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See also the narrower category of politicians
who died in duels.
in approximate chronological order
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Cuthbert Bullitt (1740-1791) —
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., 1740.
Lawyer;
planter;
shot and killed John
Baylis in a duel on September 24, 1765; later tried
for the killing
and acquitted; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776.
Anglican;
later Episcopalian.
Died in Prince
William County, Va., August
27, 1791 (age about 51
years).
Burial location unknown.
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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, Washington, D.C.
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Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806) —
of Georgia.
Born in Scotland,
March
17, 1725.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784.
Killed Button
Gwinnett in a duel in 1777.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
20, 1806 (age 80 years, 340
days).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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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, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1832 at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Wells (1744-1780) —
of Georgia.
Born in Queen
Anne's County, Md., March 3,
1744.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Georgia, 1780; died in office 1780.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with
James
Jackson, and died soon after, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
15, 1780 (age 35 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Waightstill Avery (1741-1821) —
of Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Groton, New London
County, Conn., May 10,
1741.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1776, 1782-83, 1793; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1777-79; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1796.
Fought a pistol duel with Andrew
Jackson in 1788; neither man was injured.
Died in the judge's
chambers at the Burke County
Courthouse, Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March
13, 1821 (age 79 years, 307
days).
Interment at Swan
Ponds Plantation Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jerusha (Morgan) Avery and Humphrey Avery; married, October
3, 1778, to Leah Probart Franks; father of Elizabeth Avery (who
married William
Ballard Lenoir); grandfather of Isaac
Thomas Lenoir and William
Waigstill Avery; granduncle of Lorenzo
Burrows; first cousin four times removed of Horace
Billings Packer; second cousin once removed of Noyes
Barber; second cousin twice removed of Daniel
Packer, Asa
Packer, Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, Edwin
Denison Morgan and Alfred
Avery Burnham; second cousin thrice removed of Judson
B. Phelps, Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, William
Henry Bulkeley, Robert
Asa Packer and William
Frederick Morgan Rowland; second cousin four times removed of Henry
Brewster Stanton, Jonathan
R. Herrick, Erskine
Mason Phelps and Spencer
Gale Frink; second cousin five times removed of D-Cady
Herrick, Herman
Arod Gager, Walter
Richmond Herrick and Burdette
Burt Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Nathan
Belcher, Samuel
Townsend Douglass, Silas
Hamilton Douglas and Joshua
Perkins; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Phelps Huntington, George
Mortimer Beakes, George
Douglas Perkins, Chauncey
C. Pendleton, Daniel
Parrish Witter, Albert
Lemando Bingham, Cornelia
Cole Fairbanks, Llewellyn
James Barden and Henry
Woolsey Douglas. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Avery County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) —
also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the
First" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March
15, 1767.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37; censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States; on January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot
at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a
house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel, May 30, 1806; also
dueled with Thomas
Hart Benton and Waightstill
Avery. Elected in 1910 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died, of dropsy (congestive
heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845 (age 78 years, 85
days).
Interment at The
Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson;
married, January
17, 1794, to Rachel (Donelson) Robards (aunt of Andrew
Jackson Donelson). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Caffery
family of Louisiana (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair |
| | | Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Andrew
J. Donelson
— Andrew
Jackson Miller
— Andrew
J. Faulk
— Andrew
Jackson Titus
— Andrew
Jackson Isacks
— Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
— Andrew
J. Harlan
— Andrew
J. Kuykendall
— Andrew
J. Thayer
— Elam
A. J. Greeley
— Andrew
Jackson Ingle
— Andrew
J. Ogle
— Andrew
Jackson Carr
— Andrew
J. Waterman
— Andrew
J. Bentley
— Andrew
J. Rogers
— William
A. J. Sparks
— Andrew
Jackson Poppleton
— Andrew
J. Hunter
— Andrew
Jackson Bryant
— Andrew
J. Beale
— A.
J. Clements
— Andrew
Jackson Baker
— Andrew
J. Felt
— A. J.
