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 Whitcomb (1795-1852) —
of Indiana.
Born near Windsor, Windsor
County, Vt., December
1, 1795.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1830-36; Commissioner of the General Land Office,
1836-41; Governor of
Indiana, 1843-48; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1849-52; died in office 1852.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Poet James Whitcomb Riley is named for him.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
4, 1852 (age 56 years, 308
days).
Original interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery (which no longer exists), Indianapolis, Ind.;
reinterment in 1892 at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.; statue at Monument
Circle, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Henry Lee Morey (1841-1902) —
also known as Henry L. Morey —
of Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio.
Born in Milford Township, Butler
County, Ohio, April 8,
1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Butler
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1873; candidate for Ohio
state senate, 1875; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1881-84, 1889-91 (3rd District 1881-83,
7th District 1883-84, 1889-91); delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1884.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, December
29, 1902 (age 61 years, 265
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Hamilton, Ohio.
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Claude Matthews (1845-1898) —
of Indiana.
Born in Bath
County, Ky., December
14, 1845.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1876; secretary
of state of Indiana, 1891-93; Governor of
Indiana, 1893-97.
Suffered a stroke
while making a
speech in Veedersburg, Ind., and died three days later, April
28, 1898 (age 52 years, 135
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Clinton, Ind.
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