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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James Graham (1793-1851) —
of Rutherfordton, Rutherford
County, N.C.
Born in Lincoln
County, N.C., January
7, 1793.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1822-24, 1828-29; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1833-36, 1836-43, 1845-47
(12th District 1833-36, 1836-43, 1st District 1845-47).
Died in Rutherford
County, N.C., September
25, 1851 (age 58 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) —
also known as William A. Graham —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born near Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., September
5, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1833-40; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1840-43; Governor of
North Carolina, 1845-49; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1850-52; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1852; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1854-66; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
11, 1875 (age 70 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hillsborough
Old Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, N.C.
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John Washington Graham (1838-1928) —
also known as John W. Graham —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., July 22,
1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Orange
County Solicitor, 1866-68; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868; member
of North
Carolina state senate, 1868-72, 1876, 1907-08, 1911; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1886; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1892.
Episcopalian.
Died in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., March
24, 1928 (age 89 years, 246
days).
Interment somewhere in Hillsborough, N.C.
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William Alexander Graham (1839-1923) —
also known as William A. Graham —
of Lincoln
County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., December
26, 1839.
Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; planter;
member of North
Carolina state senate 37th District, 1874-75, 1879-80; member,
North Carolina Board of Agriculture, 1899-1908; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Lincoln County,
1905-06; North
Carolina commissioner of agriculture, 1908-23; died in office
1923.
Baptist.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., December
24, 1923 (age 83 years, 363
days).
Interment at Machpelah
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Near Lincolnton, Lincoln County,
N.C.
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Walter Clark (1846-1924) —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Halifax
County, N.C., August
19, 1846.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1885-89; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1889-1902; chief
justice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1903-24; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1912.
Methodist.
Died in Wake
County, N.C., May 20,
1924 (age 77 years, 275
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Augustus Washington Graham (1849-1936) —
also known as A. W. Graham —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.; Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., June 8,
1849.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1880,
1912;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1885; superior court judge in North
Carolina, 1895-96; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Granville County,
1901-06, 1909-10, 1913-14; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1909;
president, American Cotton and Grain Exchange, 1919-22.
Baptist.
Died in Oxford, Granville
County, N.C., October
12, 1936 (age 87 years, 126
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Oxford, N.C.
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