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John Adair (1757-1840) —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born in Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., January
9, 1757.
Democrat. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-95, 1798, 1800-03, 1817; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1802-03; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1805-06; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; Governor of
Kentucky, 1820-24; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1831-33.
Slaveowner.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., May 19,
1840 (age 83 years, 131
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1872 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Alva Adams (1850-1922) —
of Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo.
Born in a log
cabin in Iowa
County, Wis., May 14,
1850.
Democrat. Hardware
merchant; member of Colorado state legislature, 1876; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President), 1904
(member, Credentials
Committee); Governor of
Colorado, 1887-89, 1897-99, 1905; member of Democratic
National Committee from Colorado, 1908-.
Member, Freemasons.
Died at a sanitarium
in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., November
1, 1922 (age 72 years, 171
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.
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John Adams (1735-1826) —
also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of
Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old
Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of
Independence"; "Father of the American
Navy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826 (age 90 years, 247
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams (1699-1797);
married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail
Quincy Smith (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813; who married
William
Stephens Smith) and John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (who married Louisa
Catherine Johnson); grandfather of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur
Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel
Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen; second cousin twice removed of John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William
Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass and Emerson
Richard Boyles; third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason and George
Bailey Loring; third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Caleb
Stetson (1801-1885), Oakes
Ames, Oliver
Ames Jr., Benjamin
W. Waite, Alfred
Elisha Ames, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph
Washburn Yates, Augustus
Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin
Fairbanks, Erskine
Mason Phelps, Arthur
Newton Holden, John
Alden Thayer, Irving
Hall Chase, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Giles
Russell Taggart. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Adams Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John Adams: John Ferling,
John
Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams — David McCullough, John
Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James
Grant, John
Adams : Party of One |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) —
also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The
Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts
Madman" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1767.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1817-25; President
of the United States, 1825-29; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District
1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office
1848; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1834.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Suffered a stroke
while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in
the Speaker's office,
U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Adams and Abigail
Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813; who married William
Stephens Smith); married, July 26,
1797, to Louisa
Catherine Johnson (daughter of Joshua
Johnson; sister-in-law of John
Pope; niece of Thomas
Johnson); father of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John
Quincy Adams and Brooks
Adams; great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin of William
Cranch; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Adams; second cousin twice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Arthur
Chapin; second cousin five times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; third cousin of Joseph
Allen; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Sewall, Josiah
Quincy and John
Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of William
Vincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Jeremiah
Mason, Josiah
Quincy Jr. and George
Bailey Loring; fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson (1812-1880), Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
| | | Political families: Greene-Lippitt
family of Providence, Rhode Island; DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Thayer-Capron-Aldrich-Stetson
family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Smith — Thurlow
Weed |
| | | Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Quincy Adams, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon
Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Q. A. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
Q. A. Reber
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C.
Nagel, John
Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — Lynn
Hudson Parsons, John
Quincy Adams — Robert V. Remini, John
Quincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan, Mr.
Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary
Post-Presidential Life in Congress |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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William Aiken Jr. (1806-1887) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., January
28, 1806.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1838-42; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1842-44; Governor of
South Carolina, 1844-46; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1851-57 (6th District
1851-53, 2nd District 1853-57); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from South Carolina, 1872.
Slaveowner.
Died in Flat Rock, Henderson
County, N.C., September
6, 1887 (age 81 years, 221
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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James Lusk Alcorn (1816-1894) —
also known as James L. Alcorn —
of Livingston
County, Ky.; Friars Point, Coahoma
County, Miss.
Born near Golconda, Pope
County, Ill., November
4, 1816.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1843; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1846, 1856-57; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1848-54; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1856; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Mississippi, 1870-71; defeated, 1873; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1871-77.
Slaveowner.
Died in Friars Point, Coahoma
County, Miss., December
20, 1894 (age 78 years, 46
days).
Interment at Alcorn
Cemetery, Friars Point, Miss.
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William Julius Alexander (1797-1857) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C., March, 1797.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1826-31, 1833-35; superintendent of
the U.S. Mint at Charlotte, N.C., 1846-51.
Died in Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., February
15, 1857 (age 59 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William M. Alexander —
of Illinois.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1822; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1822.
Burial
location unknown.
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Russell Alexander Alger (1836-1907) —
also known as Russell A. Alger —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin, Lafayette Township, Medina
County, Ohio, February
27, 1836.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; lumber
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1884,
1896;
Governor
of Michigan, 1885-86; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1888;
Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1888;
U.S.
Secretary of War, 1897-99; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1902-07; appointed 1902; died in office
1907.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
24, 1907 (age 70 years, 331
days).
Entombed at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Henry Watkins Allen (1820-1866) —
of Texas; Louisiana.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., April
29, 1820.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Louisiana, 1864-65.
Presbyterian.
Died in Mexico City (Ciudad de México), Distrito
Federal, April
22, 1866 (age 45 years, 358
days).
Interment at Old
State Capitol, Baton Rouge, La.
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William Allen (1803-1879) —
also known as "Earthquake Allen"; "Petticoat
Allen"; "The Fog Horn"; "The Ohio
Gong"; "Rise Up William Allen" —
of Ohio.
Born in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., December
27, 1803.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 7th District, 1833-35; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1837-49; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1864;
Governor
of Ohio, 1874-76.
Died near Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, July 11,
1879 (age 75 years, 196
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio.
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Joseph Campbell Anderson (1830-1891) —
also known as Joseph C. Anderson —
of Kansas.
Born in Jessamine
County, Ky., 1830.
Lawyer;
member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1855; arrested
and imprisoned
during the Civil War for refusing
to sign an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Died in 1891
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Joseph Inslee Anderson (1757-1837) —
also known as Joseph Anderson —
of Tennessee.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
5, 1757.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; justice of
Southwest Territory supreme court, 1791; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-1815; Comptroller of the U.S.
Treasury, 1815-36.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
17, 1837 (age 79 years, 163
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Kenneth Lewis Anderson (1805-1845) —
of Texas.
Born in North Carolina, September
11, 1805.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1841-42; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1844-45; died in office 1845.
Died at the Fanthorp Inn, in
Fanthorp (now Anderson), Grimes
County, Tex., July 3,
1845 (age 39 years, 295
days).
Interment at Fanthorp
Cemetery, Anderson, Tex.
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Richard Clough Anderson Jr. (1788-1826) —
also known as Richard C. Anderson, Jr. —
of Kentucky.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
4, 1788.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1814-15, 1821-22; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1822; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1817-21; U.S. Minister
to Gran Colombia, 1823-26, died in office 1826.
Slaveowner.
Died, of yellow
fever, near Cartagena, Colombia,
July
24, 1826 (age 37 years, 354
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Jefferson County, Ky.
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Branch Tanner Archer (1790-1856) —
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., December
13, 1790.
Physician;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1819-20; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Columbia, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1840-41.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Brazoria, Brazoria
County, Tex., September
22, 1856 (age 65 years, 284
days).
Interment at Restwood
Memorial Park, Clute, Tex.
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Antonio D. Archuleta (born c.1845) —
of Colorado.
Born about 1845.
Member of Colorado
state senate, 1885.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Armstrong (1717-1795) —
also known as "Hero of Kittanny" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), October
13, 1717.
Civil
engineer; surveyor;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-80.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 9,
1795 (age 77 years, 147
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Moses Kimball Armstrong (1832-1906) —
also known as Moses K. Armstrong —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Milan, Erie
County, Ohio, September
19, 1832.
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1862-63; member
Dakota territorial council, 1865-67, 1870-71; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1866-67; treasurer
of Dakota Territory, 1865-68; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1871.
Died in Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn., January
11, 1906 (age 73 years, 114
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) —
also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur;
"The Gentleman Boss"; "His
Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our
Chet"; "Dude President" —
of New York.
Born in Fairfield, Franklin
County, Vt., October
5, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Collector of Customs, 1870-78; New York
Republican state chair, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880;
Vice
President of the United States, 1881; President
of the United States, 1881-85; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Psi
Upsilon; Union
League.
Died, of Bright's
disease and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1886 (age 57 years, 44
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Arthur (1796-1875) and Malvina (Stone) Arthur
(1802-1869); married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon (1837-1880);
fourth cousin once removed of Benjamin
Franklin Flanders (1816-1896) and Cassius
Montgomery Clay Twitchell. |
| | | Political families: Eastman
family; Flanders
family of Vermont; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders
family of New Hampshire; Fairbanks-Adams
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Arthur County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | The village
of Arthur,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The village
of Chester,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lake
Arthur, in Polk
County, Minnesota, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Chester
A. Heitman
— Chester
Arthur Pike
— Chester
A. Johnson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Chester A. Arthur: Thomas
C. Reeves, Gentleman
Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur — Justus D.
Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur — George Frederick Howe, Chester
A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics —
Zachary Karabell, Chester
Alan Arthur — Paul Joseph, Chester
Arthur (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Samuel Ashe (1725-1813) —
of New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Bath, Beaufort
County, N.C., March
24, 1725.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1777; Governor of
North Carolina, 1795-98; Presidential Elector for North Carolina,
1804.
Died in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., February
3, 1813 (age 87 years, 316
days).
Interment at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.; memorial monument at Pack Square Park, Asheville, N.C.
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Chester Ashley (1790-1848) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., June 1,
1790.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1844-48; died in office 1848.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
29, 1848 (age 57 years, 333
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy (Pomeroy) Ashley (1761-1792) and William Ashley (1763-1847);
married, July 4,
1821, to Mary Worthington Watkins Elliot (1798-1865); first
cousin five times removed of Boyd
Kenneth Benedict; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Clesson Allen; second cousin twice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; third cousin of Elisha
Hunt Allen; third cousin once removed of Jason
Kellogg, Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Daniel
Fiske Kellogg, William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; fourth cousin of Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, John
Russell Kellogg, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Laman
Ingersoll, George
Smith Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill (1814-1859) and Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard, Orlando
Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg, Stephen
Wright Kellogg, George
Bradley Kellogg, William
Pitt Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur
Tappan Kellogg, Selah
Merrill, Edwin
W. Kellogg and Samuel
Herbert Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Ashley County,
Ark. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article |
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David Rice Atchison (1807-1886) —
also known as David R. Atchison —
of Plattsburg, Clinton
County, Mo.; Platte City, Platte
County, Mo.
Born in Frogtown, Fayette
County, Ky., August
11, 1807.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1834, 1838; circuit judge in
Missouri, 1841; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1843-48, 1849-55.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
An organizer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Thought by some to have been president for one day in 1849, because
President Zachary
Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
Slaveowner.
Died near Gower, Clinton
County, Mo., January
26, 1886 (age 78 years, 168
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Plattsburg, Mo.; statue at Clinton
County Courthouse Grounds, Plattsburg, Mo.
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William Yates Atkinson (1854-1899) —
of Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga.
Born in Oakland, Meriwether
County, Ga., November
11, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1886-94; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1892-94; Georgia
Democratic state chair, 1890-92; Governor of
Georgia, 1894-98.
Presbyterian.
Died in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., August
8, 1899 (age 44 years, 270
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Ga.
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James H. Audrain (1782-1831) —
of Missouri.
Born in 1782.
Member of Missouri state legislature, 1820.
Died in 1831
(age about
49 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting
revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia,
in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Austin (1761-1821) and Maria (Brown) Austin
(1768-1824). |
| | | Austin County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Austin,
Texas, is named for
him. — Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches,
Texas, is named for
him. — Austin College,
Sherman,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Handbook
of Texas Online |
| | | Books about Stephen F. Austin: Gregg
Cantrell, Stephen
F. Austin : Empresario of Texas |
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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 (1704-1763) and Humphrey Avery; married, October
3, 1778, to Leah Probart Franks (1775-1832); 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 (1814-1898), 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 Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Avery County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839-1914) —
also known as Augustus O. Bacon —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Bryan
County, Ga., October
20, 1839.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1868;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1871-83, 1892-93; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1884;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1895-1914; died in office 1914.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
14, 1914 (age 74 years, 117
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) —
also known as Edward D. Baker —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Oregon City, Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in London, England,
February
24, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-40; member of Illinois
state senate, 1841-45; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1845-46, 1849-51 (7th District
1845-46, 6th District 1849-51); resigned 1846; colonel in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1860-61; died in office 1861; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Balls Bluff, Loudoun
County, Va., October
21, 1861 (age 50 years, 239
days).
Interment at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married, April
27, 1831, to Mary A. Lee. |
| | | Baker County,
Ore. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Baker
City, Oregon, is named for
him. — Fort
Baker (previously, Lime Point Military Reservation; renamed Fort
Baker in 1897; now part of Golden Gate National Recreation
Area), in Marin
County, California, is named for
him. — Baker Street,
in San
Francisco, California, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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James McNair Baker (1821-1892) —
of Florida.
Born in Robeson
County, N.C., July 20,
1821.
Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1856; state court judge in Florida,
1859-62, 1881-90; Senator
from Florida in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1865-68.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 20,
1892 (age 70 years, 336
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
22, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
One of the founders,
and first president,
of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 4,
1807 (age 52 years, 102
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield
Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Bland Ballard (1761-1853) —
of Shelby
County, Ky.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., October
16, 1761.
Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1800-05; served in the U.S.
Army during the War of 1812.
Died September
5, 1853 (age 91 years, 324
days).
Original interment somewhere in Shelbyville, Ky.; reinterment in 1854 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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James Barbour (1775-1842) —
of Barboursville, Orange
County, Va.
Born near Gordonsville, Orange
County, Va., June 10,
1775.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1798-1812; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1809; Governor of
Virginia, 1812-14; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1815-25; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1828-29; delegate to Whig National Convention
from Virginia, 1839 (Convention President; speaker).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Barboursville, Orange
County, Va., June 7,
1842 (age 66 years, 362
days).
Interment at Barboursville
Vineyards and Winery, Barboursville, Va.
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Philip Pendleton Barbour (1783-1841) —
of Luckettsville, Orange
County, Va.
Born near Gordonsville, Orange
County, Va., May 25,
1783.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-14; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1814-25, 1827-30 (10th District
1814-15, 11th District 1815-25, 1827-30); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1821-23; state court judge in Virginia, 1825-27;
delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1830-36;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1832;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-41; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1841 (age 57 years, 276
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Alanson Hamilton Barnes (1817-1890) —
also known as A. H. Barnes —
Born in Turin, Lewis
County, N.Y., April
15, 1817.
Justice
of Dakota territorial supreme court, 1873-81.
Died May 10,
1890 (age 73 years, 25
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry D. Barron (1833-1882) —
of Waukesha, Waukesha
County, Wis.; St. Croix Falls, Polk
County, Wis.
Born January
1, 1833.
Postmaster at Waukesha,
Wis., 1853-55, 1856-57; circuit judge in Wisconsin, 1860, 1877-82
(8th Circuit 1860, 11th Circuit 1877-82); member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1863-64, 1866-69, 1872-73; Presidential Elector
for Wisconsin, 1868,
1872;
member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1874-76.
Died January
22, 1882 (age 49 years, 21
days).
Interment at Prairie
Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Wis.
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William Taylor Barry (1784-1835) —
also known as William T. Barry —
of Kentucky.
Born near Lunenburg, Lunenburg
County, Va., February
5, 1784.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1807, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1810-11; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1814-16; state court judge in Kentucky,
1816-17; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1817-21; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1820-24; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1824-25; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1825; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1828; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1829-35.
Slaveowner.
Appointed Minister to Spain, but died en route to post, in Liverpool,
England,
August
30, 1835 (age 51 years, 206
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at St.
James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England; reinterment in 1854 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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David Barton (1783-1837) —
also known as "Little Red" —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Greeneville, Greene
County, Tenn., December
14, 1783.
Missouri
territory attorney general, 1813; circuit judge in Missouri,
1815-17; member of Missouri
territorial House of Representatives, 1818; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from St. Louis
County, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1821-31; member of Missouri
state senate 7th District, 1834-35.
Died in Boonville, Cooper
County, Mo., September
28, 1837 (age 53 years, 288
days).
Original interment at City
Cemetery, Boonville, Mo.; reinterment in 1858 at Walnut
Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Mo.
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Francis Stebbins Bartow (1816-1861) —
also known as Francis S. Bartow —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
6, 1816.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1856; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; died
in office 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Killed
by rifle
shot, while rallying his men on the Henry House Hill, during the
first battle of Manassas,
Va., July 21,
1861 (age 44 years, 318
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodosius Bartow (1775-1856) and Frances Louisa (Stebbins) Bartow
(1792-1873); married, April
18, 1844, to Louisa Green Berrien (1827-1913; daughter of John
Macpherson Berrien); first cousin twice removed of Theodosia
Bartow (1746-1794; who married Aaron
Burr (1756-1836)). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sherman
family of Connecticut; Tallmadge-Floyd
family of New York; Burr-Alston-Wilson-Ballard
family of Charleston, South Carolina; Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Kittell
family of Connecticut; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr
family of New York; Berrien-Burr-Bartow-Biddle
family of Pennsylvania; Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Bartow County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Bartow,
Florida, is named for
him. — The town
of Bartow,
Georgia, is named for
him. — The community
of Bartow,
West Virginia, is named for
him. — Bartow Elementary
School (now Otis J. Brock Elementary School), in Savannah,
Georgia, was formerly named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Francis S. Bartow (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frederick Bates (1777-1825) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Belmont, Goochland
County, Va., June 23,
1777.
Lawyer;
postmaster at Detroit,
Mich., 1802-05; justice of
Michigan territorial supreme court, 1805; secretary
of Missouri Territory, 1806; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention, 1820; Governor of
Missouri, 1824-25; died in office 1825.
Died in Chesterfield, St. Louis
County, Mo., August
4, 1825 (age 48 years, 42
days).
Interment at Thornhill
Cemetery in Faust Park, Near St. Louis, St. Louis County, Mo.
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Elisha Baxter (1827-1899) —
of Batesville, Independence
County, Ark.
Born in Rutherford
County, N.C., September
1, 1827.
Republican. Mayor of Batesville, Ark., 1853; member of Arkansas state
legislature, 1854; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1864; district judge in Arkansas
3rd District, 1868-73; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Arkansas, 1872;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1873-74.
Died in Batesville, Independence
County, Ark., May 31,
1899 (age 71 years, 272
days).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Batesville, Ark.
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William Henry Harrison Beadle (1838-1915) —
also known as William H. H. Beadle —
of Madison, Lake
County, S.Dak.
Born, in a log
cabin at Howard, Parke
County, Ind., January
1, 1838.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Republican National Committee from Dakota Territory, 1872-;
member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1877-79; Dakota
Territory superintendent of public instruction, 1879-86; president,
Madison State Normal School (now Dakota State University), 1889-1906.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
15, 1915 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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George Loomis Becker (1829-1904) —
also known as George L. Becker —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Locke, Cayuga
County, N.Y., February
4, 1829.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1856-57; delegate
to Minnesota state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1857;
candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1859, 1894; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Minnesota, 1860;
member of Minnesota
state senate 1st District, 1868-71; member of Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1885; appointed 1885.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., January
6, 1904 (age 74 years, 336
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (1869-1940) —
also known as J. C. W. Beckham —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., August
5, 1869.
Democrat. School
principal; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1894-98; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1898; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1900; Governor of
Kentucky, 1900-07; defeated, 1927; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1900,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1908,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916,
1920,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1915-21; defeated, 1920, 1936.
Presbyterian.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
9, 1940 (age 70 years, 157
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Barnard Elliott Bee (1787-1853) —
also known as Barnard E. Bee —
of Texas.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., 1787.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1837-38; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1838-39; Texas Republic Minister to
the United States, 1838-41.
Died in 1853
(age about
66 years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton, S.C.
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Joshua Fry Bell (1811-1870) —
also known as Joshua F. Bell —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.
Born in Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., November
26, 1811.
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1845-47; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1862-67.
Slaveowner.
Died in Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., August
17, 1870 (age 58 years, 264
days).
Interment at Bellevue
Cemetery, Danville, Ky.
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Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-1898) —
also known as Peter H. Bell —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 12,
1812.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor of
Texas, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1853-57; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in Littleton, Halifax
County, N.C., March 8,
1898 (age 85 years, 300
days).
Original interment at City
Cemetery, Littleton, N.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; memorial monument at Courthouse
Grounds, Belton, Tex.
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Granville Gaylord Bennett (1833-1910) —
also known as G. G. Bennett —
of Deadwood, Lawrence
County, S.Dak.
Born near Bloomingburg, Fayette
County, Ohio, October
9, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1865-67; member of Iowa
state senate, 1867-71; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1875-78; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1879-81; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Dakota, 1900.
Died in Hot Springs, Fall River
County, S.Dak., June 28,
1910 (age 76 years, 262
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, S.Dak.
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John Emory Bennett (1833-1893) —
also known as John E. Bennett —
of Morrison, Whiteside
County, Ill.; Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.; Clark, Clark
County, S.Dak.
Born in East Bethany, Genesee
County, N.Y., March
18, 1833.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; circuit
judge in Arkansas, 1868; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1871-74; judge of
South Dakota state supreme court 3rd District, 1889-93; died in
office 1893.
Died in Pierre, Hughes
County, S.Dak., December
31, 1893 (age 60 years, 288
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Near Clark, Clark County, S.Dak.
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B. W. Benson —
of Valley City, Barnes
County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.).
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1883-84.
Burial
location unknown.
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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 Macpherson Berrien (1781-1856) —
also known as John M. Berrien —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Rocky Hill, Somerset
County, N.J., August
23, 1781.
Democrat. Lawyer;
state court judge in Georgia, 1810; member of Georgia
state senate, 1822-23; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1825-29, 1841-45, 1845-52; U.S.
Attorney General, 1829-31.
Slaveowner.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
1, 1856 (age 74 years, 131
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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William Wyatt Bibb (1781-1820) —
also known as William W. Bibb —
of Petersburg, Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Amelia
County, Va., October
2, 1781.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1803-05; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1807-13 (4th District 1807, at-large
1807-09, 1st District 1809-11, at-large 1811-13); U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1813-16; Governor
of Alabama Territory, 1817-19; Governor of
Alabama, 1819-20; died in office 1820.
Fell
from his horse
during a thunderstorm,
sustained internal injuries, and died in Autauga County (part now in
Elmore
County), Ala., July 10,
1820 (age 38 years, 282
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Elmore County, Ala.
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Frederick H. Billings (1823-1890) —
Born in Royalton, Windsor
County, Vt., September
27, 1823.
Republican. Vermont
secretary of civil and military affairs, 1846-48; lawyer; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; president, Northern Pacific
Railway,
1879-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1880.
Died in Woodstock, Windsor
County, Vt., September
30, 1890 (age 67 years, 3
days).
Interment at River
Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Vt.
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Henry Harrison Bingham (1841-1912) —
also known as Henry H. Bingham —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
4, 1841.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War;
postmaster at Philadelphia,
Pa., 1867-72; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1872,
1876,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896
(alternate; chair, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker),
1900,
1904;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1879-1912; died in
office 1912.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
22, 1912 (age 70 years, 109
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Isaac Newton Blackford (1786-1859) —
of Indiana.
Born in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
6, 1786.
Territorial court judge in Indiana, 1814-15; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816-17; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1817-53; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Indiana, 1824;
candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1825; Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1855-59.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
31, 1859 (age 73 years, 55
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) —
also known as James G. Blaine; "The Plumed
Knight"; "Belshazzar Blaine";
"Magnetic Man" —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in West Brownsville, Washington
County, Pa., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary); member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1859-62; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1863-76; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1869-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1876-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1881, 1889-92; candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Congregationalist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1893 (age 62 years, 362
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1920 at Blaine
Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Lyon Blaine (1796-1850) and Maria Louise (Gillespie)
Blaine (1801-1871); married, June 30,
1850, to Harriet Stanwood (1827-1903); father of Harriet Blaine
(1871-1958; who married Truxtun
Beale); nephew of Ellen Blaine (who married John
Hoge Ewing (1796-1887)); grandfather of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
G. Ingersoll |
| | | Blaine counties in Idaho, Mont., Neb. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Blaine, in Park
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The city
of Blaine,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James G. Blaine (built 1942 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: J.
B. McLaughlin
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about James G. Blaine: Mark
Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Edward P. Crapol, James
G. Blaine : Architect of Empire — Richard B. Cheney &
Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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John Blair (born c.1786) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born about 1786.
Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1820.
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Bland (1710-1776) —
of Virginia.
Born in Orange
County, Va., May 6,
1710.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774.
Died in Williamsburg,
Va., October
26, 1776 (age 66 years, 173
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Bland (1665-1720) and Elizabeth (Randolph) Bland
(1680-1720); married to Martha Macon; nephew of Richard
Randolph; uncle of Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790); granduncle of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, John
Randolph of Roanoke and Henry
St. George Tucker; great-granduncle of Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker; second great-granduncle of Fitzhugh
Lee and William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee; fourth great-granduncle of William
Welby Beverley (1889-1969); first cousin of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; first cousin twice removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Edmund
Randolph and Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; first cousin five times removed of John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt and Francis
Beverley Biddle; second cousin twice removed of John
Wayles Eppes; second cousin four times removed of William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Bland County,
Va. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Logan Edwin Bleckley (1827-1907) —
also known as Logan E. Bleckley —
of Clarkesville, Habersham
County, Ga.
Born in Rabun
County, Ga., July 3,
1827.
Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1875-80; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1887-94.
Methodist.
Died in Clarkesville, Habersham
County, Ga., March 6,
1907 (age 79 years, 246
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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William Blount (1749-1800) —
Born in Windsor, Bertie
County, N.C., April 6,
1749.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1781, 1783; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-83, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1788; Governor
of Southwest Territory, 1790-96; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1796-97; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1798-1800; died in office 1800; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1798-99.
Presbyterian.
Became involved in a conspiracy
to turn Florida over to British control; when this plot was uncovered
in 1797, was expelled
from the U.S. Senate; afterwards, on July 7, 1797, he was impeached,
but the Senate dropped the matter for lack of jurisdiction.
Slaveowner.
Died in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., March
21, 1800 (age 50 years, 349
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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William Blount (1768-1835) —
also known as Willie Blount —
of Tennessee.
Born in Bertie
County, N.C., April
18, 1768.
Superior court judge in Tennessee, 1796; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1807-09; Governor of
Tennessee, 1809-15; defeated, 1827; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1834.
Died near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
10, 1835 (age 67 years, 145
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Montgomery County, Tenn.;
reinterment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Clarksville, Tenn.
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Shadrach Bond (1773-1832) —
also known as Shadrack Bond —
of Indiana; Illinois.
Born in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., November
24, 1773.
Member
Indiana territorial council, 1805-08; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Illinois Territory, 1812-13; Governor of
Illinois, 1818-22; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1824.
Slaveowner.
Died in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., April
12, 1832 (age 58 years, 140
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Kaskaskia, Ill.; reinterment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Chester, Ill.
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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) —
Born in Berks
County, Pa., November
2, 1734.
Explorer and frontiersman; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781, 1787.
English
and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in St. Charles
County, Mo., September
26, 1820 (age 85 years, 329
days).
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, St. Charles County, Mo.;
reinterment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Rebecca Ann Bryan (1739-1813); father of Jessie
Bryan Boone and Nathan
Boone; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (1794-1861; who
married Hiram
Howell Baber); granduncle of Levi
Day Boone (1808-1882); second great-grandfather of Elmer
Charless Henderson. |
| | | Political families: Thomas-Smith-Irwin
family of Pennsylvania; Boone
family of St. Charles County, Missouri (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Boone counties in Ark., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The Daniel Boone National
Forest (established 1937 as Cumberland National Forest; renamed
1966), in Bath,
Clay,
Estill,
Harlan,
Jackson,
Knox,
Laurel,
Lee,
Leslie,
McCreary,
Menifee,
Morgan,
Owsley,
Perry,
Powell,
Pulaski,
Rockcastle,
Rowan,
Wayne,
Whitley,
and Wolfe
counties, Kentucky, is named for
him. — Boone Dam
(built 1950-52), on the South Fork Holston River, in Sullivan
and Washington
counties, Tennessee, and the Boone Lake
reservoir behind the dam, are named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Nathan Boone (1781-1857) —
of St.
Charles County, Mo.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., March 2,
1781.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from St. Charles
County, 1820; served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War.
Died in 1857
(age about
76 years).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Greene County, Mo.
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Gail Borden Jr. (1801-1874) —
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., November
9, 1801.
School
teacher; surveyor;
delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; newspaper
publisher; Collector of Customs at Galveston for the Texas
Republic, 1837-38 and 1841-43; in 1849, he invented
a dehydrated beef product called a "meat biscuit", but it failed
commercially; in 1853, he invented
a process to make sweetened condensed
milk, which could be transported without refrigeration, and
developed sanitation practices to to prevent contamination.
Died in Borden, Colorado
County, Tex., January
11, 1874 (age 72 years, 63
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Pierre Evariste Jean Baptiste Bossier (1797-1844) —
also known as Pierre E. J. B. Bossier —
of Louisiana.
Born in Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La., March
22, 1797.
Planter;
member of Louisiana
state senate, 1833-43; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1843-44; died in
office 1844.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
24, 1844 (age 47 years, 33
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Catholic
Cemetery, Natchitoches, La.
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E. M. Bowman —
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1883-84.
Burial
location unknown.
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James E. Boyd (1834-1906) —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), September
9, 1834.
Democrat. Grain commission
merchant; member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1866; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1871; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1875; mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 1881-83, 1885-87; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Nebraska, 1888,
1892;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Nebraska, 1888; Governor of
Nebraska, 1891, 1892-93.
Died April
30, 1906 (age 71 years, 233
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Linn Boyd (1800-1859) —
of Cadiz, Trigg
County, Ky.; Paducah, McCracken
County, Ky.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
22, 1800.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1827-32; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1835-37, 1839-55; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1851-55; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1859; died in office 1859.
Slaveowner.
Died in Paducah, McCracken
County, Ky., December
17, 1859 (age 59 years, 25
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Paducah, Ky.
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John Boyle (1774-1834) —
of Lancaster, Garrard
County, Ky.
Born in Botetourt
County, Va., October
28, 1774.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1800; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1803-09; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1809-26; U.S.
District Judge for Kentucky, 1827-34; died in office 1834.
Slaveowner.
Died near Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., January
28, 1834 (age 59 years, 92
days).
Interment at Bellevue
Cemetery, Danville, Ky.
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William Bradford (1755-1795) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
14, 1755.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1780-91; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1791-94; U.S.
Attorney General, 1794-95; died in office 1795.
Presbyterian.
Died August
23, 1795 (age 39 years, 343
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Churchyard, Burlington, N.J.
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John Branch Jr. (1782-1863) —
of Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., November
4, 1782.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1811, 1813-17, 1834; Governor of
North Carolina, 1817-20; federal
judge, 1822; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1823-29; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1831-33; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1844-45.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia,
in Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C., January
4, 1863 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Enfield, N.C.
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Carter Braxton (1736-1797) —
of Virginia.
Born in King and
Queen County, Va., September
16, 1736.
Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Died in Richmond,
Va., October
10, 1797 (age 61 years, 24
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, King William County, Va.; memorial
monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Breathitt (1786-1834) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Loudoun
County, Va., September
9, 1786.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1811; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1828-32; Governor of
Kentucky, 1832-34; died in office 1834.
Presbyterian.
Died of tuberculosis
in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., February
21, 1834 (age 47 years, 165
days).
Original interment at Breathitt
Cemetery, Near Russellville, Logan County, Ky.; reinterment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Ky.
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John Breckinridge (1760-1806) —
of Kentucky.
Born near Staunton, Augusta
County, Va., December
2, 1760.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1793-94; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1793-97; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1798-1801; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1799-1801; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1801-05; U.S.
Attorney General, 1805-06; died in office 1806.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died, from a stomach
infection, in near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., December
14, 1806 (age 46 years, 12
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fayette County, Ky.; reinterment at
Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Breckenridge (1712-1772) and Letitia 'Lettice' (Preston)
Breckenridge (1729-1798); half-brother of Robert
Breckinridge; brother of James
Breckinridge; married, June 28,
1785, to Mary Hopkins Cabell (1769-1858); father of Letitia
Preston Breckinridge (1786-1831; who married Peter
Buell Porter and Alfred
William Grayson), Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871); nephew of William
Preston; uncle of James
Douglas Breckinridge; grandfather of John
Cabell Breckinridge (who married Mary
Cyrene Burch), Mary Cabell Breckinridge (1826-1854; who married
Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864)), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; great-grandfather of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; second great-grandfather of John
Bayne Breckinridge; cousin *** of John
Brown and James
Brown; first cousin of Francis
Smith Preston and James
Patton Preston; first cousin once removed of William
Campbell Preston, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd, John
Smith Preston and George
Rogers Clark Floyd. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Breckinridge
County, Ky. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Percy Brewster (1816-1884) —
of Texas.
Born in Laurens District (now Laurens
County), S.C., November
22, 1816.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; Texas
state attorney general, 1849-50; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War.
Died November
27, 1884 (age 68 years, 5
days).
Buried at sea in Gulf of Mexico.
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Andrew Briscoe (1810-1849) —
of Texas.
Born in Claiborne
County, Miss., November
25, 1810.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Harrisburg, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Died October
4, 1849 (age 38 years, 313
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Robert Brooke (c.1760-1800) —
of Spotsylvania
County, Va.
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., about 1760.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1791-94; Governor of
Virginia, 1794-96; Virginia
state attorney general, 1796-1800; died in office 1800.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Virginia, February
27, 1800 (age about 40
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Wilmot W. Brookings (1830-1905) —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Woolwich, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, October
23, 1830.
Lawyer;
in February 1858, he was out in a blizzard and lost both
feet; member
Dakota territorial council, 1862-63, 1867-69; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1868; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1863-66; Speaker
of the Dakota Territory House of Representatives, 1864-65; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1869-73; delegate
to South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1883, 1885.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1905
(age about
74 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944) —
of Falfurrias, Brooks
County, Tex.
Born in Bourbon
County, Ky., November
20, 1855.
Texas
Ranger; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1909-11; Brooks
County Judge, 1911-39.
Died in Falfurrias, Brooks
County, Tex., January
15, 1944 (age 88 years, 56
days).
Interment at Falfurrias
Burial Park, Falfurrias, Tex.
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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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John Broome (1738-1810) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., July 19,
1738.
Importer
and exporter; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1777; colonel in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-02; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1803-04; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1804-10; died in office 1810.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
8, 1810 (age 72 years, 20
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Broward (1857-1910) —
also known as Napoleon B. Broward —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Duval
County, Fla., April
19, 1857.
Democrat. Steamboat
business; phosphate
mining business; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1900; Governor of
Florida, 1905-09; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1908.
Died October
1, 1910 (age 53 years, 165
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Albert Gallatin Brown (1813-1880) —
also known as Albert G. Brown —
of Terry, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., May 31,
1813.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1835-39; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1839-41, 1847-53 (at-large
1839-41, 4th District 1847-53); circuit judge in Mississippi,
1842-43; Governor of
Mississippi, 1844-48; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1854-61; served in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Senator
from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died near Terry, Hinds
County, Miss., June 12,
1880 (age 67 years, 12
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
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Alfred Brown (1836-1919) —
also known as "Consolidation Brown" —
of Scotland, Bon Homme
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born near Ottawa, Ontario,
January
1, 1836.
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1879-80.
Died in 1919
(age about
83 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Renshaw Brown (1805-1870) —
also known as Joseph R. Brown —
of Wisconsin; Minnesota.
Born January
11, 1805.
Member of Wisconsin
territorial legislature, 1840-42; member
Minnesota territorial council 6th District, 1854-55; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 10th District, 1857; delegate
to Minnesota state constitutional convention 10th District, 1857.
Died in New York, 1870
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Brown
Cemetery, Henderson, Minn.
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William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) —
also known as William J. Bryan; "The Great
Commoner"; "The Peerless Leader";
"The Silver-Tongued Orator"; "The Boy Orator
of the Platte"; "The Niagaric
Nebraskan" —
of Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill.; Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Salem, Marion
County, Ill., March
19, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 1st District, 1891-95; candidate for
President
of the United States, 1896, 1900, 1908; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Nebraska, 1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker),
1920;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1913-15; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Pi; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Dayton, Rhea
County, Tenn., July 26,
1925 (age 65 years, 129
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue at Rhea County Courthouse Grounds, Dayton, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Silas
Lillard Bryan (1822-1880) and Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan
(1834-1896); brother of Charles
Wayland Bryan and Mary Elizabeth Bryan (1873-1962; who married Thomas
Stinson Allen); married, October
1, 1884, to Mary Elizabeth Baird (1860-1930); father of Ruth
Bryan Owen; grandfather of Helen
Rudd Brown; cousin *** of William
Sherman Jennings. |
| | | Political family: Bryan-Jennings
family of Illinois. |
| | | Cross-reference: Clarence
S. Darrow — Willis
J. Abbot |
| | | Bryan County,
Okla. is named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
J. Bryan Jarvis
— W.
J. Bryan Dorn
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| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "Sixteen to
one." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William Jennings Bryan:
Robert W. Cherny, A
Righteous Cause : The Life of William Jennings Bryan —
Paolo E. Coletta, William
Jennings Bryan, Vol. 1: Political Evangelist,
1860-1908 — Paolo E. Coletta, William
Jennings Bryan, Vol. 2: Progressive Politician and Moral Statesman,
1909-1915 — Paolo E. Coletta, William
Jennings Bryan, Vol. 3: Political Puritan, 1915-1925 —
Michael Kazin, A
Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan — Scott
Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — Gerard N. Magliocca, The
Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the
Politics of Backlash |
| | | Image source: Munsey's Magazine,
October 1903 |
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James Buchanan (1791-1868) —
also known as "The Sage of Wheatland";
"Buck"; "Old Buck" —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in a log
cabin near Mercersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., April
23, 1791.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1821-31 (3rd District 1821-23,
4th District 1823-31); U.S. Minister to Russia, 1832-33; Great Britain, 1853-56; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1834-45; resigned 1845; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1848,
1852;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1845-49; President
of the United States, 1857-61.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., June 1,
1868 (age 77 years, 39
days).
Interment at Woodward
Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; memorial monument at Meridian
Hill Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Buchanan (c.1761-1821) and Elizabeth (Speer) Buchanan
(1767-1833). |
| | | Cross-reference: David
Fullerton Robison — John
A. Quitman — John
Gallagher Montgomery |
| | | Buchanan counties in Iowa, Mo. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Buchanan,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Buchanan (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
B. Duke
— James
B. Cullison
— James
Buchanan Siggins
— J.
B. Marcum
— James
B. Searcy
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Buchanan: Philip S.
Klein, President
James Buchanan: A Biography — Jean H. Baker, James
Buchanan — R. G. Horton, The
Life And Public Services Of James Buchanan: Late Minister To England
And Formerly Minister To Russia, Senator And Representative In
Congress, And Sec. Of State |
| | | Critical books about James Buchanan:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816) —
of Kentucky.
Born near Dumfries, Prince
William County, Va., 1761.
Delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792, 1799; member
of Kentucky
state senate, 1792-99; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1800-04.
Died in Jefferson
County, Ky., April
13, 1816 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Oxmoor-Bullitt
Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Archibald Bulloch (c.1730-1777) —
of Georgia.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., about 1730.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; served in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; President
of Georgia, 1776-77; died in office 1777.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
22, 1777 (age about 47
years).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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John Burke (1859-1937) —
of Devils Lake, Ramsey
County, N.Dak.; Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.; Bismarck, Burleigh
County, N.Dak.
Born in Sigourney, Keokuk
County, Iowa, February
25, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1891; member of North
Dakota state senate, 1893-97; Governor of
North Dakota, 1907-13; candidate for Democratic nomination for
Vice President, 1912;
Treasurer of the United States, 1913-21; candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1916; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Dakota, 1924;
justice
of North Dakota state supreme court, 1925-37; chief
justice of North Dakota state supreme court, 1935-36.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died May 14,
1937 (age 78 years, 78
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Bismarck, N.Dak.; statue at State Capitol Grounds, Bismarck, N.Dak.
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Thomas Burke (c.1747-1783) —
of Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Galway, Ireland,
about 1747.
Physician;
lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1776; member of
North Carolina state legislature, 1777; Governor of
North Carolina, 1781-82.
Died near Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., December
2, 1783 (age about 36
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Orange County, N.C.
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Edward Burleson (1798-1851) —
of Texas.
Born in Buncombe
County, N.C., December
15, 1798.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Mina, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835;
general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bastrop, Gonzales and Fayette,
1838-39; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1841-44; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1844; member of Texas
state senate, 1846-51; died in office 1851.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia,
in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., December
26, 1851 (age 53 years, 11
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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David Gouverneur Burnet (1788-1870) —
also known as David G. Burnet —
of Texas.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April
14, 1788.
U.S. Consul in Galveston, 1832-35; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Liberty, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Liberty, 1835; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1839, 1839-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Died December
5, 1870 (age 82 years, 235
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Lakeview
Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment to unknown location.
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Thomas P. Burnett (1800-1845) —
of Mt. Hope Township, Grant
County, Wis.
Born in Pittsylvania
County, Va., September
3, 1800.
Lawyer;
walked with a limp
due to a leg injury during a fire; present for the surrender of Black
Hawk (Indian chief), August 2, 1832; member
Wisconsin territorial council, 1836.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of typhoid,
in Mt. Hope Township, Grant
County, Wis., November
7, 1845 (age 45 years, 65
days).
Interment at Hermitage
Cemetery, Mt. Hope Township, Grant County, Wis.
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Francis Burt (1807-1854) —
Born in Pendleton, Pendleton District (now Anderson
County), S.C., January
13, 1807.
Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1832-44; South
Carolina state treasurer, 1844; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1852; Governor
of Nebraska Territory, 1854; died in office 1854.
Died in Bellevue, Sarpy
County, Neb., October
18, 1854 (age 47 years, 278
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton, S.C.
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Andrew Pickens Butler (1796-1857) —
also known as Andrew P. Butler —
of Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., November
18, 1796.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Edgefield, 1824-31;
member of South
Carolina state senate from Edgefield, 1832-33; resigned 1833;
common pleas court judge in South Carolina, 1834-46; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1846-57; died in office 1857.
Slaveowner.
Died near Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., May 25,
1857 (age 60 years, 188
days).
Interment at Butler
United Methodist Church Cemetery, Saluda, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William
Butler and Behethland Foote (Moore) Butler (1764-1853); brother
of William
Butler Jr. and Pierce
Mason Butler (1798-1847); married, December
5, 1829, to Susan Ann Simkins (1811-1830; daughter of Eldred
Simkins); married 1831 to
Rebecca Harriet Hayne (1811-1834); uncle of Matthew
Calbraith Butler. |
| | | Political family: Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell
family of Edgefield, South Carolina (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Butler County,
Kan. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "He was of very noble nature,
of high endowments, of lofty moral qualities. As a judge, the
Judicial Records of the State sho whis abilities. In the Senate of
the United States, that illustrious body was illustrated by his
creer. In all that he said and did, there was a dash of genius and
heroism. His fire seemed to be passed on a high stage of Public
Dalies, but his heart was always amidst tender and gentle affections.
He was prompt to weep with those who wept, he was equally ready to
rejoice with those who were in joy. His death, elicited lamentations
made of Public Expression to the circle of his intimacies. It spread
the deepest of affections." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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David Christy Butler (1829-1891) —
also known as David C. Butler —
of Nebraska.
Born December
15, 1829.
Republican. Member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1861; member
Nebraska territorial council, 1864; Governor of
Nebraska, 1867-71; removed 1871; member of University
of Nebraska board of regents, 1869-71; impeached
on March 4, 1871, and removed from
office as Governor on June 2, 1871.
Member, Freemasons.
Died May 25,
1891 (age 61 years, 161
days).
Interment at Pawnee
City Cemetery, Pawnee City, Neb.
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Richard Butler (1743-1791) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born April 1,
1743.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; state
court judge in Pennsylvania, 1788; member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1790.
Killed on an expedition
against Indian tribes, November
4, 1791 (age 48 years, 217
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Soldiers
Monument, Fort Recovery, Ohio.
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William Butler (d. 1818) —
of Georgia.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1800.
Killed by
Indians at Butler Springs, Butler
County, Ala., March
20, 1818.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Orlando Butler (1791-1880) —
also known as William O. Butler —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ky.
Born in Jessamine
County, Ky., April
19, 1791.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1817-18; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 13th District, 1839-43; general in
the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1848.
Slaveowner.
Died in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ky., August
6, 1880 (age 89 years, 109
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Stephen Cabarrus (1754-1808) —
of North Carolina.
Born in 1754.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1790.
Died in 1808
(age about
54 years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Edenton, N.C.
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William Henry Cabell (1772-1853) —
also known as William H. Cabell —
of Virginia.
Born in Cumberland
County, Va., December
16, 1772.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1796-1805; Presidential Elector for
Virginia, 1800,
1804;
Governor
of Virginia, 1805-08; state court judge in Virginia, 1808-11;
Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1830-51.
Died in Richmond,
Va., January
12, 1853 (age 80 years, 27
days).
Interment at Shockoe
Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Col. Nicholas Cabell (1750-1803) and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell
(1751-1817); married 1795 to
Elizabeth Cabell (1774-1801; his first cousin); married 1805 to Agnes
Sarah Bell Gamble (1783-1863; sister-in-law of William
Wirt); father of Edward
Carrington Cabell; nephew of William
Cabell and Paul
Carrington; first cousin of William
Cabell Jr.; first cousin once removed of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell (1793-1862) and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of John
Cabell Breckinridge, Carter
Henry Harrison, Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William
Lewis Cabell, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George
Craighead Cabell and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin thrice removed of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin
Earl Cabell, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin four times removed of Earle
Cabell; second cousin once removed of Cameron
Erskine Thom; second cousin twice removed of Erskine
Mayo Ross. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Bolling
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cabell County,
W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Huntington Through
Seventy-Five Years (1947) |
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Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca (1864-1917) —
also known as Ezequiel C. de Baca —
of New Mexico.
Born November
1, 1864.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of New Mexico, 1911; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Mexico, 1916;
Governor
of New Mexico, 1917; died in office 1917.
Died February
18, 1917 (age 52 years, 109
days).
Interment at Mt.
Calvary Cemetery, Las Vegas, N.M.
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John Caldwell (1757-1804) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., 1757.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1792; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1804; died in office 1804.
Died, of an "inflammation of the brain" (probably a stroke),
while presiding over the Kentucky State
Senate, at the then state
capitol building, Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., 1804
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) —
also known as John C. Calhoun —
of Pickens District (now Pickens
County), S.C.
Born in Abbeville District (part now in McCormick
County), S.C., March
18, 1782.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1808; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1817-25; Vice
President of the United States, 1825-32; resigned 1832; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office
1850; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1844-45.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1850 (age 68 years, 13
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Marion
Park, Charleston, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Patrick Calhoun (1727-1795) and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun
(1750-1802); married, December
27, 1809, to Floride Bonneau (1792-1866) and Floride
Calhoun (daughter of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)); father of Anna Maria Calhoun
(1817-1875; who married Thomas
Green Clemson (1807-1888)); uncle of John
Alfred Calhoun and Martha Catherine Calhoun (1809-1869; who
married Armistead
Burt); great-granduncle of John
Temple Graves; first cousin of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802) and Joseph
Calhoun; first cousin once removed of Andrew
Pickens; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann
Calhoun (1811-1892; who married Alexander
Henry Brown); second cousin twice removed of William
Francis Calhoun. |
| | | Political family: Calhoun-Pickens
family of South Carolina (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Calhoun counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Iowa, Mich., Miss., S.C., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The John C. Calhoun State
Office Building (opened 1926), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Lake
Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; destroyed in cargo explosion at Finchhafen,
Papua New Guinea, 1944) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
C. Johnson
— John
Calhoun Nicholls
— John
Calhoun Cook
— John
C. Sheppard
— John C.
Bell
— John
C. C. Mayo
— John
C. Phillips
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes
(1862). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than
union." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret
L. Coit, John
C. Calhoun : American Portrait — Clyde N. Wilson, John
C. Calhoun — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Warren
Brown, John
C. Calhoun (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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Simon Cameron (1799-1889) —
also known as "The Czar of
Pennsylvania" —
of Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Maytown, Lancaster
County, Pa., March 8,
1799.
Adjutant
General of Pennsylvania, 1829-30; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1845-49, 1857-61, 1867-77; resigned
1861, 1877; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1860;
U.S.
Secretary of War, 1861-62; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1862.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Maytown, Lancaster
County, Pa., June 26,
1889 (age 90 years, 110
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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John Lafayette Camp (1828-1891) —
of Gilmer, Upshur
County, Tex.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ala., February
20, 1828.
Democrat. Planter; lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1872;
member of Texas
state senate, 1875-78; district judge in Texas, 1878-84.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., July 16,
1891 (age 63 years, 146
days).
Interment at Dignowitty
Cemetery, San Antonio, Tex.
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George Washington Campbell (1769-1848) —
also known as George W. Campbell —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Scotland,
February
9, 1769.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1803-09; state court
judge in Tennessee, 1809; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1811-14, 1815-18; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1814; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1818-20.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1848 (age 79 years, 8
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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John Allen Campbell (1835-1880) —
of Wyoming.
Born in Salem, Columbiana
County, Ohio, October
8, 1835.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor
of Wyoming Territory, 1869-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 14,
1880 (age 44 years, 280
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Norman B. Campbell —
of Bon Homme, Bon Homme
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1872-73.
Burial
location unknown.
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Allen Daniel Candler (1834-1910) —
also known as Allen D. Candler; "The One-Eyed
Ploughboy from Pigeon Roost" —
of Jonesboro, Clayton
County, Ga.; Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born in Auraria, Lumpkin
County, Ga., November
4, 1834.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
the battle of Jonesboro, 1864, he was wounded, and lost an
eye; railroad
president; mayor
of Gainesville, Ga., 1872; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1873-77; member of Georgia
state senate, 1878-79; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1883-91; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1894-98; Governor of
Georgia, 1898-1902.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., October
26, 1910 (age 75 years, 356
days).
Interment at Alta
Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga.
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Newton Cannon (1781-1841) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Guilford
County, N.C., May 22,
1781.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1811-13, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1814-17, 1819-23; Governor of
Tennessee, 1835-39; defeated, 1827, 1839.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
16, 1841 (age 60 years, 117
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Williamson County, Tenn.
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John Griffin Carlisle (1835-1910) —
also known as John G. Carlisle —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Campbell County (part now in Kenton
County), Ky., September
5, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Charles
D. Foote; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1859-61; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1866-71; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1868;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1871-75; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1877-90; resigned
1890; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1883-89; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1884;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1890-93; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1893-97.
Died, reportedly from intestinal
trouble and heart
disease, in the Hotel
Wolcott, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 31,
1910 (age 74 years, 329
days).
Interment at Linden
Grove Cemetery, Covington, Ky.
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Reuben B. Carlton (1812-1863) —
of Minnesota.
Born in 1812.
Member of Minnesota
state senate 26th District, 1857-58.
Died in 1863
(age about
51 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) —
of Maryland.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., September
19, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-1800; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1789-92.
Catholic.
Slaveowner.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., November
14, 1832 (age 95 years, 56
days).
Interment at Doughoregan
Manor Chapel, Ellicott City, Md.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Carroll (1702-1783) and Elizabeth (Brooke) Carroll
(1709-1761); married, June 5,
1768, to Mary Darnell (1749-1782); father of Catharine 'Kitty'
Carroll (1778-1861; who married Robert
Goodloe Harper); grandfather of Louisa Carroll (1797-1870; who
married Isaac
Rand Jackson), Mary Sophia Carroll (1804-1886; who married Richard
Henry Bayard) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (1808-1881; who
married John
Lee); great-grandfather of John
Lee Carroll and Helen Sophia Carroll (1841-1886; who married Charles
Oliver O'Donnell); second great-grandfather of John
Howell Carroll; third great-grandfather of Suzanne Howell Carroll
(who married John
Boynton Philip Clayton Hill); third great-granduncle of John
Duffy Alderson (1896-1975); first cousin of Daniel
Carroll; second cousin of Charles
Carroll, Barrister; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Alexander
Contee Hanson and Alexander
Contee Magruder; second cousin thrice removed of John
Read Magruder; third cousin twice removed of Reuben
Handy Meriwether; third cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison and Levin
Irving Handy. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Carroll
family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Carroll counties in Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Md., Miss., Mo., N.H., Ohio and Va., East Carroll
Parish, La. and West Carroll
Parish, La., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Charles
C. Walcutt
— Charles
C. Fitch
— Charles
C. Frick
— Charles
Carroll Glover, Jr.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article |
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William Carroll (1788-1844) —
of Tennessee.
Born near Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March 3,
1788.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor of
Tennessee, 1821-27, 1829-35.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., March
22, 1844 (age 56 years, 19
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Samuel Price Carson (1798-1838) —
also known as Samuel P. Carson —
of Pleasant Garden, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Pleasant Garden, Guilford
County, N.C., January
22, 1798.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1822-24, 1834; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 12th District, 1825-33; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Red River, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., November
2, 1838 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Interment at Government
Cemetery, Hot Springs, Ark.
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Benjamin Wisnor Carter (born c.1830) —
of Oklahoma.
Born about 1830.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; territorial
court judge in Oklahoma, 1870.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Henry Carter (1854-1911) —
also known as Thomas H. Carter —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born near Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio, October
30, 1854.
Republican. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1889; U.S.
Representative from Montana at-large, 1889-91; defeated, 1890; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1892-96; U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1895-1901, 1905-11; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Montana, 1900,
1904;
speaker, 1896.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
17, 1911 (age 56 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Grayson Carter (d. 1849) —
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1834-38.
Died, of cholera,
in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 11,
1849.
Burial
location unknown.
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Lewis Cass (1782-1866) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., October
9, 1782.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1806; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1813-31; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1831-36; U.S. Minister to France, 1836-42; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1843-44; appointed 1843; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1852;
U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1845-48, 1849-57; resigned 1848; candidate
for President
of the United States, 1848; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1857-60.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 17,
1866 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandfather of Thomas
Cass Ballenger (1926-2015). |
| | | Cass counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Mich., Minn., Mo., Neb. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
and village
of Cassville,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The village
of Cass
City, Michigan, is named for
him. — The village
of Cassopolis,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The city
of Cassville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — Cass Lake,
and the adjoining city
of Cass
Lake, Minnesota, are named for
him. — Cass Lake, in Oakland
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Cass River,
in Tuscola
and Saginaw
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Lewis Cass Building
(opened 1921 as the State Office Building; damaged in a fire in 1951;
rebuilt and named for Lewis Cass; changed to Elliott-Larsen Building
in 2020), in Lansing,
Michigan, was named for
him. — Cass Avenue,
Cass Park,
and Cass Technical High
School, in Detroit,
Michigan, are named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Lewis
Cass Wilmarth
— Lewis
C. Carpenter
— Lewis
C. Vandergrift
— Lewis
C. Tidball
— Lewis
Cass Wick
— Lewis
Cass Tidball II
— Lewis
C. Gabbert
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Lewis Cass: Willard Carl
Klunder, Lewis
Cass and the Politics of Moderation — Frank Bury
Woodford, Lewis
Cass, the Last Jeffersonian |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Richard Caswell (1729-1789) —
of Dobbs County (part now in Lenoir
County), N.C.
Born in Harford County (part now in Baltimore
County), Md., August
3, 1729.
Lawyer;
surveyor;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774; Governor of
North Carolina, 1776-80, 1785-87; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; member
of North
Carolina state senate from Dobbs County, 1780-84, 1788-89; died
in office 1789.
Died in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., November
10, 1789 (age 60 years, 99
days).
Interment at Caswell
Memorial Cemetery, Kinston, N.C.
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Thomas Benton Catron (1840-1921) —
also known as Thomas B. Catron —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born near Lexington, Lafayette
County, Mo., October
6, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; New
Mexico territory attorney general, 1869-72; U.S.
Attorney for New Mexico, 1872-78; member New
Mexico territorial council, 1884; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1895-97; mayor
of Santa Fe, N.M., 1906-08; U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1912-17; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Mexico, 1916.
Died in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., May 15,
1921 (age 80 years, 221
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Jerome Bunty Chaffee (1825-1886) —
also known as Jerome B. Chaffee —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Niagara
County, N.Y., April
17, 1825.
Republican. Member of Colorado
territorial House of Representatives, 1861-63; Speaker
of Colorado Territory House of Representatives, 1863; member of
Republican
National Committee from Colorado Territory, 1866-68, 1870-72;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado Territory,
1868;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory, 1871-75; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1876;
U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1876-79; Colorado
Republican state chair, 1884.
One of the founders of the city of Denver.
Died in Salem Center, Westchester
County, N.Y., March 9,
1886 (age 60 years, 326
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Adrian, Mich.
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Henry H. Chambers (1790-1826) —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born near Kenbridge, Lunenburg
County, Va., October
1, 1790.
Democrat. Physician;
delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1819; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1820; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1821, 1823; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1825-26; died in office 1826.
Died near Kenbridge, Lunenburg
County, Va., January
24, 1826 (age 35 years, 115
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Lunenburg County, Va.
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Robert Milledge Charlton (1807-1854) —
also known as Robert M. Charlton —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
19, 1807.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1830; U.S.
Attorney for Georgia, 1835-36, 1839-40; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1839-41; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1852-53.
Slaveowner.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
18, 1854 (age 46 years, 364
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Champion S. Chase (d. 1898) —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Nebraska
state attorney general, 1867-69; member of University
of Nebraska board of regents, 1869-75; mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 1874-77, 1879-81, 1883-84.
Died November
3, 1898.
Burial
location unknown.
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Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) —
also known as Salmon P. Chase; "Old Mr.
Greenbacks" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H., January
13, 1808.
Republican. Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1849-55, 1861; Governor of
Ohio, 1856-60; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1864-73; died in office 1873.
Episcopalian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1873 (age 65 years, 114
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Ithamar Chase (1762-1817) and Janette Chase (1777-1832); married
to Eliza Ann Smith (1821-1845); father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase
(1840-1899; who married William
Sprague (1830-1915)); nephew of Dudley
Chase; cousin *** of Dudley
Chase Denison. |
| | | Political families: Sprague
family; Chase
family of Vermont (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Chase County,
Kan. is named for him. |
| | | Chase Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard
University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Salmon P. Chase (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Chase
S. Osborn
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on various U.S. currency, including $1 and $10 notes in
the 1860s, and the $10,000 bill from 1918 to 1946.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Salmon P. Chase: Frederick
J. Blue, Salmon
P. Chase : A Life in Politics — John Niven, Salmon
P. Chase : A Biography — Albert B. Hart, Salmon
P. Chase — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Edward Saunders Cheatham (1818-1878) —
also known as Edward S. Cheatham —
of Springfield, Robertson
County, Tenn.
Born in Springfield, Robertson
County, Tenn., July 31,
1818.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1853-55; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1855-57, 1861-63; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1855-57, 1861-62; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1872.
Died in Horn Lake, DeSoto
County, Miss., December
21, 1878 (age 60 years, 143
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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George Campbell Childress (1804-1841) —
also known as George C. Childress —
of Texas.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
8, 1804.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Milam, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Killed
himself with a Bowie
knife, in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., October
6, 1841 (age 37 years, 271
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; statue at Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park, Washington, Tex.
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William Parish Chilton (1810-1871) —
also known as William P. Chilton —
of Alabama.
Born near Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., August
10, 1810.
Member of Alabama state legislature, 1839; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1843; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1852-56; member of Alabama
state senate, 1859; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 6th District, 1862-65.
Died in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., January
20, 1871 (age 60 years, 163
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Thomas Chittenden (1730-1797) —
of Williston, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., January
6, 1730.
Governor
of Vermont, 1778-89, 1790-97; died in office 1797.
Died in Williston, Chittenden
County, Vt., August
25, 1797 (age 67 years, 231
days).
Interment at Thomas
Chittenden Cemetery, Williston, Vt.; statue at State
House Grounds, Montpelier, Vt.; statue at Town
Green, Williston, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Chittenden (1699-1756) and Mary (Johnson) Chittenden
(1699-1779); married 1749 to
Elizabeth Meigs (1732-1817); father of Mary Chittenden (1758-1794;
who married Jonas
Galusha), Beulah Chittenden (1763-1824; who married Matthew
Lyon) and Martin
Chittenden; grandfather of Chittenden
Lyon; first cousin twice removed of Josiah
C. Chittenden and Abel
Madison Scranton; first cousin thrice removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; second cousin twice removed of Jeduthun
Wilcox, Clark
S. Chittenden and Russell
Sage; second cousin thrice removed of Leonard
Wilcox and Edgar
Jared Doolittle; second cousin four times removed of Charles
H. Chittenden; third cousin once removed of Chauncey
Goodrich, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Elizur
Goodrich and Frederick
Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg and Eli
Coe Birdsey; third cousin thrice removed of Frederick
Walker Pitkin and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); fourth cousin of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and Josiah
Meigs; fourth cousin once removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Elijah
Hunt Mills, Henry
Meigs and Zina
Hyde Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Wolcott-Wadsworth
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Chittenden
County, Vt. is named for him. |
| | | The town
of Chittenden,
Vermont, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Men of Vermont
(1894) |
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Pierre Chouteau Jr. (1789-1865) —
also known as Pierre Cadet Chouteau —
of St.
Louis County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
19, 1789.
Merchant;
lead mining
business; fur trader; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from St. Louis
County, 1820.
Died September
6, 1865 (age 76 years, 230
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Christian (c.1743-1786) —
Born in Staunton,
Va., about 1743.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1773-75; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Manx
ancestry.
Killed
while fighting Indians in what is now Clark
County, Ind., April 9,
1786 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Bullitt Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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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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Newton Clark —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1872-73.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Clark (1770-1838) —
of Missouri.
Born in Caroline
County, Va., August
1, 1770.
Governor
of Missouri Territory, 1813-20; candidate for Governor of
Missouri, 1820.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with Meriwether
Lewis to Oregon, 1803-04.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., September
1, 1838 (age 68 years, 31
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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William Andrews Clark (1839-1925) —
also known as William A. Clark —
of Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont.
Born near Connellsville, Fayette
County, Pa., January
8, 1839.
Democrat. Banker; mine owner;
delegate
to Montana state constitutional convention, 1884, 1889; candidate
for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1888; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1892,
1904;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1899-1900, 1901-07; resigned 1900.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 2,
1925 (age 86 years, 53
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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James Clarke (1812-1850) —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., July 5,
1812.
Secretary
of Iowa Territory, 1839-41; mayor
of Burlington, Iowa, 1844-45; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Des Moines County,
1844; Governor
of Iowa Territory, 1845-46.
Died in a cholera
epidemic, in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, July 28,
1850 (age 38 years, 23
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Green Clay (1757-1826) —
Born in Powhatan
County, Va., August
14, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; surveyor;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1788-89; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-94; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1795-98, 1807; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; general in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in White Hall, Madison
County, Ky., October
31, 1826 (age 69 years, 78
days).
Interment at White
Hall Family Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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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 (1750-1829); brother of Porter
Clay; married, April
11, 1799, to Lucretia (Hart) Erwin (1781-1864); father of Thomas
Hart Clay, Henry
Clay Jr. and James
Brown Clay; grandfather of Henry
Clay; granduncle of Ellen Hart Ross (who married James
Reily (1811-1863)); 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 Three
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 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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Henry Clay Jr. (1811-1847) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., April
10, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1835-37; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War.
Episcopalian.
Killed
in action at the Battle of Buena Vista, Buena Vista, Coahuila,
February
23, 1847 (age 35 years, 319
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Augustin Smith Clayton (1783-1839) —
also known as Augustin S. Clayton —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., November
27, 1783.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1810; state court judge in
Georgia, 1819; member of Georgia
state senate, 1826; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1832-35.
Slaveowner.
Died in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., June 21,
1839 (age 55 years, 206
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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John M. Clayton —
of Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark.
Republican. Member of Arkansas
state senate, 1873; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1874, 1888; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Arkansas, 1888.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Middleton Clayton (1796-1856) —
also known as John M. Clayton —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.; New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Dagsboro, Sussex
County, Del., July 24,
1796.
Lawyer;
member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Kent County, 1824; secretary
of state of Delaware, 1826-28; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1829-36, 1845-49, 1853-56; resigned 1836,
1849; died in office 1856; justice of
Delaware state supreme court, 1837-39; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1849-50.
Slaveowner.
Died in Dover, Kent
County, Del., November
9, 1856 (age 60 years, 108
days).
Interment at Old
Presbyterian Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August
7, 1833.
Republican. Engineer;
surveyor;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872
(delegation chair), 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) —
also known as Stephen Grover Cleveland; "Uncle
Jumbo"; "The Veto Mayor"; "Grover
The Good"; "The Sage of Princeton";
"Dumb Prophet"; "Buffalo Hangman";
"The Veto President"; "Beast of
Buffalo"; "Big Steve" —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Tamworth, Carroll
County, N.H.
Born in Caldwell, Essex
County, N.J., March
18, 1837.
Democrat. Lawyer; Erie
County Sheriff, 1870-73; mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1882; Governor of
New York, 1883-85; President
of the United States, 1885-89, 1893-97; defeated, 1888.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1935.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 24,
1908 (age 71 years, 98
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; statue at City Hall Grounds, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland (1804-1853) and Anne (Neal)
Cleveland (1806-1882); married, June 2,
1886, to Frances Folsom (1864-1947) and Frances
Clara Folsom; father of Richard
Folsom Cleveland (1897-1974) (son-in-law of Thomas
Frank Gailor; brother-in-law of Frank
Hoyt Gailor); first cousin once removed of Francis
Landon Cleveland; second cousin of James
Harlan Cleveland; second cousin once removed of James
Harlan Cleveland Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Usher and Joseph
Wheeler Bloodgood; third cousin once removed of John
Palmer Usher and Robert
Cleveland Usher; third cousin thrice removed of Ephraim
Safford and Isaiah
Kidder; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Lord and Rollin
Usher Tyler. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
T. Ellett — Wilson
S. Bissell — David
King Udall — Edward
S. Bragg — Thomas
F. Grady — Lyman
K. Bass — George
B. Cortelyou |
| | | Cleveland counties in Ark. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Cleveland, a volcano on Chuginadak
Island, Alaska, is named for
him. — The town
of Grover,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — The Cleveland National
Forest (established 1908), in San
Diego, Riverside,
Orange
counties, California, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Grover
C. Cook
— Grover
C. Meyrs
— Grover
C. Talbot
— Grover
C. Helm
— Grover
C. Robertson
— G. C.
Cooley
— Grover
A. Whalen
— Grover
C. Taylor
— Grover
C. Winn
— Grover
C. Luke
— Grover
C. Albright
— Grover
Cleveland Welsh
— Grover
C. Belknap
— Grover
C. Worrell
— Grover
B. Hill
— Grover
C. Dillman
— Grover
C. Brenneman
— Grover
C. George
— Grover
C. Mitchell
— Grover
C. Ladner
— Grover
C. Hall
— Grover
C. Tye
— Grover
C. Cisel
— Grover
C. Hedrick
— Grover
C. Hunter
— Grover
C. Montgomery
— Grover
C. Farwell
— Grover
C. Gillingham
— Grover
C. Studivan
— Grover
C. Layne
— Grover
C. Hudson
— Grover
C. Combs
— Grover
C. Snyder
— Grover
C. Guernsey
— Grover
C. Henderson
— Grover
C. Smith
— Grover
C. Jackson
— Grover
C. Hunter
— Grover
C. Bower
— Grover
C. Land
— Grover
C. Moritz
— Grover
C. Gregg
— Grover
C. Richman, Jr.
— Grover
C. Anderson
— Grover
C. Chriss
— Grover
C. Criswell
— Grover
C. Brown
— Grover
C. Robinson III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 bill (1914-28), and on the $1,000 bill
(1928-46). |
| | | Campaign slogan (1884): "We love him
for the enemies he has made." |
| | | Opposition slogan (1884): "Ma, Ma,
Where's My Pa?" |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Grover Cleveland: Alyn
Brodsky, Grover
Cleveland : A Study in Character — H. Paul Jeffers, An
Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover
Cleveland — Mark Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Henry F. Graff, Grover
Cleveland — Jeff C. Young, Grover
Cleveland (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Grover Cleveland:
Matthew Algeo, The
President Is a Sick Man: the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland
Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous
Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth — Charles
Lachman, A
Secret Life : The Lies and Scandals of President Grover
Cleveland |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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Duncan Lamont Clinch (1787-1849) —
also known as Duncan L. Clinch —
of St. Marys, Camden
County, Ga.
Born in Edgecombe
County, N.C., April 6,
1787.
U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1844-45.
Slaveowner.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., November
27, 1849 (age 62 years, 235
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) —
also known as "Father of the Erie
Canal" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Napanoch, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 2,
1769.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1797-98; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1798-1802, 1805-11; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York
council of appointment, 1801; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1802-03; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1811-13; candidate for President
of the United States, 1812; Governor of
New York, 1817-23, 1825-28; died in office 1828.
Member, Freemasons.
Chief advocate for the Erie Canal,
completed 1825.
Slaveowner.
Died, from heart
failure, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
11, 1828 (age 58 years, 346
days).
Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Clinton and Mary (De Witt) Clinton (1737-1795); half-brother of
James
Graham Clinton; brother of Charles
Clinton, George
Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (1773-1808; who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)) and Katherine Clinton (1778-1837; who
married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)); married, February
13, 1796, to Maria Franklin (1775-1818); married, May 8,
1819, to Catherine Livingston Jones (1775-1870); father of George
William Clinton (1807-1885); nephew of George
Clinton; first cousin of Jacob
Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin once removed of Charles
De Witt; first cousin five times removed of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot; second cousin once removed of Charles
D. Bruyn and Charles
Gerrit De Witt; second cousin twice removed of David
Miller De Witt. |
| | | Political families: Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg
family of New York (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Peter
Gansevoort |
| | | Clinton counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Mo. and Pa., and DeWitt County,
Ill., are named for him. |
| | | The township
and city of DeWitt,
Michigan, are named for
him. — The city
of De
Witt, Iowa, is named for
him. — The village
of DeWitt,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of De
Witt, Missouri, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: De
Witt C. Stevens
— DeWitt
C. Walker
— De
Witt C. Stanford
— De
Witt C. Littlejohn
— De Witt
C. Gage
— DeWitt
C. Clark
— De
Witt C. Leach
— Dewitt
C. West
— John
DeWitt Clinton Atkins
— DeWitt
C. Wilson
— De
Witt C. Morris
— D.
C. Giddings
— DeWitt
C. Hough
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— De
Witt C. Tower
— D.
C. Coolman
— DeWitt
Clinton Cregier
— DeWitt
C. Hoyt
— DeWitt
Clinton Senter
— De
Witt C. Rugg
— DeWitt
C. Allen
— DeWitt
C. Peck
— DeWitt
C. Richman
— Dewitt
C. Alden
— DeWitt
C. Cram
— De
Witt C. Bolton
— DeWitt
C. Huntington
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— DeWitt
C. Pond
— De Witt
C. Carr
— DeWitt
C. Pierce
— De
Witt C. Badger
— DeWitt
C. Dominick
— DeWitt
C. Becker
— De
Witt C. Titus
— De
Witt C. Winchell
— Dewitt
C. Turner
— Dewitt
C. Ruscoe
— DeWitt
C. Brown
— DeWitt
C. French
— De
Witt C. Flanagan
— DeWitt
C. Cole
— DeWitt
C. Talmage
— Dewitt
Clinton Chase
— De
Witt C. Poole, Jr.
— DeWitt
C. Cunningham
— Dewitt
C. Chastain
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1,000 note in 1898-1905.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about De Witt Clinton: Evan
Cornog, The
Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience,
1769-1828 |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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George Clinton (1739-1812) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., July 26,
1739.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-76; Governor of
New York, 1777-95, 1801-04; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster
County, 1788; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-01; Vice
President of the United States, 1805-12; died in office 1812.
Christian
Reformed. Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
20, 1812 (age 72 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1908 at Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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Thomas Willis Cobb (1784-1830) —
also known as Thomas W. Cobb —
of Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga.; Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., 1784.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1817-21, 1823-24; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1824-28; superior court judge in Georgia,
1828-30.
Slaveowner.
Died in Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga., February
1, 1830 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Greensboro
Cemetery, Greensboro, Ga.
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Cobb County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: In his domestic circle he was
fond and affectionate. "As a friend he was ardent and devoted. As a
man, honorable, generous, and sincere. As a statesman, independent,
and inflexible. As a judge, pure, and incorruptible. Amiable in
private and useful in public life, his death was a deep affliction to
his children, his friends, and his country"; "An honest man's the
noblest work of God." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Cocke (1747-1828) —
Born in Amelia
County, Va., September
6, 1747.
Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1774; general in the Continental Army during
the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1796-97, 1797, 1799-1805; circuit judge
in Tennessee, 1809-12; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; member of Mississippi state legislature, 1822.
Died in Columbus, Lowndes
County, Miss., August
22, 1828 (age 80 years, 351
days).
Interment at Friendship
Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
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George S. S. Codington —
also known as G. S. S. Codington —
of Medary, Brookings
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Minister;
member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1877-78.
Congregationalist
or Presbyterian.
Died of tuberculosis
in Wisconsin.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Coffee (1782-1836) —
of Georgia.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., December
3, 1782.
Democrat. Member of Georgia state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1833-36; died in office
1836.
Slaveowner.
Died near Jacksonville, Telfair
County, Ga., September
25, 1836 (age 53 years, 297
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Telfair County, Ga.; reinterment in
1921 at McRae
City Cemetery, McRae, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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A. M. Coffey (born c.1805) —
of Kansas.
Born about 1805.
Member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1840.
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Coke (1829-1897) —
of Waco, McLennan
County, Tex.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., March
13, 1829.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; state
court judge in Texas, 1865; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1866; Governor of
Texas, 1874-76; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1877-95.
Slaveowner.
Died in Waco, McLennan
County, Tex., May 14,
1897 (age 68 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Waco, Tex.
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Robert M. Coleman (1799-1837) —
also known as R. M. Coleman —
of Texas.
Born in Kentucky, 1799.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Mina, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Drowned
in the Brazos River at Velasco, Brazoria
County, Tex., July 1,
1837 (age about 38
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Coles (1786-1868) —
of Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., December
15, 1786.
Governor
of Illinois, 1822-26.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 7,
1868 (age 81 years, 205
days).
Cenotaph at Valley
View Cemetery, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (1823-1885) —
also known as "The Christian Statesman";
"Smiler" —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
23, 1823.
Delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Indiana, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1855-69; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1863-69; Vice
President of the United States, 1869-73; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1872.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Died in Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn., January
13, 1885 (age 61 years, 296
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Washington Colfax (1792-1822) and Hannah (Stryker) Colfax
(1805-1872); married 1844 to Evelyn
Clark (1823-1863); married, November
18, 1868, to Ellen
Maria Wade (niece of Benjamin
Franklin Wade (1800-1878) and Edward
Wade); father of Schuyler
Colfax III. |
| | | Political family: Colfax-Wade
family. |
| | | Colfax counties in Neb. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Schuyler,
Nebraska, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Schuyler Colfax: Willard H.
Smith, Schuyler
Colfax : The changing fortunes of a political idol —
James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Willard H. Smith, Schuyler
Colfax and the political upheaval of 1854-1855 —
Willard H. Smith, Schuyler
Colfax: a reappraisal |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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James Collinsworth (1806-1838) —
Born in Tennessee, 1806.
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, 1829-35; served
in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Brazoria, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1836; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1837.
Member, Freemasons.
While a candidate
for the presidency of the Texas Republic, jumped
off a boat and drowned
in Galveston
Bay, 1838
(age about
32 years).
Interment at Founders
Memorial Park, Houston, Tex.
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Walter Terry Colquitt (1799-1855) —
also known as Walter T. Colquitt —
of Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., December
27, 1799.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1839-40, 1842-43; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1843-48.
Slaveowner.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., May 7,
1855 (age 55 years, 131
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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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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Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) —
of Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Scott
County, Ky., October
16, 1794.
Lawyer;
Illinois
state attorney general, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1819-27; U.S. Commercial
Agent (Consul) in Havana, 1827.
Died in Scott
County, Ky., October
16, 1827 (age 33 years, 0
days).
Original interment at Hutchinson Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; reinterment in 1866 at
Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Philip Cook (1817-1894) —
of Americus, Sumter
County, Ga.
Born in Twiggs
County, Ga., July 31,
1817.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state senate, 1850; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1865; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 3rd District, 1873-83; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1890-94; died in office 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 21,
1894 (age 76 years, 294
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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William Gordon Cooke (1808-1847) —
of Texas.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., March
26, 1808.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1844-45; Texas
Republic Secretary of War and Marine, 1845-46; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1846; Adjutant
General of Texas, 1846-47; died in office 1847.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of tuberculosis,
at Seguin, Guadalupe
County, Tex., December
24, 1847 (age 39 years, 273
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Geronimo, Tex.; reinterment in 1937 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Dighton Corson (1827-1915) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Deadwood, Lawrence
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Pierre, Hughes
County, S.Dak.
Born in Canaan, Somerset
County, Maine, October
21, 1827.
Lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1858; Milwaukee
County District Attorney, 1859; District Attorney, 1st Judicial
District of Nevada; delegate
to South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1885, 1889; judge of
South Dakota state supreme court 1st District, 1889-1913.
Died in Pierre, Hughes
County, S.Dak., May 7,
1915 (age 87 years, 198
days).
Interment at Mt.
Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kan.
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Leonard Covington (1768-1813) —
of Maryland.
Born in Aquasco, Prince
George's County, Md., October
30, 1768.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1805-07; member of Maryland
state senate, 1807-09; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in the Battle of Chrysler's Field, and died in Frenchs
Mills (now Fort Covington), Franklin
County, N.Y., November
14, 1813 (age 45 years, 15
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Fort Covington, N.Y.; reinterment in 1820 at Mt.
Covington, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; cenotaph at Military
Post Cemetery, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.
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Robert Craig (1792-1852) —
of Virginia.
Born near Christiansburg, Montgomery
County, Va., 1792.
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1829-33, 1835-41 (20th District
1829-33, 5th District 1835-37, 4th District 1837-39, 5th District
1839-41).
Slaveowner.
Died in Roanoke
County, Va., November
25, 1852 (age about 60
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Roanoke County, Va.
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Thomas B. Craighead (b. 1800) —
of Mississippi.
Born in 1800.
Member of Mississippi
state senate, 1840.
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Johnson Crawford (1835-1913) —
of Garnett, Anderson
County, Kan.
Born near Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind., April
10, 1835.
Republican. Member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1861; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
Kansas, 1865-68; resigned 1868; member of Republican
National Committee from Kansas, 1866-68.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., October
21, 1913 (age 78 years, 194
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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William Harris Crawford (1772-1834) —
also known as William H. Crawford —
of Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga.
Born in Nelson
County, Va., February
24, 1772.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1803; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1807-13; U.S. Minister to France, 1813-15; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1815-16; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1816-25; candidate for President
of the United States, 1824; state court judge in Georgia, 1827.
Slaveowner.
Died in Oglethorpe
County, Ga., September
15, 1834 (age 62 years, 203
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Oglethorpe County, Ga.
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Relatives: Uncle
of Nathan
Crawford Barnett (c.1801-1890). |
| | | Crawford counties in Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Mo. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Crawford
Wheatley
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about William Harris Crawford:
Philip Jackson Green, The
life of William Harris Crawford — Philip Jackson
Green, The
public life of William Harris Crawford, 1807-1825 —
Everette Wayne Cutler, William
H. Crawford: A contextual biography — Robert Coleman
Lorish, William
H. Crawford and the presidential election of 1824 |
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Charles Frederick Crisp (1845-1896) —
also known as Charles F. Crisp —
of Ellaville, Schley
County, Ga.; Americus, Sumter
County, Ga.
Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England,
of American parents, January
29, 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1876-82; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 3rd District, 1883-96; died in office
1896; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1891-95.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., October
23, 1896 (age 51 years, 268
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Americus, Ga.
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John Jordan Crittenden (1787-1863) —
also known as John J. Crittenden —
of Illinois; Russellville, Logan
County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born near Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky., September
10, 1787.
Lawyer;
Illinois
territory attorney general, 1809-10; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1811-17, 1825-29; served in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1817-19, 1835-41, 1842-48, 1855-61;
Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1824;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1827-29; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1834-35; U.S.
Attorney General, 1841, 1850-53; Governor of
Kentucky, 1848-50; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1861-63.
Two of his sons were generals on opposite sides in the Civil War; a
grandson of his was killed in Gen. Custer's expedition against the
Sioux in 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., July 26,
1863 (age 75 years, 319
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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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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David Crockett (1786-1836) —
also known as Davy Crockett; "King of the Wild
Frontier" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Greene
County, Tenn., August
17, 1786.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1821; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1827-31, 1833-35 (9th District
1827-31, 12th District 1833-35); served in the Texas Army during the
Texas War of Independence.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Killed
while defending the Alamo, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., March 6,
1836 (age 49 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of John Crockett and Rebecca (Hawkins) Crockett; married, August
16, 1806, to Mary 'Polly' Finley; married 1815 to
Elizabeth Patton; father of John
Wesley Crockett; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Carroll Walcutt (1838-1898). |
| | | Political family: Crockett-Walcutt
family of Tennessee. |
| | | Crockett counties in Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The Davy Crockett National
Forest (established 1936), in Houston
and Trinity
counties, Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Be sure you're right,
then go ahead." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by David Crockett: A
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of
Tennessee |
| | | Books about David Crockett: William C.
Davis, Three
Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James
Bowie, and William Barret Travis — Constance Rourke,
Davy
Crockett — Elaine Alphin, Davy
Crockett (for young readers) |
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Edward Cross (1798-1887) —
of Washington, Hempstead
County, Ark.
Born in Hawkins City (unknown
county), Tenn., November
11, 1798.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1839-45.
Slaveowner.
Died near Washington, Hempstead
County, Ark., April 6,
1887 (age 88 years, 146
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Hempstead County, Ark.
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John H. Crowley (born c.1851) —
of Colorado.
Born about 1851.
Member of Colorado
state senate, 1890.
Burial
location unknown.
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David Browning Culberson (1830-1900) —
also known as David B. Culberson —
of Jefferson, Marion
County, Tex.
Born in Troup
County, Ga., September
29, 1830.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1859; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; member of Texas
state senate, 1873; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1875-97 (2nd District 1875-83, 4th
District 1883-97).
Died in Jefferson, Marion
County, Tex., May 7,
1900 (age 69 years, 220
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Jefferson, Tex.
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Thomas B. Cuming (d. 1858) —
of Nebraska.
Secretary
of Nebraska Territory, 1854-58; died in office 1858; Governor
of Nebraska Territory, 1854-55, 1857-58.
Died March
23, 1858.
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Douglas County, Neb.; subsequent
interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.; reinterment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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George Curry (1861-1947) —
of Kingston, Sierra
County, N.M.
Born in Bayou Sara, West
Feliciana Parish, La., April 3,
1861.
Republican. Lincoln
County Clerk, 1888-90; Lincoln
County Assessor, 1890-92; Lincoln
County Sheriff, 1892-94; member of New Mexico
territorial senate, 1894-96; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Otero
County Sheriff, 1899; governor, Ambos Camarine, Philippine
Islands, 1901; chief
of police, Manila, P.I., 1902; governor, Isabella, P.I., 1904-05;
governor, Samar, P.I., 1905-07; Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1907-10; U.S.
Representative from New Mexico at-large, 1911-13.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., November
24, 1947 (age 86 years, 235
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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George Law Curry (1820-1878) —
also known as George L. Curry —
of Oregon.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 2,
1820.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; jeweler;
member of Oregon
territorial legislature, 1848-49, 1851-52; secretary
of Oregon Territory, 1853-55; Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1853, 1854, 1854-59; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1860.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 28,
1878 (age 58 years, 26
days).
Interment at Lone
Fir Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Samuel Sam Dale (1772-1841) —
also known as Sam Dale —
of Alabama; Mississippi.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., 1772.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1836.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died near Daleville, Lauderdale
County, Miss., May 24,
1841 (age about 68
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Lauderdale County, Miss.;
reinterment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817) —
also known as Alexander J. Dallas —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica,
June
21, 1759.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1791-1801; resigned 1801; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1801-14; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1814-16.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., January
16, 1817 (age 57 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
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George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864) —
also known as George M. Dallas —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 10,
1792.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1828-29; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1829-31; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1831-33; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1833-35; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1837-39; Great Britain, 1856-61; Vice
President of the United States, 1845-49.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
31, 1864 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander
James Dallas and Arabella Maria (Smith) Dallas; brother of Sophia
Burrell Dallas (1784-1860; who married Richard
Bache Jr.); married, May 23,
1816, to Sophia
Chew Nicklin (granddaughter of Benjamin
Chew); uncle of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867; physicist),
Mary Blechenden Bache (1808-1873; who married Robert
John Walker), Sophia Arabella Bache (1815-1904; who married William
Wallace Irwin) and George
Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917); granduncle of Robert
Walker Irwin; second great-granduncle of Claiborne
de Borda Pell; third great-granduncle of Daniel
Baugh Brewster. |
| | | Political families: Bache-Dallas
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Claiborne-Dallas
family of Virginia and Louisiana (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Dallas counties in Ark., Iowa, Mo. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Dallas,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: George
M. Condon
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Mifflin Dallas: John
M. Belohlavek, George
Mifflin Dallas : Jacksonian Patrician |
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Nathan Dane (1752-1835) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., December
29, 1752.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1782-85; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1785-88; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1790-91, 1793-97; Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts, 1812.
Died in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., February
15, 1835 (age 82 years, 48
days).
Interment at Beverly
Central Cemetery, Beverly, Mass.
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William Darke (1736-1801) —
of Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Bucks
County, Pa., May 6,
1736.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Berkeley
County, 1788.
Died in Jefferson
County, Va (now W.Va.), November
26, 1801 (age 65 years, 204
days).
Interment at Darke-Engle-Ronemous Cemetery, Shenandoah Junction, W.Va.
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William Richardson Davie (1756-1820) —
also known as "Father of the University of North
Carolina" —
of Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Egremont, England,
June
22, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Governor of
North Carolina, 1798-99.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Land's Ford, Chester
County, S.C., November
5, 1820 (age 64 years, 136
days).
Interment at Old
Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, The Waxhaws, S.C.
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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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Garrett Davis (1801-1872) —
of Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky.
Born in Mt. Sterling, Montgomery
County, Ky., September
10, 1801.
Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1839-47 (12th District 1839-43, 8th
District 1843-47); U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1861-72; died in office 1872.
Slaveowner.
Died in Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky., September
22, 1872 (age 71 years, 12
days).
Interment at Paris
Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
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Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) —
also known as Jefferson Davis —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, Miss.; Warren
County, Miss.
Born in a log
cabin, Fairview, Christian County (now Todd
County), Ky., June 3,
1808.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War;
candidate for Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1843; Presidential Elector for
Mississippi, 1844;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1845-46; served in the
U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-51, 1857-61; candidate for Governor of
Mississippi, 1851; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1853-57; President
of the Confederacy, 1861-65.
Captured
by Union
forces in May 1865 and imprisoned
without trial for about two years.
Slaveowner.
Died of bronchitis
and malaria
in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
6, 1889 (age 81 years, 186
days).
Original interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1893 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Memorial Avenue, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane (Cook) Davis; married, June 17,
1835, to Sarah Knox Taylor (1814-1835; daughter of Zachary
Taylor and Margaret
Taylor); married, February
25, 1845, to Varina Howell (1826-1906; granddaughter of Richard
Howell (1754-1802)); uncle of Mary Bradford (who married Richard
Brodhead); granduncle of Jefferson
Davis Brodhead and Frances Eileen Hutt (who married Thomas
Edmund Dewey). |
| | | Political families: Taylor-Brodhead
family of Easton, Pennsylvania; Davis-Howell-Morgan-Agnew
family of New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana (subsets of the
Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jesse
D. Bright — John
H. Reagan — Horace
Greeley — Solomon
Cohen — George
W. Jones — Samuel
A. Roberts — William
T. Sutherlin — Victor
Vifquain — Charles
O'Conor |
| | | Jeff Davis
County, Ga., Jefferson Davis
Parish, La., Jefferson Davis
County, Miss. and Jeff Davis
County, Tex. are named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jefferson Davis (built 1942 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: J.
Davis Brodhead
— Jefferson
D. Hostetter
— Jefferson
D. Blount
— Jefferson
Davis Carwile
— Jeff
Davis
— Jefferson
D. Helms
— Jefferson
Davis Wiggins
— Jefferson
Davis Parris
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States 50 cent notes in 1861-64.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Jefferson Davis: The
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
(1881) |
| | | Books about Jefferson Davis: William J.
Cooper, Jr., Jefferson
Davis, American : A Biography — Varina Davis, Jefferson
Davis : Ex-President of the Confederate States of America : A Memoir
by His Wife — William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald
Kennedy, Was
Jefferson Davis Right? — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson
Davis Gets His Citizenship Back — Herman Hattaway &
Richard E. Beringer, Jefferson
Davis, Confederate President — Felicity Allen, Jefferson
Davis: Unconquerable Heart — Clint Johnson, Pursuit:
The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of
Confederate President Jefferson Davis |
| | | Image source: Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861 |
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James William Dawes (1845-1918) —
also known as James W. Dawes —
of Crete, Saline
County, Neb.
Born in McConnelsville, Morgan
County, Ohio, January
8, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1875; Nebraska
Republican state chair, 1876-82; member of Nebraska
state senate, 1877; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Nebraska, 1880;
Governor
of Nebraska, 1883-87.
Died in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
8, 1918 (age 73 years, 273
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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William Crosby Dawson (1798-1856) —
also known as William C. Dawson —
of Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga.
Born in Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga., January
4, 1798.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1836-41; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1841; circuit judge in Georgia, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1849-55.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga., May 5,
1856 (age 58 years, 122
days).
Interment at Greensboro
Cemetery, Greensboro, Ga.
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Merritt H. Day (1844-1900) —
of Scotland, Bon Homme
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Rapid City, Pennington
County, S.Dak.
Born in 1844.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member
Dakota territorial council, 1879-82.
Died in Rapid City, Pennington
County, S.Dak., 1900
(age about
56 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in North Hampton, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
23, 1751.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95,
1st District 1795-97); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1822-24.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 6,
1829 (age 78 years, 103
days).
Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834
at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment in 1848 at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives:
Father of Henry
Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783-1851). |
| | | Dearborn County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Dearborn,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The Dearborn River,
in Lewis &
Clark and Cascade
counties, Montana, is named for
him. — Mount Dearborn, a former military
arsenal on an island in the Catawba River, Chester
County, South Carolina, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Dearborn (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1959) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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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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Jacob S. Deuel (b. 1830) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Dutchess
County, N.Y., 1830.
Sawmill
owner; member
Dakota territorial council, 1862-63.
German
ancestry.
Died in Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Pitt Dewey (d. 1900) —
also known as William P. Dewey —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Member
Dakota territorial council, 1883-84.
Died in 1900.
Burial
location unknown.
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Green DeWitt (1787-1835) —
of Ralls
County, Mo.; Gonzales, Gonzales
County, Tex.
Born in Lincoln
County, Ky., February
12, 1787.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Ralls
County Sheriff; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Gonzales, 1833.
Died in Monclova, Coahuila,
May
18, 1835 (age 48 years, 95
days).
Interment somewhere
in Mexico.
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Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) —
also known as Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y
Sáenz —
of Mérida, Yucatan;
La Porte, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Tecoh, Yucatan,
October
3, 1788.
Active in politics in Mexico, 1812-34; imprisoned
in 1814-17 by Mexican authorities over his advocacy
of democratic reforms; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Harrisburg, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Harrisburg, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836.
Died, of pneumonia,
November
15, 1836 (age 48 years, 43
days).
Interment at de
Zavala Family Cemetery, La Porte, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Anastasio de Zavala y Velázquez and Maria Bárbara
Sáenz y Castro; married 1807 to Teresa
Correa y Correa (died 1831); married, November
12, 1831, to Emily West. |
| | | Zavala County,
Tex. is named for him. |
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William J. Dickenson —
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1859-61, 1865-67, 1877-82.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alfred M. Dickey —
of North Dakota.
Republican. Lieutenant
Governor of North Dakota, 1889-90.
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel Stevens Dickinson (1800-1866) —
also known as Daniel S. Dickinson;
"Bray" —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., September
11, 1800.
Member of New York
state senate 6th District, 1837-40; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1843-44; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1844-51; New York
state attorney general, 1862-63; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1864;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1865-66; died in
office 1866.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
12, 1866 (age 65 years, 213
days).
Interment at Spring
Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y.
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Donald McDonald Dickinson (1846-1917) —
also known as Donald M. Dickinson; Don M.
Dickinson —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Trenton, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Port Ontario, Oswego
County, N.Y., January
17, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
Democratic state chair, 1876; member of Democratic
National Committee from Michigan, 1880-85; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1880,
1892;
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1888-89.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Historical Association.
Died October
15, 1917 (age 71 years, 271
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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William Dickson (1770-1816) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Duplin
County, N.C., May 5,
1770.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1799-1803; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1799-1803; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1801-07.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
21, 1816 (age 45 years, 292
days).
Interment somewhere
in Davidson County, Tenn.
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Philip Doddridge (1773-1832) —
of Virginia.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., May 17,
1773.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 18th District, 1829-32; died in
office 1832.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
19, 1832 (age 59 years, 186
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Augustus Caesar Dodge (1812-1883) —
also known as Augustus C. Dodge —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., January
2, 1812.
Democrat. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Iowa Territory, 1840; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1848-55; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1855-59; candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1859; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa,
1860;
mayor
of Burlington, Iowa, 1874.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, November
20, 1883 (age 71 years, 322
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Henry Dodge (1782-1867) —
of Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.; Michigan; Dodgeville, Iowa
County, Wis.
Born near Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., October
12, 1782.
Democrat. General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; member
Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1832-33; Governor
of Wisconsin Territory, 1836-41, 1845-48; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57.
Slaveowner.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, June 19,
1867 (age 84 years, 250
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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William Earle Dodge (1805-1883) —
also known as William E. Dodge —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
4, 1805.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1865-67; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1872.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
9, 1883 (age 77 years, 158
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887) —
of Liberty, Clay
County, Mo.; Richmond, Ray
County, Mo.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., July 9,
1808.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1836, 1840, 1854; in 1838, he
refused to obey an order to execute Joseph Smith and other Mormon
leaders, calling it "cold-blooded murder"; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; led Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico,
1846-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876.
Died in Richmond, Ray
County, Mo., August
8, 1887 (age 79 years, 30
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Liberty, Mo.; statue at County Courthouse Grounds, Richmond, Mo.
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Stockton P. Donley (1831-1871) —
of Texas.
Born in Missouri, May 27,
1831.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1866.
Died February
17, 1871 (age 39 years, 266
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tyler, Tex.
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Charles Dougherty (1801-1853) —
of Georgia.
Born in 1801.
State court judge in Georgia, 1840.
