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  • Washington Unknown location
  • Washington Capitol Grounds
  • Washington Chevy Chase Circle
  • Washington Columbian Harmony Cemetery (now gone)
  • Washington Congressional Cemetery
  • Washington Connecticut Avenue
  • Washington Constitution Gardens
  • Washington Dumbarton Oaks Rose Garden
  • Washington Federal Triangle
  • Washington Garfield Circle
  • Washington Georgetown University Jesuit Cemetery
  • Washington Glenwood Cemetery
  • Washington Gompers Square
  • Washington Graceland Cemetery
  • Washington Hancock Circle
  • Washington Holmead's Burying Ground
  • Washington Holy Rood Cemetery
  • Washington John A. Wilson Building Grounds
  • Washington Judiciary Park
  • Washington Lafayette Park
  • Washington Meridian Hill Park
  • Washington Mt. Olivet Cemetery
  • Washington National Mall
  • Washington Oak Hill Cemetery
  • Washington Rawlins Park
  • Washington Rock Creek Cemetery
  • Washington St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
  • Washington Scott Circle
  • Washington Sherman Park
  • Washington Treasury Building Grounds
  • Washington U.S. Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National Cemetery
  • Washington Ward Circle
  • Washington Washington Circle
  • Washington Washington National Cathedral
  • Washington West Potomac Park
  • Washington Woodlawn Cemetery
  • Washington Private or family graveyards
  • Georgetown, Washington Old Presbyterian Cemetery (now gone)
  • Lafayette Square, Washington St. John's Church Cemetery


    Unknown Locations
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Politicians buried here:
      Walter Maximillian Bastian (1891-1975) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., November 16, 1891. Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1950-54; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1954-65; took senior status 1965. Methodist. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons; Kiwanis. Died March 12, 1975 (age 83 years, 116 days). Interment somewhere.
      Relatives: Son of Charles Sandal Bastian and Katherine (Draeger) Bastian; married, July 3, 1914, to Eva E. Alger.
      Henry Fay Greene (1859-1915) — also known as Henry F. Greene — of Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn. Born in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., May 30, 1859. Lawyer; member, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1903-07. Died in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn., December 20, 1915 (age 56 years, 204 days). Interment somewhere.
      Joseph Henry Adams (c.1859-1924) — also known as Joseph H. Adams — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Washington, D.C., about 1859. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1904. Episcopalian. Member, Sons of the Revolution. Died in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., August 19, 1924 (age about 65 years). Interment somewhere.
      Thomas Patrick Dillon (d. 1985) — also known as Thomas P. Dillon — U.S. Vice Consul in Moscow, as of 1943. Died in 1985. Interment somewhere.


    Capitol Grounds
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Robert A. Taft Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953) — also known as Robert A. Taft; "Mr. Republican"; "Mr. Integrity"; "Our Illustrious Dunderhead" — of Indian Hill, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 8, 1889. Republican. Lawyer; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1921-26; Speaker of the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1926; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1928 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker), 1932, 1944; member of Ohio state senate, 1931-32; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1939-53; died in office 1953; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952. Episcopalian. Member, Psi Upsilon. Co-sponsor of the Taft-Hartley Act. Died, from malignant tumors, in New York Hospital, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., July 31, 1953 (age 63 years, 326 days). Interment at Indian Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery, Indian Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio; memorial monument at Capitol Grounds.
      Relatives: Son of William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft; brother of Charles Phelps Taft II; married, October 17, 1914, to Martha Wheaton Bowers (daughter of Lloyd Wheaton Bowers; granddaughter of Thomas Wilson); father of William Howard Taft III and Robert Taft Jr.; nephew of Charles Phelps Taft and Henry Waters Taft; uncle of Seth Chase Taft; grandson of Alphonso Taft and John Williamson Herron; grandfather of Robert Alphonso Taft III; grandnephew of William Collins; great-grandson of Peter Rawson Taft and Ela Collins; first cousin of Walbridge S. Taft and Frederick Lippitt; second cousin thrice removed of Willard J. Chapin; second cousin four times removed of Josiah Cowles; second cousin five times removed of William Pitkin; distant relative *** of Ezra Taft Benson.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Robert A. Taft High School (opened 1955; now Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School), in Cincinnati, Ohio, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Robert A. Taft: James T. Patterson, Mr. Republican : A Biography of Robert A. Taft — John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
      Image source: U.S. postage stamp (1960)


    Chevy Chase Circle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Francis G. Newlands Francis Griffith Newlands (1848-1917) — also known as Francis G. Newlands — of San Francisco, Calif.; Reno, Washoe County, Nev. Born near Natchez, Adams County, Miss., August 28, 1848. Lawyer; trustee of the estate of U.S. Senator William Sharon, 1886; U.S. Representative from Nevada at-large, 1893-1903; U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1903-17; died in office 1917; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1904 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee), 1916. Died in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1917 (age 69 years, 118 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; memorial monument at Chevy Chase Circle.
      Relatives: Son of James Birney Newlands and Jessie (Barland) Newlands; married 1874 to Clara Adelaide Sharon (daughter of William Sharon); married 1888 to Edith McAllister.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, July 1902


    Columbian Harmony Cemetery (now gone)
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      John Adams Hyman (1840-1891) — of North Carolina. Born in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., July 23, 1840. Republican. Delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868; member of North Carolina state senate, 1869-75; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1875-77. African ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., September 14, 1891 (age 51 years, 53 days). Original interment at Columbian Harmony Cemetery; reinterment in 1959 at National Harmony Memorial Park, Landover, Md.
      Presumably named for: John Adams
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Congressional Cemetery
    1801 E Street, S.E.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Founded 1807
    Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1969
    See also Findagrave page for this location.

