Note: This is just one of
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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Andrew Kennedy (1810-1847) —
of Muncietown (now Muncie), Delaware
County, Ind.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, July 24,
1810.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1836-40; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1841-47 (5th District 1841-43, 10th
District 1843-47).
Died of smallpox,
in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
31, 1847 (age 37 years, 160
days).
Original interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery (which no longer exists), Indianapolis, Ind.;
reinterment at Beech
Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Ind.
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of New York; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish
ancestry.
Mortally
wounded in a duel on
September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Case Broderick (1839-1920) —
of Holton, Jackson
County, Kan.
Born near Marion, Grant
County, Ind., September
23, 1839.
Republican. State court judge in Kansas, 1868-74; mayor of Holton,
Kan., 1874-75; member of Kansas
state senate, 1880-84; justice of
Idaho territorial supreme court, 1884-88; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 1st District, 1891-99.
Died in Holton, Jackson
County, Kan., April 1,
1920 (age 80 years, 191
days).
Interment at Holton
Cemetery, Holton, Kan.
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Evender Chalane Kennedy (1842-1893) —
Born in Muncie, Delaware
County, Ind., February
14, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1875; member of Kansas state
legislature, 1880.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., August
25, 1893 (age 51 years, 192
days).
Burial location unknown.
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