King
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
Jackson Greenfield
— Andrew
Jackson Caldwell
— Andrew
Jackson Gahagan
— Andrew
Jackson Biship
— Andrew
Jackson Houston
— Andrew
Jackson Speer
— Andrew
J. Cobb
— Andrew
J. Montague
— Andrew
J. Barchfeld
— Andrew
J. Balliet
— Andrew
J. Kirk
— Andrew
J. Livingston
— A.
J. Sherwood
— Andrew
Jackson Stewart
— Andrew
J. May
— Andrew
J. McConnico
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
J. Brewer
— Andrew
J. Dunning, Jr.
— Andrew
Bettwy
— Andrew
J. Transue
— Andrew
Jackson Graves
— Andrew
Jackson Gilbert
— Andrew
J. Goodwin
— Andrew
J. Hinshaw
— Andy
Young
— Andrew
Jackson Kupper
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appears on the U.S. $20 bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
appeared on on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $5 to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes.
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Let the people
rule." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert
Vincent Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 —
Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy,
1833-1845 — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 —
Andrew Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson — David S. Heidler & Jeanne
T. Heidler, Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for
Empire — Donald B. Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson — H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times — Jon Meacham, American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Andrew
Jackson, Hero |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) —
also known as Joe Daviess —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., March 4,
1774.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Around 1801, he served as a second to John
Rowan in his duel with James Chambers; after Chambers was
killed, he fled
to avoid
prosecution as accomplice to murder,
and became a fugitive,
but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal
counsel.
Shot
and killed
in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Battlefield Park, Battle Ground, Ind.
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John Rowan (1773-1843) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born near York, York
County, Pa., July 12,
1773.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1804-08; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1807-09; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1813-17, 1822-24; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1819-21; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1825-31.
Built the mansion "Federal Hill", later made famous by his cousin,
the songwriter Stephen Foster, in the song "My Old Kentucky Home."
Fought a duel about 1801 with an acquaintance, James Chambers,
in which the latter was killed; arrested
and tried on
murder
charges,
but acquitted.
Slaveowner.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 13,
1843 (age 70 years, 1
days).
Interment at Bardstown
Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky.
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Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) —
of Craven
County, N.C.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., March
25, 1758.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1781; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1783-85; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Governor of
North Carolina, 1792-95; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1798-1801 (10th District
1798-99, at-large 1799-1801); member of North
Carolina state senate, 1801.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in in a duel with
John
Stanly, his opponent and successor in Congress, and died in New
Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
6, 1802 (age 44 years, 165
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Craven County, N.C.
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Aaron Burr (1756-1836) —
also known as Aaron Edwards —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
6, 1756.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County
1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); New York
state attorney general, 1789-91; appointed 1789; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1791-97; Vice
President of the United States, 1801-05; Killed Alexander
Hamilton in a duel, July 11, 1804; tried
for treason
in 1807; found not guilty.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died, after several strokes,
at the Winants or Port Richmond Hotel,
Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
14, 1836 (age 80 years, 221
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah
Burr (who married Tapping
Reeve); married, July 2,
1782, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed
of Francis
Stebbins Bartow); married 1833 to Eliza
(Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married Joseph
Alston); nephew of Pierpont
Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas
Willett; ancestor of Karla
Ballard; first cousin of Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; first cousin four times removed of Anson
Foster Keeler; second cousin of John
Davenport and James
Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore
Davenport; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman and Evert
Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard, Stillman
Stephen Light and Blanche
M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Alfred
Walstein Bangs, John
Clarence Keeler, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard, John
Cecil Purcell and Arthur
Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge; third cousin twice removed of Eli
Thacher Hoyt, George
Smith Catlin, John
Appleton, Howkin
Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph
Pomeroy Root and Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Greene
Carrier Bronson, Abijah
Catlin, David
Munson Osborne, George
Landon Ingraham, Dwight
Arthur Silliman and Charles
Dunsmore Millard; fourth cousin of Noah
Phelps and Hezekiah
Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, Elisha
Phelps, Ambrose
Tuttle, Jesse
Hoyt, Abiel
Case, Henry
Fisk Janes, Jairus
Case, John
Leslie Russell, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg and Almon
Case. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Dayton — Nathaniel
Pendleton — John
Smith — John
Tayler — Walter
D. Corrigan, Sr. — Cowles
Mead — Luther
Martin — William
P. Van Ness — Samuel
Swartwout — William
Wirt — Theophilus
W. Smith |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask,
Aaron
Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President,
1756-1805 — Milton Lomask, Aaron
Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 —
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary — Buckner F. Melton Jr., Aaron
Burr : Conspiracy to Treason — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
H. W. Brands, The
Heartbreak of Aaron Burr — David O. Stewart, American
Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's
America — Donald Barr Chidsey, The
great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the
West |
| | | Fiction about Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal,
Burr |
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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William Peter Van Ness (1778-1826) —
also known as William P. Van Ness —
Born in Claverack, Columbia
County, N.Y., February
13, 1778.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for New York, 1812-14; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1814-26;
died in office 1826.
