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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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Samuel Hughes Woodson (1777-1827) —
also known as Samuel H. Woodson —
of near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., September
15, 1777.
Lawyer;
Jessamine
County Court Clerk, 1803-19; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1821-23; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1825-26.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., July 28,
1827 (age 49 years, 316
days).
Interment at Crocket
Burying Ground, Nicholasville, Ky.
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Frederick Bates (1777-1825) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., June 23,
1777.
Lawyer;
postmaster at Detroit,
Mich., 1802-05; justice of
Michigan territorial supreme court, 1805; secretary
of Missouri Territory, 1806; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention, 1820; Governor of
Missouri, 1824-25; died in office 1825.
Died in Chesterfield, St. Louis
County, Mo., August
4, 1825 (age 48 years, 42
days).
Interment at Thornhill
Cemetery in Faust Park, Near St. Louis, St. Louis County, Mo.
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James Woodson Bates (1788-1846) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., August
25, 1788.
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1819; state court judge
in Arkansas, 1828.
Slaveowner.
Died in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., December
26, 1846 (age 58 years, 123
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Crawford County, Ark.
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Edward Bates (1793-1869) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., September
4, 1793.
Republican. Delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from St. Louis
County, 1820; Missouri
state attorney general, 1820-21; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1822, 1834; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1824-27; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1827-29; member of Missouri
state senate 5th District, 1830-31; state court judge in
Missouri, 1853-56; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1860;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1861-64; first
U.S. cabinet officer from west of the Mississippi River.
Quaker.
Slaveowner.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., March
25, 1869 (age 75 years, 202
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Tucker Woodson (1804-1874) —
of Jessamine
County, Ky.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., November
4, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1830; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1840; Jessamine
County Judge.
Died July 8,
1874 (age 69 years, 246
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Meade Woodson (1806-1877) —
also known as David M. Woodson —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., 1806.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1833; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Greene County,
1847; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1848; circuit judge in Illinois,
1850; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1868.
Died in Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill., 1877
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Hughes Woodson (1815-1881) —
also known as Samuel H. Woodson —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., October
24, 1815.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention 25th District,
1845-46; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1853-54; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1857-61; circuit judge
in Missouri 24th Circuit, 1875-81; died in office 1881.
Slaveowner.
Died in Independence, Jackson
County, Mo., June 23,
1881 (age 65 years, 242
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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Silas Woodson (1819-1896) —
of Knox
County, Ky.; St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born near Barbourville, Knox
County, Ky., May 18,
1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1842, 1853-55; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; Governor of
Missouri, 1873-75; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Missouri, 1876,
1880;
circuit judge in Missouri, 1881-96.
Protestant;
later Catholic.
Died October
9, 1896 (age 77 years, 144
days).
Interment at Mt.
Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Wade Netherland Woodson and Alice (Chick) Woodson; married, September
13, 1842, to Mary Jane McRoberts; married, July 27,
1846, to Olivia Adams; married, December
27, 1866, to Virginia Juliet Lard; first cousin of Samuel
Hughes Woodson (1777-1827); first cousin once removed of Tucker
Woodson, David
Meade Woodson and Samuel
Hughes Woodson (1815-1881); first cousin twice removed of John
McDowell Woodson; third cousin once removed of Frederick
Bates, James
Woodson Bates and Edward
Bates; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Woodson and John
Archibald Woodson; third cousin thrice removed of James
Alexander Woodson and Urey
Woodson. |
| | | Political family: Woodson
family of Jessamine County, Kentucky. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography |
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Daniel Woodson (1824-1894) —
of Lynchburg,
Va.; Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.; Coffeyville, Montgomery
County, Kan.
Born May 13,
1824.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; secretary
of Kansas Territory, 1854-57; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1855, 1855, 1856, 1856, 1857.
Died in Claremore, Cherokee Nation County, Indian Territory (now Rogers
County, Okla.), October
5, 1894 (age 70 years, 145
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John McDowell Woodson (b. 1834) —
also known as John M. Woodson —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., June 5,
1834.
Engineer;
lawyer;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Greene County,
1862; member of Illinois
state senate, 1867-69; attorney for several railroads.
Burial location unknown.
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Mathew C. Moore (1837-1877) —
Born near Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., April
24, 1837.
Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1875.
Died in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., April
24, 1877 (age 40 years, 0
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Crawford County, Ark.; reinterment
in 1915 at Forest
Park Cemetery, Fort Smith, Ark.
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John Archibald Woodson (b. 1843) —
of Meagher
County, Mont.; Washington
County, Miss.; Miles City, Custer
County, Mont.
Born in Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., May 28,
1843.
Democrat. Meagher
County Sheriff; member of Montana state legislature, 1890.
Baptist.
Burial location unknown.
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James Alexander Woodson (1848-1908) —
also known as J. A. Woodson —
of Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark.; Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., July 14,
1848.
Grocer; paving
contractor; railroad
builder; mayor
of Little Rock, Ark., 1895-1900.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., October
19, 1908 (age 60 years, 97
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Urey Woodson (1859-1939) —
of Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky.
Born in Madisonville, Hopkins
County, Ky., August
16, 1859.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; Kentucky
railroad commissioner, 1891-95; member of Democratic
National Committee from Kentucky, 1896-1912, 1916-18, 1924-28; Secretary
of Democratic National Committee, 1904-12; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1932;
Convention Secretary, 1908,
1912.
Presbyterian.
Died in Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky., August
6, 1939 (age 79 years, 355
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Ky.
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