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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Samuel Johnston (1733-1816) —
of Chowan
County, N.C.
Born in Dundee, Scotland,
December
15, 1733.
Planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1760; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1779; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1780-81; Governor of
North Carolina, 1787-89; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1789-93; received 2 electoral votes,
1796;
state court judge in North Carolina, 1800.
Slaveowner.
Died August
17, 1816 (age 82 years, 246
days).
Interment at Johnston
Burial Ground, Edenton, N.C.
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James Iredell (1751-1799) —
of North Carolina.
Born in England,
October
5, 1751.
State court judge in North Carolina, 1778; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1779-82; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1790-99; received 3 electoral
votes, 1796.
Episcopalian.
Died October
20, 1799 (age 48 years, 15
days).
Interment at Johnston
Burial Ground, Edenton, N.C.
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John Swann (1760-1793) —
of Pasquotank
County, N.C.
Born in Pasquotank
County, N.C., 1760.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1788.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Pasquotank
County, N.C., 1793
(age about
33 years).
Interment at Swann Family Cemetery, Pasquotank, N.C.
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Samuel Tredwell (1763-1826) —
Born in Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y., December
11, 1763.
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1785-1826; died in office 1826.
Died in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., July 30,
1826 (age 62 years, 231
days).
Interment at Johnston
Burial Ground, Edenton, N.C.
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Bartlett Shipp (1786-1869) —
of Lincoln
County, N.C.
Born March 8,
1786.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons from Lincoln County, 1824, 1826-27,
1828-30; member of North
Carolina state senate from Lincoln County, 1834.
Died May 26,
1869 (age 83 years, 79
days).
Interment at St. Luke's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lincolnton, N.C.
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James Iredell Jr. (1788-1853) —
of Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.
Born in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., November
2, 1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1813; state court judge in North
Carolina, 1819; Governor of
North Carolina, 1827-28; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1828-31.
Slaveowner.
Died in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., April
13, 1853 (age 64 years, 162
days).
Interment at Johnston
Burial Ground, Edenton, N.C.
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John Adams Cameron (1788-1838) —
also known as John A. Cameron —
of Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C.; Florida.
Born in Mecklenburg
County, Va., 1788.
Newspaper
editor; member of North
Carolina house of commons from Fayetteville, 1810-12, 1820; major
in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Consul in Veracruz, 1831-32; U.S.
District Judge for Florida, 1832-38.
Member, Freemasons.
Perished
in the wreck
of the steamer Pulaski, off the coast of North Carolina,
in the North
Atlantic Ocean, June 14,
1838 (age about 49
years). His remains were probably
not recovered.
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Thomas N. Cameron (1796-1851) —
of Cumberland
County, N.C.
Born January
13, 1796.
Member of North
Carolina state senate from Cumberland County, 1844-47, 1850-51.
Died June 21,
1851 (age 55 years, 159
days).
Interment at Cross
Creek Cemetery No. 1, Fayetteville, N.C.
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William Marcus Shipp (1819-1890) —
also known as William M. Shipp —
of Lincoln
County, N.C.; Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Lincoln
County, N.C., November
9, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1870-73; defeated, 1872;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1881-90.
Died in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., June 29,
1890 (age 70 years, 232
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Charlotte, N.C.
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