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	Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. (1740-1823) — Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., December 28, 1740. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; justice of the peace; member of Northwest Territory House of Representatives, 1799-1801; U.S. Indian Agent to Cherokee Nation in Tennessee, 1801-23. Died in Bradley County, Tenn., January 28, 1823 (age 82 years, 31 days). Interment at Garrison Cemetery, Dayton, Tenn.   Relatives: Son of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Josiah Meigs; married, February 14, 1764, to Joanna Winborn; married, December 22, 1774, to Grace Starr; father of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; uncle of Henry Meigs; grandfather of Return Jonathan Meigs III; granduncle of Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; first cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger Calvin Leete; third cousin of Jonathan Hunt; third cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha Hunt Allen, Anson Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur Morris, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, William Dean Kellogg and Charles Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles H. Eastman, William Fessenden Allen, Rush Green Leaming, Frederick Walker Pitkin, Alvred Bayard Nettleton, Robert Cleveland Usher, Charles M. Hotchkiss, Frederick Hobbes Allen, Allen Clarence Wilcox and Carl Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina Hyde Jr..   Political families: Chittenden family of Connecticut; Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Meigs County, Tenn. is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Josiah Meigs (1757-1822) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; St. Georges, Bermuda; Athens, Clarke County, Ga. Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., August 21, 1757. Lawyer; newspaper editor and publisher; acting president, University of Georgia, 1801-10; U.S. Surveyor General, 1812-14; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1814-22; died in office 1822. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in Washington, D.C., September 4, 1822 (age 65 years, 14 days). Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1878 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; married 1782 to Clara Benjamin; father of Henry Meigs and Clara Meigs (who married John Forsyth); uncle of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandfather of Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; granduncle of Return Jonathan Meigs III; first cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger Calvin Leete; third cousin of Jonathan Hunt; third cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha Hunt Allen, Anson Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur Morris, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, William Dean Kellogg and Charles Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles H. Eastman, William Fessenden Allen, Rush Green Leaming, Frederick Walker Pitkin, Alvred Bayard Nettleton, Robert Cleveland Usher, Charles M. Hotchkiss, Frederick Hobbes Allen, Allen Clarence Wilcox and Carl Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina Hyde Jr..   Political families: Chittenden family of Connecticut; Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   The city of Meigs, Georgia, is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Martin Chittenden (1763-1840) — of Williston, Chittenden County, Vt.; Jericho, Chittenden County, Vt. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., March 12, 1763. Member of Vermont state legislature, 1800; U.S. Representative from Vermont 4th District, 1803-13; Governor of Vermont, 1813-15. Died in Williston, Chittenden County, Vt., September 5, 1840 (age 77 years, 177 days). Interment at Thomas Chittenden Cemetery, Williston, Vt.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Chittenden and Elizabeth (Meigs) Chittenden; brother of Mary Chittenden (who married Jonas Galusha) and Beulah Chittenden (who married Matthew Lyon); married to Anna Bentley; uncle of Chittenden Lyon; third great-grandnephew of John Winthrop (1606-1676); fourth great-grandson of John Winthrop (1588-1649); first cousin once removed of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and Josiah Meigs; first cousin four times removed of Fitz-John Winthrop; second cousin of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. and Henry Meigs; second cousin once removed of Josiah C. Chittenden, Return Jonathan Meigs III, Abel Madison Scranton, Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Roger Calvin Leete; third cousin once removed of Jonathan Hunt, Jeduthun Wilcox, John Willard, Clark S. Chittenden and Russell Sage; third cousin twice removed of Leonard Wilcox and Edgar Jared Doolittle; third cousin thrice removed of Charles H. Chittenden; fourth cousin of Chauncey Goodrich, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Elizur Goodrich, Frederick Wolcott and Elijah Hunt Mills; fourth cousin once removed of Enoch Woodbridge, Thomas Lindall Winthrop, Timothy Pitkin, Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Alvah Nash, David Parmalee Kelsey, Elisha Hunt Allen, Anson Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur Morris, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, William Dean Kellogg, Charles Jenkins Hayden and Eli Coe Birdsey.   Political families: Chittenden family of Connecticut; Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Men of Vermont (1894)
	Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (1764-1825) — also known as Return J. Meigs, Jr. — of Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., November 17, 1764. Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster at Marietta, Ohio, 1794-95; justice of Ohio state supreme court, 1803-04, 1808-09; resigned 1804; federal judge, 1807-08; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1808-10; Governor of Ohio, 1810-14; U.S. Postmaster General, 1814-23. Member, Freemasons. Died in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, March 29, 1825 (age 60 years, 132 days). Interment at Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.   Relatives: Son of Joanna (Winborn) Meigs and Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; father of Mary Sophia Meigs (who married John George Jackson); nephew of Josiah Meigs; uncle of Return Jonathan Meigs III; first cousin of Henry Meigs; first cousin once removed of Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; second cousin of Martin Chittenden; second cousin once removed of Chittenden Lyon; third cousin once removed of Jonathan Hunt and John Willard; third cousin twice removed of Roger Calvin Leete; fourth cousin of Elijah Hunt Mills; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Chittenden, Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha Hunt Allen, Anson Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur Morris, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, William Dean Kellogg and Charles Jenkins Hayden.   Political families: Jackson #1 family of West Virginia; Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Meigs County, Ohio is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	John George Jackson (1777-1825) — also known as John G. Jackson — of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Buckhannon, Lewis County, Va. (now Upshur County, W.Va.), September 22, 1777. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1798-1801, 1811-12; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07, 1st District 1807-10, 1813-17); U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1819-25; died in office 1825. In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, has was attacked and suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress, fought a duel with Joseph Pearson of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded in the hip. Slaveowner. Died in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va (now W.Va.), March 28, 1825 (age 47 years, 187 days). Interment at Old Jackson Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.   Relatives: Son of George Jackson; brother of Edward Brake Jackson; married 1800 to Mary Payne (sister-in-law of James Madison and Richard Cutts); married, July 19, 1810, to Mary Sophia Meigs (daughter of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.); father of John Jay Jackson and Mary Jackson (who married John James Allen); grandfather of John Jay Jackson Jr., James Monroe Jackson, Jacob Beeson Jackson and William Thomas Bland.   Political families: Jackson #1 family of West Virginia; Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut; Madison family of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile
