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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Benjamin Franklin Wade (1800-1878) —
also known as Benjamin F. Wade —
of Jefferson, Ashtabula
County, Ohio.
Born in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Hampden
County, Mass., October
27, 1800.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; Ashtabula
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1835-37; member of Ohio
state senate, 1837-38, 1841-42; circuit judge in Ohio, 1847-51;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1851-69; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1868.
Died in Jefferson, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, March 2,
1878 (age 77 years, 126
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Jefferson, Ohio.
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Edward Wade (1802-1866) —
of Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio; Jefferson, Ashtabula
County, Ohio; Unionville, Ashtabula
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in West Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., November
22, 1802.
Lawyer;
Ashtabula
County Justice of the Peace, 1831; Ashtabula
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1833; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1853-61.
Died in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, August
13, 1866 (age 63 years, 264
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (1823-1885) —
also known as "The Christian Statesman";
"Smiler" —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
23, 1823.
Delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Indiana, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1855-69; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1863-69; Vice
President of the United States, 1869-73; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1872.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Died in Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn., January
13, 1885 (age 61 years, 296
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Washington Colfax and Hannah (Stryker) Colfax; married 1844 to Evelyn
Clark; married, November
18, 1868, to Ellen
Maria Wade (niece of Benjamin
Franklin Wade and Edward
Wade; first cousin of Decius
Spear Wade); father of Schuyler
Colfax III. |
|  | Political family: Wade-Colfax
family of Andover and Jefferson, Ohio. |
|  | Colfax counties in Neb. and N.M. are
named for him. |
|  | The city
of Schuyler,
Nebraska, is named for
him. |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
|  | Books about Schuyler Colfax: Willard H.
Smith, Schuyler
Colfax : The changing fortunes of a political idol —
James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Willard H. Smith, Schuyler
Colfax and the political upheaval of 1854-1855 —
Willard H. Smith, Schuyler
Colfax: a reappraisal |
|  | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Decius Spear Wade (1835-1905) —
also known as Decius Wade; "Father of Montana
Jurisprudence" —
of Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio.
Born in Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, January
23, 1835.
Lawyer;
novelist;
Ashtabula
County Probate Judge, 1861-67; member of Ohio
state senate, 1868; chief
justice of Montana territorial supreme court, 1871-87.
Died in Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, August
3, 1905 (age 70 years, 192
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Jefferson, Ohio.
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Ellen Maria Colfax (1836-1911) —
also known as Ellen Maria Wade —
Born in Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, July 26,
1836.
Second
Lady of the United States, 1869-73.
Female.
Died in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., March 4,
1911 (age 74 years, 221
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Schuyler Colfax III (1870-1925) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
11, 1870.
Mayor
of South Bend, Ind., 1898-1901.
Died in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March
29, 1925 (age 54 years, 352
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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