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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Annapolis Unknown location
Annapolis City Cemetery
Annapolis Hillcrest Memorial
Gardens
Annapolis Lawyers' Mall
Annapolis Naval Academy Cemetery
Annapolis St. Anne's Cedar Bluff
Cemetery
Annapolis St. Anne's Cemetery
Annapolis St. Anne's Churchyard
Annapolis State House Grounds
Brooklyn Park Cedar Hill Cemetery
Brooklyn Park Holy Cross Cemetery
Carrollton Manor St. Joseph's
Cemetery
Lothian Mt. Zion Cemetery
Lothian St. James Parish Episcopal
Church Cemetery
Owensville Christ Church Cemetery
Private or family
graveyards
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians buried
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John Francis Mercer (1759-1821) —
of Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., May 17,
1759.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-84; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1788-92, 1800-06; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1792-94 (at-large 1792-93, 2nd
District 1793-94); Governor of
Maryland, 1801-03.
Anglican;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
30, 1821 (age 62 years, 105
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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John Hall (1729-1797) —
of Maryland.
Born near Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
27, 1729.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-75, 1779, 1783-84;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1786-95.
Episcopalian.
Died in Anne
Arundel County, Md., March 8,
1797 (age 67 years, 101
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Benjamin Ogle (1749-1809) —
of Maryland.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., January
27, 1749.
Member of Maryland
state executive council, 1783; Governor of
Maryland, 1798-1801.
Episcopalian.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., July 6,
1809 (age 60 years, 160
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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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, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at in a private or family
graveyard.
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John Crompton Weems (1778-1862) —
also known as John C. Weems —
of Waterloo, Calvert
County, Md.
Born in Waterloo, Calvert
County, Md., 1778.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1826-29.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Anne
Arundel County, Md., January
20, 1862 (age about 83
years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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George Wurtz Hughes (1806-1870) —
also known as George W. Hughes —
of West River, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., September
30, 1806.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1859-61.
Slaveowner.
Died in West River, Anne
Arundel County, Md., December
3, 1870 (age 64 years, 64
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Unknown
Location
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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William Henry Purnell (1826-1902) —
also known as William H. Purnell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Worcester
County, Md., February
3, 1826.
Republican. Lawyer; Maryland
state comptroller, 1856-61; resigned 1861; postmaster at Baltimore,
Md., 1861-66; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; college
professor; president,
Delaware College, 1870-85.
Died March
30, 1902 (age 76 years, 55
days).
Interment somewhere.
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City
Cemetery
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians buried
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Jeremiah Townley Chase (1748-1828) —
also known as Jeremiah T. Chase —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., May 23,
1748.
Delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1777-79, 1788; mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1783-84; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1783-84; delegate
to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; state court judge in
Maryland, 1806-26.
Episcopalian.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., May 11,
1828 (age 79 years, 354
days).
Interment at City Cemetery.
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Hillcrest
Memorial Gardens
1911 Forest Drive
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
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Carlos Wood Riddick (1872-1960) —
also known as Carl W. Riddick —
of Winamac, Pulaski
County, Ind.; Lewistown, Fergus
County, Mont.
Born in Wells, Faribault
County, Minn., February
25, 1872.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; Fergus
County Assessor, 1915-18; U.S.
Representative from Montana 2nd District, 1919-23; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1922.
Methodist.
Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., July 9,
1960 (age 88 years, 135
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.
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Lawyers'
Mall
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) —
also known as Thoroughgood Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., July 2,
1908.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-65; resigned
1965; U.S. Solicitor General, 1965-67; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1967-91; took senior status 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1946 First
African-American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
24, 1993 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at Lawyers'
Mall.
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Relatives:
Married, September
4, 1929, to Vivien Burey; married, December
17, 1955, to Cecilia
Suyat; father of Thurgood
Marshall Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Marshall
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
Curtis Bryson |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about Thurgood Marshall: Juan
Williams, Thurgood
Marshall : American Revolutionary — Randall W. Bland,
Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism : His Judicial
Biography — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1961-1991 — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1936-1961 — Gilbert King, Devil
in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of
a New America |
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Naval Academy
Cemetery
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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John Sidney McCain III (1936-2018) —
also known as John S. McCain —
of Tempe, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Coco Solo, Canal Zone (now Cativá, Panama),
August
29, 1936.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; U.S.
Representative from Arizona 1st District, 1983-87; U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1987-; candidate for Republican nomination
for President, 2000;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2008.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and English
ancestry.
