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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Fairfax city

Index to Locations Fairfax Unknown location Fairfax Fairfax City Cemetery Fairfax Fairfax Memorial Park Unknown Location Fairfax, Virginia Politicians buried here:   John Warwick Rust (1881-1958) — of Fairfax, Va. Born in Nineveh, Warren County, Va., November 8, 1881. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state senate, 1932-39 (30th District 1932-35, 29th District 1936-39). Episcopalian. Member, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Died in Fairfax, Va., November 18, 1958 (age 77 years, 10 days). Interment somewhere. Fairfax City Cemetery Fairfax, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Robert Walton Moore (1859-1941) — also known as R. Walton Moore — of Fairfax County, Va. Born in Fairfax, Va., February 6, 1859. Democrat. Member of Virginia state senate, 1887; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention from Fairfax County, 1901-02; U.S. Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1919-31. Died in Fairfax, Va., February 8, 1941 (age 82 years, 2 days). Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Robert Wickliffe Woolley (1871-1958) — also known as Robert W. Woolley — of Virginia; Washington, D.C. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., April 29, 1871. Democrat. Director, U.S. Mint, 1915-16; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1917-20; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1936, 1940. Died in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., December 15, 1958 (age 87 years, 230 days). Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Lucy (McCaw) Woolley and Franklin Waters Woolley; married 1900 to Marguerite Holmes TRnholm; great-grandnephew of Charles Anderson Wickliffe; first cousin twice removed of Robert Charles Wickliffe (1819-1895) and John Crepps Wickliffe; second cousin once removed of John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham and Robert Charles Wickliffe (1874-1912).   Political family: Wickliffe-Holt family of Bardstown, Kentucky.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Thomas Putnam Chapman (1875-1936) — also known as Thomas P. Chapman — of Fairfax, Va. Born in Plattsmouth, Cass County, Neb., December 31, 1875. Real estate and insurance business; mayor of Fairfax, Va., 1936; died in office 1936. Died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Fairfax firehouse, Fairfax, Va., February 25, 1936 (age 60 years, 56 days). Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Matthews Chapman and Sarah (Putnam) Chapman; married to Estelle F. Inzer.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Job Hawxhurst (1823-1906) — of Fairfax, Va. Born in Jamaica (now part of Queens), Queens County, N.Y., March 30, 1823. Republican. Farmer; miller; merchant; postmaster at Fairfax Court House, Va., 1865-85, 1889-93; Fairfax, Va., 1897-1903; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1870; mayor of Fairfax, Va., 1892. Member, Good Templars. Died in Falls Church, Va., February 7, 1906 (age 82 years, 314 days). Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Townsend Hawxhurst and Rebecca (Searing) Hawxhurst; married to Maria Whelan Leeds and Margaret Davies Borden; father of George White Hawxhurst.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Richard Ratcliffe Farr (1880-1942) — also known as Richard R. Farr — of Fairfax, Va. Born December 10, 1880. Republican. Postmaster at Fairfax, Va., 1903-13; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1916, 1932, 1940. Died January 14, 1942 (age 61 years, 35 days). Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Richard Ratcliffe Farr (1845-1893) and Margaret E. (Malone) Farr.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Edgar McCarty Wiley (1879-1958) — also known as E. Mack Wiley — of Fairfax, Va. Born October 23, 1879. Democrat. Postmaster at Fairfax, Va., 1918, 1937-44 (acting, 1918, 1937-39). Died October 1, 1958 (age 78 years, 343 days). Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Fairfax Memorial Park Fairfax, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Robert Heron Bork (1927-2012) — also known as Robert H. Bork — of Washington, D.C. Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., March 1, 1927. Lawyer; law professor; U.S. Solicitor General, 1973-77; U.S. Attorney General, 1973-74; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1982-88; resigned 1988. Catholic. Member, Federalist Society; Phi Gamma Delta. Nominated for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1987; rejected by the Senate. Died in Arlington, Arlington County, Va., December 19, 2012 (age 85 years, 293 days). Interment at Fairfax Memorial Park.   Relatives: Son of Harry Philip Bork and Elizabeth (Kunkle) Bork; married 1952 to Claire Davidson; married 1982 to Mary Ellen Pohl.   Cross-reference: Richard G. Taranto   See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books by Robert H. Bork: Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges (2003) — The Tempting of America (1991) — Slouching Towards Gomorrah : Modern Liberalism and American Decline (1996)   William Lloyd Scott (1915-1997) — of Fairfax, Va. Born in Williamsburg, Va., July 1, 1915. Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1967-73; delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1972; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1973-79. Methodist. Member, American Bar Association; Lions; Forty and Eight; American Legion; Freemasons; Shriners. Died, of a chest infection and Alzheimer's disease, in the Fairfax Nursing Center, Fairfax, Va., February 14, 1997 (age 81 years, 228 days). Interment at Fairfax Memorial Park.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

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