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Note: This is just one of
1,162
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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William Ballard Preston (1805-1862) —
of Virginia.
Born in Montgomery
County, Va., November
25, 1805.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1830-32, 1844-45; member of Virginia
state senate, 1840-44; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 12th District, 1847-49; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1849-50; delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Senator
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862; died in office
1862.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montgomery
County, Va., November
16, 1862 (age 56 years, 356
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Samuel Granville Staples (1821-1895) —
also known as Samuel G. Staples —
of Patrick
County, Va.
Born in 1821.
Delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861.
Died in 1895
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Fair
View Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.
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Waller Redd Staples (1826-1897) —
of Virginia.
Born in Patrick Court House (now Stuart), Patrick
County, Va., February
24, 1826.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1853-54; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1870-82.
Died in Christiansburg, Montgomery
County, Va., August
20, 1897 (age 71 years, 177
days).
Interment at Fair
View Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.
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John Norman Staples (1846-1920) —
also known as John N. Staples —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Patrick
County, Va., June 13,
1846.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1874-76; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1876,
1880;
member of North
Carolina state senate 24th District, 1881; Presidential Elector
for North Carolina, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Died in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., December
13, 1920 (age 74 years, 183
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C.
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