C.
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Owen Rand Kenan (1804-1887) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Kenansville, Duplin
County, N.C., March 4,
1804.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1834-38; Representative
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
Died in Kenansville, Duplin
County, N.C., March 3,
1887 (age 82 years, 364
days).
Interment at Graham
Cemetery, Near Kenansville, Duplin County, N.C.
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Augustus Holmes Kenan (1805-1870) —
of Georgia.
Born in Montpelier, Baldwin
County, Ga., April
21, 1805.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1830; member of Georgia
state senate, 1840; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
Died in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., June 2,
1870 (age 65 years, 42
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Augustus A. Alston (1805-1839) —
of Georgia.
Born in Hancock
County, Ga., 1805.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1828-29.
Killed
in a duel with
Gen. Leigh Read, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., 1839
(age about
34 years).
Burial location unknown.
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David Shelby Walker (1815-1891) —
also known as David S. Walker —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Logan
County, Ky., May 2,
1815.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Tallahassee, Fla., 1852; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1860-65; Governor of
Florida, 1865-68; defeated (American), 1856; circuit judge in
Florida, 1878-91.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., July 20,
1891 (age 76 years, 79
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of David
Walker; married to Philoclea Alston (sister of Augustus
A. Alston; niece of Willis
Alston); father of Courtney Walker (who married Robert
Spratt Cockrell) and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; nephew of George
Walker; uncle of James
David Walker; first cousin twice removed of Howell
Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; second cousin twice removed of George
Washington, John
Walker and Francis
Walker; second cousin thrice removed of George
Madison; third cousin of Howell
Cobb (1772-1818); third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, Bushrod
Washington, Howell
Cobb (1815-1868) and Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb; third cousin twice removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison and Clement
F. Dorsey; fourth cousin of John
Thornton Augustine Washington, Francis
Taliaferro Helm and Thomas
Walker Gilmer; fourth cousin once removed of Andrew
Dorsey, Charles
John Helm, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden and Hubbard
Dozier Helm. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | The David S. Walker Library,
in Tallahassee,
Florida, is named for
him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Coke Howard (1817-1893) —
also known as Thomas C. Howard —
of Crawford
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in South Carolina, 1817.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1840; postmaster at Atlanta,
Ga., 1856-58, 1861-65.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., 1893
(age about
76 years).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Robert Augustus Alston (1832-1879) —
also known as Robert A. Alston —
of DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1832.
Lawyer;
farmer;
newspaper
publisher; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1878-79; died in office 1879.
Methodist.
A farmer named Ed Cox, angry over the sale of a prison labor lease
which Alston had negotiated, armed himself, announced he would kill
Alston, sought him in the Georgia state
capitol building, and found him in the State Treasurer's office.
Both men drew their pistols. Alston was mortally wounded by a shot to
the head, and died later that day, in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March
11, 1879 (age about 46
years). Cox was also shot and injured, but recovered, was
convicted of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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Lewis Holmes Kenan (1833-1871) —
of Georgia.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1833.
Member of Georgia
state senate 20th District, 1867-68.
Shot
and killed in
Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1871
(age about
38 years).
Interment somewhere
in Milledgeville, Ga.
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