Died in Cornville, Yavapai
County, Ariz., August
25, 2018 (age 81 years, 361
days).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John S. McCain, Jr. and Roberta (Wright) McCain; married, July 3,
1965, to Carol Shepp; married, May 17,
1980, to Cindy Lou Hensley. |
| | | Campaign slogan (2008): "Country
first." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John McCain: Faith
of My Fathers (1999) — Worth
the Fighting for: A Memoir, with Mark Salter (2002) —
Why
Courage Matters : The Way to a Braver Life, with Mark Salter
(2004) — Hard
Call: The Art of Great Decisions, with Mark Salter
(2008) |
| | | Books about John McCain: Robert
Timberg, John
McCain : An American Odyssey — Paul Alexander, Man
of the People: The Life of John McCain — Scott Farris,
Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation |
| | | Critical books about John McCain: Cliff
Schecter, The
Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents
Shouldn't — David Brock and Paul Waldman, Free
Ride : John McCain and the Media — Matt Welch, McCain
: The Myth of a Maverick |
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William Harrison Standley (1872-1963) —
also known as William H. Standley —
of California.
Born in 1872.
U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1942-43.
Died in 1963
(age about
91 years).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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Edmund Beardsley Underwood (1853-1928) —
also known as E. B. Underwood —
Born in California, 1853.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., April
12, 1928 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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William Harwar Parker (1826-1896) —
also known as William H. Parker —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in 1826.
U.S. Minister to Korea, 1886.
Died in 1896
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907) —
also known as B. F. Tilley —
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March
29, 1848.
U.S. Navy commander; Governor of
American Samoa; court
martialed in 1901 on charges
of immorality
and drunkenness;
tried
and found not guilty.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
18, 1907 (age 58 years, 354
days).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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Harold Alexander Houser (1897-1981) —
Born March
31, 1897.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa.
Died September
3, 1981 (age 84 years, 156
days).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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Jesse Rink Wallace (1899-1961) —
of Illinois.
Born July 17,
1899.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa.
Died January
29, 1961 (age 61 years, 196
days).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. (1920-2000) —
also known as Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.; Bud
Zumwalt —
of Virginia.
Born in Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif., November
29, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Chief of U.S. naval operations
in 1970-74; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1976.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1998.
Died, following two cancer
surgeries, at Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
2, 2000 (age 79 years, 34
days).
Interment at Naval Academy Cemetery.
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St. Anne's Cedar
Bluff Cemetery
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
St. Anne's
Cemetery
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Founded 1692
| Politicians buried
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Thomas George Pratt (1804-1869) —
also known as Thomas G. Pratt —
of Prince
George's County, Md.; Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1804.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1832-36; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Maryland; member of Maryland
state executive council, 1838; member of Maryland
state senate, 1838-41; Governor of
Maryland, 1845-48; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1850-57; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1864.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., November
9, 1869 (age 65 years, 264
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., December
6, 1776.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1809; district judge in Maryland,
1812-17; U.S.
District Judge for Maryland, 1819-24; resigned 1824.
Died, from heart
disease, in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
16, 1846 (age 69 years, 345
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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Alexander Randall (1803-1881) —
of Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., January
3, 1803.
Whig. U.S.
Representative from Maryland 4th District, 1841-43; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850-51; Maryland
state attorney general, 1865-67.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
21, 1881 (age 78 years, 322
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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Dennis Claude (1782-1863) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in 1782.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1811-18, 1829-30; member of Maryland
state senate, 1821-25, 1831-36; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Maryland; mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1828-37, 1853-54; Maryland
state treasurer, 1844-52, 1854-60; Maryland
state comptroller, 1861; appointed 1861.
Member, Freemasons.
Died December
9, 1863 (age about 81
years).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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William Hallam Tuck (1808-1884) —
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
20, 1808.
Lawyer;
bank
director; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1836-43; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1837; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1851; Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1851-61; member of Maryland
state senate, 1872-75.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., March
17, 1884 (age 75 years, 118
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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Abram Claude (1818-1901) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born December
4, 1818.
Democrat. Physician;
mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1848-51, 1854-55, 1867-69, 1883-89; Anne
Arundel County Clerk, 1865; college
professor; postmaster at Annapolis,
Md., 1895-99.
Died January
10, 1901 (age 82 years, 37
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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John Read Magruder (1829-1916) —
also known as John R. Magruder —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Maryland, October, 1829.
Mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1860-62, 1863-64.
Episcopalian.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., March
27, 1916 (age 86 years, 0
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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Washington Greene Tuck (1832-1908) —
also known as Washington G. Tuck —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., January
8, 1832.
Republican. Physician;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1886; postmaster at Annapolis,
Md., 1890-95, 1899-1908; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee; speaker).
