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Henry Black (1783-1841) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born near Somerset, Somerset
County, Pa., February
25, 1783.
Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1816-18; county judge in
Pennsylvania, 1820-40; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 18th District, 1841; died in
office 1841.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Somerset, Somerset
County, Pa., November
28, 1841 (age 58 years, 276
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Somerset County, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810-1883) —
also known as Jeremiah S. Black —
of Somerset, Somerset
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.; York, York
County, Pa.
Born in Stonycreek Township, Somerset
County, Pa., January
10, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Pennsylvania, 1842-51; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1851-54; U.S.
Attorney General, 1857-60; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1860-61; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1873.
Disciples
of Christ. Scotch-Irish and German
ancestry.
Died in York, York
County, Pa., August
19, 1883 (age 73 years, 221
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.
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James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) —
also known as James G. Blaine; "The Plumed
Knight"; "Belshazzar Blaine";
"Magnetic Man" —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in West Brownsville, Washington
County, Pa., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary); member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1859-62; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1863-76; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1869-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1876-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1881, 1889-92; candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Congregationalist.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1893 (age 62 years, 362
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1920 at Blaine
Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and Maria Louise (Gillespie) Blaine; married,
June
30, 1850, to Harriet Stanwood; father of Harriet Blaine (who
married Truxtun
Beale); nephew of Ellen Blaine (who married John
Hoge Ewing); grandfather of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
G. Ingersoll |
| | | Blaine counties in Idaho, Mont., Neb. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Blaine, in Park
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The city
of Blaine,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James G. Blaine (built 1942 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: J.
B. McLaughlin
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about James G. Blaine: Mark
Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Edward P. Crapol, James
G. Blaine : Architect of Empire — Richard B. Cheney &
Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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James Blair (1786-1834) —
of South Carolina.
Born in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., September
26, 1786.
Democrat. Planter; sheriff;
U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1821-22, 1829-34 (9th
District 1821-22, 8th District 1829-34); resigned 1822; died in
office 1834; in 1832, he assaulted
newspaper editor Duff Green, breaking some bones, and fined
$350.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
1834 (age 47 years, 187
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) —
also known as John C. Calhoun —
of Pickens District (now Pickens
County), S.C.
Born in Abbeville District (part now in McCormick
County), S.C., March
18, 1782.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1808; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1817-25; Vice
President of the United States, 1825-32; resigned 1832; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office
1850; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1844-45.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1850 (age 68 years, 13
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Marion
Park, Charleston, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, December
27, 1809, to Floride Bonneau and Floride
Calhoun (daughter of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who
married Thomas
Green Clemson); uncle of John
Alfred Calhoun and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married Armistead
Burt); great-granduncle of John
Temple Graves; first cousin of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802) and Joseph
Calhoun; first cousin once removed of Andrew
Pickens; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann
Calhoun (who married Alexander
Henry Brown); second cousin twice removed of William
Francis Calhoun. |
| | | Political family: Calhoun-Pickens
family of South Carolina (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Calhoun counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Iowa, Mich., Miss., S.C., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The John C. Calhoun State
Office Building (opened 1926), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Lake
Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; destroyed in cargo explosion at Finchhafen,
Papua New Guinea, 1944) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
C. Johnson
— John
Calhoun Nicholls
— John
Calhoun Cook
— John
C. Sheppard
— John C.
Bell
— John
C. C. Mayo
— John
C. Phillips
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes
(1862). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than
union." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret
L. Coit, John
C. Calhoun : American Portrait — Clyde N. Wilson, John
C. Calhoun — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Warren
Brown, John
C. Calhoun (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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George Clinton (1739-1812) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., July 26,
1739.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-76; Governor of
New York, 1777-95, 1801-04; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster
County, 1788; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-01; Vice
President of the United States, 1805-12; died in office 1812.
Christian
Reformed. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
20, 1812 (age 72 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1908 at Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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John David Dingell Jr. (1926-2019) —
also known as John D. Dingell; "Big John";
"The Truck" —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Trenton, Wayne
County, Mich.; Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., July 8,
1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1955-2003 (15th District 1955-65,
16th District 1965-2003, 15th District 2003); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1968,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Polish
and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Polish
Legion of American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; National Rifle
Association.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., February
7, 2019 (age 92 years, 214
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Grace Blossom (Bigler) Dingell and John
David Dingell; married 1952 to Helen
Henebry; married 1981 to Deborah
Ann Insley; father of Christopher
D. Dingell. |
| | | Political family: Dingell
family of Detroit, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Doug
Ross |
| | | John Dingell Drive,
in Detroit Metro Airport,
Romulus,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The John D. Dingell VA
Medical Center, in Detroit,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The John D. Dingell Jr. Memorial Bridges,
which take Stadium Boulevard over State Street and the Ann Arbor
Railroad tracks, in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, are named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1957-58 |
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W. Godfrey Hunter Jr. (c.1880-1912) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Burkesville, Cumberland
County, Ky., about 1880.
U.S. Vice Consul General in Guatemala City, 1898-99.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease, in Washington,
D.C., March
25, 1912 (age about 32
years).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) —
also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the
First" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March
15, 1767.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37; censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States; on January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot
at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a
house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel,
May 30, 1806; also dueled
with Thomas
Hart Benton and Waightstill
Avery. Elected in 1910 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died, of dropsy (congestive
heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845 (age 78 years, 85
days).
