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Samuel Jordan Cabell (1756-1818) —
of Virginia.
Born in Amherst
County, Va., December
15, 1756.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1785-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Amherst
County, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1795-1803 (14th District 1795-97,
at-large 1797-1803).
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nelson
County, Va., August
4, 1818 (age 61 years, 232
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Nelson County, Va.
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Charles Ernest Chamberlain (1917-2002) —
also known as Charles E. Chamberlain; "The Automobile
Horn of Congress" —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Locke Township, Ingham
County, Mich., July 22,
1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1957-75.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Kiwanis;
Society of the Cincinnati.
Died, of renal
failure and congestive
heart failure, in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., November
25, 2002 (age 85 years, 126
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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John Crittenden (1754-1806) —
of Virginia.
Born in New Kent
County, Va., 1754.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1790-1805.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Kentucky, March
30, 1806 (age about 51
years).
Interment somewhere in Woodford County, Ky.
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Joseph Eggleston (1754-1811) —
of Virginia.
Born in Middlesex
County, Va., November
24, 1754.
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1790; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1798-1801.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Amelia
County, Va., February
13, 1811 (age 56 years, 81
days).
Interment at Old
Grub Hill Church Cemetery, Amelia Court House, Va.
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George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) —
also known as George C. Marshall —
of Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., December
31, 1880.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1947-49; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1950-51.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Kappa
Alpha Order; Society of the Cincinnati.
Awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1953.
Died at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., October
16, 1959 (age 78 years, 289
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Absalom Willis Robertson (1887-1971) —
also known as A. Willis Robertson —
of Lexington,
Va.
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., May 27,
1887.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state senate 22nd District, 1916-22; major in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1933-46 (at-large 1933-35, 7th
District 1935-46); U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1946-67; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 1948,
1952,
1956.
Baptist.
Member, Pi
Kappa Alpha; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Sons
of Confederate Veterans.
Died in Lexington,
Va., November
1, 1971 (age 84 years, 158
days).
Interment at Stonewall
Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Va.
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Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (1900-1994) —
also known as Hugh Scott —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., November
11, 1900.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1941-45, 1947-59 (7th District
1941-45, 6th District 1947-59); defeated, 1944; served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1948-49; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1960,
1964,
1972
(delegation chair); speaker, 1956;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1959-77.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Lions;
Society of the Cincinnati; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Alpha
Chi Rho; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died July 21,
1994 (age 93 years, 252
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Junior Taylor (1902-1984) —
also known as Henry J. Taylor —
of Virginia.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
2, 1902.
Republican. Pulp and
paper industry; trustee, Manhattan Savings Bank;
director, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel;
author;
newspaper
correspondent; economist;
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-61.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi; Loyal
Legion.
Died in 1984
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Selden Wallace (b. 1871) —
also known as George S. Wallace —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born near Greenwood, Albemarle
County, Va., September
6, 1871.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; manager, telegraph
office; train
dispatcher for Chesapeake & Ohio Railway;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; Cabell
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1905-08; member of West Virginia
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1910; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1912;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Cabell County, 1936;
appointed 1936; president, Union Bank &
Trust Co., Huntington.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary;
Society of the Cincinnati; Phi
Sigma Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Irving Wallace and Maria Logan (Sclater) Wallace; married,
October
4, 1905, to Frances Bodine Gibson. |
| | | Image source: Huntington Through
Seventy-Five Years (1947) |
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George Washington (1732-1799) —
also known as "Father of His Country"; "The
American Fabius" —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society of the Cincinnati; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first
President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to
the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January
6, 1759, to Martha
Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell
Bassett); step-father of John
Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod
Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad; granduncle of John
Thornton Augustine Washington and George
Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer
Woodford; second cousin of Howell
Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand
Sutherland Ross and David
Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker
Peyton Conway, Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Henry Ball Jr., William
de Bruyn=Kops, Horace
Lee Washington, Edwin
McPherson Holden, Claude
C. Ball, Arthur
Wesley Holden and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Bullitt Churchill and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee
family; King
family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia; Washington-Walker
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
Lee — Joshua
Fry — Alexander
Dimitry — Tobias
Lear — David
Mathews — Rufus
Putnam |
| | | Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. — The state
of Washington is named for
him. — Mount
Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: George
Washington Lent Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— Joseph
George Washington Duncan
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
Washington Seabrook
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
W. Schuyler
— George
Washington Holman
— George
W. Greene
— George
W. Wolcott
— George
W. Paschal
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
W. Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
W. Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
W. Bemis
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington Clark
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. Martin
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George
W. Ray
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Bartch
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Paul
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Wagoner
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
W. Lovejoy
— George
W. Oakes
— George
W. Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— T.
G. W. Tarver
— George
W. Darden
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Mead
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Calkin
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
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appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill.
His portrait
also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas
Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation —
Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America — James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton,
The
Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential
Care — Wendie C. Old, George
Washington (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Alexander Wilbourne Weddell (1876-1948) —
also known as Alexander W. Weddell —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April 6,
1876.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, 1910-11; Catania, as of 1914; U.S. Consul General in Athens, as of 1916-20; Calcutta, as of 1921-24; Mexico City, as of 1926-27; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1933-38; Spain, 1939-42.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Society of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1948
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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