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George Edward Bushnell (1887-1965) —
also known as George E. Bushnell —
of Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., November
4, 1887.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1934-55; defeated, 1928; resigned
1955; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1940, 1948.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
American Bar
Association; Delta
Theta Phi.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, September
30, 1965 (age 77 years, 330
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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William Fleming (1729-1795) —
of Staunton,
Va.; Botetourt
County, Va.
Born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland,
February
19, 1729.
Physician;
Governor
of Virginia, 1781; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Botetourt
County, 1788.
Scottish ancestry.
Died August
5, 1795 (age 66 years, 167
days).
Interment at Bellmont Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.
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Patrick Henry (1736-1799) —
of Prince
Edward County, Va.
Born in Studley, Hanover
County, Va., May 29,
1736.
Lawyer;
planter;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1765; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Virginia, 1776-79, 1784-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Prince
Edward County, 1788; member of Virginia
state senate, 1799.
Scottish and English
ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1920.
Died near Brookneal, Campbell
County, Va., June 6,
1799 (age 63 years, 8
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Henry and Sarah (Syme) Henry; brother of Anne Henry
(1738-1790; who married William
Christian) and Elizabeth Henry (who married William
Russell and William
Campbell); married 1754 to Sarah
Shelton; married, October
25, 1777, to Dorothea Dandridge; father of Anne Henry (who
married Spencer
Roane); uncle of Priscilla Christian (who married Alexander
Scott Bullitt) and Sarah Buchanan Campbell (who married Francis
Smith Preston); grandfather of William
Henry Roane; granduncle of Valentine
Wood Southall, William
Campbell Preston, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and John
Smith Preston; great-granduncle of Stephen
Valentine Southall, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; third great-grandfather of Robert
Lee Henry; cousin *** of Isaac
Coles. |
| | | Political family: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Henry counties in Ala., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Patrick
H. Davis
— Patrick
Henry
— Patrick
H. Roche
— Patrick
H. McCarren
— Patrick
H. McGarry
— Patrick
Henry
— Patrick
Henry McCarthy
— Patrick
Henry Callahan
— Patrick
H. Kelley
— Patrick
H. O'Brien
— P.
H. Moynihan
— Patrick
H. Quinn
— Patrick
H. Drewry
— Patrick
Henry Kennedy
— J.
H. Culkin
— Dat
Barthel
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Patrick Henry: Harlow Giles
Unger, Lion
of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New
Nation — Thomas S. Kidd, Patrick
Henry: First Among Patriots |
| | | Image source: The South in the Building
of the Nation (1909) |
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Benjamin Logan (1743-1802) —
Born in Augusta
County, Va., May 1,
1743.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781-87; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1791-92; member of
Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1792-95.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, near Stanford, Shelby
County, Ky., December
11, 1802 (age 59 years, 224
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Shelby County, Ky.
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John Logan (1747-1807) —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Virginia, 1747.
Kentucky
state treasurer, 1792-1807; died in office 1807; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., July, 1807
(age about
60 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) —
also known as Shirley MacLean Beaty —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April
24, 1934.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960 ; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968,
1972.
Female.
English,
Irish,
and Scottish ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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John Marshall (1755-1835) —
of Virginia.
Born in Germantown, Fauquier
County, Va., September
24, 1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782-96; U.S.
Attorney for Virginia, 1789; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1800; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1800-01; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1801-35; died in office 1835;
received 4 electoral votes for Vice-President, 1816.
Episcopalian.
Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 6,
1835 (age 79 years, 285
days).