    Politicians buried here:
      Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Marblehead, Essex County, Mass., July 17, 1744. Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1776-80, 1782-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1786; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1789-93; Governor of Massachusetts, 1810-12; defeated, 1801, 1812; Vice President of the United States, 1813-14; died in office 1814. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. The word gerrymander ("Gerry" plus "salamander") was coined to describe an oddly shaped Massachusetts senate district his party created in 1811, and later came to mean any unfair districting. Died in Washington, D.C., November 23, 1814 (age 70 years, 129 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gerry; married, January 12, 1786, to Ann Gerry; grandfather of Elbridge Thomas Gerry; great-grandfather of Peter Goelet Gerry; third cousin of Levi Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln.
      Political families: Lincoln-Lee family; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The town of Elbridge, New York, is named for him.  — The town of Gerry, New York, is named for him.  — The town of Gerry (now Phillipston, Massachusetts), was named for him until 1812.
      Other politicians named for him: Elbridge G. BaldwinElbridge G. KnowltonElbridge G. CreacraftElbridge G. SpauldingElbridge G. GaleElbridge GerryElbridge G. LaphamEldridge Gerry PearlElbridge G. MoultonElbridge G. CracraftElbridge G. KelleyElbridge G. HaynesElbridge G. BrownElbridge G. Davis
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Elbridge Gerry: George Athan Billias, Elbridge Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman
    William Wirt William Wirt (1772-1834) — of Virginia. Born near Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Md., November 8, 1772. Lawyer; prosecuting attorney at the treason trial of Aaron Burr, 1807; U.S. Attorney for Virginia, 1816-17; U.S. Attorney General, 1817-29; Anti-Masonic candidate for President of the United States, 1832. Presbyterian. German and Swiss ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., February 18, 1834 (age 61 years, 102 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jacob Wirt and Henrietta Wirt; married, May 28, 1795, to Mildred 'Millie' Gilmer (niece of John Walker and Francis Walker; aunt of Thomas Walker Gilmer); married, September 7, 1802, to Elizabeth Washington Gamble (sister-in-law of William Henry Cabell); father of Catherine Gratten Wirt (who married Alexander Randall); grandfather of John Wirt Randall; great-grandfather of Hannah Parker Randall (who married William Bladen Lowndes).
      Wirt County, W.Va. is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Wirt AdamsWilliam Wirt VirginWilliam Wirt WatkinsWilliam Wirt VaughanWilliam W. WarrenWilliam Wirt CulbertsonWilliam Wirt HerodWilliam W. DixonWilliam Wirt HendersonWilliam W. HastingsW. Wirt Courtney
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about William Wirt: Gregory Kurt Glassner, Adopted Son: The Life, Wit & Wisdom of William Wirt, 1772-1834
      Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
    William Pinkney William Pinkney (1764-1822) — of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., March 17, 1764. Delegate to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1790-92, 1795 (Harford County 1790-92, Anne Arundel County 1795); U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1791, 1815-16 (at-large 1791, 5th District 1815-16); member of Maryland state executive council, 1792-95; mayor of Annapolis, Md., 1795-1800; Maryland state attorney general, 1805-06; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1808-11; Russia, 1816-18; member of Maryland state senate from Western Shore, 1811; U.S. Attorney General, 1811-14; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1819-22; died in office 1822. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1822 (age 57 years, 345 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jonathan Pinkney and Ann (Rind) Pinkney; married to Anna Maria Rodgers; grandfather of William Pinkney Whyte.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary
      Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
      John Forsyth (1780-1841) — of Augusta, Richmond County, Ga. Born in Fredericksburg, Va., October 22, 1780. Democrat. Lawyer; Georgia state attorney general, 1808; U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1813-18, 1823-27 (at-large 1813-18, 1823-25, 2nd District 1825-27, at-large 1827); resigned 1827; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1818-19, 1829-34; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1819-23; Governor of Georgia, 1827-29; U.S. Secretary of State, 1834-41. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., October 21, 1841 (age 60 years, 364 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Robert Moriah Forsythe and Fanny (Johnston) Forsythe; married, May 12, 1802, to Clara Meigs (daughter of Josiah Meigs); father of John Forsyth Jr..
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Forsyth County, Ga. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
    Philip Pendleton Barbour Philip Pendleton Barbour (1783-1841) — of Luckettsville, Orange County, Va. Born near Gordonsville, Orange County, Va., May 25, 1783. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1812-14; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1814-25, 1827-30 (10th District 1814-15, 11th District 1815-25, 1827-30); Speaker of the U.S. House, 1821-23; state court judge in Virginia, 1825-27; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1830-36; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1832; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-41; died in office 1841. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1841 (age 57 years, 276 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Col. Thomas Barbour and Mary (Thomas) Barbour; brother of James Barbour; married 1804 to Frances Johnson; cousin *** of John Strode Barbour.
      Political family: Barbour family of Virginia.
      Barbour County, W.Va. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
      Samuel Nicholls Smallwood (1772-1824) — also known as Samuel N. Smallwood — of Washington, D.C. Born in Charles County, Md., September 5, 1772. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1819-22, 1824. Died in Washington, D.C., September 29, 1824 (age 52 years, 24 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Samuel Smallwood and Martha Ann (Berry) Smallwood; married, February 28, 1801, to Ruth Beall; second cousin once removed of William Smallwood; second cousin thrice removed of James Lester Smallwood; third cousin of Alfred William Grayson; third cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; third cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin of Samuel H. Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington and Elisha Mills Huntington.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Samuel Lewis Southard (1787-1842) — also known as Samuel L. Southard — of Hunterdon County, N.J.; Trenton, Mercer County, N.J. Born in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, N.J., June 9, 1787. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1815; resigned 1815; associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1815-20; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1821-23, 1833-42; died in office 1842; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1823-29; New Jersey state attorney general, 1829-33; Governor of New Jersey, 1832-33; chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery, 1832-33. Slaveowner. Died in Fredericksburg, Va., June 26, 1842 (age 55 years, 17 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Southard; brother of Isaac Southard; father of Virginia E. Southard (who married Ogden Hoffman).
      Political family: Southard-Hoffman family of New York and New Jersey.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
    William Winston Seaton William Winston Seaton (1785-1866) — of Washington, D.C. Born in King William County, Va., January 11, 1785. Whig. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1840-50. Died in Washington, D.C., June 16, 1866 (age 81 years, 156 days). Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground; reinterment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Augustine Seaton; married 1809 to Sarah Weston Gales (sister of Joseph Gales Jr.).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (1886)
      Marion S. Barry Jr. (1936-2014) — also known as Marion Barry — of Washington, D.C. Born in Itta Bena, Leflore County, Miss., March 6, 1936. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1972 (alternate), 1980, 1988 (speaker), 1996; mayor of Washington, D.C., 1979-91, 1995-99; convicted in 1990 of misdemeanor cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine; sentenced to six months in prison. African ancestry. Member, Alpha Phi Alpha. Died in Washington, D.C., November 23, 2014 (age 78 years, 262 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Critical books about Marion Barry: Jonetta Rose Barras, The Last of the Black Emperors : The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders
    Joseph Gales Joseph Gales Jr. (1786-1860) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Eckington, Derbyshire, England, April 10, 1786. Newspaper publisher; mayor of Washington, D.C., 1827-30. Died in Washington, D.C., July 21, 1860 (age 74 years, 102 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joseph Gales and Winifred (Marshall) Gales; brother of Sarah Weston Gales (who married of William Winston Seaton); married to Sarah Juliana Maria Lee.
      Gales School (built 1881; used as a school until 1944; now houses the Central Union Mission), in Washington, D.C., is named for him.
      Epitaph: "For more than half a century, the leading editor of the National Intelligencer: a journalist of the highest integrity, ability, and accomplishments."
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (1886)
      John Walker Maury (c.1809-1855) — also known as John W. Maury — of Washington, D.C. Born about 1809. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1852-54. Died in Washington, D.C., February 2, 1855 (age about 46 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Grymes Maury and Ann Hoomes 'Nancy' (Woolfolk) Maury; married, October 6, 1831, to Isabella Foyles; grandnephew of James Maury; second cousin of Dabney Herndon Maury; second cousin once removed of Abram Poindexter Maury; second cousin twice removed of Fontaine Maury Maverick; second cousin thrice removed of Fontaine Maury Maverick Jr..
      Political family: Maury-Maverick family of San Antonio, Texas.
      Buckner Thruston (1763-1845) — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born in Gloucester County, Va., February 9, 1763. Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1789; district judge in Kentucky, 1791; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1802-03; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1805-09; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1810-45; died in office 1845. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., August 30, 1845 (age 82 years, 202 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Jackson (1757-1806) — of Georgia. Born in Devon, England, September 21, 1757. Delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-91; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1793-95, 1801-06; died in office 1806; Governor of Georgia, 1798-1801. Killed George Wells in a duel in 1780; injured in both knees. Died in Washington, D.C., March 19, 1806 (age 48 years, 179 days). Original interment at Rock Creek Cemetery; reinterment in 1832 at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Jabez Young Jackson; grandfather of James Jackson (1819-1887).
      Political family: Jackson family of Georgia.
      Jackson County, Ga. is named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS James Jackson (built 1942 at Savannah, Georgia; scrapped 1973) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Horatio King (1811-1897) — Born in Paris, Oxford County, Maine, June 21, 1811. U.S. Postmaster General, 1861. Died in Washington, D.C., May 20, 1897 (age 85 years, 333 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Anne Collins; father of Horatio Collins King.
      Political family: Hart family of New York.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Roger C. Weightman — of Washington, D.C. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1824-27. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      James G. Berret — of Washington, D.C. Democrat. Postmaster at Washington, D.C., 1853-58; mayor of Washington, D.C., 1858-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1868. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      John Gaillard (1765-1826) — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C.; Pendleton, Anderson County, S.C. Born in St. Stephens Parish, Charleston District (now part of Berkeley County), S.C., September 5, 1765. Democrat. Lawyer; planter; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from St. Stephen, 1794-96; member of South Carolina state senate from St. Stephen, 1796-1804; resigned 1804; U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1804-26; died in office 1826. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 26, 1826 (age 60 years, 174 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Gaillard (1736-1800) and Judith (Peyre) Gaillard; married, November 22, 1792, to Mary Lord; uncle of Theodore Gaillard Hunt; great-granduncle of Thomas Porcher Stoney; first cousin once removed of Peter Charles Gaillard, Peter Gaillard Snowden, Franklin Gaillard and Henry Augustus Gaillard; first cousin four times removed of John Palmer Gaillard Jr..
      Political family: Gaillard family of Charleston, South Carolina.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Benjamin G. Orr — of Washington, D.C. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1817-19. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      John Thomas Towers — of Washington, D.C. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1854-56. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Sayles J. Bowen — of Washington, D.C. Republican. Postmaster at Washington, D.C., 1863-68; member of Republican National Committee from District of Columbia, 1866-72; delegate to Republican National Convention from District of Columbia, 1868, 1880 (alternate); mayor of Washington, D.C., 1868-70. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Uriah Tracy (1755-1807) — of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Franklin, New London County, Conn., February 2, 1755. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1788-93; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1793-96; resigned 1796; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1796-1807; died in office 1807. Died in Washington, D.C., July 19, 1807 (age 52 years, 167 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Susannah Bull; father of Julia Tracy (who married Theron Metcalf).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Noble (1785-1831) — of Brookville, Franklin County, Ind. Born near Berryville, Clarke County, Va., December 16, 1785. Lawyer; member of Indiana territorial House of Representatives, 1813-14; member Indiana territorial council, 1815; circuit judge in Indiana, 1815; delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1816; U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1816-31; died in office 1831. Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., February 26, 1831 (age 45 years, 72 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Noah Noble and Benjamin Sedgwick Noble (c.1809-1869); father of Benjamin Sedgwick Noble (1805-1837).
      Political family: Noble family of Indiana.
      Noble County, Ind. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Joseph Inslee Anderson (1757-1837) — also known as Joseph Anderson — of Tennessee. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., November 5, 1757. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; justice of Southwest Territory supreme court, 1791; delegate to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1797-1815; Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, 1815-36. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1837 (age 79 years, 163 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Anderson and Elizabeth (Inslee) Anderson; married 1797 to Only Patience Outlaw; father of Alexander Outlaw Anderson.
      Anderson County, Tenn. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Burrill Jr. (1772-1820) — of Providence, Providence County, R.I. Born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., April 25, 1772. Rhode Island state attorney general, 1797-1812; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1810; Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1814-16; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1817-20; died in office 1820. Died in Washington, D.C., December 25, 1820 (age 48 years, 244 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Grandfather of George William Curtis; great-grandfather of Theodore Francis Green.
      Political family: Arnold family of Providence, Rhode Island (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The town of Burrillville, Rhode Island, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      William Upham (1792-1853) — of Montpelier, Washington County, Vt. Born in Leicester, Worcester County, Mass., August 5, 1792. Whig. Injured in a cider mill accident and lost a hand; lawyer; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1827-28, 1830; Washington County State's Attorney, 1829; U.S. Senator from Vermont, 1843-53; died in office 1853. Died, from smallpox, at the Irving Hotel, Washington, D.C., January 14, 1853 (age 60 years, 162 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery; cenotaph at Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, Vt.
      Relatives: Son of Samuel Upham and Patty (Livermore) Upham; married 1814 to Sarah Keyes; second cousin of Alonzo Sidney Upham; second cousin once removed of Isaiah Blood and William Henry Upham; third cousin thrice removed of Clarence Albert Upham; fourth cousin of Jabez Upham, George Baxter Upham, Nathaniel Upham, Samuel Finley Vinton and Charles Wentworth Upham; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Gookin Upham and James Phineas Upham.
      Political families: Upham family; Bell-Upham family of New Hampshire; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Richard Montgomery Young (1798-1861) — also known as Richard M. Young — of Jonesboro, Union County, Ill.; Quincy, Adams County, Ill. Born in Fayette County, Ky., February 20, 1798. Democrat. Member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1820-22; circuit judge in Illinois, 1825-37; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1837-43; justice of Illinois state supreme court, 1843-47; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1847-49. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., November 28, 1861 (age 63 years, 281 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Daniel Rapine — of Washington, D.C. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1812-13. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      William Pope Duval (1784-1854) — also known as William P. Duval — of Kentucky; Calhoun County, Fla. Born in Virginia, 1784. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Kentucky at-large, 1813-15; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Florida, 1821-22; Governor of Florida Territory, 1822-34; delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from Calhoun County, 1838-39; member of Florida state senate, 1839-42. He was the model for Washington Irving's character "Ralph Ringwood" and James K. Paulding's character "Nimrod Wildfire". Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., March 19, 1854 (age about 69 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Marcia Duval (who married George Washington Paschal).
      Duval County, Fla. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Theodorick Bland (1742-1790) — of Prince George County, Va. Born in Cawsons, Prince George County, Va., March 21, 1742. Physician; planter; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Prince George County, 1788; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1789-90; died in office 1790. Slaveowner. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 1, 1790 (age 48 years, 72 days). Original interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1828 at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Theodorick Bland (1708-1803) and Frances Elizabeth (Bolling) Bland; married 1768 to Martha Dangerfield; nephew of Richard Bland; uncle of John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; granduncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; first cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; second cousin of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, John Wayles Eppes, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin thrice removed of William Lewis Cabell, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, George Craighead Cabell, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II, Frederick Madison Roberts and Douglass Townshend Bolling; second cousin four times removed of Thomas Lawton Davis, Connally Findlay Trigg, Benjamin Earl Cabell, John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt, Francis Beverley Biddle and Richard Walker Bolling; second cousin five times removed of Henry De La Warr Flood, Joel West Flood and Earle Cabell; third cousin of David Meriwether (1755-1822), James Meriwether (1755-1817) and Meriwether Lewis; third cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; third cousin twice removed of George Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben Handy Meriwether; third cousin thrice removed of William Henry Robertson.
      Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      William Allen Trimble (1786-1821) — of Ohio. Born in Woodford County, Ky., April 4, 1786. Lawyer; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1819-21; died in office 1821. Died, from his war wounds, in Washington, D.C., December 13, 1821 (age 35 years, 253 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Allen Trimble.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Cranch (1769-1855) — of District of Columbia. Born in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Mass., July 17, 1769. Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1801, 1806. Died in Washington, D.C., September 1, 1855 (age 86 years, 46 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Richard Cranch and Mary (Smith) Cranch; married, April 6, 1795, to Anna Nancy Greenleaf; nephew of Abigail Quincy Smith (who married John Adams); great-grandfather of Thomas Stearns Eliot; first cousin of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); first cousin once removed of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886); first cousin twice removed of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); first cousin four times removed of Thomas Boylston Adams; third cousin once removed of Samuel Sewall and Josiah Quincy; fourth cousin of Josiah Quincy Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel Miller Quincy.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Francis Malbone (1759-1809) — of Rhode Island. Born in Newport, Newport County, R.I., March 20, 1759. U.S. Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1793-97; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1807; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1809; died in office 1809. Slaveowner. Died on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., June 4, 1809 (age 50 years, 76 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Dawson (1762-1814) — of Spotsylvania County, Va. Born in Virginia, 1762. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1786-89; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1788; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Spotsylvania County, 1788; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1797-1814 (at-large 1797-1807, 10th District 1807-14); died in office 1814. Died in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1814 (age about 51 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Lemuel Jackson Bowden (1815-1864) — of Virginia. Born in Williamsburg, Va., January 16, 1815. Republican. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1850; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1863-64; died in office 1864. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., January 2, 1864 (age 48 years, 351 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Uncle of George Edwin Bowden.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Nathaniel Roach (1840-1902) — also known as William N. Roach — of Larimore, Grand Forks County, N.Dak. Born in District of Columbia, 1840. Democrat. Member of North Dakota state legislature, 1880; U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1893-99. Died in 1902 (age about 62 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
    John M. Thurston John Mellen Thurston (1847-1916) — also known as John M. Thurston — of Omaha, Douglas County, Neb. Born in Montpelier, Washington County, Vt., August 21, 1847. Republican. Lawyer; general solicitor for Union Pacific Railroad; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1872, 1888 (Temporary Chair), 1896 (Permanent Chair; chair, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee; speaker); member of Nebraska state house of representatives, 1875-77; candidate for Presidential Elector for Nebraska; U.S. Senator from Nebraska, 1895-1901; member of Republican National Committee from Nebraska, 1896; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1896. Died in Omaha, Douglas County, Neb., August 9, 1916 (age 68 years, 354 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Congressional Cemetery.
      Thurston County, Neb. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)
      Richard Stanford (1767-1816) — of Hawfields, Alamance County, N.C. Born near Vienna, Dorchester County, Md., March 2, 1767. Democrat. U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1797-1816 (4th District 1797-99, at-large 1799-1803, 8th District 1803-05, at-large 1805-07, 8th District 1807-09, at-large 1809-11, 8th District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 8th District 1815-16); died in office 1816. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1816 (age 49 years, 38 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Grandfather of William Robert Webb.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry Gaither Worthington (1828-1909) — also known as Henry G. Worthington — of San Francisco, Calif.; Austin, Lander County, Nev.; Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., February 9, 1828. Republican. Member of California state assembly 8th District, 1862-63; U.S. Representative from Nevada at-large, 1864-65; U.S. Minister to Argentina, 1868-69; Uruguay, 1868-69; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1873-77. Died in Washington, D.C., July 29, 1909 (age 81 years, 170 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary
      Thomas Tudor Tucker (1745-1828) — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Port Royal, Bermuda, June 25, 1745. Physician; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1776, 1782-83, 1785, 1787-88; Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1787-88; U.S. Representative from South Carolina at-large, 1789-93; treasurer of the United States, 1801-28. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., May 2, 1828 (age 82 years, 312 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Tucker and Ann (Butterfield) Tucker; brother of St. George Tucker; uncle of George Tucker and Henry St. George Tucker; granduncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740. Merchant; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1776-85; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1784-85; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1780; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1787-88; Secretary of the United States Senate, 1789-1814. Died in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1814 (age 73 years, 149 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Otis (1702-1778) and Mary (Allyne) Otis; married, December 31, 1764, to Elizabeth Gray; married, March 28, 1782, to Mary (Smith) Gray; father of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848); great-grandfather of James Otis (1836-1898); third great-grandfather of Robert Helyer Thayer; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; first cousin four times removed of Albert Clinton Griswold; second cousin once removed of Asahel Otis; second cousin twice removed of Oran Gray Otis, Day Otis Kellogg, Asa H. Otis, Dwight Kellogg, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin thrice removed of Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis, Norton Prentiss Otis, Lauren Ford Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; second cousin four times removed of Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin once removed of Chillus Doty; third cousin twice removed of James Duane Doty, George Bailey Loring and Abraham Lansing; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Doty.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Lemuel Dale Evans (1810-1877) — also known as Lemuel D. Evans — of Arkansas; Marshall, Harrison County, Tex. Born in Tennessee, January 8, 1810. Lawyer; Independent candidate for U.S. Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1842; U.S. Representative from Texas 1st District, 1855-57; justice of Texas state supreme court, 1870-73; chief justice of Texas state supreme court, 1870-71. Died in Washington, D.C., July 1, 1877 (age 67 years, 174 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Alexander Cameron Hunt (1825-1894) — of Freeport, Stephenson County, Ill.; Denver, Colo. Born in Hammondsport, Steuben County, N.Y., December 25, 1825. Candidate for Delegate to U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory, 1866; Governor of Colorado Territory, 1867-69. Died in Washington, D.C., May 14, 1894 (age 68 years, 140 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Thomas Blount (1759-1812) — of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N.C. Born in Craven County (part now in Pitt County), N.C., May 10, 1759. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of North Carolina house of commons from Edgecombe County, 1789, 1792; U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1793-99, 1805-09, 1811-12 (at-large 1793-97, 9th District 1797-99, at-large 1805-07, 3rd District 1807-09, 1811-12); died in office 1812; member of North Carolina state senate from Edgecombe County, 1799. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 7, 1812 (age 52 years, 273 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jacob Blount and Barbara (Gray) Blount; brother of William Blount; married to Jacky Sullivan Sumner; uncle of William Grainger Blount.
      Political family: Blount family of North Carolina.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany (1864-1937) — also known as Rowland B. Mahany — of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.; Washington, D.C. Born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., September 28, 1864. Newspaper editor; lawyer; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1892-93; U.S. Representative from New York 32nd District, 1895-99; defeated (Republican), 1892, 1898, 1900; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1924 (alternate), 1928 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization). Episcopalian. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Psi Upsilon. Died in Washington, D.C., May 2, 1937 (age 72 years, 216 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Kean Mahany and Catherine (Reynolds) Mahany.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      John Smilie (1741-1812) — of Fayette City, Fayette County, Pa. Born in Ireland, 1741. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1784-86; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of Pennsylvania state senate, 1790-93; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1793-95, 1799-1812 (8th District 1793-95, 11th District 1799-1803, 9th District 1803-12); died in office 1812. Died in Washington, D.C., December 30, 1812 (age about 71 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Armisted Burwell (1780-1821) — also known as William A. Burwell — of Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Va. Born near Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., March 15, 1780. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1804-06; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1806-21 (at-large 1806-07, 13th District 1807-15, 14th District 1815-21); died in office 1821. Slaveowner. Died February 16, 1821 (age 40 years, 338 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) — also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter Lantos — of Millbrae, San Mateo County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo County, Calif. Born in Budapest, Hungary, February 1, 1928. Democrat. University professor; television news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1976, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004; U.S. Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93, 12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008. Jewish. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Alpha Mu. Arrested for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil disobedience action to protest genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. Died, of cancer of the esophagus, in Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., February 11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1950 to Annette Tillemann; father of Katrina Lantos (who married Richard Nelson Swett).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Gillespie (c.1747-1805) — of North Carolina. Born in Kenansville, Duplin County, N.C., about 1747. Delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; member of North Carolina house of commons, 1779-83; member of North Carolina state senate, 1784-86; U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1793-99, 1803-05 (at-large 1793-97, 6th District 1797-99, 5th District 1803-05); died in office 1805. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1805 (age about 58 years). Original interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery (which no longer exists); reinterment in 1893 at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Dorcas Mumford.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Alexander Smyth (1765-1830) — of Wythe County, Va. Born in Ireland, 1765. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1792; member of Virginia state senate, 1808; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1817-25, 1827-30 (6th District 1817-21, 22nd District 1821-25, 1827-30); died in office 1830. Died in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1830 (age about 64 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      George Edward Mitchell (1781-1832) — also known as George E. Mitchell — of Elkton, Cecil County, Md. Born in Head of Elk (now Elkton), Cecil County, Md., March 3, 1781. Democrat. Member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1806-09; member of Maryland state executive council, 1809-12; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1823-27, 1829-32; died in office 1832; candidate for Governor of Maryland, 1829. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., June 28, 1832 (age 51 years, 117 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Tilman Bacon Parks (1872-1950) — also known as Tilman B. Parks — of Hope, Hempstead County, Ark.; Camden, Ouachita County, Ark. Born near Lewisville, Lafayette County, Ark., May 14, 1872. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Arkansas state house of representatives, 1901-04, 1909-10; candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; prosecuting attorney; U.S. Representative from Arkansas 7th District, 1921-37. Baptist. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Woodmen; Elks; Lions. Died in Washington, D.C., February 12, 1950 (age 77 years, 274 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William P. Parks and Mattie (Douglass) Parks; married, March 4, 1897, to Fay Newton.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Elijah Brigham (1751-1816) — of Massachusetts. Born in Westborough (part now in Northborough), Worcester County, Mass., July 7, 1751. Merchant; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1791-93; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1795-1811; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1796, 1798, 1801-05, 1807-10; member of Massachusetts Governor's Council, 1799-1800, 1806; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1811-16 (10th District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 12th District 1815-16); died in office 1816. Died in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1816 (age 64 years, 230 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Christopher Rankin (1788-1826) — of Natchez, Adams County, Miss. Born in Pennsylvania, 1788. Democrat. Member of Mississippi territorial House of Representatives, 1813; Mississippi territory attorney general Western District, 1814-17; member of Mississippi state legislature, 1810; U.S. Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1819-26; died in office 1826. Died in 1826 (age about 38 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      George Holcombe (1786-1828) — of Allentown, Monmouth County, N.J. Born in Amwell Township (part now in Lambertville), Hunterdon County, N.J., March, 1786. Democrat. Physician; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Monmouth County, 1815-16; U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1821-28 (at-large 1821-23, 2nd District 1823-25, at-large 1825-28); died in office 1828. Died in Allentown, Monmouth County, N.J., January 14, 1828 (age 41 years, 0 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Daniel Azro Ashley Buck (1789-1841) — also known as D. Azro A. Buck — of Chelsea, Orange County, Vt. Born in Norwich, Windsor County, Vt., April 19, 1789. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1816-26, 1828-30, 1833-35; Speaker of the Vermont State House of Representatives, 1820-22, 1825-26, 1829; Orange County State's Attorney, 1819-22, 1830-34; candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; U.S. Representative from Vermont, 1823-25, 1827-29 (4th District 1823-25, 5th District 1827-29). Died in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1841 (age 52 years, 249 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Daniel Buck.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Lee Ball (1781-1824) — of Nuttsville, Lancaster County, Va. Born in Lancaster County, Va., January 2, 1781. Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1810; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1817-24 (9th District 1817-21, 13th District 1821-24); died in office 1824. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 28, 1824 (age 43 years, 57 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Ball and Mary Ann (Thrift) Ball; married to Sarah Cassidy; father of Edward Ball.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      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.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Nathaniel Hazard (1776-1820) — of Newport, Newport County, R.I.; Middletown, Newport County, R.I. Born in Newport, Newport County, R.I., 1776. Democrat. Member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1810-19; Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1810, 1818-19; U.S. Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1819-20; died in office 1820. Died in Washington, D.C., December 17, 1820 (age about 44 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Hazard; first cousin once removed of Rufus Wheeler Peckham; first cousin twice removed of Rufus Wheeler Peckham Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Stephen E. Peckham; third cousin of Benjamin Hazard; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel Cornell, Ebenezer Hazard and Augustus George Hazard; third cousin thrice removed of Walter Hazard; fourth cousin of Erskine Hazard; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel Austin Gager.
      Political families: Durfee-Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island; Cornell family of New York; King-Hazard family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Hatfield-Cornell-Woolsey family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Joseph Lawrence (1786-1842) — of Washington, Washington County, Pa. Born near Hunterstown, Adams County, Pa., 1786. Whig. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1818; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1825-29, 1841-42 (15th District 1825-29, 21st District 1841-42); died in office 1842; Pennsylvania state treasurer, 1835-36; delegate to Whig National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1839. Died April 17, 1842 (age about 55 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of George Van Eman Lawrence.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Ezra Darby (1768-1808) — of Scot's Plains, Essex County (now Scotch Plains, Union County), N.J. Born in Scot's Plains, Essex County (now Scotch Plains, Union County), N.J., June 7, 1768. Democrat. Member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1802-04; U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1805-08 (1st District 1805-07, at-large 1807-08); died in office 1808. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1808 (age 39 years, 234 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Warren Ransom Davis (1793-1835) — also known as Warren R. Davis — of Pendleton, Anderson County, S.C. Born in Columbia, Richland County, S.C., May 8, 1793. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1827-35; died in office 1835. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., January 29, 1835 (age 41 years, 266 days). His funeral service at the U.S. Capitol was disrupted when Richard Lawrence, a house painter, fired two guns at President Andrew Jackson. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Bennett Hunt (1799-1857) — also known as James B. Hunt — of Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich. Born in Demerara (now part of Guyana), August 13, 1799. Democrat. State court judge in Michigan, 1836; U.S. Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1843-47. Died in Washington, D.C., August 15, 1857 (age 58 years, 2 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Levi Casey (c.1752-1807) — of South Carolina. Born in South Carolina, about 1752. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of South Carolina state senate, 1781-82, 1800-02; state court judge in South Carolina, 1785; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1786-88, 1792-95, 1798-99; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1803-07; died in office 1807. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 3, 1807 (age about 55 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Jesse Slocumb (1780-1820) — of North Carolina. Born in Spring Bank, Wayne County, N.C., 1780. U.S. Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1817-20; died in office 1820. Slaveowner. Died December 20, 1820 (age about 40 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      David Walker (d. 1820) — of Kentucky. Born in Brunswick County, Va. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1793-96; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1817-20; died in office 1820. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1820. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of George Walker; father of David Shelby Walker; grandfather of James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr..
      Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Dorsey-Poffenbarger family of Maryland; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; Edwards-Cook family; Call family of Tallahassee, Florida (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Philip Doddridge (1773-1832) — of Virginia. Born in Bedford County, Va., May 17, 1773. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1810; U.S. Representative from Virginia 18th District, 1829-32; died in office 1832. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., November 19, 1832 (age 59 years, 186 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Doddridge and Mary (Wells) Doddridge; married to Juliana Parr Musser.
      Doddridge County, W.Va. is named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Philip Doddridge (built 1943 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1969) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Taylor (1788-1846) — of Virginia. Born in Alexandria, Va., April 5, 1788. Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1821; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1843-46 (2nd District 1843-45, 11th District 1845-46); died in office 1846. Slaveowner. Died January 17, 1846 (age 57 years, 287 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Benjamin Thompson (1798-1852) — of Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk County), Mass. Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk County), Mass., August 5, 1798. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1830-31, 1833-36; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1841; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1845-47, 1851-52 (4th District 1845-47, 9th District 1851-52); died in office 1852. Died in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk County), Mass., September 24, 1852 (age 54 years, 50 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) — Born in Washington, D.C., November 6, 1854. Republican. Band conductor; composer; honored guest, Republican National Convention, 1924. Bavarian and Portugese ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners; Elks; Audubon Society. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1973. Died, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Reading, Berks County, Pa., March 6, 1932 (age 77 years, 121 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Antonio John Sousa and Marie Elizabeth (Trinkhaus) Sousa; married to Jane van Middlesworth Bellis; great-grandfather of John Philip Sousa IV.
      The John Philip Sousa Bridge (built 1938-41), which takes Pennsylvania Avenue over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John Philip Sousa (built 1943 at Jacksonville, Florida; sold 1947; scrapped, 1965) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      George Cornelius Wortley (1926-2014) — also known as George C. Wortley — of Fayetteville, Onondaga County, N.Y. Born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, N.Y., December 8, 1926. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York, 1981-89 (32nd District 1981-83, 27th District 1983-89); defeated, 1976. Catholic. Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Fla., January 21, 2014 (age 87 years, 44 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
      James Jones (d. 1801) — of Georgia. Born in Maryland. Republican. Member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1796-98; delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1798; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1799-1801; died in office 1801. Died January 11, 1801. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Jones County, Ga. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Joab Lawler (1796-1838) — of Alabama. Born in Union County, N.C., June 12, 1796. Member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1826; member of Alabama state senate, 1831; U.S. Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1835-38; died in office 1838. Died May 8, 1838 (age 41 years, 330 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Felix Grundy McConnell (1809-1846) — also known as Felix G. McConnell — of Talladega, Talladega County, Ala. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., April 1, 1809. Democrat. Member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1838; member of Alabama state senate, 1839; postmaster at Talladega, Ala., 1840-41; U.S. Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1843-46; died in office 1846. Slaveowner. Died September 10, 1846 (age 37 years, 162 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Edward Bradley (1808-1847) — of Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich. Born in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, N.Y., 1808. Democrat. Common pleas court judge in New York, 1836; Calhoun County Prosecuting Attorney, 1842; member of Michigan state senate 4th District, 1843; U.S. Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1847; died in office 1847. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., August 5, 1847 (age about 39 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Philip Stuart (1761-1830) — also known as Philip Stewart — of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. Born in Stafford County (part now in King George County), Va., February 22, 1761. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1800-06, 1808-09; U.S. Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1811-19; general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., August 14, 1830 (age 69 years, 173 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Jeremiah McLene (1767-1837) — of Ohio. Born in Pennsylvania, 1767. Democrat. Secretary of state of Ohio, 1808-31; U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1833-37. Died in 1837 (age about 70 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Stephen Morgan (1801-1878) — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, 1801. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1835-39 (16th District 1835-37, 14th District 1837-39); member of Virginia state legislature, 1840. Died in 1878 (age about 77 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Brademas (1927-2016) — of South Bend, St. Joseph County, Ind. Born in Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Ind., March 2, 1927. Democrat. Rhodes scholar; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Patrick McNamara; administrative assistant to U.S. Rep Thomas L. Ashley; executive assistant to presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson; college professor; U.S. Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1959-81; defeated, 1954, 1956; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1964, 1968, 1972; president, New York University, 1981-92. Methodist. Greek ancestry. Member, American Legion; Freemasons; Order of Ahepa; Eagles; Moose; Phi Beta Kappa. Died in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., July 11, 2016 (age 89 years, 131 days). Entombed at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Stephen J. Brademas and Beatrice Cenci (Goble) Brademas.
      Cross-reference: Tim Roemer
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Mumford (d. 1818) — of North Carolina. Born in Rowan County, N.C. Democrat. Member of North Carolina house of commons, 1810-11; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1817-18; died in office 1818. Died in 1818. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Charles Clement Johnston (1795-1832) — of Virginia. Born in Longwood, Prince Edward County, Va., April 30, 1795. U.S. Representative from Virginia 22nd District, 1831-32; died in office 1832. Drowned near one of the docks in Alexandria, Va., June 17, 1832 (age 37 years, 48 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; uncle of John Warfield Johnston.
      Political families: Johnston-Floyd family of Virginia; McLane family of Baltimore, Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Day Singleton (d. 1833) — of South Carolina. Born near Kingstree, Williamsburg County, S.C. Member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1826-33; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1833; died in office 1833. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., November 25, 1833. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Littleton Purnell Dennis (1786-1834) — of Maryland. Born in Worcester County, Md., July 21, 1786. Member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1810, 1815-16, 1819-21; member of Maryland state senate, 1826-33; U.S. Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1833-34; died in office 1834. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1834 (age 47 years, 267 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Dennis and Anne (Purnell) Dennis; nephew of Littleton Dennis and John Dennis (1771-1806); first cousin of John Dennis (1807-1859); third cousin once removed of Edward Southey White and King Valentine Dennis White; third cousin twice removed of John Edward White, Wallace Henry White and Arthur Percival White; third cousin thrice removed of Edward Homer White Jr..
      Political family: White-Dennis-Adkins family of Maryland.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Francis Jacob Harper (1800-1837) — also known as Francis J. Harper — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., March 5, 1800. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1832; member of Pennsylvania state senate 2nd District, 1834-36; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 3rd District, 1837; died in office 1837. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., March 18, 1837 (age 37 years, 13 days). Original interment at Frankford Cemetery, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in 1848 at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Timothy Jarvis Carter (1800-1838) — of Maine. Born in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine, August 18, 1800. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1837-38; died in office 1838. Died in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1838 (age 37 years, 208 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Albert Galliton Harrison (1800-1839) — of Missouri. Born in Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Ky., June 26, 1800. U.S. Representative from Missouri at-large, 1835-39. Slaveowner. Died in Fulton, Callaway County, Mo., September 7, 1839 (age 39 years, 73 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: Albert Gallatin
      Harrison County, Mo. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry Frick (1795-1844) — of Milton, Northumberland County, Pa. Born in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa., March 17, 1795. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; newspaper publisher; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1828-31; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1843-44; died in office 1844. Died in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1844 (age 48 years, 350 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Frank Morey (1840-1889) — of Louisiana. Born in Massachusetts, 1840. Republican. Member of Louisiana state legislature, 1860; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 5th District, 1869-76. Died in 1889 (age about 49 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Hartley Crawford (1786-1863) — also known as Thomas H. Crawford — of Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa. Born in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., November 14, 1786. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1829-33; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1833; judge in District of Columbia, 1845. Died in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1863 (age 76 years, 74 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Philip Bond Fouke (1818-1876) — also known as Philip B. Fouke — of Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill. Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Ill., January 23, 1818. Democrat. Civil engineer; newspaper publisher; lawyer; prosecuting attorney for 2nd circuit, 1846-50; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1851; U.S. Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1859-63; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Washington, D.C., October 3, 1876 (age 58 years, 254 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Charles Case (1817-1883) — of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Ind. Born in Austinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, December 21, 1817. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1857-61. Died in Brighton, Washington County, Iowa, June 30, 1883 (age 65 years, 191 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Daniel Hiester (1774-1834) — of West Chester, Chester County, Pa. Born in Chester County, Pa., 1774. Chester County Prothonotary and Clerk, 1800-09; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 3rd District, 1809-11; banker; chief burgess of West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1815-17. Died in Hagerstown, Washington County, Md., March 8, 1834 (age about 59 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Hiester and Hannah (Pawling) Hiester; married to Catharina Roos; nephew of Daniel Hiester (1747-1804); first cousin of William Hiester; first cousin once removed of Joseph Hiester, Daniel Robeadeau Clymer, Isaac Ellmaker Hiester and Hiester Clymer; first cousin four times removed of Edward Brooke Lee; first cousin five times removed of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin once removed of Henry Augustus Muhlenberg; second cousin thrice removed of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and Hiester Henry Muhlenberg.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Muhlenberg-Hiester family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Selah Reeve Hobbie (1797-1854) — of Delhi, Delaware County, N.Y. Born in Newburgh, Orange County, N.Y., March 10, 1797. Lawyer; Delaware County District Attorney, 1823-27; U.S. Representative from New York 11th District, 1827-29. Died in Washington, D.C., March 23, 1854 (age 57 years, 13 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Edward Bouligny (1824-1864) — also known as John E. Bouligny — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., February 5, 1824. U.S. Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1859-61. Died in Washington, D.C., February 20, 1864 (age 40 years, 15 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Nephew of Charles Joseph Dominique Bouligny.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Jacob Broom (1808-1864) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Baltimore, Md., July 25, 1808. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 4th District, 1855-57. Died in Washington, D.C., November 28, 1864 (age 56 years, 126 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Madison Broom; grandson of Jacob Broom (1752-1810).
      Political family: Broom family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Charles West Kendall (1828-1914) — of Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif.; Hamilton, White Pine County, Nev.; Denver, Colo. Born in Searsmont, Waldo County, Maine, April 22, 1828. Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper editor; lawyer; member of California state assembly 12th District, 1862-63; U.S. Representative from Nevada at-large, 1871-75. Died in Mt. Rainier, Prince George's County, Md., June 25, 1914 (age 86 years, 64 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Helmick (1817-1888) — of Ohio. Born near Canton, Stark County, Ohio, September 6, 1817. Republican. U.S. Representative from Ohio 15th District, 1859-61. Died March 31, 1888 (age 70 years, 207 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Clyde Howard Tavenner (1882-1942) — also known as Clyde H. Tavenner — of Cordova, Rock Island County, Ill. Born in Cordova, Rock Island County, Ill., February 4, 1882. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Illinois 14th District, 1913-17. Died February 6, 1942 (age 60 years, 2 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John E. Tavenner and Lucinda (Vanderburgh) Tavenner.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Charles Horace Upton (1812-1877) — of Virginia. Born in Massachusetts, 1812. Republican. U.S. Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1861-62. Slaveowner. Died in 1877 (age about 65 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Alexander Contee Magruder (1779-1853) — also known as Alexander C. Magruder — of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md. Born in Maryland, 1779. Lawyer; member of Maryland state executive council, 1812-15; member of Maryland state senate, 1838-41; mayor of Annapolis, Md., 1840-43; Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1844-51. Died in Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., January 31, 1853 (age about 73 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Read Magruder (1736-1811) and Barbara (Contee) Magruder; married to Rebecca Bellicum Thomas (daughter of Philip Thomas; granddaughter of John Hanson); granduncle of John Read Magruder (1829-1916); first cousin of Alexander Contee Hanson; second cousin of Thomas Sim Lee; second cousin once removed of Daniel Carroll, Charles Carroll of Carrollton and John Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John Lee Carroll; second cousin five times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; third cousin thrice removed of John Howell Carroll.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Carroll family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John McNeil Jr. (1784-1850) — also known as John McNiel Jr. — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Hillsborough, Hillsborough County, N.H., March 25, 1784. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1830-41. Died, from lung congestion, in the Irving Hotel, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1850 (age 65 years, 335 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John McNeil and Lucy (Andrews) McNeil; married 1811 to Elizabeth Andrews Pierce (daughter of Benjamin Pierce; half-sister of Franklin Pierce); uncle of Anne McNeil (who married Tappan Wentworth).
      Political families: Wentworth-Pitman family of New Hampshire; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Narsworthy Hunter (d. 1802) — of Mississippi. Born in Virginia. Delegate to U.S. Congress from Mississippi Territory, 1801-02; died in office 1802. Died in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1802. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) — also known as Henry R. Schoolcraft — of Mackinac Island, Mackinac County, Mich. Born in Guilderland, Albany County, N.Y., March 28, 1793. Glassmaker; geologist; U.S. Indian Agent, 1822-41; member Michigan territorial council from Brown, Chippewa, Crawford and Michilimackinac counties, 1828-31. Died in Washington, D.C., December 10, 1864 (age 71 years, 257 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Lawrence Schoolcraft and Margaret Anna Barbara (Rowe) Schoolcraft; married, October 12, 1823, to Jane Johnston; married, January 12, 1847, to Mary Howard; uncle of John Lawrence Schoolcraft and Richard Updike Sherman; granduncle of James Schoolcraft Sherman (who married Carrie Babcock Sherman) and James Teller Schoolcraft; first cousin once removed of Peter P. Schoolcraft.
      Political families: Seward family of New York; Schoolcraft-Sherman family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Schoolcraft County, Mich. is named for him.
      The village of Schoolcraft, Michigan, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry R. Schoolcraft (built 1943 at Richmond, California; wrecked and scrapped 1967) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Trent Rossell (1849-1919) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Mt. Vernon, Mobile County, Ala., October 11, 1849. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1891-93. Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., October 11, 1919 (age 70 years, 0 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Henry Rossell (1820-1885) and Margaret Dauge (Martin) Rossell; married 1882 to Jane Graham 'Jeannie' Ellis (daughter of John Willis Ellis); father of Edward Graham Daves Rossell; great-grandson of William Henry Rossell (1760-1840); second cousin once removed of Benjamin Wood Richards.
      Political family: Rossell-Ellis-Conger-Richards family of New Jersey (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Tobias Lear (1762-1816) — of Virginia. Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H., September 19, 1762. Private secretary to George Washington, 1790-99; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Cape Hatien, 1801-03. Killed himself, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 11, 1816 (age 54 years, 22 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Mary 'Polly' Long and Frances (Bassett) Washington (sister of Burwell Bassett).
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Augustus W. Scharit — of Missouri. U.S. Consul in Falmouth, 1854-63. Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Benjamin Brown French (1800-1870) — also known as Benjamin B. French — of Washington, D.C. Born in Chester, Rockingham County, N.H., September 4, 1800. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from District of Columbia, 1856 (Honorary Secretary; member, Credentials Committee; speaker). Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar. Died in Washington, D.C., August 12, 1870 (age 69 years, 342 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Grandfather of Ellen F. FitzSimons; great-grandfather of William Henry Vanderbilt III.
      Political families: Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family of Massachusetts; Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster family; Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell family of Edgefield, South Carolina; Morgenthau-Lehman family of New York City, New York; Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Otto Anderson (1920-1964) — also known as William O. Anderson — of Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ind. Born in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ind., August 21, 1920. U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer, 1943; U.S. Vice Consul in Cape Town, 1945-48; U.S. Consul in Singapore, 1954-56. Methodist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died, following a myocardial infarction, in Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., January 1, 1964 (age 43 years, 133 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Bertie Anderson and Gertie Bernice (Bennett) Anderson; married, August 29, 1942, to Annie Vergene Marguerite Owens.
      André Louis Bagger (1846-1895) — also known as André L. Bagger — of Washington, D.C. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1846. Fought on the German side in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870; patent attorney; during a controversy with D.C. Governor Alexander R. Shepherd, challenged him to a duel, but nothing came of it; Vice-Consul for Denmark in Washington, D.C., 1886-95; Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway in Washington, D.C., 1887-95. Danish ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died, reportedly from apoplexy, in his room at the DeWitt House hotel, Ocean Grove, Monmouth County, N.J., May 23, 1895 (age about 48 years). Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
    Politicians formerly buried here:
    Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) — also known as "Old Rough and Ready" — Born in Orange County, Va., November 24, 1784. Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; President of the United States, 1849-50; died in office 1850. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died, probably of gastroenteritis, in the White House, Washington, D.C., July 9, 1850 (age 65 years, 227 days). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the theory. Original interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
      Relatives: Son of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, June 21, 1810, to Margaret Mackall Smith (niece of Benjamin Mackall IV and Thomas Mackall); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married Jefferson Finis Davis); granduncle of Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr.; ancestor *** of Victor D. Crist; first cousin twice removed of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin of James Madison and William Taylor Madison; second cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee, John Penn, John Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel Pendleton, George Madison, Coleby Chew, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett Hawes Buckner and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin twice removed of John Walker, John Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis Walker; second cousin thrice removed of George Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton, Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro, Daniel Micajah Pendleton and Max Rogers Strother; second cousin four times removed of Charles Sumner Pendleton; third cousin of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Robert Brooke, Meriwether Lewis, Richard Aylett Buckner, Henry Gaines Johnson, John Lee, John Tyler (1790-1862), Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson, Fitzhugh Lee, William Barret Pendleton, James Francis Buckner Jr., Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton, John Overton Pendleton and Francis Preston Blair Lee; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham Lincoln, John Lee Carroll, Charles Kellogg, James Sansome Lakin and Edward Brooke Lee; fourth cousin of Francis Taliaferro Helm, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Aylette Buckner, David Gardiner Tyler and Lyon Gardiner Tyler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd, Charles John Helm and Hubbard Dozier Helm.
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: David R. Atchison — Thomas Ewing
      Taylor counties in Fla., Ga., Iowa and Ky. are named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Zachary T. CoyZachary T. BielbyZachary T. Harris
      Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor never surrenders."
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack Bauer, Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest — Elbert B. Smith, The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
    George Clinton 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; reinterment in 1908 at Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
      Relatives: Son of Charles Clinton (1690-1773) and Elizabeth (Denniston) Clinton; brother of James Clinton; married, February 7, 1770, to Cornelia Tappen; father of Catherine Clinton (who married Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.) and Elizabeth Denniston Clinton (who married Matthias Burnett Tallmadge); uncle of Charles Clinton (1767-1829), De Witt Clinton, George Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (who married Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)), Katherine Clinton (who married Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)) and James Graham Clinton; granduncle of George William Clinton.
      Political families: Clinton-DeWitt family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Clinton counties in N.Y. and Ohio are named for him.
      See also congressional biography — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about George Clinton: John P. Kaminski, George Clinton : Yeoman Politician of the New Republic
      Image source: New York Public Library
      Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) — of Virginia. Born in Northampton County, Va., June 17, 1790. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in Virginia, 1826-41; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S. Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844. Episcopalian. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon accidentally burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., February 28, 1844 (age 53 years, 256 days). Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1874 at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Littleton Upshur; married to Elizabeth Ann Upshur.
      Upshur counties in Tex. and W.Va. are named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Abel Parker Upshur (built 1942 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Aaron Rawlins (1831-1869) — Born in Galena, Jo Daviess County, Ill., February 13, 1831. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Secretary of War, 1869; died in office 1869. Died, of consumption (tuberculosis), in Washington, D.C., September 6, 1869 (age 38 years, 205 days). Original interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue erected 1874 at Rawlins Park.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John A. Rawlins (built 1942 at Richmond, California; wrecked in a typhoon in the North Pacific Ocean, 1945) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article
      Dolley Madison (1768-1849) — also known as Dorothea Dandridge Payne; Dolley Todd — Born in New Garden (now part of Greensboro), Guilford County, N.C., May 20, 1768. First Lady of the United States, 1809-17. Female. Quaker; later Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., July 12, 1849 (age 81 years, 53 days). Original interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1858 at Montpelier Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
      Relatives: Daughter of John Parish Payne and Mary Winston (Coles) Payne; married, September 15, 1794, to James Madison (brother of William Taylor Madison); married, January 7, 1790, to John Todd.
      Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Dorsey-Poffenbarger family of Maryland; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) — of Virginia. Born in Gilmerton, Albemarle County, Va., April 6, 1802. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1829-36, 1838-39; Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1838-39; Governor of Virginia, 1840-41; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th District 1843-44); U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1844; died in office 1844. Slaveowner. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon accidentally burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., February 28, 1844 (age 41 years, 328 days). Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment at a private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
      Relatives: Son of George Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer; married to Anne Elizabeth Baker; nephew of Mildred Gilmer (who married William Wirt); grandnephew of John Walker and Francis Walker; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Aylett Hawes; third cousin once removed of Robert Brooke, George Madison, Richard Aylett Buckner, Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes; third cousin twice removed of Hubbard T. Smith; third cousin thrice removed of Archer Woodford; fourth cousin of Zachary Taylor, Francis Taliaferro Helm, Aylette Buckner, David Shelby Walker and Aylett Hawes Buckner; fourth cousin once removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Charles John Helm, Hubbard Dozier Helm, James David Walker, David Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry Bartow Hawes.
      Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Jackson-Lee family; Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Clay family of Kentucky; Lewis-Pollard family of Texas (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Gilmer County, W.Va. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Pinckney Henderson (1808-1858) — also known as J. Pinckney Henderson — of Marshville (unknown county), Tex. Born in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, N.C., March 31, 1808. Lawyer; general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Attorney General of the Texas Republic, 1836-37; Texas Republic Secretary of State, 1837; delegate to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; Governor of Texas, 1846-47; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Senator from Texas, 1857-58; died in office 1858. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., June 4, 1858 (age 50 years, 65 days). Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1930 at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
      Henderson County, Tex. is named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS J. Pinckney Henderson (built 1943 at Houston, Texas; collided and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean, 1943) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography
      Robert Byington Mitchell (1823-1882) — of Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. Born in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, April 4, 1823. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kansas territorial legislature, 1857-58; treasurer of Kansas Territory, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1866-69. Died in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1882 (age 58 years, 297 days). Original interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1895 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
      Richard Bland Lee (1761-1827) — Born in Prince William County, Va., January 20, 1761. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1784; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1789-95 (at-large 1789-91, 4th District 1791-93, 17th District 1793-95); judge in District of Columbia, 1827. Slaveowner. Died in Madison County, Ky., March 12, 1827 (age 66 years, 51 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1975 at Sully, Chantilly, Va.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1729-1787) and Lucy Ludwell Gaines (Grymes) Lee; brother of Henry Lee (1756-1818) and Charles Lee; married to Elizabeth Collins Lee; grandnephew of Richard Bland; granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee; third great-grandfather of Lee Marvin; first cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee; third cousin of Zachary Taylor.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Mason family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Lent (1782-1833) — of Newtown, Queens, Queens County, N.Y. Born in Newtown, Queens, Queens County, N.Y., 1782. State court judge in New York, 1823; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1829-33; died in office 1833. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1833 (age about 50 years). Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment at Presbyterian Cemetery, Newtown, Queens, N.Y.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Barker Burnell (1798-1843) — of Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass. Born in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., January 30, 1798. Whig. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1819; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1824-25; delegate to Whig National Convention from Massachusetts, 1839 (member, Balloting Committee; speaker); U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1841-43 (11th District 1841-43, 10th District 1843); died in office 1843. Died in Washington, D.C., June 15, 1843 (age 45 years, 136 days). Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1844 at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Mass.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      David Spangler Kaufman (1813-1851) — also known as David S. Kaufman — of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Tex. Born in Boiling Springs, Cumberland County, Pa., December 18, 1813. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Texas Republic House of Representatives, 1839-41; member of Texas Republic Senate, 1843-45; U.S. Representative from Texas 1st District, 1846-51; died in office 1851. Jewish. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., January 31, 1851 (age 37 years, 44 days). Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1932 at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
      Kaufman County, Tex. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Pierre Evariste Jean Baptiste Bossier (1797-1844) — also known as Pierre E. J. B. Bossier — of Louisiana. Born in Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La., March 22, 1797. Planter; member of Louisiana state senate, 1833-43; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1843-44; died in office 1844. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., April 24, 1844 (age 47 years, 33 days). Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment at Catholic Cemetery, Natchitoches, La.
      Presumably named for: John the Baptist
      Bossier Parish, La. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Virgil Maxcy (1785-1844) — of Maryland. Born in Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., May 5, 1785. Lawyer; member of Maryland state executive council, 1815; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1820; member of Maryland state senate, 1820; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1837-42. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon accidentally burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., February 28, 1844 (age 58 years, 299 days). Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment at a private or family graveyard, Anne Arundel County, Md.
      Relatives: Son of Levi Maxcy and Ruth (Newell) Maxcy; married to Mary Galloway.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      David Gardiner (1784-1844) — of New York. Born in East Hampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., May 29, 1784. Member of New York state senate 1st District, 1824-27. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon accidentally burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., February 28, 1844 (age 59 years, 275 days). Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery; later interred at South End Cemetery, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.
      Relatives: Son of Phebe Gardiner and Abraham Gardiner; married to Juliana MacLachlan; father of Julia Tyler (who married John Tyler); grandfather of David Gardiner Tyler and Lyon Gardiner Tyler; third cousin thrice removed of John Lee Saltonstall; fourth cousin of Jonas Mapes; fourth cousin once removed of Alfred Conkling and David Parshall Mapes.
      Political families: Mapes-Jennings-Denby-Harrison family of New York and Arizona; Tyler family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
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    John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) — also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts Madman" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., July 11, 1767. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1802; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S. Secretary of State, 1817-25; President of the United States, 1825-29; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District 1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office 1848; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1834. Unitarian. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Suffered a stroke while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in the Speaker's office, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227 days). Original interment at Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Adams and Abigail Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William Stephens Smith); married, July 26, 1797, to Louisa Catherine Johnson (daughter of Joshua Johnson; sister-in-law of John Pope; niece of Thomas Johnson); father of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; great-grandfather of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather of Thomas Boylston Adams; first cousin of William Cranch; second cousin once removed of Samuel Adams; second cousin twice removed of Edward M. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Arthur Chapin; second cousin five times removed of Denwood Lynn Chapin; third cousin of Joseph Allen; third cousin once removed of Samuel Sewall, Josiah Quincy, Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868) and John Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of William Vincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman Kidder Bass, Daniel T. Hayden, Arthur Laban Bates and Almur Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Jeremiah Mason, Josiah Quincy Jr., George Bailey Loring and Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed of Asahel Otis, Erastus Fairbanks, Charles Stetson, Henry Brewster Stanton, Charles Adams Jr., Isaiah Stetson, Joshua Perkins, Eli Thayer, Bailey Frye Adams and Samuel Miller Quincy.
      Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: John Smith — Thurlow Weed
      Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are named for him.
      Mount Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — Mount Quincy Adams, on the border between British Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: John Q. A. BrackettJohn Q. A. SheldenJ. Q. A. Reber
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — Lynn Hudson Parsons, John Quincy Adams — Robert V. Remini, John Quincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan, Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
    Henry Clay Henry Clay (1777-1852) — also known as "The Sage of Ashland"; "The Great Compromiser" — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born in Hanover County, Va., April 12, 1777. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1803; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1806-07, 1810-11, 1831-42, 1849-52; died in office 1852; U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1811-14, 1815-21, 1823-25 (5th District 1811-13, at-large 1813-14, 2nd District 1815-21, 3rd District 1823-25); Speaker of the U.S. House, 1811-14, 1815-20, 1823-25; candidate for President of the United States, 1824, 1832 (National Republican), 1844 (Whig); U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-29; candidate for Whig nomination for President, 1839. Member, Freemasons. In 1809, he fought a duel with Humphrey Marshall, in which both men were wounded. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852 (age 75 years, 78 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Clay and Elizabeth (Hudson) Clay; brother of Porter Clay; married, April 11, 1799, to Lucretia (Hart) Erwin; father of Thomas Hart Clay, Henry Clay Jr. and James Brown Clay; grandfather of Henry Clay (1849-1884); granduncle of Ellen Hart Ross (who married James Reily); first cousin once removed of Matthew Clay (1754-1815) and Green Clay; second cousin of Matthew Clay (c.1795-1827), Brutus Junius Clay (1808-1878) and Cassius Marcellus Clay; second cousin once removed of Brutus Junius Clay (1847-1932); second cousin thrice removed of Oliver Carroll Clay; second cousin four times removed of Archer Woodford; third cousin of Clement Comer Clay; third cousin once removed of Clement Claiborne Clay Jr..
      Political family: Clay family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Clay counties in Ala., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kan., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex. and W.Va. are named for him.
      Mount Clay (also called Mount Reagan), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry Clay (built 1941-42 at Mobile, Alabama; scrapped 1967) was named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Henry Clay LongneckerHenry Clay DeanH. Clay DickinsonHenry C. BrockmeyerH. Clay CockerillHenry Clay EwingHenry Clay CaldwellHenry Clay HallHenry Clay GoodingHenry Clay NaillHenry C. MyersHenry C. ColeH. Clay HarrisHenry C. MinerHenry C. WarmothHenry Clay ClevelandH. Clay EvansHenry C. PayneHenry C. BatesH. Clay FosterHenry C. McCormickHenry C. IdeHenry Clay WilliamsHenry C. SimmsHenry Clay FergusonHenry C. GloverH. Clay ParkHenry C. HansbroughHenry C. SnodgrassH. Clay MaydwellHenry C. GleasonHenry C. LoudenslagerH. Clay Van VoorhisHenry C. ClippingerH. Clay CrawfordH. Clay BascomH. Clay MichieH. Clay ChisolmH. Clay HowardHenry C. HallHenry Clay McDowellH. Clay JonesH. Clay DayHenry Clay HinesH. Clay HeatherHenry Clay MeachamHenry Clay CallowayH. Clay SuterH. Clay HallH. Clay WarthHenry Clay ElwoodH. Clay KennedyH. Clay DavisH. Clay NeedhamHenry Clay EthertonH. Clay MaceH. Clay ArmstrongH. Clay BaldwinH. Clay HaynesH. Clay BurkholderMrs. H. Clay KauffmanH. Clay BentleyHenry C. GreenbergH. Clay Gardenhire, Jr.Henry Clay CoxH. Clay Myers, Jr.H. Clay Johnson
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on some U.S. currency issued in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Henry Clay: Robert Vincent Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union — Maurice G. Baxter, Henry Clay the Lawyer — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History — Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Scott Farris, Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation — David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry Clay: The Essential American — Fergus M. Bordewich, America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
      Image source: James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
    John C. Calhoun 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; memorial monument at Marion Park, Charleston, S.C.
      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. JohnsonJohn Calhoun NichollsJohn Calhoun CookJohn C. SheppardJohn C. BellJohn C. C. MayoJohn C. Phillips
      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
    Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Thomas Phillip O'Neill Jr. (1912-1994) — also known as Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.; "Tip" — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., December 9, 1912. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1937-52; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1949-52; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952, 1960, 1964; Honorary Chair, 1984; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1953-87 (11th District 1953-63, 8th District 1963-87); Speaker of the U.S. House, 1977-87. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. Died, of cardiac arrest, in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 5, 1994 (age 81 years, 27 days). Interment at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Harwich Port, Harwich, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas P. O'Neill and Rose Anne (Tolan) O'Neill; married, June 17, 1941, to Mildred Anne Miller; father of Thomas P. O'Neill III.
      The O'Neill Tunnel (opened 2003), which carries Interstate 93, Highway 1, and Route 3, in Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
      Books by Thomas P. O'Neill: Man of the House : The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill (1989)
      Books about Thomas P. O'Neill: John Aloysius Farrell, Tip O' Neill and the Democratic Century: A Biography — Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
      Image source: Public Officers of Massachusetts, 1979-80
      John Fairfield (1797-1847) — of Saco, York County, Maine. Born in Saco, York County, Maine, January 30, 1797. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Maine, 1835-38 (3rd District 1835-37, 4th District 1837-38); resigned 1838; Governor of Maine, 1839-41, 1842-43; defeated, 1840; U.S. Senator from Maine, 1843-47; died in office 1847. Died in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1847 (age 50 years, 328 days). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Fort Fairfield (old military installation), and the town of Fort Fairfield, Maine, were named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John Fairfield (built 1943 at South Portland, Maine; scrapped 1968) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1784-1833) — also known as Josiah S. Johnston — of Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., November 24, 1784. Democrat. Member of Orleans territorial legislature, 1805; state court judge in Louisiana, 1812; U.S. Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1821-23; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1824-33; died in office 1833. Slaveowner. Killed by an explosion on the steamboat Lioness, on the Red River, in Louisiana, May 19, 1833 (age 48 years, 176 days). Interment at Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, La.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Half-brother of Albert Sidney Johnston.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Johnston-Preston family of Kentucky and Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Elias Kent Kane (1794-1835) — also known as Elias K. Kane — of Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Ill. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 7, 1794. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention from Randolph County, 1818; secretary of state of Illinois, 1818-22; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1824; U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1825-35; died in office 1835. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., December 12, 1835 (age 41 years, 188 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Evergreen Cemetery, Chester, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Elizabeth Kane (who married William Henry Bissell).
      Kane County, Ill. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Andrew Pickens Butler (1796-1857) — also known as Andrew P. Butler — of Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield County), S.C. Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield County), S.C., November 18, 1796. Lawyer; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from Edgefield, 1824-31; member of South Carolina state senate from Edgefield, 1832-33; resigned 1833; common pleas court judge in South Carolina, 1834-46; U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1846-57; died in office 1857. Slaveowner. Died near Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield County), S.C., May 25, 1857 (age 60 years, 188 days). Interment at Butler United Methodist Church Cemetery, Saluda, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Butler and Behethland Foote (Moore) Butler; brother of William Butler Jr. and Pierce Mason Butler; married, December 5, 1829, to Susan Ann Simkins (daughter of Eldred Simkins); married 1831 to Rebecca Harriet Hayne; uncle of Matthew Calbraith Butler.
      Political family: Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell family of Edgefield, South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Butler County, Kan. is named for him.
      Epitaph: "He was of very noble nature, of high endowments, of lofty moral qualities. As a judge, the Judicial Records of the State sho whis abilities. In the Senate of the United States, that illustrious body was illustrated by his creer. In all that he said and did, there was a dash of genius and heroism. His fire seemed to be passed on a high stage of Public Dalies, but his heart was always amidst tender and gentle affections. He was prompt to weep with those who wept, he was equally ready to rejoice with those who were in joy. His death, elicited lamentations made of Public Expression to the circle of his intimacies. It spread the deepest of affections."
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803-1857) — also known as Thomas J. Rusk — of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Tex. Born in South Carolina, December 5, 1803. Democrat. Delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Nacogdoches, 1835; delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer, Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas Republic Secretary of War, 1836, 1836-37; member of Texas Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; justice of Texas Republic supreme court, 1838-40; delegate to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; U.S. Senator from Texas, 1846-57; died in office 1857. Slaveowner. Killed himself, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Tex., July 29, 1857 (age 53 years, 236 days). Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery; statue at Rusk County Courthouse Grounds, Henderson, Tex.
      Presumably named for: Thomas Jefferson
      Rusk County, Tex. is named for him.
      The city of Rusk, Texas, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Moses Norris Jr. (1799-1855) — of Pittsfield, Merrimack County, N.H.; Manchester, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in New Hampshire, 1799. Democrat. Member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1841-42; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1843-47; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1849-55; died in office 1855. Died January 11, 1855 (age about 55 years). Interment at Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield, N.H.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Nathan Fellows Dixon (1774-1842) — of Rhode Island. Born in Plainfield, Windham County, Conn., December 13, 1774. Member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1810; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1839-42; died in office 1842. Died in Washington, D.C., January 29, 1842 (age 67 years, 47 days). Interment at River Bend Cemetery, Westerly, R.I.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Nathan Fellows Dixon II; grandfather of Nathan Fellows Dixon III.
      Political family: Dixon family of Westerly, Rhode Island.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Chester Ashley (1790-1848) — of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark. Born in Westfield, Hampden County, Mass., June 1, 1790. Democrat. U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1844-48; died in office 1848. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., April 29, 1848 (age 57 years, 333 days). Interment at Mt. Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Nancy (Pomeroy) Ashley and William Ashley; married, July 4, 1821, to Mary Worthington Watkins Elliot; first cousin five times removed of Boyd Kenneth Benedict; second cousin once removed of Samuel Clesson Allen; second cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg; third cousin of Elisha Hunt Allen; third cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Charles Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus Cook Merrill, Timothy Merrill, Daniel Fiske Kellogg, William Fessenden Allen and Frederick Hobbes Allen; fourth cousin of Luther Walter Badger, Silas Dewey Kellogg, Greene Carrier Bronson, Daniel Kellogg (1791-1875), Alvan Kellogg, Alvah Nash, John Russell Kellogg, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Laman Ingersoll, George Smith Catlin, Albert Gallatin Kellogg, Francis William Kellogg, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Farrand Fassett Merrill and Charles Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Amaziah Brainard, Orlando Kellogg, William Dean Kellogg, Stephen Wright Kellogg, George Bradley Kellogg, William Pitt Kellogg, Daniel Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur Tappan Kellogg, Selah Merrill, Edwin W. Kellogg and Samuel Herbert Kellogg.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Ashley County, Ark. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Nathan Smith (1770-1835) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Conn., January 8, 1770. Whig. Lawyer; New Haven County Prosecuting Attorney, 1817-35; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818; candidate for Governor of Connecticut, 1825; member of Connecticut state senate at-large, 1827; U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, 1829; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1833-35; died in office 1835. Died in Washington, D.C., December 6, 1835 (age 65 years, 332 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Nathaniel Smith; uncle of Truman Smith.
      Political family: Smith family of Woodbury, Connecticut.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Isaac Samuels Pennybacker (1805-1847) — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, 1805. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Virginia 16th District, 1837-39; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1845-47; died in office 1847. Slaveowner. Died in 1847 (age about 42 years). Interment at Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, Va.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Joel Pennybacker; father of John D. Pennybacker; uncle of Benjamin Pennybacker Douglass; first cousin of Green Berry Samuels; first cousin once removed of Benjamin M. Samuels; third cousin once removed of Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker.
      Political family: Pennybacker-Anderson family of Virginia.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Bell (1804-1857) — of Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H.; Exeter, Rockingham County, N.H.; Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Francestown, Hillsborough County, N.H., November 13, 1804. Lawyer; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1846, 1850; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1850; candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, 1854, 1855; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1855-57; died in office 1857. Died in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., May 26, 1857 (age 52 years, 194 days). Interment at Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, N.H.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Samuel Bell and Mehitable Bowen (Dana) Bell; brother of Samuel Dana Bell; married, June 29, 1831, to Judith Almira Upham (daughter of Nathaniel Upham); nephew of John Bell Jr.; uncle of Samuel Newell Bell; grandson of John Bell; great-grandfather of James Dunbar Bell; first cousin of Charles Henry Bell.
      Political family: Bell-Upham family of New Hampshire (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Josiah James Evans (1786-1858) — also known as Josiah J. Evans — of Society Hill, Darlington County, S.C. Born in Marlborough District (now Marlboro County), S.C., November 27, 1786. Lawyer; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1812-13; circuit judge in South Carolina, 1829-35; U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1853-58; died in office 1858. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1858 (age 71 years, 160 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Darlington County, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Gabriel Holmes (1769-1829) — of Clinton, Sampson County, N.C. Born near Clinton, Sampson County, N.C., 1769. Lawyer; member of North Carolina house of commons, 1794-95; member of North Carolina state senate, 1797-1802, 1812-13; Governor of North Carolina, 1821-24; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1825-29; died in office 1829. Slaveowner. Died near Clinton, Sampson County, N.C., September 26, 1829 (age about 60 years). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Sampson County, N.C.; reinterment in 1984 at John Sampson Cemetery, Clinton, N.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Theophilus H. Holmes.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thaddeus Betts (1789-1840) — of Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn., February 4, 1789. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Norwalk, 1815, 1830; member of Connecticut state senate, 1828, 1831 (at-large 1828, 12th District 1831); Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1832-33, 1834-35; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1839-40; died in office 1840. Died in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1840 (age 51 years, 63 days). Interment at Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Maltby Betts and Lucretia (Gregory) Betts; married 1815 to Antoinette Cannon; great-grandnephew of Abraham Davenport (1715-1789); first cousin twice removed of John Davenport and James Davenport; first cousin thrice removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood; second cousin once removed of Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) and Theodore Davenport; third cousin once removed of Philip Frisbee, Daniel Lockwood, Gold Selleck Silliman, Benjamin Silliman, DeGrasse Maltby, Hanford Nichols Lockwood and Joseph Pomeroy Root; third cousin twice removed of Ebenezer Lockwood and Aaron Kitchell; fourth cousin of Martin Keeler, James Lockwood Conger, Benjamin Douglas Silliman and Homer Nichols Lockwood; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington, Horatio Lockwood, Ira Yale, Gideon Hotchkiss, Asahel Augustus Hotchkiss, Stephen Hiram Keeler, Julius Hotchkiss, Giles Waldo Hotchkiss, Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby.
      Political families: Conger family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) — also known as John A. Quitman — of Mississippi. Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., September 1, 1799. Democrat. Lawyer; cotton and sugar planter; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of Mississippi state senate, 1835-36; Governor of Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi, 1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848, 1856; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in office 1858. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons. Slaveowner. While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed to poison, but probably dysentery), and subsequently died, near Natchez, Adams County, Miss., July 17, 1858 (age 58 years, 319 days). Interment at Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John A. Quitman (built 1943 at New Orleans, Louisiana; scrapped 1973) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about John A. Quitman: Robert E. May, John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader
      Richard Irvine Manning (1789-1836) — of Clarendon District (now Clarendon County), S.C. Born near Sumter, Sumter District (now Sumter County), S.C., May 1, 1789. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; planter; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from Clarendon, 1822-25; Governor of South Carolina, 1824-26; member of South Carolina state senate from Clarendon, 1830-34; U.S. Representative from South Carolina, 1834-36 (8th District 1834-35, 7th District 1835-36); died in office 1836. Episcopalian. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 1, 1836 (age 47 years, 0 days). Interment at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Laurence P. Manning and Susannah (Richardson) Manning; married to Elizabeth Peyre Richardson (sister of John Peter Richardson (1801-1864)); father of John Laurence Manning and Richard Irvine Manning (1817-1861); nephew of Richard Richardson Jr. and James Burchill Richardson; grandson of Richard Richardson; grandfather of Richard Irvine Manning (1859-1931); first cousin of William McDonald, Edward Richardson Jr. and John Peter Richardson (1801-1864); first cousin once removed of John Peter Richardson (1831-1899); first cousin thrice removed of James Haselden Manning; first cousin four times removed of James Douglass Manning.
      Political families: Richardson-Manning family of South Carolina; Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Robert Rantoul Jr. (1805-1852) — of Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, August 13, 1805. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1840; U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1845-50; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1851; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1851-52; died in office 1852. Died August 7, 1852 (age 46 years, 360 days). Interment at Beverly Central Cemetery, Beverly, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Daniel Hiester (1747-1804) — Born in Upper Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pa., June 25, 1747. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1789-96 (at-large 1789-93, 4th District 1793-95, 5th District 1795-96); U.S. Representative from Maryland at-large, 1801-04; died in office 1804. Christian Reformed. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., March 7, 1804 (age 56 years, 256 days). Interment at Zion Reformed Graveyard, Hagerstown, Md.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Daniel Hiester (1713-1795) and Catharina (Shuler) Hiester; brother of John Hiester; married 1770 to Rosanna Hager; uncle of Daniel Hiester (1774-1834) and William Hiester; granduncle of Daniel Robeadeau Clymer, Isaac Ellmaker Hiester and Hiester Clymer; third great-granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; fourth great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; first cousin of Joseph Hiester; first cousin twice removed of Henry Augustus Muhlenberg; first cousin four times removed of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and Hiester Henry Muhlenberg.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Muhlenberg-Hiester family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Hartley (1748-1800) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Reading, Berks County, Pa., September 7, 1748. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1778; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1789-1800 (at-large 1789-93, 7th District 1793-95, 8th District 1795-1800); died in office 1800. Slaveowner. Died in York, York County, Pa., December 21, 1800 (age 52 years, 105 days). Interment at St. John's Churchyard, York, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Peterson Goodwyn (1745-1818) — of Petersburg, Va. Born in Dinwiddie County, Va., 1745. Democrat. Planter; lawyer; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1789-1802; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1803-18 (at-large 1803-07, 18th District 1807-15, 19th District 1815-18); died in office 1818. Died in Dinwiddie County, Va., February 21, 1818 (age about 72 years). Interment a private or family graveyard, Dinwiddie County, Va.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father-in-law of Patrick Magruder.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Richard Wylly Habersham (1786-1842) — also known as Richard W. Habersham — of Clarkesville, Habersham County, Ga. Born in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., December, 1786. U.S. Attorney for Georgia, 1819-27; Georgia state attorney general, 1830; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1839-42; died in office 1842. Slaveowner. Died in Clarkesville, Habersham County, Ga., December 2, 1842 (age about 56 years). Interment at Old Clarkesville Cemetery, Clarkesville, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Habersham and Esther Rebecca (Wylly) Habersham; married, May 18, 1808, to Sarah Hazzard Elliott; nephew of Joseph Habersham and John Habersham.
      Political family: Habersham family of Savannah, Georgia.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Lewis Williams (1782-1842) — of Panther Creek, Surry County, N.C. Born in Surry County, N.C., February 1, 1782. Member of North Carolina house of commons, 1813-14; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 13th District, 1815-42; died in office 1842. Died in Washington, D.C., February 23, 1842 (age 60 years, 22 days). Interment at Panther Creek Cemetery, Surry County, N.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joseph Williams of Shallow Ford and Rebecca (Lanier) Williams; brother of Robert Overton Williams, John Williams and Frances Lanier Williams (who married John Patton Erwin); uncle of Joseph Lanier Williams, Margaret McClung Williams (who married John Gaines Miller) and Melinda Williams (who married William Barclay Napton); cousin *** of Marmaduke Williams; first cousin by marriage of Matthew Clay; first cousin thrice removed of George Venable Allen; twin brother of Thomas Lanier Williams.
      Political family: Williams family of North Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Coke Dromgoole (1797-1847) — of Virginia. Born in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va., May 15, 1797. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1823; member of Virginia state senate, 1826; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1835-41, 1843-47 (6th District 1835-37, 5th District 1837-39, 6th District 1839-41, 2nd District 1843-47); died in office 1847. Slaveowner. Died in Brunswick County, Va., April 27, 1847 (age 49 years, 347 days). Interment in private or family graveyard; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Uncle of Alexander Dromgoole Sims.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Bennett Dawson (1798-1845) — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born near Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., March 17, 1798. Planter; candidate for Governor of Louisiana, 1834; member of Louisiana state house of representatives, 1830; U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1841-45 (2nd District 1841-43, 3rd District 1843-45); died in office 1845; postmaster at New Orleans, La., 1843. Slaveowner. Died in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., June 26, 1845 (age 47 years, 101 days). Interment at Grace Episcopal Churchyard, St. Francisville, La.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Anna Ruffin Dawson (who married Robert Charles Wickliffe).
      Political family: Wickliffe-Holt family of Bardstown, Kentucky.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (1914-1972) — also known as Hale Boggs — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born in Long Beach, Harrison County, Miss., February 15, 1914. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1941-43, 1947-72; died in office 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1948, 1956, 1960, 1968; Parliamentarian, 1964; chair, Resolutions and Platform Committee, chair, 1968; candidate for Governor of Louisiana, 1952; Vice-Chair of Democratic National Committee, 1957; member, President's Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64. Catholic. Member, American Legion; Amvets; Catholic War Veterans; Sons of the American Revolution; Knights of Columbus; American Bar Association; American Judicature Society; Phi Beta Kappa; Beta Theta Pi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Disappeared while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, and presumed killed in a plane crash, somewhere in Alaska, October 16, 1972 (age 58 years, 244 days). The wreckage was never found. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Robertson Boggs and Claire Josephine (Hale) Boggs; married, January 22, 1938, to Corinne Claiborne; father of Barbara Boggs Sigmund, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. and Cokie Roberts.
      Boggs Peak in the Chugach Mountains, Anchorage, Alaska, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about Thomas Hale Boggs: Gary Boulard, The Big Lie: Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez
      Isaac McKim (1775-1838) — of Baltimore, Md. Born in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1775. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Maryland state senate, 1821-23; U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1823-25, 1833, 1835-38 (5th District 1823-25, 1833, 4th District 1835-38); died in office 1838. Episcopalian. Died in Baltimore, Md., April 1, 1838 (age 62 years, 254 days). Interment at Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Nephew of Alexander McKim.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Henry Bayly (1810-1856) — also known as Thomas H. Bayly — of Accomac Court House, Accomack County, Va. Born in Accomack County, Va., December 11, 1810. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1836-42; superior court judge in Virginia, 1842-44; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1844-56 (7th District 1844-53, 1st District 1853-56); died in office 1856. Slaveowner. Died in Accomack County, Va., June 23, 1856 (age 45 years, 195 days). Interment at Mt. Custis Cemetery, Accomac, Va.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Monteagle Bayly.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
    Thaddeus Stevens Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) — of Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa.; Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa. Born in Danville, Caledonia County, Vt., April 4, 1792. Republican. Lawyer; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1833-35, 1837, 1841; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1838; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1849-53, 1859-68 (8th District 1849-53, 9th District 1859-68); died in office 1868; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1856 (speaker), 1860. Died in Washington, D.C., August 11, 1868 (age 76 years, 129 days). Interment at Shreiner-Concord Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joshua Stevens and Sarah 'Sally' (Morrill) Stevens; married to Lydia Hamilton Smith; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Rowell.
      Political families: Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders family of New Hampshire; Eastman-Webster-Blake-Rowell family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The Thaddeus Stevens Post Office Building, in Danville, Vermont, is named for him.
      Epitaph: "I repose in this quiet and secluded spot / not from any natural preference for solitude / but, finding other cemeteries limited as to race / by charter rules / I have chosen this, that I might illustrate / in my death / the principles which I advocated / through a long life / EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR."
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Thaddeus Stevens: Charles W. Boyd, Your Legacy from Thaddeus Stevens : Republican of the First Kind — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History
      Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)
      Jacob Crowninshield (1770-1808) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., March 31, 1770. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1800; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1803-08 (at-large 1803-05, 2nd District 1805-08); died in office 1808. Died in Washington, D.C., April 15, 1808 (age 38 years, 15 days). Interment at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Benjamin Williams Crowninshield; married, June 5, 1796, to Sarah Gardner; grandfather of William Crowninshield Endicott; great-granduncle of Charles Francis Adams.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt family of New York; Crowninshield-Adams family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Jones Lowndes (1782-1822) — also known as William Lowndes — of South Carolina. Born in South Carolina, February 11, 1782. Democrat. Lawyer; planter; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1806-08; U.S. Representative from South Carolina, 1811-22 (4th District 1811-13, 2nd District 1813-22). Slaveowner. Died aboard a ship in the North Atlantic Ocean while en route to England, October 27, 1822 (age 40 years, 258 days). Buried at sea in North Atlantic Ocean; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Rawlins Lowndes and Sarah (Jones) Lowndes; brother of Thomas Lowndes; married 1802 to Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney (daughter of Thomas Pinckney); second great-granduncle of Burnet Rhett Maybank; third great-granduncle of Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Charles Pinckney Brown.
      Political families: DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family of Charleston, South Carolina; Pinckney-Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Lowndes counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Patrick Farrelly (1770-1826) — of Meadville, Crawford County, Pa. Born in Ireland, 1770. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1811-12; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1821-26 (15th District 1821-23, 18th District 1823-26); died in office 1826. Died in Meadville, Crawford County, Pa., January 12, 1826 (age about 55 years). Original interment at Old Meadville Cemetery (which no longer exists), Meadville, Pa.; reinterment at Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Elizabeth Mead; father of David M. Farrelly and John Wilson Farrelly.
      Political family: Farrelly family of Meadville, Pennsylvania.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Thomas L. Hamer Thomas Lyon Hamer (1800-1846) — also known as Thomas L. Hamer — of Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio. Born in Northumberland County, Pa., July, 1800. Democrat. School teacher; lawyer; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1825, 1828-29; Speaker of the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1829; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; U.S. Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1833-39; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Nominated Ulysses S. Grant to be a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Died in the military service, probably from dysentery, at Monterrey, Nuevo León, December 2, 1846 (age 46 years, 0 days). Original interment somewhere in near Monterrey, Nuevo León; reinterment at Old Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Uncle of Thomas Ray Hamer.
      The village of Hamersville, Ohio, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Image source: Unknown
      James Meacham (1810-1856) — of Middlebury, Addison County, Vt. Born in Vermont, 1810. U.S. Representative from Vermont, 1849-56 (3rd District 1849-53, 1st District 1853-56); died in office 1856. Died in 1856 (age about 46 years). Interment at West Cemetery, Middlebury, Vt.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Osborne Goode (1798-1859) — also known as William O. Goode — of Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va. Born in Inglewood, Mecklenburg County, Va., September 16, 1798. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1822, 1824-32, 1839-40, 1845-46, 1852; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S. Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1841-43, 1853-59; defeated, 1832; died in office 1859; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850. Slaveowner. Died in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., July 3, 1859 (age 60 years, 290 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Mecklenburg County, Va.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry Grider (1796-1866) — of Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky. Born in Garrard County, Ky., July 16, 1796. Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1827, 1831; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1843-47, 1861-66; died in office 1866. Slaveowner. Died in Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky., September 7, 1866 (age 70 years, 53 days). Interment at Pioneer Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Nathan Bryan (1748-1798) — of Jones County, N.C. Born in Craven County (part now in Jones County), N.C., 1748. Member of North Carolina state senate from Jones County, 1781-83; member of North Carolina house of commons, 1787, 1791-94; U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1795-98 (at-large 1795-97, 10th District 1797-98); died in office 1798. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., June 4, 1798 (age about 49 years). Original interment at Baptist Burial Ground on Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment to unknown location; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Linn (1763-1821) — of Sussex County, N.J. Born in Hardwick Township, Warren County, N.J., December 3, 1763. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1801-04; common pleas court judge in New Jersey, 1805-21; died in office 1821; Sussex County Sheriff, 1812; U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1817-21 (10th District 1817-19, 1st District 1819-21); died in office 1821. Died in Washington, D.C., January 5, 1821 (age 57 years, 33 days). Interment at North Hardyston Cemetery, Hamburg, N.J.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Tyler Bouldin (1781-1834) — of Virginia. Born near Charlotte Court House, Charlotte County, Va., 1781. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1829-33, 1833-34 (5th District 1829-33, 8th District 1833-34); died in office 1834. Slaveowner. Died while addressing the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., February 11, 1834 (age about 52 years). Interment in private or family graveyard; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of James Wood Bouldin; ancestor *** of David M. Steele III.
      Political family: Bouldin family of Charlotte County, Virginia.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry Nes (1799-1850) — of York, York County, Pa. Born in York, York County, Pa., May 20, 1799. Physician; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 15th District, 1843-45, 1847-50; died in office 1850. Died in York, York County, Pa., September 10, 1850 (age 51 years, 113 days). Interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Daniel Putnam King (1801-1850) — also known as Daniel P. King — of South Danvers (now Peabody), Essex County, Mass. Born in Danvers, Essex County, Mass., January 8, 1801. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1836; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1843; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1838; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1843-50; died in office 1850. Died in South Danvers (now Peabody), Essex County, Mass., July 25, 1850 (age 49 years, 198 days). Interment at King Cemetery, Peabody, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Gaines Miller (1812-1856) — also known as John G. Miller — of Boonville, Cooper County, Mo. Born in Danville, Boyle County, Ky., November 29, 1812. Lawyer; member of Missouri state house of representatives from Cooper County, 1840-43; U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1851-56 (3rd District 1851-53, 5th District 1853-56); died in office 1856. Slaveowner. Died near Marshall, Saline County, Mo., May 11, 1856 (age 43 years, 164 days). Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery, Marshall, Mo.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Gen. William H. Miller and Elizabeth (Gaines) Miller; married to Margaret McClung Williams (daughter of Thomas Lanier Williams; niece of Robert Overton Williams, John Williams and Lewis Williams).
      Political family: Williams family of North Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Langrell Harris (1816-1858) — also known as Thomas L. Harris — of Illinois. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., October 29, 1816. Democrat. Member of Illinois state senate, 1846; U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1849-51, 1855-58 (7th District 1849-51, 6th District 1855-58); died in office 1858; member of Illinois Democratic State Committee, 1852-56. Died November 24, 1858 (age 42 years, 26 days). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Petersburg, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) — of Princeton, Bureau County, Ill. Born in Albion, Kennebec County, Maine, January 6, 1811. Republican. Minister; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1854-56; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1856 (speaker); U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1857-64 (3rd District 1857-63, 5th District 1863-64); died in office 1864. Congregationalist. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., March 25, 1864 (age 53 years, 79 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery, Princeton, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Elizabeth Gordon (Pattee) Lovejoy and Rev. Daniel Lovejoy; brother of Elijah Parish Lovejoy; married 1843 to Eunice Conant (Storrs) Denham; cousin *** of Nathan Allen Farwell; third cousin twice removed of John H. Lovejoy.
      Political family: Lovejoy-Farwell family of Rockland, Maine.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Philip Johnson (1818-1867) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Polkville, Warren County, N.J., January 17, 1818. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1853; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1861-67 (13th District 1861-63, 11th District 1863-67); died in office 1867; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1864. Died in Washington, D.C., January 29, 1867 (age 49 years, 12 days). Interment at Easton Cemetery, Easton, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Samuel Brenton (1810-1857) — of Indiana. Born in Gallatin County, Ky., November 22, 1810. Minister; lawyer; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1838-39, 1840-41; U.S. Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1851-53, 1855-57; defeated, 1852; died in office 1857. Methodist. Member, Odd Fellows. Died, of pneumonia, in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Ind., March 29, 1857 (age 46 years, 127 days). Interment at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) — also known as Preston S. Brooks — of Ninety Six, Edgefield District (now Greenwood County), S.C. Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield County), S.C., August 5, 1819. Lawyer; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56, 1856-57; died in office 1857. Suffered a hip wound in a duel with Louis T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane, causing severe injuries; an attempt to expel him from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote, but he resigned; re-elected to his own vacancy. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175 days). Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Whitefield Brooks and Mary P. (Carroll) Brooks; married 1841 to Caroline Means; married 1843 to Martha Means; cousin *** of Milledge Luke Bonham.
      Political family: Bonham family of Edgefield, South Carolina.
      Cross-reference: L. M. Keitt
      Brooks County, Ga. is named for him.
      The city of Brooksville, Florida, is named for him.
      Politician named for him: Preston Brooks Carwile
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Sampson Willis Harris (1809-1857) — of Wetumpka, Elmore County, Ala. Born in Elbert County, Ga., February 23, 1809. Democrat. Member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1834, 1844; U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1847-57 (3rd District 1847-55, 7th District 1855-57). Slaveowner. Died April 1, 1857 (age 48 years, 37 days). Interment at Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John William Noell (1816-1863) — also known as John W. Noell — of Perryville, Perry County, Mo. Born in Virginia, 1816. Democrat. Member of Missouri state legislature, 1850; U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1859-63 (7th District 1859-63, 3rd District 1863); died in office 1863. Slaveowner. Died March 14, 1863 (age about 46 years). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery, Perryville, Mo.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Thomas Estes Noell.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Orlando Kellogg (1809-1865) — of Elizabethtown, Essex County, N.Y. Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County, N.Y., June 18, 1809. Carpenter; lawyer; Essex County Surrogate, 1840-44; U.S. Representative from New York, 1847-49, 1863-65 (14th District 1847-49, 16th District 1863-65); died in office 1865; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1860. Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County, N.Y., August 24, 1865 (age 56 years, 67 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Elizabethtown, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Rowland Kellogg and Sarah (Titus) Kellogg; married 1837 to Polly Woodruff; father of Rowland Case Kellogg; second cousin once removed of Frank Billings Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Charles Kellogg (1773-1842); second cousin thrice removed of Aaron Kellogg; third cousin of William Dean Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Alvan Kellogg, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg and Alphonso Alva Hopkins; third cousin twice removed of Jason Kellogg, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Timothy Merrill and Daniel Fiske Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Swayze Seward; fourth cousin once removed of Luther Walter Badger, Silas Dewey Kellogg, Greene Carrier Bronson, Chester Ashley, Daniel Kellogg, Alvah Nash, John Russell Kellogg, Laman Ingersoll, Thomas Belden Butler, George Smith Catlin, Albert Gallatin Kellogg, Francis William Kellogg, Farrand Fassett Merrill and Charles Kellogg (1839-1903).
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry Wilson (1778-1826) — of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, 1778. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 7th District, 1823-26; died in office 1826. Died in 1826 (age about 48 years). Interment at Union and West End Cemetery, Allentown, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Robert Pryor Henry (1788-1826) — also known as Robert P. Henry — of Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky. Born in Scott County, Ky., November 24, 1788. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 12th District, 1823-26; died in office 1826. Slaveowner. Died in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., August 25, 1826 (age 37 years, 274 days). Interment at Pioneer Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Henry and Elizabeth Julia (Flournoy) Henry; brother of John Flournoy Henry and Gustavus Adolphus Henry; married, March 19, 1812, to Gabriella Frances Pitts; second cousin of Thomas Stanhope Flournoy; second cousin once removed of James Speed; third cousin once removed of Richard Aylett Buckner, Luke Pryor Blackburn and Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn; third cousin twice removed of James Madison and William Taylor Madison; third cousin thrice removed of Smith Alford Blackburn; fourth cousin of Aylette Buckner; fourth cousin once removed of Aylett Hawes Buckner and James Francis Buckner Jr..
      Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Jonathan Hunt (1787-1832) — of Vermont. Born in Vernon, Windham County, Vt., August 12, 1787. Member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1811, 1816-17, 1824; U.S. Representative from Vermont 1st District, 1827-32; died in office 1832. Died in Washington, D.C., May 15, 1832 (age 44 years, 277 days). Interment somewhere in Brattleboro, Vt.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Coffee (1782-1836) — of Georgia. Born in Prince Edward County, Va., December 3, 1782. Democrat. Member of Georgia state legislature, 1820; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1833-36; died in office 1836. Slaveowner. Died near Jacksonville, Telfair County, Ga., September 25, 1836 (age 53 years, 297 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Telfair County, Ga.; reinterment in 1921 at McRae City Cemetery, McRae-Helena, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Coffee County, Ga. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Orin Fowler (1791-1852) — of Plainfield, Windham County, Conn.; Fall River, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., July 29, 1791. Missionary; minister; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1848; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1849-52 (9th District 1849-51, 2nd District 1851-52); died in office 1852. Congregationalist. Died in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852 (age 61 years, 36 days). Interment at North Burial Ground, Fall River, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Brookins Campbell (1808-1853) — of Washington College, Washington County, Tenn. Born in Washington County, Tenn., 1808. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1835-39, 1841-47, 1851-52; Speaker of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1845-47; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 1st District, 1853; died in office 1853. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., December 25, 1853 (age about 45 years). Interment at Providence Presbyterian Churchyard, Greeneville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Lockhart (1806-1857) — of Indiana. Born in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., February 13, 1806. Democrat. State court judge in Indiana, 1846; delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1851-53, 1857; died in office 1857. Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind., September 7, 1857 (age 51 years, 206 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Humphrey (1811-1866) — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Conn., October 9, 1811. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York, 1859-61, 1865-66 (2nd District 1859-61, 3rd District 1865-66); died in office 1866. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., June 16, 1866 (age 54 years, 250 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George L. Kinnard (1803-1836) — of Indiana. Born in Pennsylvania, 1803. Democrat. Member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1827; U.S. Representative from Indiana 6th District, 1833-36; died in office 1836. Died from injuries received in an explosion on the steamer Flora on the Ohio River, November 26, 1836 (age about 33 years). Interment at Presbyterian Burying Ground, Cincinnati, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838) — of Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. Born in Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., July 2, 1802. Lawyer; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1831-36; Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives, 1835-36; U.S. Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1837-38; died in office 1838. Killed in a duel by Representative William J. Graves of Kentucky, on the Marlboro Pike, in Prince George's County, Md., February 24, 1838 (age 35 years, 237 days). Interment at Elm Grove Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Joseph Cilley; nephew of Bradbury Cilley.
      Political family: Cilley family of Nottingham, New Hampshire.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
    Charles Ogle Charles Ogle (1798-1841) — of Somerset, Somerset County, Pa. Born in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., 1798. Whig. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 18th District, 1837-41; died in office 1841. Noted for the "Gold Spoon Oration" which satirized President Martin Van Buren's expensive tastes; though little of it was true, the speech was widely reprinted and helped defeat Van Buren. Died, from tuberculosis, in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., May 10, 1841 (age about 42 years). Interment at Union Cemetery, Somerset, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Alexander Ogle; uncle of Andrew Jackson Ogle.
      Political family: Ogle family of Somerset, Pennsylvania.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Twentieth-Century Bench and Bar of Pennsylvania (1903)
      James Wray Williams (1792-1842) — of Maryland. Born in Maryland, October 8, 1792. Democrat. Member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1825, 1837-39; Speaker of the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1839; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1841-42; died in office 1842. Slaveowner. Died in Harford County, Md., December 2, 1842 (age 50 years, 55 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Harford County, Md.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Soden Hastings (1798-1842) — of Massachusetts. Born in Mendon, Worcester County, Mass., June 3, 1798. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1828; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1829-33; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1837-42; died in office 1842. Died in Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Va (now W.Va.), June 17, 1842 (age 44 years, 14 days). Interment at Old Cemetery, Mendon, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Seth Hastings.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Augustus Black (1793-1848) — of South Carolina. Born near Abbeville, Ninety Six District (now Abbeville County), S.C., 1793. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; iron manufacturer; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1826-28, 1832-35; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1843-48; died in office 1848. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., April 3, 1848 (age about 54 years). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard, Columbia, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Alexander Dromgoole Sims (1803-1848) — of South Carolina. Born in Virginia, 1803. Democrat. Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1840; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1845-48; died in office 1848. Slaveowner. Died in 1848 (age about 45 years). Interment at First Baptist Cemetery, Darlington, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Nephew of George Coke Dromgoole.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Chester Pierce Butler (1798-1850) — also known as Chester P. Butler — of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., March 21, 1798. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1832; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1847-50; died in office 1850. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 5, 1850 (age 52 years, 198 days). Interment at Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Lord Butler and Mary (Pierce) Butler; married 1829 to Sarah Anne Hollenback.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Henry Harmanson (1803-1850) — also known as John H. Harmanson — of Simmesport, Avoyelles Parish, La. Born in Norfolk, Va., January 15, 1803. Democrat. Member of Louisiana state senate, 1844; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1845-50; died in office 1850. Slaveowner. Died in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., October 24, 1850 (age 47 years, 282 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Pointe Coupee Parish, La.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Charles Andrews (1814-1852) — of Maine. Born in Paris, Oxford County, Maine, February 11, 1814. Democrat. Member of Maine state house of representatives, 1839-43; Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives, 1842; U.S. Representative from Maine 4th District, 1851-52; died in office 1852. Died in Paris, Oxford County, Maine, April 30, 1852 (age 38 years, 79 days). Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Paris, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Presley Underwood Ewing (1822-1854) — of Russellville, Logan County, Ky. Born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., September 1, 1822. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1848-49; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1851-54; died in office 1854. Died in Mammoth Cave, Edmonson County, Ky., September 27, 1854 (age 32 years, 26 days). Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Silas Mainville Burroughs (1810-1860) — also known as Silas M. Burroughs — of Medina, Orleans County, N.Y. Born in Ovid, Seneca County, N.Y., July 16, 1810. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Orleans County, 1837, 1850-51, 1853; U.S. Representative from New York 31st District, 1857-60; died in office 1860. Died in Medina, Orleans County, N.Y., June 3, 1860 (age 49 years, 323 days). Interment at Boxwood Cemetery, Medina, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Truman Harrison Hoag (1816-1870) — of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Born in Manlius, Onondaga County, N.Y., April 9, 1816. Democrat. Candidate for mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 1867; U.S. Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1869-70; died in office 1870. Died in Washington, D.C., February 5, 1870 (age 53 years, 302 days). Interment at Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Wilson Potter (1792-1839) — also known as William W. Potter — of Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa. Born in Potters Mills, Centre County, Pa., December 18, 1792. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1837-39; died in office 1839. Died in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa., October 28, 1839 (age 46 years, 314 days). Interment at Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Joseph Hopkins Peyton (1808-1845) — of Tennessee. Born in Tennessee, 1808. Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1840; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1843-45; died in office 1845. Died in 1845 (age about 37 years). Interment a private or family graveyard, Sumner County, Tenn.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Balie Peyton.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Rodolphus Dickinson (1797-1849) — of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), Sandusky County, Ohio. Born in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Mass., December 28, 1797. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1847-49; died in office 1849. Died in Washington, D.C., March 20, 1849 (age 51 years, 82 days). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Charles Denison (1818-1867) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne County, Pa., January 23, 1818. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1863-67; died in office 1867; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1864. Died in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., June 27, 1867 (age 49 years, 155 days). Interment at Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Nephew of George Denison.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Elijah Hise (1802-1867) — of Russellville, Logan County, Ky. Born in Allegheny County, Pa., July 4, 1802. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1829; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1836; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Guatemala, 1848-49; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1866-67; died in office 1867. German ancestry. Slaveowner. Died by a self-inflicted pistol shot, in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., May 8, 1867 (age 64 years, 308 days). He left a note declaring that he had "lost all hope of … saving the country from the impending disasters and ruin in which despotic and unconstitutional rule has involved her." However, later news reports disclosed that he had been about to be indicted for perjury and tax evasion, based on his statements as a candidate. Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Frederick Hise and Nancy (Eckstein) Hise.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary
      James Hinds (1833-1868) — of Arkansas. Born near Salem, Washington County, N.Y., December 5, 1833. Republican. U.S. Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1868; died in office 1868. Shot and killed by George A. Clark, who was drunk at the time, near Indian Bay, Monroe County, Ark., October 22, 1868 (age 34 years, 322 days). Interment somewhere in East Norwich, Long Island, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Benjamin Franklin Hopkins (1829-1870) — also known as Benjamin F. Hopkins — of Madison, Dane County, Wis. Born in Hebron, Washington County, N.Y., April 22, 1829. Republican. Telegraph operator; private secretary to Gov. Coles Bashford, 1856-57; member of Wisconsin state senate, 1862-63; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1866; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 2nd District, 1867-70; died in office 1870. Died in Madison, Dane County, Wis., January 1, 1870 (age 40 years, 254 days). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: Benjamin Franklin
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Johnson (1774-1826) — of Kentucky. Born in Orange County, Va., January 1, 1774. Democrat. Member of Kentucky state senate, 1808; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1825-26; died in office 1826. Died in Washington, D.C., August 13, 1826 (age 52 years, 224 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Scott County, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Robert 'Robin' Johnson and Jemima (Suggett) Johnson; brother of Richard Mentor Johnson, Benjamin Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson; married 1796 to Nancy Payne; uncle of Robert Ward Johnson.
      Political family: Conway-Norvell-Johnson-Carroll family.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Hedge Thompson (1780-1828) — of Salem, Salem County, N.J. Born in Salem, Salem County, N.J., January 28, 1780. Physician; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Salem County, 1805-06; member of New Jersey State Council, 1819; U.S. Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1827-28; died in office 1828. Died, from a liver ailment, in Salem, Salem County, N.J., July 23, 1828 (age 48 years, 177 days). Interment at St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, Salem, N.J.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Benjamin Franklin Deming (1790-1834) — also known as Benjamin F. Deming — of Vermont. Born in Danville, Caledonia County, Vt., August 12, 1790. Merchant; Caledonia County Clerk of Court, 1817-33; Caledonia County Probate Judge, 1821-33; member of Vermont Governor's Council, 1827-32; U.S. Representative from Vermont 5th District, 1833-34; died in office 1834. Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, N.Y., July 11, 1834 (age 43 years, 333 days). Interment at Danville Green Cemetery, Danville, Vt.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1816 to Eunice Clark.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      David Dickson (d. 1836) — of Jackson, Hinds County, Miss. Born in Georgia. Physician; delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1817, 1832; member of Mississippi state senate, 1820-21; Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, 1821; postmaster at Jackson, Miss., 1822-23; secretary of state of Mississippi, 1835; U.S. Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1835-36; died in office 1836. Slaveowner. Died in Hot Springs, Garland County, Ark., July 31, 1836. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Alexander Hamilton Buell (1801-1853) — also known as Alexander H. Buell — of Herkimer County, N.Y. Born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N.Y., July 14, 1801. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly from Herkimer County, 1845; U.S. Representative from New York 17th District, 1851-53; died in office 1853. Died in Washington, D.C., January 29, 1853 (age 51 years, 199 days). Interment at Episcopal Cemetery, Fairfield, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: Alexander Hamilton
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      George Whitfield Scranton (1811-1861) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut, 1811. Republican. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1859-61; died in office 1861. Died in 1861 (age about 50 years). Interment at Dunmore Cemetery, Dunmore, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Second cousin of Joseph Augustine Scranton.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Estes Noell (1839-1867) — also known as Thomas E. Noell — of Perryville, Perry County, Mo. Born in Missouri, 1839. U.S. Representative from Missouri 3rd District, 1865-67; died in office 1867. Died in 1867 (age about 28 years). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery, Perryville, Mo.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John William Noell.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      David Heaton (1823-1870) — of Middletown, Butler County, Ohio; St. Anthony Falls, Hennepin County, Minn.; New Bern, Craven County, N.C. Born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, March 10, 1823. Republican. Lawyer; postmaster at Middletown, Ohio, 1849-52; member of Ohio state senate, 1855; member of Minnesota state senate, 1859-63 (23rd District 1859-60, 4th District 1861-63); delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1868-70; died in office 1870. Died in Washington, D.C., June 25, 1870 (age 47 years, 107 days). Interment at National Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Heaton and Mary (Morrell) Heaton.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record
      Charles Slade (d. 1834) — of Illinois. Born in England. Democrat. Member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1820, 1826; U.S. Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1833-34; died in office 1834. Slaveowner. Died near Vincennes, Knox County, Ind., July 26, 1834. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Zalmon Wildman (1775-1835) — of Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., February 16, 1775. Democrat. Hat manufacturer; banker; postmaster at Danbury, Conn., 1808-35; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1818-19; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1835; died in office 1835. Died in Washington, D.C., December 10, 1835 (age 60 years, 297 days). Interment at Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Conn.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Ezekiel Wildman and Abigail (Hoyt) Wildman; half-brother of Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman; married, January 16, 1798, to Mary Betts Dibble; father of Frederick Seymour Wildman; first cousin of Eli Thacher Hoyt; first cousin thrice removed of Ira R. Wildman; third cousin of Abel Hoyt; third cousin once removed of David DeForest Wildman; third cousin twice removed of Charles Beers Hatch, Joseph Russell Hatch and Norris Hatch; third cousin thrice removed of Rounsevelle Wildman and Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman.
      Political families: Wildman family of Danbury, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Church Alvord (1808-1839) — of Massachusetts. Born in Greenwich (now part of Quabbin Reservoir), Hampshire County, Mass., April 14, 1808. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1837; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1838; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1839; died in office 1839. Died in Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass., September 27, 1839 (age 31 years, 166 days). Interment at Federal Street Cemetery, Greenfield, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Simeon H. Anderson (1802-1840) — of Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky. Born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., March 2, 1802. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1828-29, 1832, 1836-38; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1839-40; died in office 1840. Slaveowner. Died near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., August 11, 1840 (age 38 years, 162 days). Interment at Anderson Family Cemetery, Lancaster, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of William Clayton Anderson.
      Political family: Anderson family of Lancaster and Danville, Kentucky.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Anson Brown (1800-1840) — of Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, N.Y. Born in Charlton, Saratoga County, N.Y., 1800. Lawyer; one of the first directors of the Ballston Spa State Bank in 1830; U.S. Representative from New York 11th District, 1839-40; died in office 1840. Died in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, N.Y., June 14, 1840 (age about 39 years). Interment at Ballston Spa Cemetery, Ballston Spa, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Sterrett Ramsey (1810-1840) — also known as William S. Ramsey — of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa. Born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., June 12, 1810. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1839-40; died in office 1840. Died in Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1840 (age 30 years, 127 days). Interment at Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      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.
      Relatives: Son of James Black and Jane (McDonough) Black; married 1809 to Mary Sullivan; father of Jeremiah Sullivan Black; grandfather of Chauncey Forward Black.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Davis Dimock Jr. (1801-1842) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Exeter, Luzerne County, Pa., September 17, 1801. Democrat. Lawyer; Susquehanna County Treasurer, 1834; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1841-42; died in office 1842. Died in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pa., January 13, 1842 (age 40 years, 118 days). Interment at Montrose Cemetery, Montrose, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Millen (1804-1843) — of Savannah, Chatham County, Ga. Born in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., 1804. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1828, 1834-35, 1839-40; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843; died in office 1843. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., October 15, 1843 (age about 39 years). Interment at Laurel Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: First cousin of Richard Dennis Arnold.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Heman Allen Moore (1809-1844) — of Ohio. Born in Plainfield, Washington County, Vt., August 27, 1809. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1843-44; died in office 1844. Died April 3, 1844 (age 34 years, 220 days). Interment at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845) — also known as Samuel G. Wright — of Imlaystown, Monmouth County, N.J. Born in Wrightstown, Burlington County, N.J., November 18, 1781. Whig. Merchant; owner of iron furnaces; U.S. Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1845; died in office 1845. Quaker. Died near Imlaystown, Monmouth County, N.J., July 30, 1845 (age 63 years, 254 days). Interment at East Branch Cemetery, Cox's Corner, N.J.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Richard Platt Herrick (1791-1846) — also known as Richard P. Herrick — of Greenbush (now Rensselaer), Rensselaer County, N.Y. Born in Greenbush (now Rensselaer), Rensselaer County, N.Y., March 23, 1791. Member of New York state assembly from Rensselaer County, 1839; U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1845-46; died in office 1846. Died in Washington, D.C., June 20, 1846 (age 55 years, 89 days). Interment at Greenbush Cemetery, Rensselaer, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Westbrook Hornbeck (1804-1848) — of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa. Born in Montague, Sussex County, N.J., January 24, 1804. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 6th District, 1847-48; died in office 1848. Died in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., January 16, 1848 (age 43 years, 357 days). Interment at Allentown Cemetery, Allentown, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Milton Holley (1802-1848) — also known as John M. Holley — of Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., November 10, 1802. Whig. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Wayne County, 1838, 1841; Wayne County District Attorney, 1842-45; U.S. Representative from New York 27th District, 1847-48; defeated, 1844; died in office 1848. Died in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., March 8, 1848 (age 45 years, 119 days). Interment at Rural Cemetery, Lyons, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Amos Eastman Wood (1810-1850) — also known as Amos E. Wood — of Ohio. Born in Ellisburg, Jefferson County, N.Y., January 2, 1810. Democrat. Member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1840-42; member of Ohio state senate, 1845; U.S. Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1849-50; died in office 1850. Died in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Ind., December 19, 1850 (age 40 years, 351 days). Interment at Woodville Cemetery, Woodville, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Ephraim Wood and Hannah (Doane) Wood; married to Parintha Case.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Henry Augustus Muhlenberg (1823-1854) — also known as Henry A. Muhlenberg — of Berks, Berks County, Pa. Born in Reading, Berks County, Pa., July 21, 1823. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Pennsylvania state senate 5th District, 1850-52; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1853-54; died in office 1854. German ancestry. Died, from tuberculosis, in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1854 (age 30 years, 172 days). Interment at Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Rebecca (Hiester) Muhlenberg and Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg; married, November 16, 1847, to Anna Hall Muhlenberg; grandson of Joseph Hiester; grandnephew of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg; granduncle of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and Hiester Henry Muhlenberg; first cousin once removed of Francis Swaine Muhlenberg and Henry Ernestus Muhlenberg; first cousin twice removed of John Hiester and Daniel Hiester (1747-1804); second cousin once removed of Daniel Hiester (1774-1834) and William Hiester; third cousin of Daniel Robeadeau Clymer, Isaac Ellmaker Hiester and Hiester Clymer; third cousin thrice removed of Edward Brooke Lee.
      Political family: Muhlenberg-Hiester family of Pennsylvania (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Fryatt Snodgrass (1804-1854) — also known as John F. Snodgrass — of Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Berkeley County, Va. (now W.Va.), March 2, 1804. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Representative from Virginia 11th District, 1853-54; died in office 1854. Slaveowner. Died suddenly, while arguing a case in court, in Parkersburg, Wood County, Va (now W.Va.), June 5, 1854 (age 50 years, 95 days). Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Parkersburg, W.Va.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Snodgrass and Ann (Fryatt) Snodgrass; married to Louisa Kinnaird; uncle of Isaac Breathed Snodgrass; granduncle of William Thornton Henshaw and John Snodgrass Henshaw; first cousin twice removed of Edgar Craven Henshaw.
      Political family: Henshaw-Breathitt-Snodgrass-Sappington family of West Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Gallagher Montgomery (1805-1857) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa., June 27, 1805. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1855; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1857; died in office 1857. While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of at a President James Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed to poison, but probably dysentery), and subsequently died, at Danville, Montour County, Pa., April 24, 1857 (age 51 years, 301 days). Interment at Episcopal Cemetery, Danville, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Cyrus Spink (1793-1859) — of Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. Born in Berkshire County, Mass., March 24, 1793. Register of U.S. Land Office at Wooster, Ohio, 1825-27; member of Ohio state legislature, 1830; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; U.S. Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1859; died in office 1859. Died in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, May 31, 1859 (age 66 years, 68 days). Interment at Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Schwartz (1793-1860) — of Reading, Berks County, Pa. Born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., October 27, 1793. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant; iron manufacturer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1859-60; died in office 1860. Died in Washington, D.C., June 20, 1860 (age 66 years, 237 days). Interment at Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Philip Michael Schwartz and Margaretha (Schlosser) Schwartz; married to Elizabeth Wood.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Goldsmith Fox Bailey (1823-1862) — of Massachusetts. Born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., July 17, 1823. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1857; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1858-60; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1861-62; died in office 1862. Died in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Mass., May 8, 1862 (age 38 years, 295 days). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas Buchecker Cooper (1823-1862) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Coopersburg, Lehigh County, Pa., December 29, 1823. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 7th District, 1861-62; died in office 1862. Died in Coopersburg, Lehigh County, Pa., April 4, 1862 (age 38 years, 96 days). Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Coopersburg, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Luther Hanchett (1825-1862) — of Wisconsin. Born in Middlebury, Portage County, Ohio, October 25, 1825. Republican. Member of Wisconsin state senate, 1856-60; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 2nd District, 1861-62; died in office 1862. Died in Plover, Portage County, Wis., November 24, 1862 (age 37 years, 30 days). Interment at Plover Cemetery, Plover, Wis.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Cornelius Springer Hamilton (1821-1867) — of Union County, Ohio. Born in Gratiot, Muskingum County, Ohio, January 2, 1821. Republican. Delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention from Union County, 1850-51; member of Ohio state senate, 1856-57; U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1867; died in office 1867. Killed by his insane son, in Marysville, Union County, Ohio, December 22, 1867 (age 46 years, 354 days). Interment at Oakdale Cemetery, Marysville, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Darwin Abel Finney (1814-1868) — also known as Darwin A. Finney — of Meadville, Crawford County, Pa. Born in Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vt., August 11, 1814. Republican. Lawyer; burgess of Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1848; member of Pennsylvania state senate, 1856-61 (20th District 1856-57, 27th District 1858-61); U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 20th District, 1867-68; died in office 1868. Died in Brussels, Belgium, August 25, 1868 (age 54 years, 14 days). Interment at Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Nicholas Joseph Begich (1932-1972) — also known as Nick Begich — of Anchorage, Alaska. Born in Eveleth, St. Louis County, Minn., April 6, 1932. Democrat. Member of Alaska state senate, 1963-71; U.S. Representative from Alaska at-large, 1971-72; died in office 1972; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1972. Alaska Native and Croatian ancestry. Disappeared while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, and presumed killed in a plane crash, somewhere in Alaska, October 16, 1972 (age 40 years, 193 days). The wreckage was never found. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Begich and Anna (Martinich) Begich; brother of Joseph Richard Begich; married 1956 to Margaret Jendro; father of Nicholas J. Begich Jr., Thomas Scott Begich and Mark Peter Begich (who married Deborah Bonito).
      Political family: Begich family of Anchorage, Alaska.
      Begich Peak in the Chugach Mountains, Anchorage, Alaska, is named for him.  — Begich Middle School, in Anchorage, Alaska, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Connecticut Avenue
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    George B. McClellan George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) — also known as George B. McClellan; "Little Mac" — of New Jersey. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., December 3, 1826. Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for President of the United States, 1864; Governor of New Jersey, 1878-81. Member, Freemasons; Loyal Legion. Died October 29, 1885 (age 58 years, 330 days). Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.; statue erected 1907 at Connecticut Avenue.
      Relatives: Son of George McClellan and Elizabeth Steinmetz (Brinton) McClellan; married to Mary Ellen Marcy (daughter of Gen. Randolph Barnes Marcy; granddaughter of Laban Marcy); father of George Brinton McClellan (1865-1940).
      Political family: Howe family of Massachusetts.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS George B. McClellan (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1973) was named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: George HarveyGeorge B. HudnallGeorge B. McClellan
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about George B. McClellan: Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan : The Young Napoleon
      Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)


