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 Willing (1731-1821) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
19, 1731.
Lawyer;
merchant;
city court justice, 1759; justice of the court of common pleas, 1761;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1763-64; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1767; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; banker.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
19, 1821 (age 89 years, 31
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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John Brown (1736-1803) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., January
27, 1736.
Merchant;
banker;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1782-84; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1799-1801.
Slaveowner.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., September
20, 1803 (age 67 years, 236
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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Benjamin Brown (1756-1831) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Swansea, Bristol
County, Mass., September
23, 1756.
Physician;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1809, 1811-12, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 16th District, 1815-17.
Died in Waldoboro, Lincoln
County, Maine, September
17, 1831 (age 74 years, 359
days).
Interment at Waldoboro
Cemetery, Waldoboro, Maine.
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Charles Willing Byrd (1770-1828) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Charles
City County, Va., July 26,
1770.
Lawyer;
secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1800-03; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1802; Governor
of Northwest Territory, 1802-03; U.S.
District Judge for Ohio, 1803-28; died in office 1828.
Died in Sinking Spring, Highland
County, Ohio, August
25, 1828 (age 58 years, 30
days).
Interment at Byrd
Cemetery, Sinking Spring, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of William
Byrd III and Mary Shippen (Willing) Byrd; married, April 6,
1797, to Sarah Waters Meade; married, October
8, 1818, to Hannah Miles; nephew of Thomas
Willing; grandson of Charles
Willing; grandnephew of Edward
Shippen (1703-1781) and William
Shippen; great-granduncle of Connally
Findlay Trigg and Richard
Evelyn Byrd; second great-grandson of Edward
Shippen (1639-1712); second great-granduncle of Harry
Flood Byrd; third great-granduncle of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; first cousin once removed of Edward
Shippen (1729-1806) and John
Brown Francis; first cousin twice removed of Edward
Overton Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of James
Rieman Macfarlane and Francis
Fisher Kane; first cousin five times removed of William
Welby Beverley; second cousin once removed of Edward
Shippen (1823-1904); second cousin twice removed of Bertha
Shippen Irving; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin five times removed of William
Bradley Umstead and Angier
Biddle Duke; third cousin twice removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel
Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Zachary
Taylor, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton. |
|  | Political families: Shippen-Byrd
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Byrd-Flood
family of Virginia; Brown-Willing-Byrd
family of Providence, Rhode Island (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Brown Francis (1791-1864) —
of Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 31,
1791.
Democrat. Member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1821; member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1831, 1845-56; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1833-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Rhode Island, 1840;
U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1844-45.
Died in Warwick, Kent
County, R.I., August
9, 1864 (age 73 years, 70
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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