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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James Willis Nesmith (1820-1885) —
also known as James W. Nesmith —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.; Rickreall, Polk
County, Ore.
Born in New
Brunswick of American parents, July 23,
1820.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1861-67; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1873-75.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Rickreall, Polk
County, Ore., June 17,
1885 (age 64 years, 329
days).
Interment at Nesmith Family Cemetery, Rickreall, Ore.
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Joseph Gardner Wilson (1826-1873) —
also known as Joseph G. Wilson —
of The Dalles, Wasco
County, Ore.
Born in New Hampshire, 1826.
Republican. Justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1862-70; member of Republican
National Committee from Oregon, 1872-73; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1873; died in office 1873.
Died July 2,
1873 (age about 47
years).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, The Dalles, Ore.
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Lewis Linn McArthur (1843-1897) —
also known as L. L. McArthur —
of Oregon.
Born in Portsmouth,
Va., March
18, 1843.
County judge in Oregon, 1868; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1870-78; district judge in Oregon,
1878-83; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1886-90.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., May 10,
1897 (age 54 years, 53
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Levi Ankeny (1844-1921) —
of Lewiston, Nez Perce
County, Idaho; Walla Walla, Walla
Walla County, Wash.
Born near St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., August
1, 1844.
Republican. Mayor
of Lewiston, Idaho, 1870; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington, 1900
(delegation chair), 1904;
U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1903-09; member of Republican
National Committee from Washington, 1904-08.
Died, following a stroke of
paralysis, in Walla Walla, Walla Walla
County, Wash., March
29, 1921 (age 76 years, 240
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Walla Walla, Wash.
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Clifton Nesmith McArthur (1879-1923) —
also known as Clifton N. McArthur —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in The Dalles, Wasco
County, Ore., June 10,
1879.
Republican. Lawyer; cattle
breeder; secretary of
Oregon Republican Party, 1908; private secretary to Gov. Frank
W. Benson, 1909-11; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1913; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1915-23; defeated, 1922.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Sigma
Nu; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in 1923
(age about
44 years).
Cremated.
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