	John Forsyth (1780-1841) — of Augusta, Richmond County, Ga. Born in Fredericksburg, Va., October 22, 1780. Democrat. Lawyer; Georgia state attorney general, 1808; U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1813-18, 1823-27 (at-large 1813-18, 1823-25, 2nd District 1825-27, at-large 1827); resigned 1827; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1818-19, 1829-34; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1819-23; Governor of Georgia, 1827-29; U.S. Secretary of State, 1834-41. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., October 21, 1841 (age 60 years, 364 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Robert Moriah Forsythe and Fanny (Johnston) Forsythe; married, May 12, 1802, to Clara Meigs (daughter of Josiah Meigs); father of John Forsyth Jr..   Political family: Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Forsyth County, Ga. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
	Henry Meigs (1782-1861) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., October 28, 1782. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1817-18; U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1819-21. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 20, 1861 (age 78 years, 204 days). Original interment at St. Luke's Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at St. Peter's Churchyard, Perth Amboy, N.J.   Relatives: Son of Josiah Meigs and Clara (Benjamin) Meigs; married, February 19, 1806, to Julia Austin; father of Henry Meigs Jr.; nephew of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; uncle of John Forsyth Jr.; first cousin of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; first cousin once removed of Return Jonathan Meigs III; second cousin of Martin Chittenden; second cousin once removed of Timothy Pitkin and Chittenden Lyon; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Lewis Fairchild; third cousin of William Whiting Boardman; third cousin once removed of Jonathan Hunt and John Willard; third cousin twice removed of Roger Calvin Leete and Mabel Thorp Boardman; fourth cousin of Elijah Hunt Mills, William Woodbridge, Bela Edgerton, Isaac Backus, Heman Ticknor, Martin Olds, Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, John Leslie Russell, Henry Titus Backus and Joshua Perkins; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Chittenden, Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha Hunt Allen, Anson Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur Morris, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Alfred Peck Edgerton, William Dean Kellogg, Charles Jenkins Hayden, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Leslie Wead Russell, William Henry Bulkeley, Charles Hazen Russell, John Clarence Keeler, Henry Stark Culver and Hiram Bingham.   Political family: Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
	Return Jonathan Meigs III (1801-1891) — also known as Return J. Meigs III — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.; Washington, D.C. Born in Winchester, Clark County, Ky., April 14, 1801. Lawyer; U.S. Indian Agent to Creek and Cherokee Nations, 1834; U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1841-42; member of Tennessee state senate, 1850; clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, 1863-91. Died in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1891 (age 90 years, 188 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of John Meigs and Parthenia (Clendenin) Meigs; married, November 1, 1825, to Sarah Keys 'Sally' Love; nephew of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandson of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; grandnephew of Josiah Meigs; first cousin once removed of Henry Meigs; second cousin of Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; second cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Raymond Lee Beuhring; third cousin of Chittenden Lyon; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan Hunt; fourth cousin of John Willard; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills and Roger Calvin Leete.   Political family: Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial
	Henry Meigs Jr. (1809-1887) — of Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 7, 1809. Republican. Mayor of Bayonne, N.J., 1869-79; president, New York Stock Exchange, 1877. Died in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., June 7, 1887 (age 78 years, 31 days). Interment at St. Peter's Churchyard, Perth Amboy, N.J.   Relatives: Son of Henry Meigs and Julia (Austin) Meigs; grandson of Josiah Meigs; grandnephew of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; first cousin of John Forsyth Jr.; first cousin once removed of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; second cousin of Return Jonathan Meigs III; second cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; second cousin twice removed of Timothy Pitkin; third cousin of Chittenden Lyon; third cousin once removed of William Whiting Boardman and Benjamin Lewis Fairchild; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan Hunt; fourth cousin of John Willard; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills, William Woodbridge, Bela Edgerton, Isaac Backus, Heman Ticknor, Martin Olds, Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, John Leslie Russell, Henry Titus Backus, Joshua Perkins, Roger Calvin Leete and Mabel Thorp Boardman.   Political family: Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article
	John Forsyth Jr. (1812-1877) — of Mobile, Mobile County, Ala.; Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga. Born in Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., October 31, 1812. Democrat. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, 1835-38; postmaster at Columbus, Ga., 1845-49; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; newspaper editor; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1856-58; member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1859; mayor of Mobile, Ala., 1861, 1865. Died in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., May 2, 1877 (age 64 years, 183 days). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.   Relatives: Son of John Forsyth and Clara (Meigs) Forsyth; married 1834 to Margaret Hull; nephew of Henry Meigs; grandson of Josiah Meigs; grandnephew of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; first cousin of Henry Meigs Jr.; first cousin once removed of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; second cousin of Return Jonathan Meigs III; second cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; second cousin twice removed of Timothy Pitkin; third cousin of Chittenden Lyon; third cousin once removed of William Whiting Boardman and Benjamin Lewis Fairchild; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan Hunt; fourth cousin of John Willard; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills, William Woodbridge, Bela Edgerton, Isaac Backus, Heman Ticknor, Martin Olds, Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, John Leslie Russell, Henry Titus Backus, Joshua Perkins, Roger Calvin Leete and Mabel Thorp Boardman.   Political family: Meigs family of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary