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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Hugh Williamson (1735-1819) —
of Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.
Born in West Nottingham, Chester
County, Pa., December
5, 1735.
Preacher;
university
professor; physician;
member of North Carolina state legislature, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93.
Presbyterian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 22,
1819 (age 83 years, 168
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Joseph Pomeroy (1804-1874) —
Born near Roxbury, Franklin
County, Pa., October
18, 1804.
Republican. Tanning
business; merchant;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1840; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1856.
Died in Academia, Juniata
County, Pa., September
21, 1874 (age 69 years, 338
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Pomeroy and Elizabeth (Nevin) Pomeroy; married, July 11,
1826, to Eleanor Maclay; married, May 5,
1847, to Ann Black Crawford; married, January
13, 1857, to Jane Eliza (Maclay) McGinley; married, August
27, 1868, to Mary Stewart; uncle of John
Means Pomeroy and William
Culbertson Pomeroy; grandnephew of Hugh
Williamson; granduncle of Albert
Nevin Pomeroy; second cousin of Thomas
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family of Pennsylvania. |
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Thomas Pomeroy (1804-1878) —
of Lawrence
County, Pa.
Born in Lawrence
County, Pa., 1804.
Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1846-47.
Presbyterian.
Died July 31,
1878 (age about 74
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Means Pomeroy (1823-1887) —
also known as John M. Pomeroy —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa.
Born in Shippensburg, Cumberland
County, Pa., April 1,
1823.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1846-47, 1881-82; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1860;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor and publisher.
Died June 20,
1887 (age 64 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Culbertson Pomeroy (1851-1907) —
also known as William C. Pomeroy —
of Juniata
County, Pa.
Born in Roxbury, Franklin
County, Pa., November
24, 1851.
Banker;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Juniata County, 1883-84,
1905-07; died in office 1907.
Presbyterian.
Died February
21, 1907 (age 55 years, 89
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Nevin Pomeroy (1859-1927) —
also known as A. Nevin Pomeroy —
of Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 27,
1859.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; chair of
Franklin County Republican Party, 1889-92; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Franklin County, 1895-96,
1901-02; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1924.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Order
of United American Mechanics; Royal
Arcanum; Patriotic
Order Sons of America; Redmen;
Modern
Woodmen of America.
Died December
2, 1927 (age 68 years, 189
days).
Burial location unknown.
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