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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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Elias Dayton (1737-1807) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., May 1,
1737.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1778; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1791-92,
1794-96; mayor
of Elizabethtown, N.J., 1795-1805.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
22, 1807 (age 70 years, 174
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.
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Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
16, 1760.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1786-87, 1790,
1814-15; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1791-99; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1795-99; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1799-1805.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Arrested
in 1807 on charges
of conspiring with Aaron
Burr in treasonable
projects; gave bail and was released, but never brought to trial.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
9, 1824 (age 63 years, 359
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.
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William Lewis Dayton (1807-1864) —
also known as William L. Dayton —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Basking Ridge, Somerset
County, N.J., February
17, 1807.
Lawyer;
member of New Jersey
State Council, 1837; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1838; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1842-51; Republican candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1856; New
Jersey state attorney general, 1857-61; U.S. Minister to France, 1861-64, died in office 1864.
Died in France,
December
1, 1864 (age 57 years, 288
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
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William Lewis Dayton Jr. (1839-1897) —
also known as William L. Dayton —
of New Jersey.
Born in 1839.
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1882-85.
Died in 1897
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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