Dutch
ancestry.
Served as second to Aaron
Burr, during his duel with Alexander
Hamilton, 1804.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
6, 1826 (age 48 years, 205
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Charles Cole Claiborne (1775-1817) —
also known as William C. C. Claiborne —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Sussex
County, Va., 1775.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; state court
judge in Tennessee, 1796; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1797-1801; Governor
of Mississippi Territory, 1801-04; Governor
of Orleans Territory, 1804-12; Governor of
Louisiana, 1812-16; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1817; died in office 1817.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Fought a duel with Daniel Clark on June 8, 1807; he was
wounded in the thigh.
Died of a liver
ailment, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., November
23, 1817 (age about 42
years).
Originally entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.; re-entombed in 1872 at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) —
also known as "Old Bullion" —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., March
14, 1782.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1809; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1821-51; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1853-55; Benton
Democrat candidate for Governor of
Missouri, 1856.
Fought a duel with Andrew
Jackson, who later became a political ally. In April, 1850, he
caused a scandal
with his attempt to assault
Sen. Henry
Stuart Foote, of Mississippi, during debate on the Senate floor;
he was restrained by other senators. Foote had a cocked pistol in his
hand and undoubtedly would have shot him.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
10, 1858 (age 76 years, 27
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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John Ward Gurley (c.1787-1808) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., about 1787.
Orleans
territory attorney general, 1803.
Killed
in a duel with
Philip L. Jones, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 3,
1808 (age about 21
years).
Burial location unknown.
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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, Washington, D.C.
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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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Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Orlean, Fauquier
County, Va., 1760.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Fayette
County, 1788; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-94, 1807-09; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1795-1801.
In 1809, he opposed Henry
Clay's proposal to require all Kentucky legislators to wear
domestic homespun instead of British broadcloth; this clash resulted
in a duel in which both men were wounded. Author of
the first
history of Kentucky, published in 1812.
Slaveowner.
Died near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 3,
1841 (age about 81
years).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Gabriel Moore (c.1785-1845) —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Stokes
County, N.C., about 1785.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
territorial House of Representatives, 1817; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1819; member of Alabama
state senate, 1819-20; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1821-29 (at-large 1821-23, 1st
District 1823-29); Governor of
Alabama, 1829-31; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1831-37.
Fought a duel with his brother-in-law.
Slaveowner.
Died in Harrison
County, Tex., June 9,
1845 (age about 60
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Harrison County, Tex.
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Peter Buell Porter (1773-1844) —
also known as Peter B. Porter —
of Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y.; Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Salisbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., August
4, 1773.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1801-02, 1828 (Ontario and Steuben counties
1801-02, Erie County 1828); U.S.
Representative from New York, 1809-13, 1815-16 (15th District
1809-13, 21st District 1815-16); general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812; fought a duel with Gen. Alexander Smyth; secretary
of state of New York, 1815-16; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1817; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1828-29.
Slaveowner.
Died in Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y., March
20, 1844 (age 70 years, 229
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Joshua Porter and Abigail (Buell) Porter; brother of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849); married, October
16, 1818, to Letitia Preston Breckinridge (daughter of John
Breckinridge; sister of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; widow of Alfred
William Grayson); father of Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); uncle of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872) and Peter
Buell Porter Jr.; grandfather of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant; first cousin thrice removed of Frederick
Dent Grant and Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin thrice removed of Asa H.
