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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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John Milton (c.1740-1817) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Halifax
County, N.C., about 1740.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1777-99; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia; received 2 electoral votes, 1789;
mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1792.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in 1817
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Milton (1807-1865) —
of Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., April
20, 1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; member of Florida
state senate, 1848-49; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1850; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1860;
Governor
of Florida, 1861-65; died in office 1865.
At the end of the Civil War, believing that "death would be
preferable to reunion," he killed
himself by gunshot,
Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla., April 1,
1865 (age 57 years, 346
days).
Interment at St.
Luke's Episcopal Cemetery, Marianna, Fla.
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William Yates Atkinson (1854-1899) —
of Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga.
Born in Oakland, Meriwether
County, Ga., November
11, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1886-94; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1892-94; Georgia
Democratic state chair, 1890-92; Governor of
Georgia, 1894-98.
Presbyterian.
Died in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., August
8, 1899 (age 44 years, 270
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Ga.
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William Hall Milton (1864-1942) —
also known as William H. Milton —
of Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla.
Born near Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla., March 2,
1864.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; U.S. Surveyor-General
for Florida, 1895-97; mayor
of Marianna, Fla., 1898-99; candidate for Governor of
Florida, 1900, 1912 (Democratic primary); alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1908;
member of Florida state legislature, 1900; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1908-09.
Died in Marianna, Jackson
County, Fla., January
4, 1942 (age 77 years, 308
days).
Interment at St.
Luke's Episcopal Cemetery, Marianna, Fla.
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William Yates Atkinson Jr. (1887-1953) —
also known as William Y. Atkinson, Jr. —
of Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga.
Born in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., January
18, 1887.
Democrat. Lawyer; chair of
Coweta County Democratic Party, 1916-20; solicitor general,
Coweta Judicial Circuit, 1921-42; director, First National Bank of
Newnan, Newnan Cotton
Mills, Piedmont Hotel
Co.; Georgia
Democratic state chair, 1942; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1943-53.
Presbyterian.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Freemasons.
Died November
28, 1953 (age 66 years, 314
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Ga.
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