Died November
26, 1853 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Old
Athens Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861) —
also known as Stephen A. Douglas; "The Little
Giant" —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Brandon, Rutland
County, Vt., April
23, 1813.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-39; secretary
of state of Illinois, 1840-41; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1841-43; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 5th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1847-61; died in office 1861; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1852,
1856;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1860.
Slaveowner.
Died, of typhoid
fever, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 3,
1861 (age 48 years, 41
days).
Interment at Douglas
Monument Park, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives:
Father of Robert
Martin Douglas; grandfather of Robert
Dick Douglas (born1875). |
| | | Political family: Douglas-Dick
family of Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| | | Douglas counties in Colo., Ga., Ill., Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., Nev., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Stephen A. Douglas: Robert
W. Johannsen, Stephen
A. Douglas — James L. Huston, Stephen
A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality —
Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — Scott
Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — Fergus M. Bordewich, America's
Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That
Preserved the Union |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Thomas Stevenson Drew (1802-1879) —
also known as Thomas S. Drew —
of Arkansas.
Born in Wilson
County, Tenn., August
25, 1802.
Democrat. Governor of
Arkansas, 1844-49; Independent Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1858.
Died in Lipan, Hood
County, Tex., 1879
(age about
76 years).
Original interment somewhere
in Lipan, Tex.; reinterment in 1923 at Masonic
Cemetery, Pocahontas, Ark.
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Elmer Scipio Dundy (1830-1896) —
also known as Elmer S. Dundy —
of Falls City, Richardson
County, Neb.
Born in Trumbull
County, Ohio, March 5,
1830.
Lawyer;
member
Nebraska territorial council, 1858-62; justice of
Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1863-67; U.S.
District Judge for Nebraska, 1868.
Died October
28, 1896 (age 66 years, 237
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Daniel Dunklin (1790-1844) —
of Washington
County, Mo.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., January
14, 1790.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1828-32; Governor of
Missouri, 1832-36.
Died of pneumonia,
August
25, 1844 (age 54 years, 224
days).
Interment at Daniel
Dunklin Grave State Historic Site, Herculaneum, Mo.
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Charles Dunn —
of Wisconsin.
Chief
justice of Wisconsin territorial supreme court, 1836-48.
Burial
location unknown.
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John P. Dunn (born c.1823) —
of Bismarck, Burleigh
County, N.Dak.
Born about 1823.
Mayor
of Bismarck, N.Dak., 1860.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Pope Duval (1784-1854) —
also known as William P. Duval —
of Kentucky; Calhoun
County, Fla.
Born in Virginia, 1784.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Kentucky at-large, 1813-15; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Florida, 1821-22; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1822-34; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Calhoun County,
1838-39; member of Florida
state senate, 1839-42.
He was the model for Washington
Irving's character "Ralph Ringwood" and James K. Paulding's
character "Nimrod Wildfire".
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1854 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Henry Dyer (1774-1826) —
Born in North Carolina, 1774.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1820.
Died in Madison
County, Tenn., May 11,
1826 (age about 51
years).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Peter Early (1773-1817) —
of Georgia.
Born near Madison, Madison
County, Va., June 20,
1773.
U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1803-07 (at-large 1803-05, 2nd
District 1805-07); superior court judge in Georgia, 1807-13; Governor of
Georgia, 1813-15; member of Georgia
state senate, 1815-17; died in office 1817.
Slaveowner.
Died near Scull Shoals, Greene
County, Ga., August
15, 1817 (age 44 years, 56
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at City
Cemetery, Greensboro, Ga.
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John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) —
also known as John H. Eaton —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Scotland Neck, Halifax
County, N.C., June 18,
1790.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815-16; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1818-21, 1821-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1829-31; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1834-36; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1836-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Resigned
from Cabinet in 1831 during the scandal
(called the "Petticoat Affair") over past infedelities
of his second wife, Peggy Eaton.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
17, 1856 (age 66 years, 152
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Milner Echols (1798-1847) —
also known as Robert M. Echols —
of Walton
County, Ga.
Born near Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., 1798.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1824-29; member of Georgia
state senate, 1830-44; general in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War.
Killed
in action when he fell from
his horse during battle, at National Bridge (Puente Nacional), near
Veracruz, Veracruz,
December
3, 1847 (age about 49
years).
Original interment somewhere
in Mexico; reinterment at a
private or family graveyard, Walton County, Ga.
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Matthew Duncan Ector (1822-1879) —
Born in Putnam
County, Ga., February
28, 1822.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1850; member of Texas state
legislature, 1855; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; Judge, Texas Court of Appeals, 1866-79; died in office 1879.
Wounded during the Civil War, and lost a
leg.
Died October
29, 1879 (age 57 years, 243
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Marshall, Tex.
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John Edgar (c.1750-1832) —
of Fort Kaskaskia (now Kaskaskia), Randolph
County, Ill.
Born in Ireland,
about 1750.
Member of Northwest
Territory House of Representatives, 1799-1801; justice of the
peace.
Died in 1832
(age about
82 years).
Cenotaph at Garrison Hill Cemetery, Kaskaskia, Ill.
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Newton Edmunds (1819-1908) —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Hartland, Niagara
County, N.Y., May 31,
1819.
Republican. Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1863-66; member of Republican National
Committee from Dakota Territory, 1866-70; member
Dakota territorial council, 1879-80.
Died, following a series of paralytic strokes,
in Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak., February
13, 1908 (age 88 years, 258
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ninian Edwards (1775-1833) —
of Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Md., March
17, 1775.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1796-97; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1803; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1808; Governor
of Illinois Territory, 1809-18; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1818-24; Governor of
Illinois, 1826-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1832.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died of cholera,
in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., July 20,
1833 (age 58 years, 125
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Belleville, Ill.; reinterment in 1855 at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; statue at Ninian
Edwards Plaza, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Samuel Elbert (1740-1788) —
of Georgia.
Born in South Carolina, 1740.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784; Governor of
Georgia, 1785-86.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., November
1, 1788 (age about 48
years).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Samuel Hitt Elbert (1833-1899) —
of Plattsmouth, Cass
County, Neb.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Logan
County, Ohio, April 3,
1833.
Republican. Member of Nebraska
territorial legislature, 1860; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nebraska Territory, 1860;
secretary
of Colorado Territory, 1862-66; member of Colorado
territorial legislature, 1869; Governor
of Colorado Territory, 1873-74; justice of
Colorado state supreme court, 1877-88; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Colorado, 1884.
Methodist.
Died in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., November
27, 1899 (age 66 years, 238
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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John Milton Elliott (1820-1879) —
also known as John M. Elliott —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.
Born in Scott
County, Va., May 20,
1820.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1847, 1860-61; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1853-59; Delegate
from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; circuit judge
in Kentucky, 1868-74; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1876-79; died in office 1879.
Expelled
from the Kentucky legislature in 1861 for supporting
the Confederacy.
Slaveowner.
Shot
and killed by
Col. Thomas Buford, in front of the ladies' entrance to the Capitol
Hotel,
in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March
26, 1879 (age 58 years, 310
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.; statue at Boyd
County Courthouse Grounds, Catlettsburg, Ky.
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Albert H. Ellis (born c.1867) —
of Oklahoma.
Born about 1867.
Delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1907.
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Ellis (1781-1846) —
Born in Virginia, February
14, 1781.
Delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1819; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1819; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Red River, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River, 1836-39.
Slaveowner.
Reportedly "came to his death suddenly by his clothes taking fire", at
his home in Bowie
County, Tex., December
20, 1846 (age 65 years, 309
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1929 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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John Archer Elmore (1762-1834) —
of Laurens District (now Laurens
County), S.C.; Autauga
County, Ala.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., August
21, 1762.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South Carolina state legislature, 1800; member of Alabama state
legislature, 1820.
Slaveowner.
Died in Autauga
County, Ala., April
24, 1834 (age 71 years, 246
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Elmore County, Ala.
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David Emanuel (1744-1808) —
of Georgia.
Born in 1744.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1780; Governor of
Georgia, 1801.
Jewish.
Died February
19, 1808 (age about 63
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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George W. Emery (1830-1909) —
of Utah.
Born in Corinth, Penobscot
County, Maine, August
13, 1830.
Governor
of Utah Territory, 1875-80.
Died in Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass., July 10,
1909 (age 78 years, 331
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Bernard Erath (1813-1891) —
also known as George B. Erath —
of Milam
County, Tex.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
January
1, 1813.
Member of Texas
Republic Congress, 1843; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1846; member of Texas
state senate, 1857.
Died May 13,
1891 (age 78 years, 132
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Waco, Tex.
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Clement Anselm Evans (1833-1911) —
also known as Clement A. Evans —
of Georgia.
Born in Stewart
County, Ga., March
25, 1833.
State court judge in Georgia, 1854; member of Georgia
state senate, 1859; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Methodist
minister.
Methodist.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died July 2,
1911 (age 78 years, 99
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Andrew Jackson Faulk (1814-1898) —
also known as Andrew J. Faulk —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Milford, Pike
County, Pa., November
26, 1814.
Newspaper
publisher; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1866-69.
Methodist.
Died in Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak., September
4, 1898 (age 83 years, 282
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Fentress —
of Tennessee.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1814-25; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1815-17, 1819-25.
Burial
location unknown.
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Elisha Peyre Ferry (1825-1895) —
also known as Elisha P. Ferry —
of Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Monroe
County, Mich., August
9, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1852;
postmaster at Waukegan,
Ill., 1853-54; village
president of Waukegan, Illinois, 1856-57; mayor
of Waukegan, Ill., 1859; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Lake County,
1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1872-80; vice-president, Puget Sound
National Bank; Governor of
Washington, 1889-93.
French
ancestry.
Died of pneumonia
and congestive
heart failure, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
14, 1895 (age 70 years, 66
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) —
also known as "The Accidental
President" —
of East Aurora, Erie
County, N.Y.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Cayuga
County, N.Y., January
7, 1800.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Erie County, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1833-35, 1837-43 (32nd District
1833-35, 1837-41, 38th District 1841-43); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1844; in 1846, he was one of the founders
of the University of Buffalo, originally a medical school; New York
state comptroller, 1848-49; Vice
President of the United States, 1849-50; President
of the United States, 1850-53; defeated, 1852, 1856.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry.
Died, after a series of strokes,
in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., March 8,
1874 (age 74 years, 60
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Fillmore (1771-1863) and Phoebe (Millard) Fillmore
(1781-1831); married, February
5, 1826, to Abigail Powers (1798-1853) and Abigail
Powers (1798-1853); married, February
10, 1858, to Caroline (Carmichael) McIntosh (1813-1881); nephew
of Calvin
Fillmore; third cousin of John
Leslie Russell; third cousin once removed of Jonathan
Brace, Bela
Edgerton, Heman
Ticknor, Leslie
Wead Russell, Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell, Alphonso
Alva Hopkins, Charles
Hazen Russell and John
Clarence Keeler; third cousin twice removed of John
Leffingwell Randolph; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799); fourth cousin of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Charles
Henry Pendleton, Chauncey
C. Pendleton and Eckford
Gustavus Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of James
Kilbourne, Elijah
Abel, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Willard
J. Chapin, Russell
Sage and Samuel
Lount Kilbourne. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Waterman-Huntington
family of Connecticut; Wolcott-Wadsworth
family of Connecticut; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edward
H. Thompson |
| | | Fillmore counties in Minn. and Neb., and Millard County,
Utah, are named for him. |
| | | The city
of Fillmore,
Utah, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Millard
F. Riley
— Millard
F. McCray
— Millard
F. Parker
— Millard
F. Dunlap
— Millard
F. Voies
— Millard
F. Cottrell
— Millard
F. Vores
— Millard
F. Saunders
— Millard
F. Tawes
— Millard
F. Caldwell, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Millard Fillmore: Robert J.
Raybach, Millard
Fillmore : Biography of a President — Elbert B. Smith,
The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard
Fillmore |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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David W. Finney —
of Neosho Falls, Woodson
County, Kan.
Republican. Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1881-85.
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794-1839) —
also known as S. Rhoads Fisher —
of Texas.
Born in Pennsylvania, December
31, 1794.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Matagorda, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836-37.
Died March
14, 1839 (age 44 years, 73
days).
Interment at Matagorda
Cemetery, Matagorda, Tex.
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John Floyd (1769-1839) —
of Jefferson, Jackson
County, Ga.
Born in Beaufort, Beaufort
County, S.C., October
3, 1769.
Planter;
shipbuilder;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1820-27; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1827-29.
Slaveowner.
Died near Jefferson, Jackson
County, Ga., June 24,
1839 (age 69 years, 264
days).
Interment at Floyd
Family Cemetery, Woodbine, Ga.
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John Floyd (1783-1837) —
of Newbern, Pulaski
County, Va.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ky., April
24, 1783.
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1817-29 (5th District 1817-21, 20th
District 1821-29); Governor of
Virginia, 1830-34; received 11 electoral votes for President, 1832.
Slaveowner.
Died in Sweetsprings, Monroe
County, Va (now W.Va.), August
17, 1837 (age 54 years, 115
days).
Interment at Lewis
Family Cemetery, Sweetsprings, W.Va.
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Thomas Ford (1800-1850) —
of Ogle
County, Ill.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., December
5, 1800.
Democrat. State court judge in Illinois, 1837; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1841-42; Governor of
Illinois, 1842-46.
Died in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., November
3, 1850 (age 49 years, 333
days).
Interment at Springdale
Cemetery, Peoria, Ill.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Benjamin Forsyth (c.1775-1814) —
of North Carolina.
Born about 1775.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1807.
Died in 1814
(age about
39 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Forsyth (1780-1841) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., October
22, 1780.
Democrat. Lawyer; Georgia
state attorney general, 1808; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1813-18, 1823-27 (at-large 1813-18,
1823-25, 2nd District 1825-27, at-large 1827); resigned 1827; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1818-19, 1829-34; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1819-23; Governor of
Georgia, 1827-29; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1834-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
21, 1841 (age 60 years, 364
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony
Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice
Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry
Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone";
"Martha Careful"; "Benevolus";
"Caelia Shortface" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.
Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Deist.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented
bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at
Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La
Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Franklin (1657-1745) and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin
(1667-1752); married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin
(1743-1808; who married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (1891-1863; who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache
(1806-1867; physicist), Mary Blechenden Bache (1808-1873; who married
Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (1815-1904; who married William
Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert
Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel
Baugh Brewster and Elise
du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles
James Folger, Benjamin
Dexter Sprague and Wharton
Barker (1846-1921); first cousin six times removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George
Hammond Parshall. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Williams |
| | | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half
dollar coin (1948-63). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Benjamin Cromwell Franklin (1805-1873) —
of Texas.
Born in 1805.
State court judge in Texas, 1836; member of Texas
state senate, 1845.
Died in 1873
(age about
68 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William S. Freeborn (1816-1900) —
of Minnesota.
Born in Iowa, 1816.
Member
Minnesota territorial council 4th District, 1854-57.
Died in 1900
(age about
84 years).
Interment at San
Luis Cemetery, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton (1782-1858)). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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William Savin Fulton (1795-1844) —
also known as William S. Fulton —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Cecil
County, Md., June 2,
1795.
Democrat. Secretary
of Arkansas Territory, 1829-35; Governor
of Arkansas Territory, 1835-36; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1836-44; died in office 1844.
Slaveowner.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., August
15, 1844 (age 49 years, 74
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Robert Wilkinson Furnas (1824-1905) —
also known as Robert W. Furnas —
of Brownville, Nemaha
County, Neb.
Born in Miami
County, Ohio, May 5,
1824.
Republican. Printer;
farmer;
member of Nebraska
territorial legislature, 1856; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; member of University
of Nebraska board of regents, 1869-75; Governor of
Nebraska, 1873-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died June 1,
1905 (age 81 years, 27
days).
Interment at Brownville
Cemetery, Brownville, Neb.
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James Gadsden (1788-1858) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 15,
1788.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Florida
state legislature, 1840; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1853-56.
Negotiated the treaty which led to the Gadsden Purchase, which added
30,000 square miles to the U.S. (parts of southern Arizona and New
Mexico).
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
25, 1858 (age 70 years, 224
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
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James Taylor Gaines (1776-1856) —
also known as James Gaines —
of Texas.
Born in 1776.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Sabine, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Shelby, Sabine and Harrison,
1840-42.
Died in Quartsburg, Mariposa
County, Calif., 1856
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) —
also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin —
of Fayette
County, Pa.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
January
29, 1761.
Democrat. Delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of
Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1790-92; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793-94; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1795-1801; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to France, 1815-23; Great Britain, 1826-27.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
12, 1849 (age 88 years, 195
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin;
married 1789 to Sophie
Allègre (1766-1789); married, November
11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson (1766-1849); second
great-grandfather of May
Preston Davie; cousin by marriage of Joseph
Hopper Nicholson (1770-1817). |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Davie
family of Maryland (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
L. Dawson |
| | | Gallatin counties in Ill., Ky. and Mont. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Gallatin,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The village
of Galatia,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The Gallatin River,
which flows through Gallatin
County, Montana, is named for
him. — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Albert Gallatin (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; torpedoed and sunk 1944 in the
Arabian
Sea) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Albert
Galliton Harrison
— Albert
G. Jewett
— Albert
G. Hawes
— Albert
G. Wakefield
— Albert
Gallatin Talbott
— Albert
G. Dow
— Albert
G. Dole
— Albert
Gallatin Kellogg
— Albert
Gallatin Marchand
— Albert
G. Brown
— Albert
G. Brodhead, Jr.
— Albert
G. Allison
— Albert
G. Riddle
— Albert
Galiton Watkins
— Albert
G. Porter
— Albert
Gallatin Egbert
— Albert
Gallatin Jenkins
— Albert
Gallatin Calvert
— Albert
G. Lawrence
— Albert
G. Foster
— Albert
G. Simms
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 note in 1862-63. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Albert Gallatin: John
Austin Stevens, Albert
Gallatin: An American Statesman — L. B. Kuppenheimer,
Albert
Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability — Nicholas
Dungan, Gallatin:
America's Swiss Founding Father — Raymond Walters, Albert
Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield
(1801-1888); married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer (1857-1917). |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Augustus Hill Garland (1832-1899) —
also known as Augustus H. Garland —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Tipton
County, Tenn., June 11,
1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Arkansas, 1860;
delegate
to Arkansas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 3rd District, 1862-64;
Senator
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1868;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1874-77; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1877-85; U.S.
Attorney General, 1885-89.
Slaveowner.
Died suddenly while arguing a case before the Supreme
Court, in the U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., January
26, 1899 (age 66 years, 229
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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James Garrard (1749-1822) —
Born in Stafford
County, Va., January
14, 1749.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
Kentucky, 1796-1804.
Baptist.
Died in Bourbon
County, Ky., January
19, 1822 (age 73 years, 5
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Bourbon County, Ky.
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William Gaston (1778-1844) —
of North Carolina.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
19, 1778.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15,
4th District 1815-17).
Slaveowner.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., January
23, 1844 (age 65 years, 126
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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Horatio Gates (1726-1806) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in 1726.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-01.
Died in 1806
(age about
80 years).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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John White Geary (1819-1873) —
also known as John W. Geary —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland
County, Pa., December
30, 1819.
Civil
engineer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster at San
Francisco, Calif., 1849; candidate for Governor of
California, 1849; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1850-51; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1856-57; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1867-73.
Methodist.
Died after suffering a heart
attack, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
8, 1873 (age 53 years, 40
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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Richard Gentry (1788-1837) —
of Columbia, Boone
County, Mo.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., August
25, 1788.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state senate, 1826-29; postmaster at Columbia,
Mo., 1829-37.
One of the founders of Smithton, later Columbia, Mo., 1820.
Killed
while fighting Indians at the battle of Okeechobee, Okeechobee
County, Fla., December
25, 1837 (age 49 years, 122
days).
Original interment somewhere in Okeechobee, Fla.; reinterment at Jefferson
Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, Mo.
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James Zachariah George (1826-1897) —
also known as James Z. George —
of Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; Carrollton, Carroll
County, Miss.
Born in Monroe
County, Ga., October
20, 1826.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1881-97; died in office 1897.
Slaveowner.
Died in Mississippi City, Harrison
County, Miss., August
14, 1897 (age 70 years, 298
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, North Carrollton, Miss.
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Albert Waller Gilchrist (1858-1926) —
also known as Albert W. Gilchrist —
of Punta Gorda, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Greenwood, Greenwood
County, S.C., January
15, 1858.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; real estate
dealer; orange
grower; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1893-96, 1903-06; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1905; served in the
U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Florida, 1909-13; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1912
(speaker),
1924;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1916.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from a tumor of the
thigh, in the Hospital
for the Ruptured and Crippled, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 15,
1926 (age 68 years, 120
days).
Interment at Indian
Spring Cemetery, Punta Gorda, Fla.
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William Branch Giles (1762-1830) —
also known as William B. Giles —
of Amelia
County, Va.
Born in Amelia
County, Va., August
12, 1762.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1790-98, 1801-03 (at-large 1790-91,
9th District 1791-97, at-large 1797-98, 1801-03); member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1798-1800, 1816-17, 1826-27; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1804, 1805-15; Governor of
Virginia, 1827-30; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30.
Slaveowner.
Died in Amelia
County, Va., December
4, 1830 (age 68 years, 114
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Amelia County, Va.
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George Rockingham Gilmer (1790-1859) —
also known as George R. Gilmer —
of Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga.
Born near Lexington, Wilkes County (now Oglethorpe
County), Ga., April
11, 1790.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1818-19, 1824; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1821-23, 1827-29, 1833-35;
Governor
of Georgia, 1829-31, 1837-39; Presidential Elector for Georgia,
1836;
Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1840.
Slaveowner.
Died in Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga., November
16, 1859 (age 69 years, 219
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Lexington, Ga.
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Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gilmerton, Albemarle
County, Va., April 6,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1829-36, 1838-39; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1838-39; Governor of
Virginia, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th
District 1843-44); U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1844; died in office 1844.
Slaveowner.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 41 years, 328
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at a
private or family graveyard, Albemarle County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of George Gilmer (1778-1836) and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer
(1784-1820); married to Anne Elizabeth Baker (1809-1874); nephew of
Mildred Gilmer (1772-1799; who married William
Wirt); grandnephew of John
Walker and Francis
Walker; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis (1774-1809); second cousin twice removed of Aylett
Hawes; third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, George
Madison, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Richard
Hawes and Albert
Gallatin Hawes; third cousin twice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; third cousin thrice removed of Archer
Woodford; fourth cousin of Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Aylette
Buckner, David
Shelby Walker and Aylett
Hawes Buckner; fourth cousin once removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Charles
John Helm, Hubbard
Dozier Helm, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Harry
Bartow Hawes. |
| | | Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia; Jackson-Lee
family; Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Washington-Walker
family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Clay
family of Kentucky; Lewis-Pollard
family of Texas (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Gilmer County,
W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Gilpin (1813-1894) —
of Colorado.
Born in New Castle
County, Del., October
4, 1813.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; explorer;
major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor
of Colorado Territory, 1861-62; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory, 1862.
Run over by a horse and
buggy, and later died as a result, in Denver,
Colo., January
20, 1894 (age 80 years, 108
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Thomas Glascock (1790-1841) —
of Georgia.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., October
21, 1790.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Georgia
state house of representatives, 1821-23, 1831-34, 1839; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1835-39.
Slaveowner.
Died in Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga., May 19,
1841 (age 50 years, 210
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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George Washington Glasscock (1810-1879) —
of Texas.
Born in 1810.
Member of Texas state legislature, 1850.
Died in 1879
(age about
69 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Robert Gooding (1859-1928) —
also known as Frank R. Gooding —
of Shoshone, Lincoln
County, Idaho; Gooding, Gooding
County, Idaho.
Born in Tiverton, Devon, England,
September
16, 1859.
Republican. Mining
contractor; farmer;
member of Idaho
state senate, 1900; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Idaho, 1904,
1924,
1928;
Governor
of Idaho, 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1921-28; defeated, 1918; died in office 1928.
Methodist.
Died in Gooding, Gooding
County, Idaho, June 24,
1928 (age 68 years, 282
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Gooding, Idaho.
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William Washington Gordon (1796-1842) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Screven
County, Ga., January
17, 1796.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1834-36; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1835; member of Georgia
state senate, 1838; founder and president of the Central Railroad
and Banking Co.
Died, from bilious
pleurisy, in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March
22, 1842 (age 46 years, 64
days).
Original interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; reinterment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; memorial monument at Wright
Square, Savannah, Ga.
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John J. Gosper (born c.1843) —
of Nebraska.
Born about 1843.
Secretary
of state of Nebraska, 1873-75.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) —
also known as William A. Graham —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born near Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., September
5, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1833-40; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1840-43; Governor of
North Carolina, 1845-49; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1850-52; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1852; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1854-66; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
11, 1875 (age 70 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hillsborough
Old Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, N.C.
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Jedediah Morgan Grant (1816-1856) —
also known as Jedediah M. Grant; "Brigham's
Sledgehammer" —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Windsor, Broome
County, N.Y., February
21, 1816.
Mayor
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1851-56; died in office 1856.
Mormon.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, December
1, 1856 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) —
also known as Ulysses S. Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant;
"Savior of the Union"; "Lion of
Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of American
Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender Grant";
"The Galena Tanner"; "The Silent
Soldier"; "The Silent General" —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.
Born in Point Pleasant, Clermont
County, Ohio, April
27, 1822.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; President
of the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died of throat
cancer, at Mt. McGregor, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 23,
1885 (age 63 years, 87
days).
Interment at General
Grant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) and Hannah (Simpson) Grant
(1798-1883); married, August
22, 1848, to Julia
Boggs Dent (sister-in-law of Alexander
Sharp; sister of George
Wrenshall Dent and Lewis
Dent); father of Frederick
Dent Grant (1850-1912) and Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr.; grandfather of Nellie Grant (1881-1972; who
married William
Pigott Cronan); first cousin twice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed of
Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop, Abel
Huntington and William
Rush Merriam; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington and Henry
Scudder; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Theodore
Davenport, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Jesse
Monroe Hatch, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Warren
Delano Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
Porter — Ayres
Phillips Merrill — Robert
Martin Douglas — Thomas
L. Hamer — James
Arkell |
| | | Grant counties in Ark., Kan., La., Minn., Neb., N.M., N.Dak., Okla., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Ulysses
G. Palmer
— Ulysses
S. G. Bieber
— Ulysses
G. Denman
— Ulysses
G. Crandell
— Ulysses
S. G. Blakely
— S. U.
G. Rhodes
— Ulysses
G. Borden
— U.
Grant Mengel
— Ulysses
G. Foster
— Ulysses
G. Byers
— U.
S. Grant Leverett
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5
silver certificates in 1887-1927. |
| | | Personal motto: "When in doubt,
fight." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Ulysses S. Grant: Jean
Edward Smith, Grant —
Frank J. Scaturro, President
Grant Reconsidered — William S. McFeely, Grant —
Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses
S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 — Brooks
D. Simpson, Let
Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and
Reconstruction, 1861-1868 — James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses
S. Grant — Michael Korda, Ulysses
S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero — Edward H. Bonekemper,
A
Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military
Genius — Harry J. Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — H. W. Brands, The
Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and
Peace — Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant's
Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year —
Joan Waugh, U.
S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth |
| | | Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: Newt
Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Grant
Comes East — Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Never
Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Peter W. Gray (1819-1874) —
of Texas.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., December
12, 1819.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1850; member of Texas
state senate, 1851-53; state court judge in Texas, 1854-61; Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1874.
Died of tuberculosis,
in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., October
3, 1874 (age 54 years, 295
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Peter William Grayson (1788-1838) —
also known as Peter W. Grayson; Peter Wagener
Grayson —
of Texas.
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., 1788.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Goliad, 1835; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836, 1837; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1838.
Died from self-inflicted
gunshot,
at Bean Station, Grainger
County, Tenn., July 9,
1838 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Eastern
Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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William Grayson (1736-1790) —
of Virginia.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1736.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1784-85, 1788; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1785-87; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1789-90; died in office 1790.
Slaveowner.
Died in Dumfries, Prince
William County, Va., March
12, 1790 (age about 53
years).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Prince William County, Va.
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
New
York state comptroller, 1869; Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at City Hall Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Herald Square, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley (1782-1867) and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley
(1788-1855); married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney (1811-1872); second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley (born1838). |
| | | Cross-reference: Josiah
B. Grinnell |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Greeley,
Colorado, is named for
him. — Horace Greeley High
School, in Chappaqua,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Horace Greeley, in Keweenaw
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Horace Greeley (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
|
| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Christopher Greenup (c.1750-1818) —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Virginia, about 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1785; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky at-large, 1792-97; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1798; Clerk of the Kentucky State
Senate, 1799-1802; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1802; Governor of
Kentucky, 1804-08; Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1808;
justice of the peace.
Slaveowner.
Died in Blue Licks Spring, Nicholas
County, Ky., April
27, 1818 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Alfred Burton Greenwood (1811-1889) —
also known as Alfred B. Greenwood —
of Bentonville, Benton
County, Ark.
Born in Franklin
County, Ga., July 11,
1811.
Democrat. Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1842-45; circuit judge in
Arkansas, 1851-53; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1853-59.
Incorrectly credited in some sources as having been a member of the
Confederate Congress.
Slaveowner.
Died in Bentonville, Benton
County, Ark., October
4, 1889 (age 78 years, 85
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Bentonville, Ark.
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John Alexander Greer (1802-1855) —
of Texas.
Born in Shelbyville, Bedford
County, Tenn., July 18,
1802.
Member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of San Augustine, 1838-45; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1845-46; Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1847-51.
Member, Freemasons.
Died while campaigning
for the governorship, July 4,
1855 (age 52 years, 351
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1929 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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John Gregg (1828-1864) —
of Texas.
Born in Lawrence
County, Ala., September
28, 1828.
State court judge in Texas, 1856; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed
in action on the Charles City Road near Richmond (unknown
county), Va., October
7, 1864 (age 36 years, 9
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Aberdeen, Miss.
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John Shaw Gregory (b. 1831) —
also known as J. Shaw Gregory —
of Fort Randall, Gregory
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in New York, 1831.
Member
Dakota territorial council, 1862-66.
Burial
location unknown.
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Jesse Grimes (1788-1866) —
of Texas.
Born in Duplin
County, N.C., February
6, 1788.
Delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Washington, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Washington, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Washington, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1836-37, 1844-45; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1841-43.
Died March
15, 1866 (age 78 years, 37
days).
Original interment at John
McGinty Cemetery, Near Navasota, Grimes County, Tex.; reinterment
in 1929 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Felix Grundy (1777-1840) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
11, 1777.
Delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1800; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1806; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1811-14; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1829-38, 1839-40; died in office 1840; U.S.
Attorney General, 1838-39.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
19, 1840 (age 63 years, 99
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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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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Joseph Habersham (1751-1815) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., July 28,
1751.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785; delegate
to Georgia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1792-93; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1795-1801.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., November
17, 1815 (age 64 years, 112
days).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Augustus Caesar Hall (1814-1861) —
also known as Augustus Hall —
of Keosauqua, Van Buren
County, Iowa.
Born in Batavia, Genesee
County, N.Y., April
29, 1814.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 1st District, 1855-57; justice of
Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1858-61; died in office 1861;
chief
justice of Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1858-61; died in
office 1861.
Died in Bellevue, Sarpy
County, Neb., February
1, 1861 (age 46 years, 278
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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Lyman Hall (1724-1790) —
of Georgia.
Born in Wallingford, New Haven
County, Conn., April
12, 1724.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Georgia, 1783-84.
Congregationalist.
Died October
19, 1790 (age 66 years, 190
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Courthouse
Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Warren DeWitt Clinton Hall (1788-1867) —
also known as Warren D. C. Hall —
of Texas.
Born in Guilford
County, N.C., 1788.
Delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of Liberty, 1832; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836.
Died April 8,
1867 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.
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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 (1757-1854; daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton (1788-1878) 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 Three
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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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
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. |
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