Otis and Alvred
Bayard Nettleton; second cousin four times removed of Daniel
Frederick Webster, Lovel
Davis Parmelee and Theron
Ephron Catlin; third cousin of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop and Abel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Scudder, Ebenezer
Huntington, Gaylord
Griswold, Benjamin
Trumbull, Parmenio
Adams, Elisha
Phelps, Lancelot
Phelps, Theodore
Davenport, Abijah
Blodget and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Jabez
Williams Huntington, Abiel
Case, Samuel
George Andrews, Harrison
Blodget, John
Hall Brockway, Jairus
Case, Lorenzo
Burrows, Norman
A. Phelps, Anson
Levi Holcomb, George
Smith Catlin, Waitman
Thomas Willey, Lyman
Trumbull, William
Dean Kellogg, John
Smith Phelps, William
Gleason Jr., Almon
Case, James
Phelps, Robert
Coit Jr., Samuel
Lathrop Bronson, Abial
Lathrop, Roger
Wolcott and Allen
Jacob Holcomb; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Creighton Stratton, Edmund
Holcomb, Ira
Chandler Backus, Calvin
Tilden Hulburd, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, Charles
Jenkins Hayden, John
Leake Newbold Stratton, Bushrod
Ebenezer Hoppin, Judson
B. Phelps, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney, Timothy
E. Griswold, Erskine
Mason Phelps, William
Walter Phelps, William
Patrick Willey, Charles
A. Hungerford, Walter
Harrison Blodget, William
Barret Ridgely, George
Harrison Hall, Clayton
Hyde Lathrop, Phineas
Orange Small, Clement
Phineas Kellogg, Monroe
Marsh Sweetland, William
Brainard Coit, Lafayette
Blanchard Gleason, Arthur
Eugene Parmelee, Austin
Eugene Lathrop and Hiram
Bingham; fourth cousin of Samuel
H. Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Leonard
White, William
Woodbridge, Isaac
Backus, Eli
Thacher Hoyt, Nathaniel
Huntington, Caleb
Scudder, James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Charles
Phelps Huntington, John
Arnold Rockwell, Elisha
Mills Huntington, Henry
Titus Backus, Bailey
Frye Adams and Henry
Joel Scudder. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John George Jackson (1777-1825) —
also known as John G. Jackson —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Buckhannon, Lewis County, Va. (now Upshur
County, W.Va.), September
22, 1777.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1798-1801, 1811-12; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07,
1st District 1807-10, 1813-17); U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1819-25;
died in office 1825.
In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, has was attacked
and suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress, fought a
duel with Joseph
Pearson of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded in
the hip.
Slaveowner.
Died in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, Va (now W.Va.), March
28, 1825 (age 47 years, 187
days).
Interment at Old
Jackson Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
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Joseph Pearson (1776-1834) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Rowan
County, N.C., 1776.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1804-05; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1809-15 (at-large 1809-11,
10th District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15).
While in Congress, fought a duel with John
George Jackson of Virginia, and on the second fire wounded his
opponent on the hip.
Slaveowner.
Died in Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C., October
27, 1834 (age about 58
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 17,
1784.
Playwright;
major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; severely wounded in a
duel, 1814; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1819-20; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1829-38.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 9,
1858 (age 73 years, 265
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) —
also known as Armistead T. Mason —
of Virginia.
Born in Louisa
County, Va., August
4, 1787.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1816-17.
Slaveowner.
As a result of a bitter election campaign, was killed in
a duel
with Col. John Mason McCarty, at Bladensburg, Prince
George's County, Md., February
6, 1819 (age 31 years, 186
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Churchyard, Leesburg, Va.
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Clement Comer Clay (1789-1866) —
also known as Clement C. Clay —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., December
17, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member
Alabama territorial council, 1817-18; state court judge in
Alabama, 1819-23; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1827-28; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1829-35; Governor of
Alabama, 1835-37; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1837-41; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1843.
Fought a duel in 1823 with Dr. Waddy Tate.
Slaveowner.
