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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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Thomas Gantt Jr. (d. 1808) —
of Prince
George's County, Md.
Member, Convention of 1774.
Died in 1808.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819) —
of Maryland.
Born near Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., October
29, 1745.
Governor
of Maryland, 1779-82, 1792-94; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1782-83; delegate
to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1792
(voted for George
Washington and John
Adams); member of Maryland
state senate, 1794.
Anglican;
later Catholic.
Died in Middleton Valley, Frederick
County, Md., November
9, 1819 (age 74 years, 11
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.;
reinterment in 1888 at Mt.
Carmel Roman Catholic Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lee and Christiana (Sim) Lee; married to Mary Digges;
father of John
Lee; grandfather of Mary Digges Lee (who married Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur); great-grandfather of John
Lee Carroll and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married Charles
Oliver O'Donnell); third great-grandfather of Outerbridge
Horsey; first cousin of Richard
Potts; first cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; second cousin of Alexander
Contee Hanson, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Alexander
Contee Magruder; second cousin once removed of Daniel
Carroll and Charles
Carroll of Carrollton; second cousin twice removed of John
Read Magruder, Fitzhugh
Lee, William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee and Francis
Preston Blair Lee; second cousin thrice removed of Edward
Brooke Lee; second cousin four times removed of Blair
Lee III and Edward
Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Lee
Marvin; third cousin of Zachary
Taylor; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, James
Sansome Lakin, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, John
Howell Carroll and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk. |
| |  | Political families: Lee-Mason
family of Virginia; Lee
family of Silver Spring, Maryland; Bowie-Taylor-Mackall-Johnson
family of Maryland; Carroll
#2 family of Baltimore, Maryland; Monroe
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| |  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Benjamin Mackall IV (1745-1807) —
of Calvert
County, Md.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., August
14, 1745.
Lawyer;
planter;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1768-71, 1774-76; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1778-1806.
Anglican;
later Presbyterian.
Died in Calvert
County, Md., 1807
(age about
61 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Calvert County, Md.
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Walter Bowie (1748-1810) —
of Maryland.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., 1748.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1777-97; state court judge in Maryland,
1791-92; member of Maryland
state senate, 1801-02; U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1802-05.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Prince
George's County, Md., November
9, 1810 (age about 62
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.
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Robert William Bowie (1750-1818) —
also known as Robert Bowie —
of Maryland.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., March, 1750.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1785-90, 1801-03; justice of the peace;
Governor
of Maryland, 1803-06, 1811-12; Presidential Elector for Maryland,
1808;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1809-10.
Episcopalian.
Died in Prince
George's County, Md., January
8, 1818 (age 67 years, 0
days).
Interment at Bowie Family Cemetery, Croom, Md.
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Thomas Mackall (1751-1799) —
of Calvert
County, Md.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., August
31, 1751.
Planter;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1779.
Anglican.
Died in Calvert
County, Md., 1799
(age about
47 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Potts (1753-1808) —
of Maryland.
Born in Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., July 19,
1753.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1781; member of Maryland
state senate, 1787; delegate
to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Attorney for Maryland, 1789-92; district judge in Maryland,
1791-92, 1796-1801; Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1792
(voted for George
Washington and John
Adams); U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1793-96; Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals,
1801-06.
Anglican.
Slaveowner.
Died in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., November
2, 1808 (age 55 years, 106
days).
Original interment at All
Saints' Parish Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; reinterment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
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Joseph Wilkinson —
of Maryland.
Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1804.
Burial location unknown.
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John Johnson (1770-1824) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., September
12, 1770.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state executive council, 1796-97; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1800; member of Maryland
state senate, 1801-05; mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1804-05, 1810-11; Presidential Elector for
Maryland, 1804;
Maryland
state attorney general, 1806-11; Presidential Elector for
Maryland, 1808;
Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1811-21.
Died in Hancock, Washington
County, Md., July 30,
1824 (age 53 years, 322
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) —
also known as "Old Rough and Ready" —
Born in Orange
County, Va., November
24, 1784.
Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the
U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; President
of the United States, 1849-50; died in office 1850.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of gastroenteritis,
in the White
House, Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1850 (age 65 years, 227
days). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains
were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the
theory.
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family
graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, June 21,
1810, to Margaret
Mackall Smith (niece of Benjamin
Mackall IV and Thomas
Mackall); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married Jefferson
Finis Davis); granduncle of Edmund
Haynes Taylor Jr.; ancestor *** of Victor
D. Crist; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin of James
Madison and William
Taylor Madison; second cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee, John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton, George
Madison, Coleby
Chew, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin twice removed of John
Walker, John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis
Walker; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro, Daniel
Micajah Pendleton and Max
Rogers Strother; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton; third cousin of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, Meriwether
Lewis, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Lee, John
Tyler (1790-1862), Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson, Fitzhugh
Lee, William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee, William
Barret Pendleton, James
Francis Buckner Jr., Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton, John
Overton Pendleton, Bickerton
Lyle Winston and Francis
Preston Blair Lee; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, John
Lee Carroll, Charles
Kellogg, James
Sansome Lakin and Edward
Brooke Lee; fourth cousin of William
Byrd III, Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Thomas
Walker Gilmer, Aylette
Buckner, David
Gardiner Tyler and Lyon
Gardiner Tyler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd, Charles
John Helm, Robert
Thomas Brooke, Hubbard
Dozier Helm and George
Washington Thornton Beck. |
| |  | Political families: Bowie-Taylor-Mackall-Johnson
family of Maryland; Taylor-Brodhead
family of Easton, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| |  | Cross-reference: David
R. Atchison — Thomas
Ewing |
| |  | Taylor counties in Fla., Ga., Iowa and Ky. are
named for him. |
| |  | Other politicians named for him: Zachary
T. Coy
— Zack
T. Sutley
— Zachary
T. Bielby
— Zachary
T. Nixon
— Zachary
T. Harris
— Zachary
T. Malaby
— Zachary
T. Davis
— Zack
Space
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| |  | Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor
never surrenders." |
| |  | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| |  | Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack
Bauer, Zachary
Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old
Southwest — Elbert B. Smith, The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore —
Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate
Presidents [anthology] |
| |  | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Robert William Bowie (1787-1848) —
also known as Robert W. Bowie —
of Nottingham, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Croom, Prince
George's County, Md., March 3,
1787.
