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1,164
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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Charles Anderson Wickliffe (1788-1869) —
also known as Charles A. Wickliffe —
of Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky.
Born near Springfield, Washington
County, Ky., June 8,
1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1812-13, 1822-23, 1833-35; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1823-33, 1861-63 (9th District
1823-33, 5th District 1861-63); Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1836-39; Governor of
Kentucky, 1839-40; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1841-45; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Ilchester, Howard
County, Md., October
31, 1869 (age 81 years, 145
days).
Interment at Bardstown
Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky.
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John Bennett Dawson (1798-1845) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., March
17, 1798.
Planter;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1834; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana, 1841-45 (2nd District 1841-43, 3rd
District 1843-45); died in office 1845; postmaster at New
Orleans, La., 1843.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Francisville, West
Feliciana Parish, La., June 26,
1845 (age 47 years, 101
days).
Interment at Grace
Episcopal Churchyard, St. Francisville, La.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Isaac Johnson (1803-1853) —
of Louisiana.
Born November
1, 1803.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1830; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1840; Governor of
Louisiana, 1846-50; Louisiana
state attorney general, 1850.
Episcopalian.
Died, of a heart
attack, in a hotel at
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
15, 1853 (age 49 years, 134
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Holt (1807-1894) —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Breckinridge
County, Ky., January
6, 1807.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; Jefferson
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1833-35; U.S. Commissioner of
Patents, 1857; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1859-60; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1861.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
1, 1894 (age 87 years, 207
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Breckinridge County, Ky.
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J. J. Holt (d. 1868) —
District judge in Texas 10th District, 1850.
Died in Texas, March 1,
1868.
Burial location unknown.
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David Levy Yulee (1810-1886) —
also known as David Levy; "Father of Florida's
Railroads" —
of St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla.; Homosassa, Citrus
County, Fla.
Born in St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, June 12,
1810.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from St. Johns County,
1838-39; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1845-51, 1855-61; imprisoned
as a Confederate
at Fort Pulaski, Fla. for a time after the Civil War.
Jewish.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1886 (age 76 years, 120
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Charles Wickliffe (1819-1895) —
also known as Robert C. Wickliffe —
of Bayou Sara, West
Feliciana Parish, La.
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., January
6, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Louisiana
state senate, 1850; Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana, 1854-56; Governor of
Louisiana, 1856-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Louisiana, 1876,
1884.
Presbyterian.
Died in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., April
18, 1895 (age 76 years, 102
days).
Interment at Bardstown
Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky.
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Joseph White Holt (1825-1898) —
of New Castle, Craig
County, Va.; Hamlin, Lincoln
County, W.Va.
Born in Campbell
County, Va., December
6, 1825.
Lawyer;
Craig
County Commonwealth Attorney; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Lincoln County, 1881-84.
Presbyterian.
Died in Hamlin, Lincoln
County, W.Va., January
21, 1898 (age 72 years, 46
days).
Interment at Fairview Memory Gardens, Hamlin, W.Va.
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John Crepps Wickliffe (1830-1913) —
also known as John C. Wickliffe —
of Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky.
Born in Nelson
County, Ky., July 11,
1830.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1857; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1874; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1885-89.
Died in Attalla, Etowah
County, Ala., January
3, 1913 (age 82 years, 176
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (1869-1940) —
also known as J. C. W. Beckham —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., August
5, 1869.
Democrat. School
principal; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1894-98; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1898; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1900; Governor of
Kentucky, 1900-07; defeated, 1927; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1900,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1908,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916,
1920,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1915-21; defeated, 1920, 1936.
Presbyterian.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
9, 1940 (age 70 years, 157
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Robert Wickliffe Woolley (1871-1958) —
also known as Robert W. Woolley —
of Virginia; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., April
29, 1871.
Democrat. Director, U.S. Mint, 1915-16; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1917-20; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
District of Columbia, 1936,
1940.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., December
15, 1958 (age 87 years, 230
days).
Interment at Fairfax
City Cemetery, Fairfax, Va.
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Robert Charles Wickliffe (1874-1912) —
also known as Robert C. Wickliffe —
of St. Francisville, West
Feliciana Parish, La.
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., May 1,
1874.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898; served in the
U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; district attorney, 24th
Judicial District, 1902-06; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1909-12; died in
office 1912; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1912.
While walking on the Southern Railway track in Potomac Park, was struck and
killed by a train, in a train, Washington,
D.C., June 11,
1912 (age 38 years, 41
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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William Sidney Wysong (1876-1963) —
also known as William S. Wysong —
of Webster Springs, Webster
County, W.Va.
Born in Hamlin, Lincoln
County, W.Va., February
13, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
mayor of Webster Springs, W.Va., 1907-09; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Webster County, 1911-14,
1929-30, 1935-36, 1951-52; chair of
Webster County Democratic Party, 1940-42; candidate for
Presidential Elector for West Virginia; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1942-43.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Freemasons;
Lions.
Died in West Virginia, April
26, 1963 (age 87 years, 72
days).
Burial location unknown.
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