Died in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., September
7, 1866 (age 76 years, 264
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
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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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Alexander Dimitry (1805-1883) —
also known as Tobias Guarneriius —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
7, 1805.
Newspaper
editor; college
professor; linguist;
as a young man, took part in several duels; Louisiana
superintendent of public instruction, 1848-51; U.S. Minister to
Costa Rica, 1859-61; Nicaragua, 1859-61.
Greek
and Alabama
Indian ancestry.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
30, 1883 (age 77 years, 357
days).
Interment at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.
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Henry Wharton Conway (1793-1827) —
also known as Henry W. Conway —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born near Greeneville, Greene
County, Tenn., March
18, 1793.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster at Little
Rock, Ark., 1821-23; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1823-27; died in office
1827.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with
Robert
Crittenden on October 29, 1827, and died at Arkansas Post, Arkansas
County, Ark., November
9, 1827 (age 34 years, 236
days).
Interment at Scull
Cemetery, Arkansas Post, Ark.
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Robert Brank Vance (1793-1827) —
of Nashville, Nash
County, N.C.
Born near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., 1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 12th District, 1823-25.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with
Samuel
P. Carson, who had defeated him for Congress; died the next day
at a hotel in
Henderson
County, N.C., 1827
(age about
34 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Buncombe County, N.C.
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Robert Crittenden (1797-1834) —
of Arkansas.
Born near Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky., January
1, 1797.
Secretary
of Arkansas Territory, 1819-29.
Mortally wounded Henry
Wharton Conway in a duel on October 29, 1827.
Died in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., December
18, 1834 (age 37 years, 351
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880) —
also known as Henry S. Foote; "Hangman
Foote" —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., February
28, 1804.
Lawyer;
co-founder
of LaGrange College, which later became the University of North
Alabama; fought four duels; fled
Alabama in 1830 to escape
prosecution for dueling;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-52; exchanged blows with Thomas
Hart Benton on the floor of the U.S. Senate; Governor of
Mississippi, 1852-54; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; expelled
from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized
peace mission; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 19,
1880 (age 76 years, 81
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Charles Magill Conrad (1804-1878) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Winchester,
Va., December
24, 1804.
Lawyer;
fought a duel and killed his opponent; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1840-42; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1842-43; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1844; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1849-50; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1850-53; Delegate
from Louisiana to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Slaveowner.
Suffered a stroke
while testifying in court,
and died a few days later, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
11, 1878 (age 73 years, 49
days).
Originally entombed at Girod
Street Cemetery (which no longer exists), New Orleans, La.;
re-entombed in 1957 at Hope
Mausoleum, New Orleans, La.
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Volney Erskine Howard (1809-1889) —
also known as Volney E. Howard —
of Brandon, Rankin
County, Miss.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Norridgewock, Somerset
County, Maine, October
22, 1809.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1836; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1840; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; Texas
state attorney general, 1846; U.S.
Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1849-53; delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; superior
court judge in California, 1879.
Injured in duel with Hiram
G. Runnels.
Slaveowner.
Died in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 14,
1889 (age 79 years, 204
days).
Original interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), Los Angeles, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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Spencer Darwin Pettis (1802-1831) —
also known as Spencer D. Pettis —
of Fayette, Howard
County, Mo.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., 1802.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1826-28; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1829-31; died in office
1831.
The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel and ultimately a duel with
Maj. Thomas Biddle, in which both fell mortally
wounded; died the next day, in St.
Louis, Mo., August
28, 1831 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Hiram George Runnels (1796-1857) —
also known as Hiram G. Runnels —
Born in Hancock
County, Ga., December
17, 1796.
Mississippi
state auditor, 1822-30; member of Mississippi state legislature,
1830, 1841; Governor of
Mississippi, 1833-35; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845.
Fought a duel with Volney
E. Howard.
Died in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., December
17, 1857 (age 61 years, 0
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Thomas Lavan Baltzell (1804-1866) —
also known as Thomas Baltzell —
of Jackson
County, Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., July 11,
1804.
Lawyer;
member
Florida territorial council, 1832; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Jackson County,
1838-39; member of Florida
territorial senate, 1844-46; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1846-50, 1854-60; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1862-63; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County, 1865.
