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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Hallett Sydney Ward (1870-1956) —
also known as Hallett S. Ward —
of Plymouth, Washington
County, N.C.; Washington, Beaufort
County, N.C.
Born near Gatesville, Gates
County, N.C., August
31, 1870.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1899-1901, 1931; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1921-25.
Died in Washington, Beaufort
County, N.C., March
31, 1956 (age 85 years, 213
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Washington, N.C.
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Samuel James Ervin Jr. (1896-1985) —
also known as Sam J. Ervin, Jr. —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
27, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1923-25, 1931; chair of
Burke County Democratic Party, 1924; member of North
Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee, 1930-37; superior
court judge in North Carolina, 1937-43; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1946-47; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1948-54; appointed 1948; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1956,
1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Historical Association; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Order
of Ahepa; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Kiwanis;
Junior
Order; Newcomen
Society; Sigma
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., April
23, 1985 (age 88 years, 208
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.; statue at County Courthouse Grounds, Morganton, N.C.
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Joseph Wilson Ervin (1901-1945) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March 3,
1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1945; died in
office 1945.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
25, 1945 (age 44 years, 297
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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Samuel James Ervin III (1926-1999) —
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March 2,
1926.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1965-67; superior court
judge in North Carolina, 1967-80; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1980-99; died in
office 1999.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died at Grace Hospital,
Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
18, 1999 (age 73 years, 200
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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