Interment at The
Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson;
married, January
17, 1794, to Rachel (Donelson) Robards (aunt of Andrew
Jackson Donelson). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Caffery
family of Louisiana (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair |
| | | Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Andrew
J. Donelson
— Andrew
Jackson Miller
— Andrew
J. Faulk
— Andrew
Jackson Titus
— Andrew
Jackson Isacks
— Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
— Andrew
J. Harlan
— Andrew
J. Kuykendall
— Andrew
J. Thayer
— Elam
A. J. Greeley
— Andrew
Jackson Ingle
— Andrew
J. Ogle
— Andrew
Jackson Carr
— Andrew
J. Waterman
— Andrew
J. Bentley
— Andrew
J. Rogers
— William
A. J. Sparks
— Andrew
Jackson Poppleton
— Andrew
J. Hunter
— Andrew
Jackson Bryant
— Andrew
J. Beale
— A.
J. Clements
— Andrew
Jackson Baker
— Andrew
J. Felt
— A. J.
King
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
Jackson Greenfield
— Andrew
Jackson Caldwell
— Andrew
Jackson Gahagan
— Andrew
Jackson Biship
— Andrew
Jackson Houston
— Andrew
Jackson Speer
— Andrew
J. Cobb
— Andrew
J. Montague
— Andrew
J. Barchfeld
— Andrew
J. Balliet
— Andrew
J. Kirk
— Andrew
J. Livingston
— A.
J. Sherwood
— Andrew
Jackson Stewart
— Andrew
J. May
— Andrew
J. McConnico
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
J. Brewer
— Andrew
J. Dunning, Jr.
— Andrew
Bettwy
— Andrew
J. Transue
— Andrew
Jackson Graves
— Andrew
Jackson Gilbert
— Andrew
J. Goodwin
— Andrew
J. Hinshaw
— Andy
Young
— Andrew
Jackson Kupper
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appears on the U.S. $20 bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
appeared on on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $5 to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes.
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Let the people
rule." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert
Vincent Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 —
Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy,
1833-1845 — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 —
Andrew Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson — David S. Heidler & Jeanne
T. Heidler, Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for
Empire — Donald B. Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson — H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times — Jon Meacham, American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Andrew
Jackson, Hero |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Leonidas Felix Livingston (1832-1912) —
also known as Leonidas F. Livingston —
of King's, Newton
County, Ga.; Covington, Newton
County, Ga.
Born near Covington, Newton
County, Ga., April 3,
1832.
Democrat. Farmer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1876; member of Georgia
state senate, 1882; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1891-1911.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
11, 1912 (age 79 years, 314
days).
Interment at Bethany
Church Cemetery, Near Covington, Newton County, Ga.
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Alexander Macomb (1748-1831) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), 1748.
Fur trader;
merchant;
land
speculator; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1788-89, 1790-91.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1831
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) —
also known as Medill McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 16,
1877.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker);
member of Illinois state legislature, 1910; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1917-19; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1919-25; died in office 1925.
Scotch-Irish and Dutch
ancestry.
Died by suicide,
through an overdose of
barbiturates (reported at the time as a heart attack), in his
room at the Hotel
Hamilton, Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1925 (age 47 years, 285
days).
Interment at Middlecreek
Cemetery, Byron, Ill.
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Thomas McKean (1734-1817) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New London Township, Chester
County, Pa., March
19, 1734.
Lawyer;
member of Delaware
colonial Assembly, 1765-76; common pleas court judge in Delaware,
1765-74; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; member of Delaware
house of assembly, 1777-83; President
of Delaware, 1777; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1777-99; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1781; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789-90; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1799-1808; impeached
by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1807, but no trial was ever held.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 24,
1817 (age 83 years, 97
days).
Original interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in
1843 at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) —
also known as Matthew M. Neely —
of Fairmont, Marion
County, W.Va.
Born in Grove, Doddridge
County, W.Va., November
9, 1874.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; mayor
of Fairmont, W.Va., 1908-10; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1913-21, 1945-47;
defeated, 1920, 1946; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1923-29, 1931-41, 1949-58; defeated,
1928; resigned 1941; defeated, 1942; died in office 1958; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1952,
1956;
Governor
of West Virginia, 1941-45.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Eagles;
Delta
Chi; Phi
Sigma Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Americans
for Democratic Action; United
Spanish War Veterans.
Died, from cancer,
in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
18, 1958 (age 83 years, 70
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Fairmont, W.Va.
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Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Christ Church Parish, Charleston District (now part of Charleston
County), S.C., November
23, 1749.
Lawyer;
law partner of Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1787-96; delegate
to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1796-98; Governor of
South Carolina, 1798-1800; died in office 1800.
Scotch-Irish and English
ancestry.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., January
23, 1800 (age 50 years, 61
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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James Henry Webb Jr. (b. 1946) —
also known as Jim Webb —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., February
9, 1946.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lawyer; author; screenwriter;
journalist;
U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1987-88; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 2007-13; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 2008;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2016.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Still living as of 2016.
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