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., February
5, 1908 (age 76 years, 28
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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Gordon Handy Claude (1854-1940) —
also known as Gordon H. Claude —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born October
22, 1854.
Mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1907-09.
Died October
6, 1940 (age 85 years, 350
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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John Wirt Randall (1845-1912) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., March 6,
1845.
Lawyer;
banker;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1884-85; member of Maryland
state senate, 1888-90, 1896-98.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Roland Park, Baltimore,
Md., August
16, 1912 (age 67 years, 163
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Cemetery.
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St. Anne's
Churchyard
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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Thomas Lynch Sr. (1727-1776) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Berkeley
County, S.C., 1727.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774; member of
South Carolina state legislature, 1776.
Died in Maryland, 1776
(age about
49 years).
Interment at St. Anne's Churchyard.
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Charles Carroll, Barrister (1723-1783) —
of Maryland.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., March
22, 1723.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-77; member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-83; died in office 1783.
Anglican.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., March
23, 1783 (age 60 years, 1
days).
Interment at St. Anne's Churchyard.
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Benjamin Tasker (1690-1768) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in 1690.
Mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1721-22, 1726-27, 1750-53, 1754-55, 1756-57.
Co-founded the Baltimore Ironworks
Company.
Died June 19,
1768 (age about 77
years).
Interment at St. Anne's Churchyard.
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Amos Garrett (1671-1727) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Surrey, England,
1671.
Merchant;
planter;
justice of the peace; mayor
of Annapolis, Md., 1708-20.
Anglican.
Died March 8,
1727 (age about 55
years).
Interment at St. Anne's Churchyard.
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State House
Grounds
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians who have
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Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) —
also known as Roger B. Taney —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., March
17, 1777.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1799-1800; bank
director; member of Maryland
state senate, 1816-21; Maryland
state attorney general, 1827-31; U.S.
Attorney General, 1831-33; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1833-34; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-64; died in office 1864.
Catholic.
First
Catholic to hold a U.S. cabinet position.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
12, 1864 (age 87 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
John's Catholic Church Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; statue at State
House Grounds.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Taney and Monica (Brooke) Taney; married, January
7, 1806, to Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (sister of Francis
Scott Key; niece of Philip
Barton Key (1757-1815); aunt of Philip
Barton Key (1818-1859)). |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Merryman |
| | | Taney County,
Mo. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "He was a profound and able
lawyer, an upright and fearless judge, a pious and exemplary
Christian." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books by Roger Taney: Memoir
of Roger Brooke Taney : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.
S. |
| | | Books about Roger Taney: Bernard
Christian Steiner, Life
of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court — Charles Smith, Roger
B. Taney : Jacksonian Jurist — Suzanne Freedman, Roger
Taney : The Dred Scott Legacy (for young readers) |
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Cedar Hill
Cemetery
Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians buried
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Carville Dickinson Benson (1872-1929) —
also known as Carville D. Benson —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Halethorpe, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born near Halethorpe, Baltimore
County, Md., August
24, 1872.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1904-10, 1918; member of Maryland
state senate, 1912-14; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1916
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1924
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1928;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1918-21; defeated,
1920.
Died in Mercy Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., February
8, 1929 (age 56 years, 168
days).
Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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Holy Cross
Cemetery
Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
St. Joseph's
Cemetery
Carrollton Manor, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Joaquin Miguel Elizalde (1896-1965) —
also known as Joaquin M. Elizalde —
of Manila, Philippines.
Born in Manila, Philippines,
August
2, 1896.
Honorary
Consul for Bolivia in Manila,
Philippine Islands, 1935; Resident
Commissioner to U.S. Congress from the Phillipine Islands,
1938-44; resigned 1944; Philippines Ambassador to the United States,
1946-52.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1965 (age 68 years, 191
days).
Interment at St. Joseph's Cemetery.
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Mt. Zion
Cemetery
Lothian, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians buried
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Frank Owens Smith (1859-1924) —
also known as Frank O. Smith —
of Dunkirk, Calvert
County, Md.
Born in Smithville, Calvert
County, Md., August
27, 1859.
Democrat. Candidate for Maryland
state senate, 1911; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1913-15.
Died January
29, 1924 (age 64 years, 155
days).
Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery.
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St. James Parish
Episcopal Church Cemetery
Lothian, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Christ Church
Cemetery
Owensville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
| Politicians buried
here: |
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William Huntington Kirkpatrick (1885-1970) —
also known as William H. Kirkpatrick —
of Easton, Northampton
County, Pa.
Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., October
2, 1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 26th District, 1921-23;
defeated, 1922; federal
judge, 1927.
Died November
28, 1970 (age 85 years, 57
days).
Interment at Christ Church Cemetery.
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