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Index to Locations
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: |
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Sandal Bastian and Katherine (Draeger) Bastian; married,
July
3, 1914, to Eva E. Alger. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Capitol
Grounds
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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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.
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Chevy Chase
Circle
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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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.
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Columbian Harmony
Cemetery (now gone)
Washington, District of Columbia
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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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.
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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: |
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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.
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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. Baldwin
— Elbridge
G. Knowlton
— Elbridge
G. Creacraft
— Elbridge
G. Spaulding
— Elbridge
G. Gale
— Elbridge
Gerry
— Elbridge
G. Lapham
— Eldridge
Gerry Pearl
— Elbridge
G. Moulton
— Elbridge
G. Cracraft
— Elbridge
G. Kelley
— Elbridge
G. Haynes
— Elbridge
G. Brown
— Elbridge
G. Davis
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| | | 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 |
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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.
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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
Adams
— William
Wirt Virgin
— William
Wirt Watkins
— William
Wirt Vaughan
— William
W. Warren
— William
Wirt Culbertson
— William
Wirt Herod
— William
W. Dixon
— William
Wirt Henderson
— William
W. Hastings
— W.
Wirt Courtney
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| | | 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) |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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) |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Roger C. Weightman —
of Washington,
D.C.
Mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1824-27.
Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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Benjamin G. Orr —
of Washington,
D.C.
Mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1817-19.
Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
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John Thomas Towers —
of Washington,
D.C.
Mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1854-56.
Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daniel Rapine —
of Washington,
D.C.
Mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1812-13.
Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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James Blair (1786-1834) —
of South Carolina.
Born in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., September
26, 1786.
Democrat. Planter; sheriff;
U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1821-22, 1829-34 (9th
District 1821-22, 8th District 1829-34); resigned 1822; died in
office 1834; in 1832, he assaulted
newspaper editor Duff Green, breaking some bones, and fined
$350.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
1834 (age 47 years, 187
days).
Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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Augustus W. Scharit —
of Missouri.
U.S. Consul in Falmouth, 1854-63.
Interment at Congressional Cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of Bertie Anderson and Gertie Bernice (Bennett) Anderson; married, August
29, 1942, to Annie Vergene Marguerite Owens. |
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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.
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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.
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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. Coy
— Zachary
T. Bielby
— Zachary
T. Harris
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| | | 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) |
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George Clinton (1739-1812) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., July 26,
1739.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-76; Governor of
New York, 1777-95, 1801-04; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster
County, 1788; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-01; Vice
President of the United States, 1805-12; died in office 1812.
Christian
Reformed. Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
20, 1812 (age 72 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1908 at
Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
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) |
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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.
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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 Longnecker
— Henry
Clay Dean
— H.
Clay Dickinson
— Henry
C. Brockmeyer
— H.
Clay Cockerill
— Henry
Clay Ewing
— Henry
Clay Caldwell
— Henry
Clay Hall
— Henry
Clay Gooding
— Henry
Clay Naill
— Henry
C. Myers
— Henry
C. Cole
— H.
Clay Harris
— Henry
C. Miner
— Henry
C. Warmoth
— Henry
Clay Cleveland
— H.
Clay Evans
— Henry
C. Payne
— Henry
C. Bates
— H.
Clay Foster
— Henry
C. McCormick
— Henry
C. Ide
— Henry
Clay Williams
— Henry
C. Simms
— Henry
Clay Ferguson
— Henry
C. Glover
— H.
Clay Park
— Henry
C. Hansbrough
— Henry
C. Snodgrass
— H.
Clay Maydwell
— Henry
C. Gleason
— Henry
C. Loudenslager
— H.
Clay Van Voorhis
— Henry
C. Clippinger
— H.
Clay Crawford
— H.
Clay Bascom
— H.
Clay Michie
— H.
Clay Chisolm
— H.
Clay Howard
— Henry
C. Hall
— Henry
Clay McDowell
— H.
Clay Jones
— H.
Clay Day
— Henry
Clay Hines
— H.
Clay Heather
— Henry
Clay Meacham
— Henry
Clay Calloway
— H.
Clay Suter
— H.
Clay Hall
— H.
Clay Warth
— Henry
Clay Elwood
— H.
Clay Kennedy
— H.
Clay Davis
— H.
Clay Needham
— Henry
Clay Etherton
— H.
Clay Mace
— H.
Clay Armstrong
— H.
Clay Baldwin
— H.
Clay Haynes
— H.
Clay Burkholder
— Mrs.
H. Clay Kauffman
— H.
Clay Bentley
— Henry
C. Greenberg
— H.
Clay Gardenhire, Jr.
— Henry
Clay Cox
— H.
Clay Myers, Jr.
— H.
Clay Johnson
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| | | 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 |
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John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) —
also known as John C. Calhoun —
of Pickens District (now Pickens
County), S.C.
