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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; speaker);
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; married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail
Quincy Smith (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (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 of Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason, George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); 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, 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 Four
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 (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 (1833-1894) 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, Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868) 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., George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
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 — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage |
| | | 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 Mecklenburg
County, N.C.; Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C.
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).
Interment at St. Luke's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lincolnton, N.C.
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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
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee); Governor of
Michigan, 1885-86; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1888;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; 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 and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon; fourth cousin once
removed of Benjamin
Franklin Flanders and Cassius
Montgomery Clay Twitchell. |
| | | Political families: Eastman
family; Flanders
family of Vermont; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders
family of New Hampshire; Fairbanks-Adams
family (subsets of the Four
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; candidate for Presidential Elector for
North Carolina.
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 and William Ashley; married, July 4,
1821, to Mary Worthington Watkins Elliot; 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 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 Four
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 and Maria (Brown) Austin. |
| | | 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 and Humphrey Avery; married, October
3, 1778, to Leah Probart Franks; father of Elizabeth Avery (who
married William
Ballard Lenoir); grandfather of Isaac
Thomas Lenoir and William
Waigstill Avery; granduncle of Lorenzo
Burrows; first cousin four times removed of Horace
Billings Packer; second cousin once removed of Noyes
Barber; second cousin twice removed of Daniel
Packer, Asa
Packer, Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, Edwin
Denison Morgan and Alfred
Avery Burnham; second cousin thrice removed of Judson
B. Phelps, Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, William
Henry Bulkeley, Robert
Asa Packer and William
Frederick Morgan Rowland; second cousin four times removed of Henry
Brewster Stanton, Jonathan
R. Herrick, Erskine
Mason Phelps and Spencer
Gale Frink; second cousin five times removed of D-Cady
Herrick, Herman
Arod Gager, Walter
Richmond Herrick and Burdette
Burt Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Nathan
Belcher, Samuel
Townsend Douglass, Silas
Hamilton Douglas and Joshua
Perkins; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Phelps Huntington, George
Mortimer Beakes, George
Douglas Perkins, Chauncey
C. Pendleton, Daniel
Parrish Witter, Albert
Lemando Bingham, Cornelia
Cole Fairbanks, Llewellyn
James Barden and Henry
Woolsey Douglas. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Avery County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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; 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; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Wisconsin; 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 and Frances Louisa (Stebbins) Bartow; married,
April
18, 1844, to Louisa Green Berrien (daughter of John
Macpherson Berrien); first cousin twice removed of Theodosia
Bartow (who married Aaron
Burr). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd
family of New York; Burr-Alston-Wilson-Ballard
family of Charleston, South Carolina; Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker
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 Four
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 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 Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); 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;
U.S. Surveyor-General for Dakota Territory, 1869-71; 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; 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 and Maria Louise (Gillespie) Blaine; married,
June
30, 1850, to Harriet Stanwood; father of Harriet Blaine (who
married Truxtun
Beale); nephew of Ellen Blaine (who married John
Hoge Ewing); grandfather of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
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
|
| | | 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; 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; 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, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, 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 Four
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; Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.
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; receiver
of U.S. Land Office at Kaskaskia, Illinois, 1816; 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; father of Jessie
Bryan Boone and Nathan
Boone; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (who married Hiram
Howell Baber); granduncle of Levi
Day Boone; 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 Four
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 and Letitia 'Lettice' (Preston) Breckenridge;
half-brother of Robert
Breckinridge; brother of James
Breckinridge; married, June 28,
1785, to Mary Hopkins Cabell; father of Letitia Preston
Breckinridge (who married Peter
Buell Porter and Alfred
William Grayson), Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; nephew of William
Preston; uncle of James
Douglas Breckinridge; grandfather of John
Cabell Breckinridge (who married Mary
Cyrene Burch), Mary Cabell Breckinridge (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-Floyd
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 Four
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; speaker),
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 and Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan; brother of
Charles
Wayland Bryan and Mary Elizabeth Bryan (who married Thomas
Stinson Allen); married, October
1, 1884, to Mary Elizabeth Baird; 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
|
| | | 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. |
| | | 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
B. Holland
— 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; brother of William
Butler Jr. and Pierce
Mason Butler; married, December
5, 1829, to Susan Ann Simkins (daughter of Eldred
Simkins); married 1831 to
Rebecca Harriet Hayne; uncle of Matthew
Calbraith Butler. |
| | | Political family: Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell
family of Edgefield, South Carolina (subset of the Four
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 in Ireland,
April
1, 1743.
Colonel 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; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; 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 and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell; married 1795 to
Elizabeth Cabell; married 1805 to Agnes
Sarah Bell Gamble (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, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge and Frederick
Mortimer Cabell; 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-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
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. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Mexico
Territory, 1900;
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 and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, December
27, 1809, to Floride Bonneau and Floride
Calhoun (daughter of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who
married Thomas
Green Clemson); uncle of John
Alfred Calhoun and Martha Catherine Calhoun (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 (who married Alexander
Henry Brown); second cousin twice removed of William
Francis Calhoun. |
| | | Political family: Calhoun-Pickens
family of South Carolina (subset of the Four
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 and Elizabeth (Brooke) Carroll; married, June 5,
1768, to Mary Darnell; father of Catharine 'Kitty' Carroll (who
married Robert
Goodloe Harper); grandfather of Louisa Carroll (who married Isaac
Rand Jackson), Mary Sophia Carroll (who married Richard
Henry Bayard) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (who married John
Lee); great-grandfather of John
Lee Carroll and Helen Sophia Carroll (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; 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 Four
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.
|
| | | 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, 1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904.
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: Son
of Jonathan Cass and Mary 'Molly' (Gilman) Cass; married to Elizabeth
Selden Spencer; father of Matilda Frances Cass (who married Henry
Brockholst Ledyard); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Cass Ballenger. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | 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 and Janette Chase; married to Eliza Ann Smith;
father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (who married William
Sprague); nephew of Dudley
Chase; cousin *** of Dudley
Chase Denison. |
| | | Political families: Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Chase
family of Vermont (subsets of the Four
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
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| | | 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 and Mary (Johnson) Chittenden; married 1749 to
Elizabeth Meigs; father of Mary Chittenden (who married Jonas
Galusha), Beulah Chittenden (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 Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Frederick
Walker Pitkin and Roger
Wolcott; 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 (subsets of the Four
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; brother of Porter
Clay; married, April
11, 1799, to Lucretia (Hart) Erwin; father of Thomas
Hart Clay, Henry
Clay Jr. and James
Brown Clay; grandfather of Henry
Clay (1849-1884); granduncle of Ellen Hart Ross (who married James
Reily); first cousin once removed of Matthew
Clay (1754-1815) and Green
Clay; second cousin of Matthew
Clay (c.1795-1827), Brutus
Junius Clay (1808-1878) and Cassius
Marcellus Clay; second cousin once removed of Brutus
Junius Clay (1847-1932); second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Carroll Clay; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Clement
Comer Clay; third cousin once removed of Clement
Claiborne Clay Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Clay
family of Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Clay counties in Ala., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kan., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Clay (also called Mount Reagan), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Clay (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Henry
Clay Longnecker
— Henry
Clay Dean
— H.
Clay Dickinson
— Henry
C. Brockmeyer
— H.
Clay Cockerill
— Henry
Clay Ewing
— Henry
Clay Caldwell
— Henry
Clay Hall
— Henry
Clay Gooding
— Henry
Clay Naill
— Henry
C. Myers
— Henry
C. Cole
— H.
Clay Harris
— Henry
C. Miner
— Henry
C. Warmoth
— Henry
Clay Cleveland
— H.
Clay Evans
— Henry
C. Payne
— Henry
C. Bates
— H.
Clay Foster
— Henry
C. McCormick
— Henry
C. Ide
— Henry
Clay Williams
— Henry
C. Simms
— Henry
Clay Ferguson
— Henry
C. Glover
— H.
Clay Park
— Henry
C. Hansbrough
— Henry
C. Snodgrass
— H.
Clay Maydwell
— Henry
C. Gleason
— Henry
C. Loudenslager
— H.
Clay Van Voorhis
— Henry
C. Clippinger
— H.
Clay Crawford
— H.
Clay Bascom
— H.
Clay Michie
— H.
Clay Chisolm
— H.
Clay Howard
— Henry
C. Hall
— Henry
Clay McDowell
— H.
Clay Jones
— H.
Clay Day
— Henry
Clay Hines
— H.
Clay Heather
— Henry
Clay Meacham
— Henry
Clay Calloway
— H.
Clay Suter
— H.
Clay Hall
— H.
Clay Warth
— Henry
Clay Elwood
— H.
Clay Kennedy
— H.
Clay Davis
— H.
Clay Needham
— Henry
Clay Etherton
— H.
Clay Mace
— H.
Clay Armstrong
— H.
Clay Baldwin
— H.
Clay Haynes
— H.
Clay Burkholder
— Mrs.
H. Clay Kauffman
— H.
Clay Bentley
— Henry
C. Greenberg
— H.
Clay Gardenhire, Jr.
— Henry
Clay Cox
— H.
Clay Myers, Jr.
— H.
Clay Johnson
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on some U.S. currency issued in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Henry Clay: Robert Vincent
Remini, Henry
Clay: Statesman for the Union — Maurice G. Baxter, Henry
Clay the Lawyer — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney,
Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Scott
Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry
Clay: The Essential American — Fergus M. Bordewich, America's
Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That
Preserved the Union |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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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; resigned 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 and Anne (Neal) Cleveland; married,
June
2, 1886, to Frances Folsom and Frances
Clara Folsom; father of Richard
Folsom Cleveland (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 Four
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 — J.
Hampton Hoge |
| | | 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 — Troy Senik, A
Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of 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; half-brother of James
Graham Clinton; brother of Charles
Clinton, George
Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)) and Katherine Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)); married, February
13, 1796, to Maria Franklin; married, May 8,
1819, to Catherine Livingston Jones; father of George
William Clinton; 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 Four
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
— DeWitt
C. Middleton
— 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.
|
| | | 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-Helena, 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 and Hannah (Stryker) Colfax; married 1844 to Evelyn
Clark; married, November
18, 1868, to Ellen
Maria Wade (niece of Benjamin
Franklin Wade and Edward
Wade; first cousin of Decius
Spear Wade); father of Schuyler
Colfax III. |
| | | Political family: Wade-Colfax
family of Andover and Jefferson, Ohio. |
| | | 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. |
| | | 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;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; 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. |
| | | 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 (who married Richard
Bache Jr.); married, May 23,
1816, to Sophia
Chew Nicklin (granddaughter of Benjamin
Chew); uncle of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache
(who married Robert
John Walker), Sophia Arabella Bache (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 Pennsylvania and New York; Claiborne-Dallas
family of Virginia and Louisiana (subsets of the Four
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; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Massachusetts.
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; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Mississippi; 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 (daughter of Zachary
Taylor and Margaret
Taylor); married, February
25, 1845, to Varina Howell (granddaughter of Richard
Howell); 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
Four
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. |
| | | 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 Wisconsin; Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in New York.
U.S. Surveyor-General for Dakota Territory, 1873-77; 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; 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 Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.; Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., January
2, 1812.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; register
of U.S. Land Office at Burlington, Iowa, 1838-40; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Iowa Territory, 1840-46; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1848-55; resigned 1855; first
U.S. Senator who was born west of the Mississippi River; 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, 1874-75.
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; Arnold Douglass;
"The Little Giant" —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Brandon, Rutland
County, Vt., April
23, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer;
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).
Entombed at Douglas
Monument Park, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah 'Sally' (Fisk) Douglass; married
1847 to
Martha Denny Martin; married 1856 to Adele
Cutts; father of Robert
Martin Douglas; grandfather of Robert
Dick Douglas. |
| | | 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 — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | 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.; Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Monroe
County, Mich., August
9, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; 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; U.S.
Surveyor-General for Washington, 1871; 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 and Phoebe (Millard) Fillmore; married, February
5, 1826, to Abigail
Powers (1798-1853) and Abigail Powers (1798-1853); married, February
10, 1858, to Caroline (Carmichael) McIntosh; 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; 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; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
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 and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who
married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary
Blechenden Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (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; 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 Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four
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. Hallett
— 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
Franklin Saffold
— 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). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
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
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| | | 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; married, November
11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson; second great-grandfather of May
Preston Davie; cousin by marriage of Joseph
Hopper Nicholson. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Davie
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
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 and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; 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. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
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;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; 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 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; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia.
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 and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer; married to
Anne Elizabeth Baker; nephew of Mildred Gilmer (who married William
Wirt); grandnephew of John
Walker and Francis
Walker; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; 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 Four
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 and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; 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 and Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr.; grandfather of Nellie Grant (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 Four
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 Baird's Town (now Bardstown), Nelson
County, Ky.; Texas.
Born in Baird's Town (now Bardstown), Nelson
County, Ky., 1788.
Postmaster at Bardstown,
Ky., 1816; 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 and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney; second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | 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.
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| | | 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; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Kentucky; 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 (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | 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. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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James Hamilton Jr. (1786-1857) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1786.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1821-22; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1820; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 1822-29; Governor of
South Carolina, 1830-32.
Slaveowner.
While en route from New Orleans to Galveston, through some mishap, was
drowned
in the Gulf of
Mexico, November
15, 1857 (age 71 years, 191
days). His remains were probably never
found.
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William H. Hamilton (born c.1816) —
of Iowa.
Born about 1816.
Member of Iowa
state senate, 1856.
Burial location unknown.
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Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) —
of Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine; Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Paris, Oxford
County, Maine, August
27, 1809.
Farmer;
surveyor;
compositor;
lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-41, 1847; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1837, 1839-40; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1840;
U.S.
Representative from Maine 6th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1848-57, 1857-61, 1869-81; Governor of
Maine, 1857; Vice
President of the United States, 1861-65; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1864,
1868;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1881-82.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 4,
1891 (age 81 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine; statue at Kenduskeag Parkway, Bangor, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Hamlin and Anna (Livermore) Hamlin; brother of Elijah
Livermore Hamlin; married, December
10, 1833, to Sarah Jane Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); married, September
25, 1856, to Ellen
Vesta Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); father of Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; granduncle of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; great-granduncle of Clarence
Cutting Stetson; first cousin once removed of John
Appleton; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Sumner Hamlin; third cousin once removed of David
Sears; fourth cousin of George
Pickering Bemis; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Fisk Janes, John
Mason Jr., William
Henry Harrison Stowell, Walter
S. Bemis and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hamlin County,
S.Dak. is named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hamlin,
Maine, is named for
him. — The town
of Hamlin,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Hamlin,
Kansas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Hannibal Hamlin (built 1942-43 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. — Hannibal Hamlin Hall,
at the University
of Maine, Orono,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | 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 — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Hannibal Hamlin: Charles
Eugene Hamlin, The
Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin — Mark Scroggins, Hannibal |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Wade Hampton III (1818-1902) —
also known as "Savior of South
Carolina" —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
28, 1818.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1858; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
South Carolina, 1876-79; defeated, 1865; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1879-91; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1880;
U.S. Railroad Commissioner, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate
Veterans. Lost a
leg in an accident in 1878.
Slaveowner.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April
11, 1902 (age 84 years, 14
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Wade
Hampton (1791-1858) and Ann (FitzSimons) Hampton; married, October
10, 1838, to Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston (daughter of Francis
Smith Preston; sister of William
Campbell Preston); married 1858 to Mary
Singleton McDuffie (daughter of George
McDuffie); nephew of Caroline Martha Hampton (who married John
Smith Preston) and Susan Frances Hampton (who married John
Laurence Manning); grandson of Wade
Hampton (1752-1835). |
| | | Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hampton County,
S.C. is named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hampton,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Wade Hampton High
School (built 1960, rebuilt 2006), in Greenville,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — The Wade Hampton State
Office Building (opened 1940), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Wade Hampton: Walter Brian
Cisco, Wade
Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative
Statesman |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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John Hancock (1737-1793) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4
electoral votes, 1789.
Congregationalist.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August
28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. |
| | | Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hancock,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — Mount
Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland,
Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles
Unger, John
Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow
Giles Unger, John
Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
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George H. Hand (1837-1891) —
Born in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, August
9, 1837.
Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Dakota
territory attorney general, 1866-69; U.S.
Attorney for Dakota Territory, 1866-69; secretary
of Dakota Territory, 1874-83.
Died in Pierre, Hughes
County, S.Dak., March
10, 1891 (age 53 years, 213
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John M. Hansford (c.1800-1844) —
of Texas.
Born about 1800.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-40; judge of Texas
Republic, 1840-42.
Resigned
as judge in 1842 while being impeached
over his handling
of a trial arising out of the "Regulator-Moderator War" in East
Texas.
Killed
by members of the Regulators who had seized his home, in Texas, 1844
(age about
44 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph R. Hanson (1837-1917) —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., 1837.
Republican. Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1864-65; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Dakota Territory Territory, 1868.
Died in Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak., 1917
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Hugh Anderson Haralson (1805-1854) —
also known as Hugh A. Haralson —
of LaGrange, Troup
County, Ga.
Born near Penfield, Greene
County, Ga., November
13, 1805.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1831; member of Georgia
state senate, 1837; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1843-51 (at-large 1843-45, 4th
District 1845-51).
Slaveowner.
Died September
25, 1854 (age 48 years, 316
days).
Interment at Hill
View Cemetery, LaGrange, Ga.
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Cary Augustus Hardee (1876-1957) —
also known as Cary A. Hardee —
of Live Oak, Suwannee
County, Fla.
Born in Taylor
County, Fla., November
13, 1876.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1915-17; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1917; Governor of
Florida, 1921-25.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Woodmen.
Died November
21, 1957 (age 81 years, 8
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Madison, Fla.
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Bailey Hardeman (1795-1836) —
of Texas.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
26, 1795.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Matagorda, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1836.
Died in Caney Creek, Matagorda
County, Tex., October
12, 1836 (age 41 years, 229
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Matagorda County, Tex.; reinterment in 1936 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Thomas Jones Hardeman (1788-1854) —
of Texas.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
31, 1788.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-39; judge of Texas
Republic, 1843; member of Texas state legislature, 1847-51.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Bastrop
County, Tex., January
15, 1854 (age 65 years, 349
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1937 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Hardeman and Mary (Perkins) Hardeman; brother of Bailey
Hardeman; married 1814 to Mary
Ophelia Polk (aunt of James
Knox Polk and William
Hawkins Polk); married, October
26, 1836, to Eliza DeWitt; fourth cousin of Martha
Jefferson Randolph, John
Wayles Eppes and John
Randolph of Roanoke; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph. |
| | | Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hardeman County,
Tenn. is named for him; Hardeman County,
Tex. is named partly for him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio
state senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; Phi
Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August
2, 1923 (age 57 years, 273
days). The claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Originally entombed at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Park, Marion, Ohio; memorial monument (now gone) at Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding and George Tryon Harding;
married, July 8,
1891, to Florence
Harding. |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Harding High
School, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding High
School, in Warren,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding Middle
School, in Frankford,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The community
of Harding
Township, New Jersey (created 1922) is named for
him. — Warren Street,
G Street,
and Harding Street
(now Boardwalk), in Ketchikan,
Alaska, were all named for
him. — Harding Mountain,
in Chelan
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Mount
Harding, in Skagway,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His
Times — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding — John W.
Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Samuel Hardy (c.1758-1785) —
of Virginia.
Born in Isle of
Wight County, Va., about 1758.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1778, 1780-82; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-85; died in office
1785.
Died while attending the Continental
Congress in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
17, 1785 (age about 27
years).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Judson Harmon (1846-1927) —
of Wyoming, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Newtown, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
3, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1876-77; superior court judge in
Ohio, 1878-87; U.S.
Attorney General, 1895-97; receiver of bankrupt railways,
1905-09; Governor of
Ohio, 1909-13; candidate for Democratic nomination for President,
1912;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Baptist.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
22, 1927 (age 81 years, 19
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Cornelius Harnett (1723-1781) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., April
20, 1723.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1777.
Captured by the British in January 1781, and died
as a
prisoner, of disease
contracted in captivity, in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., April
20, 1781 (age 58 years, 0
days).
Interment at St.
James' Churchyard, Wilmington, N.C.
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Albert Galliton Harrison (1800-1839) —
of Missouri.
Born in Mt. Sterling, Montgomery
County, Ky., June 26,
1800.
U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1835-39.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fulton, Callaway
County, Mo., September
7, 1839 (age 39 years, 73
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) —
also known as "The Signer" —
of Charles
City County, Va.
Born in Charles
City County, Va., April 5,
1726.
Planter;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1749-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1776-81, 1787-91; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1778-81; Governor of
Virginia, 1781-84; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles
City County, 1788.
Died in Charles
City County, Va., April
24, 1791 (age 65 years, 19
days).
Interment at Berkeley
Plantation, Charles City County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum"; "Cincinnatus of the
West" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles
City County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio
state senate, 1819-21; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia
or typhoid,
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of
Carter
Bassett Harrison; married, November
22, 1795, to Anna
Tuthill Symmes (daughter of John
Cleves Symmes); father of John
Scott Harrison; grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; second cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle and Harry
Flood Byrd; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Monroe Harrison. |
| | | 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 Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Harrison counties in Ind., Iowa, Miss. and Ohio are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Harrison,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
H. Harrison Taylor
— W.
H. H. Eba
— William
H. H. Clayton
— William
H. H. Allen
— William
H. H. Beadle
— William
H. H. Varney
— William
H. H. Cowles
— William
H. H. Stowell
— William
H. H. Miller
— William
H. H. Cook
— William
H. H. Flick
— William
H. Heard
— William
H. H. Llewellyn
— William
H. Harrison
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| | | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too." |
| | | 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 William Henry Harrison:
Freeman Cleaves, Old
Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —
Norma Lois Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — David
Lillard, William
Henry Harrison (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Oliver Cromwell Hartley (1823-1859) —
of Texas.
Born in 1823.
Member of Texas state legislature, 1851.
Died in 1859
(age about
36 years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Madison Harvey (1833-1894) —
also known as James M. Harvey —
of Fort Riley, Geary
County, Kan.; Vinton, Cowley
County, Kan.
Born near Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
21, 1833.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Kansas
state house of representatives, 1865-66; member of Kansas
state senate, 1867-68; Governor of
Kansas, 1869-73; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1874-77.
Died near Junction City, Geary
County, Kan., April
15, 1894 (age 60 years, 206
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Junction City, Kan.
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Charles Nathaniel Haskell (1860-1933) —
also known as Charles N. Haskell —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Leipsic, Putnam
County, Ohio, March
13, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; oil
business; delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1907-11; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1928.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Skirvin Hotel,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., July 5,
1933 (age 73 years, 114
days).
Interment at Greenhill
Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.
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Dudley Chase Haskell (1842-1883) —
also known as Dudley C. Haskell —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt., March
23, 1842.
Republican. Member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1872; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1877-83; died in office
1883.
Died December
16, 1883 (age 41 years, 268
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1818) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Granville County (part now in Warren
County), N.C., August
15, 1754.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1778-79, 1784; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1781-83, 1787; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1789-95.
Slaveowner.
Died in Crawford
County, Ga., June 6,
1818 (age 63 years, 295
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Crawford County, Ga.
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) —
also known as Rutherford B. Hayes; "Rutherfraud B.
Hayes"; "His Fraudulency" —
of Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, October
4, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67; Governor of
Ohio, 1868-72, 1876-77; President
of the United States, 1877-81.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Stricken by a heart
attack at the railroad
station in Cleveland, Ohio, and died that night in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January
17, 1893 (age 70 years, 105
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 at Rutherford
B. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Rutherford Hayes, Jr. and Sophia (Birchard) Hayes; married, December
30, 1852, to Lucy
Webb Hayes; father of James
Webb Cook Hayes. |
| | | Political family: Hayes
family of Fremont, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Leopold
Markbreit — James
M. Comly — Joseph
P. Bradley |
| | | Hayes County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | Rutherford B. Hayes High
School, in Delaware,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The Presidente Hayes Department
(province), and its capital
city, Villa Hayes, in Paraguay,
are named for
him. — Hayes Hall
(built 1893), at Ohio State University,
Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "He serves his party
best who serves his country best." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Rutherford B. Hayes: Ari
Hoogenboom, Rutherford
B. Hayes: Warrior and President — Hans Trefousse, Rutherford
B. Hayes: 1877 - 1881 — William H. Rehnquist, Centennial
Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876 |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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John Coffee Hays (1817-1883) —
also known as Jack C. Hays —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Cedar Lick, Wilson
County, Tenn., January
28, 1817.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1876.
Joined the Texas Rangers in the 1830s (later named to Texas Rangers
Hall of Fame). Sheriff of San Francisco in 1850; U.S. Surveyor
General for California, 1853; one of the founders of the city of
Oakland.
Died April
21, 1883 (age 66 years, 83
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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John Haywood (1762-1826) —
also known as "The Father of Tennessee
History" —
Born in Halifax
County, N.C., March
16, 1762.
North
Carolina state attorney general, 1792-95; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1794; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1816.
Founder of Tennesee Antiquarian Society.
Died in Davidson
County, Tenn., 1826
(age about
64 years).
Interment at Tusculum
Baptist Church Grounds, Near Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.
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Stephen Heard (1741-1815) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., November
13, 1741.
Engineer;
planter;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Georgia, 1780-81; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1794-95.
Died in Elbert
County, Ga., November
15, 1815 (age 74 years, 2
days).
Interment at Heard
Cemetery, Elberton, Ga.
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Relatives:
Married 1760 to Jane
Germany; married, August
25, 1785, to Elizabeth Darden; father of Jane Lanier Heard (who
married Singleton
Walthall Allen), George
Washington Heard, Barnard
Carroll Heard and Thomas
Jefferson Heard; grandfather of Sarah Heard (who married Luther
H. O. Martin Sr.), Rebecca Allen (who married William
H. Mattox), James
Lawrence Heard, Robert
Middleton Heard and William
Henry Heard; great-grandfather of Anna Cassandra McIntosh (who
married Budd
Clay Wall), Nancy Middleton Heard (who married Phillip
Watkins Davis), William
Henry Harrison Heard and Luther
H. O. Martin Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Heard
family of Elberton, Georgia. |
| | | Heard County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Hemphill (1803-1862) —
of Texas.
Born in Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., December
18, 1803.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; judge of Texas Republic, 1840; chief
justice of Texas state supreme court, 1846-58; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1859-61; when the Civil War began, he left
Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; died
in office 1862; candidate for Senator
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Richmond,
Va., January
7, 1862 (age 58 years, 20
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Edward Hempstead (1780-1817) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in New London, New London
County, Conn., June 3,
1780.
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Missouri Territory, 1812-14.
Was thrown
from a horse,
which resulted in his death six days later, at St.
Louis, Mo., August
10, 1817 (age 37 years, 68
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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James Pinckney Henderson (1808-1858) —
also known as J. Pinckney Henderson —
of Marshville (unknown
county), Tex.
Born in Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., March
31, 1808.
Lawyer;
general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836-37; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1837; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; Governor of
Texas, 1846-47; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1857-58; died in office 1858.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 4,
1858 (age 50 years, 65
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Leonard Henderson (1772-1833) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Granville
County, N.C., October
6, 1772.
State court judge in North Carolina, 1808; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1818; chief
justice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1829-33.
Died in Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., August
13, 1833 (age 60 years, 311
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Vance County, N.C.
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William Hendricks (1782-1850) —
of Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind.
Born in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland
County, Pa., November
12, 1782.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1813-14; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1814-17; U.S.
Representative from Indiana at-large, 1816-22; Governor of
Indiana, 1822-25; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1825-37.
Died in Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., May 16,
1850 (age 67 years, 185
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Madison, Ind.
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Patrick Henry (1736-1799) —
of Prince
Edward County, Va.
Born in Studley, Hanover
County, Va., May 29,
1736.
Lawyer;
planter;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1765; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Virginia, 1776-79, 1784-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Prince
Edward County, 1788; member of Virginia
state senate, 1799.
Scottish
and English
ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1920.
Died near Brookneal, Campbell
County, Va., June 6,
1799 (age 63 years, 8
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Henry and Sarah (Syme) Henry; brother of Anne Henry
(1738-1790; who married William
Christian) and Elizabeth Henry (who married William
Russell and William
Campbell); married 1754 to Sarah
Shelton; married, October
25, 1777, to Dorothea Dandridge; father of Anne Henry (who
married Spencer
Roane); uncle of Priscilla Christian (who married Alexander
Scott Bullitt) and Sarah Buchanan Campbell (who married Francis
Smith Preston); grandfather of William
Henry Roane; granduncle of Valentine
Wood Southall, William
Campbell Preston, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and John
Smith Preston; great-granduncle of Stephen
Valentine Southall, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; third great-grandfather of Robert
Lee Henry; cousin *** of Isaac
Coles. |
| | | Political family: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Henry counties in Ala., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Patrick
H. Davis
— Patrick
Henry
— Patrick
H. Roche
— Patrick
H. McCarren
— Patrick
H. McGarry
— Patrick
Henry
— Patrick
Henry McCarthy
— Patrick
Henry Callahan
— Patrick
H. Kelley
— Patrick
H. O'Brien
— P.
H. Moynihan
— Patrick
H. Quinn
— Patrick
H. Drewry
— Patrick
Henry Kennedy
— J.
H. Culkin
— Dat
Barthel
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Patrick Henry: Harlow Giles
Unger, Lion
of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New
Nation — Thomas S. Kidd, Patrick
Henry: First Among Patriots |
| | | Image source: The South in the Building
of the Nation (1909) |
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Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-1882) —
also known as Benjamin H. Hill —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Jasper
County, Ga., September
14, 1823.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1851; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1857; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1875-77; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1877-82; died in office 1882.
Slaveowner.
Died of cancer in
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
16, 1882 (age 58 years, 336
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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George Washington Hill (1814-1860) —
of Texas.
Born in Hill Creek, Warren
County, Tenn., April
22, 1814.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-41, 1842-43; Texas
Republic Secretary of War and Marine, 1843-44.
Died in Spring Hill, Navarro
County, Tex., May 29,
1860 (age 46 years, 37
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Near Dawson, Navarro County, Tex.
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Thomas Hinds (1780-1840) —
of Greenville, Jefferson
County, Miss.
Born in Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), January
9, 1780.
Democrat. Member
Mississippi territorial council, 1805-06; Speaker
of Mississippi Territory House of Representatives, 1810; major in
the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for Governor of
Mississippi, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1828-31.
Slaveowner.
Died in Greenville, Jefferson
County, Miss., August
23, 1840 (age 60 years, 227
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Jefferson County, Miss.
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Phineas Warren Hitchcock (1831-1881) —
also known as Phineas W. Hitchcock —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in New Lebanon, Columbia
County, N.Y., November
30, 1831.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska
Territory, 1860;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Nebraska Territory, 1865-67; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1871-77.
Died in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., July 10,
1881 (age 49 years, 222
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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George Washington Hockley (1802-1854) —
of Texas.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1802.
Texas
Republic Secretary of War and Marine, 1841-42.
Died in Corpus Christi, Nueces
County, Tex., June 6,
1854 (age about 51
years).
Interment at Old
Bayview Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Tex.
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James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906) —
also known as Jim Hogg —
of Wood
County, Tex.
Born in a log
cabin, near Rusk, Cherokee
County, Tex., March
24, 1851.
Democrat. Wood
County Attorney, 1878-80; District Attorney, 7th District,
1880-84; Texas
state attorney general, 1886-90; Governor of
Texas, 1891-95.
Died March 3,
1906 (age 54 years, 344
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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David Holmes (1769-1832) —
of Winchester,
Va.; Washington, Adams
County, Miss.
Born near Hanover, York
County, Pa., March
10, 1769.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1797-1809 (at-large 1797-1807, 4th
District 1807-09); Governor
of Mississippi Territory, 1809-11, 1812-15; Governor of
Mississippi, 1817-20, 1826; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1820-25.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Winchester, Frederick
County, Va., August
20, 1832 (age 63 years, 163
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Joseph Holt (1807-1894) —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Breckinridge
County, Ky., January
6, 1807.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; Jefferson
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1833-35; U.S. Commissioner of
Patents, 1857; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1859-60; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1861.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
1, 1894 (age 87 years, 207
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Breckinridge County, Ky.
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Peter Horry (1743-1815) —
Born in Georgetown
County, S.C., 1743.
Planter;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782, 1792-94; member of
South
Carolina state senate, 1785-87.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., February
28, 1815 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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George Smith Houston (1811-1879) —
also known as George S. Houston —
of Athens, Limestone
County, Ala.
Born near Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., January
17, 1811.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1832; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1841-49, 1851-61 (at-large 1841-43,
5th District 1843-49, 1851-61); Governor of
Alabama, 1874-78; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1879; died in office 1879.
Slaveowner.
Died in Athens, Limestone
County, Ala., December
31, 1879 (age 68 years, 348
days).
Interment at Athens
City Cemetery, Athens, Ala.
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) —
also known as Sam Houston —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex.
Born near Lexington, Rockbridge
County, Va., March 2,
1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1823-27 (at-large 1823-25, 7th
District 1825-27); Governor of
Tennessee, 1827-29; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Nacogdoches, 1833;
delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Augustine,
1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Refugio, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836-38, 1841-44; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-59; Governor of
Texas, 1859-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia,
in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., July 26,
1863 (age 70 years, 146
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Huntsville, Tex.; statue erected 1925 at Herman
Park, Houston, Tex.
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Relatives:
Father of Andrew
Jackson Houston; second great-grandfather of Jean Houston Baldwin
(who married Marion
Price Daniel); third great-grandfather of Marion
Price Daniel Jr.; cousin *** of David
Hubbard. |
| | | Political family: Daniel-Houston
family of Texas. |
| | | Houston counties in Minn., Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Houston,
Texas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ships SS Sam Houston (built 1941, at Houston,
Texas; torpedoed and sunk 1942 in the Atlantic
Ocean) and SS Sam Houston II (built 1943 at the same
shipyard; scrapped 1959) were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Houston
Justice
— Sam
H. Jones
— Sam
Houston Clinton, Jr.
— Sam
H. Melton, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Sam Houston: James L.
Haley, Sam
Houston — Marquis James, The
Raven : A Biography of Sam Houston — Randolph B.
Campbell, Sam
Houston and the American Southwest — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage — Jean Fritz, Make
Way for Sam Houston (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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John Houstoun (1744-1796) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Waynesboro, Burke
County, Ga., August
31, 1744.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; Governor of
Georgia, 1778, 1784-85; defeated, 1787; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1790-91; superior court judge in Georgia, 1792.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died near Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., July 20,
1796 (age 51 years, 324
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Benjamin Howard (1760-1814) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., 1760.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1801-02; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1807-10; Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1810-12; Governor
of Missouri Territory, 1812-13; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., September
18, 1814 (age about 54
years).
Original interment at Old
Grace Church Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; reinterment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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James H. Howard (b. 1838) —
of Pike
County, Ark.
Born in Tennessee, 1838.
Shoemaker;
lawyer;
Pike
County Clerk, 1862-68; member of Arkansas
state senate 17th District, 1871-73.
Burial location unknown.
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John Eager Howard (1752-1827) —
also known as "Hero of Cowpens" —
of Maryland.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., June 4,
1752.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1787-88; Governor of
Maryland, 1788-91; member of Maryland
state senate, 1791-94; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Maryland; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1796-1803; received 22 electoral votes for
Vice-President, 1816.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
12, 1827 (age 75 years, 130
days).
Entombed at Old
St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.; statue erected 1904 at Washington
Place, Baltimore, Md.
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Tilghman Ashurst Howard (1797-1844) —
also known as Tilghman A. Howard —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.; Rockville, Parke
County, Ind.
Born in Pickensville, Pickens
County, S.C., November
14, 1797.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1824; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1833-39; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1839-40; candidate for
Governor
of Indiana, 1840; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Texas Republic, 1844, died in office 1844.
Died in Washington, Washington
County, Tex., August
16, 1844 (age 46 years, 276
days).
Interment at Rockville
Cemetery, Rockville, Ind.
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Volney Erskine Howard (1809-1889) —
also known as Volney E. Howard —
of Brandon, Rankin
County, Miss.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Norridgewock, Somerset
County, Maine, October
22, 1809.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1836; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1840; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; Texas
state attorney general, 1846; U.S.
Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1849-53; delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; superior
court judge in California, 1879.
Injured in duel
with Hiram
G. Runnels.
Slaveowner.
Died in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 14,
1889 (age 79 years, 204
days).
Original interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), Los Angeles, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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Lucius Frederick Hubbard (1836-1913) —
also known as Lucius F. Hubbard —
of Red Wing, Goodhue
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., January
26, 1836.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; grain
business; railroad
builder; member of Minnesota
state senate 16th District, 1872-75; Governor of
Minnesota, 1882-87; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Minnesota, 1896; general in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., February
5, 1913 (age 77 years, 10
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn.
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Claude Benton Hudspeth (1877-1941) —
also known as Claude B. Hudspeth; C. B.
Hudspeth —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in Medina, Bandera
County, Tex., May 12,
1877.
Democrat. Lawyer; livestock
grower; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1902-06; member of Texas
state senate, 1906-18; U.S.
Representative from Texas 16th District, 1919-31.
Died March
19, 1941 (age 63 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mission
Burial Park South, San Antonio, Tex.
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Alexander Hughes (1846-1907) —
of Elk Point, Union
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Bismarck, Burleigh
County, N.Dak.
Born in Brantford, Ontario,
September
30, 1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; member
Dakota territorial council, 1872-73, 1887-89; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1872-73; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Dakota Territory Territory, 1872,
1876,
1880
(alternate); Dakota
territory attorney general, 1883-85; delegate to Republican
National Convention from North Dakota, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
24, 1907 (age 61 years, 55
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (1808-1882) —
also known as Benjamin G. Humphreys —
of Mississippi.
Born in Claiborne
County, Miss., August
26, 1808.
Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1837; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1839; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Mississippi, 1865-68.
During Reconstruction,
he was physically
ejected from the governor's office by an armed force under the
orders of the U.S. military commander of Mississippi.
Died in Leflore
County, Miss., December
20, 1882 (age 74 years, 116
days).
Interment at Wintergreen
Cemetery, Port Gibson, Miss.
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Parry Wayne Humphreys (1778-1839) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Hernando, DeSoto
County, Miss.
Born in Staunton,
Va., 1778.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superior court judge in Tennessee, 1807-09; circuit judge in
Tennessee, 1809-13, 1818-36; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1813-15; banker.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hernando, DeSoto
County, Miss., February
12, 1839 (age about 60
years).
Interment at Methodist
Cemetery, Hernando, Miss.
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Memucan Hunt (1807-1856) —
of Texas.
Born in Vance
County, N.C., August
7, 1807.
General in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1838-39; candidate for Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1841; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1852.
Died in Tipton
County, Tenn., June 5,
1856 (age 48 years, 303
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Huntington (1731-1796) —
of Norwich, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Windham, Windham
County, Conn., July 16,
1731.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Connecticut, 1773-85; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-83; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; Governor of
Connecticut, 1786-96; died in office 1796; received 2 electoral
votes, 1789.
Congregationalist.
Died in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., January
5, 1796 (age 64 years, 173
days).
Interment at Norwichtown
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Huntington (1691-1767) and Mehetabel (Thurston)
Huntington; married, January
5, 1761, to Martha Devotion; uncle and adoptive father of Samuel
H. Huntington; granduncle of Nathaniel
Huntington (1793-1828), James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington and Elisha
Mills Huntington; great-granduncle of Collins
Dwight Huntington and George
Milo Huntington; second great-granduncle of William
Barret Ridgely; third great-granduncle of Helen
Huntington Hull; first cousin once removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; second cousin once removed of John
Davenport, Ebenezer
Huntington, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Abel
Huntington and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; second cousin twice removed of William
Woodbridge, Zina
Hyde Jr., Jabez
Williams Huntington, Isaac
Backus, Theodore
Davenport, Charles
Phelps Huntington and Henry
Titus Backus; second cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway, Robert
Coit Jr., Thomas
Worcester Hyde, Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell, Abial
Lathrop, Roger
Wolcott and William
Clark Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Alexander
Hamilton Waterman, Matthew
Griswold, George
Douglas Perkins, Charles
Edward Hyde, Herman
Arod Gager, Josiah
Quincy, William
Brainard Coit, Henry
Arthur Huntington, John
Sedgwick Hyde, Edward
Warden Hyde, John
Leffingwell Randolph, Arthur
Evarts Lord and George
Leffingwell Reed; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Edmond
Otis Dewey, Austin
Eugene Lathrop, George
Martin Dewey, Schuyler
Carl Wells, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, John
Foster Dulles, James
Gillespie Blaine III, Allen
Welsh Dulles and Randolph
Appleton Kidder; third cousin of Samuel
Adams; third cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen, Chauncey
Goodrich, Elizur
Goodrich, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel
Nicholls Smallwood and Peter
Buell Porter; third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Lathrop, Bela
Edgerton, Willard
J. Chapin, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Phineas
Taylor Barnum and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Hard, Charles
Robert Sherman, Heman
Ticknor, Gideon
Hard, Norman
A. Phelps, Alphonso
Taft, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Emerson
Wight, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, William
Henry Barnum, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, William
Vincent Wells, Augustus
Frank, Edward
M. Chapin, Elizur
Stillman Goodrich, Rhamanthus
Menville Stocker and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); fourth cousin once removed of Martin
Keeler and Thaddeus
Betts. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan
family of Dexter, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Huntington
County, Ind. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article |
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James Hyde (1842-1902) —
Born in 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1872-73.
Died in 1902
(age about
60 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Delucenna Ingham (1779-1860) —
also known as Samuel D. Ingham —
of New Hope, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born near New Hope, Bucks
County, Pa., September
16, 1779.
Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1806; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1813-18, 1822-29 (6th District
1813-18, 7th District 1822-23, 8th District 1823-25, 7th District
1825-27, 8th District 1827-29); secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1819-20; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1829-31.
Died in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 5,
1860 (age 80 years, 263
days).
Interment at Solebury
Presbyterian Churchyard, Solebury, Pa.
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James Iredell Jr. (1788-1853) —
of Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.
Born in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., November
2, 1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1813; state court judge in North
Carolina, 1819; Governor of
North Carolina, 1827-28; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1828-31.
Slaveowner.
Died in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., April
13, 1853 (age 64 years, 162
days).
Interment at Johnston
Burial Ground, Edenton, N.C.
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Robert Anderson Irion (1802-1861) —
of Texas.
Born in 1802.
Member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Nacogdoches, 1836-37; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1837-38.
Died in 1861
(age about
59 years).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.
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Jared Irwin (1750-1818) —
of Georgia.
Born in Georgia, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1789, 1798; member of
Georgia state legislature, 1790; Governor of
Georgia, 1796-98, 1806-09.
Died March 1,
1818 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Irwin
Family Cemetery, Near Tennille, Washington County, Ga.
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George Izard (1776-1828) —
of Arkansas.
Born in England,
October
21, 1776.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor
of Arkansas Territory, 1825-28; died in office 1828.
Died of an illness caused by the gout,
in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., November
22, 1828 (age 52 years, 32
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1843 at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Patrick Churchill Jack (1808-1844) —
also known as Patrick C. Jack —
of Texas.
Born in Wilkes
County, Ga., 1808.
Delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of Liberty, 1832; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Liberty, 1833;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; judge of Texas
Republic, 1841-44.
Died of yellow
fever in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
4, 1844 (age about 36
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent
interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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William Houston Jack (1806-1844) —
of Alabama; Texas.
Born in Wilkes
County, Ga., April
12, 1806.
Member of Alabama state legislature, 1829; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1839-40; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1842-44; died in
office 1844.
Died of yellow
fever in Brazoria
County, Tex., August
20, 1844 (age 38 years, 130
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent
interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) —
also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the
First" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March
15, 1767.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37; censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States; on January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot
at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a
house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel,
May 30, 1806; also dueled
with Thomas
Hart Benton and Waightstill
Avery. Elected in 1910 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died, of dropsy (congestive
heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845 (age 78 years, 85
days).
Interment at The
Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson;
married, January
17, 1794, to Rachel (Donelson) Robards (aunt of Andrew
Jackson Donelson). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Caffery
family of Louisiana (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair |
| | | Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Andrew
J. Donelson
— Andrew
Jackson Miller
— Andrew
J. Faulk
— Andrew
Jackson Titus
— Andrew
Jackson Isacks
— Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
— Andrew
J. Harlan
— Andrew
J. Kuykendall
— Andrew
J. Thayer
— Elam
A. J. Greeley
— Andrew
Jackson Ingle
— Andrew
J. Ogle
— Andrew
Jackson Carr
— Andrew
J. Waterman
— Andrew
J. Bentley
— Andrew
J. Rogers
— William
A. J. Sparks
— Andrew
Jackson Poppleton
— Andrew
J. Hunter
— Andrew
Jackson Bryant
— Andrew
J. Beale
— A.
J. Clements
— Andrew
Jackson Baker
— Andrew
J. Felt
— A. J.
King
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
Jackson Greenfield
— Andrew
Jackson Caldwell
— Andrew
Jackson Gahagan
— Andrew
Jackson Biship
— Andrew
Jackson Houston
— Andrew
Jackson Speer
— Andrew
J. Cobb
— Andrew
J. Montague
— Andrew
J. Barchfeld
— Andrew
J. Balliet
— Andrew
J. Kirk
— Andrew
J. Livingston
— A.
J. Sherwood
— Andrew
Jackson Stewart
— Andrew
J. May
— Andrew
J. McConnico
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
J. Brewer
— Andrew
J. Dunning, Jr.
— Andrew
Bettwy
— Andrew
J. Transue
— Andrew
Jackson Graves
— Andrew
Jackson Gilbert
— Andrew
J. Goodwin
— Andrew
J. Hinshaw
— Andy
Young
— Andrew
Jackson Kupper
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $20 bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
appeared on on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $5 to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes.
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Let the people
rule." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert
Vincent Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 —
Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy,
1833-1845 — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 —
Andrew Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson — David S. Heidler & Jeanne
T. Heidler, Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for
Empire — Donald B. Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson — H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times — Jon Meacham, American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Andrew
Jackson, Hero |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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James Jackson (1757-1806) —
of Georgia.
Born in Devon, England,
September
21, 1757.
Delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-91; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1793-95, 1801-06; died in office 1806; Governor of
Georgia, 1798-1801.
Killed George
Wells in a duel
in 1780; injured in both knees.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1806 (age 48 years, 179
days).
Original interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1832 at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Jay (1745-1829) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1745.
Lawyer;
law partner of Robert
R. Livingston; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-76, 1778-79; state
court judge in New York, 1777; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1779-82; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; received 9 electoral votes, 1789;
received 5 electoral votes, 1796;
received one electoral vote, 1800;
Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-95; resigned 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1789-90; Governor of
New York, 1795-1801; defeated, 1792.
