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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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Dennis Lark Pennington (1776-1854) —
also known as Dennis Pennington —
of Harrison
County, Ind.
Born in Virginia, May 18,
1776.
Whig. Farmer; stonemason;
member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1810, 1812-16; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state senate, 1816-20, 1825-27, 1830-33, 1842-45; defeated, 1839;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1822-24, 1828-30, 1845-46;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1825; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1833.
Methodist.
English
ancestry.
Died near Corydon, Harrison
County, Ind., September
2, 1854 (age 78 years, 107
days).
Interment at Pennington
Chapel Cemetery, Harrison County, Ind.
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Walter Quintin Gresham (1832-1895) —
also known as Walter Q. Gresham —
of Indiana.
Born near Lanesville, Harrison
County, Ind., March
17, 1832.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1866, 1868; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1868;
U.S.
District Judge for Indiana, 1869-83; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1883-84; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1884; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1884-93; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 28,
1895 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Walter Gresham Andrews (1889-1949) —
also known as Walter G. Andrews —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., July 16,
1889.
Republican. Athletic
coach; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; sales
manager; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1931-49 (40th District 1931-45,
42nd District 1945-49).
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons.
Died, from a heart
attack, in a hotel at
Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., March 5,
1949 (age 59 years, 232
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Old
Fort Niagara Cemetery, Youngstown, N.Y.
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