Whig. Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1820;
Whig Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1836
(voted for William
Henry Harrison and John
Tyler); delegate to Whig National Convention from Maryland, 1839
(member, Balloting Committee).
Died in Prince
George's County, Md., January
3, 1848 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Interment at Bowie Family Cemetery, Croom, Md.
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Margaret Taylor (1788-1852) —
also known as Peggy Taylor; Margaret Mackall
Smith —
Born in Calvert
County, Md., September
21, 1788.
First
Lady of the United States, 1849-50.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Pascagoula, Jackson
County, Miss., August
14, 1852 (age 63 years, 328
days).
Interment at Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., May 21,
1796.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1821-27; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Maryland, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization; member,
Committee to Notify Nominees; speaker); U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1845-49, 1863-68; U.S.
Attorney General, 1849-50; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1861-62; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1868-69.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., February
10, 1876 (age 79 years, 265
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Thomas Fielder Bowie (1808-1869) —
of Maryland.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., April 7,
1808.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1837-38, 1845; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1843; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850; Whig candidate
for Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1852;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1855-59.
Slaveowner.
Died in Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., October
31, 1869 (age 61 years, 207
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.
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Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) —
also known as Jefferson Davis —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, Miss.; Warren
County, Miss.
Born in a log
cabin, Fairview, Christian County (now Todd
County), Ky., June 3,
1808.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War;
candidate for Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1843; Presidential Elector for
Mississippi, 1844;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1845-46; served in the
U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-51, 1857-61; candidate for Governor of
Mississippi, 1851; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1853-57; President
of the Confederacy, 1861-65.
Captured
by Union
forces in May 1865 and imprisoned
without trial for about two years.
Slaveowner.
Died of bronchitis
and malaria
in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
6, 1889 (age 81 years, 186
days).
Original interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1893 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Memorial Avenue, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane (Cook) Davis; married, June 17,
1835, to Sarah Knox Taylor (daughter of Zachary
Taylor and Margaret
Taylor); married, February
25, 1845, to Varina Howell (granddaughter of Richard
Howell); uncle of Mary Bradford (who married Richard
Brodhead); granduncle of Joseph
Davis Brodhead and Frances Eileen Hutt (who married Thomas
Edmund Dewey). |
| |  | Political families: Bowie-Taylor-Mackall-Johnson
family of Maryland; Taylor-Brodhead
family of Easton, Pennsylvania; Dewey-Davis
family of Owosso, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| |  | Cross-reference: Jesse
D. Bright — John
H. Reagan — Horace
Greeley — Solomon
Cohen — George
W. Jones — Samuel
A. Roberts — William
T. Sutherlin — Victor
Vifquain — Charles
O'Conor |
| |  | Jeff Davis
County, Ga., Jefferson Davis
Parish, La., Jefferson Davis
County, Miss. and Jeff Davis
County, Tex. are named for him. |
| |  | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jefferson Davis (built 1942 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| |  | Other politicians named for him: J.
Davis Brodhead
— Jefferson
D. Hostetter
— Jefferson
D. Blount
— Jefferson
Davis Carwile
— Jefferson
D. Helms
— Jefferson
Davis Wiggins
— Jefferson
Davis Parris
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| |  | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States 50 cent notes in 1861-64.
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| |  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| |  | Books by Jefferson Davis: The
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
(1881) |
| |  | Books about Jefferson Davis: William J.
Cooper, Jr., Jefferson
Davis, American : A Biography — Varina Davis, Jefferson
Davis : Ex-President of the Confederate States of America : A Memoir
by His Wife — William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald
Kennedy, Was
Jefferson Davis Right? — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson
Davis Gets His Citizenship Back — Herman Hattaway &
Richard E. Beringer, Jefferson
Davis, Confederate President — Felicity Allen, Jefferson
Davis: Unconquerable Heart — Clint Johnson, Pursuit:
The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of
Confederate President Jefferson Davis |
| |  | Image source: Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861 |
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Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr. (1830-1923) —
also known as Edmund H. Taylor, Jr. —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in 1830.
Democrat. Mayor
of Frankfort, Ky., 1871-77, 1881-90; member of Kentucky
state senate 20th District, 1902-04.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., January
19, 1923 (age about 92
years).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
12, 1846.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
New
York state assembly from Livingston County, 1878-79; New York
state comptroller, 1880-81; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1881-85, 1891-1907 (27th District
1881-85, 31st District 1891-93, 30th District 1893-1903, 34th
District 1903-07); defeated, 1906; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1884,
1904;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 43rd District, 1915.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
24, 1926 (age 80 years, 73
days).
Interment at Temple
Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Samuel Wadsworth and Mary Craig (Wharton) Wadsworth; brother of
Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; married 1876 to Louisa
Travers (granddaughter of Reverdy
Johnson); father of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; grandfather of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; great-grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; second great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott; second great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799) and Daniel
Pitkin; fourth cousin of Eli
Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of Morris
Woodruff, Elisha
Hunt Allen, George
Washington Wolcott, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Lawson
Wooding Hall and Selden
Chapin. |
| |  | Political families: Wadsworth-Whitney-Symington
family of New York; Bowie-Taylor-Mackall-Johnson
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| |  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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