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.
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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Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) —
of Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass., November
21, 1729.
Physician;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775-76, 1778; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-84; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1779; common pleas court judge in New
Hampshire, 1779-82; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1782-90; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1790; President
of New Hampshire, 1790-93; Presidential Elector for New
Hampshire, 1792;
delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1793-94.
Congregationalist.
Died in Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H., May 19,
1795 (age 65 years, 179
days).
Interment at Plains
Cemetery, Kingston, N.H.; statue at Public
Square, Amesbury, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Josiah Bartlett Jr. (1768-1838) —
of Stratham, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H., August
29, 1768.
Member of New
Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1809-11, 1824-25; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1811-13; Presidential
Elector for New Hampshire, 1824.
Died in Stratham, Rockingham
County, N.H., April
16, 1838 (age 69 years, 230
days).
Interment at Old
Congregational Cemetery, Stratham, N.H.
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Ezra Bartlett —
of New Hampshire.
Presidential Elector for New Hampshire, 1828.
Burial location unknown.
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Wesley R. Orear (born c.1821) —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ky., about 1821.
Whig. Postmaster at Danville,
Ky., 1849-69.
Died in Franklin
County, Ky.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Theodore Bartlett (1841-1910) —
also known as Edward T. Bartlett —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y., June 14,
1841.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1891; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1894-1910; died in office 1910.
French
and English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union
League.
Died, of heart
disease, in Albany Hospital,
Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 3,
1910 (age 68 years, 323
days).
Interment somewhere
in Skaneateles, N.Y.
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James Hervey Hazelrigg (1848-1924) —
of Mt. Sterling, Montgomery
County, Ky.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ky., December
6, 1848.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; county judge in
Kentucky, 1882-86; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1893-1900.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
28, 1924 (age 75 years, 358
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Edward Clay O'Rear (1863-1961) —
also known as Edward C. O'Rear —
of Montgomery
County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Camargo, Montgomery
County, Ky., February
2, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1884;
Montgomery
County Judge, 1894-98; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1907-11; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1911; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1916.
Episcopalian.
Died in Woodford
County, Ky., September
12, 1961 (age 98 years, 222
days).
Interment at Machpelah
Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Ky.
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John Davis O'Rear (1870-1918) —
also known as John D. O'Rear —
of Mexico, Audrain
County, Mo.
Born in Audrain
County, Mo., March
21, 1870.
U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1913-18, died in office 1918.
Died of smallpox,
in La Paz, Bolivia,
July
14, 1918 (age 48 years, 115
days).
Interment somewhere
in La Paz, Bolivia.
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James Bigstaff O'Rear (1892-1975) —
also known as James B. O'Rear —
of Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ky., June 19,
1892.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1960.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., April
19, 1975 (age 82 years, 304
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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