Episcopalian.
French
Huguenot and Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 17,
1829 (age 83 years, 156
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Pierre 'Peter' Jay and Mary (Van Cortlandt) Jay; brother of James
Jay and Frederick
Jay; married to Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (daughter of William
Livingston; sister-in-law of John
Cleves Symmes; sister of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; niece of Robert
Livingston, Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; first cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston); father of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandson of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; grandfather of John
Jay II; grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt; second great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); second cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
P. Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, John
Cortlandt Parker, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Edward
Livingston, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson
Murray Cutting, Brockholst
Livingston, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Jay County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Jay (built 1941-42 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
J. Walbridge
— John
J. Jackson
— John
Jay Jackson, Jr.
— John
Jay Hart
— John J.
Good
— John
Jay Knox
— John
J. Kleiner
— John
J. Carton
— John
J. McCarthy
— John
J. Dorman
— John
Jay Hopkins
— John
J. McCloy
— John
Jay Justice
— John
Jay Pilar
— John
Jay Hooker
— John
Jay LaValle
— John
Jay Myers
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Jay: Walter Stahr, John
Jay : Founding Father — Phil Webster, Can
a Chief Justice Love God? The Life of John Jay |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1958) |
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) —
also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of
Monticello"; "Friend of the People";
"Father of the University of Virginia" —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., April
13, 1743.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;
U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice
President of the United States, 1797-1801; President
of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),
1796.
Deist.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4,
1826 (age 83 years, 82
days).
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph
at University
of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January
1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton; father of Martha
Jefferson (who married Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.) and Maria Jefferson (who married John
Wayles Eppes); uncle of Dabney
Carr; grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Randolph, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas
Philip Trist), Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; granduncle of Dabney
Smith Carr; great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; second great-granduncle of Edith
Wilson; first cousin once removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin twice removed of John
Jordan Crittenden, Thomas
Turpin Crittenden, Robert
Crittenden and Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Alexander
Parker Crittenden, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden and Carter
Henry Harrison II; first cousin four times removed of Thomas
Theodore Crittenden Jr.; second cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph and John
Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker and William
Segar Archer; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke and John
Augustine Marshall; second cousin four times removed of William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt and Francis
Beverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed of William
Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jefferson
M. Levy — Joshua
Fry |
| | | Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Jefferson (third highest peak in the Northeast), in Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Thomas
Jefferson Kennard
— Thomas
Jefferson Campbell
— Thomas
J. Gazley
— Thomas
J. Drake
— Thomas
Jefferson Heard
— Thomas
Jefferson Green
— Thomas
J. Rusk
— Thomas
Jefferson Withers
— Thomas
J. Parsons
— Thomas
J. Word
— Thomas
J. Henley
— Thomas
J. Dryer
— Thomas
J. Foster
— Thomas
J. Barr
— Thomas
Jefferson Jennings
— Thomas
J. Henderson
— Thomas
J. Van Alstyne
— Thomas
Jefferson Cason
— T.
J. Coghlan
— Thomas
Jefferson Buford
— T.
Jefferson Coolidge
— Thomas
J. Megibben
— Thomas
J. Bunn
— Thomas
J. Hardin
— Thomas
J. McLain, Jr.
— Thomas
J. Brown
— Thomas
Jefferson Speer
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Hudson
— Thomas
J. Brady
— Thomas
J. Selby
— Thomas
Jefferson Deavitt
— Thomas
Jefferson Majors
— Thomas
Jefferson Wood
— T.
J. Jarratt
— Thomas
Jefferson Nunn
— Thomas
J. Strait
— Thomas
J. Humes
— T.
J. Appleyard
— Thomas
J. Clunie
— Thomas
J. Steele
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. O'Donnell
— Thomas
J. Halsey
— Thomas
J. Graham
— T.
J. Martin
— Thomas
Jefferson Lilly
— Thomas
J. Randolph
— Tom
J. Terral
— T.
Jeff Busby
— Thomas
Jefferson Murphy
— Thomas
J. Hamilton
— Tom
Mangan
— Thomas
J. Ryan
— Tom
J. Murray
— Tom
Steed
— Thomas
Jefferson Edmonds, Jr.
— Thomas
J. Anderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Roberts
— Thomas
J. Barlow III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, and
on the $2 bill since the 1860s. |
| | | Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants
is obedience to God." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J.
Ellis, American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard
Sterne Randall, Thomas
Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas
Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas
Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan
Dunn, Jefferson's
Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 —
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's
Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher
Hitchens, Thomas
Jefferson : Author of America — David Barton, The
Jefferson Lies: Exposing the myths you've always believed about
Thomas Jefferson — David Barton, The
Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About
Thomas Jefferson — Donald Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Thomas Jefferson:
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Charles Jones Jenkins (1805-1883) —
of Georgia.
Born January
6, 1805.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1830; Georgia
state attorney general, 1831; member of Georgia
state senate, 1856; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1860-66; Governor of
Georgia, 1865-68; received 2 electoral votes for President, 1872;
delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877.
Died June 14,
1883 (age 78 years, 159
days).
Interment at Summerville
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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Jonathan Jennings (1784-1834) —
of Charlestown, Clark
County, Ind.
Born in Readington, Hunterdon
County, N.J., March
27, 1784.
Democrat. Lawyer; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Indiana Territory, 1809-16; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; Governor of
Indiana, 1816-22; resigned 1822; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1822-31 (at-large 1822-23, 2nd
District 1823-31).
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Charlestown, Clark
County, Ind., July 26,
1834 (age 50 years, 121
days).
Interment at Charlestown
Cemetery, Charlestown, Ind.
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Herschel Vespasian Johnson (1812-1880) —
also known as Herschel V. Johnson —
of Georgia.
Born near Farmer's Bridge, Burke
County, Ga., September
18, 1812.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1848-49; state court judge in Georgia,
1849, 1873-80; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1853; Governor of
Georgia, 1853-57; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1860; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Senator
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1863-65; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1865.
Slaveowner.
Died near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., August
16, 1880 (age 67 years, 333
days).
Interment at Old
Louisville Cemetery, Louisville, Ga.
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Middleton Tate Johnson (1810-1866) —
Born in 1810.
Member of Arkansas
territorial House of Representatives, 1832; member of Alabama
state legislature, 1844; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1845; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1849; candidate for Governor of
Texas, 1851, 1853, 1855, 1857; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Died May 15,
1866 (age about 55
years).
Original interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; reinterment at Johnson
Plantation Cemetery, Arlington, Tex.
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Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850) —
also known as Richard M. Johnson —
of Great Crossings, Scott
County, Ky.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ky., October
17, 1780.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1804; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1807-19, 1829-37 (4th District
1807-13, at-large 1813-15, 3rd District 1815-19, 5th District
1829-33, 13th District 1833-37); U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1819-29; Vice
President of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., November
19, 1850 (age 70 years, 33
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Thomas Johnson (1802-1865) —
of Kansas.
Born in 1802.
Member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1855.
Robbed and murdered,
1865
(age about
63 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Anson Jones (1798-1858) —
of Texas.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., January
20, 1798.
Physician;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1839-41; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1841-44; President
of the Texas Republic, 1844-45.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died from self-inflicted
gunshot,
in the Rice Hotel,
Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
9, 1858 (age 59 years, 354
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.; cenotaph at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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George Wallace Jones (1804-1896) —
also known as George W. Jones —
of Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa.
Born in Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., April
12, 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1835-36; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1836-39; U.S.
Surveyor-General for Iowa & Wisconsin, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1848-59; U.S. Minister to New Grenada, 1859-61.
Welsh
ancestry.
In 1861, was arrested
in New York City by order of Secretary of State William
H. Seward on a charge
of disloyalty,
based on correspondence with his friend Jefferson
Davis; imprisoned
for 64 days; released by order of President Abraham
Lincoln.
Slaveowner.
Died in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, July 22,
1896 (age 92 years, 101
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.
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James Jones (d. 1801) —
of Georgia.
Born in Maryland.
Republican. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1796-98; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1798; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1799-1801; died in office
1801.
Died January
11, 1801.
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Solomon Juneau (1793-1856) —
also known as Laurent-Salomon Juneau —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in L'Asumption, Quebec,
August
9, 1793.
Democrat. Fur
trader; founder of Milwaukee; postmaster at Milwaukee,
Wis., 1835-43; mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1846-47.
Catholic.
French
ancestry.
Died, reportedly from appendicitis,
in Keshena, Shawano County (now Menominee
County), Wis., November
14, 1856 (age 63 years, 97
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1866 at Calvary
Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.; cenotaph at Juneau
Park, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Elias Kent Kane (1794-1835) —
also known as Elias K. Kane —
of Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 7,
1794.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Randolph County,
1818; secretary
of state of Illinois, 1818-22; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1824; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1825-35; died in office 1835.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1835 (age 41 years, 188
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Chester, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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David Spangler Kaufman (1813-1851) —
also known as David S. Kaufman —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.
Born in Boiling Springs, Cumberland
County, Pa., December
18, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1839-41; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1843-45; U.S.
Representative from Texas 1st District, 1846-51; died in office
1851.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
31, 1851 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1932 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Amos Kendall (1789-1869) —
Born in Dunstable, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
16, 1789.
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1835-40.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
12, 1869 (age 80 years, 88
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Kent (1763-1847) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Doanesburgh, Putnam
County, N.Y., July 31,
1763.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1790-91, 1792-93, 1796-97 (Dutchess County
1790-91, 1792-93, New York County 1796-97); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1793; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1798-1814; Chancellor
of New York, 1814-23; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Author
of Commentaries on American Law, the first
comprehensive treatment of the subject. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1847 (age 84 years, 134
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fishkill, N.Y.
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Jefferson Parish Kidder (1815-1883) —
also known as Jefferson P. Kidder —
of Snowsville, Braintree, Orange
County, Vt.; West Randolph, Randolph, Orange
County, Vt.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Braintree, Orange
County, Vt., June 4,
1815.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Vermont state constitutional convention, 1841; Orange
County State's Attorney, 1843-47; member of Vermont
state senate, 1847-48; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1853-54; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Vermont, 1856;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 1, 1861, 1863-64; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1865-75, 1879-83; died in
office 1883; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1875-79.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., October
2, 1883 (age 68 years, 120
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman
Kidder and Ruth (Nichols) Kidder; brother of Ira
Kidder; married, February
26, 1838, to Mary Ann Stockwell; father of Silas
Wright Kidder; uncle of Lyman
Kidder Bass; granduncle of Lyman
Metcalfe Bass; first cousin of Alvan
Kidder; first cousin once removed of Daniel
S. Kidder; second cousin of Francis
Kidder; second cousin twice removed of Harley
Walter Kidder; third cousin once removed of Isaiah
Kidder, Ezra
Kidder, David
Kidder and Nathan
Parker Kidder; fourth cousin of Charles
Stetson, Luther
Kidder, Arba
Kidder, Joseph
Souther Kidder, Pascal
Paoli Kidder and Isaiah
Stetson; fourth cousin once removed of Caleb
Blodgett, Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Orlando
Burr Kidder, Adoniram
Judson Kneeland and Isaiah
Kidder Stetson. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Kidder County,
N.Dak. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Minnesota
Legislator record |
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William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853) —
also known as William R. King —
of Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala.; Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Sampson
County, N.C., April 7,
1786.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1807; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1811-16 (5th District
1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 5th District 1815-16); U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1819-44, 1848-52; U.S. Minister to France, 1844-46; Vice
President of the United States, 1853; died in office 1853.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Took oath of office as Vice President in Havana, Cuba, where he had
gone for his health; died the next month, at his plantation near
Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala., April
18, 1853 (age 67 years, 11
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Dallas County, Ala.; reinterment at
Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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George Washington Kingsbury (1837-1925) —
also known as George W. Kingsbury —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak.
Born in Lee, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
16, 1837.
Republican. Printer;
member
Dakota territorial council, 1863-67; candidate for Presidential
Elector for South Dakota; member of South
Dakota state senate 3rd District, 1895-96; newspaper
editor.
Died in Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak., January
28, 1925 (age 87 years, 43
days).
Interment at Yankton
Municipal Cemetery, Yankton, S.Dak.
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Norman Wolfred Kittson (1814-1888) —
also known as Norman W. Kittson; "Commodore
Kittson" —
of Pembina, Pembina
County, Minn. (now N.Dak.); St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Sorel, Lower Canada (now part of Sorel-Tracy, Quebec),
March
5, 1814.
Democrat. Fur
trader; helped end the Hudson Bay Company's fur trading monopoly
in 1849; member
Minnesota territorial council 7th District, 1852-55; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1858-59; operated steamboats
on the Red River from Minnesota north into Winnipeg in the 1870s;
worked with James J. Hill to build the St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railway
in 1879-81.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in the dining
car of a train
en route from Chicago to St. Paul, near Roberts, St. Croix
County, Wis., May 10,
1888 (age 74 years, 66
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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James Proctor Knott (1830-1911) —
also known as J. Proctor Knott —
of Lebanon, Marion
County, Ky.; Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.
Born in Raywick, Washington County (now Marion
County), Ky., August
29, 1830.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1857-58; Missouri
state attorney general, 1858-61; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1867-71, 1875-83; Governor of
Kentucky, 1883-87; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1891.
Presbyterian.
Died June 18,
1911 (age 80 years, 293
days).
Interment at Ryder
Cemetery, Lebanon, Ky.
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Henry Knox (1750-1806) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Philosophical Society.
He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass.,
leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines,
and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806 (age 56 years, 88
days).
Interment at Thomaston
Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine.
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Knox counties in Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Mo., Neb., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Knox (built 1941-42 at Terminal
Island, California; torpedoed and lost in the Indian
Ocean, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; president,
University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Slaveowner.
Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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Relatives: Son
of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird)
Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of Mirabeau
Buonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married Absalom
Harris Chappell); uncle of William
Bailey Lamar; fourth cousin of William
McKendree Robbins and Joseph
Rucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed of Gaston
Ahi Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Lamar
family of Georgia. |
| | | Lamar counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are
named for him. |
| | | Lamar Hall,
at the University
of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar River,
in Yellowstone National Park, Park
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Lamar Boulevard,
in Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar Avenue,
in Memphis,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lamar School
(founded 1964), in Meridian,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) —
also known as Mirabeau B. Lamar —
of Texas.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., August
16, 1798.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1829-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1832, 1834; colonel in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836-38; President
of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S.
Minister to Costa Rica, 1858-59; Nicaragua, 1858-59.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, near Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., December
19, 1859 (age 61 years, 125
days).
Interment at Morton
Cemetery, Richmond, Tex.
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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) —
also known as James H. Lane; "Liberator of
Kansas"; "Fighting Jim" —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., June 22,
1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1853-55; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1855, 1857; Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1855; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1861-66; died in office 1866; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Deranged, and charged
with financial irregularities, he was mortally wounded by a self-inflicted
gunshot
on July 1, 1866, and died ten days later, near Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., July 11,
1866 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Joseph Lane (1801-1881) —
of Winchester, Douglas
County, Ore.
Born in a log
cabin near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., December
14, 1801.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1822-23, 1830-33, 1838-39; member
of Indiana
state senate, 1839-40, 1844-46; general in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1849-50, 1853; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Oregon Territory, 1851-59; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1852;
U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1859-61; Southern Democratic candidate for
Vice
President of the United States, 1860; candidate for Oregon
state senate, 1880.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Roseburg, Douglas
County, Ore., April
19, 1881 (age 79 years, 126
days).
Original interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Roseburg, Ore.; reinterment at Memorial
Garden Cemetery, Roseburg, Ore.; cenotaph at Lone
Fir Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Henry Laurens (1724-1792) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 6,
1724.
Merchant;
planter;
Vice-President
of South Carolina, 1776-77; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1777-80; member of
South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1785.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Berkeley
County, S.C., December
8, 1792 (age 68 years, 277
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Walter Daniel Leake (1762-1825) —
also known as Walter Leake —
of Mississippi.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., May 25,
1762.
Democrat. Judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1807; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1817-20; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1821; Governor of
Mississippi, 1822-25; died in office 1825.
Slaveowner.
Died in Mt. Salus, Hinds
County, Miss., November
17, 1825 (age 63 years, 176
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Hinds County, Miss.
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Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834) —
of Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., December
10, 1783.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1815-16.
Died July 21,
1834 (age 50 years, 223
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Lee (1756-1818) —
also known as "Light Horse Harry" —
of Westmoreland
County, Va.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., January
29, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1786-88; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Westmoreland County, 1788; Governor of
Virginia, 1791-94; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1801.
Eulogized George
Washington as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.".
Slaveowner.
Died in Cumberland Island, Camden
County, Ga., March
25, 1818 (age 62 years, 55
days).
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Camden County, Ga.; reinterment
in 1913 at Lee
Memorial Chapel, Lexington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; married 1782 to
Matilda Ludwell Lee; married, June 18,
1793, to Ann Hill Carter; father of Robert E. Lee; grandfather of
Fitzhugh
Lee and William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee; grandnephew of Richard
Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee and Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790); first cousin twice removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas
Sim Lee, John
Randolph of Roanoke and Henry
St. George Tucker; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, John
Lee and Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Francis
Preston Blair Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John
Lee Carroll and Edward
Brooke Lee; second cousin four times removed of William
Welby Beverley, Blair
Lee III and Edward
Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Outerbridge
Horsey; third cousin of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846), Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Zachary
Taylor; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Edmund
Randolph and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, John
Gardner Coolidge, James
Sansome Lakin, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John
Wayles Eppes. |
| | | 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 Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Lee County,
Va. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article |
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Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) —
of Westmoreland
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., January
20, 1732.
Democrat. Planter; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-79, 1784-85, 1787; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1777, 1780, 1785; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1789-92.
Slaveowner.
Died in Westmoreland
County, Va., June 19,
1794 (age 62 years, 150
days).
Interment at Burnt
House Field Cemetery, Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.;
memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Greenwood Leflore (1800-1865) —
of Mississippi.
Born in 1800.
Member of Mississippi
state senate, 1841.
Choctaw
Indian ancestry.
Died in 1865
(age about
65 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Lenoir (1751-1839) —
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., May 8,
1751.
School
teacher; surveyor;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1781-95; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died May 6,
1839 (age 87 years, 363
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Caldwell County, N.C.
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Preston Hopkins Leslie (1819-1907) —
of Kentucky; Montana.
Born in Wayne County (part now in Clinton
County), Ky., March 2,
1819.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1844, 1850; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1851-55, 1867; Governor of
Kentucky, 1871-75; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1881; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1887-89; U.S.
Attorney for Montana, 1894-98.
Baptist.
Died in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., February
7, 1907 (age 87 years, 342
days).
Interment at Forestvale
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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Robert Perkins Letcher (1788-1861) —
also known as Robert P. Letcher —
of Lancaster, Garrard
County, Ky.
Born in Goochland
County, Va., February
10, 1788.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1813; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1823-33, 1834-35 (4th District
1823-33, 5th District 1834-35); defeated, 1853; Governor of
Kentucky, 1840-44; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1849-52.
Slaveowner.
Died January
24, 1861 (age 72 years, 349
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) —
of Missouri.
Born near Ivy, Albemarle
County, Va., August
18, 1774.
Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1807-09; died in office 1809.
English
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with William
Clark to Oregon, 1803-04.
Died from gunshot
wounds under mysterious
circumstances (murder or
suicide?)
at Grinder's Stand, an inn on
the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, Lewis
County, Tenn., October
11, 1809 (age 35 years, 54
days).
Interment at Meriwether
Lewis Park, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once
removed of Howell
Lewis, John
Walker, David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Francis
Walker and George
Rockingham Gilmer; first cousin five times removed of Arthur
Sidney Demarest; second cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George
Washington, Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Thomas
Walker Gilmer, David
Shelby Walker and Reuben
Handy Meriwether; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Robert
Brooke, Bushrod
Washington, George
Madison and Richard
Aylett Buckner; third cousin once removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke, Henry
St. George Tucker, John
Thornton Augustine Washington, Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm and Aylette
Buckner; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner, Charles
John Helm, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Hubbard
Dozier Helm; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman, Claude
Pollard and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson. |
| | | Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
F. Shannon |
| | | Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are
named for him; Lewis and Clark
County, Mont. is named partly for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Meriwether
Lewis Randolph
— Meriwether
Lewis Walker
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to
1927. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C.
Danisi, Uncovering
the Truth About Meriwether Lewis — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure |
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Morgan Lewis (1754-1844) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
16, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1789-90, 1791-92 (New York County 1789-90,
Dutchess County 1791-92); New York
state attorney general, 1791-92; appointed 1791; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1792-1801; Governor of
New York, 1804-07; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1810-14; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1844 (age 89 years, 174
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English
ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) —
of Massachusetts.
Born January
24, 1733.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1788-89; received one electoral vote,
1789.
Died May 9,
1810 (age 77 years, 105
days).
Interment at Old
Ship Cemetery, Hingham, Mass.
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Lewis Fields Linn (1796-1843) —
also known as Lewis F. Linn —
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
5, 1796.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; physician;
member of Missouri
state senate 3rd District, 1830-31; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1833-43; died in office 1843.
Slaveowner.
Died in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., October
3, 1843 (age 46 years, 332
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy Ann (Hunter) Linn and Asahel Linn; half-brother of Henry
Dodge; married to Elizabeth Alexander Relfe (sister of James
Hugh Relfe); uncle of Augustus
Caesar Dodge. |
| | | Political family: Polk
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Linn counties in Iowa, Kan., Mo. and Ore. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Linneus,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Linn,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of West
Linn, Oregon, is named for
him. — The city
of Linnton,
Oregon, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Abner Smith Lipscomb (1789-1856) —
Born in South Carolina, February
10, 1789.
Member of Alabama
territorial legislature, 1818; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1820-35; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1840; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1846-56.
Died December
8, 1856 (age 67 years, 302
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Edward Livingston (1764-1836) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Clermont, Columbia
County, N.Y., May 28,
1764.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1795-1801 (1st District 1795-99,
2nd District 1799-1801); mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1801-03; U.S.
Attorney for New York, 1801-03; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1823-29; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1829-31; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1831-33; U.S. Minister to France, 1833-35.
Slaveowner.
Died May 23,
1836 (age 71 years, 361
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Columbia County, N.Y.; reinterment
somewhere
in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and Margaret (Beekman) Livingston;
brother of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan
Lewis) and Alida Livingston (who married John
Armstrong Jr.); married, April
10, 1788, to Mary McEvers; married, June 3,
1805, to Louisa D'Avezac=de=Castera (sister of Auguste
Davezac); uncle of Elizabeth Stevens Livingston (who married Edward
Philip Livingston (1779-1843)); grandson of Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; granduncle of John
Jacob Astor III; great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Robert
Livingston the Younger; great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); great-granduncle of William
Waldorf Astor; second great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); second great-granduncle of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills and Robert
Reginald Livingston; first cousin once removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin
Livingston; second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston (1779-1843), William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William
Jay, Gerrit
Smith, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893) and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; second cousin twice removed of Matthew
Clarkson (1733-1800), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, John
Jay II, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer; second cousin thrice removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Winthrop Kean, Brockholst
Livingston and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Howard Kean, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; third cousin of Nicholas
Bayard and James
Parker; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Clarkson (1758-1825), George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of John
Sluyter Wirt and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler; fourth cousin of Peter
Gansevoort. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Livingston counties in Ill., Mich. and Mo. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Livingston,
Guatemala, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Edward
L. Davis
— Edward
L. Martin
— Edward
L. Taylor, Jr.
— Edward
L. Robertson
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier |
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Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
27, 1746.
