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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Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799-1887) —
also known as Chauncey F. Cleveland —
of Hampton, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Canterbury, Windham
County, Conn., February
16, 1799.
Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hampton, 1826-29, 1832,
1835-36, 1838; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1835-36, 1863; Governor of
Connecticut, 1842-44; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1849-53; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1856
(Convention
Vice-President; speaker),
1860.
Died in Hampton, Windham
County, Conn., June 6,
1887 (age 88 years, 110
days).
Interment at South
Cemetery, Hampton, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Silas Cleveland and Lois (Sharpe) Cleveland; married, December
13, 1821, to Diantha Hovey (first cousin once removed of Alfred
Avery Burnham (1819-1879)); married, January
22, 1869, to Helen Cornelia Litchfield; father of Delia Diantha
Cleveland (who married Alfred
Avery Burnham (1819-1879)); first cousin once removed of Henry
Sabin; second cousin once removed of Ira
Chandler Backus and William
Dean Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Robert
Treat Paine; third cousin once removed of Ephraim
Safford, Isaiah
Kidder, Jarvis
King Pike, Joshua
Perkins, Edward
Green Bradford, Stafford
Canning Cleveland, Bailey
Frye Adams, Orestes
Cleveland, Lee
Randall Sanborn and Nelson
Appleton Miles; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Hunt, Benjamin
Goodhue, Lyman
Kidder, Ezra
Kidder, David
Kidder, Augustus
Sabin Chase, Marden
Sabin, Joseph
Spalding, Edward
Green Bradford II and James
L. Sanborn; third cousin thrice removed of Jabez
Huntington, Irving
Hall Chase, Walter
Keene Linscott, Edward
Green Bradford Jr., Elizabeth
Bradford du Pont Bayard, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Grover
Fredrick Cleveland; fourth cousin of Jonathan
Usher, Jedediah
Sabin, Caleb
Blodgett, John
Larkin Payson, Charles
Stetson, James
Safford, Luther
Kidder, Isaiah
Stetson and Alanson
Pike; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills, Alvan
Kidder, Francis
Kidder, Ira
Kidder, Arba
Kidder, Joseph
Souther Kidder, Pascal
Paoli Kidder, John
Appleton, Jefferson
Parish Kidder, John
Palmer Usher, William
Henry Barnum, Francis
Landon Cleveland, Delos
Abiel Blodgett, Charles
Payson, Isaac
Newton Blodgett, Robert
Crawford Safford, Abner
Coburn Cleveland, Robert
Cleveland Usher, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Edward
Williams Hooker. |
|  | Political families: Cleveland-Harlan
family; Sabin
family of Pomfret, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Harlan (1800-1863) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Mercer
County, Ky., June 22,
1800.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1835-39; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1840-44; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1845; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1849-59.
Slaveowner.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., February
18, 1863 (age 62 years, 241
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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Francis Landon Cleveland (1823-1881) —
also known as Fred Cleveland —
of Augusta, Bracken
County, Ky.
Born in Amelia, Clermont
County, Ohio, October
27, 1823.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1860; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1870.
Died in Augusta, Bracken
County, Ky., August
16, 1881 (age 57 years, 293
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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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.
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Horace Gray (1828-1902) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
24, 1828.
Lawyer;
justice
of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1864-81; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1873-81; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-1902; died in office 1902.
Unitarian.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., September
15, 1902 (age 74 years, 175
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Boyle
County, Ky., June 1,
1833.
Republican. Lawyer;
county judge in Kentucky, 1858-59; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1861-63; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1861-65; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1871; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1876
(delegation chair); Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1877-1911.
Presbyterian.
Died October
14, 1911 (age 78 years, 135
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) —
also known as Stephen Grover Cleveland; "Uncle
Jumbo"; "The Veto Mayor"; "Grover
The Good"; "The Sage of Princeton";
"Dumb Prophet"; "Buffalo Hangman";
"The Veto President"; "Beast of
Buffalo"; "Big Steve" —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Tamworth, Carroll
County, N.H.
Born in Caldwell, Essex
County, N.J., March
18, 1837.
Democrat. Lawyer; Erie
County Sheriff, 1870-73; mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1882; resigned 1882; Governor of
New York, 1883-85; President
of the United States, 1885-89, 1893-97; defeated, 1888.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1935.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 24,
1908 (age 71 years, 98
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; statue at City Hall Grounds, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland and Anne (Neal) Cleveland; married,
June
2, 1886, to Frances
Clara Folsom (first cousin once removed of Benjamin
Folsom); father of Richard
Folsom Cleveland (son-in-law of Thomas
Frank Gailor; brother-in-law of Frank
Hoyt Gailor); first cousin once removed of Francis
Landon Cleveland; second cousin of James
Harlan Cleveland; second cousin once removed of James
Harlan Cleveland Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Usher and Joseph
Wheeler Bloodgood; third cousin once removed of John
Palmer Usher and Robert
Cleveland Usher; third cousin thrice removed of Ephraim
Safford and Isaiah
Kidder; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Lord and Rollin
Usher Tyler. |
|  | Political family: Cleveland-Harlan
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Cross-reference: Henry
T. Ellett — Wilson
S. Bissell — David
King Udall — Edward
S. Bragg — Thomas
F. Grady — Lyman
K. Bass — George
B. Cortelyou — J.
Hampton Hoge — William
Gorham Rice — J.
Scott Harrison — Benjamin
Folsom |
|  | Cleveland counties in Ark. and Okla. are
named for him. |
|  | Mount
Cleveland, a volcano on Chuginadak
Island, Alaska, is named for
him. — The town
of Grover,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — The Cleveland National
Forest (established 1908), in San
Diego, Riverside,
Orange
counties, California, is named for
him. |
|  | Other politicians named for him: Grover
C. Cook
— Grover
C. Meyrs
— Grover
C. Talbot
— Grover
C. Helm
— Grover
C. Robertson
— G. C.
