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San Joaquin County
California

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in San Joaquin County

Index to Locations

  • Private or family graveyards
  • Lodi Cherokee Memorial Park Cemetery
  • Stockton Casa Bonita Mausoleum
  • Stockton San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery
  • Stockton Stockton Rural Cemetery
  • Woodbridge Masonic Cemetery


    Private or family graveyard
    San Joaquin County, California
    Politicians buried here:
      Marion De Vries (1865-1939) — of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born near Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, Calif., August 15, 1865. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from California 2nd District, 1897-1900; Judge of U.S. Customs Court, 1900-10; Associate Judge of U.S. Court of Customs Appeals, 1910-21. Died near Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, Calif., September 11, 1939 (age 74 years, 27 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.
      Relatives: Son of William H. De Vries and Mary De Vries; married, January 26, 1892, to Marie L. Snead.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


    Cherokee Memorial Park Cemetery
    Lodi, San Joaquin County, California
    Politicians buried here:
      Otto Krueger (1890-1963) — of Fessenden, Wells County, N.Dak. Born in Russia, September 7, 1890. Republican. North Dakota state treasurer, 1945; U.S. Representative from North Dakota at-large, 1953-59. Died June 6, 1963 (age 72 years, 272 days). Interment at Cherokee Memorial Park Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier


    Casa Bonita Mausoleum
    Stockton, San Joaquin County, California
    Politicians buried here:
      Justin Leroy Johnson (1888-1961) — also known as J. Leroy Johnson — of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Wausau, Marathon County, Wis., April 8, 1888. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1936, 1948 (alternate), 1952; U.S. Representative from California, 1943-57 (3rd District 1943-53, 11th District 1953-57). Died in Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif., March 26, 1961 (age 72 years, 352 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Casa Bonita Mausoleum.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Katherine Thompson Becker (1916-1996) — also known as Katherine Thompson Brown — of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont., October 10, 1916. Republican. Member of California Republican State Central Committee, 1942-50; vice-chair of California Republican Party, 1948-50. Female. Congregationalist. Danish, Dutch, and English ancestry. Member, League of Women Voters. Died in San Joaquin County, Calif., February 25, 1996 (age 79 years, 138 days). Entombed at Casa Bonita Mausoleum.
      Relatives: Daughter of Charles Henry Brown and Annette (Thompson) Brown; married to Howard E. Becker.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial


    San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery
    Stockton, San Joaquin County, California
    Politicians buried here:
      Ferris Forman (1808-1901) — of Vandalia, Fayette County, Ill.; Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif.; Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Nichols, Tioga County, N.Y., August 24, 1808. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Illinois, 1839-41; member of Illinois state senate, 1845-46; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster at Sacramento, Calif., 1853-57; secretary of state of California, 1858-60; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention 13th District, 1870; Fayette County State's Attorney. Died in Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif., February 11, 1901 (age 92 years, 171 days). Interment at San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, January 11, 1844, to Lucinda Boothe.


    Stockton Rural Cemetery
    Stockton, San Joaquin County, California
    Politicians buried here:
      John Cummins Edwards (1804-1888) — also known as John C. Edwards — of Jefferson City, Cole County, Mo.; Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., June 24, 1804. Democrat. Lawyer; secretary of state of Missouri, 1830-35, 1837; district judge in Missouri, 1832-37; member of Missouri state house of representatives, 1836; justice of Missouri state supreme court, 1837-39; U.S. Representative from Missouri at-large, 1841-43; Governor of Missouri, 1844-48; mayor of Stockton, Calif., 1851. Slaveowner. Died in Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif., October 14, 1888 (age 84 years, 112 days). Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      James Herbert Budd (1851-1908) — of California. Born in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., May 18, 1851. Democrat. U.S. Representative from California 2nd District, 1883-85; Governor of California, 1895-99. Died in Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif., July 30, 1908 (age 57 years, 73 days). Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography
      David Smith Terry (1823-1889) — also known as David S. Terry — of Galveston, Galveston County, Tex.; San Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Christian County (part now in Todd County), Ky., March 8, 1823. Lawyer; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of slavery to California; justice of California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in a duel near San Francisco in 1859; tried for murder, but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate for Presidential Elector for California; his wife Sarah Althea Hill claimed to be the widow and heir of wealthy U.S. Senator William Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed six months for contempt of court. Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field and slapped him in the face; he was then shot through the heart and killed by U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train station dining room at Lathrop, San Joaquin County, Calif., August 14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159 days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later released on the demand of the U.S. government. Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joseph Royal Terry and Sarah David (Smith) Terry; brother of Benjamin Franklin Terry; married, November 26, 1852, to Cornelia Runnels (niece of Hardin Richard Runnels); married, January 7, 1886, to Sarah Althea Hill.
      Political family: Runnels-Terry family of Houston, Texas.
      Cross-reference: Peter Singleton Wilkes
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Alexander Louttit (1848-1906) — of California. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., October 16, 1848. Republican. U.S. Representative from California 2nd District, 1885-87; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1896. Died in Pacific Grove, Monterey County, Calif., July 26, 1906 (age 57 years, 283 days). Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Peter Singleton Wilkes (1827-1900) — of Springfield, Greene County, Mo. Born in Maury County, Tenn., 1827. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1860; Representative from Missouri in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65. Law partner of David S. Terry. Died in Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif., January 2, 1900 (age about 72 years). Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      David Fulton Douglass (1821-1872) — of San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tenn., January 8, 1821. Member of California state assembly 8th District, 1855-56; secretary of state of California, 1856-58. Died in Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif., June 16, 1872 (age 51 years, 160 days). Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      Caleb Dorsey (1833-1896) — of Pike County, Mo.; Stanislaus County, Calif. Born in Patapsco, Anne Arundel County, Md., September 7, 1833. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; livestock raiser; bank director; member of California state assembly 5th District, 1877-80. Member, Freemasons. Shot and killed by his mining partner, J. T. Newcomer, at Snell Mine, near Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif., April 21, 1896 (age 62 years, 227 days). Newcomer claimed self-defense, but was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison. Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edward Worthington Dorsey and Eleanor Elizabeth (Brown) Dorsey; nephew of Thomas Beale Dorsey; first cousin once removed of George Riggs Gaither Jr.; second cousin once removed of Daniel Dorsey and Andrew Dorsey; third cousin once removed of Richard Ridgely, Alexander Warfield and Clement F. Dorsey; third cousin thrice removed of Leonard Franklin Poffenbarger; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Maull, Richard Yates and Alexander Warfield Dorsey.
      Political families: Dorsey-Poffenbarger family of Maryland; Maull family of Lewes, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Hubert R. McNoble (d. 1943) — of Stockton, San Joaquin County, Calif. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1912. Died October 28, 1943. Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.
      Caswell Davis — of Santa Clara County, Calif. Member of California state assembly 4th District, 1856-57. Interment at Stockton Rural Cemetery.


    Masonic Cemetery
    Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, California
    Politicians buried here:
      Edwin Jonathan McIntosh (1826-1909) — also known as Jonathan McIntosh — of Lodi, San Joaquin County, Calif. Born in Homer, Cortland County, N.Y., November 6, 1826. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California state assembly 16th District, 1880-81. Member, Freemasons. Died, of pneumonia, in Lodi, San Joaquin County, Calif., April 19, 1909 (age 82 years, 164 days). Interment at Masonic Cemetery.

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