Lawyer;
law partner of John
Jay; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1777; U.S. Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, 1781-83; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1798; U.S. Minister to France, 1801-04; negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.
Member, Freemasons.
Died February
26, 1813 (age 66 years, 91
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Tivoli, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and Margaret (Beekman) Livingston;
brother of Alida Livingston (who married John
Armstrong Jr.), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan
Lewis) and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); married 1770 to Mary
Stevens (daughter of John
Stevens; sister of John
Stevens III); father of Elizabeth Stevens Livingston (who married
Edward
Philip Livingston (1779-1843)); uncle of Robert
Livingston Tillotson; grandson of Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; granduncle of John
Jacob Astor III; great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Robert
Livingston the Younger; great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); great-granduncle of William
Waldorf Astor; second great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); second great-grandfather of Robert
Reginald Livingston; second great-granduncle of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; ancestor *** of Robert
Livingston Beeckman; first cousin once removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin
Livingston; second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston (1779-1843), William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William
Jay, Gerrit
Smith, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893) and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; second cousin twice removed of Matthew
Clarkson (1733-1800), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, John
Jay II, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer; second cousin thrice removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Winthrop Kean, Brockholst
Livingston and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Howard Kean, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; third cousin of Nicholas
Bayard and James
Parker; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Clarkson (1758-1825), George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of John
Sluyter Wirt and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler; fourth cousin of Peter
Gansevoort. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Livingston counties in Ky., La. and N.Y. are
named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Benjamin Logan (1743-1802) —
Born in Augusta
County, Va., May 1,
1743.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781-87; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1791-92; member of
Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1792-95.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, near Stanford, Shelby
County, Ky., December
11, 1802 (age 59 years, 224
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Shelby County, Ky.
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John Logan (born c.1800) —
of Illinois.
Born in Ireland,
about 1800.
Physician;
member of Illinois state legislature, 1840.
Interment at Murphysboro
City Cemetery, Murphysboro, Ill.
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John Alexander Logan (1826-1886) —
also known as John A. Logan; "Black Jack";
"Black Eagle of Illinois" —
of Benton, Franklin
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Murphysboro, Jackson
County, Ill., February
9, 1826.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1852; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1859-62, 1867-71 (9th District
1859-62, at-large 1867-71); general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1868,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1871-77, 1879-86; died in office 1886;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1884;
Republican candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1884.
Member, Freemasons.
Conceived the idea of Memorial Day and inaugurated the observance in
May 1868.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1886 (age 60 years, 320
days).
Entombed at U.S.
Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880) —
also known as Stephen T. Logan —
of Barren
County, Ky.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., February
24, 1800.
Republican. Lawyer; Barren
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1822-32; circuit judge in Illinois,
1835-40; law partner of Abraham
Lincoln, 1841-44; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1843-47, 1855-56; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Sangamon County,
1847; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1860.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 24,
1880 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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William Jones Lowndes (1782-1822) —
also known as William Lowndes —
of South Carolina.
Born in South Carolina, February
11, 1782.
Democrat. Lawyer; planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1806-08; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1811-22 (4th District
1811-13, 2nd District 1813-22).
Slaveowner.
Died aboard a
ship in the North
Atlantic Ocean while en route to England, October
27, 1822 (age 40 years, 258
days).
Buried at sea in North Atlantic Ocean; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Lucas (1781-1853) —
of Piketon, Pike
County, Ohio; Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa.
Born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.), April 1,
1781.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1808-09, 1831-32; served in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Ohio
state senate, 1814-22, 1824-30; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Ohio; Governor of
Ohio, 1832-36; defeated, 1830; Governor
of Iowa Territory, 1838-41; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1842; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Johnson County, 1844.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died February
7, 1853 (age 71 years, 312
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Cyrus Gray Luce (1824-1905) —
also known as Cyrus G. Luce —
of Gilead Township, Branch
County, Mich.; Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.
Born in Windsor, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, July 2,
1824.
Whig candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1848; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Branch County 2nd District,
1855-56; Branch
County Treasurer, 1859-62; member of Michigan
state senate, 1865-68 (15th District 1865-66, 13th District
1867-68); delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1885-86; resigned 1886; Governor of
Michigan, 1887-90.
Presbyterian.
Member, Grange.
Died in Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich., March
18, 1905 (age 80 years, 259
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870) —
of Madison, Morgan
County, Ga.; Monroe, Walton
County, Ga.; Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Pittsylvania
County, Va., January
14, 1783.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1808; member of Georgia
state senate, 1812; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1815-17, 1827-31 (at-large 1815-17,
4th District 1827-29, at-large 1829-31); Governor of
Georgia, 1831-35; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1837-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., December
28, 1870 (age 87 years, 348
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Chittenden Lyon (1787-1842) —
of Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky.
Born in Fair Haven, Rutland
County, Vt., February
22, 1787.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1822; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1827; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1827-35 (12th District 1827-33, 1st
District 1833-35).
Slaveowner.
Died in Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky., November
23, 1842 (age 55 years, 274
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Eddyville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Matthew
Lyon and Beulah (Chittenden) Lyon; married 1817 to Nancy
Vaughn; married to Fances Baker; father of Margaret Aurelia Lyon (who
married Willis
Benson Machen); nephew of Martin
Chittenden; grandson of Thomas
Chittenden; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); fifth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649); first cousin twice removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and Josiah
Meigs; first cousin five times removed of Fitz-John
Winthrop; second cousin once removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr. and Henry
Meigs; third cousin of Josiah
C. Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs III, Abel
Madison Scranton, Henry
Meigs Jr. and John
Forsyth Jr.; third cousin once removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; fourth cousin of Jeduthun
Wilcox, John
Willard, Clark
S. Chittenden and Russell
Sage; fourth cousin once removed of Chauncey
Goodrich, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Elizur
Goodrich, Frederick
Wolcott, Elijah
Hunt Mills, Leonard
Wilcox and Edgar
Jared Doolittle. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Lyon County,
Ky. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born near Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., December
17, 1757.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1780-82, 1784-85; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1791-1815 (at-large 1791-97,
5th District 1797-99, at-large 1799-1803, 6th District 1803-05,
at-large 1805-07, 6th District 1807-09, at-large 1809-11, 6th
District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 6th District 1815); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1801-05; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1815-28; resigned 1828; received 24
electoral votes for Vice-President, 1824;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835;
candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warren
County, N.C., June 29,
1837 (age 79 years, 194
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Warren County, N.C.
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James Madison (1751-1836) —
also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights" —
of Virginia.
Born in Port Conway, King George
County, Va., March
16, 1751.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th
District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1801-09; President
of the United States, 1809-17.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
He was elected in 1905 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montpelier, Orange
County, Va., June 28,
1836 (age 85 years, 104
days).
Interment at Montpelier
Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;
brother of William
Taylor Madison; married, September
15, 1794, to Dolley
Todd (sister-in-law of Richard
Cutts and John
George Jackson); first cousin once removed of George
Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary
Taylor; second cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel
Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement
F. Dorsey, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel
Slaughter, Andrew
Dorsey, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry, Gustavus
Adolphus Henry, David
Shelby Walker, Alexander
Warfield Dorsey, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Rice Slaughter, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli
Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Madison counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Tenn., Tex. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — Mount
Madison, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Madison (1808-13), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Madison, Iowa, were named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Madison (built 1942 at Houston,
Texas; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Madison Broom
— James
Madison Hite Beale
— James
Madison Porter
— James
M. Buchanan
— James
Madison Gregg
— J.
Madison Wells
— James
M. Tarleton
— James
Madison Hughes
— James
M. Marvin
— James
M. Edmunds
— James
Madison Gaylord
— James
M. Leach
— James
Turner
— James
M. Harvey
— James
M. Seymour
— James
Madison Barker
— James
Madison Mullen
— James
M. Candler
— James
Madison McKinney
— James
M. Morton
— James
Madison Barrett, Sr.
— James
M. Gudger, Jr.
— James
Madison Morton, Jr.
— James
Madison Woodard
— James
M. Waddell, Jr.
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Madison: Ralph Louis
Ketcham, James
Madison : A Biography — Garry Wills, James
Madison — Robert Allen Rutland, The
Presidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami, Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Samuel
Kernell, ed., James
Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican
Government — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, James
Madison and the Making of America |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Beriah Magoffin (1815-1885) —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., April
18, 1815.
Democrat. State court judge in Kentucky, 1840; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1850; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1856;
Governor
of Kentucky, 1859-62; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1867.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., February
28, 1885 (age 69 years, 316
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Ky.
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John C. Major —
of Oklahoma.
Delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1907.
Interment at Mulhall
City Cemetery, Mulhall, Okla.
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Francis Marion (1732-1795) —
also known as "Swamp Fox" —
of South Carolina.
Born in 1732.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state senate, 1782-90.
Died February
27, 1795 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Belle
Isle Plantation, Berkeley County, S.C.
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Marion counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., Miss., Mo., Ohio, Ore., S.C., Tenn., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The Francis Marion National
Forest (established 1936), in Charleston,
Berkeley
counties, South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Francis
M. Bristow
— Francis
M. D. Hopkins
— Francis
Marion Ziebach
— Francis
Marion Drake
— Francis
Marion Martin
— F. M.
Crosby
— Francis
M. Cockrell
— Francis
M. Hamilton
— Francis
Marion Gregory
— Francis
M. Griffith
— Francis
M. Nichols
— Francis
Marion Morris
— Francis
M. Taitt
— Francis
Marion Bryan
— F.
M. Norman
— Francis
M. Fields
— Francis
Marion Whaley
— Francis
M. Bistline
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Francis J. Marshall —
of Kansas.
Member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1850.
Burial location unknown.
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John Marshall (1755-1835) —
of Virginia.
Born in Germantown, Fauquier
County, Va., September
24, 1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782-96; U.S.
Attorney for Virginia, 1789; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1800; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1800-01; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1801-35; died in office 1835;
received 4 electoral votes for Vice-President, 1816.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 6,
1835 (age 79 years, 285
days).
Interment at Shockoe
Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall;
brother-in-law of William
McClung, George
Keith Taylor and Joseph
Hamilton Daviess; brother of James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall (1770-1825); married, January
3, 1783, to Mary Willis Ambler (daughter of Jacquelin
Ambler); father of Thomas
Marshall (1784-1835), Mary Marshall (who married Jacquelin
Burwell Harvie) and James
Keith Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas
Alexander Marshall; uncle of Edward
Colston, Thomas
Francis Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Alexander
Keith McClung, Charles
Alexander Marshall and Edward
Colston Marshall; granduncle by marriage of Humphrey
Marshall (1812-1872); granduncle of John
Augustine Marshall; great-grandfather of Lewis
Minor Coleman; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; great-granduncle of Hudson
Snowden Marshall, William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey
Marshall (1760-1841); first cousin once removed of William
Marshall Anderson and Charles
Anderson; first cousin twice removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, John
Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John
Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry
St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith
Wilson and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John
Wayles Eppes. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Tuck-Claude
family of Annapolis, Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Marshall counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Miss., Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Marshall (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Marshall Stone
— John
Marshall Martin
— John
Marshall Harlan
— J.
Marshall Hagans
— John
M. Claiborne
— John
M. Hamilton
— John
M. Raymond
— John M.
Rose
— John
M. Slaton
— John
M. Wolverton
— John
M. Robsion
— John
Marshall Hutcheson
— John
M. Butler
— John
Marshall Harlan
— John
M. Robsion, Jr.
— John
Marshall Briley
— John
Marshall Lindley
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $20 U.S. Treasury note in the 1880s, and on the
$500 bill in the early 20th century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books about John Marshall: Jean Edward
Smith, John
Marshall : Definer of a Nation — Charles F. Hobson, The
Great Chief Justice : John Marshall and the Rule of
Law — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation
1815-1835 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction
1800-1815 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier,
Lawmaker — David Scott Robarge, A
Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia
to the Supreme Court — R. Kent Newmyer, John
Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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William Rainey Marshall (1825-1896) —
also known as William R. Marshall —
of St. Croix Falls, Polk
County, Wis.; St. Anthony, Hennepin
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born near Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., October
17, 1825.
Member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1848; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 5th District, 1849; general
in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Minnesota, 1866-70; member of Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1874, 1876; appointed 1874,
1876.
Swedenborgian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Succeeded in removing the word "white" (race) from the Minnesota
state constitution.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
8, 1896 (age 70 years, 83
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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John Preston Martin (1811-1862) —
also known as John P. Martin —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.
Born in Jonesville, Lee
County, Va., October
11, 1811.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1841-43; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1845-47; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1855-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1856.
Slaveowner.
Died in Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky., December
23, 1862 (age 51 years, 73
days).
Interment at May
Cemetery, Prestonsburg, Ky.
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John Wellborn Martin (1884-1958) —
also known as John W. Martin —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Plainfield, Marion
County, Fla., June 21,
1884.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1917-23; Governor of
Florida, 1925-29; defeated in primary, 1932; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1928; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1948,
1952,
1956.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Moose.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
22, 1958 (age 73 years, 246
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Charles H. Mason —
of Washington.
Secretary
of Washington Territory, 1850.
Burial location unknown.
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George Mason (1725-1792) —
of Virginia.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., December
11, 1725.
Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1759; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1776-80, 1786-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787-88.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fairfax
County, Va., October
7, 1792 (age 66 years, 301
days).
Interment at Gunston
Hall Grounds, Near Lorton, Fairfax County, Va.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of George Mason (1690-1735) and Ann (Thomson) Mason; brother of Thomson
Mason; married, April 4,
1750, to Ann Eilbeck; married, April
11, 1780, to Sarah Brent (aunt of George
Graham); uncle of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and John
Thomson Mason (1765-1824); grandfather of Thomson
Francis Mason and James
Murray Mason; granduncle of John
Thomson Mason (1787-1850), Armistead
Thomson Mason and John
Thomson Mason Jr.; great-grandfather of Fitzhugh
Lee; great-granduncle of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1811-1843); third great-grandfather of Charles
O'Conor Goolrick; fourth great-granduncle of Jerauld
Wright. |
| | | Political family: Mason
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Mason counties in Ky. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | George Mason University,
Fairfax,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Mason: Jeff
Broadwater, George
Mason : Forgotten Founder |
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Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843) —
also known as Stevens T. Mason; Tom Mason; "The
Boy Governor"; "Young Hotspur";
"The Stripling" —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., October
27, 1811.
Secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1831; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1834-35; Governor of
Michigan, 1835-40.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1843 (age 31 years, 69
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1905 at Capitol
Park, Detroit, Mich.
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Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) —
also known as Samuel A. Maverick —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Pendleton District (now Anderson
County), S.C., July 23,
1803.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Bexar, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1839-40, 1862-63; member of Texas
state house of representatives 44th District, 1851-53.
His name is the origin of the term "maverick" for an unbranded cow,
which later came to mean a political party dissident.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., September
2, 1870 (age 67 years, 41
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery No. 1, San Antonio, Tex.
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Charles M. McClain —
of Oklahoma.
Delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1907.
Burial location unknown.
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George James McCone (1853-1929) —
also known as George McCone —
of Glendive, Dawson
County, Mont.
Born in Livingston
County, N.Y., April 4,
1853.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Montana, 1916;
member of Montana
state senate, 1910.
Died in Glendive, Dawson
County, Mont., September
21, 1929 (age 76 years, 170
days).
Interment at Dawson
County Cemetery, Glendive, Mont.
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Edwin Stanton McCook (1837-1873) —
Born in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ohio, March
26, 1837.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Dakota Territory, 1872-73; died in office 1873.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by
Peter P. Wintermute, a banker and political adversary, at a saloon
in Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), September
11, 1873 (age 36 years, 169
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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James Bennett McCreary (1838-1918) —
also known as James B. McCreary —
of Richmond, Madison
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., July 8,
1838.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1869-73; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1871-73; Governor of
Kentucky, 1875-79, 1911-15; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1885-97; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1903-09; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1904
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1908,
1912
(speaker),
1916.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Richmond, Madison
County, Ky., October
8, 1918 (age 80 years, 92
days).
Interment at Richmond
Cemetery, Richmond, Ky.
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Benjamin McCulloch (1811-1862) —
also known as Ben McCulloch —
of Texas.
Born November
11, 1811.
Member of Texas
Republic Congress, 1839; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Killed
in the Civil War at Pea Ridge, Benton
County, Ark., March 7,
1862 (age 50 years, 116
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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James McDowell (1795-1851) —
of Rockbridge
County, Va.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., October
13, 1795.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1831-35, 1838; Governor of
Virginia, 1843-46; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 11th District, 1846-51.
Slaveowner.
Died in Rockbridge
County, Va., August
24, 1851 (age 55 years, 315
days).
Interment at Stonewall
Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Va.
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Joseph McDowell (1758-1799) —
also known as P. G. McDowell; "Pleasant
Gardens" —
of North Carolina.
Born near Marion, Burke County (now McDowell
County), N.C., February
25, 1758.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1785; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1793-95.
Died March 7,
1799 (age 41 years, 10
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, McDowell County, N.C.
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George McDuffie (1790-1851) —
of Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., August
10, 1790.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1818-20; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1821-34 (6th District
1821-23, 5th District 1823-34); Governor of
South Carolina, 1834-36; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1842-46.
Slaveowner.
Died in Sumter District (now Sumter
County), S.C., March
11, 1851 (age 60 years, 213
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Sumter County, S.C.
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William McHenry (1771-1835) —
of White
County, Ill.
Born in Kentucky, October
3, 1771.
Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from White County,
1818; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1818-27; member of Illinois
state senate, 1832-35.
Died in Vandalia, Fayette
County, Ill., February
3, 1835 (age 63 years, 123
days).
Original interment at Old State Cemetery, Vandalia, Ill.; reinterment in 1871 at South
Hill Cemetery, Vandalia, Ill.
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E. H. McIntosh —
of North Dakota.
Member of North Dakota state legislature, 1890.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas McKean (1734-1817) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New London Township, Chester
County, Pa., March
19, 1734.
Lawyer;
member of Delaware
colonial Assembly, 1765-76; common pleas court judge in Delaware,
1765-74; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; member of Delaware
house of assembly, 1777-83; President
of Delaware, 1777; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1777-99; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1781; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789-90; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1799-1808; impeached
by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1807, but no trial was ever held.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 24,
1817 (age 83 years, 97
days).
Original interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in
1843 at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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William McKinley Jr. (1843-1901) —
also known as "Idol of Ohio" —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, January
29, 1843.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-84, 1885-91 (17th District
1877-79, 16th District 1879-81, 17th District 1881-83, 18th District
1883-84, 20th District 1885-87, 18th District 1887-91); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1884,
1888;
Governor
of Ohio, 1892-96; President
of the United States, 1897-1901; died in office 1901.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Knights
of Pythias; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Leon Czolgosz, at a reception
in the Temple of Music, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo,
N.Y., September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
14, 1901 (age 58 years, 228
days).
Originally entombed at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio; re-entombed in 1907 at McKinley
Monument, Canton, Ohio; statue at Lucas
County Courthouse Grounds, Toledo, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of William McKinley and Nancy Campbell (Allison) McKinley; married to
Ida
Saxton; first cousin of William
McKinley Osborne; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Prather Fletcher. |
| | | Political family: McKinley
family of Canton, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Albert
Halstead — Loran
L. Lewis — George
B. Cortelyou — John
Goodnow |
| | | McKinley County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Mount
McKinley (the highest peak in North America, now known by its
traditional name, Denali), in Denali
Borough, Alaska, was named for
him. — McKinley High
School, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
McKinley Thomas
— William
McKinley Thomas
— William
M. Bell
— William
M. Branch
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 bill in 1928-46. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Full
Dinner Pail." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Advance
Agent of Prosperity." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William McKinley: Lewis L.
Gould, The
Presidency of William McKinley — Kevin Phillips, William
McKinley — H. Wayne Morgan, William
McKinley and His America |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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Collin McKinney (1776-1861) —
of Texas.
Born April
17, 1776.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Red River, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Congress, 1830.
Died September
8, 1861 (age 85 years, 144
days).
Interment at Van
Alstyne Cemetery, Van Alstyne, Tex.
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Alney McLean (1779-1841) —
of Kentucky.
Born in North Carolina, 1779.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1812-13; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1815-17, 1819-21;
state court judge in Kentucky, 1821-41; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Kentucky.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1841
(age about
62 years).
Interment at Old
Caney Station Cemetery, Near Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Ky.
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John McLean (1791-1830) —
of Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill.
Born in Guilford
County, N.C., February
4, 1791.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1818-19; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1821-23, 1827-29; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1824-25, 1829-30; died in office 1830.
Died in Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill., October
14, 1830 (age 39 years, 252
days).
Interment at Westwood
Cemetery, Shawneetown, Ill.
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Martin McLeod (1813-1860) —
of Lac
qui Parle County, Minn.
Born in 1813.
Member
Minnesota territorial council, 1849-53 (7th District 1849-51, 6th
District 1852-53); President
of the Minnesota Territorial Council, 1853.
Died in 1860
(age about
47 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph McMinn (1758-1824) —
also known as "The Quaker Governor" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., June 27,
1758.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1796-98, 1805-12; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1805-11; Governor of
Tennessee, 1815-21.
Quaker.
Died October
17, 1824 (age 66 years, 112
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Presbyterian Cemetery, Calhoun, Tenn.
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John McNairy (1762-1837) —
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., March
30, 1762.
Superior court judge in North Carolina, 1788; justice of
Southwest Territory supreme court, 1790; U.S.
District Judge for Tennessee, 1797-1802; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1802-33;
resigned 1833; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1802-33;
resigned 1833.
Died near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
12, 1837 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Episcopal
Church Burying Ground, Nashville, Tenn.; reinterment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) —
of Montana.
Born in Ireland,
August
3, 1823.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Montana Territory, 1865; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1865-66.
Fell from a steamboat
into the Missouri River and presumably drowned,
at Fort Benton, Chouteau
County, Mont., July 1,
1867 (age 43 years, 332
days). His body was never
found.
Statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Helena, Mont.
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Bradley Burr Meeker (1813-1873) —
also known as Bradley B. Meeker —
of Richmond, Madison
County, Ky.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Fairfield
County, Conn., March
13, 1813.
Lawyer;
justice
of Minnesota territorial supreme court, 1849-53.
Died in 1873
(age about
60 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. (1740-1823) —
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
28, 1740.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; justice
of the peace; member of Northwest
Territory House of Representatives, 1799-1801; U.S. Indian Agent
to Cherokee Nation in Tennessee, 1801-23.
Died in Bradley
County, Tenn., January
28, 1823 (age 82 years, 31
days).
Interment at Garrison Cemetery, Dayton, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Josiah
Meigs; married, February
14, 1764, to Joanna Winborn; married, December
22, 1774, to Grace Starr; father of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr.; uncle of Henry
Meigs; grandfather of Return
Jonathan Meigs III; granduncle of Henry
Meigs Jr. and John
Forsyth Jr.; first cousin once removed of Martin
Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden
Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John
Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; third cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha
Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha
Hunt Allen, Anson
Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur
Morris, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg and Charles
Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
H. Eastman, William
Fessenden Allen, Rush
Green Leaming, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, Alvred
Bayard Nettleton, Robert
Cleveland Usher, Charles
M. Hotchkiss, Frederick
Hobbes Allen, Allen
Clarence Wilcox and Carl
Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas
Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Meigs County,
Tenn. is named for him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (1764-1825) —
also known as Return J. Meigs, Jr. —
of Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
17, 1764.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Marietta,
Ohio, 1794-95; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1803-04, 1808-09; resigned 1804; federal
judge, 1807-08; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1808-10; Governor of
Ohio, 1810-14; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1814-23.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, March
29, 1825 (age 60 years, 132
days).
