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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James Alexander Seddon (1815-1880) —
also known as James A. Seddon —
of Virginia.
Born in Falmouth, Stafford
County, Va., July 13,
1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1845-47, 1849-51;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1856;
Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Confederate
Secretary of War, 1862-65.
Arrested
by Union
forces in May 1865 and imprisoned
until December.
Slaveowner.
Died in Goochland
County, Va., August
19, 1880 (age 65 years, 37
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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William Booth Taliaferro (1822-1898) —
also known as William B. Taliaferro —
of Gloucester
County, Va.
Born in Gloucester
County, Va., December
28, 1822.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Gloucester County, 1850-53,
1874-79; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Gloucester
County, Va., February
27, 1898 (age 75 years, 61
days).
Interment at Ware
Church Cemetery, Gloucester, Va.
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Andrew William Mellon (1855-1937) —
also known as Andrew W. Mellon —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March
24, 1855.
Republican. Banker; co-founder,
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which later became Carnegie
Mellon University; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1920,
1924
(speaker),
1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1932-33.
Episcopalian.
Died in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
26, 1937 (age 82 years, 155
days).
Original interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.; subsequent interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fauquier County, Va.; reinterment at
Trinity
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Upperville, Va.; memorial monument at
Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Mellon and Sarah Jane (Negley) Mellon; married 1900 to Nora
McMullen; father of Ailsa Mellon (who married David
Kirkpatrick Este Bruce); uncle of William
Larimer Mellon; granduncle of Richard
Mellon Scaife. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Bruce-Mellon
family of Virginia. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Cross-reference: J.
McKenzie Moss |
| ![](hand.gif) | Carnegie Mellon University,
in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is partly named for
him. — Mellon Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Federal
Reserve History |
| ![](hand.gif) | Books about Andrew Mellon: David
Cannadine, Mellon
: An American Life |
| ![](hand.gif) | Image source: American Review of
Reviews, March 1922 |
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William Cabell Bruce (1860-1946) —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Charlotte
County, Va., March
12, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1894-96; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1924;
U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1923-29; defeated, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Recieved a Pulitzer
Prize in 1918 for his book Benjamin Franklin,
Self-Revealed.
Died in Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md., May 9,
1946 (age 86 years, 58
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Md.
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William Larimer Mellon (1868-1949) —
also known as William L. Mellon; W. L.
Mellon —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 1,
1868.
Republican. President, Monongahela Street
Railway; vice-president, National Union Fire
Insurance Company; vice-president, Mellon National Bank and
Trust; founder and chairman, Gulf Oil
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1924,
1928;
Pennsylvania
Republican state chair, 1926-28.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., October
8, 1949 (age 81 years, 129
days).
Entombed at Homewood
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Howard Bruce (1879-1961) —
of Elkridge, Howard
County, Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Richmond,
Va., August
31, 1879.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland,
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Maryland, 1939.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., June 17,
1961 (age 81 years, 290
days).
Interment at Belmont Manor Cemetery, Elkridge, Md.
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James Bruce (1892-1980) —
of Eccleston, Baltimore
County, Md.; Finksburg, Carroll
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
23, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; banker;
vice-president, National Dairy
Products Corp.; director, Republic Steel Co.;
director, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway;
director, American Airlines;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1940
(alternate), 1952,
1956;
U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1947-49.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose.
Died July 17,
1980 (age 87 years, 207
days).
Interment somewhere
in Baltimore, Md.
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David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) —
also known as David K. E. Bruce —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Charlotte Court House, Charlotte
County, Va.; Elkridge, Howard
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
12, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; farmer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1924-26; U.S. Vice Consul in Rome, as of 1926; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1940-43; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Ambassador to
France, 1949-52; Germany, 1957-59; Great Britain, 1961-69; U.S. Liaison to China, 1973-74.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1976.
Died, as a result of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., December
5, 1977 (age 79 years, 296
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Richard Mellon Scaife (b. 1932) —
also known as Richard M. Scaife —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., July 3,
1932.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1964
(alternate), 1972.
Still living as of 2014.
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