PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Sargent-Peters family of Ellsworth, Maine

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.

Winthrop Sargent Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820) — of Ohio. Born in Gloucester, Essex County, Mass., May 1, 1753. Ship captain; major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; secretary of Northwest Territory, 1788-98; Governor of Mississippi Territory, 1798-1801; planter. Died on board ship at sea in the Gulf of Mexico, June 3, 1820 (age 67 years, 33 days). Interment at Gloucester Plantation Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.
  Relatives: Son of Winthrop Sargent (1727-1793) and Judith (Sanders) Sargent; married, June 13, 1789, to Rebecca Rowena Tupper; married, October 24, 1798, to Maria (McIntosh) Williams; first cousin twice removed of John Winthrop Jones; first cousin four times removed of Francis Williams Sargent.
  Political family: Sargent-Peters family of Ellsworth, Maine.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: U.S. postage stamp
  John Winthrop Jones (1817-1887) — also known as J. Winthrop Jones — of Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine; Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, February 14, 1817. Democrat. School teacher; merchant; shipbuilder; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1860; lumber business. Died, from pneumonia, in Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass., September 19, 1887 (age 70 years, 217 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Theodore Jones and Catherine Winthrop (Sargent) Jones; married to Ann Maria Peters (sister of John Andrew Peters (1822-1904); aunt of John Andrew Peters (1864-1953)); first cousin twice removed of Winthrop Sargent; third cousin twice removed of Francis Williams Sargent.
  Political family: Sargent-Peters family of Ellsworth, Maine.
  Winthrop Park (created 1889; renamed 1941 as Msgr. McGolrick Park), in Brooklyn, New York, was named for him.
  John Andrew Peters (1822-1904) — also known as John A. Peters — of Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine. Born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, October 9, 1822. Republican. Maine state attorney general, 1864-66; U.S. Representative from Maine 4th District, 1867-73; member of Republican National Committee from Maine, 1870-72; justice of Maine state supreme court, 1873-83; chief justice of Maine state supreme court, 1883-1900; resigned 1900. Died in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, April 2, 1904 (age 81 years, 176 days). Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Peters and Sally (Jordan) Peters; brother of Ann Maria Peters (who married John Winthrop Jones); married, September 2, 1846, to Mary Ann Hathaway; married, September 23, 1857, to Fanny Elizabeth Roberts; uncle of John Andrew Peters (1864-1953).
  Political family: Sargent-Peters family of Ellsworth, Maine.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Andrew Peters (1864-1953) — also known as John A. Peters — of Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine. Born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, August 13, 1864. Republican. Lawyer; municipal judge in Maine, 1896-98; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1909-13; Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives, 1913; U.S. Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1913-22; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1916; U.S. District Judge for Maine, 1922. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died in 1953 (age about 88 years). Interment at Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.
  Relatives: Son of William B. Peters and Martha Elizabeth (Chute) Peters; married, November 20, 1889, to Mary Frances Cushman; nephew of Ann Maria Peters (who married John Winthrop Jones) and John Andrew Peters (1822-1904).
  Political family: Sargent-Peters family of Ellsworth, Maine.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Francis Williams Sargent (1915-1998) — also known as Francis W. Sargent — of Dover, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Hamilton, Essex County, Mass., July 29, 1915. Republican. Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1967-69; Governor of Massachusetts, 1969-75; defeated, 1974; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1972 (delegation chair). Died in Dover, Norfolk County, Mass., October 21, 1998 (age 83 years, 84 days). Interment at Highland Cemetery, Dover, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Williams Sargent (1884-1919) and Margery (Lee) Sargent; first cousin four times removed of Winthrop Sargent; third cousin twice removed of John Winthrop Jones.
  Political family: Sargent-Peters family of Ellsworth, Maine.
  See also National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
 
  The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.  
  The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
  Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
  The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10930.html.  
  Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
  If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.

Creative 
Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter [Amazon.com]