Interment at Mound
Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.
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Arthur Calvin Mellette (1842-1896) —
also known as Arthur C. Mellette —
of Watertown, Codington
County, S.Dak.
Born in Henry
County, Ind., June 23,
1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Indiana
state house of representatives, 1871-75; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1889; Governor of
South Dakota, 1889-93.
Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Pittsburg, Crawford
County, Kan., May 25,
1896 (age 53 years, 337
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Watertown, S.Dak.
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Michel Brindamour Menard (1805-1858) —
also known as M. B. Menard —
of Texas.
Born in Laprairie, Quebec,
December
5, 1805.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Liberty, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Congress, 1840-42.
One of the founders of the city of Galveston.
Died in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., September
2, 1858 (age 52 years, 271
days).
Interment at Old
Catholic Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.
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Pierre Menard (1766-1844) —
Born in 1766.
Whig. Member of Indiana
territorial legislature, 1803-09; member of Illinois
territorial legislature, 1812; Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1818-22; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Illinois.
Died in 1844
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Fort
Kaskaskia, Kaskaskia, Ill.
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Richard Hickman Menefee (1809-1841) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Kentucky, 1809.
Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1836-37; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 11th District, 1837-39.
Died in 1841
(age about
32 years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fayette County, Ky.; reinterment in
1893 at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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David Meriwether (1755-1822) —
of Georgia.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., March
27, 1755.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1797-1800; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1797-1800; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1801-02, 1803-07 (at-large 1801-02,
1803-05, 3rd District 1805-07); candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia.
Died near Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., November
16, 1822 (age 67 years, 234
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Thomas Metcalfe (1780-1855) —
also known as "Old Stonehammer" —
of Carlisle, Nicholas
County, Ky.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., March
20, 1780.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1812-16; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1819-28 (4th District 1819-23, 2nd
District 1823-28); resigned 1828; Governor of
Kentucky, 1828-32; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1834; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Kentucky, 1839 (Convention Vice-President; member, Balloting
Committee; member, Committee to Notify Nominees; speaker); U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1848-49.
Slaveowner.
During an epidemic, died of cholera,
near Carlisle, Nicholas
County, Ky., August
18, 1855 (age 75 years, 151
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Nicholas County, Ky.
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Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
10, 1744.
Democrat. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-75, 1782-84;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of Pennsylvania, 1788-90; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1790-99.
Lutheran.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., January
20, 1800 (age 56 years, 10
days).
Interment at Trinity
Lutheran Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa.
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Andrew Jackson Miller (1806-1856) —
of Georgia.
Born in 1806.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1836; member of Georgia
state senate, 1838-56.
Died in 1856
(age about
50 years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Miller (1776-1851) —
Born in Peterborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H., April
25, 1776.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor
of Arkansas Territory, 1819-24; elected U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1824, but never took office.
Died, following a series of strokes,
at Temple, Hillsborough
County, N.H., July 7,
1851 (age 75 years, 73
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Miller (1781-1846) —
of Franklin, Howard
County, Mo.; Florissant, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born near Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), November
25, 1781.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; Governor of
Missouri, 1826-32; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1837-43.
Died in Florissant, St. Louis
County, Mo., March
18, 1846 (age 64 years, 113
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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William Read Miller (1823-1887) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Independence
County, Ark., November
23, 1823.
Governor
of Arkansas, 1877-81.
Died November
29, 1887 (age 64 years, 6
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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John T. Mills (1817-1871) —
of Texas.
Born in County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), November
12, 1817.
Justice
of Texas Republic supreme court, 1839-40, 1842-45; district judge
in Texas, 1846-50.
Died November
30, 1871 (age 54 years, 18
days).
Interment at Marshall
Cemetery, Marshall, Tex.
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Roger Quarles Mills (1832-1911) —
also known as Roger Q. Mills —
of Corsicana, Navarro
County, Tex.
Born in Todd
County, Ky., March
30, 1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1859-60; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1873-92 (at-large 1873-75, 4th
District 1875-83, 9th District 1883-92); U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1892-99.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Corsicana, Navarro
County, Tex., September
2, 1911 (age 79 years, 156
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Corsicana, Tex.
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John Milton (c.1740-1817) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Halifax
County, N.C., about 1740.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1777-99; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia; received 2 electoral votes, 1789;
mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1792.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in 1817
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Ephraim Miner (b. 1833) —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in 1833.
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1872-73.
Burial location unknown.
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Nelson Miner (1827-1879) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in 1827.
Member
Dakota territorial council, 1870-73, 1877-79; died in office 1879.
Died in 1879
(age about
52 years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Monroe (1758-1831) —
of Spotsylvania
County, Va.; Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April
28, 1758.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Spotsylvania County, 1788; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831 (age 73 years, 67
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequently entombed at
New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1858
at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, February
16, 1786, to Eliza Kortright and Elizabeth
Kortright; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married George
Hay) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur); nephew of Joseph
Jones; uncle of Thomas
Bell Monroe and James
Monroe (1799-1870); granduncle of Victor
Monroe; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson); second great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop; third great-granduncle of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; first cousin once removed of William
Grayson; second cousin of Alfred
William Grayson and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II and John
Brady Grayson. |
| | | Political family: Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Monrovia,
Liberia, is named for
him. — Mount
Monroe, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, Hampton,
Virginia, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Monroe (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Monroe
— James
Monroe
— James
M. Pendleton
— James
M. Jackson
— James
Monroe Letts
— James
M. Ritchie
— James
M. Rosse
— James
M. Comly
— James
Monroe Buford
— James
M. Seibert
— J.
Monroe Driesbach
— James
M. Lown
— James
M. Miller
— James
Monroe Jones
— James
Monroe Hale
— James
Monroe Spears
— J.
M. Alford
— James
M. Lown, Jr.
— James
M. Miley
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and
1890s. |
| | | 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 — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon,
James
Monroe: The Quest for National Identity |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Gideon Curtis Moody (1832-1904) —
also known as Gideon C. Moody —
of Deadwood, Lawrence
County, S.Dak.
Born in Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y., October
16, 1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1867-69, 1874-75; Speaker
of the Dakota Territory House of Representatives, 1868-69,
1874-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from Dakota
Territory Territory, 1868;
justice
of Dakota territorial supreme court, 1878-83; U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1889-91.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
17, 1904 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Cremated.
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Alfred Moore (1755-1810) —
of Brunswick
County, N.C.
Born in New Hanover
County, N.C., May 21,
1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1782; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1782-91; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1792; superior court judge in North
Carolina, 1798-99; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1799-1804; resigned 1804.
Episcopalian.
Died in Bladen
County, N.C., October
15, 1810 (age 55 years, 147
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Winnabow, N.C.
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William Moore —
of Tennessee.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1825-27.
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) —
of Virginia.
Born in Hunterdon
County, N.J., 1736.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1797-99.
Presbyterian.
Welsh
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died July 6,
1802 (age about 66
years).
Original interment at Old
Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Winchester, Va.; reinterment
at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.; statue at Morgan
Square, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Thomas Morris (1776-1844) —
of Bethel, Clermont
County, Ohio.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1776.
Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1806-08, 1810, 1820-21; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1809; member of Ohio
state senate, 1813-15, 1821-23, 1825-29, 1831-33; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1833-39; Liberty candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1844.
Died in 1844
(age about
68 years).
Interment at First
Bethel Cemetery, Bethel, Ohio.
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Jackson L. Morrow —
of Oregon.
Member of Oregon
territorial legislature, 1850.
Burial location unknown.
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Jeremiah Morrow (1771-1852) —
of Montgomery, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born near Gettysburg, Adams
County, Pa., October
6, 1771.
Democrat. Member of Northwest
Territory House of Representatives, 1801-02; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1802; member of Ohio
state senate, 1803, 1827; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1803-13, 1840-43 (at-large 1803-13, 4th
District 1840-43); U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1813-19; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Ohio; Governor of
Ohio, 1822-26; defeated, 1820; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1829, 1835.
Died near Lebanon, Warren
County, Ohio, March
22, 1852 (age 80 years, 168
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Symmes Township, Warren County, Ohio.
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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877) —
also known as Oliver P. Morton —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Salisbury, Wayne
County, Ind., August
4, 1823.
Republican. Circuit judge in Indiana, 1852; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1861; Governor of
Indiana, 1861-67; defeated, 1856; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1867-77; died in office 1877; member of Republican
National Committee from Indiana, 1872-; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1876.
His legs were
paralyzed after a stroke in 1865; suffered another stroke in
1877, and died soon after, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., November
1, 1877 (age 54 years, 89
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.; statue at Vicksburg
National Military Park, Vicksburg, Miss.; statue at Statehouse
Grounds, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Junius William Mottley (1812-1836) —
also known as William Mottley —
of Texas.
Born in 1812.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Goliad, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; served in the Texas Army
during the Texas War of Independence.
Killed
at the battle of San Jacinto, Harris
County, Tex., April
21, 1836 (age about 23
years).
Interment at San
Jacinto Park Cemetery, La Porte, Tex.
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William Moultrie (1730-1805) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., November
23, 1730.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1783-84; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1784; Governor of
South Carolina, 1785-87, 1792-94; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1787-92.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., September
27, 1805 (age 74 years, 308
days).
Original interment at Windsor Hill Plantation, North Charleston, S.C.; reinterment in
1977 at Fort
Moultrie National Monument, Sullivan's Island, S.C.; cenotaph at
St.
James Goose Creek Episcopal Churchyard, Goose Creek, S.C.
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John E. Mower —
of Washington
County, Minn.
Member
Minnesota territorial council 1st District, 1854-55; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 22, 1875.
Burial location unknown.
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John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1746-1807) —
of Virginia; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Trappe, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
12, 1746.
Democrat. Pastor;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1774; general in the Continental Army during
the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1789-91, 1793-95, 1799-1801
(at-large 1789-91, 1st District 1793-95, 1799-1801); delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; candidate
for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; resigned 1801; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1802-07.
Lutheran;
later Episcopalian.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
1, 1807 (age 60 years, 354
days).
Interment at Augustus
Lutheran Church Cemetery, Trappe, Pa.
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Thomas W. Murray (1790-1832) —
of Georgia.
Born in 1790.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1818; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1818.
Died in 1832
(age about
42 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry David Murray (1869-1956) —
also known as William H. Murray; "Alfalfa
Bill"; "Cocklebur Bill"; "Bolivia
Bill"; "The Sage of Tishomingo" —
of Tishomingo, Johnston
County, Okla.
Born near Collinsville, Grayson
County, Tex., November
21, 1869.
Democrat. Candidate for Texas
state senate, 1890; delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1907-09; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(speaker),
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma, 1913-17 (at-large 1913-15, 4th
District 1915-17); defeated, 1940; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1931-35; defeated in primary, 1918, 1938; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1932;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1942.
Member, Freemasons.
Died October
15, 1956 (age 86 years, 329
days).
Interment at Tishomingo
Cemetery, Tishomingo, Okla.
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William Pitt Murray (c.1825-1910) —
also known as William P. Murray; Bill
Murray —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, about 1825.
Member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 2nd District, 1852-53, 1857;
member
Minnesota territorial council 2nd District, 1854-55; President
of the Minnesota Territorial Council, 1855; delegate
to Minnesota state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1857;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 1, 1863, 1868; member of
Minnesota
state senate, 1866-67, 1875-76 (1st District 1866-67, 23rd
District 1875-76).
Irish
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., June 20,
1910 (age about 85
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Albinus Nance (1848-1911) —
of Osceola, Polk
County, Neb.; Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in La Fayette, Stark
County, Ill., March
30, 1848.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1875-78; Speaker of
the Nebraska State House of Representatives, 1877-78; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1876;
Governor
of Nebraska, 1879-83; president, Osceola Bank and
Stromsburg Bank,
1879-88.
Congregationalist.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
6, 1911 (age 63 years, 251
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb.
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Francis Nash (1742-1777) —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., 1742.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1764; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Welsh
ancestry.
During the Battle of Germanown, he was hit by cannonball
and musket
shot, was mortally
wounded, and died soon after, in Montgomery
County, Pa., October
7, 1777 (age about 35
years).
Interment at Towamencin
Mennonite Churchyard, Near Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pa.
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José Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) —
of Texas.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., February
27, 1795.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Bexar, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-39; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1845; member of Texas
state senate, 1846-49.
Catholic.
Member, Freemasons.
Died January
13, 1871 (age 75 years, 320
days).
Interment at San
Fernando Cemetery #1, San Antonio, Tex.; statue at Navarro
County Courthouse Grounds, Corsicana, Tex.
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Nelson E. Nelson —
of Pembina, Pembina
County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.); Pembina, Pembina
County, N.Dak.
Born in Norway.
Republican. Member
Dakota territorial council, 1881-82; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Dakota Territory Territory, 1884;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1891.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738-1789) —
of Virginia.
Born in Yorktown, York
County, Va., December
26, 1738.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77, 1779-80; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1781.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hanover
County, Va., January
4, 1789 (age 50 years, 9
days).
Interment at Grace
Churchyard, Yorktown, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Willoughby Newton (1804-1853) —
also known as Thomas W. Newton —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Alexandria,
Va., January
18, 1804.
Whig. Member of Arkansas
state senate, 1844-48; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1847; defeated, 1848.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
22, 1853 (age 49 years, 247
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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George Nicholas (1753-1799) —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., August
11, 1753.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albemarle
County, 1788; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1789, 1793; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1792.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 25,
1799 (age 45 years, 348
days).
Interment at Old
Episcopal Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761-1820) —
also known as Wilson C. Nicholas —
of Charlottesville,
Va.
Born in Virginia, January
31, 1761.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1784-88, 1789, 1794-1800; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albemarle
County, 1788; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1799-1804; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1807-09 (21st District 1807-09,
20th District 1809); Governor of
Virginia, 1814-16.
Slaveowner.
Died October
10, 1820 (age 59 years, 253
days).
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
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James Noble (1785-1831) —
of Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind.
Born near Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., December
16, 1785.
Lawyer;
member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1813-14; member
Indiana territorial council, 1815; circuit judge in Indiana,
1815; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1816-31; died in office 1831.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1831 (age 45 years, 72
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Willock Noble (1831-1912) —
also known as John W. Noble —
of Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, October
26, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1867-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1889-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., March
22, 1912 (age 80 years, 148
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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William H. Nobles (1816-1876) —
of Minnesota.
Born in New York, 1816.
Member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives, 1854, 1856 (6th District
1854, 2nd District 1856); served in the Union Army during the Civil
War.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
28, 1876 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Stephen Friel Nuckolls (1825-1879) —
of Linden, Clay
County, Mo.; Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.; Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Grayson
County, Va., August
16, 1825.
Democrat. Merchant;
member of Nebraska
territorial legislature, 1859; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wyoming Territory, 1869-71; member
Wyoming territorial council, 1871.
Founder of Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Slaveowner.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, February
14, 1879 (age 53 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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James Warren Nye (1814-1876) —
also known as James W. Nye —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Carson
City, Nev.
Born in DeRuyter, Madison
County, N.Y., June 10,
1814.
Republican. Lawyer; Madison
County Surrogate, 1844-47; Madison
County Judge, 1847-51; Free Soil candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1848; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1860;
Governor
of Nevada Territory, 1861-64; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1864-73; member of Republican
National Committee from Nevada, 1870-.
Died in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
25, 1876 (age 62 years, 198
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Beck Ochiltree (1811-1867) —
of Marshall, Harrison
County, Tex.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., October
18, 1811.
Judge of Texas Republic, 1842; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1844-45; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1845-46; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1855; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1859, 1866; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Jefferson, Marion
County, Tex., December
27, 1867 (age 56 years, 70
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Jefferson, Tex.
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Williamson Simpson Oldham (1813-1868) —
Born in Franklin
County, Tenn., July 19,
1813.
Member of Arkansas state legislature, 1838; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1842; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas, 1846; candidate for Texas
state house of representatives, 1853; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1859; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of typhoid
fever in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., May 8,
1868 (age 54 years, 294
days).
Original interment at Episcopal
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.; reinterment in 1938 at Brookside
Memorial Park, Houston, Tex.
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David Olmsted (1822-1861) —
also known as David Olmstead —
of Clayton
County, Iowa; Belle Prairie, Morrison
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Fairfax, Franklin
County, Vt., May 5,
1822.
Democrat. Newspaper
work; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Clayton County,
1846; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1854-55.
Died in Fairfax, Franklin
County, Vt., February
2, 1861 (age 38 years, 273
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Miguel Antonio Otero II (1859-1944) —
also known as Miguel A. Otero —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.; Ancon, Canal Zone (now Panama).
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., October
17, 1859.
Delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico Territory,
1892,
1900,
1904;
Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1897-1906; treasurer
of New Mexico Territory, 1909-11; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Canal Zone, 1920,
1924;
member of Democratic National Committee from Canal Zone, 1920-24;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New Mexico, 1920.
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., August
7, 1944 (age 84 years, 295
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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William Owsley (1782-1862) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Virginia, March
24, 1782.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1809; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1813; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1832; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1835-36; Governor of
Kentucky, 1844-48.
Died December
9, 1862 (age 80 years, 260
days).
Interment at Bellview
Cemetery, Danville, Ky.
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Benjamin Parke (1777-1835) —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.
Born in New Jersey, September
22, 1777.
Lawyer;
Indiana
territory attorney general, 1804-08; member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1805; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Indiana Territory, 1805-08; resigned 1808;
delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; U.S.
District Judge for Indiana, 1817-35.
Died in Salem, Washington
County, Ind., July 12,
1835 (age 57 years, 293
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Isaac Parker (1793-1883) —
of Texas.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., April 7,
1793.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-40, 1842-43; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1843-45; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; member of Texas
state senate, 1846-53; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1855-56.
Died near Weatherford, Parker
County, Tex., April
14, 1883 (age 90 years, 7
days).
Interment at Turner
Cemetery, Near Weatherford, Parker County, Tex.
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Martin Parmer (1778-1850) —
of Missouri; Texas.
Born in Virginia, June 4,
1778.
Member of Missouri
state senate, 1824-25; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Tenaha, 1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of San Augustine, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Died in Jasper
County, Tex., March 2,
1850 (age 71 years, 271
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) —
of Caroline
County, Va.
Born in Caroline
County, Va., September
9, 1721.
Planter;
lawyer;
justice of the peace; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1776; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1777; chief
justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1788-1803; died in
office 1803; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Caroline
County, 1788.
Anglican.
Died in Richmond,
Va., October
23, 1803 (age 82 years, 44
days).
Original interment at Edmundsbury
Graveyard, Bowling Green, Va.; reinterment in 1907 at Bruton
Parish Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Pendleton and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton; married, January
21, 1741, to Elizabeth Roy; married, January
20, 1745, to Sarah Pollard; uncle of John
Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel
Pendleton; granduncle of Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; great-granduncle of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; second great-granduncle of William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third great-granduncle of Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; first cousin once removed of John
Penn; first cousin twice removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison and Zachary
Taylor; first cousin thrice removed of Coleby
Chew; first cousin four times removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, James
Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; first cousin five times removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Charles
Sumner Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Pendleton counties in Ky. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) —
also known as John J. Pershing; "Black
Jack" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Laclede, Linn
County, Mo., September
13, 1860.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920;
his autobiography won the Pulitzer
Prize for history in 1932.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 15,
1948 (age 87 years, 306
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Spencer Darwin Pettis (1802-1831) —
also known as Spencer D. Pettis —
of Fayette, Howard
County, Mo.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., 1802.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1826-28; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1829-31; died in office
1831.
The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel and ultimately a duel with
Maj. Thomas Biddle, in which both fell mortally
wounded; died the next day, in St.
Louis, Mo., August
28, 1831 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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John Smith Phelps (1814-1886) —
also known as John S. Phelps —
of Springfield, Greene
County, Mo.
Born in Simsbury, Hartford
County, Conn., December
22, 1814.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Greene County, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1845-63 (at-large 1845-47, 5th
District 1847-53, 6th District 1853-63); colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
Missouri, 1877-81; defeated, 1868.
Slaveowner.
Died, in Sisters' Hospital,
St.
Louis, Mo., November
20, 1886 (age 71 years, 333
days).
Interment at Hazelwood
Cemetery, Springfield, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Elisha
Phelps and Lucy (Smith) Phelps; married 1837 to Mary
Whitney; grandson of Noah
Phelps; second cousin of Norman
A. Phelps; second cousin once removed of William
Walter Phelps; second cousin twice removed of Sheffield
Phelps; second cousin thrice removed of Phelps
Phelps; third cousin of Amos
Pettibone and George
Smith Catlin; third cousin once removed of Augustus
Pettibone, Gaylord
Griswold, Hezekiah
Case, Rufus
Pettibone, Charles
Jenkins Hayden and Asahel
Pierson Case; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Peter
Buell Porter, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler, Allen
Jacob Holcomb, Arthur
Burnham Woodford and Carl
Trumbull Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards, Alexander
Royal Wheeler and Donald
Barr Chidsey; fourth cousin of Parmenio
Adams and Augustus
Herman Pettibone; fourth cousin once removed of Jason
Kellogg, Benjamin
Trumbull, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Lancelot
Phelps, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Abijah
Blodget, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Edmund
Holcomb, Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, Hiram
Bidwell Case, Peter
Augustus Porter, Selah
Merrill and Timothy
E. Griswold. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Phelps County,
Mo. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article |
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Howell L. Pickett (1847-1914) —
of Tennessee; New Mexico; Tombstone, Cochise
County, Ariz.
Born in Wilson
County, Tenn., August
13, 1847.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1880.
Died, from colon
cancer, in Tombstone, Cochise
County, Ariz., July 12,
1914 (age 66 years, 333
days).
Interment somewhere
in Tombstone, Ariz.
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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) —
also known as "Young Hickory"; "Young
Hickory of the Granite Hills"; "The Fainting
General" —
of Hillsborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Hillsborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H., November
23, 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1829-33; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1832-33; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1837-42; U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1845-47; general in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1850; President
of the United States, 1853-57; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1856.
Episcopalian.
Died in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., October
8, 1869 (age 64 years, 319
days).
Interment at Old
North Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Pierce and Anna (Kendrick) Pierce; half-brother of Elizabeth
Andrews Pierce (who married John
McNeil Jr.); married, November
19, 1834, to Jane
Means Appleton; uncle of Anne McNeil (who married Tappan
Wentworth); cousin by marriage of David
Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin. |
| | | Political families: Wentworth-Pitman
family of New Hampshire; Merriam
family of Massachusetts; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Pierce counties in Ga., Neb., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Franklin Pierce University,
Rindge,
New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Pierce (formerly called Bald Mountain; later, Mount Clinton; received
current name 1913), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Franklin
P. Saunders
— Frank
P. Woodbury
— Frank
P. Holland
— Frank
P. Dunwell
— Frank
Tyler
— F.
P. Combest
— F.