    Constitution Gardens
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) — also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of Monticello"; "Friend of the People"; "Father of the University of Virginia" — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Albemarle County, Va., April 13, 1743. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782; U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S. Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice President of the United States, 1797-1801; President of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican), 1796. Deist. English ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., July 4, 1826 (age 83 years, 82 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph at University of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West Potomac Park; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton; father of Martha Jefferson (who married Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.) and Maria Jefferson (who married John Wayles Eppes); uncle of Dabney Carr; grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Francis Wayles Eppes, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas Philip Trist), Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; granduncle of Dabney Smith Carr; great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; second great-granduncle of Edith Wilson; first cousin once removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin twice removed of John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; second cousin of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker and William Segar Archer; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Edmund Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke and John Augustine Marshall; second cousin four times removed of William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of William Henry Robertson.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Jefferson M. Levy — Joshua Fry
      Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are named for him.
      Mount Jefferson (third highest peak in the Northeast), in Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Thomas Jefferson KennardThomas Jefferson CampbellThomas J. GazleyThomas J. DrakeThomas Jefferson HeardThomas Jefferson GreenThomas J. RuskThomas Jefferson WithersThomas J. ParsonsThomas J. WordThomas J. HenleyThomas J. DryerThomas J. FosterThomas J. BarrThomas Jefferson JenningsThomas J. HendersonThomas J. Van AlstyneThomas Jefferson CasonT. J. CoghlanThomas Jefferson BufordT. Jefferson CoolidgeThomas J. MegibbenThomas J. BunnThomas J. HardinThomas J. McLain, Jr.Thomas J. BrownThomas Jefferson SpeerThomas J. BoyntonThomas J. HudsonThomas J. BradyThomas J. SelbyThomas Jefferson DeavittThomas Jefferson MajorsThomas Jefferson WoodT. J. JarrattThomas Jefferson NunnThomas J. StraitThomas J. HumesT. J. AppleyardThomas J. ClunieThomas J. SteeleThomas J. BoyntonThomas J. O'DonnellThomas J. HalseyThomas J. GrahamT. J. MartinThomas Jefferson LillyThomas J. RandolphTom J. TerralT. Jeff BusbyThomas Jefferson MurphyThomas J. HamiltonTom ManganThomas J. RyanTom J. MurrayTom SteedThomas Jefferson Edmonds, Jr.Thomas J. AndersonThomas Jefferson RobertsThomas J. Barlow III
      Coins and currency: His portrait has appeared on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2 bill since the 1860s.
      Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard Sterne Randall, Thomas Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan Dunn, Jefferson's Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 — Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson : Author of America — David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the myths you've always believed about Thomas Jefferson — David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson — Donald Barr Chidsey, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson
      Critical books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
    John Adams John Adams (1735-1826) — also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of Independence"; "Father of the American Navy" — of Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., October 30, 1735. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice President of the United States, 1789-97; President of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820. Unitarian. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., July 4, 1826 (age 90 years, 247 days). Original interment at Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married, October 25, 1764, to Abigail Quincy Smith (aunt of William Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William Stephens Smith) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (who married Louisa Catherine Johnson); grandfather of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph Allen; second cousin twice removed of John Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman Kidder Bass, Daniel T. Hayden, Arthur Laban Bates and Almur Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Lyman Metcalfe Bass and Emerson Richard Boyles; third cousin of Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed of Jeremiah Mason, George Bailey Loring and Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904); third cousin twice removed of Asahel Otis, Erastus Fairbanks, Charles Stetson, Henry Brewster Stanton, Charles Adams Jr., Isaiah Stetson, Joshua Perkins, Eli Thayer and Bailey Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Caleb Stetson, Oakes Ames, Oliver Ames Jr., Benjamin W. Waite, Alfred Elisha Ames, George Otis Fairbanks, Austin Wells Holden, Horace Fairbanks, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph Washburn Yates, Augustus Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin Fairbanks, Erskine Mason Phelps, Arthur Newton Holden, John Alden Thayer, Irving Hall Chase, Isaiah Kidder Stetson and Giles Russell Taggart.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are named for him.
      Mount Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond, California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral Sea, 1942) was named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: John Adams HarperJohn A. CameronJohn A. DixJohn Adams FisherJohn A. TaintorJohn A. GilmerJohn A. PerkinsJohn Adams HymanJohn A. DamonJohn A. LeeJohn A. SandersJohn Adams Hurson
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about John Adams: John Ferling, John Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams — David McCullough, John Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James Grant, John Adams : Party of One
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
      Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) — of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Marblehead, Essex County, Mass., July 17, 1744. Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1776-80, 1782-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1786; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1789-93; Governor of Massachusetts, 1810-12; defeated, 1801, 1812; Vice President of the United States, 1813-14; died in office 1814. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. The word gerrymander ("Gerry" plus "salamander") was coined to describe an oddly shaped Massachusetts senate district his party created in 1811, and later came to mean any unfair districting. Died in Washington, D.C., November 23, 1814 (age 70 years, 129 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gerry; married, January 12, 1786, to Ann Gerry; grandfather of Elbridge Thomas Gerry; great-grandfather of Peter Goelet Gerry; third cousin of Levi Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln.
      Political families: Lincoln-Lee family; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The town of Elbridge, New York, is named for him.  — The town of Gerry, New York, is named for him.  — The town of Gerry (now Phillipston, Massachusetts), was named for him until 1812.
      Other politicians named for him: Elbridge G. BaldwinElbridge G. KnowltonElbridge G. CreacraftElbridge G. SpauldingElbridge G. GaleElbridge GerryElbridge G. LaphamEldridge Gerry PearlElbridge G. MoultonElbridge G. CracraftElbridge G. KelleyElbridge G. HaynesElbridge G. BrownElbridge G. Davis
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Elbridge Gerry: George Athan Billias, Elbridge Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman
    Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) — also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone"; "Martha Careful"; "Benevolus"; "Caelia Shortface" — of Pennsylvania. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 17, 1706. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S. Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S. Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Deist. Member, Freemasons; American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September 1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who married Richard Bache); uncle of Franklin Davenport; grandfather of Richard Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache (who married Robert John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel Baugh Brewster and Elise du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles James Folger, Benjamin Dexter Sprague and Wharton Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles Devens Osborne and Lithgow Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George Hammond Parshall.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Jonathan Williams
      Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are named for him.
      Mount Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Benjamin F. ButlerBenjamin F. HallettBenjamin F. WadeBenjamin Franklin WallaceBenjamin Cromwell FranklinBenjamin Franklin PerryBenjamin Franklin RobinsonBenjamin F. RandolphBenjamin Franklin MasseyBenjamin F. RawlsBenjamin Franklin LeiterBenjamin Franklin ThomasBenjamin F. HallBenjamin F. AngelBenjamin Franklin RossBenjamin F. FlandersBenjamin F. BomarBenjamin Franklin HellenBenjamin F. MudgeBenjamin F. ButlerBenjamin F. LoanBenjamin F. SimpsonBenjamin Franklin TerryBenjamin Franklin JunkinBenjamin F. PartridgeB. F. LangworthyBenjamin F. HardingBenjamin MebaneB. F. WhittemoreBenjamin Franklin BradleyBenjamin Franklin ClaypoolBenjamin Franklin SaffoldBenjamin F. CoatesB. Franklin MartinBenjamin Franklin HoweyBenjamin F. MartinBenjamin Franklin RiceBenjamin F. RandolphBenjamin F. HopkinsBenjamin F. TracyBenjamin Franklin BriggsBenjamin F. GradyBenjamin F. FarnhamBenjamin F. MeyersBenjamin Franklin WhiteBenjamin Franklin PrescottBenjamin F. JonasB. Franklin FisherBenjamin Franklin PottsBenjamin F. FunkBenjamin F. MarshFrank B. ArnoldBenjamin F. HeckertBenjamin F. BradleyBenjamin F. HowellBenjamin Franklin MillerBenjamin F. MahanBen Franklin CaldwellBenjamin Franklin TilleyBenjamin F. HackneyB. F. McMillanBenjamin F. ShivelyB. Frank HiresB. Frank MebaneB. Frank MurphyBenjamin F. StarrBenjamin Franklin Jones, Jr.Benjamin F. WeltyBenjamin F. JonesBenjamin Franklin BoleyBen Franklin LooneyBenjamin F. BledsoeBenjamin Franklin WilliamsB. Frank KelleyBenjamin Franklin ButlerBenjamin F. JamesFrank B. HeintzlemanBenjamin F. FeinbergB. Franklin BunnBen F. CameronBen F. BlackmonB. Frank WhelchelB. F. Merritt, Jr.Ben F. HornsbyBen Dillingham II
      Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half dollar coin (1948-63).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books by Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place (1744)
      Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America — Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
      Image source: Library of Congress
      Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) — of Savannah, Chatham County, Ga. Born in Down Hatherly, Gloucestershire, England, March 3, 1735. Planter; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; Governor of Georgia, 1777. Mortally wounded in a duel with Lachlan McIntosh, on May 16, 1777, and died three days later, near Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., May 19, 1777 (age 42 years, 77 days). Interment at Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married 1757 to Ann Bourne.
      Gwinnett County, Ga. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Morton (c.1724-1777) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pa., about 1724. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-75; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Anglican. Finnish ancestry. Died April 1, 1777 (age about 53 years). Interment at St. Paul's Churchyard, Chester, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married to Ann Justis.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John Morton (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1972) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Philip Livingston (1716-1778) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., January 15, 1716. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1769, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-78; died in office 1778; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1777-78; died in office 1778. Presbyterian. Died while attending the sixth session of the Continental Congress in York, York County, Pa., June 12, 1778 (age 62 years, 148 days). Entombed at Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catrina (Van Brugh) Livingston; brother of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston and William Livingston; married, April 14, 1740, to Christina Ten Broeck; nephew of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; uncle by marriage of James Duane and William Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas Bayard), Susannah Livingston (who married John Cleves Symmes), Susanna Livingston (who married John Kean (1756-1795)), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John Jay) and Henry Brockholst Livingston; grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and Pieter Van Brugh; grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer Westerlo and Edward Philip Livingston; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes Cuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, Edward Livingston (1796-1840) and Henry Bell Van Rensselaer; great-granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William Duer (1805-1879), Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; second great-grandfather of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; second great-granduncle of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean (1852-1914), Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third great-grandfather of Robert Reginald Livingston; third great-granduncle of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; fourth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr.; fourth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish (born 1951), Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; ancestor *** of Robert Livingston Beeckman; first cousin of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis Cuyler, John Cruger Jr., Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson and John Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip P. Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler and Henry Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
      Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      John Hart (c.1713-1779) — also known as "Honest John" — of Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now Mercer County), N.J. Born about 1713. Hunterdon County Judge, 1768-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1776-78; Speaker of the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1776-78. Died, from kidney failure, in Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now Mercer County), N.J., May 11, 1779 (age about 66 years). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Mercer County, N.J.; reinterment in 1865 at First Baptist Church Cemetery, Hopewell, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Edward Hart and Martha (Furman) Hart; married 1741 to Deborah Scudder; second great-grandfather of John Hart Brewer and Lummie J. Earle; first cousin thrice removed of Absalom Price Lanning; first cousin four times removed of William Mershon Lanning; second cousin twice removed of Hanford Nichols Lockwood; second cousin thrice removed of James Lockwood Conger and Homer Nichols Lockwood; second cousin four times removed of Frederick B. Piatt; second cousin five times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood.
      Political families: Conger family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John Hart (built 1941-42 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Joseph Hewes (1730-1779) — of North Carolina. Born in Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., July 9, 1730. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1766-75, 1778-79; Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774-77, 1779; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Member, Freemasons. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., November 10, 1779 (age 49 years, 124 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Relative *** of Thomas Hewes.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Lynch Jr. (1749-1779) — of South Carolina. Born in South Carolina, August 5, 1749. Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. While on an ocean voyage to France, was lost at sea, in the North Atlantic Ocean, 1779 (age about 29 years). His remains were not recovered. Memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Lynch Sr..
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      George Ross (1730-1779) — of Pennsylvania. Born in New Castle, New Castle County, Del., May 10, 1730. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1779. Died July 14, 1779 (age 49 years, 65 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Brother of Gertrude Ross (who married George Read) and Elizabeth Ross (who married Edward Biddle).
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Read family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS George Ross (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Richard Stockton (1730-1781) — of New Jersey. Born near Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., October 1, 1730. Associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1774; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died February 28, 1781 (age 50 years, 150 days). Interment at Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Brother of Hannah Stockton (who married Elias Boudinot); father of Julia Stockton (who married Benjamin Rush and William Bradford) and Richard Stockton (1764-1828); grandfather of Robert Field Stockton and Richard Stockton Field; great-grandfather of John Potter Stockton; second great-grandfather of Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929).
      Political family: Stockton family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Taylor (1716-1781) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Ireland, 1716. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Presbyterian. Died in 1781 (age about 65 years). Original interment at St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Easton, Pa.; reinterment at Easton Cemetery, Easton, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS George Taylor (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1961) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Caesar Rodney (1728-1784) — of Delaware. Born in Dover, Kent County, Del., October 7, 1728. Member of Delaware state legislature, 1762; justice of Delaware state supreme court, 1769; Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; President of Delaware, 1778-81. Died June 26, 1784 (age 55 years, 263 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Christ Church Cemetery, Dover, Del.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Ceasar Rodney and Elizabeth Maude (Crawford) Rodney; brother of Thomas Rodney; uncle of Caesar Augustus Rodney; granduncle of Thomas McKean Rodney; first cousin once removed of Daniel Rodney and Caleb Rodney; first cousin twice removed of George Brydges Rodney; first cousin thrice removed of John Henry Rodney; first cousin four times removed of Caleb Rodney Layton and Reynolds Clough.
      Political family: Rodney family of Delaware (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785) — of Scituate, Providence County, R.I.; Providence, Providence County, R.I. Born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., March 7, 1707. Member of Rhode Island house of deputies, 1732-52; Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1738-39, 1739-40, 1741, 1741, 1742-43, 1744, 1749; Governor of Rhode Island, 1755-57, 1758-62, 1763-65, 1767-68; member of Rhode Island state legislature, 1770-75; state court judge in Rhode Island, 1773; Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1774-80; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Died in Providence, Providence County, R.I., July 13, 1785 (age 78 years, 128 days). Interment at North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Thomas Stone (1743-1787) — of Maryland. Born in Charles County, Md., 1743. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1775-76, 1777-78, 1783-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-80, 1781-87; died in office 1787; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1780. Episcopalian. Died in Alexandria, Va., October 5, 1787 (age about 44 years). Interment at Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Habre de Venture, Port Tobacco, Md.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Brother of Michael Jenifer Stone and John Hoskins Stone; grandfather of John Moncure Daniel.
      Political family: Stone-Daniel family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738-1789) — of Virginia. Born in Yorktown, York County, Va., December 26, 1738. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77, 1779-80; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Virginia, 1781. Member, Freemasons. Died in Hanover County, Va., January 4, 1789 (age 50 years, 9 days). Interment at Grace Churchyard, Yorktown, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Father of Hugh Nelson.
      Nelson counties in Ky. and Va. are named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) — also known as "The Signer" — of Charles City County, Va. Born in Charles City County, Va., April 5, 1726. Planter; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1749-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1776-81, 1787-91; Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1778-81; Governor of Virginia, 1781-84; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles City County, 1788. Died in Charles City County, Va., April 24, 1791 (age 65 years, 19 days). Interment at Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Benjamin Harrison (1693-1745) and Ann (Carter) Harrison; brother-in-law of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); married 1748 to Elizabeth Bassett; father of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (who married Anna Tuthill Symmes); uncle of Beverley Randolph; grandfather of John Scott Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison; second great-grandfather of Russell Benjamin Harrison; second great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; third great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); ancestor *** of James Thomas Harrison; first cousin of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin once removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes and William Welby Beverley; first cousin five times removed of Francis Beverley Biddle and Harry Flood Byrd; first cousin six times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice removed of Robert Monroe Harrison.
      Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Harrison County, W.Va. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      John Hancock (1737-1793) — of Massachusetts. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., January 23, 1737. Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4 electoral votes, 1789. Congregationalist. Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., October 8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258 days). Interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August 28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott.
      Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are named for him.
      The town of Hancock, Massachusetts, is named for him.  — Mount Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland, Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean Sea, 1942) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles Unger, John Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow Giles Unger, John Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot
      Roger Sherman (1721-1793) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., April 19, 1721. Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1766-89; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-81, 1783-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; mayor of New Haven, Conn., 1784-93; died in office 1793; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1791-93; died in office 1793. Congregationalist. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., July 23, 1793 (age 72 years, 95 days). Original interment at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment in 1821 at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Mehitable (Wellington) Sherman and William Sherman; married, November 17, 1749, to Elizabeth Hartwell; married, May 12, 1763, to Rebecca Prescott; father of Rebecca Sherman (who married Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)), Elizabeth Sherman (who married Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)) and Sarah Sherman (who married Samuel Hoar); grandfather of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts and George Frisbie Hoar; great-grandfather of Roger Sherman Greene, Simeon Eben Baldwin, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts and Arthur Outram Sherman; second great-grandfather of Henry Sherman Boutell, Edward Baldwin Whitney, Henry de Forest Baldwin, Thomas Day Thacher, Roger Sherman Greene II, Roger Sherman Hoar and Roger Kent; second great-granduncle of Chauncey Mitchell Depew and John Frederick Addis; third great-grandfather of Archibald Cox; third great-granduncle of John Stanley Addis; ancestor *** of George Sherman Batcheller; first cousin thrice removed of John Adams Dix; second cousin five times removed of Horace Bemis and Lorin Andrews Lathrop.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The town of Sherman, Connecticut, is named for him.  — The town and village of Sherman, New York, are named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Abraham Clark (1726-1794) — of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union County), N.J. Born near Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth Union County), N.J., February 15, 1726. Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776-78, 1779-83, 1787-89; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1776, 1783-85; U.S. Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1791-94; died in office 1794. Presbyterian. Slaveowner. Died in Rahway, Union County, N.J., September 15, 1794 (age 68 years, 212 days). Interment at Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married to Sarah Hatfield.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Abraham Clark (built 1941 at Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California; wrecked and scrapped 1959) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Richard Henry Lee Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) — of Westmoreland County, Va. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., January 20, 1732. Democrat. Planter; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-79, 1784-85, 1787; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1777, 1780, 1785; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1789-92. Slaveowner. Died in Westmoreland County, Va., June 19, 1794 (age 62 years, 150 days). Interment at Burnt House Field Cemetery, Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; married, December 5, 1757, to Ann Aylett; married 1769 to Ann (Gaskins) Pinckard; great-grandfather of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second great-grandfather of Edward Brooke Lee; third great-grandfather of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; first cousin once removed and father-in-law of Charles Lee; first cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin twice removed of John Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin four times removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and John Lee Carroll; first cousin six times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; second cousin once removed of Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson; second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, James Sansome Lakin, Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin five times removed of Robert Todd Lincoln, Harrison Moore Lakin and James Offutt Lakin.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Jackson-Lee family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Lee counties in Ga. and Ill. are named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about Richard Henry Lee: Oliver P. Chitwood, Richard Henry Lee : Statesman of the Revolution
      Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
      Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) — of Kingston, Rockingham County, N.H. Born in Amesbury, Essex County, Mass., November 21, 1729. Physician; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775-76, 1778; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-84; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1779; common pleas court judge in New Hampshire, 1779-82; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1782-90; chief justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1790; President of New Hampshire, 1790-93; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of New Hampshire, 1793-94. Congregationalist. Died in Kingston, Rockingham County, N.H., May 19, 1795 (age 65 years, 179 days). Interment at Plains Cemetery, Kingston, N.H.; statue at Public Square, Amesbury, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Stephen Bartlett and Hannah (Webster) Bartlett; married, January 15, 1754, to Mary Bartlett; father of Josiah Bartlett Jr. and Ezra Bartlett; great-grandfather of Edward Theodore Bartlett and John Davis O'Rear.
      Political family: Bartlett-O'Rear family of Frankfort, Kentucky.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      Samuel Huntington (1731-1796) — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Windham, Windham County, Conn., July 16, 1731. Lawyer; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1773-85; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-83; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; died in office 1796; received 2 electoral votes, 1789. Congregationalist. Died in Norwich, New London County, Conn., January 5, 1796 (age 64 years, 173 days). Interment at Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Huntington (1691-1767) and Mehetabel (Thurston) Huntington; married, January 5, 1761, to Martha Devotion; uncle and adoptive father of Samuel H. Huntington; granduncle of Nathaniel Huntington (1793-1828), James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington and Elisha Mills Huntington; great-granduncle of Collins Dwight Huntington and George Milo Huntington; second great-granduncle of William Barret Ridgely; third great-granduncle of Helen Huntington Hull; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; second cousin once removed of John Davenport, Ebenezer Huntington, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Abel Huntington and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; second cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Zina Hyde Jr., Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, Theodore Davenport, Charles Phelps Huntington and Henry Titus Backus; second cousin thrice removed of John Hall Brockway, Robert Coit Jr., Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and William Clark Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Charles Edward Hyde, Herman Arod Gager, Josiah Quincy, William Brainard Coit, Henry Arthur Huntington, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, Arthur Evarts Lord and George Leffingwell Reed; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Edmond Otis Dewey, Austin Eugene Lathrop, George Martin Dewey, Schuyler Carl Wells, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, James Gillespie Blaine III, Allen Welsh Dulles and Randolph Appleton Kidder; third cousin of Samuel Adams; third cousin once removed of Joseph Allen, Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel Nicholls Smallwood and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Lathrop, Bela Edgerton, Willard J. Chapin, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., Philo Fairchild Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Hard, Charles Robert Sherman, Heman Ticknor, Gideon Hard, Norman A. Phelps, Alphonso Taft, Alfred Peck Edgerton, Emerson Wight, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, William Henry Barnum, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Vincent Wells, Augustus Frank, Edward M. Chapin, Elizur Stillman Goodrich, Rhamanthus Menville Stocker and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); fourth cousin once removed of Martin Keeler and Thaddeus Betts.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family of Dexter, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Huntington County, Ind. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      William Whipple (1730-1785) — of Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H. Born in Kittery, York County, Maine, January 14, 1730. Delegate to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-77; member of New Hampshire state legislature, 1780; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1783-85. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons. Died in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H., November 28, 1785 (age 55 years, 318 days). Interment at North Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of William Whipple (1695-1751) and Mary (Cutts) Whipple; married to Catherine Moffatt.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Arthur Middleton (1742-1787) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston County), S.C. Born in Berkeley County, S.C., June 26, 1742. Delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1778; member of South Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1781-82. Died January 1, 1787 (age 44 years, 189 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Middleton Place Plantation, Dorchester County, S.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Middleton (1717-1784) and Mary Baker (Williams) Middleton; brother of Henrietta Middleton (who married Edward Rutledge) and Sarah Middleton (who married Charles Cotesworth Pinckney); married, August 19, 1764, to Mary Izard; father of Henry Middleton (1770-1846) and Isabella Johannes Middleton (who married Daniel Elliott Huger); grandfather of John Izard Middleton, Williams Middleton and John Middleton Huger; granduncle of John Drayton; great-grandfather of Daniel Elliott Huger Smith; second great-grandfather of Benjamin Huger Rutledge and Francis Fisher Kane; first cousin of Mary Middleton (who married Pierce Butler).
      Political families: Pinckney-Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina; Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      John Penn (1741-1788) — of Granville County, N.C. Born near Port Royal, Caroline County, Va., May 17, 1741. Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of North Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1777. Died in Granville County, N.C., September 14, 1788 (age 47 years, 120 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Granville County, N.C.; reinterment in 1894 at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Moses Penn and Catherine (Taylor) Penn; married, July 28, 1763, to Susannah Lyne; first cousin once removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; second cousin once removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison, Philip Clayton Pendleton, Zachary Taylor, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, Coleby Chew, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of William Barret Pendleton, George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton, John Overton Pendleton, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk, Charles Sumner Pendleton and Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin twice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John Penn (built 1941-42 at Wilmington, North Carolina; torpedoed and lost in the Greenland Sea, 1942) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Lyman Hall (1724-1790) — of Georgia. Born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., April 12, 1724. Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Georgia, 1783-84. Congregationalist. Died October 19, 1790 (age 66 years, 190 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Courthouse Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Ancestor *** of Homer William Hall.
      Hall County, Ga. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      William Hooper (1742-1790) — of North Carolina. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., June 17, 1742. Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1777-78. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C., October 14, 1790 (age 48 years, 119 days). Original interment at Hillsborough Old Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, N.C.; reinterment in 1894 at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Second great-grandfather of Warren Green Hooper.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) — of Bordentown, Burlington County, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 2, 1737. Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1779; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1787; federal judge, 1789. Designed the Stars and Stripes. Died May 9, 1791 (age 53 years, 219 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married to the sister-in-law of Thomas McKean; father of Joseph Hopkinson.
      Political family: Hopkinson-McKean family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Witherspoon (1723-1794) — of Princeton, Somerset County (now Mercer County), N.J. Born in Gifford, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1723. Presbyterian minister; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1783, 1789; delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Somerset County, 1787. Presbyterian. Scottish ancestry. Became blind in 1792. Died near Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., November 15, 1794 (age 71 years, 283 days). Interment at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married to Elizabeth Montgomery; married 1791 to Ann (Marshall) Dill; father of James Witherspoon; great-grandfather of John Cabell Breckinridge; second great-grandfather of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Carter Braxton (1736-1797) — of Virginia. Born in King and Queen County, Va., September 16, 1736. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1761-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Died in Richmond, Va., October 10, 1797 (age 61 years, 24 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, King William County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of George Braxton and Mary (Carter) Braxton; married 1755 to Judith Robinson; married 1761 to Elizabeth Corbin; grandfather-in-law of William Brockenbrough; grandfather of Mary Page White (who married Andrew Stevenson); great-grandfather of John White Brockenbrough, John White Stevenson and Elliott Muse Braxton; ancestor *** of William Tyler Page.
      Political families: Tyler family of Virginia; Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Braxton County, W.Va. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., October 14, 1734. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1764; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state senate, 1778. Died, from pleurisy, in Richmond County, Va., January 11, 1797 (age 62 years, 89 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of Richard Henry Lee and Arthur Lee; great-granduncle of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second great-granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; third great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; first cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin twice removed of John Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin four times removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and John Lee Carroll; first cousin six times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; second cousin once removed of Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson; second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, Elliot Woolfolk Major, James Sansome Lakin and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin five times removed of Robert Todd Lincoln, Harrison Moore Lakin and James Offutt Lakin.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Jackson-Lee family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Oliver Wolcott Sr. (1726-1797) — of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., December 1, 1726. Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-78, 1780-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; Governor of Connecticut, 1796-97; died in office 1797. Congregationalist. Died in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., December 1, 1797 (age 71 years, 0 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Erastus Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)); married, January 21, 1755, to Laura Collins; father of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey Goodrich) and Frederick Wolcott; uncle of Roger Griswold; great-grandfather of Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); great-granduncle of John William Allen, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Christopher Parsons Wolcott and Matthew Griswold (1833-1919); second great-granduncle of Charles Frederick Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott and Alfred Wolcott; third great-granduncle of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden Chapin; fourth great-granduncle of James Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-granduncle of James Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord Griswold, Samuel Clesson Allen, William Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha Hunt Allen and George Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Holcomb, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Fessenden Allen and Frederick Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson H. Warner, Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler and Henry Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Daniel Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James Hillhouse and Timothy Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy, Henry Ward Beecher, Leveret Brainard, Edwin Carpenter Pinney and John Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root, George Griswold Sill, Frederick Walker Pitkin, George Buckingham Beecher, Luther S. Pitkin and Claude Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus Brandegee, George Frederick Stone, Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Harry Kear Wolcott, Eldred C. Pitkin, Henry Merrill Wolcott, Frances Payne Bolton and Harold B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John Arnold Rockwell and Oliver Morgan Hungerford.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The town of Wolcott, Vermont, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Lewis Morris (1726-1798) — of Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y. Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., April 8, 1726. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1777-78, 1780-81, 1783-90; member of New York council of appointment, 1786, 1788; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Westchester County, 1788. Died in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., January 22, 1798 (age 71 years, 289 days). Interment at St. Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Katrintje 'Catherine' (Staats) Morris and Lewis Morris (1698-1762); half-brother of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816); brother of Richard Morris; married, September 24, 1749, to Mary Walton; father of Helena Magdalena Morris (who married John Rutherfurd) and Richard Valentine Morris; nephew of Robert Hunter Morris; uncle of Lewis Richard Morris; grandson of Lewis Morris (1671-1746); granduncle of Gouverneur Morris (1809-1894); second great-grandfather of John Kean and Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1865-1915); third great-grandfather of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1892-1943); ancestor *** of Newbold Morris and Hamilton Fish Jr..
      Political family: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      George Read (1733-1798) — of New Castle, New Castle County, Del. Born near North East, Cecil County, Md., September 18, 1733. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Delaware state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Delaware state legislative council from New Castle County, 1776-79, 1782-83; President of Delaware, 1777-78; member of Delaware house of assembly, 1779-80; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1789-93; justice of Delaware state supreme court, 1793-98. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in New Castle, New Castle County, Del., September 21, 1798 (age 65 years, 3 days). Interment at Immanuel Churchyard, New Castle, Del.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of John Read and Mary (Howell) Read; married 1763 to Gertrude (Ross) Till (sister of George Ross); father of Mary Read (who married Gunning Bedford), George Read II and John Read (1769-1854); grandfather of George Read III and John Meredith Read; great-grandfather of John Meredith Read Jr..
      Political family: Read family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS George Read (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1971) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Wilson (1742-1798) — of Reading, Berks County, Pa.; Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Carskerdo, Fife, Scotland, September 14, 1742. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-98; died in office 1798. Episcopalian. Died in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., August 28, 1798 (age 55 years, 348 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Chowan County, N.C.; reinterment in 1906 at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married, November 5, 1771, to Rachel Bird; married 1793 to Hannah Gray.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS James Wilson (built 1941-42 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1964) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Paca (1740-1799) — of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md. Born in Abingdon, Baltimore County (now Harford County), Md., October 31, 1740. Lawyer; planter; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1774-76; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-80; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-79; Governor of Maryland, 1782-85; delegate to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S. District Judge for Maryland, 1789-99; died in office 1799. Anglican. English and Italian ancestry. Died in Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Md., October 23, 1799 (age 58 years, 357 days). Interment at Wye Plantation, Queenstown, Md.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of John Aquilla Parker Paca and Elizabeth (Smith) Paca; brother of Aquila Paca; married, May 26, 1763, to Mary Lloyd Chew (second cousin once removed of Benjamin Chew); married, January 28, 1777, to Anne Harrison; grandfather of Edward Tilghman Paca.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Bache-Dallas family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      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.
      Relatives: Son of John Rutledge (1713-1750) and Sarah (Hext) Rutledge; brother of John Rutledge (1739-1800) and Sarah Rutledge (who married John Mathews); married, March 1, 1774, to Henrietta Middleton (daughter of Henry Middleton (1717-1784); sister of Arthur Middleton; aunt of Henry Middleton (1770-1846)); married, October 28, 1792, to Mary (Shubrick) Eveleigh (daughter of Thomas Shubrick; widow of Nicholas Eveleigh); uncle of John Rutledge Jr., Thomas Rhett Smith and Sarah Ann Rutledge (who married Alfred Huger); granduncle of Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1829-1893); great-granduncle of Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1861-1925).
      Political family: Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Samuel Adams (1722-1803) — also known as "The Tribune of the People"; "The Cromwell of New England"; "Determinatus"; "The Psalm Singer"; "Amendment Monger"; "American Cato"; "Samuel the Publican" — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., September 27, 1722. Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796. Congregationalist. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 2, 1803 (age 81 years, 5 days). Interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fifield) Adams; married 1749 to Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to Elizabeth Wells; uncle of Joseph Allen; granduncle of Charles Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married Alfred Cumming) and William Vincent Wells; second cousin of John Adams; second cousin once removed of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); second cousin twice removed of George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward M. Chapin, John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; second cousin four times removed of Lyman Kidder Bass, Daniel T. Hayden, Arthur Chapin, Arthur Laban Bates, Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Lyman Metcalfe Bass, Emerson Richard Boyles and Thomas Boylston Adams; third cousin of Samuel Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel H. Huntington and Caleb Cushing; third cousin twice removed of Willard J. Chapin, Erastus Fairbanks, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington, Elisha Mills Huntington, Charles Adams Jr., James Brooks and Bailey Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Alphonso Taft, Benjamin W. Waite, George Otis Fairbanks, Austin Wells Holden, Horace Fairbanks, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor, Franklin Fairbanks, Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Edgar Weeks and Arthur Newton Holden; third cousin four times removed of John Quincy Adams (1848-1911).
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Upham family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Mount Sam Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Samuel Adams (built 1941 at Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Samuel Adams: Donald Barr Chidsey, The World of Samuel Adams
      Francis Lewis (1713-1803) — of New York. Born in Llandaff, Wales, March 21, 1713. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Welsh ancestry. Died December 30, 1803 (age 90 years, 284 days). Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Father of Morgan Lewis; third great-grandfather of Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills.
      Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Matthew Thornton (1713-1803) — of Merrimack, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 17, 1713. Physician; President of New Hampshire, 1775-76; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1776-82; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-77, 1780-81, 1785-86; member of New Hampshire state senate from Hillsborough County, 1784-87. Presbyterian. Died in Newburyport, Essex County, Mass., June 24, 1803 (age 90 years, 99 days). Interment at Thornton's Ferry Cemetery, Merrimack, N.H.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of James B. Thornton, Jr. and Elizabeth Keturah (Jenkins) Thornton; married 1760 to Hannah Jack; second great-grandfather of Gordon Woodbury.
      Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      George Walton (c.1749-1804) — of Georgia. Born near Farmville, Cumberland County, Va., about 1749. Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1776-77, 1780-81; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Georgia, 1779-80, 1789; justice of Georgia state supreme court, 1783; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1795-96. Member, Freemasons. Died near Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., February 2, 1804 (age about 55 years). Original interment at Rosney Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.; reinterment in 1848 at Courthouse Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Brother of John Walton; cousin *** of Matthew Walton.
      Political family: Walton family.
      Walton County, Ga. is named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS George Walton (built 1942-43 at Savannah, Georgia; burned and sank in the North Pacific Ocean, 1951) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      Robert Morris (1734-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Liverpool, England, January 31, 1734. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1785; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-95. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process. Imprisoned for debt from February 1798 to August 1801. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 8, 1806 (age 72 years, 97 days). Entombed at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married, March 2, 1769, to Mary White; father of Thomas Morris and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married James Markham Marshall); great-grandfather of John Augustine Marshall.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and 1880s.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Robert Morris: Charles Rappleye, Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
      James Smith (1719-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Dublin, Ireland, September 17, 1719. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1780. Presbyterian. Died in York, York County, Pa., July 11, 1806 (age 86 years, 297 days). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard, York, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married to Eleanor Armor.
      James Smith Hall, a dormitory at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James Smith (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1963) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Wythe (1726-1806) — of York County, Va. Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton, Va.), December 3, 1726. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1758-68; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Virginia, 1777; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York County, 1788. Episcopalian. Apparently murderedpoisoned by his grandnephew — and died two weeks later, in Richmond, Va., June 8, 1806 (age 79 years, 187 days). Interment at St. John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Wythe County, Va. is named for him.
      The town of Wytheville, Virginia, is named for him.  — Wythe Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS George Wythe (built 1941-42 at Baltimore, Maryland; scrapped 1970) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Thomas Heyward Jr. (1746-1809) — of South Carolina. Born in St. Luke's Parish County (now part of Jasper County), S.C., July 28, 1746. Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1776-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1778-80, 1782-90, 1785-90; circuit judge in South Carolina, 1785-89; delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1790. Died in Beaufort District (part now in Jasper County), S.C., April 17, 1809 (age 62 years, 263 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Jasper County, S.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Daniel Heyward and Mary Hannah (Miles) Heyward; married, April 20, 1773, to Elizabeth Mathews (sister of John Mathews); married, May 9, 1790, to Elizabeth Savage.
      Political family: Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Samuel Chase (1741-1811) — of Maryland. Born near Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., April 17, 1741. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-78, 1781-82, 1783-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Maryland, 1788; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1796-1811; died in office 1811. Episcopalian. Articles of impeachment were filed against him in 1804 on charges of malfeasance in office; tried by the Senate in 1805 and acquitted of all charges. Died in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1811 (age 70 years, 63 days). Interment at Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Cross-reference: Luther Martin
      See also congressional biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Williams (1731-1811) — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1731. Merchant; pastor; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1757; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-79, 1784-1802. Congregationalist. Died August 2, 1811 (age 80 years, 96 days). Interment at Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married, February 14, 1771, to Mary Trumbull (daughter of Jonathan Trumbull).
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Clymer (1739-1813) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., March 16, 1739. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1785; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania at-large, 1789-91. Episcopalian. Died in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pa., January 23, 1813 (age 73 years, 313 days). Interment at Friends Graveyard, Trenton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Christopher Clymer and Deborah (Fitzwater) Clymer; married, March 18, 1765, to Elizabeth Meredith (sister of Samuel Meredith); great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr.; second great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane.
      Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS George Clymer (built 1941-42 at Portland, Oregon; torpedoed and wrecked in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1942) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) — also known as "Father of American Psychiatry" — of Pennsylvania. Born in Byberry Township (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia County, Pa., January 4, 1746. Physician; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 19, 1813 (age 67 years, 105 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Married, January 2, 1776, to Julia Stockton (daughter of Richard Stockton); father of Richard Rush.
      Political family: Stockton family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Rush County, Ind. is named for him.
      Rush Street, in Chicago, Illinois, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Benjamin Rush: Alyn Brodsky, Benjamin Rush : Patriot and Physician — David Barton, Benjamin Rush — David Barton, Benjamin Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence
      Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) — of Taunton, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 11, 1731. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1777; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1777-90; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1790-1804. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 12, 1814 (age 83 years, 62 days). Interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; statue at Church Green, Taunton, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Paine; married to Sarah Cobb; great-grandson of Robert Treat; second great-grandfather of Robert Treat Paine Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Condit, Eli Thacher Hoyt, Aurelius Buckingham and Chauncey Fitch Cleveland; second cousin thrice removed of Silas Condit, Ira Chandler Backus, Joshua Perkins, Edward Green Bradford, Philo Beecher Buckingham, Bailey Frye Adams, Henry Sabin, Lee Randall Sanborn, Alanson B. Treat, Charles M. Hotchkiss and David Leroy Treat; second cousin four times removed of Albert Pierson Condit, Edward Green Bradford II, James L. Sanborn and Warren Walter Rich; second cousin five times removed of Clarence Sidney Merrill, Simeon Harrison Rollinson, Edward Green Bradford Jr., Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard and Joseph Clark Baldwin III; third cousin twice removed of Gershom Birdsey, Benjamin Hard and Alonzo Sidney Upham; third cousin thrice removed of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, William Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli Coe Birdsey, Lorenzo Burrows, Nathan Belcher, Russell Sage, Gilbert Carlton Walker, John Ransom Buck and Benjamin Baker Merrill; fourth cousin of Luther Waterman; fourth cousin once removed of David Waterman and Jonathan Brace.
      Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      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.
      Relatives: Son of William McKean and Letitia (Finley) McKean; married to the sister-in-law of Francis Hopkinson; married 1763 to Mary Borden; married 1774 to Sarah Armitage.
      Political family: Hopkinson-McKean family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      McKean County, Pa. is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Thomas McKean Thompson McKennanThomas McKean Pettit
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
      William Ellery (1727-1820) — of Rhode Island. Born in Newport, Newport County, R.I., December 22, 1727. Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; justice of Rhode Island state supreme court, 1785. Congregationalist. Died in Newport, Newport County, R.I., February 15, 1820 (age 92 years, 55 days). Interment at Common Burying Ground, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Uncle of Christopher Ellery.
      The town of Ellery, New York, was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      William Anson Floyd (1734-1821) — also known as William Floyd — of New York. Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., December 17, 1734. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-77, 1778-83; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York state senate, 1777-88, 1807-08 (Southern District 1777-88, Western District 1807-08); member of New York council of appointment, 1787; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1789-91; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1801. Presbyterian. Slaveowner. Died in Westernville, Oneida County, N.Y., August 4, 1821 (age 86 years, 230 days). Interment at Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westernville, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Tabitha (Smith) Floyd and Nicoll Floyd (1705-1755); married, August 23, 1760, to Hannah Jones; married, May 16, 1784, to Joanna Strong; father of Nicoll Floyd (1762-1852); grandfather of Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, David Gelston Floyd and John Gelston Floyd; granduncle of Charles Albert Floyd; third cousin once removed of Martin Keeler; third cousin twice removed of Stephen Hiram Keeler and Daniel Darling Whitney; third cousin thrice removed of Alfred Walstein Bangs and John Clarence Keeler.
      Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The town of Floyd, New York, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) — of Maryland. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., September 19, 1737. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-81; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-1800; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1789-92. Catholic. Slaveowner. Died in Baltimore, Md., November 14, 1832 (age 95 years, 56 days). Interment at Doughoregan Manor Chapel, Ellicott City, Md.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth (Brooke) Carroll; married, June 5, 1768, to Mary Darnell; father of Catharine 'Kitty' Carroll (who married Robert Goodloe Harper); grandfather of Louisa Carroll (who married Isaac Rand Jackson), Mary Sophia Carroll (who married Richard Henry Bayard) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (who married John Lee); great-grandfather of John Lee Carroll and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married Charles Oliver O'Donnell); second great-grandfather of John Howell Carroll; third great-grandfather of Suzanne Howell Carroll (who married John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill); third great-granduncle of John Duffy Alderson; first cousin of Daniel Carroll; second cousin of Charles Carroll, Barrister; second cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Alexander Contee Hanson and Alexander Contee Magruder; second cousin thrice removed of John Read Magruder; third cousin twice removed of Reuben Handy Meriwether; third cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Levin Irving Handy.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Carroll family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Carroll counties in Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Md., Miss., Mo., N.H., Ohio and Va., East Carroll Parish, La. and West Carroll Parish, La., are named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Charles C. WalcuttCharles C. FitchCharles C. FrickCharles Carroll Glover, Jr.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article


