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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Stephen Trigg (1742-1782) —
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., 1742.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779-80.
Killed
in the Battle of Blue Licks, in what is now Robertson
County, Ky., August
19, 1782 (age about 40
years).
Interment somewhere
in Nicholas County, Ky.
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John Johns Trigg (1748-1804) —
of Bedford
County, Va.
Born in Lunenburg County (part now in Bedford
County), Va., 1748.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1784-92; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Bedford
County, 1788; member of Virginia
state senate, 1792-96; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1797-1804; died in office
1804.
Slaveowner.
Died in Bedford
County, Va., May 17,
1804 (age about 55
years).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Bedford County, Va.
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Abram Trigg (b. 1750) —
of Christiansburg, Montgomery
County, Va.
Born in Virginia, 1750.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1797-1809 (at-large 1797-1807, 6th
District 1807-09).
Slaveowner.
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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John Thorton (1786-1847) —
of Missouri.
Born December
24, 1786.
Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1824-32, 1836; Speaker of
the Missouri State House of Representatives, 1828-30.
Died in Clay
County, Mo., October
24, 1847 (age 60 years, 304
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Liberty, Mo.
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Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880) —
also known as Stephen T. Logan —
of Barren
County, Ky.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., February
24, 1800.
Republican. Lawyer; Barren
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1822-32; circuit judge in Illinois,
1835-40; law partner of Abraham
Lincoln, 1841-44; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1843-47, 1855-56; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Sangamon County,
1847; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1860.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 24,
1880 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887) —
of Liberty, Clay
County, Mo.; Richmond, Ray
County, Mo.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., July 9,
1808.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1836, 1840, 1854; in 1838, he
refused to obey an order to execute Joseph Smith and other Mormon
leaders, calling it "cold-blooded murder"; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; led Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico,
1846-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876.
Died in Richmond, Ray
County, Mo., August
8, 1887 (age 79 years, 30
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Liberty, Mo.; statue at County Courthouse Grounds, Richmond, Mo.
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