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Note: This is just one of
1,325
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 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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John Walker (1744-1809) —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., February
13, 1744.
Planter;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790.
Died in Orange
County, Va., December
2, 1809 (age 65 years, 292
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Walker and Mildred (Thornton) Walker; brother of Francis
Walker; married 1764 to
Elizabeth Moore; uncle of Mildred Gilmer (who married William
Wirt); granduncle of Thomas
Walker Gilmer; first cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; first cousin thrice removed of George
Washington Thornton Beck; first cousin four times removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; first cousin five times removed of Archer
Woodford; second cousin of Aylett
Hawes; second cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, George
Madison, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Richard
Hawes and Albert
Gallatin Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Aylette
Buckner, David
Shelby Walker and Aylett
Hawes Buckner; second cousin thrice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Charles
John Helm, Robert
Thomas Brooke, Hubbard
Dozier Helm, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry
Bartow Hawes; second cousin four times removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; second cousin five times removed of Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro and Max
Rogers Strother. |
| | | Political families: Walker-Edwards
family of North Carolina and Georgia; Cobb-Lumpkin
family of Athens, Georgia; Walker-Lowndes
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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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David Walker (d. 1820) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-96; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1817-20; died in
office 1820.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 1,
1820.
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1818) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Granville County (part now in Warren
County), N.C., August
15, 1754.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1778-79, 1784; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1781-83, 1787; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1789-95.
Slaveowner.
Died in Crawford
County, Ga., June 6,
1818 (age 63 years, 295
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Crawford County, Ga.
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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;
Democratic Presidential Elector for North Carolina, 1836.
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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George Walker (1763-1819) —
of Jessamine
County, Ky.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., 1763.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1810-14; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1813-14.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., 1819
(age about
56 years).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Jessamine County, Ky.
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Henry Seawell —
of Wake
County, N.C.
North
Carolina state attorney general, 1803-08.
Burial location unknown.
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Francis Walker (1764-1806) —
of Virginia.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., June 22,
1764.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1788-91, 1797-1801; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 14th District, 1793-95.
Slaveowner.
Died in Albemarle
County, Va., March, 1806
(age 41
years, 0 days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Walker and Mildred (Thornton) Walker; brother of John
Walker; married to Jane Byrd Nelson; uncle of Mildred Gilmer (who
married William
Wirt); granduncle of Thomas
Walker Gilmer; first cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; first cousin thrice removed of George
Washington Thornton Beck; first cousin four times removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; first cousin five times removed of Archer
Woodford; second cousin of Aylett
Hawes; second cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, George
Madison, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Richard
Hawes and Albert
Gallatin Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Aylette
Buckner, David
Shelby Walker and Aylett
Hawes Buckner; second cousin thrice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Charles
John Helm, Robert
Thomas Brooke, Hubbard
Dozier Helm, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry
Bartow Hawes; second cousin four times removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; second cousin five times removed of Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro and Max
Rogers Strother. |
| | | Political families: Walker-Edwards
family of North Carolina and Georgia; Cobb-Lumpkin
family of Athens, Georgia; Walker-Lowndes
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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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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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Jesse Wharton (1782-1833) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Covesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 29,
1782.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1807-09; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1814-17.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 22,
1833 (age 50 years, 358
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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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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Micajah Thomas Hawkins (1790-1858) —
also known as Micajah T. Hawkins —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born near Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., May 20,
1790.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1819; member of
North
Carolina state senate, 1823; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1831-41.
Slaveowner.
Died December
22, 1858 (age 68 years, 216
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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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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Thomas Jefferson Green (1802-1863) —
of North Carolina; Texas; California.
Born in Warren
County, N.C., 1802.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1823; general in the
Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1837; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850.
Sponsored the bill in the California Senate to create
the University of California.
Died in North Carolina, December
12, 1863 (age about 61
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1905 at Fairview
Cemetery, Warrenton, 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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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"; "The Great
Emancipator" —
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.
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 and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; 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; first cousin twice removed of Artie
Clyde Sullinger; 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, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr., Enoch
Lincoln and Alexander
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Walker-Edwards
family of North Carolina and Georgia; Lincoln
#1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln
#2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Porter-Lincoln
family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
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 — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton — John
B. Castleman — Melvin
D. Hildreth |
| | | 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
— A.
Lincoln Pohalski
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
L. Day
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— Abraham
L. Tyre
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— A.
Lincoln Dryden
— Abraham
L. Payton
— Abraham
L. Alloway
— Abraham
L. Field
— Abraham
L. Doris
— 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: Three Decades of Federal
Legislation (1885) |
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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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William Eaton Jr. (1810-1881) —
of Warren
County, N.C.
Born in 1810.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1840; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1840; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1851-52.
Died in 1881
(age about
71 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, Clement
F. Dorsey and Andrew
Jackson Cobb; 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, Robert
Thomas Brooke, Hubbard
Dozier Helm and George
Washington Thornton Beck. |
| | | Political families: Walker-Edwards
family of North Carolina and Georgia; Walker-Lowndes
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The David S. Walker Library,
in Tallahassee,
Florida, is named for
him. |
| | | 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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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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Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904) —
also known as Matt W. Ransom —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.; Weldon, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Warren
County, N.C., October
8, 1826.
Lawyer;
Whig Presidential Elector for North Carolina, 1852;
North
Carolina state attorney general, 1853-55; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1858-60; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1872-95; member of Democratic
National Committee from North Carolina, 1876-88; U.S. Minister to
Mexico, 1895-97.
Slaveowner.
Died near Garysburg, Northampton
County, N.C., October
8, 1904 (age 78 years, 0
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Halifax County, N.C.
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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; Democratic
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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Wharton Jackson Green (1831-1910) —
also known as Wharton J. Green —
of Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C.
Born in St. Marks, Wakulla
County, Fla., February
28, 1831.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1872,
1876,
1892
(member, Rules
Committee), 1904
(alternate); U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1883-87.
Slaveowner.
Died near Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., August
6, 1910 (age 79 years, 159
days).
Interment at Cross
Creek Cemetery No. 1, Fayetteville, N.C.
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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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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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Wilkinson Call (1834-1910) —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., January
9, 1834.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1868;
U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1879-97; member of Democratic
National Committee from Florida, 1879-80.
Slaveowner.
Died August
24, 1910 (age 76 years, 227
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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David Shelby Walker Jr. (1846-1889) —
also known as David S. Walker, Jr. —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Leon
County, Fla., October
10, 1846.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; mayor
of Tallahassee, Fla., 1875, 1878-79; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1883; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention, 1885; member of Florida
state senate, 1887.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., December
6, 1889 (age 43 years, 57
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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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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Robert Spratt Cockrell (1866-1957) —
also known as Robert S. Cockrell —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Livingston, Sumter
County, Ala., January
22, 1866.
Lawyer;
justice
of Florida state supreme court, 1902-17.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., June 23,
1957 (age 91 years, 152
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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William Schley Howard (1875-1953) —
also known as William S. Howard —
of Kirkwood (now part of Atlanta), DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Kirkwood (now part of Atlanta), DeKalb
County, Ga., June 29,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Sen. Patrick
Walsh, 1894-95; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1900; solicitor general, Stone
Mountain judicial circuit, 1905-11; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1911-19.
English
ancestry.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
1, 1953 (age 78 years, 33
days).
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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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
(Honorary
Vice-President), 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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Pierre D. Howard Jr. (b. 1943) —
of Georgia.
Born in Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga., February
3, 1943.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1973-90; Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1991-; Democratic Presidential Elector for
Georgia, 1992.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Still living as of 2014.
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