Pierce Mortimer
— Franklin
P. Owen
— Franklin
P. Stoy
— Frank
P. Alspaugh
— Franklin
P. Monfort
— Franklin
Pierce Lambert
— Franklin
Pierce McGowan
— Franklin
Pierce Huddle, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin Pierce: Roy
Nichols, Franklin
Pierce : Young Hickory of the Granite Hills — Larry
Gara, The
Presidency of Franklin Pierce |
| | | Critical books about Franklin Pierce:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1839-1901) —
also known as Gilbert A. Pierce —
of Porter
County, Ind.; Illinois; North Dakota; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., January
11, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer; journalist;
newspaper
editor; author;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1869; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1884-86; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1889-91; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1893.
Died at the Lexington Hotel,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
15, 1901 (age 62 years, 35
days).
Interment at Adams
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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Frederick Walker Pitkin (1837-1886) —
also known as Frederick W. Pitkin —
of Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo.
Born in Manchester, Hartford
County, Conn., August
31, 1837.
Lawyer;
Governor
of Colorado, 1879-83.
Died in Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo., December
18, 1886 (age 49 years, 109
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Relatives: Son
of Eli Pitkin and Hannah M. (Torrey) Pitkin; married, June 17,
1862, to Fidelia Maria James; second great-grandnephew of William
Pitkin; first cousin four times removed of William
Greene; first cousin five times removed of Roger
Wolcott; second cousin twice removed of Timothy
Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of William
Greene Jr. and Daniel
Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of George
Eastman; third cousin twice removed of Ray
Greene; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah
Cowles, Thomas
Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Moses
Seymour, Josiah
Meigs, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; fourth cousin of Abel
Madison Scranton and Joseph
Pomeroy Root; fourth cousin once removed of Silas
Condict, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, John
Robert Graham Pitkin, Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Pitkin County,
Colo. is named for him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) —
of Travelers Rest, Greenville
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 2,
1779.
Democrat. U.S. Consul General in Buenos Aires, 1811-14; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1816-20; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1821-25; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1825-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1837-41.
Member, Freemasons.
Gave important help to Latin American independence movements.
Slaveowner.
Died near Statesburg, Sumter
County, S.C., December
12, 1851 (age 72 years, 285
days).
Interment at Church
of Holy Cross Episcopal Cemetery, Statesburg, S.C.
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds (which no longer exists), Nashville, Tenn.;
reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee
State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Polk
City, Florida, is named for
him. — The city
of Polk
City, Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough
of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Pope (1770-1845) —
also known as "One-Arm Pope" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Springfield, Washington
County, Ky.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1770.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802, 1806-07; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1807-13; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1816-19; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1825-29; Governor
of Arkansas Territory, 1829-35; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1837-43.
Lost
his right arm as a youth.
Slaveowner.
Died in Springfield, Washington
County, Ky., July 12,
1845 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Springfield
Cemetery, Springfield, Ky.
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Nathaniel Pope (1784-1850) —
of Illinois.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
5, 1784.
Secretary
of Illinois Territory, 1809-16; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Illinois Territory, 1816-18; U.S.
District Judge for Illinois, 1819-50; died in office 1850.
Slaveowner.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., January
22, 1850 (age 66 years, 17
days).
Interment somewhere
in St. Louis, Mo.
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Thomas Lloyd Posey (1750-1818) —
also known as Thomas Posey —
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., July 9,
1750.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1805-06; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1806-08; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1812-13; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1813-16; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1816.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of typhus
fever in Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill., March
19, 1818 (age 67 years, 253
days).
Interment at Westwood
Cemetery, Shawneetown, Ill.
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Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., about 1800.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1828, 1834; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1829-31; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42;
died in office 1842.
Resigned
from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after maiming
two men in a jealous rage; convicted,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Expelled
in 1834 from the North Carolina House for cheating
at cards.
Shot
and killed by
members of an opposing faction who surrounded his home, in Harrison
County (part now in Marion
County), Tex., March 2,
1842 (age about 42
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Lazarus Whitehead Powell (1812-1867) —
also known as Lazarus W. Powell —
of Henderson, Henderson
County, Ky.
Born in Henderson
County, Ky., October
6, 1812.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1836; Governor of
Kentucky, 1851-55; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1859-65.
Slaveowner.
Died July 3,
1867 (age 54 years, 270
days).
Interment at Fernwood
Cemetery, Henderson, Ky.
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James Patton Preston (1774-1853) —
also known as James P. Preston —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Montgomery
County, Va., June 21,
1774.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; crippled
by injuries received in the war; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1816; Governor of
Virginia, 1816-19; postmaster at Richmond,
Va., 1824-37.
Died in Montgomery
County, Va., May 4,
1853 (age 78 years, 317
days).
Interment at Preston Cemetery at Smithfield Plantation, Blacksburg, Va.
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Matthew Stanley Quay (1833-1904) —
also known as Matthew S. Quay —
of Beaver, Beaver
County, Pa.
Born in Dillsburg, York
County, Pa., September
30, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; Beaver
County Prothonotary, 1856-61; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Beaver County, 1865-67; newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1872,
1876,
1880,
1888,
1892,
1896,
1900;
secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1873-78, 1879-82; Pennsylvania
Republican state chair, 1878-79, 1902-03; Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1886-87; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1887-99, 1901-04; died in office 1904;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1888-91; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1896.
Manx
and American
Indian ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1888 for action at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13,
1862.
Died in Beaver, Beaver
County, Pa., May 28,
1904 (age 70 years, 241
days).
Interment at Beaver
Cemetery, Beaver, Pa.
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William Rabun (1771-1819) —
of Georgia.
Born April 8,
1771.
Governor
of Georgia, 1817-19.
Died October
25, 1819 (age 48 years, 200
days).
Interment at Powelton
Baptist Church, Near Sparta, Hancock County, Ga.
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Emory Rains (1800-1878) —
of Texas.
Born in Warren
County, Tenn., May 4,
1800.
Member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Shelby and Sabine, 1837-39; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1851-54; member of Texas
state senate, 1859.
Prime supporter of the Texas homestead law; in 1861, stood with Sam
Houston in opposition to secession.
Died in Emory, Rains
County, Tex., March 4,
1878 (age 77 years, 304
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Emory, Tex.
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Alexander Ramsey (1815-1903) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born near Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., September
8, 1815.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1843-47; Governor
of Minnesota Territory, 1849-53; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1855-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1856
(Convention
Vice-President; member, Platform
Committee); Governor of
Minnesota, 1860-63; defeated, 1857; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1863-75; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1879-81.
Methodist
or Presbyterian.
Scottish
and German
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., April
22, 1903 (age 87 years, 226
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Edmund Jenings Randolph (1753-1813) —
of Virginia.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., August
10, 1753.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; Virginia
state attorney general, 1776-82; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1779-82; Governor of
Virginia, 1786-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1788; U.S.
Attorney General, 1789-94; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1794-95.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Millwood, Clarke
County, Va., September
12, 1813 (age 60 years, 33
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Randolph and Ariana (Jenings) Randolph; married, August
29, 1776, to Elizabeth Nicholas (daughter of Robert
Carter Nicholas; sister of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas); father of Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); nephew of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); grandfather of Edmund
Randolph; grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; great-grandfather of Edmund
Randolph Cocke; second great-grandfather of Francis
Beverley Biddle; first cousin once removed of Richard
Bland; second cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Beverley
Randolph and John
Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr and Henry
St. George Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh
Lee, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second cousin four times removed of John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; second cousin five times removed of William
Welby Beverley; third cousin once removed of John
Wayles Eppes; third cousin twice removed of Coleby
Chew; third cousin thrice removed of St.
Clair Ballard, Lewis
Ballard and William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Randolph County,
Ill. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Edmund Jenings Randolph:
John J. Reardon, Edmund
Randolph : A Biography |
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Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) —
of Virginia.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., 1721.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
22, 1775 (age about 54
years).
Interment at College
of William and Mary Chapel, Williamsburg, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Randolph and Susanna (Beverley) Randolh; brother-in-law of Benjamin
Harrison; married to Elizabeth 'Betty' Harrison; nephew of Richard
Randolph; uncle of Edmund
Jenings Randolph; granduncle of Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); great-granduncle of Edmund
Randolph; second great-granduncle of Edmund
Randolph Cocke; third great-granduncle of Francis
Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Richard
Bland; first cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Beverley
Randolph and John
Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin twice removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Dabney
Carr and Henry
St. George Tucker; 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, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh
Lee, 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 and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; first cousin six times removed of William
Welby Beverley; second cousin twice removed of John
Wayles Eppes; second cousin thrice removed of Coleby
Chew; second cousin four times removed of St.
Clair Ballard, Lewis
Ballard and William
Henry Robertson; second cousin five times removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk. |
| | | 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 Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Randolph County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier |
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Henry Mower Rice (1816-1894) —
also known as Henry M. Rice —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Waitsfield, Washington
County, Vt., November
29, 1816.
Democrat. Fur
trader; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Minnesota Territory, 1853-57; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1858-63; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1865.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
15, 1894 (age 77 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Franklin Dewey Richards (1821-1899) —
of Utah.
Born in 1821.
Member of Utah
territorial legislature, 1849; state court judge in Utah, 1869.
Died in 1899
(age about
78 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Alexander Richardson (1811-1875) —
also known as William A. Richardson —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
16, 1811.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-39, 1845-47; member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1837-38; member of Illinois
state senate, 1838-42; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Illinois; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 5th District, 1847-56, 1861-63;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1856; Governor
of Nebraska Territory, 1858; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1860,
1868;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1863-65.
Died in Quincy, Adams
County, Ill., December
27, 1875 (age 64 years, 345
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Quincy, Ill.
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Archibald Roane (c.1755-1819) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Derry, Lancaster
County, Pa., about 1755.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; Governor of
Tennessee, 1801-03; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1811-14; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1815-18.
Died in Jonesborough, Washington
County, Tenn., January
18, 1819 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Pleasant
Forest Cemetery, Farragut, Tenn.
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Spencer Roane (1762-1822) —
Born in Tappahannock, Essex
County, Va., April 4,
1762.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1783-84; member of Virginia
Governor's Council, 1785-86; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals,
1794-1822; died in office 1822.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Warm Springs, Bath
County, Va., September
4, 1822 (age 60 years, 153
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Bath County, Va.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) —
also known as "T.R."; "Teddy";
"The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan
Hill"; "The Rough Rider";
"Trust-Buster"; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1858.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884,
1900;
Republican candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
New York, 1899-1901; Vice
President of the United States, 1901; President
of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Christian
Reformed; later Episcopalian.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Moose;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union
League.
Received the Medal
of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle
there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee,
Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot
in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his
speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
6, 1919 (age 60 years, 71
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt; brother of
Anna L. Roosevelt (who married William
Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)) and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; married, October
27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee; married, December
2, 1886, to Edith
Kermit Carow (first cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler); father of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth) and Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; nephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; uncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt (who married Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)), Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; granduncle of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; great-grandfather of Susan
Roosevelt (who married William
Floyd Weld); great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; second great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; second cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Martin
Van Buren; fourth cousin once removed of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Gifford
Pinchot — David
J. Leahy — William
Barnes, Jr. — Oliver
D. Burden — William
J. Youngs — George
B. Cortelyou — Mason
Mitchell — Frederic
MacMaster — John
Goodnow — William
Loeb, Jr. — Asa
Bird Gardiner |
| | | Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | The minor
planet (asteroid) 188693 Roosevelt (discovered 2005), is
named
for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Theodore
Bassett
— Theodore
R. McKeldin
— Ted
Dalton
— Theodore
R. Kupferman
— Theodore
Roosevelt Britton, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry
a big stick." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James
MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — H. W. Brands, T.R
: The Last Romantic — Edmund Morris, Theodore
Rex — Edmund Morris, The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — John Morton Blum, The
Republican Roosevelt — Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt
the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner,
1889-1895 — Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet
on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt — James
Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Patricia O'Toole, When
Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White
House — Candice Millard, The
River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey — Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt
: His Mind in Action — Rick Marshall, Bully!:
The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: Illustrated with More Than
250 Vintage Political Cartoons |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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John Long Routt (1826-1907) —
also known as John L. Routt —
of Central City, Gilpin
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born April
25, 1826.
Republican. Governor
of Colorado Territory, 1875-76; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Colorado, 1876,
1880;
Governor
of Colorado, 1876-79, 1891-93; mayor of
Denver, Colo., 1883-85.
Died in Denver,
Colo., August
13, 1907 (age 81 years, 110
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Routt County,
Colo. is named for him. |
| | | Routt National
Forest (established 1905, now part of Medicine Bow-Routt National
Forest), in Routt,
Jackson,
Rio
Blanco, Grand,
Moffat,
and Garfield
counties, Colorado, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography |
| | | Books about John Routt: Joyce B. Lohse,
First
Governor, First Lady: John and Eliza Routt of
Colorado |
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Hiram George Runnels (1796-1857) —
also known as Hiram G. Runnels —
Born in Hancock
County, Ga., December
17, 1796.
Mississippi
state auditor, 1822-30; member of Mississippi state legislature,
1830, 1841; Governor of
Mississippi, 1833-35; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845.
Fought a duel
with Volney
E. Howard.
Died in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., December
17, 1857 (age 61 years, 0
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) —
also known as "Father of American
Psychiatry" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Byberry Township (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
4, 1746.
Physician;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
19, 1813 (age 67 years, 105
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married, January
2, 1776, to Julia Stockton (daughter of Richard
Stockton); father of Richard
Rush. |
| | | Political family: Stockton
family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Rush County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | Rush Street,
in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Benjamin Rush: Alyn
Brodsky, Benjamin
Rush : Patriot and Physician — David Barton, Benjamin
Rush — David Barton, Benjamin
Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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Jeremiah McLain Rusk (1830-1893) —
also known as Jeremiah M. Rusk —
of Viroqua, Vernon
County, Wis.
Born in Malta, Morgan
County, Ohio, June 17,
1830.
Republican. Member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1871-77 (6th District 1871-73, 7th
District 1873-77); Governor of
Wisconsin, 1882-89; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1889-93.
Died in Viroqua, Vernon
County, Wis., November
21, 1893 (age 63 years, 157
days).
Interment at Viroqua
Cemetery, Viroqua, Wis.
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Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803-1857) —
also known as Thomas J. Rusk —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.
Born in South Carolina, December
5, 1803.
Democrat. Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Nacogdoches, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; general in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836, 1836-37; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1838-40; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-57; died in office 1857.
Slaveowner.
Killed
himself, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex., July 29,
1857 (age 53 years, 236
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; statue at Rusk
County Courthouse Grounds, Henderson, Tex.
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William Russell (1735-1793) —
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., March 6,
1735.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1785; member of Virginia
state senate, 1788-91.
Died in Shenandoah
County, Va., January
14, 1793 (age 57 years, 314
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Russell (1758-1825) —
of Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., March 6,
1758.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1790-91; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1792, 1796-1800, 1802, 1823;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Died in Fayette
County, Ky., July 3,
1825 (age 67 years, 119
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) —
Born in Scotland,
March
23, 1734.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1785-87; Governor
of Northwest Territory, 1788-1802; Federalist candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1790.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Injured in a fall from
an overturned horsedrawn
cart, and died a few days later, near Youngstown, Westmoreland
County, Pa., August
31, 1818 (age 84 years, 161
days).
Interment at Old
St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pa.
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Wilbur Fiske Sanders (1834-1905) —
also known as Wilbur F. Sanders —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Leon, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., May 2,
1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1864, 1867, 1880, 1886;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Montana Territory, 1868
(speaker);
delegate to Republican National Convention from Montana, 1872,
1876,
1884,
1900
(alternate); member of Montana
territorial House of Representatives, 1873-80; U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1890-93.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., July 7,
1905 (age 71 years, 66
days).
Interment at Forestvale
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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Alvin Saunders (1817-1899) —
of Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa.
Born in Flemingsburg, Fleming
County, Ky., July 12,
1817.
Republican. Delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Henry County, 1846;
member of Iowa
state senate, 1854-56, 1858-60; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1860;
Governor
of Nebraska Territory, 1861-67; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nebraska, 1868;
U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1877-83.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., November
1, 1899 (age 82 years, 112
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Philetus Sawyer (1816-1900) —
of Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Whiting, Addison
County, Vt., September
22, 1816.
Republican. Lumber
business; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1857, 1861; mayor
of Oshkosh, Wis., 1863-64; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1865-75 (5th District 1865-73, 6th
District 1873-75); U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1881-93; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1896.
Died in Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis., March
29, 1900 (age 83 years, 188
days).
Entombed at Riverside
Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wis.
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Gustave Schleicher (1823-1879) —
of Texas.
Born in Germany,
November
19, 1823.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853-54; member of Texas
state senate, 1859-61; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1875-79; died in office
1879.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
10, 1879 (age 55 years, 52
days).
Interment at United
States National Cemetery, San Antonio, Tex.
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) —
also known as Henry R. Schoolcraft —
of Mackinac Island, Mackinac
County, Mich.
Born in Guilderland, Albany
County, N.Y., March
28, 1793.
Glassmaker;
geologist;
U.S. Indian Agent, 1822-41; member
Michigan territorial council from Brown, Chippewa, Crawford and
Michilimackinac counties, 1828-31.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
10, 1864 (age 71 years, 257
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Lawrence Schoolcraft and Margaret Anna Barbara (Rowe) Schoolcraft;
married, October
12, 1823, to Jane Johnston; married, January
12, 1847, to Mary Howard; uncle of John
Lawrence Schoolcraft and Richard
Updike Sherman; granduncle of James
Schoolcraft Sherman (who married Carrie
Babcock Sherman) and James
Teller Schoolcraft; first cousin once removed of Peter
P. Schoolcraft. |
| | | Political families: Seward
family of New York; Schoolcraft-Sherman
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Schoolcraft
County, Mich. is named for him. |
| | | The village
of Schoolcraft,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry R. Schoolcraft (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; wrecked and scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804) —
also known as Philip Schuyler —
of New York.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
20, 1733.
Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1768; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775, 1777, 1779-80;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
York state senate Western District, 1780-84, 1785-89, 1791-97;
member of New York
council of appointment, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1794; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1789-91, 1797-98.
Built the first flax mill
in America.
Slaveowner.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
18, 1804 (age 70 years, 364
days).
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Albany County, N.Y.; reinterment
at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue (now gone) at Albany
City Hall Grounds, Albany, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Cornelia (Van Cortlandt) Schuyler;
brother of Stephen
John Schuyler; married, September
17, 1755, to Catherine Van Rensselaer; father of Elizabeth
Schuyler (who married Alexander
Hamilton), Margarita Schuyler (who married Stephen
Van Rensselaer) and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; uncle of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792); grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); grandfather of Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; granduncle of Henry
Walter Livingston; great-granduncle of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; third great-grandfather of John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third great-granduncle of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; fourth great-granduncle of Brockholst
Livingston; first cousin of Stephanus
Bayard and Pierre
Van Cortlandt; first cousin once removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and James
Parker; first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer and John
Sluyter Wirt; second cousin of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, Philip
P. Schuyler, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Jay II and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, John
Jacob Astor III, Eugene
Schuyler, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor, John
Kean, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Robert
Winthrop Kean and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Schuyler counties in Ill., Mo. and N.Y. are
named for him. |
| | | The village
of Schuylerville,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Charles Scott (1739-1813) —
Born in Goochland
County, Va., 1739.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia state legislature, 1789; Governor of
Kentucky, 1808-12.
Died in Clark
County, Ky., October
22, 1813 (age about 74
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1854 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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John Scott (1782-1861) —
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., May 18,
1782.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1814-17; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Missouri Territory, 1816-17, 1817-21; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1821-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., October
1, 1861 (age 79 years, 136
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
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Winfield Scott (1786-1866) —
also known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" —
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., June 13,
1786.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for
Whig nomination for President, 1839, 1844, 1848; general in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; candidate for President
of the United States, 1852.
Died in West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., May 29,
1866 (age 79 years, 350
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.;
statue erected 1874 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William Scott and Anna (Mason) Scott; married 1817 to Mary
D. Mayo (granddaughter of John
De Hart); great-granduncle of Philip
C. Hanna; first cousin twice removed of Frank
Newsum Julian. |
| | | Political family: Scott-DeHart-Hanna
family of New Jersey and Alabama. |
| | | Scott County,
Iowa is named for him. |
| | | Fort
Scott (military installation 1842-73), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Scott, Kansas, were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Winfield
S. Sherwood
— Winfield
S. Sherwood
— Winfield
Scott Featherston
— Winfield
S. Hancock
— Winfield
S. Cameron
— Winfield
S. Hanford
— Winfield
S. Smyth
— Winfield
S. Bird
— W. S.
Bell
— Winfield
S. Holden
— Winfield
S. Huntley
— Winfield
Scott Nay
— Winfield
S. Smith
— Winfield
S. Kerr
— Winfield
Scott Moore
— Winfield
S. Little
— Winfield
S. Choate
— Winfield
S. Holt
— Winfield
S. Pope
— Winfield
S. Watson
— Winfield
S. Keenholts
— Winfield
Scott Silloway
— Winfield
S. Vandewater
— Winfield
S. Braddock
— W. S.
Allen
— Winfield
S. Hammond
— Winfield
S. Phillips
— Winfield
S. Spencer
— Winfield
S. Rose
— Winfield
S. Schuster
— Winfield
Scott Allison
— Winfield
S. Boynton
— Winfield
S. Kenyon
— Winfield
S. Tibbetts
— Winfield
S. Withrow
— Winfield
S. Harrold
— Winfield
Scott Reed
— Winfield
S. Grove
— Winfield
S. Rogers
— Winfield
S. Brown
— Winfield
S. Pealer
— Winfield
S. Wallace, Jr.
— Winfield
S. Hinds
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| | | Epitaph: "History records his Eminent
Services as a Warrior, Pacificator, and General In Chief of the
Armies of the United States. Medals, and an Equestrian Statue ordered
by Congress in the Capital of his Country, are his Public Monuments.
This stone is a mark of the love and veneration of his Daughters.
Requiescat in Pace." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Winfield Scott: Timothy D.
Johnson, Winfield
Scott: The Quest for Military Glory |
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William King Sebastian (1812-1865) —
also known as William K. Sebastian —
of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.
Born in Centerville, Hickman
County, Tenn., June 12,
1812.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Arkansas state legislature, 1840; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1848-61.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861. Did not participate in the Confederacy
during the war; his expulsion from the Senate was posthumously
revoked in 1877.
Slaveowner.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., May 20,
1865 (age 52 years, 342
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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William Henry Seward (1801-1872) —
also known as William H. Seward —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., May 16,
1801.
Lawyer;
co-founded (with Thurlow
Weed), the Albany Evening Journal newspaper
in 1830; member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1831-34; Governor of
New York, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1849-61; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1861-69; as Secretary of State in 1867, he
made a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed
the territory "Seward's Folly".
Survived an assassination
attempt on April 14, 1865 (the same night Abraham
Lincoln was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes
Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was
arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., October
16, 1872 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Volunteer
Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Swayze Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward; married to Frances
Adeline Miller; father of Frederick
William Seward and William
Henry Seward Jr.; uncle of Caroline Cornelia Canfield (who
married John
Lawrence Schoolcraft) and George
Frederick Seward; granduncle of Frederick
Whittlesey Seward Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Seward
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
W. Jones — Samuel
J. Barrows — Frederick
W. Seward — Elias
P. Pellet |
| | | Seward counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | Seward Mountain,
in the Adirondack Mountains, Franklin
County, New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Seward,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The town
of Seward,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Seward,
Alaska, is named for
him. — Seward Park
(300 acres on a forested peninsula, established 1911), in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Seward Park
(three acres on East Broadway, opened 1903), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: W.