About 1832, he wounded James
D. Westcott in a duel.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., January
14, 1866 (age 61 years, 187
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Leon County, Fla.
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Alexander Keith McClung (1809-1855) —
also known as Alexander K. McClung; "The Black Knight
of the South" —
of Mississippi.
Born in Virginia, 1809.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1849-51.
Killed his opponents in a number of duels.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
with a dueling pistol, in a hotel
room at Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., March
23, 1855 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Friendship
Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
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Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886) —
of Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C.
Born in Pendleton District (part now in Pickens
County), S.C., November
20, 1805.
Democrat. Farmer; lawyer; newspaper
editor; in 1832, he challenged Turner Bynum, editor of a
competing newspaper, to a duel, and fatally injured his
adversary; candidate for U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1834, 1835, 1848, 1872;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Greenville, 1836-41,
1849-59, 1862-64; member of South
Carolina state senate from Greenville, 1844-48; candidate for
Presidential Elector for South Carolina; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1860,
1868,
1876;
Governor
of South Carolina, 1865.
Episcopalian.
Died, from heart
disease, in Greenville
County, S.C., December
3, 1886 (age 81 years, 13
days).
Interment at Christ
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Greenville, S.C.
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James Diament Westcott Jr. (1802-1880) —
also known as James D. Westcott, Jr. —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Alexandria,
Va., May 10,
1802.
Democrat. Lawyer; secretary
of Florida Territory, 1830-34; member of Florida
territorial House of Representatives, 1832; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County,
1838-39; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1845-49.
About 1832, he was wounded in a duel with Thomas
Baltzell.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montreal, Quebec,
January
19, 1880 (age 77 years, 254
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) —
of Texas.
Born in Washington, Mason
County, Ky., February
2, 1803.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; served in the
Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; wounded in a
duel with Texas Gen. Felix Huston, Februay 7, 1837; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1838-40; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed
while leading his forces at the Battle of Shiloh, Hardin
County, Tenn., April 6,
1862 (age 59 years, 63
days). He was the highest-ranking officer on either side killed
during the war.
Original interment at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1867 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; statue at South Mall, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
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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, Washington, D.C.
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William Jordan Graves (1805-1848) —
also known as William J. Graves —
of New Castle, Henry
County, Ky.
Born in New Castle, Henry
County, Ky., 1805.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1834, 1843; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1835-41.
Killed Rep. Jonathan
Cilley of Maine, in a duel, February 24, 1838.
Slaveowner.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
27, 1848 (age about 43
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Henry County, Ky.
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Augustus A. Alston (1805-1839) —
of Georgia.
Born in Hancock
County, Ga., 1805.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1828-29.
Killed
in a duel with
Gen. Leigh Read, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., 1839
(age about
34 years).
Burial location unknown.
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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, Washington, D.C.
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August Belmont (1816-1890) —
also known as August Schönberg —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Alzei, Germany,
December
2, 1816.
Democrat. U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Netherlands, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1854-57; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1860-72; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1860,
1864,
1876;
speaker, 1868.
Jewish.
Fought a duel with Edward Hayward, in Elkton, Md., 1840; both
men were injured.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1890 (age 73 years, 357
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
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Louis Trezevant Wigfall (1816-1874) —
also known as Louis T. Wigfall —
of Texas.
Born near Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C., April
21, 1816.
Democrat. Killed Thomas Bird in a duel around 1840; wounded
Rep. Preston
S. Brooks in another duel; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1849; member of Texas
state senate, 1857; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1859-61; when the Civil War began, he left
Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Slaveowner.
Died in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., February
18, 1874 (age 57 years, 303
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.
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James Shields (1806-1879) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Rice
County, Minn.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo.
Born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), May 10,
1806.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1836; member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1839-41; Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1841-43; in 1842, when the
Springfield paper published letters from "Aunt Becca" ridiculing him,
Shields demanded to know who wrote them; Abraham
Lincoln (then a Springfield lawyer) acknowledged responsibility,
and Shields challenged him to a duel, which was averted only
through the intervention of friends; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1843-45; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1845-47; general in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1849, 1849-55; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1858-59; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1868; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1874, 1879; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1879.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, June 1,
1879 (age 73 years, 22
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Carrollton, Mo.; statue at Courthouse Grounds, Carrollton, Mo.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, Minn.
