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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James Johnson (1774-1826) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Orange
County, Va., January
1, 1774.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1808; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1820
(voted for James
Monroe and Daniel
D. Tompkins); U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1825-26; died in
office 1826.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
13, 1826 (age 52 years, 224
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Scott County, Ky.; cenotaph at
Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850) —
also known as Richard M. Johnson —
of Great Crossings, Scott
County, Ky.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ky., October
17, 1780.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1804; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1807-19, 1829-37 (4th District
1807-13, at-large 1813-15, 3rd District 1815-19, 5th District
1829-33, 13th District 1833-37); U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1819-29; Vice
President of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
19, 1850 (age 70 years, 33
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Benjamin Johnson (1784-1849) —
Born in Scott
County, Ky., January
22, 1784.
U.S.
District Judge for Arkansas, 1836-49; died in office 1849.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., October
2, 1849 (age 65 years, 253
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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John Telemachus Johnson (1788-1856) —
also known as John T. Johnson —
of Georgetown, Scott
County, Ky.
Born in Great Crossings, Scott
County, Ky., October
5, 1788.
Minister;
lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1821-25 (3rd District 1821-23, 5th
District 1823-25); Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1826.
Christian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., December
17, 1856 (age 68 years, 73
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Ambrose Hundley Sevier (1801-1848) —
also known as Ambrose H. Sevier —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Lakeport, Chicot
County, Ark.
Born in Greene
County, Tenn., November
4, 1801.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
territorial House of Representatives, 1823-27; Speaker
of Arkansas Territory House of Representatives, 1827; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1828-36; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1836-48; resigned 1848.
Slaveowner.
Died near Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., December
31, 1848 (age 47 years, 57
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Robert Ward Johnson (1814-1879) —
also known as Robert W. Johnson —
of Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark.
Born in Scott
County, Ky., July 22,
1814.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1847-53; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1853-61; Delegate
from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Senator
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Slaveowner.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., July 26,
1879 (age 65 years, 4
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1844-1906) —
also known as J. Cabell Breckinridge —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., December
28, 1844.
Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; cotton grower;
U.S. Surveyor-General for Washington, 1886-89.
Died, from malaria,
in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
8, 1906 (age 61 years, 11
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Mary
Breckinridge; brother of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge; married, December
1, 1869, to Sallie Frances Johnson (daughter of Robert
Ward Johnson); father of Laura Cyrene Breckinridge
(daughter-in-law of John
Conover Ten Eyck); grandson of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823); grandnephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; great-grandson of John
Breckinridge; second great-grandson of John
Witherspoon; second great-grandnephew of William
Preston and William
Cabell; first cousin once removed of Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge and Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell; first cousin thrice removed of William
Cabell Jr., Francis
Smith Preston, William
Henry Cabell and James
Patton Preston; second cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin once removed of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell, George
Craighead Cabell and John
Breckinridge Castleman; second cousin twice removed of William
Campbell Preston, James
McDowell, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Buchanan Floyd, John
Smith Preston, George
Rogers Clark Floyd and Edward
Carrington Cabell; third cousin of Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John
William Leftwich and Earle
Cabell. |
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