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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Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) —
also known as Henry G. Davis —
of Piedmont, Mineral
County, W.Va.
Born near Woodstock, Howard
County, Md., November
16, 1823.
Democrat. Railroad
promoter; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Hampshire County, 1866;
member of West
Virginia state senate 10th District, 1869-71; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1871-83; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1872,
1880,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1912;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1916 (age 92 years, 116
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.; statue at Davis Park, Charleston, W.Va.
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Thomas Beall Davis (1828-1911) —
also known as Thomas B. Davis —
of Keyser, Mineral
County, W.Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April
25, 1828.
Democrat. Member of West Virginia
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1876-1907; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mineral County, 1899-1900;
U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1905-07.
Died in Keyser, Mineral
County, W.Va., November
26, 1911 (age 83 years, 215
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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Stephen Benton Elkins (1841-1911) —
also known as Stephen B. Elkins —
of Messilla, Dona Ana
County, N.M.; Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.; Elkins, Randolph
County, W.Va.
Born near New Lexington, Perry
County, Ohio, September
26, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New Mexico
territorial House of Representatives, 1864-65; New
Mexico territory attorney general, 1867; U.S.
Attorney for New Mexico, 1867-70; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1873-77; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1891-93; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1895-1911; died in office 1911.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
4, 1911 (age 69 years, 100
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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Davis Elkins (1876-1959) —
of Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
24, 1876.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
banker;
U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1911, 1919-25; delegate to Republican
National Convention from West Virginia, 1916;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Died, from bronchial
pneumonia, cardio-renal
disease, and senility,
in Westbrook Sanatorium,
Richmond,
Va., January
5, 1959 (age 82 years, 346
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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Mary Elkins (b. 1897) —
also known as Mary Reagan; Mrs. Davis
Elkins —
of Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., March
21, 1897.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from West
Virginia, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1954 (primary),
1956.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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