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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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Bernard Blair (1801-1880) —
of Salem, Washington
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 24,
1801.
Whig. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Whig National Convention from New York, 1839; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1841-43.
Presbyterian.
Died in Salem, Washington
County, N.Y., May 7,
1880 (age 78 years, 349
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Salem, N.Y.
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Austin Blair (1818-1894) —
also known as "The War Governor" —
of Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.
Born in Caroline, Tompkins
County, N.Y., February
8, 1818.
Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Jackson County, 1846;
instrumental in the 1846 abolition of capital punishment in Michigan,
the first
English-speaking jurisdiction to do so; Jackson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1853-54, 1885-86; member of Michigan
state senate 12th District, 1855-56; Governor of
Michigan, 1861-65; defeated (Liberty), 1872; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1867-73; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1881-89; appointed 1881.
Unitarian.
Died in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., August
6, 1894 (age 76 years, 179
days).
Interment at Mt.
Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Mich.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Lansing, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Rhoda (Blackman) Mann Blair and George Blair; married, February
18, 1841, to Persis Lyman; married, May 25,
1846, to Elizabeth Pratt; married, February
16, 1849, to Sarah Louesa (Horton) Ford; father of Charles
Austin Blair; third cousin of Bernard
Blair. |
| |  | Political family: Blair
family of Jackson, Michigan. |
| |  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| |  | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Charles Austin Blair (1854-1912) —
also known as Charles A. Blair —
of Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., April
10, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; Jackson
County Prosecuting Attorney; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1896;
candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 4th Circuit, 1899; Michigan
state attorney general, 1903-04; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1905-12; died in office 1912; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1909.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died August
30, 1912 (age 58 years, 142
days).
Interment at Mt.
Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Mich.
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