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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Harry Toulmin (1766-1823) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Taunton, England,
September
7, 1766.
Secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1796-1804; first president,
Transylvania University, 1804-18; judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1804; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1818-19.
Died in Millry, Washington
County, Ala., November
11, 1823 (age 57 years, 65
days).
Interment somewhere
in Millry, Ala.; cenotaph at Spring Hill Graveyard, Mobile, Ala.
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James Dellet (1788-1848) —
of Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala.
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., February
18, 1788.
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1839-41, 1843-45 (5th District
1839-41, 1st District 1843-45).
Slaveowner.
Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., December
21, 1848 (age 60 years, 307
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Amos Gustine (1789-1844) —
of Mifflintown, Juniata
County, Pa.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1789.
Democrat. School
teacher; merchant;
Juniata
County Sheriff, 1831-34; Juniata
County Treasurer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1841-43.
Died in Jericho Mills, Juniata
County, Pa., March 3,
1844 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Mifflintown, Pa.
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David Henshaw (1791-1852) —
of Leicester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Leicester, Worcester
County, Mass., April 2,
1791.
Democrat. Wholesale
druggist; banker; insurance
business; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1826; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1829-38; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1839; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1843-44.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Leicester, Worcester
County, Mass., November
11, 1852 (age 61 years, 223
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Leicester, Mass.
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Lyman Gibbons (1808-1879) —
Born in Dormansville, Albany
County, N.Y., June 3,
1808.
Lawyer;
planter;
circuit judge in Alabama, 1851-52; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1852-54; delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861.
Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., June 27,
1879 (age 71 years, 24
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Rufus Campbell Torrey (1813-1882) —
Born in Oxford, Worcester
County, Mass., February
19, 1813.
Member of Alabama state legislature, 1875.
Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., September
13, 1882 (age 69 years, 206
days).
Interment at McConnico Cemetery, Monroe County, Ala.
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Andrew Isbell Henshaw (1825-1865) —
Born in Clarke
County, Ala., November
7, 1825.
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1851-52; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., August
23, 1865 (age 39 years, 289
days).
Interment at McConnico Cemetery, Monroe County, Ala.
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Horace Boies (1827-1923) —
of Hamburg, Erie
County, N.Y.; Waterloo, Black Hawk
County, Iowa; Palermo Township, Grundy
County, Iowa; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Aurora, Erie
County, N.Y., December
7, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 3rd District, 1857; Governor of
Iowa, 1890-94; defeated, 1893; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1892;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 3rd District, 1902.
French
and English
ancestry.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 4,
1923 (age 95 years, 118
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa.
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Harry Theophilus Toulmin (1838-1916) —
Born in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., March 4,
1838.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1870-72; circuit judge in
Alabama, 1874-82; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, 1887-1916;
died in office 1916.
Died in Toulminville, Mobile
County, Ala., November
12, 1916 (age 78 years, 253
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Harry Pillans (1847-1940) —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex., June 27,
1847.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1901; mayor of
Mobile, Ala., 1914-15, 1916-17, 1919-21.
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., March
12, 1940 (age 92 years, 259
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Charles John Torrey (1850-1917) —
Born in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., April
25, 1850.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1890.
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., July 13,
1917 (age 67 years, 79
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Pennell Crosby (1859-1938) —
also known as C. P. Crosby —
of Rhinelander, Oneida
County, Wis.
Born in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., August
3, 1859.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1916.
Died in Rhinelander, Oneida
County, Wis., September
14, 1938 (age 79 years, 42
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Herbert B. Boies (1867-1930) —
of Waterloo, Black Hawk
County, Iowa.
Born in Iowa, 1867.
Lawyer;
district judge in Iowa 10th District, 1915-20.
Died January
14, 1930 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa.
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