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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Rufus A. Doughton (1857-1946) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., January
10, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for North Carolina Railroad;
farmer;
banker;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Alleghany County,
1887-92, 1909-16, 1921-22; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1891; Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1893-97; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1912
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1946
(age about
89 years).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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Robert Lee Doughton (1863-1954) —
also known as Robert L. Doughton —
of Laurel Springs, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Laurel Springs, Alleghany
County, N.C., November
7, 1863.
Democrat. Farmer; banker;
member of North
Carolina state senate 35th District, 1908-10; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1911-53 (8th District
1911-33, 9th District 1933-53); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1940.
Baptist.
Died in Laurel Springs, Alleghany
County, N.C., October
1, 1954 (age 90 years, 328
days).
Interment at Laurel
Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Laurel Springs, N.C.
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James Kemp Doughton Sr. (1884-1973) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., May 18,
1884.
Banker;
farmer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1948-57; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1951-57.
Methodist.
Indicted
for bank
fraud in 1928; tried
and acquitted.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a hospital
at Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C., March
17, 1973 (age 88 years, 303
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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