Note: This is just one of
1,162
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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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Georgia.
Born in Warren
County, Ga., July 15,
1797.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1830-34.
When he learned that a man he had sentenced to death for murder was
not guilty, he killed
himself by gunshot,
Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., July 4,
1834 (age 36 years, 354
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) —
also known as Mirabeau B. Lamar —
of Texas.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., August
16, 1798.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1829-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1832, 1834; colonel in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836-38; President
of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S.
Minister to Costa Rica, 1858-59; Nicaragua, 1858-59.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, near Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., December
19, 1859 (age 61 years, 125
days).
Interment at Morton
Cemetery, Richmond, Tex.
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Absalom Harris Chappell (1801-1878) —
also known as Absalom H. Chappell —
of Forsyth, Monroe
County, Ga.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.; Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born in Mt. Zion, Hancock
County, Ga., December
18, 1801.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1832-33, 1845; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1834-39; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843-45; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1865, 1877.
Slaveowner.
Died in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., December
11, 1878 (age 76 years, 358
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; president,
University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Slaveowner.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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William McKendree Robbins (1828-1905) —
of Eufaula, Barbour
County, Ala.; Statesville, Iredell
County, N.C.
Born in Trinity, Randolph
County, N.C., October
26, 1828.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1868, 1872; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 7th District, 1873-79.
Died in Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C., May 5,
1905 (age 76 years, 191
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Statesville, N.C.
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William Bailey Lamar (1853-1928) —
also known as William B. Lamar —
of Monticello, Jefferson
County, Fla.
Born near Monticello, Jefferson
County, Fla., June 12,
1853.
Democrat. Lawyer;
county judge in Florida, 1883-86; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1887; Florida
state attorney general, 1889-99; U.S.
Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1903-09.
Died September
26, 1928 (age 75 years, 106
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Gaston Ahi Robbins (1858-1902) —
also known as Gaston A. Robbins —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Goldsboro, Wayne
County, N.C., September
26, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1893-96, 1899-1900.
During the fire that
destroyed the Park Avenue Hotel,
already burned, he jumped from a sixth story window, and fell to
his death, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 1902 (age 43 years, 149
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Statesville, N.C.
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