Interment at Shockoe
Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall;
brother-in-law of William
McClung, George
Keith Taylor and Joseph
Hamilton Daviess; brother of James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall (1770-1825); married, January
3, 1783, to Mary Willis Ambler (daughter of Jacquelin
Ambler); father of Thomas
Marshall (1784-1835), Mary Marshall (who married Jacquelin
Burwell Harvie) and James
Keith Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas
Alexander Marshall; uncle of Edward
Colston, Thomas
Francis Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Alexander
Keith McClung, Charles
Alexander Marshall and Edward
Colston Marshall; granduncle by marriage of Humphrey
Marshall (1812-1872); granduncle of John
Augustine Marshall; great-grandfather of Lewis
Minor Coleman; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; great-granduncle of Hudson
Snowden Marshall, William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey
Marshall (1760-1841); first cousin once removed of William
Marshall Anderson and Charles
Anderson; first cousin twice removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, John
Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John
Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry
St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith
Wilson and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John
Wayles Eppes. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Tuck-Claude
family of Annapolis, Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Marshall counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Miss., Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Marshall (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Marshall Stone
— John
Marshall Martin
— John
Marshall Harlan
— J.
Marshall Hagans
— John
M. Claiborne
— John
M. Hamilton
— John
M. Raymond
— John M.
Rose
— John
M. Slaton
— John
M. Wolverton
— John
M. Robsion
— John
Marshall Hutcheson
— John
M. Butler
— John
Marshall Harlan
— John
M. Robsion, Jr.
— John
Marshall Briley
— John
Marshall Lindley
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appeared on the $20 U.S. Treasury note in the 1880s, and on the
$500 bill in the early 20th century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books about John Marshall: Jean Edward
Smith, John
Marshall : Definer of a Nation — Charles F. Hobson, The
Great Chief Justice : John Marshall and the Rule of
Law — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation
1815-1835 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction
1800-1815 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier,
Lawmaker — David Scott Robarge, A
Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia
to the Supreme Court — R. Kent Newmyer, John
Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Patrick H. McCaull —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Scotland.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1888 (6th District), 1894 (8th
District), 1896 (8th District); U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue
for the 6th Virginia District, 1891; candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1897.
Scottish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) —
also known as John S. Mosby; "The Gray
Ghost" —
of Bristol,
Va.; Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Powhatan
County, Va., December
6, 1833.
In 1852, he shot
and wounded George R. Turpin, with whom he had quarreled; arrested
and tried,
ultimately convicted
only of the misdemeanor charge of unlawful
shooting and sentenced
to one year in jail; pardoned
by Gov. Joseph
Johnson in 1853; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; U.S. Consul in Hong Kong, 1878-85.
Scottish and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1916 (age 82 years, 176
days).
Interment at Warrenton
Cemetery, Warrenton, Va.
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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, Washington, D.C.
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Noah Noble (1794-1844) —
of Franklin
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., January
14, 1794.
Lawyer;
farmer;
merchant;
miller;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825; Governor of
Indiana, 1831-37.
Methodist.
Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., February
8, 1844 (age 50 years, 25
days).
Original interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery (which no longer exists), Indianapolis, Ind.;
reinterment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Spencer Roane (1762-1822) —
Born in Tappahannock, Essex
County, Va., April 4,
1762.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1783-84; member of Virginia
Governor's Council, 1785-86; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals,
1794-1822; died in office 1822.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Warm Springs, Bath
County, Va., September
4, 1822 (age 60 years, 153
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Bath County, Va.
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Daniel Roberdeau (1727-1795) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in St.
Christopher, 1727.
Merchant;
member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1756; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1777-79; general in
the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
French
and Scottish ancestry.
Died in Winchester,
Va., January
5, 1795 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Duncan Robertson (1800-1887) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in England,
July
25, 1800.
Vice-Consul
for Spain in Norfolk,
Va., 1853-77; Consul
for Belgium in Norfolk,
Va., 1870-77.
English
and Scottish ancestry.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., July 23,
1887 (age 86 years, 363
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Andrew Scott (1789-1851) —
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., August
6, 1789.
Lawyer;
justice
of Arkansas territorial supreme court, 1819-25; member of Arkansas
territorial House of Representatives, 1831.
Scottish ancestry.
Killed Joseph
Selden, another Arkansas Territory judge, in a duel
on an island in the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark., May 26, 1824.
Died in Norristown, Pope
County, Ark., March
13, 1851 (age 61 years, 219
days).
Original interment at Dover
Cemetery, Pope County, Ark.; reinterment at Oakland
Cemetery, Russellville, Ark.
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