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George Augustus Waggaman (c.1782-1843) —
also known as George A. Waggaman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Caroline
County, Md., about 1782.
Lawyer;
sugar
cane planter;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; circuit judge in
Louisiana, 1818; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1830-32; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1831-35.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel, and
died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
31, 1843 (age about 61
years).
Original interment at Girod
Street Cemetery (which no longer exists), New Orleans, La.;
reinterment in 1957 at Hope
Mausoleum, New Orleans, La.
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James William Denver (1817-1892) —
also known as James W. Denver —
Born near Winchester, Frederick
County, Va., October
23, 1817.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California
state senate, 1852-53; killed newspaper editor Edward Gilbert in
a duel on August 2, 1852; secretary
of state of California, 1853-55; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; secretary
of Kansas Territory, 1857-58; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1857-58, 1858, 1858; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1866.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
9, 1892 (age 74 years, 291
days).
Interment at Sugar
Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio.
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Edward Gilbert (c.1819-1852) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Cherry Valley, Otsego
County, N.Y., about 1819.
Democrat. Printer;
newspaper
editor; delegate
to California state constitutional convention from San Francisco
District, 1849; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Killed
in a duel with
Col. James W. Denver, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., August
2, 1852 (age about 33
years).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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John McDougal (1818-1866) —
of California.
Born in 1818.
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1849-51; Governor of
California, 1851-52.
Engaged in a duel with A. C. Russell, editor of the San
Francisco Picayune, on January 12, 1852; Russell was slightly
wounded.
Died March
30, 1866 (age about 47
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (1812-1862) —
also known as Felix K. Zollicoffer —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Bigbyville, Maury
County, Tenn., May 19,
1812.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1849; fought a pistol duel with rival editor
John L. Martin, in Nashville, Tenn., 1852; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1853-59; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Shot
and killed in a Civil
War battle near Mill Springs, Wayne
County, Ky., January
19, 1862 (age 49 years, 245
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Zollicoffer
Park Cemetery, Near Nancy, Pulaski County, Ky.
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Samuel Williams Inge (1817-1868) —
of Livingston, Sumter
County, Ala.
Born in Warren
County, N.C., February
22, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1844-45; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1847-51; in 1853, he
participated in a duel with Rep. Edward
Stanly, but neither was seriously injured; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1853-56.
Slaveowner.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 10,
1868 (age 51 years, 109
days).
Original interment at Calvary
Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Edward Stanly (1810-1872) —
of Washington, Beaufort
County, N.C.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., January
10, 1810.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1837-43, 1849-53 (3rd
District 1837-43, 8th District 1849-53); member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1844-46, 1848-49; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1844-46; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1846-48; in 1853, he
participated in a duel with Rep. Samuel
W. Inge, but neither was seriously injured; candidate for Governor of
California, 1857; general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 12,
1872 (age 62 years, 184
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William McKendree Gwin (1805-1885) —
also known as W. M. Gwin —
of Mississippi; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tenn., October
9, 1805.
Democrat. Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1841-43; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1849; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-55, 1857-61.
Engaged in a duel with J.
W. McCorkle, June 1, 1853; there were no injuries; twice arrested
for alleged disloyalty
during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
3, 1885 (age 79 years, 329
days).
Entombed at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Joseph Walker McCorkle (1819-1884) —
also known as Joseph W. McCorkle; J. W.
McCorkle —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio; Sutter
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Piqua, Miami
County, Ohio, June 24,
1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Dayton,
Ohio, 1845-49; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1851-53.
Engaged in a duel with U.S. Senator W.
M. Gwin, June 1, 1853; there were no injuries.
Died in Branchville, Prince
George's County, Md., March
18, 1884 (age 64 years, 268
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Piqua, Ohio.
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Solomon Weathersbee Downs (1801-1854) —
also known as Solomon W. Downs —
of Louisiana.
