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Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee

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.

  Edwin Hickman Ewing (1809-1902) — of Tennessee. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., December 2, 1809. Whig. Lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1841-42; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1845-47; president, University of Nashville. Slaveowner. Died in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn., April 24, 1902 (age 92 years, 143 days). Interment at Murfreesboro City Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of Nathan E. Ewing and Sarah (Hill) Ewing; brother of Andrew Ewing; granduncle of John Overton Pendleton and Harvey Watterson.
  Political families: Pendleton #1 family of Maryland; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Harvey Magee Watterson (1811-1891) — also known as Harvey M. Watterson — of Tennessee. Born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 23, 1811. Democrat. Newspaper editor; lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1835; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 9th District, 1839-43; member of Tennessee state senate, 1845-47; Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate, 1845-47. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., October 1, 1891 (age 79 years, 312 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Married to Talitha Black (sister-in-law of Stanley Matthews); father of Henry Watterson; grandfather of Harvey Watterson.
  Political families: Cleveland-Harlan family; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Andrew Ewing (1813-1864) — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., June 17, 1813. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1849-51; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1860. Slaveowner. Died in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., June 16, 1864 (age 50 years, 365 days). Interment at Nashville City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of Nathan E. Ewing and Sarah (Hill) Ewing; brother of Edwin Hickman Ewing; married to Rowena Josey Williams; father of Rebecca Ewing (who married Henry Watterson); grandfather of Harvey Watterson; granduncle of John Overton Pendleton.
  Political families: Pendleton #1 family of Maryland; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Stanley Matthews (1824-1889) — of Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, July 21, 1824. Republican. State court judge in Ohio, 1851; member of Ohio state senate, 1856; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1858-61; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1877-79; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-89; died in office 1889. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., March 22, 1889 (age 64 years, 244 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Johnson Matthews and Isabella (Brown) Matthews; married, February 15, 1843, to Mary Ann Black (sister-in-law of Harvey Magee Watterson); father of Jane Matthews (who married Horace Gray) and Grace Elizabeth Matthews (who married James Harlan Cleveland); grandfather of James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; great-grandfather of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood; third cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II.
  Political families: Cleveland-Harlan family; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Henry Watterson Henry Watterson (1840-1921) — also known as "Marse Henry" — of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky. Born in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1840. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; editor, Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876 (Temporary Chair), 1880 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker), 1884, 1888 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1892; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1876-77; received the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, 1918. Methodist. Died in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., December 22, 1921 (age 81 years, 309 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Harvey Magee Watterson and Talitha (Black) Watterson; married to Rebecca Ewing (daughter of Andrew Ewing); father of Harvey Watterson; first cousin once removed of James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
  Political families: Cleveland-Harlan family; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry Watterson (built 1943 at Jacksonville, Florida; sold 1947; later renamed Spartan; ran aground and wrecked at Pasa Buenavista, Cuba, 1961) was originally named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)
  John Overton Pendleton (1851-1916) — also known as John O. Pendleton — of Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va. Born in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 4, 1851. Democrat. Candidate for West Virginia state senate, 1886; U.S. Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1889-90, 1891-95; defeated, 1895. Died in Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., December 24, 1916 (age 65 years, 173 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Henry Pendleton and Margaret Campbell (Ewing) Pendleton; grandnephew of Edwin Hickman Ewing and Andrew Ewing; great-grandnephew of John Pendleton Jr.; second great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Nathaniel Pendleton; first cousin four times removed of George Madison; second cousin of William Barret Pendleton, Bickerton Lyle Winston and Harvey Watterson; second cousin twice removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of John Penn, James Madison and William Taylor Madison; third cousin once removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and George Hunt Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Zachary Taylor; third cousin thrice removed of Clement F. Dorsey; fourth cousin of Francis Key Pendleton and Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Coleby Chew and Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro.
  Political families: Pendleton #1 family of Maryland; Pendleton #3 family of Virginia; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Harvey Watterson (1879-1908) — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., February 12, 1879. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for New York state assembly, 1906. While trying to close a window in his law office, he fell through the window to his death 110 feet below, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., November 11, 1908 (age 29 years, 273 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Watterson and Rebecca (Ewing) Watterson; grandson of Harvey Magee Watterson and Andrew Ewing; grandnephew of Edwin Hickman Ewing; second cousin of John Overton Pendleton and James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; second cousin once removed of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
  Political family: Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Harlan Cleveland Jr. (1894-1950) — also known as James H. Cleveland — of Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 28, 1894. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1939. Died in Hamilton County, Ohio, March 21, 1950 (age 55 years, 205 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Grace (Matthews) Cleveland and James Harlan Cleveland; married to Elizabeth McLaren; uncle of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood; grandson of Francis Landon Cleveland and Stanley Matthews; grandnephew of John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911); great-grandson of James Harlan; first cousin once removed of Henry Watterson, James S. Harlan and John Maynard Harlan; second cousin of Harvey Watterson and John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971); second cousin once removed of Grover Cleveland; second cousin thrice removed of Jonathan Usher; third cousin of Richard Folsom Cleveland; third cousin twice removed of John Palmer Usher and Robert Cleveland Usher; fourth cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison.
  Political families: Cleveland-Harlan family; Ewing-Watterson family of Ohio and Tennessee (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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