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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Thomas Gholson Jr. (d. 1816) —
of Brunswick, Brunswick
County, Va.
Born in Brunswick, Brunswick
County, Va.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1806-09; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1808, 1809-16 (17th District 1808,
1809-15, 18th District 1815-16); died in office 1816; served in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Slaveowner.
Died
from war wounds, in Brunswick
County, Va., July 4,
1816.
Interment at Gholson Family Cemetery, Brunswick, Va.
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James Herbert Gholson (1798-1848) —
also known as James H. Gholson —
of Virginia.
Born in Gholsonville, Brunswick
County, Va., 1798.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1824-28, 1830-33; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1833-35; circuit judge
in Virginia, 1840.
Slaveowner.
Died in Brunswick
County, Va., July 2,
1848 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Richard Dickerson Gholson (1802-1861) —
Born in Culpeper, Culpeper
County, Va., January
3, 1802.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1851-55; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1859-61.
English
and Cherokee
Indian ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Tennessee, August
28, 1861 (age 59 years, 237
days).
Interment somewhere
in Troy, Tenn.
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Thomas Saunders Gholson (1810-1868) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gholsonville, Brunswick
County, Va., December
9, 1810.
State court judge in Virginia, 1859-63; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
12, 1868 (age 58 years, 3
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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