Born in Abbeville District (part now in McCormick
County), S.C., March
18, 1782.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1808; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1817-25; Vice
President of the United States, 1825-32; resigned 1832; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office
1850; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1844-45.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1850 (age 68 years, 13
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery; memorial monument at Marion
Park, Charleston, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, December
27, 1809, to Floride Bonneau and Floride
Calhoun (daughter of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who
married Thomas
Green Clemson); uncle of John
Alfred Calhoun and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married Armistead
Burt); great-granduncle of John
Temple Graves; first cousin of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802) and Joseph
Calhoun; first cousin once removed of Andrew
Pickens; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann
Calhoun (who married Alexander
Henry Brown); second cousin twice removed of William
Francis Calhoun. |
| | | Political family: Calhoun-Pickens
family of South Carolina (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Calhoun counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Iowa, Mich., Miss., S.C., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The John C. Calhoun State
Office Building (opened 1926), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Lake
Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; destroyed in cargo explosion at Finchhafen,
Papua New Guinea, 1944) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
C. Johnson
— John
Calhoun Nicholls
— John
Calhoun Cook
— John
C. Sheppard
— John C.
Bell
— John
C. C. Mayo
— John
C. Phillips
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes
(1862). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than
union." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret
L. Coit, John
C. Calhoun : American Portrait — Clyde N. Wilson, John
C. Calhoun — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Warren
Brown, John
C. Calhoun (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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). |
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family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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biography — Govtrack.us
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Henry Black (1783-1841) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born near Somerset, Somerset
County, Pa., February
25, 1783.
Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1816-18; county judge in
Pennsylvania, 1820-40; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 18th District, 1841; died in
office 1841.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Somerset, Somerset
County, Pa., November
28, 1841 (age 58 years, 276
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Somerset County, Pa.; cenotaph at
Congressional Cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Connecticut
Avenue
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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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.
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Constitution
Gardens
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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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.
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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 Kennard
— Thomas
Jefferson Campbell
— Thomas
J. Gazley
— Thomas
J. Drake
— Thomas
Jefferson Heard
— Thomas
Jefferson Green
— Thomas
J. Rusk
— Thomas
Jefferson Withers
— Thomas
J. Parsons
— Thomas
J. Word
— Thomas
J. Henley
— Thomas
J. Dryer
— Thomas
J. Foster
— Thomas
J. Barr
— Thomas
Jefferson Jennings
— Thomas
J. Henderson
— Thomas
J. Van Alstyne
— Thomas
Jefferson Cason
— T.
J. Coghlan
— Thomas
Jefferson Buford
— T.
Jefferson Coolidge
— Thomas
J. Megibben
— Thomas
J. Bunn
— Thomas
J. Hardin
— Thomas
J. McLain, Jr.
— Thomas
J. Brown
— Thomas
Jefferson Speer
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Hudson
— Thomas
J. Brady
— Thomas
J. Selby
— Thomas
Jefferson Deavitt
— Thomas
Jefferson Majors
— Thomas
Jefferson Wood
— T.
J. Jarratt
— Thomas
Jefferson Nunn
— Thomas
J. Strait
— Thomas
J. Humes
— T.
J. Appleyard
— Thomas
J. Clunie
— Thomas
J. Steele
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. O'Donnell
— Thomas
J. Halsey
— Thomas
J. Graham
— T.
J. Martin
— Thomas
Jefferson Lilly
— Thomas
J. Randolph
— Tom
J. Terral
— T.
Jeff Busby
— Thomas
Jefferson Murphy
— Thomas
J. Hamilton
— Tom
Mangan
— Thomas
J. Ryan
— Tom
J. Murray
— Tom
Steed
— Thomas
Jefferson Edmonds, Jr.
— Thomas
J. Anderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Roberts
— Thomas
J. Barlow III
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| | | 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) |
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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.
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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 Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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| | | 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) |
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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.
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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. Baldwin
— Elbridge
G. Knowlton
— Elbridge
G. Creacraft
— Elbridge
G. Spaulding
— Elbridge
G. Gale
— Elbridge
Gerry
— Elbridge
G. Lapham
— Eldridge
Gerry Pearl
— Elbridge
G. Moulton
— Elbridge
G. Cracraft
— Elbridge
G. Kelley
— Elbridge
G. Haynes
— Elbridge
G. Brown
— Elbridge
G. Davis
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| | | 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 |
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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.
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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. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Hallett
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Saffold
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Christ Church Parish, Charleston District (now part of Charleston
County), S.C., November
23, 1749.
Lawyer;
law partner of Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1787-96; delegate
to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1796-98; Governor of
South Carolina, 1798-1800; died in office 1800.
Scotch-Irish
and English
ancestry.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., January
23, 1800 (age 50 years, 61
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; memorial monument at
Constitution Gardens.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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 murdered
— poisoned
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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Thomas McKean (1734-1817) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New London Township, Chester
County, Pa., March
19, 1734.
Lawyer;
member of Delaware
colonial Assembly, 1765-76; common pleas court judge in Delaware,
1765-74; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; member of Delaware
house of assembly, 1777-83; President
of Delaware, 1777; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1777-99; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1781; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789-90; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1799-1808; impeached
by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1807, but no trial was ever held.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 24,
1817 (age 83 years, 97
days).
Original interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in
1843 at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at
Constitution Gardens.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Walcutt
— Charles
C. Fitch
— Charles
C. Frick
— Charles
Carroll Glover, Jr.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Dumbarton Oaks
Rose Garden
Washington, District of Columbia
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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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.
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Federal
Triangle
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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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.
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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
Garrison
— Franklin
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 |
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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Garfield
Circle
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
 |
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.
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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) |
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Georgetown
University Jesuit Cemetery
Washington, District of Columbia
| Politicians buried
here: |
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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.
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Glenwood
Cemetery
2219 Lincoln Road N.E.
Washington, District of Columbia
Founded 1854
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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