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William Richardson Davie (1756-1820) —
also known as "Father of the University of North
Carolina" —
of Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Egremont, England,
June
22, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Governor of
North Carolina, 1798-99.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Land's Ford, Chester
County, S.C., November
5, 1820 (age 64 years, 136
days).
Interment at Old
Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, The Waxhaws, S.C.
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Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) —
also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin —
of Fayette
County, Pa.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
January
29, 1761.
Democrat. Delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of
Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1790-92; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793-94; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1795-1801; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to France, 1815-23; Great Britain, 1826-27.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
12, 1849 (age 88 years, 195
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin;
married 1789 to Sophie
Allègre (1766-1789); married, November
11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson (1766-1849); second
great-grandfather of May
Preston Davie; cousin by marriage of Joseph
Hopper Nicholson (1770-1817). |
| | Political families: Key
family of Maryland; Davie
family of Maryland (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: John
L. Dawson |
| | Gallatin counties in Ill., Ky. and Mont. are
named for him. |
| | The city
of Gallatin,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The village
of Galatia,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The Gallatin River,
which flows through Gallatin
County, Montana, is named for
him. — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Albert Gallatin (built 1941, torpedoed and sunk
1944) was named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Albert
Galliton Harrison
— Albert
G. Jewett
— Albert
G. Hawes
— Albert
G. Wakefield
— Albert
Gallatin Talbott
— Albert
G. Dow
— Albert
Gallatin Kellogg
— Albert
Gallatin Marchand
— Albert
G. Brown
— Albert
G. Brodhead, Jr.
— Albert
G. Allison
— Albert
G. Riddle
— Albert
Galiton Watkins
— Albert
G. Porter
— Albert
Gallatin Egbert
— Albert
Gallatin Jenkins
— Albert
Gallatin Calvert
— Albert
G. Lawrence
— Albert
G. Foster
— Albert
G. Simms
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 note in 1862-63. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Books about Albert Gallatin: John
Austin Stevens, Albert
Gallatin: An American Statesman — L. B. Kuppenheimer,
Albert
Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability — Nicholas
Dungan, Gallatin:
America's Swiss Founding Father — Raymond Walters, Albert
Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat |
| | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Joseph Hopper Nicholson (1770-1817) —
of Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Chestertown, Kent
County, Md., May 15,
1770.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Queen Anne's County, 1796-98; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1799-1806 (6th District 1799-1801,
at-large 1801-06); Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1806-17; died in
office 1817; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Episcopalian.
Died in Baltimore
County, Md., March 4,
1817 (age 46 years, 293
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Talbot County, Md.
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Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in Carroll
County, Md., August
1, 1779.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1833-41.
During the war of 1812, while on a mission to obtain the release of a
prisoner from British forces, witnessed the bombardment of Fort
McHenry from the deck of the British ship Surprise; that
night, September 13-14, 1814, he wrote a poem "The Spangled Banner".
The poem was published soon afterward, rapidly gained popularity, and
became the lyrics to the U.S. national anthem.
Died, from pleurisy,
in Baltimore,
Md., January
11, 1843 (age 63 years, 163
days).
Originally entombed at Old
St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.; later interred in 1866 at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; memorial monument at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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William Preston (1816-1887) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., October
16, 1816.
Lawyer;
delegate to Whig National Convention from Kentucky, 1839 (speaker);
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1850, 1868-69; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1851-53; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1852-55; defeated,
1854; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856,
1880
(speaker);
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1859-61; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
21, 1887 (age 70 years, 340
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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May Preston Davie (1895-1975) —
also known as Eugénie Mary Ladenburg; Mrs. Preston
Davie —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1895.
Republican. Delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936,
1960
(alternate).
Female.
Died, of heart
failure, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
19, 1975 (age 80 years, 231
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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