Born in Montgomery
County, Tenn., 1801.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1845-46; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1847-53; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1853.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel, and
subsequently died, at Crab Orchard Springs, Lincoln
County, Ky., August
14, 1854 (age about 53
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Ouachita Parish, La.; reinterment at
Riverview
Cemetery, Monroe, La.
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of New York; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish
ancestry.
Mortally
wounded in a duel on
September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of
slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel near San Francisco in 1859; tried
for murder,
but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California; his wife Sarah Althea Hill
claimed to be the widow and heir of wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot
through the heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train
station dining
room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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William Augustus Lake (1808-1861) —
Born near Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Md., January
6, 1808.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1831; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1855-57; member of
Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1859.
Slaveowner.
Killed
in a duel by Henry
Cousins Chambers, his opponent for Confederate Congress, at
Hopefield, Crittenden
County, Ark., October
15, 1861 (age 53 years, 282
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss.
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Henry Cousins Chambers (1823-1871) —
of Mississippi.
Born in Limestone
County, Ala., July 26,
1823.
Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1859; Representative
from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Killed William
Augustus Lake, his opponent for the Confederate Congress, in a
duel on October 15, 1861, at Hopefield, Ark.
Died in Bolivar
County, Miss., May 1,
1871 (age 47 years, 279
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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William Evelyn Cameron (1842-1927) —
also known as William E. Cameron —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., November
29, 1842.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
1872;
mayor
of Petersburg, Va., 1876-82; Governor of
Virginia, 1882-86; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention from Petersburg city,
1901-02.
In 1869, he was injured in a duel with Robert
William Hughes.
Died in Louisa
County, Va., January
26, 1927 (age 84 years, 58
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Robert William Hughes (1821-1901) —
of Virginia.
Born in Powhatan
County, Va., January
16, 1821.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, 1871-73; candidate
for Governor of
Virginia, 1873; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1874-98;
retired 1898.
In a duel in 1869, he shot and wounded William
E. Cameron.
Died near Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., December
10, 1901 (age 80 years, 328
days).
Interment at Sinking
Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Va.
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Albert Jennings Fountain (1838-1896) —
also known as Albert J. Fountain; Albert
Jennings —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.; Mesilla, Dona Ana
County, N.M.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., October
23, 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Collector of Customs at El Paso; Assessor and Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Western District of Texas; member of Texas
state senate, 1869-70; fought a duel with Frank Williams,
and killed him; lawyer.
Presumed murdered
near White Sands, Dona Ana
County, N.M., February
1, 1896 (age 57 years, 101
days). His body was never
found.
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1862 to
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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, Washington, D.C.
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Edward Austin Burke (1839-1928) —
also known as Edward A. Burke; Edward A.
Burk —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
13, 1839.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; railroad
superintendent; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; importer
and exporter; railway
freight agent; newspaper
editor; Louisiana
state treasurer, 1878-88; engaged in a pistol duel with
Henry J. Hearsey on January 25, 1880; neither man was injured; in
1882, he was wounded in a duel with C. Harrison Parker; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1884;
in 1889, his successor as state treasurer, William
Henry Pipes, discovered discrepancies in state funds, and accused
Burke of embezzlement;
he was subsequently indicted
by a grand jury; Burke, then in London, chose not to return to
Louisiana, and instead fled
to Honduras, and remained in Central America for the rest of his life.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in the Hotel
Ritz, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
September
24, 1928 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Interment somewhere in Yuscarán, Honduras.
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John Lyde Wilson (1784-1849) —
of Georgetown, Georgetown District (now Georgetown
County), S.C.
Born in South Carolina, May 24,
1784.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1806-08, 1810, 1812-14,
1816-18 (Marlborough 1806-08, Prince George Winyah 1810, 1812-14,
1816-18); intendant
of Georgetown, South Carolina, 1811-12; member of South
Carolina state senate from Prince George Winyah, 1818-22,
1826-30; Governor of
South Carolina, 1822-24; author Code of Honor, a rule book
for dueling.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
12, 1849 (age 64 years, 264
days).
Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, S.C.
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