Seward Whittlesey
— W.
H. Seward Thomson
— William
S. Shanahan
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $50 U.S. Treasury note in the 1890s.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William H. Seward: Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Walter Stahr, Seward:
Lincoln's Indispensable Man — Walter Stahr, Seward:
Lincoln's Indispensable Man — Michael Burgan, William
Henry Seward : Senator and Statesman (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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George F. Shannon (c.1785-1836) —
also known as "Peg Leg" —
of St. Charles, St.
Charles County, Mo.
Born in a log
cabin in Washington
County, Pa., about 1785.
Youngest member of the Lewis
and Clark
expedition, 1804-06; wounded in a skirmish with Indians in 1807 and
lost a
leg; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1820-24; circuit judge in
Kentucky, 1820; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1829-34.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, in a hotel at
Palmyra, Marion
County, Mo., August
30, 1836 (age about 51
years).
Interment at Massey
Mill Cemetery, Near Palmyra, Marion County, Mo.
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Peter Chrystostum Shannon (1821-1899) —
also known as Peter C. Shannon —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New Alexandria, Westmoreland
County, Pa., August
25, 1821.
Lawyer;
district judge in Pennsylvania, 1852-53; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1873-82.
Killed in a carriage
accident in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., April
12, 1899 (age 77 years, 230
days).
Interment at Calvary Pioneer Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
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William Lewis Sharkey (1798-1873) —
also known as William L. Sharkey —
of Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss.
Born in Sumner
County, Tenn., July 12,
1798.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1828-29; circuit judge in
Mississippi, 1832; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1832-51; U.S. Consul in Havana, 1851-53; Governor of
Mississippi, 1865.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
30, 1873 (age 74 years, 261
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
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Ephraim Sharp (1815-1898) —
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, July 30,
1815.
Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1865-68.
Died in Lawrence
County, Ark., November
17, 1898 (age 83 years, 110
days).
Interment at Hibarger Cemetery, Saffell, Ark.
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Relatives: Son
of John Sharp and Elizabeth (Elston) Sharp; married, October
29, 1833, to Margaret Stevens; married, January
8, 1854, to Malinda Eliza Murphy; married, April
27, 1873, to Nancy Croom Smith. |
| | | Sharp County,
Ark. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Founder of Sharp
County." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial — Encyclopedia
of Arkansas |
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Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) —
Born in Frederick County (part now in Washington
County), Md., December
11, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
Kentucky, 1792-96, 1812-16; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died of a broken blood
vessel in the head, in Lincoln
County, Ky., July 18,
1826 (age 75 years, 219
days).
Interment at Shelby Traveller's Rest Burying Ground, Stanford, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Evan Shelby and Letitia 'Leddy' (Cox) Shelby; married, April
19, 1783, to Susannah Hart; father of Susanna Hart Shelby (who
married James
Shannon); grandfather of Anna Nelson Shelby (who married Beriah
Magoffin); great-grandfather of Beriah
Magoffin Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Shannon-Shelby
family. |
| | | Shelby counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Shelby,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Indiana, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac Shelby (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; mined and wrecked in the Tyrrhenian
Sea, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Moses G. Sherburne (1808-1868) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
25, 1808.
Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1842; member of Maine
state senate, 1845; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1852; justice of
Minnesota territorial supreme court, 1853-57.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., March
29, 1868 (age 60 years, 64
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) —
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
8, 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta,
Georgia. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; married, May 1,
1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas
Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander
Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James
Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are
named for him. |
| | | The community
of Sherman,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Mount
Sherman, in Lake
and Park
counties, Colorado, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: W.
T. S. Rath
|
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley
P. Hirshson, The
White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T.
Sherman |
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Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891) —
also known as Henry H. Sibley —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Mendota, Dakota
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
20, 1811.
Democrat. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1848-49; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Minnesota Territory, 1849-53; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 6th District, 1855; Governor of
Minnesota, 1858-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Minnesota, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., February
18, 1891 (age 79 years, 363
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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John Simpson (d. 1813) —
of Shelby
County, Ky.
Born in Virginia.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1806-11; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812.
Killed in the Battle
of River Raisin, in Frenchtown (now Monroe), Monroe
County, Mich., January
22, 1813.
Original interment somewhere in Monroe, Mich.; reinterment in 1834 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Simon Snyder (1759-1819) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., November
9, 1759.
Democrat. Delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of
Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1797; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1808-17; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 9th District, 1818-19; died in office 1819.
Died in Selinsgrove, Snyder
County, Pa., November
9, 1819 (age 60 years, 0
days).
Interment at Old
Lutheran Cemetery, Selinsgrove, Pa.
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Alexander Somervell (1796-1854) —
of Texas.
Born in Maryland, June 11,
1796.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Colorado and Austin, 1836-38.
Died under mysterious
circumstances in 1854
(age about
58 years); his body was found lashed to the timbers of a capsized
boat.
Burial location unknown.
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James Harper Starr (1809-1890) —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.; Marshall, Harrison
County, Tex.
Born in New Hartford, Litchfield
County, Conn., December
18, 1809.
Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1839-40.
Died July 25,
1890 (age 80 years, 219
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Marshall, Tex.
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John Hall Stephens (1847-1924) —
also known as John H. Stephens —
of Vernon, Wilbarger
County, Tex.
Born in Shelby
County, Tex., November
22, 1847.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state senate, 1886-88; U.S.
Representative from Texas 13th District, 1897-1917.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
18, 1924 (age 76 years, 362
days).
Interment at East
View Cemetery, Vernon, Tex.
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Benjamin Stephenson (d. 1822) —
of Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Kentucky.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Illinois Territory, 1814-17; receiver
of U.S. Land Office at Edwardsville, Illinois, 1816; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Madison County,
1818.
Slaveowner.
Died in Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill., October
10, 1822.
Burial location unknown.
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Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) —
also known as Isaac I. Stevens —
of Washington.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., March
25, 1818.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1853-57; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1857-61; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed at the Civil
War battle of Chantilly, Fairfax
County, Va., September
1, 1862 (age 44 years, 160
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Ox Hill Battlefield Park, Fairfax County, Va.
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Relatives:
Cousin *** of Charles
Abbot Stevens and Moses
Tyler Stevens. |
| | | Political family: Stevens-Woodhull
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Stevens counties in Minn. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort
Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a state
park) in Warrenton,
Oregon, was named for
him. — Fort
Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a park)
in Washington,
D.C., was named for
him. — The city
(and lake)
of Lake
Stevens, Washington, is named for
him. — The town
of Stevensville,
Montana, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(6,838 feet), in Shoshone
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(5,372 feet), in Bingham
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Upper Stevens Lake,
and Lower Stevens Lake,
in Shoshone
County, Idaho, are named for
him. — The Stevens Hall dormitory,
at Washington State University,
Pullman,
Washington, is named for
him. — Isaac I. Stevens Elementary
School (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001),
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Middle
School, in Port
Angeles, Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Junior
High School (now Middle School), in Pasco,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac I. Stevens (built 1943 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of
his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous
heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his
command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the
battle of Chantilly, Va." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens:
Joseph Taylor Hazard, Companion
of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of
Washington |
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Duncan Stewart (1763-1819) —
of North Carolina; Tennessee; Wilkinson
County, Miss.
Born in 1763.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1790; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1800; member of Mississippi
territorial House of Representatives, 1813; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1810; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1810.
Died in 1819
(age about
56 years).
Interment at Stewart
Two Cemetery, Near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Miss.
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Joseph Story (1779-1845) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., September
18, 1779.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1805-07, 1811; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1811; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1808-09; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1811-45; died in office 1845; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
10, 1845 (age 65 years, 357
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Matthew Talbot (1762-1827) —
of Georgia.
Born in Virginia, 1762.
Delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1798; member of Georgia
state senate, 1808; Governor of
Georgia, 1819.
Died September
17, 1827 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Smyrna
Cemetery, Wilkes County, Ga.
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Benjamin Taliaferro (1750-1821) —
of Georgia.
Born in Virginia, 1750.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Georgia
state senate, 1790; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1798; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1799-1802; superior court
judge in Georgia, 1800.
Slaveowner.
Died in Wilkes
County, Ga., September
3, 1821 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) —
also known as Roger B. Taney —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., March
17, 1777.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1799-1800; bank
director; member of Maryland
state senate, 1816-21; Maryland
state attorney general, 1827-31; U.S.
Attorney General, 1831-33; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1833-34; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-64; died in office 1864.
Catholic.
First
Catholic to hold a U.S. cabinet position.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
12, 1864 (age 87 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
John's Catholic Church Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; statue at State
House Grounds, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Taney and Monica (Brooke) Taney; married, January
7, 1806, to Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (sister of Francis
Scott Key; niece of Philip
Barton Key (1757-1815); aunt of Philip
Barton Key (1818-1859)). |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Merryman |
| | | Taney County,
Mo. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "He was a profound and able
lawyer, an upright and fearless judge, a pious and exemplary
Christian." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books by Roger Taney: Memoir
of Roger Brooke Taney : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.
S. |
| | | Books about Roger Taney: Bernard
Christian Steiner, Life
of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court — Charles Smith, Roger
B. Taney : Jacksonian Jurist — Suzanne Freedman, Roger
Taney : The Dred Scott Legacy (for young readers) |
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Edward H. Tarrant (1799-1858) —
of Texas.
Born in South Carolina, 1799.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; served in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; general in the
U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1847; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1849-53.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Weatherford, Parker
County, Tex., August
2, 1858 (age about 59
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Parker County, Tex.; subsequent
interment in 1859 at a
private or family graveyard, Ellis County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Pioneer
Rest Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tex.
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Josiah Tattnall (1762-1803) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1762.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1795; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1796-99; Governor of
Georgia, 1801-02.
Died in Nassau, Bahamas,
June
6, 1803 (age about 40
years).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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John Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) —
of Port Royal, Caroline
County, Va.
Born in Virginia, December
19, 1753.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer;
political theorist; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779-81, 1783-85, 1796-1800; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1792-94, 1803, 1822-24; died in office
1824; candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia.
Slaveowner.
Died in Caroline
County, Va., August
21, 1824 (age 70 years, 246
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Caroline County, Va.
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William Robert Taylor (1820-1909) —
also known as William R. Taylor —
of Cottage Grove, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Connecticut, July 10,
1820.
Democrat. Governor of
Wisconsin, 1874-76; defeated, 1875.
Died March
17, 1909 (age 88 years, 250
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) —
also known as "Old Rough and Ready" —
Born in Orange
County, Va., November
24, 1784.
Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the
U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; President
of the United States, 1849-50; died in office 1850.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of gastroenteritis,
in the White
House, Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1850 (age 65 years, 227
days). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains
were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the
theory.
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family
graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, June 21,
1810, to Margaret
Mackall Smith (niece of Benjamin
Mackall IV and Thomas
Mackall); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married Jefferson
Finis Davis); granduncle of Edmund
Haynes Taylor Jr.; ancestor *** of Victor
D. Crist; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin of James
Madison and William
Taylor Madison; second cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee, John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton, George
Madison, Coleby
Chew, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin twice removed of John
Walker, John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Francis
Walker; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro, Daniel
Micajah Pendleton and Max
Rogers Strother; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton; third cousin of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Robert
Brooke, Meriwether
Lewis, Richard
Aylett Buckner, Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Lee, John
Tyler (1790-1862), Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson, Fitzhugh
Lee, William
Barret Pendleton, James
Francis Buckner Jr., Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton, John
Overton Pendleton and Francis
Preston Blair Lee; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, John
Lee Carroll, Charles
Kellogg, James
Sansome Lakin and Edward
Brooke Lee; fourth cousin of Francis
Taliaferro Helm, Thomas
Walker Gilmer, Aylette
Buckner, David
Gardiner Tyler and Lyon
Gardiner Tyler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd, Charles
John Helm and Hubbard
Dozier Helm. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: David
R. Atchison — Thomas
Ewing |
| | | Taylor counties in Fla., Ga., Iowa and Ky. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Zachary
T. Coy
— Zachary
T. Bielby
— Zachary
T. Harris
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| | | Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor
never surrenders." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack
Bauer, Zachary
Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old
Southwest — Elbert B. Smith, The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard
Fillmore |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, 1753.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1775; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1775; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1785; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1794-99; died in office 1799.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1799
(age about
46 years).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) —
also known as Littleton W. Tazewell —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, December
17, 1774.
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1796; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1800-01; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1824-32; Governor of
Virginia, 1834-36; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1840.
Slaveowner.
Died May 6,
1860 (age 85 years, 141
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1866 at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Edward Telfair (1735-1807) —
of Georgia.
Born in Scotland,
1735.
Signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1778, 1780-82; received one
electoral vote, 1789;
Governor
of Georgia, 1789-93.
Died September
17, 1807 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Henry Moore Teller (1830-1914) —
also known as Henry M. Teller —
of Central City, Gilpin
County, Colo.
Born in Granger, Allegany
County, N.Y., May 23,
1830.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1876-82, 1885-1909; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1882-85; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Colorado, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker).
Died in Denver,
Colo., February
23, 1914 (age 83 years, 276
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Alexander Watkins Terrell (1827-1912) —
also known as Alexander Terrell; Alex
Terrell —
of Texas.
Born in Patrick
County, Va., November
23, 1827.
District judge in Texas, 1857-62; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; member of Texas
state senate, 1875-82; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1891-93, 1903-07; U.S. Minister
to Turkey, 1893-97.
Died in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto
County, Tex., September
9, 1912 (age 84 years, 291
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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William Terrell (1778-1855) —
of Sparta, Hancock
County, Ga.
Born in Virginia, 1778.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1817-21.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1855
(age about
77 years).
Interment at Sparta
Cemetery, Sparta, Ga.
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Benjamin Franklin Terry (1821-1861) —
also known as Frank Terry —
Born in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., February
18, 1821.
Planter;
in 1844, he was attacked
by two rebellious slaves with knives and axes; railroad
builder; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed in
action while leading Terry's Texas Rangers at the battle of
Woodsonville (also called Rowlett's Station), in Hart
County, Ky., December
17, 1861 (age 40 years, 302
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fort Bend County, Tex.; reinterment
in 1880 at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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John Milton Thayer (1820-1906) —
also known as John M. Thayer —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Bellingham, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
24, 1820.
Republican. Member
Nebraska territorial council, 1860; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1867-71; Governor
of Wyoming Territory, 1875-78; Governor of
Nebraska, 1887-91, 1891-92.
Died in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., March
19, 1906 (age 86 years, 54
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb.
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Relatives: Son
of Elias Nelson Thayer and Ruth (Staples) Thayer; married, December
17, 1842, to Mary Laura Albee; granduncle of Arthur
Laban Bates; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Adams, John
Adams and Almur
Stiles Whiting; third cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen, John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Peter
Rawson Taft; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Chapin (1761-1821) and Wilson
Henry Fairbank; fourth cousin of Willard
J. Chapin, George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams, Alphonso
Taft and Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer, Eli
Elmer, Elijah
Boardman, John
Allen, William
Bostwick, Elijah
Hunt Mills, Daniel
Warner Bostwick, Daniel
Chapin (1791-1878), Chester
William Chapin, Graham
Hurd Chapin, Alexander
Wheelock Thayer, William
Aldrich, William
Vincent Wells, Staley
N. Wood, Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894), Charles
Phelps Taft, William
Nelson Taft, Brooks
Adams, John
Alden Thayer, William
Howard Taft and Henry
Waters Taft. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams
family; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan
family of Dexter, Michigan; Pike
family of Lubec, Maine; Adams-Rusling
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Thayer County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography |
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John Mellen Thurston (1847-1916) —
also known as John M. Thurston —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Montpelier, Washington
County, Vt., August
21, 1847.
Republican. Lawyer;
general solicitor for Union Pacific Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1872,
1888
(Temporary
Chair), 1896
(Permanent
Chair; chair, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee; speaker);
member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1875-77; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Nebraska; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1895-1901; member of Republican
National Committee from Nebraska, 1896; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1896.
Died in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., August
9, 1916 (age 68 years, 354
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Samuel Royal Thurston (1816-1851) —
of Oregon.
Born in Monmouth, Kennebec
County, Maine, April
15, 1816.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Oregon Territory, 1849-51.
Died aboard
the steamer California, in the North
Pacific Ocean, April 9,
1851 (age 34 years, 359
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero; reinterment in 1853 at Pioneer
Cemetery, Salem, Ore.
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Nelson Tift (1810-1891) —
of Georgia.
Born in Connecticut, 1810.
Democrat. State court judge in Georgia, 1840; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1841; served in the Confederate
Navy during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1868-69.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1891
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Oakview
Cemetery, Albany, Ga.
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) —
also known as Benjamin R. Tillman; "Pitchfork
Ben"; "The One-Eyed Plowboy" —
of Trenton, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August
11, 1847.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lost his
left eye in 1864; farmer; Governor of
South Carolina, 1890-94; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Edgefield
County, 1895; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1895-1918; died in office 1918; in
Februry, 1902, he accused
fellow South Carolina senator John
McLaurin, of accepting a bribe (in the form of federal patronage)
to support a treaty; McLaurin called Tillman a liar, and the two came to
blows on the Senate floor; both were censured
by the Senate; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916;
member of Democratic
National Committee from South Carolina, 1912-16.
English
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 3,
1918 (age 70 years, 326
days).
Interment at Ebenezer
Cemetery, Trenton, S.C.; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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John Tipton (1786-1839) —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Sevier
County, Tenn., August
14, 1786.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1819-23; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1832-39.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April 6,
1839 (age 52 years, 235
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Ind.
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Andrew Jackson Titus (1814-1855) —
of Texas.
Born in Rutherford
County, Tenn., March
12, 1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Texas state
legislature, 1851-52.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died April 9,
1855 (age 41 years, 28
days).
Interment at Savannah
Cemetery, Red River County, Tex.
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John Blair Smith Todd (1814-1872) —
also known as John B. S. Todd —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., April 4,
1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1861-63, 1864-65; member
of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1866-67.
Died in Yankton
County, S.Dak., January
5, 1872 (age 57 years, 276
days).
Interment at Yankton
Municipal Cemetery, Yankton, S.Dak.
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Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 21,
1774.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1802-03; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1805; Governor of
New York, 1807-17; Vice
President of the United States, 1817-25; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821.
Presbyterian
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., June 11,
1825 (age 50 years, 355
days).
Entombed at St.
Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Joseph Kemp Toole (1851-1929) —
also known as Joseph K. Toole —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Savannah, Andrew
County, Mo., May 12,
1851.
Democrat. Member of Montana
territorial House of Representatives, 1879-81; member
Montana territorial council, 1881-83; delegate
to Montana state constitutional convention, 1884, 1889; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1885-89; Governor of
Montana, 1889-93, 1901-08; resigned 1908; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Montana, 1904
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; Honorary
Vice-President).
Died in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., March
11, 1929 (age 77 years, 303
days).
Interment at Resurrection
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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Robert Augustus Toombs (1810-1885) —
also known as Robert Toombs; Bob Toombs —
of Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga.
Born in Wilkes
County, Ga., July 2,
1810.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1837-43; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1845-53; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1853-61; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Confederate
Secretary of State, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; fled
to Europe in 1865 to avoid
arrest by Union
forces; he was suspected of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln; later returned to Georgia; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877.
One of the greatest orators of his time.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., December
15, 1885 (age 75 years, 166
days).
Interment at Rest
Haven Cemetery, Washington, Ga.
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George Washington Bonaparte Towns (1801-1854) —
also known as George W. B. Towns —
of Talbotton, Talbot
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, May 4,
1801.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1829; member of Georgia
state senate, 1832; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1835-36, 1837-39, 1846-47 (at-large
1835-36, 1837-39, 3rd District 1846-47); Governor of
Georgia, 1847-51.
Slaveowner.
Died July 15,
1854 (age 53 years, 72
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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William Barret Travis (1809-1836) —
also known as William B. Travis —
of Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala.; Anahuac, Chambers
County, Tex.
Born in Red Bank, Edgefield District (now Saluda
County), S.C., August
9, 1809.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Austin, 1835;
colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence.
Member, Freemasons.
Killed
while defending the Alamo, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., March 6,
1836 (age 26 years, 210
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, Tex.
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John Adam Treutlen (1734-1782) —
also known as John A. Treutlen; Hans Adam
Treuettlen —
of Georgia.
Born in Kürnbach, Germany,
January
16, 1734.
Merchant;
planter;
justice of the peace; Governor of
Georgia, 1777-78.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Seized and murdered
by a group of men, probably in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March 1,
1782 (age 48 years, 44
days).
Cenotaph at Veterans Park of Effingham County, Springfield, Ga.
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Stephen Trigg (1742-1782) —
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., 1742.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779-80.
Killed
in the Battle of Blue Licks, in what is now Robertson
County, Ky., August
19, 1782 (age about 40
years).
Interment somewhere
in Nicholas County, Ky.
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Robert Trimble (1776-1828) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Augusta
County, Va., November
17, 1776.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1807; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1813-16; federal
judge, 1817; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1826-28.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died August
25, 1828 (age 51 years, 282
days).
Interment at Paris
Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
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Bartlett Tripp (1842-1911) —
of South Dakota.
Born in Illinois, 1842.
Delegate
to South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1883; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1886-89; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1893-97.
Died in 1911
(age about
69 years).
Interment somewhere
in Yankton, S.Dak.
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George Michael Troup (1780-1856) —
also known as George M. Troup; "The Hercules of States
Rights" —
of Dublin, Laurens
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, September
8, 1780.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1803; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1807-15 (at-large 1807-09, 4th
District 1809-11, at-large 1811-15); U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1816-18, 1829-33; Governor of
Georgia, 1823-27.
Slaveowner.
Died April
26, 1856 (age 75 years, 231
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Treutlen County, Ga.
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William Trousdale (1790-1872) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Orange
County, N.C., September
23, 1790.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1835-36; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1837, 1839, 1845; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; Governor of
Tennessee, 1849-51; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1853-57.
Died in Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tenn., March
27, 1872 (age 81 years, 186
days).
Interment at Gallatin
Cemetery, Gallatin, Tenn.
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Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (1740-1809) —
of Lebanon, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., March
26, 1740.
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-95; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1791-93; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1795-96; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1796-97; Governor of
Connecticut, 1797-1809; died in office 1809.
Died in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., August
7, 1809 (age 69 years, 134
days).
Interment at Trumbull
Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.
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Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) —
of Virginia.
Born in Chesterfield
County, Va., December
29, 1780.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1815-19; member of Virginia
state senate, 1819-23; law
professor; chancellor, 4th District, 1824-31; Judge, Virginia
Court of Appeals, 1831-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., August
28, 1848 (age 67 years, 243
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Frances (Bland) Tucker and St.
George Tucker; half-brother of John
Randolph of Roanoke; married, September
23, 1806, to Ann Evelina Hunter; father of Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and John
Randolph Tucker; nephew of Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790) and Thomas
Tudor Tucker; grandfather of Henry
St. George Tucker (1853-1932); grandnephew of Richard
Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of George
Tucker; first cousin twice removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee; second cousin four times removed of William
Welby Beverley; third cousin of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, John
Wayles Eppes, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); third cousin once removed of David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Meriwether
Lewis, Thomas
Marshall, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Edmund
Randolph and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of William
Lewis Cabell, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, George
Craighead Cabell, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Frederick
Madison Roberts and Douglass
Townshend Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Lawton Davis, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Benjamin
Earl Cabell, John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt, Francis
Beverley Biddle and Richard
Walker Bolling; fourth cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of George
Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben
Handy Meriwether. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Tucker County,
W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry St.G. Tucker (built 1942 at Baltimore,
Maryland; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Gray Turner (1839-1904) —
also known as Henry G. Turner —
of Quitman, Brooks
County, Ga.