    Dumbarton Oaks Rose Garden
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
    Robert Woods Bliss Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) — of New York; Washington, D.C. Born in St. Louis, Mo., August 5, 1875. U.S. Consul in Venice, as of 1903; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1923-27; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1927-33. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Academy of Political and Social Science. One of five retired diplomats who co-signed a famous 1954 letter protesting U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy's attacks on the Foreign Service. Donated his Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard University in 1940; after the war, it was the scene of the conference that led to the creation of the United Nations. Died in Washington, D.C., April 19, 1962 (age 86 years, 257 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Dumbarton Oaks Rose Garden.
      Relatives: Son of William Henry Bliss and Annie Louise (Woods) Bliss; brother of Annie Louise Bliss (who married Charles Warren); married, April 14, 1908, to Mildred Barnes.
      Political family: Bliss-Warren family of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
      Epitaph: "Quod severeis metes." [as ye sow so ye shall reap.]
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Library of Congress


    Federal Triangle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt; "F.D.R." — of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y., January 30, 1882. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New York state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920, 1924, 1928; speaker, 1944; contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of New York, 1929-33; President of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February 15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak were shot at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange; Knights of Pythias. Led the nation through the Depression and World War II. Died of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Ga., April 12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72 days). Interment at Roosevelt Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle; memorial monument at West Potomac Park.
      Relatives: Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married, March 17, 1905, to Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne Douglas Robinson); father of James Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren Delano Robbins and Katharine Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married William Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel Huntington, George Washington, Joshua Coit, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington and Samuel Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip DePeyster and James I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger Wolcott and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
      Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Ross T. McIntire — Milton Lipson — W. W. Howes — Bruce Barton — Hamilton Fish, Jr. — Joseph W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel I. Rosenman — Rexford G. Tugwell — Raymond Moley — Adolf A. Berle — George E. Allen — Lorence E. Asman — Grenville T. Emmet — Eliot Janeway — Jonathan Daniels — Ralph Bellamy — Wythe Leigh Kinsolving
      The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge (opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec, Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for him.  — The borough of Roosevelt, New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for him.  — F. D. Roosevelt Airport, on the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius, is named for him.  — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching Hospital, in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Frank GarrisonFranklin D. Roosevelt Keesee
      Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin).
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR : 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson, That Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt — Jonas Klein, Beloved Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles Peters, Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World — Steven Neal, Happy Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W. Brands, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan Brinkley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin D. Roosevelt (for young readers)
      Critical books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression — John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
      Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Philip Roth, The Plot Against America: A Novel
      Image source: New York Red Book 1936
    Andrew W. Mellon Andrew William Mellon (1855-1937) — also known as Andrew W. Mellon — of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa. Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., March 24, 1855. Republican. Banker; co-founder, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which later became Carnegie Mellon University; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920, 1924 (speaker), 1928; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1932-33. Episcopalian. Died in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., August 26, 1937 (age 82 years, 155 days). Original interment at Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.; subsequent interment at a private or family graveyard, Fauquier County, Va.; reinterment at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Upperville, Va.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Mellon and Sarah Jane (Negley) Mellon; married 1900 to Nora McMullen; father of Ailsa Mellon (who married David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce); uncle of William Larimer Mellon; granduncle of Richard Mellon Scaife.
      Political family: Bruce-Mellon family of Virginia.
      Cross-reference: J. McKenzie Moss
      Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is partly named for him.  — Mellon Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Federal Reserve History
      Books about Andrew Mellon: David Cannadine, Mellon : An American Life
      Image source: American Review of Reviews, March 1922
    Oscar S. Straus Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926) — also known as Oscar S. Straus — of New York. Born in Germany, December 23, 1850. Progressive. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1887-89, 1898-99; U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1906-09; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1909-10; candidate for Governor of New York, 1912; candidate for delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914. Jewish. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. First Jewish U.S. cabinet member. Died in New York City (unknown county), N.Y., May 3, 1926 (age 75 years, 131 days). Interment at Beth El Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle.
      Relatives: Son of Lazarus Straus and Sara (Straus) Straus; brother of Isidor Straus; uncle of Jesse Isidor Straus and Nathan Straus Jr.; granduncle of Stuart Scheftel and Ronald Peter Straus.
      Political family: Straus family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Empire State Notables (1914)


    Garfield Circle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    James A. Garfield James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) — also known as James A. Garfield — of Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. Born in a log cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 19, 1831. Republican. Lawyer; college professor; president, Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881. Disciples of Christ. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Delta Upsilon. Shot by the assassin Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the effects of the wound and infection, in Elberon, Monmouth County, N.J., September 19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304 days). Entombed at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield Circle; statue at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
      Relatives: Son of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November 11, 1858, to Lucretia Rudolph; father of Harry Augustus Garfield and James Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John Alden Thayer.
      Political families: Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: William S. Maynard
      Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are named for him.
      Garfield Mountain, in the Cascade Range, King County, Washington, is named for him.  — The city of Garfield, New Jersey, is named for him.
      Politician named for him: James G. Stewart
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about James A. Garfield: Allan Peskin, Garfield: A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur
      Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)


    Georgetown University Jesuit Cemetery
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Politicians buried here:
      Richard T. McSorley (1914-2002) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 2, 1914. Democrat. Jesuit priest; university professor; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1968. Died in Washington, D.C., October 17, 2002 (age 88 years, 15 days). Interment at Georgetown University Jesuit Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Richard T. McSorley (1886-1972) and Marguerita V. (Cosgrove) McSorley.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Glenwood Cemetery
    2219 Lincoln Road N.E.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Founded 1854
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Amos Kendall (1789-1869) — Born in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Mass., August 16, 1789. U.S. Postmaster General, 1835-40. Died in Washington, D.C., November 12, 1869 (age 80 years, 88 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Kendall County, Ill. is named for him.
      See also NNDB dossier
      Joseph Shields Wilson (c.1806-1874) — also known as Joseph S. Wilson — of Washington, D.C. Born in Ireland, about 1806. Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1860-61, 1866-71. Died in Washington, D.C., June 23, 1874 (age about 68 years). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of John Wilson; married 1829 to Eliza Uhler Moulder.
      Epitaph: "For the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted."
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Edwin Freemont Ladd (1859-1925) — also known as Edwin F. Ladd — of Fargo, Cass County, N.Dak. Born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, December 13, 1859. Republican. Chemist; college professor; president, North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University), 1916-21; U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1921-25; died in office 1925. Member, Phi Gamma Delta. Died in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., June 22, 1925 (age 65 years, 191 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Ladd and Rosilla (Locke) Ladd; married, August 16, 1893, to Rizpah Sprogle.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
    James M. Edmunds James Madison Edmunds (1810-1879) — also known as James M. Edmunds — of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne County, Mich.; Washington, D.C. Born in Niagara County, N.Y., August 23, 1810. Dry goods merchant; supervisor of Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, 1838-39; member of Michigan state senate 5th District, 1840-41; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Washtenaw County, 1846-47; Whig candidate for Governor of Michigan, 1847; delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850; lumber business; Michigan Republican state chair, 1855-61; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1861-66; postmaster at Washington, D.C., 1869-79. Member, Union League. Died in Washington, D.C., December 14, 1879 (age 69 years, 113 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: James Madison
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Zachariah Chandler biography (1880)
      John Wesley Hoyt (1831-1912) — also known as John W. Hoyt — of Madison, Dane County, Wis. Born near Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio, October 13, 1831. Wisconsin railroad commissioner, 1874-76; Governor of Wyoming Territory, 1878-82. Methodist. Died in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md., May 23, 1912 (age 80 years, 223 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: John Wesley
      Hoyt Peak, in Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John W. Hoyt (built 1943 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1961) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Welles Bartley (1812-1885) — also known as Thomas W. Bartley — of Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. Born February 11, 1812. Democrat. Governor of Ohio, 1844; U.S. Attorney for Ohio, 1845-50; justice of Ohio state supreme court, 1852-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1860. Died June 20, 1885 (age 73 years, 129 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Mordecai Bartley.
      See also National Governors Association biography
      Alexander Gordon Penn (1799-1866) — also known as Alexander G. Penn — of near Covington, St. Tammany Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born in Patrick County, Va., May 10, 1799. Democrat. Planter; member of Louisiana state house of representatives, 1830; postmaster at New Orleans, La., 1843-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1844, 1852, 1856; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1850-53; lumber mill owner. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., May 7, 1866 (age 66 years, 362 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Edmund William McGregor Mackey (1846-1884) — also known as Edmund W. M. Mackey — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., March 8, 1846. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Orangeburg County, 1868; Charleston County Sheriff, 1868-72; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1872, 1880; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from Charleston County, 1873-74; U.S. Representative from South Carolina, 1875-76, 1882-84 (2nd District 1875-76, 1882-83, 7th District 1883-84); died in office 1884. Died in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1884 (age 37 years, 325 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Chester Bidwell Darrall (1842-1908) — also known as Chester B. Darrall — of Brashear (now Morgan City), St. Mary Parish, La.; Franklin, St. Mary Parish, La. Born near Addison, Somerset County, Pa., June 24, 1842. Republican. Physician; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant; planter; member of Louisiana state senate, 1868; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1869-79, 1881-83; delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1888. Died in Washington, D.C., January 1, 1908 (age 65 years, 191 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Jesse Johnson Yeates (1829-1892) — of North Carolina. Born near Murfreesboro, Hertford County, N.C., May 29, 1829. Democrat. Member of North Carolina house of commons, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1871; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1875-79, 1881. Died in Washington, D.C., September 5, 1892 (age 63 years, 99 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Rankin Young (1847-1924) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Washington, D.C. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., March 10, 1847. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper reporter; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 4th District, 1897-1903. Died December 18, 1924 (age 77 years, 283 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Rankin Young and Eliza (Russell) Young; brother of John Russell Young; married 1874 to Mary Barclay; father of James Barclay Young.
      Political family: Young family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Vannoy Hartrog Manning (1839-1892) — also known as Van H. Manning — of Hamburg, Ashley County, Ark.; Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss. Born near Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., July 26, 1839. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 2nd District, 1877-83. Slaveowner. Died in Branchville, Prince George's County, Md., November 2, 1892 (age 53 years, 99 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William James Purman (1840-1928) — of Jackson County, Fla. Born in Pennsylvania, 1840. Republican. Delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from Jackson County, 1868; member of Florida state legislature, 1870; U.S. Representative from Florida, 1873-77 (at-large 1873-75, 1st District 1875-77); delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1876. Died in 1928 (age about 88 years). Cremated; ashes interred at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Ransom Hooker Gillet (1800-1876) — also known as Ransom H. Gillet — of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, N.Y., January 27, 1800. Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster at Ogdensburg, N.Y., 1830-33; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1832, 1840; U.S. Representative from New York 14th District, 1833-37. Died in Washington, D.C., October 24, 1876 (age 76 years, 271 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Jones Roane (1794-1869) — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, 1794. Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1830; U.S. Representative from Virginia 12th District, 1831-33. Slaveowner. Died in 1869 (age about 75 years). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Roane.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Hiram Walbridge (1821-1870) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., February 2, 1821. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 3rd District, 1853-55. Died, at the Astor House hotel, New York, New York County, N.Y., December 6, 1870 (age 49 years, 307 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Chester Walbridge and Mary (Walbridge) Walbridge; nephew of Henry Sanford Walbridge; grandnephew of Ebenezer William Walbridge; third cousin of John Jay Walbridge and David Safford Walbridge; third cousin once removed of John Hill Walbridge and Henry E. Walbridge; third cousin twice removed of Hiram Augustus Huse and Cyrus Packard Walbridge; third cousin thrice removed of Clair Hiram Walbridge.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Abel Lawrence Foster (1802-1877) — also known as A. Lawrence Foster — of Morrisville, Madison County, N.Y.; Fairfax County, Va.; Washington, D.C. Born in Littleton, Middlesex County, Mass., September 17, 1802. Whig. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York 23rd District, 1841-43. Died in Washington, D.C., May 21, 1877 (age 74 years, 246 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edmund Foster and Phebe (Lawrence) Foster; married to Abigail M. Hopkins.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Ambler Smith (1847-1892) — also known as J. Ambler Smith — of Richmond, Va. Born in Virginia, 1847. Republican. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1870; U.S. Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1873-75. Died in 1892 (age about 45 years). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Embre Gaines (1844-1912) — also known as William E. Gaines — of Burkeville, Nottoway County, Va. Born near Charlotte Court House, Charlotte County, Va., August 30, 1844. Republican. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Virginia state senate, 1883-87; U.S. Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1887-89. Died in Washington, D.C., May 4, 1912 (age 67 years, 248 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Selucius Garfielde (1822-1881) — of Paris, Bourbon County, Ky.; El Dorado County, Calif.; Seattle, King County, Wash. Born in Shoreham, Addison County, Vt., December 8, 1822. Democrat. Delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; member of California state assembly 12th District, 1853-54; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1869-73; defeated, 1860. Died in Washington, D.C., April 13, 1881 (age 58 years, 126 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Eugene Hermann Plumacher (1837-1910) — also known as Eugene H. Plumacher — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. Born in Germany, 1837. Naturalized U.S. citizen; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; university professor; inventor; U.S. Consul in Maracaibo, 1883-1909. German ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Founded a leprosy hospital in Venezuela. Died in Washington, D.C., September 25, 1910 (age about 73 years). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Olga Maria Pauline Hunerwadel.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Stewart (1822-1904) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Perth, Scotland, March 22, 1822. Civil engineer; Consul-General for Paraguay in Washington, D.C., 1884-1904. Scottish ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., December 6, 1904 (age 82 years, 259 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1853 to Janet Crighton.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Alfred Schücking (1818-1898) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Münster, Prussia (now Germany), 1818. Lawyer; Vice-Consul for Netherlands in Washington, D.C., 1863-95; Consular Agent for Germany in Washington, D.C., 1873-97. Died in Washington, D.C., October 12, 1898 (age about 80 years). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Josiah Love Pearcy (1843-1909) — also known as Josiah L. Pearcy — Born in Tennessee, 1843. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul in Aspinwall, as of 1897; secretary to U.S. Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee. Member, Ku Klux Klan. Died, from Bright's disease, in Washington, D.C., June 18, 1909 (age about 65 years). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Clifford Wayne McGlasson (1897-1939) — also known as Clifford W. McGlasson — of Washington, D.C. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, October 31, 1897. Stenographer; U.S. Vice Consul in Turin, 1924; Gothenberg, 1924-25; Prague, 1926-27, 1929; Port Said, 1927-29; Lausanne, 1929-32. Died in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia), 1939 (age about 41 years). Cremated; ashes interred at Glenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Clifford Howell McGlasson and Matilda (Veth) McGlasson; married, July 25, 1928, to Bozena Pospisilova.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      William Howard Thompson (1871-1928) — also known as William H. Thompson — of Garden City, Finney County, Kan. Born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Ind., October 14, 1871. Democrat. District judge in Kansas, 1906-13; U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1913-19; defeated, 1918; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1916 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee); candidate for U.S. Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1922. Died, from heart disease, in Washington, D.C., February 9, 1928 (age 56 years, 118 days). Original interment at Glenwood Cemetery; reinterment in 1928 at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
      Relatives: Son-in-law of Andrew Jackson Felt.
      Political family: Libby-Felt family of Maine (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Gompers Square
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
      Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) — Born in London, England, January 27, 1850. Democrat. Cigar maker; Founder and president, American Federation of Labor; candidate for delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914. Jewish. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons. Died in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex., December 13, 1924 (age 74 years, 321 days). Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; memorial monument at Gompers Square; statue at Gompers Park, Chicago, Ill.
      Samuel Gompers High School (built 1930, closed about 2012), in Bronx, New York, was named for him.  — Gompers School (also known as Eastern High School), Baltimore, Maryland, was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Graceland Cemetery
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Richard Harvey Cain (1825-1887) — also known as Richard H. Cain — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Greenbrier County, Va. (now W.Va.), April 12, 1825. Republican. Delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Charleston County, 1868; member of South Carolina state senate from Charleston County, 1868-70; U.S. Representative from South Carolina, 1873-75, 1877-79 (at-large 1873-75, 2nd District 1877-79); Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1880-87. African Methodist Episcopal. African ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., January 18, 1887 (age 61 years, 281 days). Interment at Graceland Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