Cooley
— Grover
A. Whalen
— Grover
C. Taylor
— Grover
C. Winn
— Grover
C. Luke
— Grover
C. Albright
— Grover
Cleveland Welsh
— Grover
C. Belknap
— Grover
C. Worrell
— Grover
B. Hill
— Grover
C. Dillman
— Grover
C. Brenneman
— Grover
C. George
— Grover
C. Mitchell
— Grover
C. Ladner
— Grover
C. Hall
— Grover
C. Tye
— Grover
C. Cisel
— Grover
C. Hedrick
— Grover
C. Hunter
— Grover
C. Montgomery
— Grover
C. Farwell
— Grover
C. Gillingham
— Grover
C. Studivan
— Grover
C. Layne
— Grover
C. Hudson
— Grover
C. Combs
— Grover
C. Snyder
— Grover
C. Guernsey
— Grover
C. Henderson
— Grover
C. Smith
— Grover
C. Jackson
— Grover
C. Hunter
— Grover
C. Bower
— Grover
C. Land
— Grover
C. Moritz
— Grover
C. Gregg
— Grover
C. Richman, Jr.
— Grover
C. Anderson
— Grover
C. Chriss
— Grover
C. Allen
— Grover
C. Criswell
— Grover
C. Brown
— Grover
C. Robinson III
— Grover
C. Robinson IV
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|  | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 bill (1914-28), and on the $1,000 bill
(1928-46). |
|  | Campaign slogan (1884): "We love him
for the enemies he has made." |
|  | Opposition slogan (1884): "Ma, Ma,
Where's My Pa?" |
|  | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
|  | Books about Grover Cleveland: Alyn
Brodsky, Grover
Cleveland : A Study in Character — H. Paul Jeffers, An
Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover
Cleveland — Mark Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Henry F. Graff, Grover
Cleveland — Troy Senik, A
Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover
Cleveland — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate
Presidents [anthology] — Jeff C. Young, Grover
Cleveland (for young readers) |
|  | Critical books about Grover Cleveland:
Matthew Algeo, The
President Is a Sick Man: the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland
Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous
Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth — Charles
Lachman, A
Secret Life : The Lies and Scandals of President Grover
Cleveland |
|  | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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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.
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Benjamin Folsom (1847-1922) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Folsomdale, Wyoming
County, N.Y., December
5, 1847.
Journalist;
lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Sheffield, 1886-93; in his second term, president Grover
Cleveland expressed gratitude to his predecessor, Benjamin
Harrison, for allowing Folsom, his wife's cousin, to remain in
office as U.S. consul during his administration.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
17, 1922 (age 74 years, 255
days).
Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Thomas Frank Gailor (1856-1935) —
also known as Thomas F. Gailor —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., September
17, 1856.
Democrat. Episcopal
priest; university
professor; bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, 1898-1935; chancellor,
University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., 1908-35; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1924.
Died October
3, 1935 (age 79 years, 16
days).
Interment at University of the South Cemetery, Sewanee, Tenn.
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James S. Harlan (1861-1927) —
of Illinois.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., November
24, 1861.
Lawyer;
Puerto
Rico attorney general, 1901-03; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1906-17.
Died September
20, 1927 (age 65 years, 300
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Maynard Harlan (1864-1934) —
also known as John M. Harlan —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., December
21, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1897, 1905 (Republican); Harding-Coolidge
Republican candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1920.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
23, 1934 (age 69 years, 92
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864-1947) —
also known as Frances Clara Folsom; Frances Folsom
Cleveland —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., July 21,
1864.
First
Lady of the United States, 1886-89, 1893-97.
Female.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
29, 1947 (age 83 years, 100
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Oscar Folsom and Emma (Harmon) Folsom; married, June 2,
1886, to Grover
Cleveland; married, February
10, 1913, to Thomas Jecks Preston; mother of Richard
Folsom Cleveland; first cousin once removed of Benjamin
Folsom. |
|  | Political family: Cleveland-Harlan
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Cleveland Hall
of Languages (built 1911), at Wells College,
Aurora,
New York, is named for
her. |
|  | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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James Harlan Cleveland (1865-1906) —
also known as Harlan Cleveland —
of Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., January
21, 1865.
Democrat. U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1894-98; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1904
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Glendale, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
24, 1906 (age 41 years, 337
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Frank Hoyt Gailor (1892-1954) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Sewanee, Franklin
County, Tenn., May 9,
1892.
Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1921; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1923; Shelby
County Attorney, 1936-41; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1941-42; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1942-48.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega; American
Legion.
Died in 1954
(age about
62 years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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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.
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Richard Folsom Cleveland (1897-1974) —
also known as Richard F. Cleveland —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
28, 1897.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lawyer; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1967.
Died of chronic
pulmonary illness, in Baltimore,
Md., January
10, 1974 (age 76 years, 74
days).
Interment at Fowlers Mill Cemetery, Tamworth, N.H.
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John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 20,
1899.
Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1954-55; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1955-71.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1971 (age 72 years, 223
days).
Interment at Emmanuel
Church Cemetery, Weston, Conn.
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Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood (1926-1960) —
also known as Joseph W. Bloodgood —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., May 15,
1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Dane
County Coroner, 1951-54; lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Dane County 1st District, 1955-56; Dane
County District Attorney, 1957-60; Dane
County Family Court Judge, 1960.
Died from suicide,
by hanging
himself with his belt, in a hospital
shower room, in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., July 7,
1960 (age 34 years, 53
days).
Interment at Nashotah House Cemetery, Summit, Wis.
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