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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Landon Carter Haynes (1816-1875) —
also known as Landon C. Haynes —
of Tennessee.
Born in Elizabethton, Carter
County, Tenn., December
2, 1816.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1847; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1849-51; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1849-51; Senator
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., February
17, 1875 (age 58 years, 77
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1902 at Jackson
Cemetery, Jackson, Tenn.
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Nathaniel Green Taylor (1819-1887) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, 1819.
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 1st District, 1854-55, 1866-67.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1887
(age about
68 years).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Nathaniel Edwin Harris (1846-1929) —
also known as Nat E. Harris —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.; Hampton, Carter
County, Tenn.
Born in Jonesborough, Washington
County, Tenn., January
21, 1846.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-86; member of Georgia
state senate, 1894-96; superior court judge in Georgia, 1912; Governor of
Georgia, 1915-17.
Methodist.
Member, Chi Phi;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
United
Confederate Veterans.
Died September
21, 1929 (age 83 years, 243
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Alfred Alexander Taylor (1848-1931) —
also known as Alfred A. Taylor —
of Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.; Milligan College, Carter
County, Tenn.
Born in Happy Valley, Carter
County, Tenn., August
6, 1848.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1875-76; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 1st District, 1889-95; Governor of
Tennessee, 1921-23; defeated, 1886, 1922.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died November
25, 1931 (age 83 years, 111
days).
Interment at Monte
Vista Memorial Park, Johnson City, Tenn.
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Robert Love Taylor (1850-1912) —
also known as Robert L. Taylor; Bob Taylor;
"Our Bob" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Carter
County, Tenn., July 31,
1850.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 1st District, 1879-81; Governor of
Tennessee, 1887-91, 1897-99; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1907-12; died in office 1912.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1912 (age 61 years, 244
days).
Original interment at Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.; reinterment in 1938 at Monte
Vista Memorial Park, Johnson City, Tenn.
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