    Hancock Circle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Winfield S. Hancock Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) — also known as Winfield S. Hancock — of St. Louis, Mo.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Montgomery County, Pa., February 14, 1824. Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1868, 1876; candidate for President of the United States, 1880. Member, Freemasons; Loyal Legion. Died in Governor's Island, New York County, N.Y., February 9, 1886 (age 61 years, 360 days). Interment at Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.; statue erected 1896 at Hancock Circle.
      Presumably named for: Winfield Scott
      Relatives: Son of Benjamin Franklin Hancock and Elizabeth (Hoxworth) Hancock; married, February 1, 1850, to Almira Dubois Russell; uncle of Laura Elizabeth Hancock (who married William Rush Merriam).
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Mount Hancock, in Yellowstone National Park, Teton County, Wyoming, is named for him.
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $2 silver certificate in the 1880s and early 1890s.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about Winfield Scott Hancock: David M. Jordan, Winfield Scott Hancock : A Soldier's Life
      Image source: Cornell University Library


    Holmead's Burying Ground
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Founded 1794
    Politicians formerly buried here:
    William Winston Seaton William Winston Seaton (1785-1866) — of Washington, D.C. Born in King William County, Va., January 11, 1785. Whig. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1840-50. Died in Washington, D.C., June 16, 1866 (age 81 years, 156 days). Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground; reinterment at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Augustine Seaton; married 1809 to Sarah Weston Gales (sister of Joseph Gales Jr.).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (1886)
      Josiah Meigs (1757-1822) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; St. Georges, Bermuda; Athens, Clarke County, Ga. Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., August 21, 1757. Lawyer; newspaper editor and publisher; acting president, University of Georgia, 1801-10; U.S. Surveyor General, 1812-14; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1814-22; died in office 1822. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in Washington, D.C., September 4, 1822 (age 65 years, 14 days). Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground; reinterment in 1878 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
      Relatives: Son of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; married 1782 to Clara Benjamin; father of Henry Meigs and Clara Meigs (who married John Forsyth); uncle of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandfather of Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; granduncle of Return Jonathan Meigs III; first cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger Calvin Leete; third cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha Hunt Allen, Anson Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur Morris, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, William Dean Kellogg and Charles Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles H. Eastman, William Fessenden Allen, Rush Green Leaming, Frederick Walker Pitkin, Alvred Bayard Nettleton, Robert Cleveland Usher, Charles M. Hotchkiss, Frederick Hobbes Allen, Allen Clarence Wilcox and Carl Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina Hyde Jr..
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The city of Meigs, Georgia, is named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Holy Rood Cemetery
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      James Gordon Finley (1885-1929) — also known as James G. Finley — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., January 31, 1885. Wholesale grocery worker; real estate business; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Lyon, 1917-19; Marseille, 1919-21, 1929, died in office 1929; Lille, 1921-23, 1923; La Rochelle, 1923; Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1923; Patras, 1923-25; Montreal, 1925, 1925-26; Sherbrooke, 1925; Le Havre, 1928-29. Died in Le Havre, France, May 26, 1929 (age 44 years, 115 days). Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joseph Finley and Bridget Finley.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial


    John A. Wilson Building Grounds
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
      Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835-1902) — also known as Alexander R. Shepherd; "Boss Shepherd"; "The Father of Modern Washington" — of Washington, D.C.; Batopilas, Chihuahua. Born in Washington, D.C., January 30, 1835. Republican. Plumber; real estate developer; Governor of the District of Columbia, 1873-74. Died, from appendicitis and peritonitis, in Batopilas, Chihuahua, September 12, 1902 (age 67 years, 225 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery; statue at John A. Wilson Building Grounds.
      Relatives: Married, January 30, 1861, to Mary Grice Young.
      Cross-reference: André L. Bagger
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Alexander R. Shepherd (built 1944 at Savannah, Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Judiciary Park
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) — also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The Illinois Baboon" — of New Salem, Menard County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill. Born in a log cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue County), Ky., February 12, 1809. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster; lawyer; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S. Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856; candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1858; President of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this, redefined American nationhood. He was. English ancestry. Elected in 1900 to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Shot by the assassin John Wilkes Booth, during a play at Ford's Theater, in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding House, across the street, the following day, April 15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62 days). Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National Mall; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary Park.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November 4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha Dee Todd; grandniece of David Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee and Zachary Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln.
      Political families: Lincoln-Lee family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham N. Haynie — William M. Stone — John Pitcher — Stephen Miller — John T. Stuart — William H. Seward — Henry L. Burnett — Judah P. Benjamin — Robert Toombs — Richard Taylor Jacob — George W. Jones — James Adams — John G. Nicolay — Edward Everett — Stephen T. Logan — Francis P. Blair — John Hay — Henry Reed Rathbone — James A. Ekin — Frederick W. Seward — John H. Surratt — John H. Surratt, Jr. — James Shields — Emily T. Helm — John A. Campbell — John Merryman — Barnes Compton
      Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are named for him.
      The city of Lincoln, Nebraska, is named for him.  — Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, is named for him.  — Lincoln University, in Jefferson City, Missouri, is named for him.  — Lincoln University, near Oxford, Pennsylvania, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Abraham L. KeisterAbraham L. TuckerAbraham L. BrickAbraham L. KelloggAbraham Lincoln BernsteinA. Lincoln ReileyA. L. HelmickAbraham L. SuttonA. Lincoln AckerAbraham L. OsgoodAbraham L. WitmerAbraham L. PhillipsAbraham L. PaytonA. L. AuthA. Lincoln MooreA. Lincoln NiditchAbraham L. RubensteinAbraham L. Davis, Jr.Abraham L. FreedmanA. L. MarovitzLincoln GordonAbraham L. BannerAbraham Lincoln Tosti
      Coins and currency: His portrait has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $1 to $500.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Abraham Lincoln: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln — George Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends — Edward Steers, Jr., Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — Mario Cuomo, Why Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln President — Michael Lind, What Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking at Lincoln (for young readers)
      Critical books about Abraham Lincoln: Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
      Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore Vidal, Lincoln: A Novel
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)


    Lafayette Park
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Andrew Jackson 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; statue erected 1856 at Jackson Square, New Orleans, La.
      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. DonelsonAndrew Jackson MillerAndrew J. FaulkAndrew Jackson TitusAndrew Jackson IsacksAndrew Jackson HamiltonAndrew J. HarlanAndrew J. KuykendallAndrew J. ThayerElam A. J. GreeleyAndrew Jackson IngleAndrew J. OgleAndrew Jackson CarrAndrew J. WatermanAndrew J. BentleyAndrew J. RogersWilliam A. J. SparksAndrew Jackson PoppletonAndrew J. HunterAndrew Jackson BryantAndrew J. BealeA. J. ClementsAndrew Jackson BakerAndrew J. FeltA. J. KingAndrew J. SawyerAndrew Jackson GreenfieldAndrew Jackson CaldwellAndrew Jackson GahaganAndrew Jackson BishipAndrew Jackson HoustonAndrew Jackson SpeerAndrew J. CobbAndrew J. MontagueAndrew J. BarchfeldAndrew J. BallietAndrew J. KirkAndrew J. LivingstonA. J. SherwoodAndrew Jackson StewartAndrew J. MayAndrew J. McConnicoAndrew J. SawyerAndrew J. BrewerAndrew J. Dunning, Jr.Andrew BettwyAndrew J. TransueAndrew Jackson GravesAndrew Jackson GilbertAndrew J. GoodwinAndrew J. HinshawAndy YoungAndrew Jackson Kupper
      Coins and currency: His portrait 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.
      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)


    Meridian Hill Park
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    James Buchanan James Buchanan (1791-1868) — also known as "The Sage of Wheatland"; "Buck"; "Old Buck" — of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa. Born in a log cabin near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pa., April 23, 1791. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1814; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1821-31 (3rd District 1821-23, 4th District 1823-31); U.S. Minister to Russia, 1832-33; Great Britain, 1853-56; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1834-45; resigned 1845; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844, 1848, 1852; U.S. Secretary of State, 1845-49; President of the United States, 1857-61. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died near Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa., June 1, 1868 (age 77 years, 39 days). Interment at Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; memorial monument at Meridian Hill Park.
      Relatives: Son of James Buchanan (c.1761-1821) and Elizabeth (Speer) Buchanan.
      Cross-reference: David Fullerton Robison — John A. Quitman — John Gallagher Montgomery
      Buchanan counties in Iowa, Mo. and Va. are named for him.
      The city of Buchanan, Michigan, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James Buchanan (built 1942 at Terminal Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: James B. DukeJames B. CullisonJames B. HollandJames Buchanan SigginsJ. B. MarcumJames B. Searcy
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about James Buchanan: Philip S. Klein, President James Buchanan: A Biography — Jean H. Baker, James Buchanan — R. G. Horton, The Life And Public Services Of James Buchanan: Late Minister To England And Formerly Minister To Russia, Senator And Representative In Congress, And Sec. Of State
      Critical books about James Buchanan: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)


    Mt. Olivet Cemetery
    1300 Blandensburg Road N.E.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Joseph McKenna (1843-1926) — of Suisun City, Solano County, Calif. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., August 10, 1843. Republican. Member of California state assembly 19th District, 1875-77; U.S. Representative from California 3rd District, 1885-92; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 9th Circuit, 1892-97; resigned 1897; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1892-97; resigned 1897; U.S. Attorney General, 1897-98; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1898-1925; retired 1925. Catholic. Died in Washington, D.C., November 21, 1926 (age 83 years, 103 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
      Robert John Wynne (1851-1922) — also known as Robert J. Wynne — Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., November 18, 1851. Telegrapher; journalist; U.S. Postmaster General, 1904-05; U.S. Consul General in London, 1905-10; insurance executive. Catholic. Member, Loyal Legion. Died in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1922 (age 70 years, 113 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Mary Ellen McCabe.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Henry Carter (1854-1911) — also known as Thomas H. Carter — of Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Mont. Born near Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, October 30, 1854. Republican. Delegate to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1889; U.S. Representative from Montana at-large, 1889-91; defeated, 1890; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1892-96; U.S. Senator from Montana, 1895-1901, 1905-11; delegate to Republican National Convention from Montana, 1896 (speaker), 1900, 1904. Died in Washington, D.C., September 17, 1911 (age 56 years, 322 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Ellen L. Galen.
      Carter County, Mont. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      William Matthew Merrick (1818-1889) — Born near Faulkner, Charles County, Md., September 1, 1818. Democrat. Judge of Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, 1855-63; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1870; U.S. Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1871-73; Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1885-89; died in office 1889. Died in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1889 (age 70 years, 156 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Duhurst Merrick.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
    George Whitefield Davis George Whitefield Davis (1839-1918) — also known as George W. Davis — Born in Thompson, Windham County, Conn., July 26, 1839. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of Puerto Rico. Died in Washington, D.C., July 12, 1918 (age 78 years, 351 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George D. Davis.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Library of Congress
      William Russell Smith (1815-1896) — also known as William R. Smith — of Fayette Court House (now Fayette), Fayette County, Ala. Born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., March 27, 1815. Mayor of Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1839; member of Alabama state legislature, 1841-42; state court judge in Alabama, 1850; U.S. Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1851-57; delegate to Alabama secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 2nd District, 1862-65; candidate for Governor of Alabama, 1865. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 26, 1896 (age 80 years, 336 days). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Franklin Sands (1874-1946) — also known as William F. Sands — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., July 29, 1874. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Seoul, as of 1898; U.S. Minister to Guatemala, 1909-10. Catholic. Member, Loyal Legion; American Society for International Law. Died in 1946 (age about 71 years). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Hoban Sands and Mary Elizabeth (Meade) Sands; married 1909 to Edith Gertrude Keating.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      Timothy Thomas Ansberry (1871-1943) — also known as Timothy T. Ansberry — of Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio; Washington, D.C. Born in Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio, December 24, 1871. Democrat. Lawyer; Defiance County Prosecuting Attorney, 1895-1903; U.S. Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1907-15; defeated, 1904; Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals, 1915-16; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1924 (alternate), 1928; law partner of Joseph E. Davies. Catholic. Member, Knights of Columbus; Ancient Order of Hibernians. Died following a gall bladder operation complicated by heart disease, in Doctors Hospital, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., July 5, 1943 (age 71 years, 193 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edmond Ansberry and Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Ansberry; married, December 26, 1898, to Nellie Kettenring.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Charles Alexander Korbly (1871-1937) — also known as Charles A. Korbly — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind. Born in Madison, Jefferson County, Ind., March 24, 1871. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1909-15. Died July 26, 1937 (age 66 years, 124 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Joseph Aloysius Conry (1868-1943) — also known as Joseph A. Conry — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., September 12, 1868. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1901-03; defeated (Gold Democratic), 1902. Died June 22, 1943 (age 74 years, 283 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Ralph Hunter Daughton (1885-1958) — of Norfolk, Va. Born in Washington, D.C., September 23, 1885. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1933-44; U.S. Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1944-47. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Elks; Knights of Pythias; Lions. Died in Norfolk, Va., December 22, 1958 (age 73 years, 90 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Susan Taggart.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Michael Walsh Cluskey (1832-1873) — of Tennessee. Born in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., 1832. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., January 13, 1873 (age about 40 years). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Jerris G. Leonard (1931-2006) — also known as Jerris Leonard — of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis.; Washington, D.C.; Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., January 17, 1931. Republican. Lawyer; member of Wisconsin state assembly from Milwaukee County 19th District, 1957-60; member of Wisconsin state senate 4th District, 1961-68; candidate for U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1968; administrator, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, 1971; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from District of Columbia, 1984. Member, American Bar Association. Died in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2006 (age 75 years, 191 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jerris G. Leonard and Marie (Reville) Leonard; married, August 22, 1953, to Mariellen C. Mathie.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Samuel W. Taylor (1833-1892) — of Washington, D.C.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Washington, D.C., February 11, 1833. Merchant; Prominent in Washington local politics. Died, from apoplexy, in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 31, 1892 (age 59 years, 171 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      William Duhurst Merrick (1793-1857) — also known as William D. Merrick — of Allens Fresh, Charles County, Md. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., October 25, 1793. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1832-37, 1856-57; died in office 1857; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1838-45; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 5, 1857 (age 63 years, 103 days). Original interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery; reinterment at St. Mary's Church Cemetery, Newport, Md.
      Relatives: Father of William Matthew Merrick.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


    National Mall
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    George Washington George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President of the United States, 1789-97. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Society of the Cincinnati; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Fairfax County, Va., December 14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National Mall; statue erected 1860 at Washington Circle; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
      Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January 6, 1759, to Martha Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell Bassett); step-father of John Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles Magill Conrad; granduncle of John Thornton Augustine Washington and George Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Howell Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand Sutherland Ross and David Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker Peyton Conway, Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas Henry Ball Jr., William de Bruyn=Kops, Horace Lee Washington, Edwin McPherson Holden, Claude C. Ball, Arthur Wesley Holden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden.
      Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; King family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Henry Lee — Joshua Fry — Alexander Dimitry — Tobias Lear — David Mathews — Rufus Putnam
      Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are named for him.
      The city of Washington, D.C., is named for him.  — The state of Washington is named for him.  — Mount Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: George Washington Lent MarrGeorge Washington HeardGeorge Washington BarnettGeorge Washington DavisGeorge W. OwenGeorge W. TolandGeorge W. LayGeorge W. PattersonGeorge W. B. TownsGeorge Washington AdamsGeorge Washington HockleyGeorge W. SmythG. W. IngersollGeorge W. HopkinsGeorge Washington MontgomeryJoseph George Washington DuncanGeorge W. KittredgeGeorge W. JonesGeorge W. HarrisonGeorge Washington EwingGeorge Washington SeabrookGeorge W. MorrisonGeorge Washington WoodwardGeorge Washington WrightGeorge Washington TriplettGeorge Washington GlasscockGeorge W. SchuylerGeorge Washington HolmanGeorge W. GreeneGeorge W. WolcottGeorge W. PaschalGeorge Washington DunlapGeorge Washington WarrenGeorge Washington HillGeorge Washington LoganGeorge W. GetchellGeorge W. WrightGeorge W. JulianGeorge Washington DyalGeorge W. LaddGeorge W. PeckGeorge Washington NesmithGeorge W. MorganGeorge Washington BrooksGeorge Washington CowlesGeorge W. GeddesGeorge Washington WhitmoreGeorge Washington BridgesGeorge W. CateGeorge W. HoukGeorge W. WebberGeorge W. BemisGeorge Washington FairbrotherGeorge Washington GlickGeorge W. JonesGeorge W. BakerGeorge W. ShellGeorge W. AndersonGeorge W. CrouseGeorge W. HulickGeorge W. AllenGeorge W. F. HarperGeorge Washington ClarkGeorge Washington McCraryGeorge W. GordonGeorge W. KingsburyGeorge W. CovingtonGeorge Washington FleegerGeorge W. SteeleGeorge W. WilsonGeorge W. MartinGeorge W. E. DorseyGeorge W. PlunkittGeorge W. FurbushGeorge W. SuttonGeorge W. CurtinGeorge W. RayGeorge W. RooseveltGeorge W. SmithGeorge W. KippGeorge W. CampbellGeorge W. TaylorGeorge W. StoneGeorge W. BartchGeorge W. ShonkGeorge W. PaulGeorge W. CookGeorge W. MurrayGeorge W. FarisGeorge W. FithianGeorge W. PrinceGeorge W. BucknerGeorge W. CromerGeorge W. DonagheyGeorge W. AldridgeGeorge Washington WagonerGeorge Washington GoethalsGeorge W. ArmstrongGeorge W. LovejoyGeorge W. OakesGeorge W. HaysGeorge W. EdmondsGeorge W. LindsayGeorge Washington JonesT. G. W. TarverGeorge W. DardenGeorge Washington JonesGeorge W. MeadGeorge W. GibbonsGeorge W. ListGeorge W. CalkinGeorge W. RauchGeorge W. MichellGeorge Washington JacksonGeorge W. BlanchardGeorge Washington HerzGeorge W. BristowGeorge Washington HardyGeorge W. BallardGeorge W. McKownGeorge Thomas WashingtonGeorge W. CollinsGeorge A. Washington
      Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His portrait also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation — Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America — James MacGregor Burns, George Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton, The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care — Wendie C. Old, George Washington (for young readers)
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
    Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) — also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The Illinois Baboon" — of New Salem, Menard County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill. Born in a log cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue County), Ky., February 12, 1809. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster; lawyer; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S. Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856; candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1858; President of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this, redefined American nationhood. He was. English ancestry. Elected in 1900 to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Shot by the assassin John Wilkes Booth, during a play at Ford's Theater, in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding House, across the street, the following day, April 15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62 days). Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National Mall; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary Park.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November 4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha Dee Todd; grandniece of David Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee and Zachary Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln.
      Political families: Lincoln-Lee family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham N. Haynie — William M. Stone — John Pitcher — Stephen Miller — John T. Stuart — William H. Seward — Henry L. Burnett — Judah P. Benjamin — Robert Toombs — Richard Taylor Jacob — George W. Jones — James Adams — John G. Nicolay — Edward Everett — Stephen T. Logan — Francis P. Blair — John Hay — Henry Reed Rathbone — James A. Ekin — Frederick W. Seward — John H. Surratt — John H. Surratt, Jr. — James Shields — Emily T. Helm — John A. Campbell — John Merryman — Barnes Compton
      Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are named for him.
      The city of Lincoln, Nebraska, is named for him.  — Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, is named for him.  — Lincoln University, in Jefferson City, Missouri, is named for him.  — Lincoln University, near Oxford, Pennsylvania, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Abraham L. KeisterAbraham L. TuckerAbraham L. BrickAbraham L. KelloggAbraham Lincoln BernsteinA. Lincoln ReileyA. L. HelmickAbraham L. SuttonA. Lincoln AckerAbraham L. OsgoodAbraham L. WitmerAbraham L. PhillipsAbraham L. PaytonA. L. AuthA. Lincoln MooreA. Lincoln NiditchAbraham L. RubensteinAbraham L. Davis, Jr.Abraham L. FreedmanA. L. MarovitzLincoln GordonAbraham L. BannerAbraham Lincoln Tosti
      Coins and currency: His portrait has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $1 to $500.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Abraham Lincoln: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln — George Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends — Edward Steers, Jr., Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — Mario Cuomo, Why Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln President — Michael Lind, What Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking at Lincoln (for young readers)
      Critical books about Abraham Lincoln: Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
      Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore Vidal, Lincoln: A Novel
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)


    Oak Hill Cemetery
    3001 R Street N.W. (at 29th Street)
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Founded 1848
    See also Findagrave page for this location.

    Politicians buried here:
      Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) — also known as Edwin M. Stanton; "The Great Energy" — Born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 19, 1814. U.S. Attorney General, 1860-61; U.S. Secretary of War, 1862-68. Quaker. Died in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1869 (age 55 years, 5 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Grandfather of Cora Van Voorhis Stanton (who married Ernest Lee Jahncke).
      Political family: Jahncke-Stanton family of New Orleans, Louisiana.
      Cross-reference: Daniel E. Sickles
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the $1 U.S. Treasury note in the 1880s and 1890s.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Edwin M. Stanton: Amy Allison, Edwin Stanton, Union War Secretary — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
      Edward Douglass White (1845-1921) — of Louisiana. Born near Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La., November 3, 1845. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Louisiana state senate, 1874; justice of Louisiana state supreme court, 1879-80; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1891-94; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1894-1910; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1910-21; died in office 1921. Catholic. Died, following unspecified surgery, at Garfield Hospital, Washington, D.C., May 19, 1921 (age 75 years, 197 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edward Douglass White (1795-1847); grandson of James White.
      Political family: White family of Louisiana.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about Edward Douglass White: Robert Baker Highsaw, Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith
      Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) — of Virginia. Born in Northampton County, Va., June 17, 1790. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in Virginia, 1826-41; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S. Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844. Episcopalian. Among those killed in the explosion when a cannon accidentally burst on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Md., February 28, 1844 (age 53 years, 256 days). Originally entombed at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1874 at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Littleton Upshur; married to Elizabeth Ann Upshur.
      Upshur counties in Tex. and W.Va. are named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Abel Parker Upshur (built 1942 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Robert John Walker (1801-1869) — also known as Robert J. Walker — of Madisonville, Madison County, Miss.; Washington, D.C. Born in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa., July 19, 1801. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1835-45; resigned 1845; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1845-49; Governor of Kansas Territory, 1857; newspaper publisher. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., November 11, 1869 (age 68 years, 115 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jonathan Hoge Walker and Lucretia (Duncan) Walker; married, April 4, 1825, to Mary Blechenden Bache (daughter of Richard Bache Jr.; brother of Alexander Dallas Bache; niece of George Mifflin Dallas; granddaughter of Richard Bache and Alexander James Dallas; great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin); father of Mary Walker (who married Benjamin Harris Brewster); second great-grandfather of Daniel Baugh Brewster.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Bache-Dallas family of Pennsylvania and New York; Claiborne-Dallas family of Virginia and Louisiana (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Walker County, Tex. is named for him.
      The community of Walker, Kansas (founded 1872), is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
    John H. Eaton John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) — also known as John H. Eaton — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. Born near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., June 18, 1790. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1815-16; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1818-21, 1821-29; U.S. Secretary of War, 1829-31; Governor of Florida Territory, 1834-36; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1836-40. Member, Freemasons. Resigned from Cabinet in 1831 during the scandal (called the "Petticoat Affair") over past infedelities of his second wife, Peggy Eaton. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., November 17, 1856 (age 66 years, 152 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Eaton County, Mich. is named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John H. Eaton (built 1942-43 at Houston, Texas; sold 1947, scrapped 1968) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary
      Image source: Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (1886)
    Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) — also known as Dean Acheson — of Washington, D.C. Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., April 11, 1893. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S. Secretary of State, 1949-53. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, American Bar Association; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Council on Foreign Relations. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department. Died, probably from a heart attack, over his desk in his study, Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Md., October 12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edward Campion Acheson and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson; married, May 5, 1917, to Alice Caroline Stanley; father of David Campion Acheson.
      Cross-reference: Lucius D. Battle — Francis E. Meloy, Jr.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books by Dean Acheson: Present at the Creation : My Years in the State Department (1969)
      Books about Dean Acheson: Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made — Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson : A Life in the Cold War
      Image source: Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2010
      William Adams Richardson (1821-1896) — of Massachusetts. Born in Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Mass., November 2, 1821. Republican. Probate judge in Massachusetts, 1856; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74; while Secretary of the Treasury, he hired John D. Sanborn to collect unpaid taxes and receive a commission, some of which went as a kickback to Richardson himself; this arrangement caused an uproar, and Richardson resigned under fire; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1874-96. Unitarian. Died in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1896 (age 74 years, 352 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) — also known as David K. E. Bruce — of Baltimore, Md.; Charlotte Court House, Charlotte County, Va.; Elkridge, Howard County, Md. Born in Baltimore, Md., February 12, 1898. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; farmer; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1924-26; U.S. Vice Consul in Rome, as of 1926; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1940-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1940; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1949-52; Germany, 1957-59; Great Britain, 1961-69; U.S. Liaison to China, 1973-74. Episcopalian. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976. Died, as a result of a heart attack, in Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1977 (age 79 years, 296 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Cabell Bruce and Louise Este (Fisher) Bruce; brother of James Bruce; married, May 29, 1926, to Ailsa Mellon (daughter of Andrew William Mellon); married, April 23, 1945, to Evangeline Bell; grandnephew of James Alexander Seddon; first cousin of Howard Bruce.
      Political family: Bruce-Mellon family of Virginia.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Peter Van Ness (1770-1846) — also known as John P. Van Ness — of New York; Washington, D.C. Born in Claverly (now Ghent), Columbia County, N.Y., 1770. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 6th District, 1801-03; mayor of Washington, D.C., 1830-34. Dutch ancestry. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., March 7, 1846 (age about 75 years). Entombed in mausoleum at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of William Peter Van Ness and Cornelius Peter Van Ness.
      Political family: VanNess family of New York City, New York.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Henry Hunt (1823-1884) — also known as William H. Hunt — of Louisiana. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., June 12, 1823. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Louisiana state attorney general, 1876; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1878-81; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1881-82; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1882-84, died in office 1884. Died in St. Petersburg, Russia, February 27, 1884 (age 60 years, 260 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of William Henry Hunt Jr..
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary
      James Noble Tyner (1826-1904) — of Indiana. Born in Brookville, Franklin County, Ind., January 17, 1826. Republican. U.S. Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1869-75; U.S. Postmaster General, 1876-77. Died in Washington, D.C., December 5, 1904 (age 78 years, 323 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Barton Payne (1855-1935) — of Kingwood, Preston County, W.Va.; Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Washington, D.C. Born in Pruntytown, Taylor County, Va. (now W.Va.), January 26, 1855. Democrat. Lawyer; chair of Preston County Democratic Party, 1877-82; superior court judge in Illinois, 1893-98; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1919-20; resigned 1920; chair, U.S. Shipping Board, 1919-20; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1920-21. Methodist. Member, American Bar Association. Died January 24, 1935 (age 79 years, 363 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Dr. Amos Payne and Elizabeth (Barton) Payne; married, October 17, 1878, to Kate Bunker; married, May 1, 1913, to Jennie Byrd Bryan.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John Barton Payne (built 1943 at Panama City, Florida; scrapped 1972) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
    Cornelius P. Van_Ness Cornelius Peter Van Ness (1782-1852) — also known as Cornelius P. Van Ness — of Burlington, Chittenden County, Vt.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., January 26, 1782. Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster at Burlington, Vt., 1809-14; U.S. Attorney for Vermont, 1810-13; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1813; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1820-21; chief justice of Vermont Supreme Court, 1821-23; Governor of Vermont, 1823-26; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1829-36; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Vermont, 1840; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1844-45. Dutch ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., December 15, 1852 (age 70 years, 324 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of John Peter Van Ness and William Peter Van Ness; father of James Peter Van Ness.
      Political family: VanNess family of New York City, New York.
      Cross-reference: Daniel Kellogg
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Men of Vermont (1894)
      Hoffman Philip (1872-1951) — also known as Herman Hoffman Philip — of New York. Born in Washington, D.C., July 13, 1872. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Tangier, 1901-02; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Tangier, 1902-06; U.S. Consul General in Tangier, 1906-08; U.S. Minister to Abyssinia, 1908-10; Colombia, 1917-22; Uruguay, 1922-25; Persia, 1925-28; Norway, 1930-35; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1935-37. Died, in Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, Calif., October 31, 1951 (age 79 years, 110 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Henry Philip and Eliza Phillips (Worthington) Philip; married, November 7, 1925, to Josephine Roberts.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Arthur Pue Gorman Arthur Pue Gorman (1839-1906) — also known as Arthur P. Gorman — of Laurel, Prince George's County, Md. Born in Woodstock, Howard County, Md., March 11, 1839. Democrat. U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Maryland, 1866-69; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1870-72; member of Maryland state senate, 1876-82; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1881-99, 1903-06; died in office 1906; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1884 (alternate), 1888 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker), 1904; member of Democratic National Committee from Maryland, 1888. Presbyterian. Died in Washington, D.C., June 4, 1906 (age 67 years, 85 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father-in-law of Richard A. Johnson; father of Arthur Pue Gorman Jr..
      Political family: Gorman-Norris family of Laurel, Maryland.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Munsey's Magazine, October 1903
    Francis G. Newlands Francis Griffith Newlands (1848-1917) — also known as Francis G. Newlands — of San Francisco, Calif.; Reno, Washoe County, Nev. Born near Natchez, Adams County, Miss., August 28, 1848. Lawyer; trustee of the estate of U.S. Senator William Sharon, 1886; U.S. Representative from Nevada at-large, 1893-1903; U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1903-17; died in office 1917; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1904 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee), 1916. Died in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1917 (age 69 years, 118 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; memorial monument at Chevy Chase Circle.
      Relatives: Son of James Birney Newlands and Jessie (Barland) Newlands; married 1874 to Clara Adelaide Sharon (daughter of William Sharon); married 1888 to Edith McAllister.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, July 1902
      David Levy Yulee (1810-1886) — also known as David Levy; "Father of Florida's Railroads" — of St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Fla.; Homosassa, Citrus County, Fla. Born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, June 12, 1810. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from St. Johns County, 1838-39; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1841-45; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1845-51, 1855-61; imprisoned as a Confederate at Fort Pulaski, Fla. for a time after the Civil War. Jewish. Slaveowner. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 10, 1886 (age 76 years, 120 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son-in-law of Charles Anderson Wickliffe.
      Political family: Wickliffe-Holt family of Bardstown, Kentucky.
      Levy County, Fla. is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
    William H. Hunt William Henry Hunt Jr. (1857-1949) — also known as William H. Hunt — of Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Mont. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., November 5, 1857. Republican. Delegate to Montana state constitutional convention, 1884; Montana territory attorney general, 1885-87; member of Montana territorial legislature, 1888-89; district judge in Montana 1st District, 1889-95; justice of Montana state supreme court, 1895-1900; resigned 1900; Puerto Rico secretary of state, 1900-01; Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901-04; U.S. District Judge for Montana, 1904-10; Associate Judge of U.S. Court of Customs Appeals, 1910-11; Judge of U.S. Commerce Court, 1911-13; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1913-28. Died in Charlottesville, Va., February 4, 1949 (age 91 years, 91 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Henry Hunt; married, August 31, 1882, to Gertrude Upshur.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1901
      John Rhoderic McPherson (1833-1897) — also known as John R. McPherson — of Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J. Born in York, Livingston County, N.Y., May 9, 1833. Democrat. Stockyard business; member of New Jersey state senate from Hudson County, 1872-74; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1877-95. Died, from heart trouble, in his room at Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., October 8, 1897 (age 64 years, 152 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John Jay Knox Jr. (1828-1892) — Born in Knoxboro, Oneida County, N.Y., March 19, 1828. Banker; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1872-84. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 9, 1892 (age 63 years, 327 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: John Jay
      Relatives: Son of John J. Knox and Sarah Ann (Curtis) Knox; married to Caroline Elizabeth Todd.
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $100 National Bank Notes in 1902.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Comptrollers of the Currency
      Wilkinson Call (1834-1910) — of Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla. Born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January 9, 1834. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1868; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1879-97; member of Democratic National Committee from Florida, 1879-80. Slaveowner. Died August 24, 1910 (age 76 years, 227 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Nephew of Richard Keith Call; cousin *** of James David Walker.
      Political family: Call family of Tallahassee, Florida (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Gale William McGee (1915-1992) — also known as Gale W. McGee — of Laramie, Albany County, Wyo. Born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Neb., March 17, 1915. Democrat. U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1959-77; defeated, 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wyoming, 1976. Died, of pneumonia, following surgery for a brain aneurysm, in Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., April 9, 1992 (age 77 years, 23 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
      James Blackwood Pearson (1920-2009) — also known as James B. Pearson — of Shawnee Mission, Johnson County, Kan.; Prairie Village, Johnson County, Kan. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., May 7, 1920. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; probate judge in Kansas, 1954-56; member of Kansas state senate 10th District, 1956-60; Kansas Republican state chair, 1960; U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1962-78; resigned 1978. Died in Gloucester, Essex County, Mass., January 13, 2009 (age 88 years, 251 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John William Pearson and Lillian (Blackwood) Pearson; married to Martha Mitchell; married 1980 to Margaret Lynch.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903-1995) — also known as Philip W. Bonsal — of Washington, D.C. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 22, 1903. Executive in overseas telephone companies; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1938; U.S. Consul in Madrid, as of 1947; Barcelona, as of 1947; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1955-57; Bolivia, 1957-59; Cuba, 1959-60; Morocco, 1961-62. Died, while ill with pneumonia, in Washington, D.C., June 28, 1995 (age 92 years, 37 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Stephen Bonsal and Henrietta (Morris) Bonsal; married, April 10, 1929, to Margaret Lockett; first cousin of Francis White.
      Political family: Bache-Dallas family of Pennsylvania and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books by Philip W. Bonsal: Cuba, Castro, and the United States (1971)
      Samuel Sprigg (c.1783-1855) — of Maryland. Born in Washington County, Md., about 1783. Governor of Maryland, 1819-22; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850. Episcopalian. Died in Prince George's County, Md., April 21, 1855 (age about 72 years). Original interment at St. Barnabas Church Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.; reinterment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joseph Sprigg; married to Violetta Lansdale.
      See also National Governors Association biography
      John Pool (1826-1884) — of North Carolina. Born in North Carolina, 1826. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1860; U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 1868-73. Slaveowner. Died in 1884 (age about 58 years). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Uncle of Walter Freshwater Pool.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Benjamin Franklin Rice (1828-1905) — of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark. Born in New York, 1828. Republican. Member of Arkansas state legislature, 1860; delegate to Republican National Convention from Arkansas, 1868; member of Republican National Committee from Arkansas, 1868-72; U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1868-73. Died in 1905 (age about 77 years). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: Benjamin Franklin
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      George Radcliffe Colton (1865-1916) — of Nebraska. Born in Galesburg, Knox County, Ill., April 10, 1865. Member of Nebraska state house of representatives, 1889-90; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of Puerto Rico, 1909-13. Died in Washington, D.C., April 6, 1916 (age 50 years, 362 days). Entombed at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Francis Colton.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Uriah Forrest (1756-1805) — of Maryland. Born near Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Md., 1756. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, and lost a leg; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1781-83, 1786-90; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1786-87; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1793-94; member of Maryland state senate, 1796-1800; state court judge in Maryland, 1799-1800. Episcopalian. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., July 6, 1805 (age about 49 years). Original interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery (which no longer exists); reinterment in 1883 at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, October 11, 1789, to Rebecca Plater (daughter of George Plater).
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Henry David Cooke (1825-1881) — also known as Henry D. Cooke — of Washington, D.C. Born in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, November 23, 1825. Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; banker; Governor of the District of Columbia, 1871-73; member of Republican National Committee from District of Columbia, 1872-. Died, from Bright's disease, in Washington, D.C. February 24, 1881 (age 55 years, 93 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Eleutheros Cooke; brother of Jay Cooke (1821-1905; Civil War financier); great-granduncle of Jay Cooke (1897-1963).
      Political family: Cooke family of Ohio and Pennsylvania (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article
      John Hill Wheeler (1806-1882) — also known as John H. Wheeler — of Lincoln County, N.C. Born in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, N.C., August 2, 1806. Lawyer; historian; planter; member of North Carolina house of commons, 1828-31, 1852-53 (Hertford County 1828-31, Lincoln County 1852-53); superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Charlotte, N.C., 1837-41; North Carolina state treasurer, 1843-45; U.S. Minister to Nicaragua, 1854-56. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., December 7, 1882 (age 76 years, 127 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Wheeler and Elizabeth Maria (Jordan) Wheeler; married, April 19, 1830, to Mary Elizabeth Brown; married, November 8, 1838, to Ellen Oldmixon Sully.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Noah Haynes Swayne (1804-1884) — also known as Noah H. Swayne — of Franklin County, Ohio. Born in Frederick County, Va., December 7, 1804. Republican. Member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1830; U.S. Attorney for Ohio, 1830-39; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1856 (Convention Vice-President); Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-81; retired 1881. Quaker. Member, Freemasons. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 8, 1884 (age 79 years, 184 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also federal judicial profile — NNDB dossier — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
      Clarence A. Boonstra (1914-2006) — of Michigan; Gainesville, Alachua County, Fla. Born in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Mich., January 5, 1914. Economist; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1967-69; U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, 1970-74. Died, from pneumonia, in Gainesville, Alachua County, Fla., March 20, 2006 (age 92 years, 74 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Boonstra and Jennie (Brouwer) Boonstra; married, October 27, 1944, to Mildred Sharp Fereira; married, August 13, 1966, to Margaret Ellen Beshore.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Jones (1790-1867) — of Washington, D.C. Born near Rockville, Montgomery County, Md., April 12, 1790. Democrat. Physician; postmaster at Washington, D.C., 1829-39, 1841-45, 1858-61. Episcopalian. Welsh ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., June 25, 1867 (age 77 years, 74 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Evan Jones and Mary (O'Neale) Jones; married, December 21, 1821, to Sarah L. Corcoran.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Samuel Hooper (1808-1875) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Marblehead, Essex County, Mass., February 3, 1808. Republican. Importing business; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1851-53; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1858; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1861-75 (5th District 1861-63, 4th District 1863-75); died in office 1875. Died in Washington, D.C., February 14, 1875 (age 67 years, 11 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      The city of Hooper, Nebraska, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      George Washington Roosevelt (1844-1907) — also known as George W. Roosevelt — of Pennsylvania. Born in Chester, Delaware County, Pa., February 14, 1844. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consular Agent in Sydney, as of 1877; U.S. Consul in Auckland, 1877-79; St. Helena, 1879-80; Matanzas, 1880-81; Bordeaux, 1881-89; Brussels, 1889-1905; while attending a balloon ascension at the Place Guincane, Bordeaux, July 16, 1884, he was shot and wounded by a French soldier; U.S. Consul General in Brussels, as of 1906. Received the Medal of Honor in 1887 for action at Bull Run, Va., August 30, 1862, and at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; severely wounded and lost a leg. Died in Brussels, Belgium, April 14, 1907 (age 63 years, 59 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: George Washington
      Relatives: Son of Solomon Roosevelt and Elizabeth (Morris) Roosevelt; great-grandson of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Philip DePeyster and James I. Roosevelt; fourth cousin once removed of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt.
      Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
    Alexander Burton Hagner Alexander Burton Hagner (1826-1915) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., July 13, 1826. Lawyer; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1854; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1859 (American), 1874 (Republican); candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1879-1903; retired 1903. Episcopalian. Member, American Historical Association; Sons of the American Revolution. Died in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1915 (age 88 years, 352 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Peter Hagner and Frances (Randall) Hagner; married 1854 to Louisa Harrison; grandson of John Randall.
      See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
      Image source: Men of Mark in America (1906)
      George Horton (1859-1942) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Washington, D.C. Born in Fairville, Wayne County, N.Y., October 11, 1859. U.S. Consul in Athens, 1893-98, 1905-06; Salonika, 1910-11; literary editor, Chicago Times-Herald newspaper, 1899-1901; editor, literary supplement, Chicago American newspaper, 1901-03; U.S. Consul General in Athens, 1906-10; Smyrna, 1911-17, 1919-22; Budapest, 1923-24. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., June 5, 1942 (age 82 years, 237 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Peter Davis Horton and Mary Sophia (Aiken) Horton; married, February 4, 1909, to Catherine Sacopoulo.
      Epitaph: "Author - Poet - Humanitarian."
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Richard Cutts (1771-1845) — of Pepperell, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Saco, York County, Maine, June 28, 1771. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1790; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05, 14th District 1805-13); imprisoned for debt, 1828. Died in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1845 (age 73 years, 283 days). Original interment at St. John's Church Cemetery; reinterment in 1857 at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, March 31, 1804, to Anna Payne (sister-in-law of James Madison and John George Jackson).
      Political families: Jackson-Lee family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Corbin Washington (1789-1854) — also known as George C. Washington — of Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. Born near Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Va., August 20, 1789. Member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1816-19; U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1827-33, 1835-37 (3rd District 1827-33, 5th District 1835-37); member of Maryland state executive council, 1834-35. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., July 17, 1854 (age 64 years, 331 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Grandnephew of George Washington.
      Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Roosevelt family of New York; Jackson-Lee family; Lee-Randolph family; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Clay family of Kentucky; DeBruyn-Washington family of Savannah, Georgia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Joseph Casey (1814-1879) — of New Berlin, Union County, Pa. Born in Ringgold Manor, Washington County, Md., December 17, 1814. Whig. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1849-51; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1861-70. Died February 10, 1879 (age 64 years, 55 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 5, 1818. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1853-59; died in office 1859. Shot and killed by Daniel E. Sickles, in retaliation for Key's affair with his wife Teresa, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., February 27, 1859 (age 40 years, 328 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; cenotaph at Westminster Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
      Relatives: Son of Francis Scott Key and Mary Tayloe (Lloyd) Key; brother of Mary Alicia 'Alice' Key (who married George Hunt Pendleton); married, November 18, 1845, to Ellen Swan; nephew of Edward Lloyd (1779-1834) and Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (who married Roger Brooke Taney); uncle of Francis Key Pendleton; grandson of Edward Lloyd (1744-1796); grandnephew of Philip Barton Key (1757-1815); first cousin once removed of Henry Lloyd; first cousin twice removed of Philip Key; first cousin thrice removed of Matthew Tilghman; second cousin twice removed of Charles Carroll, Barrister, James Joseph Tilghman, William Tilghman and William Welby Beverley; third cousin once removed of Frisby Tilghman; fourth cousin of Tench Tilghman and Edward Tilghman Paca; fourth cousin once removed of Vinson Martlow Whitley.
      Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Peter (1779-1861) — of Darnestown, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Washington, D.C., September 28, 1779. Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1816-19, 1825-27; member of Maryland state house of delegates from Montgomery County, 1819, 1823. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died near Darnestown, Montgomery County, Md., June 22, 1861 (age 81 years, 267 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of George Peter (1823-1893); grandfather of Arthur Peter.
      Political family: Peter family of Maryland.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas James Duncan Fuller (1808-1876) — also known as Thomas J. D. Fuller — of Calais, Washington County, Maine. Born in Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vt., March 17, 1808. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Maine, 1849-57 (7th District 1849-53, 6th District 1853-57). Died near Upperville, Fauquier County, Va., February 13, 1876 (age 67 years, 333 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Philip Barton Key (1757-1815) — of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md.; Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. Born near Charlestown, Cecil County, Md., April 12, 1757. Lawyer; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1794-99; circuit judge in Maryland, 1804; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1807-13. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., July 28, 1815 (age 58 years, 107 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard; reinterment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Anne Arnold (Ross) Key and Francis Key; married, July 4, 1790, to Ann Plater (daughter of George Plater; sister of Thomas Plater); uncle of Francis Scott Key and Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (who married Roger Brooke Taney); granduncle of Philip Barton Key (1818-1859); great-granduncle of Francis Key Pendleton; first cousin of Philip Key; second cousin thrice removed of Vinson Martlow Whitley.
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      George Emrick Harris (1827-1911) — of Mississippi. Born in Orange County, N.C., January 6, 1827. Republican. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1870-73; Mississippi state attorney general, 1873-77; Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, 1877-79. Died in Washington, D.C., March 19, 1911 (age 84 years, 72 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John James Hemphill (1849-1912) — also known as John J. Hemphill — of Chester, Chester County, S.C. Born in Chester, Chester County, S.C., August 25, 1849. Democrat. Member of South Carolina state house of representatives from Chester County, 1877-78; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 5th District, 1883-93. Died May 11, 1912 (age 62 years, 260 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Nephew of John Hemphill; granduncle of Robert Witherspoon Hemphill; cousin *** of William Hiram Brawley.
      Political family: Hemphill family of Chester, South Carolina.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Hestor Lockhart Stevens (1803-1864) — also known as Hestor L. Stevens — of Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich. Born in Lima, Livingston County, N.Y., October 1, 1803. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Michigan 4th District, 1853-55. Died in Washington, D.C., May 7, 1864 (age 60 years, 219 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Ebon Clarke Ingersoll (1831-1879) — also known as Ebon C. Ingersoll; Clark Ingersoll — of Peoria, Peoria County, Ill. Born in Marshall, Oneida County, N.Y., December 12, 1831. Republican. Lawyer; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1857; U.S. Representative from Illinois 5th District, 1864-71; defeated, 1862. Died in Washington, D.C., May 31, 1879 (age 47 years, 170 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Ingersoll and Mary (Livingston) Ingersoll; brother of Robert Green Ingersoll; married, November 27, 1857, to Mary Carter; father of John Carter Ingersoll; second cousin thrice removed of Jonathan Ingersoll and Jared Ingersoll; third cousin twice removed of Charles Jared Ingersoll, Joseph Reed Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll and Charles Anthony Ingersoll; fourth cousin once removed of Laman Ingersoll, Colin Macrae Ingersoll and Charles Roberts Ingersoll.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Herron Hopkins (1832-1904) — of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa. Born in Washington, Washington County, Pa., November 3, 1832. Democrat. Lawyer; banker; manufacturer; mining business; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 22nd District, 1875-77, 1883-85. Died in North Hatley, Quebec, June 17, 1904 (age 71 years, 227 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      George Eustis Jr. (1828-1872) — of Louisiana. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., September 28, 1828. U.S. Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1855-59. Died in Cannes, France, March 15, 1872 (age 43 years, 169 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of James Biddle Eustis.
      Political families: Emmet-Slidell family of New York City, New York; Bohlen-Eustis-Thayer family of Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Henry W. Barry (1840-1875) — of Mississippi. Born in Schoharie County, N.Y., 1840. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Mississippi state senate, 1868; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 3rd District, 1870-75. Died in Washington, D.C., June 7, 1875 (age about 34 years). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William McKee Dunn (1814-1887) — of Madison, Jefferson County, Ind. Born in Hanover, Jefferson County, Ind., December 12, 1814. Republican. Lawyer; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1848-49; delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1859-63; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Dunn Loring, Fairfax County, Va., July 24, 1887 (age 72 years, 224 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Williamson Dunn and Miriam (Wilson) Dunn; brother of Samuel Campbell Dunn and David Maxwell Dunn; married to Elizabeth Frances Lanier; nephew of David Hervey Maxwell, Edward Russell Maxwell and John Wilson.
      Political family: Wilson-Dunn family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Watkinson Douglass (1827-1909) — also known as John W. Douglass — of Erie, Erie County, Pa.; Washington, D.C. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 25, 1827. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 19th Pennsylvania District, 1862-69; U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1871-75; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1889-93; President of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1889-93. Died in Kent, Litchfield County, Conn., August 21, 1909 (age 81 years, 300 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Martha (Watkinson) Douglass and Joseph Mullen Douglass; married to Margaret Lyon.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Paul Heath (1777-1854) — also known as James P. Heath — of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md. Born in Delaware, December 21, 1777. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1833-35. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown (now part of Washington), D.C., June 12, 1854 (age 76 years, 173 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Jane Mann.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Peter Parker (1804-1888) — of Massachusetts. Born in Framingham, Middlesex County, Mass., June 18, 1804. Physician; minister; U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to China, 1855-57. Died in Washington, D.C., January 10, 1888 (age 83 years, 206 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Nathan Parker and Catherine (Murdock) Parker; married to Harriet Colby Webster.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Charles Pomeroy (1825-1891) — of Iowa. Born in Connecticut, 1825. Republican. U.S. Representative from Iowa 6th District, 1869-71. Died in 1891 (age about 66 years). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William Slosson Lincoln (1813-1893) — of New York. Born in Berkshire (now Newark Valley), Tioga County, N.Y., August 13, 1813. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 26th District, 1867-69. Died April 21, 1893 (age 79 years, 251 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      James Lawson Norris (1845-1910) — also known as James L. Norris — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., October 15, 1845. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1892, 1900, 1904 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee); member of Democratic National Committee from District of Columbia, 1892-96; Treasurer of Democratic National Committee, 1898-1900. Member, Phi Kappa Psi; Freemasons; Royal Arch Masons; Knights Templar. Died in Washington, D.C., March 5, 1910 (age 64 years, 141 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Edmund Norris and Eliza Tidings (Phillips) Norris; married 1867 to Annie Virginia Robinson; father of Grace James Norris (who married Arthur Pue Gorman Jr.).
      Political family: Gorman-Norris family of Laurel, Maryland.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. (1873-1919) — also known as Arthur P. Gorman, Jr. — of Laurel, Prince George's County, Md. Born in Howard County, Md., March 27, 1873. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maryland state senate, 1904-10; candidate for Governor of Maryland, 1911; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1912 (speaker). Presbyterian. Died, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., September 3, 1919 (age 46 years, 160 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Hannah (Donnegan) Gorman and Arthur Pue Gorman; married, November 27, 1900, to Grace James Norris (daughter of James Lawson Norris).
      Political family: Gorman-Norris family of Laurel, Maryland.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Return Jonathan Meigs III (1801-1891) — also known as Return J. Meigs III — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.; Washington, D.C. Born in Winchester, Clark County, Ky., April 14, 1801. Lawyer; U.S. Indian Agent to Creek and Cherokee Nations, 1834; U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1841-42; member of Tennessee state senate, 1850; clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, 1863-91. Died in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1891 (age 90 years, 188 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Meigs and Parthenia (Clendenin) Meigs; married, November 1, 1825, to Sarah Keys 'Sally' Love; nephew of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandson of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; grandnephew of Josiah Meigs; first cousin once removed of Henry Meigs; second cousin of Henry Meigs Jr. and John Forsyth Jr.; second cousin once removed of Martin Chittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Raymond Lee Beuhring; third cousin of Chittenden Lyon; fourth cousin of John Willard; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills and Roger Calvin Leete.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
    Henry Litchfield West Henry Litchfield West (1859-1940) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Factoryville, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., August 20, 1859. Democrat. Newspaper editor; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1902-10. Methodist; later Congregationalist. English ancestry. Died in West Haven, Dorchester County, Md., September 3, 1940 (age 81 years, 14 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Robert Athow West and Elizabeth (Cook) West; married, July 25, 1882, to Mary Hope White.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Men of Mark in America (1906)
      John Howard Payne (1791-1852) — also known as John H. Payne — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 9, 1791. Actor; playwright; author of the lines which were later adapted as the song "Home Sweet Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1970. Died in Tunis, Tunisia, April 10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306 days). Original interment at St. George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883 at Oak Hill Cemetery; memorial monument at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John Howard Payne (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1963) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Henry Philip (1824-1881) — also known as William H. Philip — of New York. Born September 6, 1824. Democrat. Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1870. Died May 7, 1881 (age 56 years, 243 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Henry G. Philip and Catherine Douw (Hoffman) Philip; married to Eliza Worthington; father of Hoffman Philip.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      John George Nicolay (1832-1901) — also known as John G. Nicolay; Johann Georg — Born in Essingen, Germany, February 26, 1832. Newspaper editor; private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65; U.S. Consul in Paris, as of 1865-69. Died in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1901 (age 69 years, 212 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John G. Nicolay (built 1943 at Richmond, California; sold 1947, scrapped 1967) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about John G. Nicolay: Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay
      William Washington Howes (1887-1962) — also known as W. W. Howes — of Wolsey, Beadle County, S.Dak.; Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak. Born in Tomah, Monroe County, Wis., February 16, 1887. Democrat. Lawyer; member of South Dakota state senate 22nd District, 1917-18; candidate for Governor of South Dakota, 1920; South Dakota Democratic state chair, 1923; member of Democratic National Committee from South Dakota, 1924-40; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Dakota, 1924 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business), 1940; First Assistant U.S. Postmaster General; resigned in protest in 1940 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term. Died in Washington, D.C., January 15, 1962 (age 74 years, 333 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      W. W. Howes Airport (now Huron Regional Airport), in Huron, South Dakota, was named for him.
      William Tyler Page (b. 1868) — of Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Frederick, Frederick County, Md., October 19, 1868. Republican. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1902; clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1919. Episcopalian. Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Walker Yates Page and Nannie (Tyler) Page; married 1895 to Mary Anna Weigandt; descendant *** of Carter Braxton; relative *** of John Tyler.
      Political families: Tyler family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Southard Parker Warner (1881-1914) — also known as Southard P. Warner — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., October 29, 1881. U.S. Consular Agent in Gera, 1904; U.S. Consul in Leipzig, 1904-09; Bahia, 1909-11; Harbin, 1912-14, died in office 1914. Died, from a self-inflicted gunshot, while in a hospital at Harbin, China, May 9, 1914 (age 32 years, 192 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Mary Jacob (Parker) Warner and Brainard Henry Warner; grandson of Andrew Parker.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      David Maxwell Dunn (1818-1889) — of Indiana. Born in Jefferson County, Ind., November 28, 1818. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1855; director, Logansport and Pacific Railroad; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; trustee, Wabash and Erie Canal, 1865-67; U.S. Consul in Charlottetown, 1871-83; Valparaiso, 1883. Died in Washington, D.C., August 20, 1889 (age 70 years, 265 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Williamson Dunn and Miriam (Wilson) Dunn; brother of Samuel Campbell Dunn and William McKee Dunn; married to Ellen M. Purviance; nephew of David Hervey Maxwell, Edward Russell Maxwell and John Wilson.
      Political family: Wilson-Dunn family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
    William Coppinger William Coppinger (1828-1892) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Washington, D.C. Born in England, 1828. Secretary, American Colonization Society (advocating Black American emigration to Liberia, Africa); Consul-General for Liberia in Washington, D.C., 1874-92. Died in Washington, D.C., February, 1892 (age about 63 years). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis), October 1, 1884
      George Washington Montgomery (1804-1841) — Born in Spain, 1804. U.S. Consul in San Juan, 1835-38; Tampico, 1840-41. Died in Washington, D.C., June 5, 1841 (age about 36 years). Entombed at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: George Washington
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Edward Young (1811-1909) — Born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, December 11, 1811. U.S. Consul in Windsor, as of 1889-97. Died in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1909 (age 97 years, 119 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Augusta Maria Bishop.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Dulany Hunter (1866-1923) — also known as William D. Hunter — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., August 29, 1866. U.S. Deputy Consul General in Cairo, as of 1898-99; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Cairo, as of 1902; U.S. Consul in Nice, as of 1914-20. Died in Washington, D.C., December 11, 1923 (age 57 years, 104 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Chapman Hunter and Emma (Biscoe) Hunter; married to Alice Baltazzi.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Carter Ingersoll (1860-1903) — also known as John C. Ingersoll — of Washington, D.C. Born in Peoria, Peoria County, Ill., March 20, 1860. U.S. Consul in Copenhagen, as of 1898-99; Cartagena, as of 1902. Died in Colón, Colombia (now Panama), June 6, 1903 (age 43 years, 78 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Ebon Clarke Ingersoll and Mary (Carter) Ingersoll; married, November 16, 1884, to Lalla Burrows; nephew of Robert Green Ingersoll; second cousin four times removed of Jonathan Ingersoll and Jared Ingersoll; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Jared Ingersoll, Joseph Reed Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll and Charles Anthony Ingersoll.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Francis Colton (1834-1913) — Born in Maine, May 22, 1834. U.S. Consul in Venice, 1870. Died in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1913 (age 78 years, 291 days). Entombed at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of George Radcliffe Colton.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Hosea Jefferson Dean (1806-1855) — also known as H. J. Dean — of Spartanburg, Spartanburg District (now Spartanburg County), S.C. Born in Spartanburg District (now Spartanburg County), S.C., July 11, 1806. Lawyer; Spartanburg District Commissioner in Equity, 1832-44; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1850-52; Clerk, South Carolina House of Representatives, 1853. Baptist. Died, of heart disease, in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, Va (now W.Va.), August 3, 1855 (age 49 years, 23 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Dean and Mary (Farrow) Dean; married, October 14, 1834, to Elizabeth Ellen Mills; married, August 9, 1840, to Mary Stewart Owen; grandnephew of Samuel Farrow.
      Arthur Peter (d. 1943) — of Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1904, 1912 (Honorary Vice-President; speaker). Died October 25, 1943. Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Peter (1823-1893); grandson of George Peter (1779-1861).
      Political family: Peter family of Maryland.
    Politicians formerly buried here:
    Salmon P. Chase Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) — also known as Salmon P. Chase; "Old Mr. Greenbacks" — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Cornish, Sullivan County, N.H., January 13, 1808. Republican. Liberty candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1846; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1849-55, 1861; Governor of Ohio, 1856-60; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1856, 1860; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1864-73; died in office 1873. Episcopalian. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 7, 1873 (age 65 years, 114 days). Original interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
      Relatives: Son of Ithamar Chase and Janette Chase; married to Eliza Ann Smith; father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (who married William Sprague); nephew of Dudley Chase; cousin *** of Dudley Chase Denison.
      Political families: Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island; Chase family of Vermont (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Chase County, Kan. is named for him.
      Chase Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Salmon P. Chase (built 1942 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for him.
      Politician named for him: Chase S. Osborn
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on various U.S. currency, including $1 and $10 notes in the 1860s, and the $10,000 bill from 1918 to 1946.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Salmon P. Chase: Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase : A Life in Politics — John Niven, Salmon P. Chase : A Biography — Albert B. Hart, Salmon P. Chase — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
      Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)
    James G. Blaine 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; reinterment in 1920 at Blaine Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine.
      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
      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)
      George Graham (1770-1830) — of Fairfax County, Va. Born in Dumfries, Prince William County, Va., May 16, 1770. Member of Virginia state house of delegates from Fairfax County, 1808-09; U.S. Secretary of War, 1816-17; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Texas Republic, 1818; president, Washington branch, Bank of the United States, 1819-23; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1823-30; died in office 1830. Died in Montgomery County, Md., August 8, 1830 (age 60 years, 84 days). Original interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment in 1906 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
      Relatives: Son of Richard Graham and Jane (Brent) Graham; married 1803 to Mary Ann Barnes (Hooe) Mason; married 1825 to Jane Love Watson; nephew of Sarah Brent (who married George Mason).
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Mason family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Henry Baldwin (1780-1844) — of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., January 14, 1780. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1817-22; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1830-44; died in office 1844. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 21, 1844 (age 64 years, 98 days). Original interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment at Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Baldwin and Theodora (Wolcott) Baldwin; half-brother of Abraham Baldwin.
      Political family: Baldwin family of Connecticut.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry Baldwin (built 1942 at Terminal Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
      George Purnell Fisher (1817-1899) — also known as George P. Fisher — of Dover, Kent County, Del.; Washington, D.C. Born in Milford, Sussex County, Del., October 13, 1817. Republican. Member of Delaware state house of representatives, 1843-44; secretary of state of Delaware, 1846; Delaware state attorney general, 1855-60; U.S. Representative from Delaware at-large, 1861-63; defeated, 1862; justice of District of Columbia supreme court, 1863-70; U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1870-76; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1880. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., February 10, 1899 (age 81 years, 120 days). Original interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment at Methodist Cemetery, Dover, Del.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Levi Maish (1837-1899) — of York, York County, Pa. Born in Conewago Township, York County, Pa., November 22, 1837. Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives from York County, 1867-68; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 19th District, 1875-79, 1887-91. Died in Washington, D.C., February 26, 1899 (age 61 years, 96 days). Original interment at Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment in 1919 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
      Relatives: Married, October 30, 1883, to Louisa Libbey 'Lulu' Miller.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Arlington National Cemetery unofficial website
    Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
      Harold Sheffield Van Buren (1855-1907) — also known as Harold S. Van Buren — of New Jersey. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 6, 1855. U.S. Consular Marshal in Kanagawa, 1880-85; U.S. Consul in Nice, 1897-1907, died in office 1907. Died in Nice, France, February 11, 1907 (age 51 years, 128 days). Interment at Ste. Marguerite Anglo-American Church, Nice, France; cenotaph at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Brodhead Van Buren and Harriet (Sheffield) Van Buren; married, October 18, 1888, to Anne Moore Thorburn; nephew of Ellen Maria Sheffield (who married William Walter Phelps); great-grandson of Barent Van Buren; first cousin of Mabel Thorp Boardman and Sheffield Phelps; first cousin once removed of Phelps Phelps; second cousin thrice removed of Martin Van Buren; second cousin five times removed of Dirck Ten Broeck and Cornelis Cuyler; third cousin twice removed of Jesse Hoyt and John Van Buren.
      Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Frederic MacMaster
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial


    Rawlins Park
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
      John Aaron Rawlins (1831-1869) — Born in Galena, Jo Daviess County, Ill., February 13, 1831. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Secretary of War, 1869; died in office 1869. Died, of consumption (tuberculosis), in Washington, D.C., September 6, 1869 (age 38 years, 205 days). Original interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue erected 1874 at Rawlins Park.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John A. Rawlins (built 1942 at Richmond, California; wrecked in a typhoon in the North Pacific Ocean, 1945) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article


    Rock Creek Cemetery
    Webster Street and Rock Creek Church Road N.W.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Founded 1719
    Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1977
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      William Windom (1827-1891) — of Winona, Winona County, Minn. Born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 10, 1827. Republican. U.S. Representative from Minnesota, 1859-69 (at-large 1859-63, 1st District 1863-69); member of Republican National Committee from Minnesota, 1866-68; U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1870-71, 1871-81, 1881-83; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1880; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1881, 1889-91; died in office 1891. Quaker. Fell dead, from heart disease, at the annual banquet of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, just after finishing a speech, in New York, New York County, N.Y., January 29, 1891 (age 63 years, 264 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      The city of Windom, Minnesota, is named for him.
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $2 silver certificate in the 1890s.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Hugh McCulloch Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895) — of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Ind.; Washington, D.C.; Vansville, Prince George's County, Md. Born in Kennebunk, York County, Maine, December 7, 1808. Republican. Lawyer; banker; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1863-65; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1865-69, 1884-85. Died in Vansville, Prince George's County, Md., May 24, 1895 (age 86 years, 168 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Hugh McCulloch (1773-1830) and Abigail (Perkins) McCulloch; married, June 23, 1834, to Eunice Hardy; married, March 21, 1838, to Susan Maria Man.
      McCulloch Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Hugh McCulloch (built 1943 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1962) was named for him.
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on $20 U.S. national bank notes in 1902.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Comptrollers of the Currency
      Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)
      Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946) — also known as Harlan F. Stone — Born in Chesterfield, Cheshire County, N.H., October 11, 1872. Lawyer; Dean of Columbia University Law School; U.S. Attorney General, 1924-25; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1925-41; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-46; died in office 1946. Episcopalian. Suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, in court, while reading his dissent in the case of Girouard v. United States, and died later that day, in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1946 (age 73 years, 193 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1899 to Agnes E. Harvey.
      Cross-reference: Eugene H. Nickerson
      See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
      Books about Harlan Fiske Stone: Melvin I. Urofsky, Division and Discord : The Supreme Court Under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953
    Nelson T. Johnson Nelson Trusler Johnson (1887-1954) — also known as Nelson T. Johnson — of Oklahoma. Born in Washington, D.C., April 3, 1887. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Mukden, 1909-10; Harbin, 1910-11; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1911-15; U.S. Consul in Chungking, 1915; Changsha, 1915-18; Shanghai, 1918; U.S. Minister to China, 1929-35; Australia, 1941-45; U.S. Ambassador to China, 1935-41. Member, Delta Tau Delta. Died, from a sudden heart attack, in Washington, D.C., December 3, 1954 (age 67 years, 244 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jeremiah Johnson and Salome (Trusler) Johnson; married, October 10, 1931, to Jane Thornton Beck.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Nelson T. Johnson: Russell Buhite, Nelson T. Johnson and American Policy Toward China, 1925-1941
      Image source: Time Magazine, December 11, 1939
      Peter Force (1790-1868) — of Washington, D.C. Born November 26, 1790. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; mayor of Washington, D.C., 1836-40. Died January 23, 1868 (age 77 years, 58 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Force and Sarah (Ferguson) Force; married 1818 to Hannah Evans.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) — of Missouri; Maryland. Born in Franklin County, Ky., May 10, 1813. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Missouri, 1840-44; common pleas court judge in Missouri, 1843-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1844, 1852; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1860; U.S. Postmaster General, 1861-64; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1878; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1882. Episcopalian. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., July 27, 1883 (age 70 years, 78 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair; brother of Francis Preston Blair Jr.; married 1836 to Caroline Buckner; married 1846 to Mary Elizabeth Woodbury (daughter of Levi Woodbury; sister of Charles Levi Woodbury); father of Gist Blair; uncle of James Lawrence Blair and Francis Preston Blair Lee; grandson of James Blair; granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Eager Howard and Joseph Wingate Folk; second cousin thrice removed of Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin of William Julian Albert; third cousin once removed of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard, Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill; third cousin twice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin once removed of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas.
      Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Daniel Calhoun Roper (1867-1943) — also known as Daniel C. Roper — of Washington, D.C. Born in Marlboro County, S.C., April 1, 1867. Democrat. Lawyer; publicist; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from Marlboro County, 1892-94; U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1917-20; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1924 (member, Credentials Committee), 1932, 1936; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1933-38; U.S. Minister to Canada, 1939. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa. Died, from leukemia, in Washington, D.C., April 11, 1943 (age 76 years, 10 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Wesley Roper and Henrietta V. (McLaurin) Roper; married, December 25, 1889, to Lou McKenzie.
      Daniel C. Roper Junior High School (opened 1966; later changed to Roper Middle School; renamed in 1997 as Ron Brown Middle School), in Washington, D.C., was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
      Ray Atherton (1883-1960) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Washington, D.C. Born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., March 28, 1883. Architect; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Bulgaria, 1937-39; Denmark, 1939-40; Luxembourg, 1943; Canada, 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1943-48. Died, from a cerebral hemorrhage, in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1960 (age 76 years, 352 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Maude Honeywell.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Maynard Harlan (1864-1934) — also known as John M. Harlan — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Washington, D.C. Born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., December 21, 1864. Republican. Lawyer; candidate for mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1897, 1905 (Republican); Harding-Coolidge Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1920. Died in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., March 23, 1934 (age 69 years, 92 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) and Malvina Franch (Shanklin) Harlan; brother of James S. Harlan; married, October 21, 1890, to Elizabeth Palmer Flagg; father of John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971); grandson of James Harlan; first cousin of James Harlan Cleveland; first cousin once removed of James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article
      Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985) — also known as Patricia Roberts — of Washington, D.C. Born in Mattoon, Coles County, Ill., May 31, 1924. Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for District of Columbia; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1964; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1977-79; U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1979-80; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1980-81. Female. African ancestry. First African-American woman cabinet member; inducted, National Women's Hall of Fame, 2003. Died in Washington, D.C., March 23, 1985 (age 60 years, 296 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1955 to William Beasley Harris.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — National Women's Hall of Fame
      Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903-1976) — also known as Livingston T. Merchant — of Washington, D.C. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., November 23, 1903. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1956-58, 1961-62. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died in 1976 (age about 72 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      Loy Wesley Henderson (1892-1986) — also known as Loy W. Henderson — of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colo. Born in Rogers, Benton County, Ark., June 28, 1892. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Dublin, as of 1922-23; Queenstown, as of 1923-24; U.S. Minister to Iraq, 1943-45; Nepal, 1948-51; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1948-51; Iran, 1951-54. Member, Delta Tau Delta; Phi Delta Phi. Died March 24, 1986 (age 93 years, 269 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Milton Henderson and Mary May (Davis) Henderson; married, December 3, 1930, to Elise Marie Heinrichson.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Ural Alexis Johnson (1908-1997) — also known as U. Alexis Johnson — of Washington, D.C.; California. Born in Falun, Saline County, Kan., October 17, 1908. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Seoul, as of 1938; Rio de Janeiro, as of 1943; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, as of 1947; U.S. Consul General in Yokohama, as of 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1953-58; Thailand, 1958-61; Japan, 1966-69; , 1973-77. Survived a car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam. Died, of pneumonia, in Rex Convalescent Center, Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., March 24, 1997 (age 88 years, 158 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Carl Theodore Johnson and Ellen (Forsse) Johnson; married, March 21, 1932, to Patricia Ann Tillman.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
      Robert Henry McBride (1918-1983) — also known as Robert H. McBride — of Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich.; Washington, D.C. Born in London, England of American parents, May 25, 1918. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, as of 1941; Seville, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Congo (Kinshasa), 1967-69; Mexico, 1969-74. Died in Fairfax County, Va., December 26, 1983 (age 65 years, 215 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Harry Alexander McBride and Ruth (Quine) McBride; married to Jacqueline Colburn.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Douglas MacArthur II (1909-1997) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., July 5, 1909. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Vancouver, as of 1935; Naples, as of 1937-38; Paris, 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1957-61; Belgium, 1961-65; Austria, 1967-69; Iran, 1969-72. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died, after a stroke and heart attack, in Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1997 (age 88 years, 133 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Arthur MacArthur (1876-1923) and Mary Hendry (McCalla) MacArthur; married, August 21, 1934, to Laura Louise Barkley (daughter of Alben William Barkley); nephew by marriage of Louise Cromwell MacArthur (sister of James Henry Roberts Cromwell); nephew of Douglas MacArthur; great-grandson of Arthur MacArthur (1815-1896).
      Political family: Barkley-MacArthur family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) — of Augusta, Richmond County, Ga. Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven County, Conn., November 22, 1754. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807. Congregationalist. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. One of the founders, and first president, of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia. Died in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1807 (age 52 years, 102 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery; cenotaph at Greenfield Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
      Relatives: Son of Michael Baldwin and Lucy (Dudley) Baldwin; half-brother of Henry Baldwin; brother of Ruth Baldwin (who married Joel Barlow).
      Political family: Baldwin family of Connecticut.
      Baldwin counties in Ala. and Ga. are named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Abraham Baldwin (built 1941 at New Orleans, Louisiana; scuttled 1976 as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Frank Hatton (1846-1894) — of Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa. Born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, April 28, 1846. Republican. Newspaper editor; U.S. Postmaster General, 1884-85. Died, from a stroke, in his office at the Washington Post, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1894 (age 48 years, 2 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Matthew Gault Emery (1818-1901) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Pembroke, Merrimack County, N.H., September 28, 1818. Republican. Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1870-71. Died in Washington, D.C., October 12, 1901 (age 83 years, 14 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Mary Kittridge Hazeltine.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Venable Allen (1903-1970) — also known as George V. Allen — of Durham, Durham County, N.C.; Maryland; Washington, D.C. Born in Durham, Durham County, N.C., November 3, 1903. School teacher and principal; newspaper reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Kingston, as of 1930; Shanghai, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in Cairo, as of 1936-38; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1946-48; Yugoslavia, 1949-53; India, 1953-54; Nepal, 1953-54; Greece, 1956-57; director, U.S. Information Agency, 1957-60; president, Tobacco Institute, 1960-66. Methodist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Phi; United World Federalists. Died suddenly, from a coronary occlusion, in Bahama, Durham County, N.C., July 11, 1970 (age 66 years, 250 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Thomas Ellis Allen and Harriet (Moore) Allen; married, October 2, 1934, to Katharine Martin; first cousin thrice removed of Robert Overton Williams, John Williams, Thomas Lanier Williams and Lewis Williams; second cousin twice removed of Joseph Lanier Williams.
      Political families: Williams family of North Carolina; Clay family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Burton K. Wheeler Burton Kendall Wheeler (1882-1975) — also known as Burton K. Wheeler — of Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont. Born in Hudson, Middlesex County, Mass., February 27, 1882. Lawyer; member of Montana state house of representatives, 1911-13; U.S. Attorney for Montana, 1913-18; U.S. Senator from Montana, 1923-47; Democratic candidate for Governor of Montana, 1920; Progressive candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1924; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1932, 1936, 1940. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Elks. Died, from a stroke, in Washington, D.C., January 6, 1975 (age 92 years, 313 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Asa Leonard Wheeler and Mary Elizabeth (Tyler) Wheeler; married, September 7, 1907, to Lulu M. White; third cousin once removed of Philip Allcock Sprague; third cousin twice removed of Edgar Weeks; fourth cousin once removed of John A. Weeks.
      Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; French-Richardson family of Chester, New Hampshire; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Library of Congress
      William Dawson Jr. (1885-1972) — of Minnesota. Born in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., August 11, 1885. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in St. Petersburg, 1908; Barcelona, 1908-10; Frankfort, 1910-13; U.S. Consul in Rosario, 1913-17; Montevideo, 1917-19; Danzig, 1919-21; Munich, 1921-22; U.S. Consul General in Mexico City, 1928-30; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1930-35; Colombia, 1934-37; Uruguay, 1937-39; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 1939-41; Uruguay, 1941-46. Episcopalian. Member, Chi Psi. Died in Blue Hill, Hancock County, Maine, July 17, 1972 (age 86 years, 341 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Dawson and Maria (Rice) Dawson; married, June 8, 1926, to Agnes Balloch Bready.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Willard Leon Beaulac (1899-1990) — also known as Willard L. Beaulac — of Pawtucket, Providence County, R.I.; Fairfax, Va.; Washington, D.C. Born in Pawtucket, Providence County, R.I., July 25, 1899. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tampico, 1921-23; Puerto Castilla, 1923-24; U.S. Consul in Arica, 1925-27; U.S. Consul General in Madrid, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1944-47; Colombia, 1947-51; Cuba, 1951-53; Chile, 1953-56; Argentina, 1956-60. Died, from Alzheimer's disease, in Washington, D.C., August 25, 1990 (age 91 years, 31 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Sylvester C. Beaulac and Lena Eleanor (Jarvis) Beaulac; married, February 25, 1935, to Catherine Hazel Arrott Greene.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Kimbrough Jones (1839-1908) — also known as James K. Jones — of Washington, Hempstead County, Ark. Born in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Arkansas state senate, 1873; U.S. Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1881-85; U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1885-1903; Chairman of Democratic National Committee, 1896-1904; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1900; speaker, 1900, 1904. Died in Washington, D.C., June 1, 1908 (age 68 years, 246 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Kerr Kelly (1819-1903) — also known as James K. Kelly — of Clackamas County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah County, Ore. Born in Blanchard, Centre County, Pa., February 16, 1819. Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; member of Oregon territorial legislature, 1853; delegate to Oregon state constitutional convention from Clackamas County, 1857; member of Oregon state senate, 1860; U.S. Attorney for Oregon, 1860-62; U.S. Senator from Oregon, 1871-77; member of Democratic National Committee from Oregon, 1876; justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1878-80; chief justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1878-80; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1888. Died in Washington, D.C., September 15, 1903 (age 84 years, 211 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS James K. Kelly (built 1943 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1963) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Isidor Rayner (1850-1912) — of Baltimore, Md. Born in Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1850. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1878-80; member of Maryland state senate, 1886-87; U.S. Representative from Maryland 4th District, 1887-89, 1891-95; Maryland state attorney general, 1899-1903; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1905-12; died in office 1912; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1912 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee; speaker). Jewish. Died in Washington, D.C., November 25, 1912 (age 62 years, 228 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Solomon Rayner and Amalie (Jacobson) Rayner; married 1871 to Frances Jane Bevan.
      Cross-reference: Thomas H. Bevan
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      William Manning Rountree (1917-1995) — also known as William M. Rountree — of Maryland; Florida. Born in Swainsboro, Emanuel County, Ga., March 28, 1917. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1959-62; Sudan, 1962-65; South Africa, 1965-70; Brazil, 1970-73. Died, of cancer, in Shands Hospital, Gainesville, Alachua County, Fla., March 11, 1995 (age 77 years, 348 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Manning Rountree (1877-1918) and Clyde (Branam) Rountree.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
    William R. Merriam William Rush Merriam (1849-1931) — also known as William R. Merriam — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn.; Washington, D.C. Born in Wadham's Mills, Essex County, N.Y., July 26, 1849. Republican. Banker; member of Minnesota state house of representatives, 1883-84, 1887-88 (District 27 1883-84, District 26 1887-88); Speaker of the Minnesota State House of Representatives, 1887-88; Governor of Minnesota, 1889-93; delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1896 (member, Resolutions Committee); director, U.S. Census, 1899-1903. Died in Port Sewall, Martin County, Fla., February 18, 1931 (age 81 years, 207 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Mahala R. (Delano) Merriam and John Lafayette Merriam; married, October 2, 1872, to Laura Elizabeth Hancock (niece of Winfield Scott Hancock); third cousin twice removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant; fourth cousin once removed of Frederick Dent Grant and Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr..
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, April 1902
      Julius Gareché Lay (1872-1939) — also known as Julius G. Lay — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., August 9, 1872. Republican. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Ottawa, 1893-96; U.S. Consul in Windsor, 1896-99; U.S. Consul General in Barcelona, 1899-1904; Canton, 1904-06; Cape Town, 1906-10; Rio de Janeiro, 1910-14; Berlin, as of 1916-17; Calcutta, as of 1926; U.S. Minister to Honduras, 1929-32; Uruguay, 1935-37. Member, Sons of the American Revolution. Died suddenly, following a heart attack, in Prides Crossing, Beverly, Essex County, Mass., August 28, 1939 (age 67 years, 19 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Richard G. Lay and Caroline Y. (Kimball) Lay; married, December 10, 1904, to Anne Howard.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Gerald Augustin Drew (1903-1970) — also known as Gerald A. Drew — of San Francisco, Calif. Born in San Francisco, Calif., June 20, 1903. U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1928-30; U.S. Consul in Quito, 1940-42; Guatemala City, 1942-44; Paris, 1944-46; U.S. Minister to Jordan, 1950; U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1954-57; Haiti, 1957-60. Member, Phi Kappa Tau. Died in 1970 (age about 67 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John S. Drew and Theresa M. (Fredericks) Drew; married, June 20, 1931, to Doris Hunter.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      Wilton Wendell Blancké (1908-1971) — also known as W. Wendell Blancké — of California; Washington, D.C. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., June 29, 1908. Advertising executive; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Hanoi, as of 1950; U.S. Consul General in Frankfort, 1957-60; U.S. Ambassador to Congo (Brazzaville), 1960-63; Central African Republic, 1960; Chad, 1960-61; Gabon, 1960-61. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died, following a stroke, in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1971 (age 62 years, 258 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Cecil Whittier (Trout) Blancké and Wilton Wallace Blancké; married, February 13, 1952, to Frances Elizabeth Nichol.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Francis Edward Meloy Jr. (1917-1976) — also known as Francis E. Meloy, Jr. — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., March 28, 1917. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Dhahran, 1946; personal assistant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 1946-53; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1969-73; Guatemala, 1973-76; Lebanon, 1976, died in office 1976. Kidnapped from his car, along with two others, and shot to death, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 16, 1976 (age 59 years, 80 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Francis E. Meloy, Sr. and Anne Teresa (Connor) Meloy.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Stephen J. Field Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) — also known as Stephen J. Field — of Yuba County, Calif. Born in Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., November 4, 1816. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges of being party to the alleged murder of David S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to be justifiable homicide. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1899 (age 82 years, 156 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Uncle of David Josiah Brewer and Charlotte Anita Whitney.
      Political family: Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California.
      See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Stephen J. Field: Paul Kens, Justice Stephen Field : Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1897
      Nathan Bay Scott (1842-1924) — also known as Nathan B. Scott — of Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va. Born near Quaker City, Guernsey County, Ohio, December 18, 1842. Republican. Member of West Virginia state senate 1st District, 1883-90; member of Republican National Committee from West Virginia, 1888-1914; U.S. Senator from West Virginia, 1899-1911. Died January 2, 1924 (age 81 years, 15 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Waldemar John Gallman (1899-1980) — also known as Waldemar J. Gallman — of Wellsville, Allegany County, N.Y. Born in Wellsville, Allegany County, N.Y., April 27, 1899. College instructor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Danzig, 1934-38; London, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Poland, 1948-50; South Africa, 1951-54; Iraq, 1954; Director General of the U.S. Foreign Service, 1958-61. Died in Washington, D.C., June 28, 1980 (age 81 years, 62 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Gallman and Henrietta (Engelder) Gallman; married, July 29, 1925, to Marjorie Gerry.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926-2016) — also known as O. Rudolph Aggrey — of Washington, D.C. Born in Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., July 24, 1926. Newspaper reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Lagos, 1951-53; U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1973-77; Gambia, 1973-77; Romania, 1977-81. African ancestry. Member, Alpha Phi Alpha; Sigma Delta Chi. Died April 6, 2016 (age 89 years, 257 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and Rose Rudolph (Douglass) Aggrey; married, November 5, 1966, to Francoise Christiane Fratacci.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Thomas Weston Tipton (1817-1899) — also known as Thomas W. Tipton — of Brownville, Nemaha County, Neb. Born in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, August 5, 1817. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1845; ordained minister; delegate to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1859, 1867; U.S. Senator from Nebraska, 1867-75; candidate for Governor of Nebraska, 1880. Methodist; later Congregationalist. Died in Washington, D.C., November 26, 1899 (age 82 years, 113 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
      Nathan Oakes Murphy (1849-1908) — also known as Nathan O. Murphy — of Prescott, Yavapai County, Ariz.; Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Born in Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, October 14, 1849. Republican. Secretary of Arizona Territory, 1889; Governor of Arizona Territory, 1892-93, 1898-1902; delegate to Republican National Convention from Arizona Territory, 1892; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1895-97; defeated, 1900. Died in Coronado, San Diego County, Calif., August 22, 1908 (age 58 years, 313 days). Original interment at Masonic Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.; reinterment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
    Willis Van_Devanter Willis Van Devanter (1859-1941) — of Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyo. Born in Marion, Grant County, Ind., April 17, 1859. Republican. Lawyer; member of Wyoming territorial legislature, 1888; justice of Wyoming territorial supreme court, 1889; member of Republican National Committee from Wyoming, 1896; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wyoming, 1896; law professor; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1903-10; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1910-37; took senior status 1937. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., February 8, 1941 (age 81 years, 297 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Isaac Vandevanter; married to Delice Burhans.
      See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Library of Congress
      James Alexander Williamson (1829-1902) — also known as James A. Williamson — of Iowa. Born in Columbia, Adair County, Ky., February 8, 1829. Lawyer; Iowa Democratic state chair, 1859; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1864; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1876-81; received the Medal of Honor in 1895 for actions at Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, December 1862. Died in Jamestown, Newport County, R.I., September 7, 1902 (age 73 years, 211 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Henry Anderson (1848-1916) — also known as Thomas H. Anderson — of Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio; Washington, D.C. Born in Belmont County, Ohio, June 6, 1848. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1889-92; U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1899-1901; justice of District of Columbia supreme court, 1901-16; died in office 1916. Died, in a hospital at Denver, Colo., September 30, 1916 (age 68 years, 116 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Anderson and Amelia (Dallas) Anderson; married 1879 to Laura B. Augustine.
      See also federal judicial profile — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Robert Stockwell Reynolds Hitt (1876-1938) — also known as R. S. Reynolds Hitt — of Mt. Morris, Ogle County, Ill.; Washington, D.C. Born in Paris, France, June 7, 1876. U.S. Minister to Panama, 1909-10; Guatemala, 1910-13. Member, Psi Upsilon. Died, from pneumonia, in Washington, D.C., April 16, 1938 (age 61 years, 313 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Robert Roberts Hitt and Sally (Reynolds) Hitt; married, December 23, 1902, to Edith Romeyn Gray (daughter of John Clinton Gray).
      Political family: Hitt-Gray family of Mt. Morris, Illinois.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Francis Preston Blair Lee (1857-1944) — also known as Blair Lee — of Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., August 9, 1857. Democrat. Member of Maryland state senate, 1906-12; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1908, 1916; candidate for nomination for Governor of Maryland, 1911; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1914-17. Episcopalian. First U.S. Senator elected by the direct vote of the people, under the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. Died in Norwood, Montgomery County, Md., December 25, 1944 (age 87 years, 138 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Samuel Phillips Lee and Elizabeth (Blair) Lee; married, October 1, 1891, to Anne Clymer Brooke; father of Edward Brooke Lee; nephew of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; grandson of Francis Preston Blair; grandfather of Blair Lee III, Edward Brooke Lee Jr. and Elizabeth Lee (who married David Scull); great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee and James Blair; great-grandnephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; first cousin of James Lawrence Blair and Gist Blair; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John Eager Howard; third cousin once removed of John Lee, William Julian Albert and Joseph Wingate Folk; third cousin twice removed of Zachary Taylor, George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard and Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin thrice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin of Fitzhugh Lee, Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden and John Lee Carroll.
      Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Myron Melvin Cowen (1898-1965) — also known as Myron M. Cowen — of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa; Washington, D.C. Born in Logan, Harrison County, Iowa, January 25, 1898. Lawyer; U.S. Ambassador to Australia, 1948-49; Philippines, 1949-51; Belgium, 1952-53. Member, American Bar Association. Died, in Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1965 (age 67 years, 280 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Aaron Harry Cowen and Dora T. (Biala) Cowen; married, January 14, 1942, to Dorothy (Frank) Stroock.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Robert Anderson (1922-1996) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 6, 1922. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Shanghai, 1946-47; U.S. Consul in Bordeaux, 1959-61; U.S. Ambassador to Dahomey, 1972-74; Morocco, 1976-78; Dominican Republic, 1982-85. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died, of congestive heart failure, at Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Va., April 5, 1996 (age 74 years, 90 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Andrew Anderson and Martha Campbell (Winn) Anderson; married, February 16, 1950, to Elena Fenoaltea.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Wilson (1807-1876) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Ireland, 1807. Lawyer; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1852-55; Third Auditor of the U.S. Treasury, 1864-69. Died in Washington, D.C., January 10, 1876 (age about 68 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Joseph Shields Wilson.
      See also Wikipedia article
      Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) — also known as Thomas N. Page — of Washington, D.C. Born in Oakland Plantation, Hanover County, Va., April 23, 1853. Lawyer; author; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-19. Died in Oakland Plantation, Hanover County, Va., November 1, 1922 (age 69 years, 192 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Maj. John Page and Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; married 1886 to Anne Seddon Bruce; married 1893 to Florence (Lathrop) Field.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
      James Montgomery Beck (1861-1936) — also known as James M. Beck — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Washington, D.C. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., July 9, 1861. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1896-1900; U.S. Solicitor General, 1921-25; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1927-34 (1st District 1927-33, 2nd District 1933-34); resigned 1934. Member, American Philosophical Society; Sons of the Revolution. Died in Washington, D.C., April 12, 1936 (age 74 years, 278 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James Nathan Beck and Margretta C. (Darling) Beck; married 1890 to Lilla Lawrence Mitchell.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Stuart J. Fuller Stuart Jamieson Fuller (1880-1941) — also known as Stuart J. Fuller — of Madison, Dane County, Wis.; Washington, D.C. Born in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, May 4, 1880. Exporter; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong, 1906-09; U.S. Consul in Gothenberg, 1909-10, 1911-12; Iquitos, 1912-13; Durban, 1913; U.S. Vice Consul in Naples, 1910-11; U.S. Consul General in , 1913-19; Tientsin, 1919-23. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Tau Delta. Died in Washington, D.C., February 1, 1941 (age 60 years, 273 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Fuller and Mary McCall (Jamieson) Fuller; married, January 4, 1915, to Anne Howe Reagan.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Library of Congress
      Henry Serrano Villard (1900-1996) — also known as Henry S. Villard; Harry Villard — of New York. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., March 30, 1900. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Teheran, 1929-31; U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1935-36; U.S. Minister to Libya, 1952; U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1960-61; Mauritania, 1960. Died of pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., January 21, 1996 (age 95 years, 297 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Great-grandson of William Lloyd Garrison.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Gordon Mein (1913-1968) — of Maryland. Born in Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky., September 10, 1913. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, 1965-68, died in office 1968. Shot and killed by terrorists who ambushed his limousine, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 28, 1968 (age 54 years, 353 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Elizabeth Ann Clay.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Winthrop Gilman Brown (1907-1987) — also known as Winthrop G. Brown — of Washington, D.C. Born in Seal Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, July 12, 1907. Lawyer; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1960-62; South Korea, 1964-67. Member, Zeta Psi. Helped to coordinate the Lend-Lease program during World War II. Died in 1987 (age about 79 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Adams Brown and Helen Gilman (Noyes) Brown; married, December 28, 1946, to Peggy Ann Bell.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      Leland Judd Barrows (1906-1988) — also known as Leland J. Barrows — of Kansas. Born in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kan., October 27, 1906. Newspaper reporter; radio broadcaster; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, 1960-66; Togo, 1960-61. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Council on Foreign Relations. Died in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1988 (age 81 years, 128 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Eugene Barrows and Florence Emma (Judd) Barrows; married, March 21, 1935, to Mabel Irene Conley.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Dewey Hickerson (1898-1989) — also known as John D. Hickerson; Jack D. Hickerson — of Texas. Born in Crawford, McLennan County, Tex., January 26, 1898. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Rio de Janeiro, as of 1924; U.S. Consul in Pará, 1925; Ottawa, 1925-26; U.S. Ambassador to Finland, 1955-59; Philippines, 1959-61. While serving as director of the State Department's Office of European Affairs in 1947-49, he was one of the main architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding document of NationalO. Died in 1989 (age about 91 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      Maurice Marshall Bernbaum (1910-2008) — also known as Maurice M. Bernbaum — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Washington, D.C. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., February 15, 1910. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Vancouver, as of 1936-38; Singapore, as of 1938-41; Caracas, as of 1942-45; Managua, as of 1947; U.S. Consul in Quito, as of 1948-50; U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador, 1960-65; Venezuela, 1965-69. Died, from cerebralvascular disease and dementia, in Mitchellville, Prince George's County, Md., March 9, 2008 (age 98 years, 23 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Louis Bernbaum and Anne (Warsaw) Bernbaum; married, February 5, 1942, to Elizabeth R. Hahm.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Joseph E. Jacobs Joseph Earle Jacobs (1893-1971) — also known as Joseph E. Jacobs — of Johnston, Edgefield County, S.C.; Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Fla. Born in Johnston, Edgefield County, S.C., October 31, 1893. Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Foochow, 1917-18; Shanghai, 1918-19; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, as of 1924, as of 1928-30; Yunnanfu, 1926-28; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948-49; Poland, 1955-57. Died in Washington, D.C., January 5, 1971 (age 77 years, 66 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Joseph Jacobs and Nettie (Austin) Jacobs; married, August 23, 1930, to Elizabeth McNutt.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: U.S. passport application
      Bishop Walden Perkins (1841-1894) — also known as Bishop W. Perkins — of Oswego, Labette County, Kan. Born in Rochester, Lorain County, Ohio, October 18, 1841. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Labette County Prosecuting Attorney, 1869; Labette County Probate Judge, 1870-82; newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1880; U.S. Representative from Kansas, 1883-91 (at-large 1883-85, 3rd District 1885-91); U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1892-93. Died in Washington, D.C., June 20, 1894 (age 52 years, 245 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Louise E. Cushman.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Arthur MacArthur (1815-1896) — of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, January 26, 1815. Democrat. Lawyer; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, 1856-58; Governor of Wisconsin, 1856; circuit judge in Wisconsin 2nd Circuit, 1856-69; Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1870-87; retired 1887. Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, N.J., August 26, 1896 (age 81 years, 213 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Grandfather of Douglas MacArthur; great-grandfather of Douglas MacArthur II.
      Political families: Barkley-MacArthur family; Dodge-Duke-Cromwell family of Detroit, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also federal judicial profile — National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
      Alfred Leroy Atherton Jr. (1921-2002) — also known as Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. — Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., November 22, 1921. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Stuttgart, 1947-50; U.S. Consul in Aleppo, 1957-58; Calcutta, 1962-65; U.S. Ambassador to , 1978-79; Egypt, 1979. Unitarian. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died October 30, 2002 (age 80 years, 342 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Alfred Leroy Atherton and Joan (Reed) Atherton; married, May 26, 1946, to Betty Wylie Kittredge.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
    John Marshall Harlan John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) — of Kentucky. Born in Boyle County, Ky., June 1, 1833. Republican. Lawyer; county judge in Kentucky, 1858-59; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1861-63; Kentucky state attorney general, 1861-65; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 1871; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1876 (delegation chair); Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1877-1911. Presbyterian. Died October 14, 1911 (age 78 years, 135 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: John Marshall
      Relatives: Son of James Harlan and Elizabeth Shannon (Davenport) Harlan; brother of Laura Harlan (who married Francis Landon Cleveland); married, December 23, 1856, to Malvina French Shanklin; father of James S. Harlan and John Maynard Harlan; uncle of James Harlan Cleveland; grandfather of John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971); granduncle of James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; great-granduncle of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Benjamin H. Bristow — Augustus E. Willson
      The World War II Liberty ship SS John M. Harlan (built 1943 at Brunswick, Georgia; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
      See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about John Marshall Harlan: Linda Przybyszewski, The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan
      Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)
      Otis Theodore Wingo (1877-1930) — also known as Otis Wingo — of De Queen, Sevier County, Ark. Born in Weakley County, Tenn., June 18, 1877. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Arkansas state senate, 1907-08; U.S. Representative from Arkansas 4th District, 1913-30; died in office 1930. Died October 21, 1930 (age 53 years, 125 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Theodore Wingo and Jane Wingo; married, October 15, 1902, to Effie Gene Locke.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835-1902) — also known as Alexander R. Shepherd; "Boss Shepherd"; "The Father of Modern Washington" — of Washington, D.C.; Batopilas, Chihuahua. Born in Washington, D.C., January 30, 1835. Republican. Plumber; real estate developer; Governor of the District of Columbia, 1873-74. Died, from appendicitis and peritonitis, in Batopilas, Chihuahua, September 12, 1902 (age 67 years, 225 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery; statue at John A. Wilson Building Grounds.
      Relatives: Married, January 30, 1861, to Mary Grice Young.
      Cross-reference: André L. Bagger
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Alexander R. Shepherd (built 1944 at Savannah, Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Louis Leon Ludlow (1873-1950) — also known as Louis Ludlow — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind. Born near Connersville, Fayette County, Ind., June 24, 1873. Democrat. Newspaper reporter; newspaper correspondent; U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1929-49 (7th District 1929-33, 12th District 1933-43, 11th District 1943-49). Methodist. One of the leading isolationists in Congress; sponsor in 1935-41 of a proposal to require a national referendum before the country could declare war. Early advocate of an Equal Rights Amendment to give women the same legal rights and privileges as men. Died, probably from heart trouble, in Washington, D.C., November 28, 1950 (age 77 years, 157 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Katherine Huber.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Carl Williams Hinshaw (1894-1956) — also known as Carl Hinshaw — of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., July 28, 1894. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate and insurance business; U.S. Representative from California, 1939-56 (11th District 1939-43, 20th District 1943-56); defeated, 1936; died in office 1956; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1948. Died, of pneumonia and congestive heart failure, in the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., August 5, 1956 (age 62 years, 8 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Blair Lee III (1916-1985) — also known as Francis Preston Blair Lee III — of Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., May 19, 1916. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; newspaper editor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1948, 1960, 1964, 1968 (alternate), 1972; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1955-62; candidate for U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1962; member of Maryland state senate District 3-B, 1967-69; secretary of state of Maryland, 1969-71; Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, 1971-79; Governor of Maryland, 1977-79; defeated in primary, 1978. Episcopalian. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., October 25, 1985 (age 69 years, 159 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edward Brooke Lee and Elizabeth Somerville (Wilson) Lee; brother of Edward Brooke Lee Jr. and Elizabeth Lee (who married David Scull); married, July 6, 1944, to Mathilde Boal (daughter of Pierre de Lagarde Boal); grandson of Francis Preston Blair Lee; great-grandnephew of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; second great-grandson of Francis Preston Blair, Augustus Rhodes Sollers and Daniel Robeadeau Clymer; second great-grandnephew of Hiester Clymer; third great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee and James Blair; third great-grandnephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee and William Hiester; fourth great-grandnephew of John Hiester and Daniel Hiester (1747-1804); first cousin twice removed of James Lawrence Blair and Gist Blair; first cousin four times removed of Isaac Ellmaker Hiester; first cousin five times removed of Daniel Hiester (1774-1834); first cousin six times removed of Joseph Hiester; second cousin four times removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin five times removed of John Eager Howard; third cousin thrice removed of John Lee and William Julian Albert; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Wingate Folk.
      Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Dwight Johnson Porter (1916-2006) — also known as Dwight J. Porter — Born in Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Okla., April 12, 1916. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, 1965-70. Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside County, Calif., June 4, 2006 (age 90 years, 53 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Adele Ritchie.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      David Morgan Bane (1915-2004) — also known as David M. Bane — of Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa. Born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., September 12, 1915. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Bordeaux, 1950-53; U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, 1965-69. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Gamma Mu; Alpha Kappa Psi. Died in 2004 (age about 88 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of David Emulous Bane and Nellie Ray (Ramage) Bane; married, May 12, 1945, to Patricia Huston Miller.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Lucius Durham Battle (1918-2008) — also known as Lucius D. Battle; Luke Battle — of Washington, D.C. Born in Dawson, Terrell County, Ga., June 1, 1918. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; Foreign Service officer; personal aide to Secretary of State Dean Acheson; U.S. Ambassador to United Arab Republic, 1964-67. Member, Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha Tau Omega; Phi Delta Phi; Council on Foreign Relations. Died, of Parkinson's disease, in Washington, D.C., May 13, 2008 (age 89 years, 347 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Warren Lazarus Battle and Jewel Beatrice (Durham) Battle; married, October 1, 1949, to Betty Jane Davis.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Wilbur Dwight (1859-1928) — also known as John W. Dwight — of Dryden, Tompkins County, N.Y. Born in Dryden, Tompkins County, N.Y., May 24, 1859. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1888, 1892, 1900, 1904, 1920; U.S. Representative from New York, 1902-13 (26th District 1902-03, 30th District 1903-13); president, Virginia Blue Ridge Railway, 1913-28. Member, Union League. Died in Washington, D.C., January 19, 1928 (age 68 years, 240 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight and Rebecca A. Dwight; married 1895 to Emma Childs.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Raymond Green (1856-1947) — also known as William R. Green — of Audubon, Audubon County, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., November 7, 1856. Republican. Lawyer; economist; district judge in Iowa 15th District, 1894-1911; U.S. Representative from Iowa 9th District, 1911-28; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1928-40. Member, Elks; Knights of Pythias; Freemasons. Died in Bellport, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., June 11, 1947 (age 90 years, 216 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Timothy Franklin Green and Sarah Maria (Raymond) Green; married 1887 to Luella Washington Brown.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Stephen Wallace Dempsey (1862-1949) — also known as S. Wallace Dempsey — of Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y. Born in Hartland, Niagara County, N.Y., May 8, 1862. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York 40th District, 1915-31; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1928. Died in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1949 (age 86 years, 297 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Laura Hoag.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Wilson Clark Flake (1906-1977) — also known as Wilson C. Flake — of Washington, D.C.; Anson County, N.C. Born in Newport News, Va., February 28, 1906. U.S. Consul in Sydney, 1939-44; U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, 1957. Member, Delta Phi Epsilon. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., February 15, 1977 (age 70 years, 353 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Robert Manley Flake and Virginia (McCollum) Flake; married, November 7, 1935, to Valerie Burns West.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Dunbar Bell (1911-1979) — of Washington, D.C.; Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Calif. Born in Lebanon, Grafton County, N.H., July 1, 1911. Democrat. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia, 1964; member of California Democratic State Central Committee, 1971-72. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Calif., April 14, 1979 (age 67 years, 287 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Frank Upham Bell and Louise (Dunbar) Bell; married, December 4, 1934, to Helen Foy Johnstone; married 1961 to Stephanie Mathews; great-grandson of James Bell; great-grandnephew of Samuel Dana Bell and Nathaniel Gookin Upham; second great-grandson of Samuel Bell and Nathaniel Upham; second great-grandnephew of John Bell Jr.; third great-grandson of John Bell; first cousin twice removed of Samuel Newell Bell; first cousin thrice removed of Charles Henry Bell; second cousin four times removed of Jabez Upham, George Baxter Upham and Charles Wentworth Upham; third cousin thrice removed of James Phineas Upham.
      Political families: Upham family; Bell-Upham family of New Hampshire; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Bullock Clark Jr. (1831-1903) — also known as John B. Clark, Jr. — of Fayette, Howard County, Mo. Born in Fayette, Howard County, Mo., January 14, 1831. Democrat. Lawyer; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Missouri state senate 16th District, 1867-70; U.S. Representative from Missouri 11th District, 1873-83. Died in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1903 (age 72 years, 236 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Bullock Clark.
      Political family: Clark family.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Emmett Carland (1853-1922) — also known as John E. Carland — of Burleigh County, N.Dak.; Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, S.Dak. Born in Oswego County, N.Y., December 11, 1853. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Dakota Territory, 1885-88; justice of Dakota territorial supreme court, 1888-89; delegate to North Dakota state constitutional convention from Burleigh County, 1889; U.S. District Judge for South Dakota, 1896-1910; Judge of U.S. Commerce Court, 1910-13. Died November 11, 1922 (age 68 years, 335 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Capt. John Carland; married, September 29, 1884, to Albertine Knaack.
      James Benjamin Aswell (1869-1931) — also known as James B. Aswell — of Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La. Born in Jackson Parish, La., December 23, 1869. Democrat. School teacher and principal; Louisiana superintendent of public instruction, 1904-08; Chancellor, University of Mississippi, 1907; president, Louisiana State Normal College, 1908-11; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1913-31; died in office 1931. Baptist. Died in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1931 (age 61 years, 83 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Benjamin Werner Aswell and Frances Elizabeth (Lyles) Aswell; married, September 20, 1893, to Mary Lee Wright; married, March 3, 1901, to Ella Foster; father of Corine Aswell (daughter-in-law of James Campbell Cantrill).
      Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS James B. Aswell (built 1943-44 at New Orleans, Louisiana; scrapped 1971) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) — also known as Upton Sinclair — of California. Born in Baltimore, Md., September 20, 1878. Novelist and social crusader; author of The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested in 1914 for picketing in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California; received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's Teeth. Member, United World Federalists; League for Industrial Democracy; American Civil Liberties Union. Died in Bound Brook, Somerset County, N.J., November 25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Cross-reference: Harry W. Laidler
      Campaign slogan (1934): "End Poverty in California."
      See also NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
      Books by Upton Sinclair: I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked (1934)
      Fiction by Upton Sinclair: The Jungle — Oil! A Novel — The Moneychangers — Dragons Teeth — Wide is the Gate
      Books about Upton Sinclair: Lauren Coodley, ed., Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California — Greg Mitchell, The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics — Kevin Mattson, Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century — Anthony Arthur, Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
      Arthur Lincoln Richards (1907-1991) — also known as Arthur L. Richards — of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Emmett, Gem County, Idaho, June 21, 1907. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Teheran, as of 1932; Cairo, as of 1938; Cape Town, as of 1940; U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, 1960-62. Died in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., February 22, 1991 (age 83 years, 246 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Audrey Neff and Ida Miles.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Clyde Trueheart (1918-1992) — also known as William C. Trueheart; Bill Trueheart — of Washington, D.C. Born in Chester, Chesterfield County, Va., December 18, 1918. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, 1969-71. Died, of cancer, in Sibley Hospital, Washington, D.C., December 24, 1992 (age 74 years, 6 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      John Vines Wright (1828-1908) — of Tennessee. Born in Purdy, McNairy County, Tenn., June 28, 1828. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1855-61; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; justice of Tennessee state supreme court, 1870; candidate for Governor of Tennessee, 1880. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., June 11, 1908 (age 79 years, 349 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      William August Rodenberg (1865-1937) — also known as William A. Rodenberg — of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill. Born in Chester, Randolph County, Ill., October 30, 1865. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1896 (member, Credentials Committee), 1908, 1916, 1920; U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1899-1901, 1903-13, 1915-23 (21st District 1899-1901, 22nd District 1903-13, 1915-23). Died in 1937 (age about 71 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Cross-reference: Edward E. Miller
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Addison Taylor Smith (1862-1956) — also known as Addison T. Smith — of Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho. Born near Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, September 5, 1862. Republican. U.S. Representative from Idaho, 1913-33 (at-large 1913-17, 2nd District 1917-33). Died of lung cancer, in Washington, D.C., July 5, 1956 (age 93 years, 304 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892-1961) — also known as Sumner Welles — of Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Md. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 14, 1892. Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1933; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1936, 1940; U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1937-43. Episcopalian. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died September 24, 1961 (age 68 years, 345 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Benjamin J. Welles and Frances Wyeth (Swan) Welles; married, April 14, 1915, to Esther 'Hope' Slater; married, June 27, 1925, to Mathilde Townsend (ex-wife of Peter Goelet Gerry).
      Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York; Lincoln-Lee family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
    Stanton J. Peelle Stanton Judkins Peelle (1843-1928) — also known as Stanton J. Peelle — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Wayne County, Ind., February 11, 1843. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1877-79; U.S. Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1881-84; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1888 (alternate), 1892; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1892-1913; law professor. Presbyterian. Member, Loyal Legion; Grand Army of the Republic; Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., September 4, 1928 (age 85 years, 206 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Cox Peelle and Ruth (Smith) Peelle; married, July 16, 1867, to Lou R. Perkins; married, October 16, 1878, to Mary Arabella Canfield; nephew of William A. Peelle.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Image source: Men of Mark in America (1906)
      Samuel Billingsley Hill (1875-1958) — also known as Samuel B. Hill; Sam B. Hill — of Waterville, Douglas County, Wash. Born in Franklin, Izard County, Ark., April 2, 1875. Democrat. Lawyer; Douglas County Prosecuting Attorney, 1907-11; superior court judge in Washington, 1917-23; U.S. Representative from Washington 5th District, 1923-36; defeated, 1922; judge, U.S. Board of Tax Appeals (Tax Court), 1936-53. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., March 16, 1958 (age 82 years, 348 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Clare Hayes Timberlake (1907-1982) — also known as Clare H. Timberlake — of Jackson, Jackson County, Mich.; Fort Sumner, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Jackson, Jackson County, Mich., October 29, 1907. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Toronto, 1931; Buenos Aires, as of 1932; Zurich, as of 1938; U.S. Ambassador to Congo (Leopoldville), 1960-61. Died in a nursing home at Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., February 22, 1982 (age 74 years, 116 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Julia Frances Meehan.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Willmot Renchard (1907-1982) — also known as George W. Renchard — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., June 19, 1907. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Izmir, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in Algiers, 1944; Paris, 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, 1968-69. Killed in an automobile accident in Saudi Arabia, January 15, 1982 (age 74 years, 210 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Stellita Stapleton.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Edward Brooke Lee Jr. (1917-2004) — also known as E. Brooke Lee, Jr. — of Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md.; Washington, D.C.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., October 25, 1917. Real estate developer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1944, 1952 (member, Credentials Committee); marketing and accounting executive with Scott Paper Company; candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., 1982; pleaded guilty in July 1995 to misdemeanor child abuse after being charged with fondling a babysitter; reportedly fined and given a suspended sentence; later settled a civil suit against him by the babysitter's parents. Died, from congestive heart failure, in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md., August 20, 2004 (age 86 years, 300 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Elizabeth Somerville (Wilson) Lee and Edward Brooke Lee; brother of Blair Lee III; married to Brenda Joyce Baker; grandson of Francis Preston Blair Lee; great-grandnephew of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; second great-grandson of Francis Preston Blair, Augustus Rhodes Sollers and Daniel Robeadeau Clymer; second great-grandnephew of Hiester Clymer; third great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee and James Blair; third great-grandnephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee and William Hiester; fourth great-grandnephew of John Hiester and Daniel Hiester (1747-1804); first cousin twice removed of James Lawrence Blair and Gist Blair; first cousin four times removed of Isaac Ellmaker Hiester; first cousin five times removed of Daniel Hiester (1774-1834); first cousin six times removed of Joseph Hiester; second cousin four times removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin five times removed of John Eager Howard; third cousin thrice removed of John Lee and William Julian Albert; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Wingate Folk.
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Muhlenberg-Hiester family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Benjamin Butterworth (1837-1898) — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born near Maineville, Warren County, Ohio, October 22, 1837. Republican. Lawyer; member of Ohio state senate, 1874-75; U.S. Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1879-83, 1885-91; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1880; U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1896-98. Died in Thomasville, Thomas County, Ga., January 16, 1898 (age 60 years, 86 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Frank Seller Butterworth.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Samuel G. Hilborn Samuel Greeley Hilborn (1834-1899) — also known as Samuel G. Hilborn — of Vallejo, Solano County, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda County, Calif. Born in Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, December 9, 1834. Republican. Lawyer; member of California state senate, 1875-79; delegate to California state constitutional convention, 1879; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1880; U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1883-86; U.S. Representative from California 3rd District, 1892-94, 1895-99. Died in Washington, D.C., April 19, 1899 (age 64 years, 131 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)
      Richard Wellington Townshend (1840-1889) — also known as Richard W. Townshend — of Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill. Born in Prince George's County, Md., April 13, 1840. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Illinois 19th District, 1877-89; died in office 1889. Died in Washington, D.C., 1889 (age about 49 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Hubert Anton Casimir Dilger (1836-1911) — also known as Hubert Dilger — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; Sangamon County, Ill.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Sulgen, Germany, March 5, 1836. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Adjutant General of Illinois, 1869-73; appointed 1869. German ancestry. Received the Medal of Honor in 1893 for action in the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863. Died in Front Royal, Warren County, Va., May 4, 1911 (age 75 years, 60 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Eduard Dilger and Emmeline (Duerr) Dilger.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Jesse Corcoran Adkins (1879-1955) — of Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md.; Washington, D.C. Born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., April 13, 1879. Republican. Lawyer; law professor; justice of District of Columbia supreme court, 1930-36; U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1936-46; took senior status 1946. Disciples of Christ. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons; Phi Alpha Delta. Died in Washington, D.C., March 29, 1955 (age 75 years, 350 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Milton T. Adkins and Sarah Elizabeth (Walker) Adkins; married, July 14, 1903, to Bertha McNaught.
      See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article
      Henry Perkins Smith III (1911-1995) — also known as Henry P. Smith III — of North Tonawanda, Niagara County, N.Y. Born in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, N.Y., September 29, 1911. Republican. Lawyer; mayor of North Tonawanda, N.Y., 1961-63; Niagara County Judge, 1963-64; U.S. Representative from New York, 1965-75 (40th District 1965-73, 36th District 1973-75). Presbyterian. Member, Rotary. Died in Washington, D.C., October 1, 1995 (age 84 years, 2 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Perkins Smith and Ida Hale (Hubbell) Smith; brother of Katharine Hale Smith (daughter-in-law of James P. Mackenzie); married, April 3, 1937, to Helen Elliott Belding; first cousin six times removed of Andrew Adams; second cousin thrice removed of Rhamanthus Menville Stocker; eighth great-grandson of Thomas Welles.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Wildman family of Danbury, Connecticut; Beakes-Greene-Witter family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Beriah Wilkins (1846-1905) — of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Born near Richwood, Union County, Ohio, July 10, 1846. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Ohio state senate, 1880; U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1883-89 (16th District 1883-85, 15th District 1885-87, 16th District 1887-89). Died in Washington, D.C., June 7, 1905 (age 58 years, 332 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
    Joseph W. Babcock Joseph Weeks Babcock (1850-1909) — also known as Joseph W. Babcock — of Necedah, Juneau County, Wis. Born in Swanton, Franklin County, Vt., March 6, 1850. Republican. Lumber business; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1889-92; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1893-1907. Died in Washington, D.C., April 27, 1909 (age 59 years, 52 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1867 to Mary A. Finch; married to Kate W. King; grandson of Joseph Weeks.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1902
    John J. Kleiner John Jay Kleiner (1845-1911) — also known as John J. Kleiner — of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind. Born in West Hanover, Dauphin County, Pa., February 8, 1845. Democrat. Mayor of Evansville, Ind., 1874-80; U.S. Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1883-87. Died in Takoma Park, Montgomery County, Md., April 8, 1911 (age 66 years, 59 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: John Jay
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: City of Evansville
      Thetus Willrette Sims (1852-1939) — also known as Thetus W. Sims — of Linden, Perry County, Tenn. Born in Wayne County, Tenn., April 25, 1852. Democrat. Lawyer; superintendent of schools; candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1897-1921. Died in 1939 (age about 87 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      John William Boehne Jr. (1895-1973) — also known as John W. Boehne, Jr. — of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind. Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind., March 2, 1895. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; manufacturer; U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1931-43 (1st District 1931-33, 8th District 1933-43); defeated, 1928 (1st District), 1942 (8th District). Lutheran. Member, Kiwanis. Died in Irvington, Baltimore County, Md., July 5, 1973 (age 78 years, 125 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John William Boehne, Sr. and Emilie (Ide) Boehne; married, April 14, 1920, to Selma O. Heitmuller.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      John Gore Long (1846-1903) — also known as John G. Long — of St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Fla. Born in Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C., August 19, 1846. Republican. Lawyer; State's Attorney, 7th Judicial Circuit, 1870-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1876, 1896 (member, Credentials Committee); member of Republican National Committee from Florida, 1896-1901; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1899-1902; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1899-1902. Suffered an accidental fall from the front steps of the house where he was staying, fractured his skull, and died soon after, in Dunbar, Scotland, July 28, 1903 (age 56 years, 343 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Gabriel Long and Elizabeth Ann (Gore) Long.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Lewis Edwin Payson (1840-1909) — also known as Lewis E. Payson — of Pontiac, Livingston County, Ill. Born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., September 17, 1840. Republican. U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1881-91 (8th District 1881-83, 9th District 1883-91). Died in Washington, D.C., October 4, 1909 (age 69 years, 17 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Herbert Stewart Goold (1886-1971) — also known as Herbert S. Goold — of San Francisco, Calif. Born in San Francisco, Calif., August 10, 1886. Lawyer; U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1930-34; Helsingfors, 1934-36; Toronto, 1937; Casablanca, 1937-38. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., April 20, 1971 (age 84 years, 253 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Edmond Louis Goold and Louise Keating (Stewart) Goold; married, May 3, 1920, to Cora (Butterworth) Smith.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Charles Harvey Denby Jr. (1861-1938) — also known as Charles Denby — of Indiana; Washington, D.C. Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind., November 14, 1861. U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, as of 1907-09; Vienna, 1909-15; vice-president, Hupp Motor Car Corporation, Detroit, 1915-17. Died in Washington, D.C., February 14, 1938 (age 76 years, 92 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Charles Harvey Denby and Martha (Fitch) Denby; brother of Edwin Denby; married, March 19, 1895, to Martha Dalzell Orr; father of James Orr Denby; grandson of Graham Newell Fitch; third cousin thrice removed of Jonas Mapes.
      Political families: Conkling-Seymour family of Utica, New York; Mapes-Jennings-Denby-Harrison family of New York and Arizona; Denby-Fitch family of Evansville, Indiana; Tyler family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Israel Moore Foster (1873-1950) — of Ohio. Born in Athens, Athens County, Ohio, January 12, 1873. Republican. Lawyer; Athens County Prosecuting Attorney, 1902-10; U.S. Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1919-25; Commissioner, U.S. Court of Claims, 1925-42. Died in Washington, D.C., June 10, 1950 (age 77 years, 149 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Frances Witman.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) — also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron Kay; Katherine Everard — of Barrytown, Dutchess County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born, in the Cadet Hospital, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange County, N.Y., October 3, 1925. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1982. Atheist. Bisexual. Novelist, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, appeared as an actor in several films. Not actually related to Al Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al". Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 31, 2012 (age 86 years, 302 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina Gore Auchincloss (1903-1978); half-brother of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married Newton Ivan Steers Jr.); step-brother of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III and Jaqueline Lee Bouvier (who married John Fitzgerald Kennedy); grandson of Thomas Pryor Gore.
      Political family: Kennedy family.
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books by Gore Vidal: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated (2002) — Dreaming War : Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (2002) — The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2002) — Palimpsest: A Memoir (1996) — Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003)
      Fiction by Gore Vidal: Live from Golgotha — Julian — Creation: A Novel — Lincoln: A Novel — Burr — 1876: A Novel — Empire: A Novel — Hollywood — Washington, D.C.: A Novel — The Golden Age: A Novel — Myra Breckinridge — Two Sisters — Kalki — Duluth — The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel — The City and the Pillar — Williwaw: A Novel
      Harry M. Clabaugh (1856-1914) — of Westminster, Carroll County, Md.; Washington, D.C. Born in Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., July 16, 1856. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1884; Maryland Republican state chair, 1891-95; Maryland state attorney general, 1895-99; justice of District of Columbia supreme court, 1903. Died in Washington, D.C., March 6, 1914 (age 57 years, 233 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of G. W. Clabaugh and Ellen Clabaugh; married to Catherine Swope.
      Effiegene Locke Wingo (1883-1962) — also known as Effiegene Wingo; Effie Gene Locke — of De Queen, Sevier County, Ark. Born in Lockesburg, Sevier County, Ark., April 13, 1883. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Arkansas 4th District, 1930-33. Female. Died in Burlington, Ontario, September 19, 1962 (age 79 years, 159 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, October 15, 1902, to Otis Theodore Wingo; third great-granddaughter of Matthew Locke.
      Political family: Locke-Wingo family of Salisbury, North Carolina.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) — also known as Alice Lee Roosevelt; "Princess Alice" — of Washington, D.C. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 12, 1884. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936, 1940 (speaker); newspaper columnist. Female. Died, from pneumonia, emphysema, and cardiac arrest, in Washington, D.C., February 20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Step-daughter of Edith Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt; half-sister of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; married, February 17, 1906, to Nicholas Longworth; niece of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; grandniece of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; grandaunt of Susan Roosevelt Weld; great-grandniece of James I. Roosevelt; second great-grandniece of William Bellinger Bulloch; third great-granddaughter of Archibald Bulloch; first cousin of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Corinne Robinson Alsop and William Sheffield Cowles; first cousin once removed of James Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Corinne A. Chubb, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John deKoven Alsop; second cousin thrice removed of Philip DePeyster; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr..
      Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Carol Felsenthal, Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
      Image source: Time magazine, February 7, 1927
      William Farrington Aldrich (1853-1925) — also known as William F. Aldrich — of Aldrich, Shelby County, Ala. Born in Palmyra, Wayne County, N.Y., March 11, 1853. Republican. Civil engineer; mining business; manufacturer; postmaster; U.S. Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1896-97, 1898-99, 1900-01; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1900, 1904. Died in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., October 30, 1925 (age 72 years, 233 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William F. Aldrich and Louisa Maria (Klapp) Aldrich; brother of Truman Heminway Aldrich; married, April 16, 1889, to Josephine Cables; married, July 15, 1920, to Fannie Spire; second great-grandfather of William Jackson Edwards.
      Political family: Aldrich family of Birmingham, Alabama.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Dow Watters Harter (1885-1971) — also known as Dow W. Harter — of Akron, Summit County, Ohio. Born in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, January 2, 1885. Democrat. Member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1919-20; U.S. Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1933-43. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Elks; Eagles; Moose. Died in Washington, D.C., September 4, 1971 (age 86 years, 245 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Josiah J. Harter and Anna Lillian (Watters) Harter; married 1911 to Winifred Marie Cole.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Martin Franklin Conway (1827-1882) — also known as Martin F. Conway — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan.; Lawrence, Douglas County, Kan. Born near Fallston, Harford County, Md., November 19, 1827. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1856; U.S. Representative from Kansas at-large, 1859-63; U.S. Consul in Marseille, as of 1866. Died in Washington, D.C., February 15, 1882 (age 54 years, 88 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      William Wirt Dixon (1838-1910) — also known as William W. Dixon — of Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., June 3, 1838. Democrat. Member of Montana territorial House of Representatives, 1871; delegate to Montana state constitutional convention, 1883, 1889; U.S. Representative from Montana at-large, 1891-93. Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., November 13, 1910 (age 72 years, 163 days). Original interment at Old Calvary Cemetery (which no longer exists), Los Angeles, Calif.; reinterment in 1911 at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: William Wirt
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Terence Powderly Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924) — also known as Terence Powderly — of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa. Born in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pa., January 22, 1849. Machinist; mayor of Scranton, Pa., 1878-84; one of the founders of the Knights of Labor; U.S. Commissioner General of Immigration, 1897-1902. Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died June 24, 1924 (age 75 years, 154 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Epitaph: "That is the most perfect government in which an injury to one is the concern of all."
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, August 1897
      George Washington Paschal (1812-1878) — also known as George W. Paschal; Lorenzo Columbus George Washington Paschal — of Van Buren, Crawford County, Ark.; Galveston, Galveston County, Tex.; Austin, Travis County, Tex.; Washington, D.C. Born in Greene County, Ga., November 23, 1812. Lawyer; newspaper editor; justice of Arkansas state supreme court, 1840; Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1846; candidate for Texas state attorney general, 1850; delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1868. French Huguenot ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1878 (age 65 years, 85 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: George Washington
      Relatives: Son of George Paschal and Agnes (Brewer) Paschal; married, February 27, 1837, to Sarah Ridge; married to Marcia (Duval) Price (daughter of William Pope Duval) and Mary (Scoville) Harper.
      Jeremiah Morrow Wilson (1828-1901) — of Indiana. Born in Ohio, 1828. Republican. U.S. Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1871-75. Died in 1901 (age about 73 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Abner Taylor (1829-1903) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Maine, 1829. Republican. Member of Illinois state legislature, 1884; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1884; U.S. Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1889-93. Died April 13, 1903 (age about 73 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Jasper Ewing Brady (1797-1871) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., March 4, 1797. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1844; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 16th District, 1847-49. Died in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1871 (age 73 years, 328 days). Original interment at City Cemetery, Sunbury, Pa.; reinterment in 1893 at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Daniel Eton Somes (1815-1888) — also known as Daniel E. Somes — of Biddeford, York County, Maine. Born in Meredith (part now in Laconia), Belknap County, N.H., May 20, 1815. Republican. Mayor of Biddeford, Maine, 1855-56; U.S. Representative from Maine 1st District, 1859-61. Died in Washington, D.C., February 13, 1888 (age 72 years, 269 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      George Taylor (1820-1894) — of New York. Born in Virginia, October 19, 1820. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1857-59. Died January 18, 1894 (age 73 years, 91 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902) — also known as Albert G. Riddle — of Geauga County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Washington, D.C. Born in Monson, Hampden County, Mass., May 28, 1816. Republican. Lawyer; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1848-50; U.S. Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1861-63; U.S. Consul in Matanzas, 1863-64. Died in Washington, D.C., May 16, 1902 (age 85 years, 353 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Presumably named for: Albert Gallatin
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Louis Brownlow (1879-1963) — of Paducah, McCracken County, Ky.; Washington, D.C.; Petersburg, Va.; Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn.; Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Buffalo, Dallas County, Mo., August 29, 1879. Democrat. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1915-20; President of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1917-20; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1916 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business); city manager, Petersburg, Va., 1920-23; city manager, Knoxville, Tenn., 1924-26. Member, American Public Health Association. Died in Arlington, Arlington County, Va., September 27, 1963 (age 84 years, 29 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Ruth Adelia (Amis) Brownlow and Robert Sims Brownlow; married, December 22, 1909, to Elizabeth Sims.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Edward Brooke Lee (1892-1984) — also known as E. Brooke Lee — of Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Washington, D.C., October 23, 1892. Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; Maryland state comptroller, 1920-22; secretary of state of Maryland, 1923-25; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1924 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee), 1928, 1940; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1927-30; Speaker of the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1927-30; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1942. Episcopalian. Member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars. Died, from pneumonia, in Frederick, Frederick County, Md., September 21, 1984 (age 91 years, 334 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Francis Preston Blair Lee and Anne Clymer (Brooke) Lee; married 1914 to Elizabeth Summerville Wilson; married to Thelma LouEllen (Lawson) Crawford and Nina G. Jones; father of Blair Lee III, Edward Brooke Lee Jr. and Elizabeth Lee (who married David Scull); grandnephew of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; great-grandson of Francis Preston Blair and Daniel Robeadeau Clymer; great-grandnephew of Hiester Clymer; second great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee and James Blair; second great-grandnephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee and William Hiester; third great-grandnephew of John Hiester and Daniel Hiester (1747-1804); first cousin once removed of James Lawrence Blair and Gist Blair; first cousin thrice removed of Isaac Ellmaker Hiester; first cousin four times removed of Daniel Hiester (1774-1834); first cousin five times removed of Joseph Hiester; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; second cousin four times removed of John Eager Howard; third cousin twice removed of John Lee and William Julian Albert; third cousin thrice removed of Zachary Taylor, George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard and Henry Augustus Muhlenberg; fourth cousin of Joseph Wingate Folk; fourth cousin once removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Talbot Jones Albert, Ethel Gist Cantrill and Carey Estes Kefauver.
      Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Congdon Gorham (1832-1909) — also known as George C. Gorham — of Marysville, Yuba County, Calif.; Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.; Washington, D.C. Born in Greenport, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., July 5, 1832. Newspaper editor; Union candidate for Governor of California, 1867; member of Republican National Committee from California, 1868-. Died in Washington, D.C., February 11, 1909 (age 76 years, 221 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Edward Kernan Campbell (1858-1938) — of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala. Born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., April 17, 1858. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1912; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1913. Died December 7, 1938 (age 80 years, 234 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Hiram A. Boucher (1896-1967) — of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn.; Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Eureka, McPherson County, S.Dak., December 14, 1896. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Barcelona, 1921-24; U.S. Consul in Dublin, 1924-27; Cobh, 1928-29; Rome, 1929-36; Geneva, 1936-41; Auckland, 1941-45; U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, 1945-47. Member, Phi Delta Theta. Died November 15, 1967 (age 70 years, 336 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Lyman Trumbull Boucher and Helen Augusta (Melville) Boucher; married, April 11, 1925, to Rosa E. Stokes.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      George Gregg Fuller (1886-1973) — of Alexandria, Va. Born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., October 29, 1886. Officer of telephone companies, 1910-13; served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; U.S. Vice Consul in Oslo, 1920-21; Trondheim, 1921; Malmo, 1921; Reval, 1921-22; Jerusalem, 1923; Bushire, 1923-24; Teheran, 1924-26; Berlin, 1926-27; U.S. Consul in Niagara Falls, 1927-28; Kingston, 1928-33; Winnipeg, as of 1938-43; Saint John, as of 1943-44; Antwerp, as of 1944-45; major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Consul General in Tunis, as of 1946-48. Member, Psi Upsilon. Died March 12, 1973 (age 86 years, 134 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George R. Fuller and Helen (Gregg) Fuller; married, February 27, 1926, to Therese Alston Williams.
      Charles Alexander Bay (1886-1978) — also known as Charles A. Bay — of Five Corners, Bucks County, Pa. Born in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, June 7, 1886. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Dublin, 1920-22; Casablanca, 1923; Port-au-Prince, 1924; U.S. Consul in Tampico, 1924-26; Corinto, 1926; Tientsin, 1927; Bangkok, 1928-29; Seville, 1936-39; U.S. Consul General in Milan, 1946-48. Episcopalian. Died in Lahaska, Bucks County, Pa., June 2, 1978 (age 91 years, 360 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Lewis Bay and Cecelia Sarah (Radenbach) Bay; married, July 24, 1929, to Opal Alydia Martin.
      John Baldwin Raymond (1844-1886) — also known as John B. Raymond — Born in Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y., December 5, 1844. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1883-85. Died in Fargo, Cass County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.), January 3, 1886 (age 41 years, 29 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Frederick Alexander Fenning (1874-1944) — also known as Frederick A. Fenning — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., October 23, 1874. Republican. Member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1925-26; resigned 1926. Presbyterian. Member, Sons of the American Revolution. Died in 1944 (age about 69 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James A. Fenning and Mary (Anderson) Fenning; married, October 18, 1899, to Blanche Alisan Hine.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro (1885-1971) — also known as Sidney F. Taliaferro — of Washington, D.C. Born in Salem, Va., March 4, 1885. Democrat. Lawyer; law professor; banker; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; director, Washington Gas Light Co. and Georgetown Gas Light Co.; board member, Columbia Hospital. Episcopalian. Member, American Bar Association; Delta Chi; Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., June 21, 1971 (age 86 years, 109 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Van Tromp Taliaferro and Sallie (Pendleton) Taliaferro; married, October 3, 1916, to Elizabeth Kirkwood Fulton; grandson of Albert Gallatin Pendleton; grandnephew of John Strother Pendleton; third great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Aylett Hawes Buckner; first cousin four times removed of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; first cousin five times removed of William Grayson; second cousin twice removed of Philip Coleman Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Zachary Taylor, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of John Penn, James Madison, William Taylor Madison, George Madison, Alfred William Grayson and Beverly Robinson Grayson; second cousin five times removed of John Walker, John Tyler and Francis Walker; third cousin once removed of Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton.
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Frank Fabian Mankiewicz (1924-2014) — also known as Frank Mankiewicz — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Montgomery County, Md. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., May 16, 1924. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for California state assembly, 1950; lawyer; author; press secretary for Robert F. Kennedy, 1966-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968; campaign manager for George McGovern's presidential campaign, 1972; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1976; president, National Public Radio, 1977-83. Jewish. Died, of heart failure while suffering from lung problems, in a hospital at Washington, D.C., October 23, 2014 (age 90 years, 160 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Herman J. Mankiewicz and Sara Sulamith (Aaronson) Mankiewicz; brother of Don Martin Mankiewicz; married, April 23, 1952, to Hollie Lou Jolley; married, January 2, 1988, to Patricia O'Brien.
      See also Wikipedia article — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Hermann Schoenfeld (1861-1926) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Oppeln, Prussia (now Opole, Poland), January 21, 1861. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university professor; U.S. Consul in Riga, 1893-94; Consul-General for Turkey in Washington, D.C., 1899-1910. German ancestry. Died in Wildwood Crest, Cape May County, N.J., July 4, 1926 (age 65 years, 164 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Johanna Richter.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Hoval A. Smith (1876-c.1954) — of Arizona. Born in Iowa, 1876. Republican. Mining engineer; candidate for U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1911. Norwegian ancestry. Advocated the annexation of Sonora from Mexico to the U.S. Died about 1954 (age about 78 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Nina R. Smith.
      Edmund Brewer Montgomery (1891-1970) — also known as Edmund B. Montgomery — of Quincy, Adams County, Ill. Born in Quincy, Adams County, Ill., September 18, 1891. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Port Limon, 1919; Barranquilla, 1920-22; Montevideo, 1922; U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1922-24; London, 1924; Madras, 1926-29; San Luis Potosi, as of 1938. Unitarian. Member, Zeta Psi. Died in 1970 (age about 78 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Robert Wishard Montgomery and Cora May (Rogers) Montgomery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934) — also known as Charles R. Flint; "Father of Trusts" — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine, January 24, 1850. Shipping business; shipowner; financier; Consul for Chile in New York, N.Y., 1877-79; Consul-General for Costa Rica in New York, N.Y., 1891-96; in the 1890s, he consolidated groups of smaller companies to form large corporations or "trusts": U.S. Rubber (1892); American Chicle (chewing gum) (1899); American Woolen (1899); founder, in 1911, of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which later became International Busines Machines (IBM). Died, in his room at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., February 26, 1934 (age 84 years, 33 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Benjamin Chapman Flint and Sarah (Tobey) Flint; half-brother of Wallace Benjamin Flint; married, November 21, 1883, to Emma Katherine 'E. Kate' Simmons; married, July 28, 1927, to Charlotte Reeves.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Frederick Simpich (1878-1950) — of Wenatchee, Chelan County, Wash. Born in Urbana, Champaign County, Ill., November 21, 1878. Stenographer; newspaper correspondent; U.S. Consul in Baghdad, 1909-11; Ensenada, 1911; Nogales, as of 1916-17; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Nogales, as of 1914. Suffered a heart attack at National Airport, where he was about to board a plane, and died soon after in Garfield Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1950 (age 71 years, 65 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Margaret Edwards.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Harry Alexander McBride (1887-1961) — also known as Harry A. McBride — of Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich. Born in Flint, Genesee County, Mich., October 14, 1887. Manager of printing and advertising for a hotel, 1905-08; U.S. Consular Agent in Bilbao, 1909-10; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Barcelona, 1910-11; Zurich, 1911-13; Boma, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Boma, 1915-16; London, 1916-17; Malaga, 1923-29; U.S. Consul in London, 1917-18; Warsaw, 1919-20; Acting General Receiver of Customs and Financial Advisor for Liberia, 1918-19. Died in 1961 (age about 73 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Alexander McBride and Frances Ellen (Tyler) McBride; married 1915 to Ruth K. Quine; father of Robert Henry McBride.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Aubrey Erskine Lippincott (1905-1984) — also known as Aubrey E. Lippincott — of Tucson, Pima County, Ariz. Born in Tucson, Pima County, Ariz., November 22, 1905. U.S. Vice Consul in Barcelona, as of 1932; Montevideo, as of 1934; Panama, as of 1943; U.S. Consul in Buenos Aires, 1944-46. Died in Roanoke, Va., June 21, 1984 (age 78 years, 212 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Col. Aubrey Lippincott and Frecia (Montoya) Lippincott; married to Leda Liebermeister.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      John C. Shillock (1906-1980) — Born in Portland, Multnomah County, Ore., 1906. U.S. Vice Consul in Buenos Aires, as of 1931-32; U.S. Consul in Lisbon, as of 1940. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 2, 1980 (age about 73 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Mary Louise Hess; grandnephew of Daniel George Shillock.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Kenneth Biddle Atkinson (1907-1991) — also known as Kenneth B. Atkinson — of McLean, Fairfax County, Va. Born January 2, 1907. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Birmingham, 1959. Died in McLean, Fairfax County, Va., November 6, 1991 (age 84 years, 308 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of William Peterson Atkinson and Helen (Underhill) Atkinson; married, May 16, 1936, to Eileen 'Ikey' Damon.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      J. Enos Ray (d. 1934) — of Baltimore, Md. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1924, 1928 (member, Credentials Committee); Maryland Democratic state chair, 1925-34. Died in 1934. Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876) — also known as Francis P. Blair — of Maryland. Born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., April 12, 1791. Newspaper publisher; member of Pres. Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet" of trusted advisors; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1856 (member, Platform Committee), 1860; advisor to Pres. Abraham Lincoln during Civil War. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., October 18, 1876 (age 85 years, 189 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Eliza Preston (Smith) Blair and James Blair; married, July 21, 1812, to Eliza Violet Gist; father of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; grandfather of James Lawrence Blair, Francis Preston Blair Lee and Gist Blair; great-grandfather of Edward Brooke Lee; second great-grandfather of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr..
      Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Gist Blair (1860-1940) — of St. Louis, Mo.; Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md.; Kensington, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Washington, D.C., September 10, 1860. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1912 (alternate), 1916. Died in Washington, D.C., December 16, 1940 (age 80 years, 97 days). Entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Montgomery Blair and Mary Elizabeth (Woodbury) Blair; married, March 4, 1912, to Laura Ellis Lawson; nephew of Charles Levi Woodbury and Francis Preston Blair Jr.; grandson of Levi Woodbury and Francis Preston Blair; great-grandson of James Blair; first cousin of James Lawrence Blair and Francis Preston Blair Lee; first cousin once removed of Edward Brooke Lee; first cousin twice removed of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin of Gordon Woodbury and Charlotte Eliza Woodbury; second cousin thrice removed of John Eager Howard; third cousin once removed of William Julian Albert and Joseph Wingate Folk; third cousin twice removed of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard and Carey Estes Kefauver; third cousin thrice removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; fourth cousin of Talbot Jones Albert and Ethel Gist Cantrill.
      Political family: Lee-Randolph family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Lewis T. Breuninger Sr. (c.1893-1974) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., about 1893. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from District of Columbia, 1956 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business); member of Republican National Committee from District of Columbia, 1960-68. Methodist. Member, Kiwanis. Died of a heart attack, January 27, 1974 (age about 81 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Stewart Going Anderson (1912-1983) — also known as Stewart G. Anderson — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., June 10, 1912. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Toronto, 1941; Montevideo, 1941-43; special assistant to New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller; represented the Governor in meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries. Died in March, 1983 (age 70 years, 0 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Marguerite Giraud.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      William C. Affeld Jr. (1906-1985) — of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn.; Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md. Born October 20, 1906. U.S. Vice Consul in Kobe, as of 1938. Died in 1985 (age about 78 years). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
      Malcolm Stuart McConihe — also known as Malcolm S. McConihe — of Washington, D.C. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944; member of Democratic National Committee from District of Columbia, 1939-40. Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Nicolas Rene Arroyo (1917-2008) — also known as Nicolas R. Arroyo — of Washington, D.C. Born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, August 31, 1917. Republican. Architect; Cuban minister of public works, 1952-58; Cuban ambassador to the U.S., 1958; delegate to Republican National Convention from District of Columbia, 1988. Cuban ancestry. Member, American Institute of Architects. Died in Washington, D.C., July 13, 2008 (age 90 years, 317 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married 1942 to Gabriela Menendez Garcia-Beltran.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      James Jackson (1757-1806) — of Georgia. Born in Devon, England, September 21, 1757. Delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-91; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1793-95, 1801-06; died in office 1806; Governor of Georgia, 1798-1801. Killed George Wells in a duel in 1780; injured in both knees. Died in Washington, D.C., March 19, 1806 (age 48 years, 179 days). Original interment at Rock Creek Cemetery; reinterment in 1832 at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Father of Jabez Young Jackson; grandfather of James Jackson (1819-1887).
      Political family: Jackson family of Georgia.
      Jackson County, Ga. is named for him.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS James Jackson (built 1942 at Savannah, Georgia; scrapped 1973) was named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) — of Alabama. Born in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., September 21, 1851. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97. Author of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books. Died in Washington, D.C., December 26, 1922 (age 71 years, 96 days). Originally entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery; reinterment at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
      Relatives: Son of Richard Nixon Taylor and Susan (Stevenson) Taylor; brother of Richard Vipon Taylor; married, May 8, 1878, to Mary Leonora LeBaron (daughter of William Alexander LeBaron; sister of Leonard DeCantlaine LeBaron; granddaughter of Charles LeBaron).
      Political family: LeBaron-Taylor family of Mobile, Alabama.
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Hannis Taylor (built 1943 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1972) was named for him.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial


    St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
    2121 Lincoln Road N.E.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Leo Brent Bozell (1926-1997) — also known as L. Brent Bozell — of Maryland. Born in Omaha, Douglas County, Neb., January 19, 1926. Republican. Co-founded the Young Americans for Freedom; speechwriter for Joseph R. McCarthy and Barry M. Goldwater; candidate for Maryland state house of delegates, 1958; candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1964. Catholic. Member, Young Americans for Freedom. Died, of pneumonia, at a nursing home in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., April 15, 1997 (age 71 years, 86 days). Interment at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Leo Brent Bozell (1886-1946) and Lois (Robbins) Bozell; married 1949 to Patricia Lee Buckley (sister of James Lane Buckley and William Frank Buckley Jr.).
      Political family: Buckley family of New York and Connecticut.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail


    Scott Circle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Daniel Webster Daniel Webster (1782-1852) — also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the Constitution" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass. Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack County, N.H., January 18, 1782. Whig. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned 1827; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President of the United States, 1836; U.S. Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852. Presbyterian. English ancestry. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass., October 24, 1852 (age 70 years, 280 days). Interment at Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott Circle; statue at State House Grounds, Boston, Mass.
      Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail (Eastman) Webster; married, May 29, 1808, to Grace Fletcher; second cousin once removed of Hiram Augustus Huse; second cousin twice removed of Edwin George Eastman; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo Mark Leffingwell; third cousin thrice removed of Henry Nichols Blake and John Leffingwell Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah Sabin, Charles Rowell and Amos Tuck.
      Political families: Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster family; Eastman-Webster-Blake-Rowell family; Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Daniel Webster WilderDaniel W. MillsDaniel W. JonesDaniel Webster ComstockDaniel W. WaughDaniel W. TallmadgeDaniel Webster HeagyDaniel W. WhitmoreDaniel W. HamiltonDaniel W. AllamanWebster TurnerDan W. TurnerDaniel W. HoanDaniel W. Ambrose, Jr.
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the $10 U.S. note from the 1860s until the early 20th century.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Daniel Webster: Robert Vincent Remini, Daniel Webster : The Man and His Time — Maurice G. Baxter, One and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union — Robert A. Allen, Daniel Webster, Defender of the Union — Richard N. Current, Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism — Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
      Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)
      Winfield Scott (1786-1866) — also known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" — Born in Dinwiddie County, Va., June 13, 1786. Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for Whig nomination for President, 1839, 1844, 1848; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for President of the United States, 1852. Died in West Point, Orange County, N.Y., May 29, 1866 (age 79 years, 350 days). Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.; statue erected 1874 at Scott Circle.
      Relatives: Son of William Scott and Anna (Mason) Scott; married 1817 to Mary D. Mayo (granddaughter of John De Hart); great-granduncle of Philip C. Hanna; first cousin twice removed of Frank Newsum Julian.
      Political family: Scott-DeHart-Hanna family of New Jersey and Alabama.
      Scott County, Iowa is named for him.
      Fort Scott (military installation 1842-73), and the subsequent city of Fort Scott, Kansas, were named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Winfield S. SherwoodWinfield S. SherwoodWinfield Scott FeatherstonWinfield S. HancockWinfield S. CameronWinfield S. HanfordWinfield S. SmythWinfield S. BirdW. S. BellWinfield S. HoldenWinfield S. HuntleyWinfield Scott NayWinfield S. SmithWinfield S. KerrWinfield Scott MooreWinfield S. LittleWinfield S. ChoateWinfield S. HoltWinfield S. PopeWinfield S. WatsonWinfield S. KeenholtsWinfield Scott SillowayWinfield S. VandewaterWinfield S. BraddockW. S. AllenWinfield S. HammondWinfield S. PhillipsWinfield S. SpencerWinfield S. RoseWinfield S. SchusterWinfield Scott AllisonWinfield S. BoyntonWinfield S. KenyonWinfield S. TibbettsWinfield S. WithrowWinfield S. HarroldWinfield Scott ReedWinfield S. GroveWinfield S. RogersWinfield S. BrownWinfield S. PealerWinfield S. Wallace, Jr.Winfield S. Hinds
      Epitaph: "History records his Eminent Services as a Warrior, Pacificator, and General In Chief of the Armies of the United States. Medals, and an Equestrian Statue ordered by Congress in the Capital of his Country, are his Public Monuments. This stone is a mark of the love and veneration of his Daughters. Requiescat in Pace."
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Winfield Scott: Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory


    Sherman Park
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
      William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) — Born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, February 8, 1820. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Secretary of War, 1869. Member, Loyal Legion. In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta, Georgia. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6 days). Interment at Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park.
      Relatives: Son of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles Robert Sherman; brother of Charles Taylor Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman and John Sherman; married, May 1, 1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas Welles; second cousin of David Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles Devens Osborne and Lithgow Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont Edwards and Aaron Burr; third cousin of Phineas Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight, Henry Waggaman Edwards, Ira Yale, Louis Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan Brace, Chauncey Goodrich and Elizur Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo Fairchild Barnum, Andrew Gould Chatfield, Henry Jarvis Raymond and Edwin Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Yale, Theodore Davenport, David Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Fred Lockwood Keeler and Thomas McKeen Chidsey.
      Political families: Otis family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are named for him.
      The community of Sherman, Michigan, is named for him.  — Mount Sherman, in Lake and Park counties, Colorado, is named for him.
      Politician named for him: W. T. S. Rath
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley P. Hirshson, The White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T. Sherman


    Treasury Building Grounds
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Albert Gallatin Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) — also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin — of Fayette County, Pa.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 1761. Democrat. Delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1790-92; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793-94; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1795-1801; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to France, 1815-23; Great Britain, 1826-27. Swiss ancestry. Died in Astoria, Queens, Queens County, N.Y., August 12, 1849 (age 88 years, 195 days). Entombed at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury Building Grounds.
      Relatives: Son of Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin; married 1789 to Sophie Allègre; married, November 11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson; second great-grandfather of May Preston Davie; cousin by marriage of Joseph Hopper Nicholson.
      Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Davie family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: John L. Dawson
      Gallatin counties in Ill., Ky. and Mont. are named for him.
      The city of Gallatin, Tennessee, is named for him.  — The village of Galatia, Illinois, is named for him.  — The Gallatin River, which flows through Gallatin County, Montana, is named for him.  — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Albert Gallatin (built 1941 at Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California; torpedoed and sunk 1944 in the Arabian Sea) was named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Albert Galliton HarrisonAlbert G. JewettAlbert G. HawesAlbert G. WakefieldAlbert Gallatin TalbottAlbert G. DowAlbert G. DoleAlbert Gallatin KelloggAlbert Gallatin MarchandAlbert G. BrownAlbert G. Brodhead, Jr.Albert G. AllisonAlbert G. RiddleAlbert Galiton WatkinsAlbert G. PorterAlbert Gallatin EgbertAlbert Gallatin JenkinsAlbert Gallatin CalvertAlbert G. LawrenceAlbert G. FosterAlbert G. Simms
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $500 note in 1862-63.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about Albert Gallatin: John Austin Stevens, Albert Gallatin: An American Statesman — L. B. Kuppenheimer, Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability — Nicholas Dungan, Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father — Raymond Walters, Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat
      Image source: New York Public Library
    Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) — also known as "Alexander the Coppersmith" — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Charles Town, Nevis, January 11, 1757. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York County, 1788; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95. Episcopalian. Scottish and French ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Society of the Cincinnati. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. Shot and mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 12, 1804 (age 47 years, 183 days). Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury Building Grounds; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
      Relatives: Son of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December 14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip John Schuyler; sister of Philip Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander Hamilton Jr., James Alexander Hamilton and William Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert Hamilton Woodruff.
      Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Nathaniel Pendleton — Robert Troup — John Tayler — William P. Van Ness
      Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are named for him.
      The city of Hamilton, Ohio, is named for him.  — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Alexander H. BuellAlexander H. HolleyHamilton FishAlexander H. StephensAlexander H. BullockAlexander H. BaileyAlexander H. RiceAlexander Hamilton JonesAlexander H. WatermanAlexander H. CoffrothAlexander H. DudleyAlexander H. RevellAlexander Hamilton HargisAlexander Hamilton PhillipsAlex Woodle
      Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $2 to $1,000.
      Personal motto: "Do it better yet."
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Historical Society of the New York Courts
      Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror : Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America — Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr — Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami, Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald Barr Chidsey, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson
      Critical books about Alexander Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution -- and What It means for Americans Today
      Image source: U.S. postage stamp (1957)


    U.S. Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National Cemetery
    21 Harewood Road N.W.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
    John A. Logan John Alexander Logan (1826-1886) — also known as John A. Logan; "Black Jack"; "Black Eagle of Illinois" — of Benton, Franklin County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Murphysboro, Jackson County, Ill., February 9, 1826. Member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1852; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1859-62, 1867-71 (9th District 1859-62, at-large 1867-71); general in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1868, 1880; U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1871-77, 1879-86; died in office 1886; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1884; Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1884. Member, Freemasons. Conceived the idea of Memorial Day and inaugurated the observance in May 1868. Died in Washington, D.C., December 26, 1886 (age 60 years, 320 days). Entombed at U.S. Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Logan.
      Logan counties in Colo., Kan., Neb., N.Dak. and Okla. are named for him.
      Fort Logan (established 1887, closed 1946), and Fort Logan National Cemetery (established 1950 on part of the same site) in Denver, Colorado, were named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John A. Logan (built 1942-43 at Richmond, California; renamed USS Alnitah; scrapped 1961) was originally named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books about John A. Logan: James Pickett Jones, John A. Logan : Stalwart Republican from Illinois
      Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)


    Ward Circle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
      Artemas Ward (1727-1800) — of Massachusetts. Born in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Mass., November 26, 1727. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; state court judge in Massachusetts, 1776-77; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1779-87; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1786-87; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1780-81; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1791-95 (7th District 1791-93, 2nd District 1793-95). Died in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Mass., October 28, 1800 (age 72 years, 336 days). Interment at Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Mass.; statue erected 1938 at Ward Circle.
      Relatives: Father of Artemas Ward Jr..
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier


    Washington Circle
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    George Washington George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President of the United States, 1789-97. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Society of the Cincinnati; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Fairfax County, Va., December 14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National Mall; statue erected 1860 at Washington Circle; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
      Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January 6, 1759, to Martha Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell Bassett); step-father of John Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles Magill Conrad; granduncle of John Thornton Augustine Washington and George Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Howell Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand Sutherland Ross and David Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker Peyton Conway, Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas Henry Ball Jr., William de Bruyn=Kops, Horace Lee Washington, Edwin McPherson Holden, Claude C. Ball, Arthur Wesley Holden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden.
      Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; King family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Henry Lee — Joshua Fry — Alexander Dimitry — Tobias Lear — David Mathews — Rufus Putnam
      Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are named for him.
      The city of Washington, D.C., is named for him.  — The state of Washington is named for him.  — Mount Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: George Washington Lent MarrGeorge Washington HeardGeorge Washington BarnettGeorge Washington DavisGeorge W. OwenGeorge W. TolandGeorge W. LayGeorge W. PattersonGeorge W. B. TownsGeorge Washington AdamsGeorge Washington HockleyGeorge W. SmythG. W. IngersollGeorge W. HopkinsGeorge Washington MontgomeryJoseph George Washington DuncanGeorge W. KittredgeGeorge W. JonesGeorge W. HarrisonGeorge Washington EwingGeorge Washington SeabrookGeorge W. MorrisonGeorge Washington WoodwardGeorge Washington WrightGeorge Washington TriplettGeorge Washington GlasscockGeorge W. SchuylerGeorge Washington HolmanGeorge W. GreeneGeorge W. WolcottGeorge W. PaschalGeorge Washington DunlapGeorge Washington WarrenGeorge Washington HillGeorge Washington LoganGeorge W. GetchellGeorge W. WrightGeorge W. JulianGeorge Washington DyalGeorge W. LaddGeorge W. PeckGeorge Washington NesmithGeorge W. MorganGeorge Washington BrooksGeorge Washington CowlesGeorge W. GeddesGeorge Washington WhitmoreGeorge Washington BridgesGeorge W. CateGeorge W. HoukGeorge W. WebberGeorge W. BemisGeorge Washington FairbrotherGeorge Washington GlickGeorge W. JonesGeorge W. BakerGeorge W. ShellGeorge W. AndersonGeorge W. CrouseGeorge W. HulickGeorge W. AllenGeorge W. F. HarperGeorge Washington ClarkGeorge Washington McCraryGeorge W. GordonGeorge W. KingsburyGeorge W. CovingtonGeorge Washington FleegerGeorge W. SteeleGeorge W. WilsonGeorge W. MartinGeorge W. E. DorseyGeorge W. PlunkittGeorge W. FurbushGeorge W. SuttonGeorge W. CurtinGeorge W. RayGeorge W. RooseveltGeorge W. SmithGeorge W. KippGeorge W. CampbellGeorge W. TaylorGeorge W. StoneGeorge W. BartchGeorge W. ShonkGeorge W. PaulGeorge W. CookGeorge W. MurrayGeorge W. FarisGeorge W. FithianGeorge W. PrinceGeorge W. BucknerGeorge W. CromerGeorge W. DonagheyGeorge W. AldridgeGeorge Washington WagonerGeorge Washington GoethalsGeorge W. ArmstrongGeorge W. LovejoyGeorge W. OakesGeorge W. HaysGeorge W. EdmondsGeorge W. LindsayGeorge Washington JonesT. G. W. TarverGeorge W. DardenGeorge Washington JonesGeorge W. MeadGeorge W. GibbonsGeorge W. ListGeorge W. CalkinGeorge W. RauchGeorge W. MichellGeorge Washington JacksonGeorge W. BlanchardGeorge Washington HerzGeorge W. BristowGeorge Washington HardyGeorge W. BallardGeorge W. McKownGeorge Thomas WashingtonGeorge W. CollinsGeorge A. Washington
      Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His portrait also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation — Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America — James MacGregor Burns, George Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton, The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care — Wendie C. Old, George Washington (for young readers)
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)


    Washington National Cathedral
    Massachusetts & Wisconsin Aves.
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1974
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
    Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) — also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in Politics" — of New Jersey. Born in Staunton, Va., December 28, 1856. Democrat. University professor; president of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13; President of the United States, 1913-21. Presbyterian. Member, Phi Kappa Psi; Phi Alpha Delta. Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1950. Died in Washington, D.C., February 3, 1924 (age 67 years, 37 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral; statue erected 2011 at Main Railway Station, Prague, Czechia.
      Relatives: Son of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson; married, June 24, 1885, to Ellen Wilson; married, December 18, 1915, to Edith Wilson; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married William Gibbs McAdoo); grandfather of Woodrow Wilson Sayre.
      Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: William C. Bullitt — Bainbridge Colby — Joseph E. Davies — Joseph P. Tumulty — Thomas H. Birch — Byron R. Newton
      Mount Woodrow Wilson, in Fremont County and Sublette County, Wyoming, is named for him.  — Woodrow Wilson Plaza, in the Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C., is is named for him.  — Wilson Dam (built 1924), on the Tennessee River in Colbert and Lauderdale counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson Lake reservoir, which extends into Lawrence county, are named for him.  — Rambla Presidente Wilson, in Montevideo, Uruguay, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Woodrow W. BeanWoodrow W. JonesWoodrow W. ScottTom Woodrow PayneW. W. DumasWoodrow Wilson MannWoodrow W. LavenderWoodrow W. BairdWoodrow W. MathnaWoodrow W. HulmeWoodrow W. KlineWoodrow W. McDonaldWoodrow W. HollanWoodrow W. CarterWoodrow W. FergusonW. Wilson GoodeWoodrow Wilson StoreyWoodrow W. Bean III
      Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks.
      Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out of war."
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis Auchincloss, Woodrow Wilson — Herbert Hoover, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace, 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country — John Milton Cooper, Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace — A. Scott Berg, Wilson — Anne Schraff, Woodrow Wilson (for young readers)
      Critical books about Woodrow Wilson: Jim Powell, Wilson's War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II
      Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, July 1902
    Cordell Hull Cordell Hull (1871-1955) — also known as "Father of the United Nations" — of Carthage, Smith County, Tenn. Born in a log cabin at Olympus, Overton County (now Pickett County), Tenn., October 2, 1871. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1893-97; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1903-07; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 4th District, 1907-21, 1923-31; defeated, 1920; member of Democratic National Committee from Tennessee, 1914-24; Chairman of Democratic National Committee, 1921-24; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1928, 1940, 1944; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1931-33; U.S. Secretary of State, 1933-44; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1936. Baptist; later Episcopalian. Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. Died, of heart disease and sarcoidosis, at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery County, Md., July 23, 1955 (age 83 years, 294 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of William Hull and Elizabeth (Riley) Hull.
      Cross-reference: Thomas K. Finletter
      Cordell Hull Dam on the Cumberland River, and its impoundment, Cordell Hull Lake, in Smith and Jackson counties, Tennessee, are named for him.  — The Cordell Hull State Office Building (built 1952-54), in Nashville, Tennessee, is named for him.  — Cordell Hull Highway, in Barren and Monroe counties, Kentucky, is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Books by Cordell Hull: The Memoirs of Cordell Hull
      Books about Cordell Hull: Julius William Pratt, Cordell Hull, 1933-44
      Image source: U.S. postage stamp (1963)
    Frank B. Kellogg Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937) — also known as Frank B. Kellogg — of Rochester, Olmsted County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., December 22, 1856. Republican. Lawyer; law partner of Cushman K. Davis; delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1904, 1908; member of Republican National Committee from Minnesota, 1904-12; U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1917-23; defeated, 1922; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1923-25; U.S. Secretary of State, 1925-29; received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929. Member, American Bar Association. Died in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., December 21, 1937 (age 80 years, 364 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of Asa Farnsworth Kellogg and Abigail (Billings) Kellogg; married, June 16, 1886, to Clara M. Cook; second cousin once removed of Orlando Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of William Dean Kellogg; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Kellogg; second cousin four times removed of Aaron Kellogg; third cousin of Rowland Case Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Alvan Kellogg, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg and Ensign Hosmer Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jason Kellogg, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Elijah Hunt Mills, Timothy Merrill and Daniel Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin of Alphonso Alva Hopkins.
      Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917
      John Wesley Snyder (1895-1985) — Born in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Ark., June 21, 1895. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1946-53. Episcopalian. Died in Seabrook Island, Charleston County, S.C., October 8, 1985 (age 90 years, 109 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Washington National Cathedral.
      Presumably named for: John Wesley
      See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Henry White (1850-1927) — Born in Baltimore, Md., March 29, 1850. U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1905-07; France, 1906-09. Episcopalian. Died in Lenox, Berkshire County, Mass., July 15, 1927 (age 77 years, 108 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Father of John Campbell White.
      Political family: White-Moffat family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry White (built 1944 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1967) was named for him.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary
      Edith Wilson (1872-1961) — also known as Edith Bolling; Edith Bolling Galt — Born in Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., October 15, 1872. First Lady of the United States, 1915-21. Female. Died in Washington, D.C., December 28, 1961 (age 89 years, 74 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral; cenotaph at East End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va.
      Relatives: Daughter of William Holcombe Bolling and Sarah Spears 'Sallie' (White) Bolling; married, December 18, 1915, to Woodrow Wilson; married, April 30, 1896, to Norman Galt; second great-grandniece of Thomas Jefferson; fourth great-grandniece of Richard Randolph; first cousin thrice removed of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Dabney Carr; first cousin five times removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Martha Washington; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin four times removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, John Parke Custis, Beverley Randolph and Burwell Bassett; third cousin once removed of William Lewis Cabell, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, George Craighead Cabell and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin thrice removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, John Wayles Eppes, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; fourth cousin of Benjamin Earl Cabell and John Gardner Coolidge; fourth cousin once removed of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden, Carter Henry Harrison II, Henry De La Warr Flood, Joel West Flood and Earle Cabell.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Joseph Edward Davies (1876-1958) — also known as Joseph E. Davies — of Wisconsin; Washington, D.C.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Fla. Born in Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis., November 29, 1876. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Democratic National Committee from Wisconsin, 1912; law partner of Timothy T. Ansberry; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1915-18; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1915-16; economic advisor to President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris peace conference after World War I; candidate for U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; Vice-Chair of Democratic National Committee, 1936; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1936-38; Belgium, 1938-39; U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, 1938-39. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Upsilon; Sigma Delta Chi. Died, of bronchial pneumonia following a stroke, in Washington, D.C., May 9, 1958 (age 81 years, 161 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of Edward Davies and Rahel (Paynter) Davies; married, September 10, 1902, to Emlen Knight; married, December 15, 1935, to Marjorie Merriwether Post.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
      Larz Anderson (1866-1937) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Paris, France of American parents, August 15, 1866. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1911-12; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1912-13. Episcopalian. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Loyal Legion; Alpha Delta Phi; Delta Kappa Epsilon. Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, W.Va., April 13, 1937 (age 70 years, 241 days). Interment at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of Gen. Nicholas Longworth Anderson and Elizabeth Coles (Kilgour) Anderson; married to Isabel Weld Perkins; grandnephew of William Marshall Anderson and Charles Anderson; second cousin of Nicholas Longworth.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Anderson-Marshall family of Ohio and West Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Epitaph: "Patriot - Diplomat - Soldier - Loyal Friend - May He Rest in Peace."
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Stuart Symington William Stuart Symington (1901-1988) — also known as Stuart Symington — of Creve Coeur, St. Louis County, Mo. Born in Amherst, Hampshire County, Mass., June 26, 1901. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; secretary of the Air Force, 1947-50; U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1953-76; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1956, 1960; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1956, 1960. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Council on Foreign Relations. Died December 14, 1988 (age 87 years, 171 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of William Stuart Symington and Emily Haxall (Harrison) Symington; married, March 1, 1924, to Evelyn Wadsworth (daughter of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; brother of James Jermiah Wadsworth); father of James Wadsworth Symington; first cousin of John Fife Symington Jr.; first cousin once removed of John Fife Symington III.
      Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
      Image source: Missouri Official Manual 1957
    A. S. Mike Monroney Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney (1902-1980) — also known as A. S. Mike Monroney — of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Okla. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Okla., March 2, 1902. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 5th District, 1939-51; U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 1951-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1952, 1956. Died in Rockville, Montgomery County, Md., February 13, 1980 (age 77 years, 348 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Washington National Cathedral.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Image source: Library of Congress
      George Angus Garrett (1888-1971) — also known as George A. Garrett — of Washington, D.C. Born in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wis., August 5, 1888. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; stockbroker; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1932; U.S. Minister to Ireland, 1947-50; U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 1950-51. Died September 29, 1971 (age 83 years, 55 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (1881-1958) — also known as Breckinridge Long — of St. Louis, Mo.; Washington, D.C.; Laurel, Prince George's County, Md. Born in St. Louis, Mo., May 16, 1881. Democrat. Lawyer; member, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, Democratic National Convention, 1916 ; Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1920, 1922 (primary); delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1928; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36. Presbyterian. Member, American Bar Association; Phi Delta Phi; Society of the Cincinnati; American Historical Association. Died in Laurel, Prince George's County, Md., September 26, 1958 (age 77 years, 133 days). Interment at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of William Strudwick Long and Margaret Miller (Breckinridge) Long; married 1912 to Christine Alexander Graham.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
      John Clifford Folger (1896-1981) — Born in Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa, May 28, 1896. U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1957-59. Episcopalian. Died in 1981 (age about 85 years). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary
      John Lord O'Brian (1874-1974) — of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.; Washington, D.C. Born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., October 14, 1874. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1907-09; U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, 1909-14; delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916, 1940 (member, Resolutions Committee); candidate for U.S. Senator from New York, 1938. Episcopalian. Member, American Bar Association; Delta Upsilon; Phi Delta Phi. Died in 1974 (age about 99 years). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of John O'Brian and Elizabeth (Lord) O'Brian; married, September 17, 1902, to Alma E. White.
      See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Thomas Campbell Wasson (1896-1948) — also known as Thomas C. Wasson — of Newark, Essex County, N.J. Born in Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont., February 8, 1896. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Melbourne, 1925-29; Puerto Cortes, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in Florence, 1936; Lagos, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, 1948, died in office 1948. Shot by an unknown sniper, and died the next day, in Hadassah English Mission Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel, May 23, 1948 (age 52 years, 105 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of Edmund Atwill Wasson and Mary (DeVeny) Wasson.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      Mabel Thorp Boardman (1860-1946) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 12, 1860. Member, Board of Incorporators, Red Cross, 1900; also served as Red Cross national secretary; member District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1920-21. Female. Episcopalian. Member, Colonial Dames; Daughters of the American Revolution. Died, from a coronary thrombosis, in Washington, D.C., March 17, 1946 (age 85 years, 156 days). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Daughter of William Jarvis Boardman and Florence (Sheffield) Boardman; grandniece of William Whiting Boardman; great-granddaughter of Elijah Boardman; first cousin of Harold Sheffield Van Buren and Sheffield Phelps; first cousin once removed of Phelps Phelps; first cousin thrice removed of William Bostwick and Daniel Warner Bostwick; second cousin thrice removed of Timothy Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of Jabez Bostwick, Henry Meigs and Jesse Hoyt; fourth cousin once removed of Henry Meigs Jr., John Forsyth Jr., Ezra Bostwick and Judson B. Phelps.
      Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article
      Frederick Henry Prince (1859-1953) — also known as Frederick H. Prince — of Wenham, Essex County, Mass.; Newport, Newport County, R.I.; Biarritz, France. Born in Winchester, Middlesex County, Mass., 1859. Republican. Financier; owned or controlled stockyards, meatpacking plants, and railroads; one of the world's wealthiest men; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928. Episcopalian. Died in Biarritz, France, February 3, 1953 (age about 93 years). Entombed at Washington National Cathedral.
      Relatives: Son of Frederick Octavius Prince and Helen (Henry) Prince; married 1884 to Abigail Kingsley Norman; grandson of Bernard Henry.
      Political family: Prince-Henry family of Winchester, Massachusetts.
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    West Potomac Park
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.

    Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:
    Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) — also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of Monticello"; "Friend of the People"; "Father of the University of Virginia" — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Albemarle County, Va., April 13, 1743. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782; U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S. Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice President of the United States, 1797-1801; President of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican), 1796. Deist. English ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., July 4, 1826 (age 83 years, 82 days). Interment at Monticello Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph at University of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West Potomac Park; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens.
      Relatives: Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton; father of Martha Jefferson (who married Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.) and Maria Jefferson (who married John Wayles Eppes); uncle of Dabney Carr; grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Francis Wayles Eppes, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas Philip Trist), Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; granduncle of Dabney Smith Carr; great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; second great-granduncle of Edith Wilson; first cousin once removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin twice removed of John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.; second cousin of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker and William Segar Archer; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Edmund Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke and John Augustine Marshall; second cousin four times removed of William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of William Henry Robertson.
      Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Jefferson M. Levy — Joshua Fry
      Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are named for him.
      Mount Jefferson (third highest peak in the Northeast), in Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Thomas Jefferson KennardThomas Jefferson CampbellThomas J. GazleyThomas J. DrakeThomas Jefferson HeardThomas Jefferson GreenThomas J. RuskThomas Jefferson WithersThomas J. ParsonsThomas J. WordThomas J. HenleyThomas J. DryerThomas J. FosterThomas J. BarrThomas Jefferson JenningsThomas J. HendersonThomas J. Van AlstyneThomas Jefferson CasonT. J. CoghlanThomas Jefferson BufordT. Jefferson CoolidgeThomas J. MegibbenThomas J. BunnThomas J. HardinThomas J. McLain, Jr.Thomas J. BrownThomas Jefferson SpeerThomas J. BoyntonThomas J. HudsonThomas J. BradyThomas J. SelbyThomas Jefferson DeavittThomas Jefferson MajorsThomas Jefferson WoodT. J. JarrattThomas Jefferson NunnThomas J. StraitThomas J. HumesT. J. AppleyardThomas J. ClunieThomas J. SteeleThomas J. BoyntonThomas J. O'DonnellThomas J. HalseyThomas J. GrahamT. J. MartinThomas Jefferson LillyThomas J. RandolphTom J. TerralT. Jeff BusbyThomas Jefferson MurphyThomas J. HamiltonTom ManganThomas J. RyanTom J. MurrayTom SteedThomas Jefferson Edmonds, Jr.Thomas J. AndersonThomas Jefferson RobertsThomas J. Barlow III
      Coins and currency: His portrait has appeared on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2 bill since the 1860s.
      Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard Sterne Randall, Thomas Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan Dunn, Jefferson's Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 — Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson : Author of America — David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the myths you've always believed about Thomas Jefferson — David Barton, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson — Donald Barr Chidsey, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson
      Critical books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
      Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
    Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt; "F.D.R." — of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y., January 30, 1882. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New York state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920, 1924, 1928; speaker, 1944; contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of New York, 1929-33; President of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February 15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak were shot at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange; Knights of Pythias. Led the nation through the Depression and World War II. Died of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Ga., April 12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72 days). Interment at Roosevelt Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle; memorial monument at West Potomac Park.
      Relatives: Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married, March 17, 1905, to Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne Douglas Robinson); father of James Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren Delano Robbins and Katharine Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married William Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel Huntington, George Washington, Joshua Coit, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington and Samuel Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip DePeyster and James I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger Wolcott and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
      Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      Cross-reference: Ross T. McIntire — Milton Lipson — W. W. Howes — Bruce Barton — Hamilton Fish, Jr. — Joseph W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel I. Rosenman — Rexford G. Tugwell — Raymond Moley — Adolf A. Berle — George E. Allen — Lorence E. Asman — Grenville T. Emmet — Eliot Janeway — Jonathan Daniels — Ralph Bellamy — Wythe Leigh Kinsolving
      The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge (opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec, Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for him.  — The borough of Roosevelt, New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for him.  — F. D. Roosevelt Airport, on the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius, is named for him.  — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching Hospital, in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for him.
      Other politicians named for him: Frank GarrisonFranklin D. Roosevelt Keesee
      Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin).
      See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
      Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR : 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson, That Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt — Jonas Klein, Beloved Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles Peters, Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World — Steven Neal, Happy Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W. Brands, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan Brinkley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin D. Roosevelt (for young readers)
      Critical books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression — John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
      Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Philip Roth, The Plot Against America: A Novel
      Image source: New York Red Book 1936


    Woodlawn Cemetery
    Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
    John M. Langston John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) — also known as John M. Langston — of Washington, D.C.; Petersburg, Va. Born in Louisa, Louisa County, Va., December 14, 1829. Republican. U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1877-85; U.S. Consul General in Port-au-Prince, as of 1877-85; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo, 1883-85; U.S. Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1890-91. African ancestry. Died November 15, 1897 (age 67 years, 336 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
      Image source: New York Public Library
    Blanche K. Bruce Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) — also known as Blanche K. Bruce — of Floreyville (unknown county), Miss. Born in slavery near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., March 1, 1841. Republican. School teacher; planter; Bolivar County Sheriff and Tax Collector, 1872-75; U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1875-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1880, 1884; Register of the U.S. Treasury, 1881, 1897-98; District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds, 1891-93. African ancestry. Died in Washington, D.C., March 17, 1898 (age 57 years, 16 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
      The Blanche K. Bruce Foundation (supporitng arts and high-risk youth) is named for him.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
      Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)


    Private or family graveyard
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      Philip Barton Key (1757-1815) — of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md.; Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. Born near Charlestown, Cecil County, Md., April 12, 1757. Lawyer; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1794-99; circuit judge in Maryland, 1804; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1807-13. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., July 28, 1815 (age 58 years, 107 days). Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Anne Arnold (Ross) Key and Francis Key; married, July 4, 1790, to Ann Plater (daughter of George Plater; sister of Thomas Plater); uncle of Francis Scott Key and Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (who married Roger Brooke Taney); granduncle of Philip Barton Key (1818-1859); great-granduncle of Francis Key Pendleton; first cousin of Philip Key; second cousin thrice removed of Vinson Martlow Whitley.
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article


    Old Presbyterian Cemetery (now gone)
    Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      Uriah Forrest (1756-1805) — of Maryland. Born near Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Md., 1756. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, and lost a leg; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1781-83, 1786-90; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1786-87; U.S. Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1793-94; member of Maryland state senate, 1796-1800; state court judge in Maryland, 1799-1800. Episcopalian. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., July 6, 1805 (age about 49 years). Original interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery; reinterment in 1883 at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, October 11, 1789, to Rebecca Plater (daughter of George Plater).
      Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
      James Gillespie (c.1747-1805) — of North Carolina. Born in Kenansville, Duplin County, N.C., about 1747. Delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; member of North Carolina house of commons, 1779-83; member of North Carolina state senate, 1784-86; U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1793-99, 1803-05 (at-large 1793-97, 6th District 1797-99, 5th District 1803-05); died in office 1805. Slaveowner. Died in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1805 (age about 58 years). Original interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery; reinterment in 1893 at Congressional Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married to Dorcas Mumford.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    St. John's Church Cemetery
    Lafayette Square
    Lafayette Square, Washington, District of Columbia
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Theodore Carter Achilles (1905-1986) — also known as Theodore C. Achilles — of Washington, D.C. Born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., December 29, 1905. Newspaper work; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, as of 1932; Rome, as of 1933; while serving as director of the State Department's Division of Western European Affairs in 1947-49, was one of the main architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding document of NationalO; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1956-60. Member, Beta Theta Pi; Council on Foreign Relations. Suffered an embolism, and died, in the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., April 8, 1986 (age 80 years, 100 days). Entombed at St. John's Church Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Henry Laurence Achilles and Gertrude (Strong) Achilles; married, June 4, 1933, to Marian Field; nephew of George Robert Carter.
      See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      Richard Cutts (1771-1845) — of Pepperell, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Saco, York County, Maine, June 28, 1771. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1790; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05, 14th District 1805-13); imprisoned for debt, 1828. Died in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1845 (age 73 years, 283 days). Original interment at St. John's Church Cemetery; reinterment in 1857 at Oak Hill Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, March 31, 1804, to Anna Payne (sister-in-law of James Madison and John George Jackson).
      Political families: Jackson-Lee family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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