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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Oliver Hampton Smith (1794-1859) —
also known as Oliver H. Smith —
of Connersville, Fayette
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Smiths Island (unknown
county), N.J., October
23, 1794.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1822; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1827-29; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1837-43.
Died March
19, 1859 (age 64 years, 147
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Jeremiah Sullivan (1794-1870) —
of Indiana.
Born in Harrisonburg,
Va., July 21,
1794.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1819-21; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1824, 1826; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1837-46; county judge in Indiana,
1869-70.
Presbyterian.
Suggested the name 'Indianapolis' for the state capital.
Died in Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., December
6, 1870 (age 76 years, 138
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas L. Sullivan Sr. (1819-1878) —
of Indiana.
Born in Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., September
8, 1819.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1844-45; served in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War.
Died February
27, 1878 (age 58 years, 172
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Lennox Sullivan (1846-1936) —
also known as Thomas L. Sullivan —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., October
6, 1846.
Democrat. Circuit judge in Indiana, 1888; mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1890-93; candidate for superior court
judge in Indiana, 1899.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died July 9,
1936 (age 89 years, 277
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Reginald H. Sullivan (1876-1980) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
10, 1876.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1911-13; mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1930-34, 1939-42; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1932,
1940.
Episcopalian.
Died January
30, 1980 (age 103 years,
326 days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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