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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John Kerr (1782-1842) —
of Virginia.
Born near Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., August
4, 1782.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1813-15, 1815-17 (14th District
1813-15, 15th District 1815-17).
Slaveowner.
Died September
29, 1842 (age 60 years, 56
days).
Interment at Baptist
Cemetery, Yanceyville, N.C.
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Bartlett Yancey (1785-1828) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., February
19, 1785.
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15,
9th District 1815-17); member of North
Carolina state senate, 1817-27.
Slaveowner.
Died near Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., August
30, 1828 (age 43 years, 193
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Thomas Settle (1789-1857) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Reidsville, Rockingham
County, N.C., March 9,
1789.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1816, 1826-27; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 9th District, 1817-21;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1832.
Slaveowner.
Died in Rockingham
County, N.C., August
5, 1857 (age 68 years, 149
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Rockingham County, N.C.
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John Kerr Jr. (1811-1879) —
of Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C.
Born near Danville, Pittsylvania
County, Va., February
10, 1811.
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1853-55; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1858.
Slaveowner.
Died September
5, 1879 (age 68 years, 207
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Yanceyville, N.C.
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David Settle Reid (1813-1891) —
also known as David S. Reid —
of Reidsville, Rockingham
County, N.C.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., April
19, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1843-47; Governor of
North Carolina, 1851-54; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1854-59.
Slaveowner.
Died June 19,
1891 (age 78 years, 61
days).
Interment at Greenview
Cemetery, Reidsville, N.C.
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Thomas Settle (1831-1888) —
of Rockingham
County, N.C.; Florida.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., January
23, 1831.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1854-59; delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1865; member
of North
Carolina state senate, 1866-68; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1868-71; U.S. Minister to Peru, 1871; candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1876; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Florida, 1877-88;
died in office 1888.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., December
1, 1888 (age 57 years, 313
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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Thomas Settle (1865-1919) —
of Reidsville, Rockingham
County, N.C.; Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born near Wentworth, Rockingham
County, N.C., March
10, 1865.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1893-97;
delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, 1904,
1916;
candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1912.
Died in Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., January
20, 1919 (age 53 years, 316
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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John Hosea Kerr (1873-1958) —
also known as John H. Kerr —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., December
31, 1873.
Democrat. Lawyer;
mayor of Warrenton, N.C., 1897-98; superior court judge in North
Carolina 3rd District, 1916-21; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1923-53;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1940.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., June 21,
1958 (age 84 years, 172
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Warrenton, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. John H. Kerr and Eliza Katherine (Yancey) Kerr; married to
Ella Foote; grandnephew of John
Kerr. |
|  | Political family: Kerr-Settle
family of North Carolina. |
|  | The John H. Kerr dam,
in Mecklenburg
County, Virginia, is named for
him. — Kerr Lake,
an impoundment on the Roanoke River, in Mecklenburg,
Charlotte,
and Halifax
counties, Virginia, and Vance,
Granville,
and Warren
counties, North Carolina, is named for
him. |
|  | Epitaph: "He Loved God And His Fellow
Man." |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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