Born in North Carolina, 1839.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1874; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1876;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1881-97 (2nd District 1881-93, 11th
District 1893-97); justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1903-04.
Died in 1904
(age about
65 years).
Interment at West
End Cemetery, Quitman, Ga.
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John W. Turner (1800-1883) —
of Lenawee
County, Mich.; Saginaw
County, Mich.; Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in 1800.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1847, 1849, 1851-52 (Lenawee
County 1847, 1849, Saginaw County 1851-52); candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1862; member
Dakota territorial council, 1865-67, 1870-71.
Died in 1883
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Tyler (1747-1813) —
of Charles
City County, Va.
Born in James City
County, Va., February
28, 1747.
Lawyer;
planter;
delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles
City County, 1788; Governor of
Virginia, 1808-11.
Died in Charles
City County, Va., January
6, 1813 (age 65 years, 313
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Charles City County, Va.
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John Tyler (1790-1862) —
also known as "The Accidental
President" —
of Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in Charles
City County, Va., March
29, 1790.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1811-16, 1823-25, 1839-40; served in
the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 23rd District, 1817-21; Governor of
Virginia, 1825-27; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1827-36; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Virginia, 1839 (Convention
Vice-President); Vice
President of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; President
of the United States, 1841-45; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Charles City, James City &
New Kent counties, 1861; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
died in office 1862.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
A bill to impeach
him was defeated in the House of Representatives in January 1843.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably from a stroke,
in a hotel
room at Richmond,
Va., January
18, 1862 (age 71 years, 295
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary (Armistead) Tyler; married, March
29, 1813, to Letitia
Tyler; married, June 26,
1844, to Julia
Tyler (daughter of David
Gardiner); father of David
Gardiner Tyler and Lyon
Gardiner Tyler; third cousin of George
Madison; third cousin once removed of Zachary
Taylor; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Aylett
Hawes Buckner; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr. and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Conkling-Seymour
family of Utica, New York; Mapes-Jennings-Denby-Harrison
family of New York and Arizona; Tyler
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Benjamin
Tappan |
| | | Tyler County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | John Tyler High
School, in Tyler,
Texas, is named for
him. — John Tyler Community
College, in Chester,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
T. Rich
— John
T. Cutting
— John
Tyler Cooper
— John
Tyler Hammons
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John Tyler: Oliver P.
Chitwood, John
Tyler : Champion of the Old South — Norma Lois
Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — Jane C.
Walker, John
Tyler : A President of Many Firsts — Edward P. Crapol,
John
Tyler, the Accidental President — Gary May, John
Tyler: The 10th President, 1841-1845 — Donald Barr
Chidsey, And
Tyler Too |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Northampton
County, Va., June 17,
1790.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in
Virginia, 1826-41; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844.
Episcopalian.
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 53 years, 256
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1874 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) —
also known as "The Little Magician"; "Old
Kinderhook"; "Red Fox of Kinderhook";
"Matty Van"; "American Talleyrand";
"Blue Whiskey Van" —
of Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
5, 1782.
Lawyer;
Columbia
County Surrogate, 1808-13; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1812-20; New York
state attorney general, 1815-19; appointed 1815; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1821-28; Governor of
New York, 1829; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1829-31; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1831-32; Vice
President of the United States, 1833-37; President
of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840 (Democratic), 1848
(Free Soil); candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died, reportedly due to asthma,
but more likely some kind of heart
failure, in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 24,
1862 (age 79 years, 231
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham Van Buren and Maria (Hoes) Van Alen Van Buren;
half-brother of James
Isaac Van Alen; married to the sister-in-law of Moses
I. Cantine; married, February
21, 1807, to Hannah Hoes; father of John
Van Buren; second cousin of Barent
Van Buren; second cousin twice removed of Dirck
Ten Broeck, Cornelis
Cuyler and Thomas
Brodhead Van Buren; second cousin thrice removed of Harold
Sheffield Van Buren; third cousin twice removed of Theodore
Roosevelt; fourth cousin of James
Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston and Peter
Gansevoort. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Cantine
family of Marbletown, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sanford
W. Smith — Jesse
Hoyt — Charles
Ogle |
| | | Van Buren
County, Ark., Van Buren
County, Iowa, Van Buren
County, Mich. and Van Buren
County, Tenn. are named for him. |
| | | The city
of Van
Buren, Arkansas, is named for
him. — The town
of Van
Buren, New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Van Buren, in Palmer
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Martin Van Buren High
School (opened 1955), in Queens Village, Queens,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Martin Van Buren (built 1943 at Baltimore,
Maryland; torpedoed and lost 1944 in the North
Atlantic Ocean) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: M.
V. B. Edgerly
— M.
V. B. Jefferson
— M.
V. B. Bennett
— Van
B. Wisker
— Martin
V. B. Rowland
— Martin
V. B. Ives
— Martin
V. B. Clark
— Martin
V. Godbey
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| | | Opposition slogan (1840): "Van, Van, is
a used-up man." |
| | | 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 — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Martin Van Buren: Major L.
Wilson, The
Presidency of Martin Van Buren — Joel H. Silbey, Martin
Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular
Politics — Jerome Mushkat & Robert G. Rayback, Martin
Van Buren : Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican
Ideology — John Niven, Martin
Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics —
Ted Widmer, Martin
Van Buren |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) —
also known as Zebulon B. Vance —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., May 13,
1830.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1854; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1858-61; colonel
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Governor of
North Carolina, 1862-65, 1877-79; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1879-94; died in office 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1894 (age 63 years, 336
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.; statue at Union
Square, Raleigh, N.C.
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Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721-1814) —
of New York.
Born in Westchester
County, N.Y., January
10, 1721.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
York state senate Southern District, 1777-78; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1778-95.
Died in Westchester
County, N.Y., May 1,
1814 (age 93 years, 111
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Westchester County, N.Y.;
reinterment at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Van Cortlandt (1683-1748) and Catherine (DePeyster) Van
Cortlandt; married, May 29,
1748, to Joanna Livingston (daughter of Gilbert
Livingston); father of Philip
Van Cortlandt (1749-1831), Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Anne De Peyster Van Cortlandt (who married
Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer); grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt and Abraham
de Peyster; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, Johannes
de Peyster and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; first cousin once removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Johannes
DePeyster, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Nicholas
Bayard, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton and John
Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton and John
Sluyter Wirt; first cousin five times removed of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), John
Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson
Murray Cutting; first cousin six times removed of Brockholst
Livingston; second cousin of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, Matthew
Clarkson, Philip
P. Schuyler, Henry
Rutgers, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, John
Stevens III, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Philip
DePeyster, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Jay II and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, John
Jacob Astor III, Eugene
Schuyler, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor, John
Kean, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Robert
Winthrop Kean and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cortland County,
N.Y. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Cortland,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Isaac Van Zandt (1813-1847) —
of Texas.
Born in Franklin
County, Tenn., July 10,
1813.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840-42; Texas Republic Charge
d'Affaires to the United States, 1842; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845.
Instrumental in negotiating the treaty to annex the Texas Republic to
the United States.
Died of yellow
fever while campaigning
for Governor, in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., October
11, 1847 (age 34 years, 93
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Marshall, Tex.
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William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908) —
also known as William F. Vilas —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Chelsea, Orange
County, Vt., July 9,
1840.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, 1876,
1880,
1884;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Wisconsin, 1880; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1885; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1885-88; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1888-89; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1891-97.
Died in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., August
28, 1908 (age 68 years, 50
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Samuel Finley Vinton (1792-1862) —
also known as Samuel F. Vinton —
of Gallipolis, Gallia
County, Ohio.
Born in South Hadley, Hampshire
County, Mass., September
25, 1792.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1823-37, 1843-51 (7th District 1823-33,
6th District 1833-37, 12th District 1843-51); candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1851.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 11,
1862 (age 69 years, 228
days).
Interment at Pine
Street Cemetery, Gallipolis, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Abiathar Vinton and Sarah (Day) Vinton; married, August
18, 1824, to Romaine Madeleine Bureau (daughter of Jean
Pierre Roman Bureau); second cousin four times removed of William
Greene; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Otis Nason; third cousin thrice removed of William
Greene Jr. and Alton
Festus Hayden; fourth cousin of Jabez
Upham, George
Baxter Upham, Nathaniel
Upham, William
Upham, Charles
Wentworth Upham and Alonzo
Sidney Upham; fourth cousin once removed of John
Baldwin, Nathan
Appleton, Nathaniel
Gookin Upham, Isaiah
Blood, James
Phineas Upham and William
Henry Upham. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Houghton
family of Corning, New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Vinton County,
Ohio is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Freeman Walker (1780-1827) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Charles
City County, Va., October
25, 1780.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1807-11; mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1818-19, 1823; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1819-21; resigned 1821.
Slaveowner.
Died in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
23, 1827 (age 46 years, 333
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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John Williams Walker (1783-1823) —
also known as John W. Walker —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Amelia
County, Va., August
12, 1783.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
territorial legislature, 1810; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1819; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1819-22.
Slaveowner.
Died in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., April
23, 1823 (age 39 years, 254
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
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Robert John Walker (1801-1869) —
also known as Robert J. Walker —
of Madisonville, Madison
County, Miss.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Northumberland, Northumberland
County, Pa., July 19,
1801.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1835-45; resigned 1845; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1845-49; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1857; newspaper
publisher.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
11, 1869 (age 68 years, 115
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Edwin Waller (1800-1881) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., November
4, 1800.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Brazoria, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Postmaster General, 1839; mayor of
Austin, Tex., 1840; county judge in Texas, 1844; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., January
3, 1881 (age 80 years, 60
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Edward Cary Walthall (1831-1898) —
also known as Edward C. Walthall —
of Grenada, Grenada
County, Miss.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April 4,
1831.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Flavius
J. Lovejoy; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1885-94, 1895-98; died in office 1898.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
21, 1898 (age 67 years, 17
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Holly Springs, Miss.
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George Walton (c.1749-1804) —
of Georgia.
Born near Farmville, Cumberland
County, Va., about 1749.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1776-77, 1780-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Georgia, 1779-80, 1789; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1783; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1795-96.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
2, 1804 (age about 55
years).
Original interment at Rosney
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.; reinterment in 1848 at Courthouse
Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Reuben Hyde Walworth (1788-1867) —
also known as Reuben H. Walworth —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.; Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Bozrah, New London
County, Conn., October
26, 1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1821-23; Chancellor
of New York, 1828-47; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1848.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Antiquarian Society.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., November
27, 1867 (age 79 years, 32
days).
Interment at Greenridge
Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Thomas William Ward (1807-1872) —
also known as "Peg Leg" —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Ireland,
1807.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; mayor of
Austin, Tex., 1840-41, 1853, 1865; Texas
Republic Land Office Commissioner, 1840-46.
Lost a
leg in the storming of Bexar, 1835; lost his
right arm while firing a cannon to celebrate Texas independence,
1841.
Died of typhoid
fever, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., November
25, 1872 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Cadwallader Colden Washburn (1818-1882) —
also known as Cadwallader C. Washburn —
of Mineral Point, Iowa
County, Wis.; La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, April
22, 1818.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1855-61, 1867-71 (2nd District
1855-61, 6th District 1867-71); general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Wisconsin, 1872-74; defeated, 1873.
Died in Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark., May 15,
1882 (age 64 years, 23
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, Wis.
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George Washington (1732-1799) —
also known as "Father of His Country"; "The
American Fabius" —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first
President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to
the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January
6, 1759, to Martha
Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell
Bassett); step-father of John
Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod
Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad; granduncle of John
Thornton Augustine Washington and George
Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer
Woodford; second cousin of Howell
Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand
Sutherland Ross and David
Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker
Peyton Conway, Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Henry Ball Jr., William
de Bruyn=Kops, Horace
Lee Washington, Edwin
McPherson Holden, Claude
C. Ball, Arthur
Wesley Holden and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Bullitt Churchill and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee
family; King
family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia; Washington-Walker
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
Lee — Joshua
Fry — Alexander
Dimitry — Tobias
Lear — David
Mathews — Rufus
Putnam |
| | | Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. — The state of Washington is named for
him. — Mount
Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: George
Washington Lent Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— Joseph
George Washington Duncan
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
Washington Seabrook
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
W. Schuyler
— George
Washington Holman
— George
W. Greene
— George
W. Wolcott
— George
W. Paschal
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
W. Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
W. Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
W. Bemis
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington Clark
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. Martin
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George
W. Ray
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Bartch
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Paul
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Wagoner
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
W. Lovejoy
— George
W. Oakes
— George
W. Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— T.
G. W. Tarver
— George
W. Darden
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Mead
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Calkin
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill.
His portrait
also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas
Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation —
Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America — James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton,
The
Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential
Care — Wendie C. Old, George
Washington (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) —
also known as "Mad Anthony" —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., January
1, 1745.
Surveyor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1774-80, 1784; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Georgia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1791-92.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fort Presque Isle (now Erie), Erie
County, Pa., December
15, 1796 (age 51 years, 349
days).
Original interment at Garrison
Hill, Erie, Pa.; reinterment in 1809 at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
| | |
Relatives: Son
of Isaac Wayne (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Eddings) Wayne; married 1766 to Mary
Penrose; father of Isaac
Wayne (1772-1852). |
| | | Wayne counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa. and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort
Wayne (1794), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Wayne, Indiana, were named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Weakley (1764-1845) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Halifax
County, Va., July 20,
1764.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1796; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1809-11; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1819-21, 1823-25; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1823-25; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1834.
Slaveowner.
Died near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
4, 1845 (age 80 years, 199
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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James Webb (1792-1856) —
of Florida; Texas.
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., March
31, 1792.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; justice of
Florida territorial supreme court, 1828-38; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1839, 1839; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1839-41; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales and
Travis, 1841-42, 1842-44; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; secretary
of state of Texas, 1849-51; district judge in Texas, 1854-56;
died in office 1856.
Member, Freemasons.
Died November
1, 1856 (age 64 years, 215
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Goliad, Tex.
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852) —
also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the
Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the
Constitution" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack
County, N.H., January
18, 1782.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned
1827; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President
of the United States, 1836; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852.
Presbyterian.
English
ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass., October
24, 1852 (age 70 years, 280
days).
Interment at Winslow
Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at State House Grounds, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail (Eastman) Webster; married, May 29,
1808, to Grace Fletcher; second cousin once removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse; second cousin twice removed of Edwin
George Eastman; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake and John
Leffingwell Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Rowell and Amos
Tuck. |
| | | Political families: Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster
family; Eastman-Webster-Blake-Rowell
family; Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French
family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Daniel
Webster Wilder
— Daniel
W. Mills
— Daniel
W. Jones
— Daniel
Webster Comstock
— Daniel
W. Waugh
— Daniel
W. Tallmadge
— Daniel
Webster Heagy
— Daniel
W. Whitmore
— Daniel
W. Hamilton
— Daniel
W. Allaman
— Webster
Turner
— Dan
W. Turner
— Daniel
W. Hoan
— Daniel
W. Ambrose, Jr.
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $10 U.S. note from the 1860s until the early 20th
century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Daniel Webster: Robert
Vincent Remini, Daniel
Webster : The Man and His Time — Maurice G. Baxter, One
and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union —
Robert A. Allen, Daniel
Webster, Defender of the Union — Richard N. Current,
Daniel
Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism —
Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — John
F. Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Lewis Ledyard Weld —
of Colorado.
Secretary
of Colorado Territory, 1861.
Burial location unknown.
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John Austin Wharton (1806-1838) —
of Texas.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., 1806.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836-37, 1838; died in office
1838.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., December
17, 1838 (age about 32
years).
Interment at Founders
Memorial Park, Houston, Tex.
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William Harris Wharton (1802-1839) —
of Texas.
Born in Virginia, 1802.
Delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of Victoria, 1832; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Victoria, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835;
member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1836, 1837-39; died in
office 1839.
Killed when he accidentally
shot
himself while dismounting from his horse,
near Hempstead, Waller
County, Tex., March
14, 1839 (age about 36
years).
Interment at Restwood
Memorial Park, Clute, Tex.
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Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) —
also known as "Fighting Joe" —
of Wheeler, Lawrence
County, Ala.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
10, 1836.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; planter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 8th District, 1881-82, 1885-1900;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the War of 1812.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
25, 1906 (age 69 years, 137
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Wheeler and Julia Knox (Hull) Wheeler; married, February
6, 1866, to Daniella Jones (granddaughter of Peter
Early); father of Thomas Harrison Wheeler. |
| | | Wheeler County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | Wheeler Dam
(built 1933-36), on the Tennessee River in Lauderdale
and Lawrence
counties, Alabama, and the Wheeler Lake
reservoir, which extends into Limestone,
Morgan,
and Madison
counties, are named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in America
(1906) |
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Royal Tyler Wheeler (1810-1864) —
of Texas.
Born in Vermont, 1810.
District judge in Texas, 1844; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1845-64; died in office 1864.
Died by suicide,
in Washington
County, Tex., April 9,
1864 (age about 53
years).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Hugh Lawson White (1773-1840) —
also known as Hugh L. White —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Rowan
County, N.C., October
30, 1773.
Whig. Justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1801; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1807; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1808-09; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1825-40; candidate for President
of the United States, 1836.
Slaveowner.
Died in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., April
10, 1840 (age 66 years, 163
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Samuel A. Whiteside (1783-1868) —
Born in Rutherford
County, N.C., April
12, 1783.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1819-21; general in the U.S. Army
during the Black Hawk War.
Died in Mt. Auburn, Christian
County, Ill., January
3, 1868 (age 84 years, 266
days).
Interment at Hunter
Cemetery, Christian County, Ill.
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Alexander Wilkin (c.1820-1864) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Orange
County, N.Y., about 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; lawyer; secretary
of Minnesota Territory, 1851-53; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Tupelo, Lee
County, Miss., July 14,
1864 (age about 44
years); highest ranking volunteer from Minnesota to be killed in
the Civil War.
Burial location unknown.
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Conrad Will —
of Jackson
County, Ill.
Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Jackson County,
1818.
Burial location unknown.
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Hugh Williamson (1735-1819) —
of Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.
Born in West Nottingham, Chester
County, Pa., December
5, 1735.
Preacher;
university
professor; physician;
member of North Carolina state legislature, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93.
Presbyterian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 22,
1819 (age 83 years, 168
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Robert McAlpin Williamson (1806-1859) —
also known as "Three Legged Willie" —
of Texas.
Born in Georgia, 1806.
Delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Washington, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835; served
in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1837-40; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840-43, 1844-45; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1843-44; member of Texas
state senate, 1846-48; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1849; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1851.
Due to a deformity developed during an illness when he was 15,
causing his right leg to be drawn back at the knee, he wore a partial
wooden leg attached at the knee.
Died in Wharton, Wharton
County, Tex., December
22, 1859 (age about 53
years).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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James Charles Wilson (1818-1860) —
of Texas.
Born in Yorkshire, England,
August
21, 1818.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
state house of representatives, 1849-50; member of Texas
state senate, 1851-53.
Methodist.
Volunteer on the Somervell Expedition in 1842; captured at Mier,
Mexico, and held at Perote Prison until his escape in 1843; famed
orator in support of Texas annexation to the U.S. and, later,
secession to join the Confederacy.
Died of tuberculosis,
at Gonzales, Gonzales
County, Tex., February
7, 1860 (age 41 years, 170
days).
Original interment at Askey
Cemetery, Gonzales, Tex.; reinterment in 1936 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Louis Dicken Wilson (1789-1847) —
also known as Louis D. Wilson —
of Edgecombe
County, N.C.
Born in Edgecombe
County, N.C., May 12,
1789.
Democrat. Notary
public; justice of the peace; merchant;
member of North
Carolina house of commons from Edgecombe County, 1815-19; member
of North
Carolina state senate, 1820, 1824-32, 1838-47 (Edgecombe County
1820, 1824-32, 15th District 1838-43, 10th District 1844-47); died in
office 1847; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1835;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from yellow
fever, while serving in the U.S. Army in the Mexican
War, in Veracruz, Veracruz,
August
12, 1847 (age 58 years, 92
days).
Original interment at Rocky Mount Memorial Park, Rocky Mount, N.C.; reinterment in
1904 at Tarboro Town Common, Tarboro, N.C.
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John Anthony Winston (1812-1871) —
also known as John A. Winston —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born September
4, 1812.
Democrat. Member of Alabama state legislature, 1840; member of Alabama
state senate, 1845; Governor of
Alabama, 1853-57; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alabama, 1860,
1868;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Died December
21, 1871 (age 59 years, 108
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Sumter County, Ala.
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Louis L. Winston (1784-1824) —
of Mississippi.
Born in Germanton, Stokes
County, N.C., November
24, 1784.
Delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1817; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1821-24; died in office 1824.
Died in Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., August
20, 1824 (age 39 years, 270
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Adams County, Miss.
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William Wirt (1772-1834) —
of Virginia.
Born near Bladensburg, Prince
George's County, Md., November
8, 1772.
Lawyer;
prosecuting attorney at the treason trial of Aaron
Burr, 1807; U.S.
Attorney for Virginia, 1816-17; U.S.
Attorney General, 1817-29; Anti-Masonic candidate for President
of the United States, 1832.
Presbyterian.
German
and Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1834 (age 61 years, 102
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Wirt and Henrietta Wirt; married, May 28,
1795, to Mildred 'Millie' Gilmer (niece of John
Walker and Francis
Walker; aunt of Thomas
Walker Gilmer); married, September
7, 1802, to Elizabeth Washington Gamble (sister-in-law of William
Henry Cabell); father of Catherine Gratten Wirt (who married Alexander
Randall); grandfather of John
Wirt Randall; great-grandfather of Hannah
Parker Randall (who married William
Bladen Lowndes). |
| | | Wirt County,
W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Wirt
Adams
— William
Wirt Virgin
— William
Wirt Watkins
— William
Wirt Vaughan
— William
W. Warren
— William
Wirt Culbertson
— William
Wirt Herod
— William
W. Dixon
— William
Wirt Henderson
— William
W. Hastings
— W.
Wirt Courtney
|
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Wirt: Gregory Kurt
Glassner, Adopted
Son: The Life, Wit & Wisdom of William Wirt,
1772-1834 |
| | | Image source: The South in the Building
of the Nation (1909) |
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Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876) —
also known as Henry A. Wise —
of Accomac, Accomack
County, Va.; Princess Anne County, Va. (now Virginia
Beach, Va.).
Born in Virginia, December
3, 1806.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1833-44 (8th District 1833-35, 21st
District 1835-41, 8th District 1841-43, 7th District 1843-44); U.S.
Minister to Brazil, 1844-47; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850; Governor of
Virginia, 1856-59; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Princess Anne County, 1861;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died September
12, 1876 (age 69 years, 284
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Nathaniel Wolfe (1810-1865) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Richmond,
Va., October
20, 1810.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1853; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1859.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 3,
1865 (age 54 years, 256
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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George Tyler Wood (1795-1858) —
Born in Cuthbert, Randolph
County, Ga., March
12, 1795.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1837-38; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1841-42; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; member of Texas
state senate, 1846; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War; Governor of
Texas, 1847-49; defeated, 1849, 1853.
Slaveowner.
Died in San Jacinto
County, Tex., September
3, 1858 (age 63 years, 175
days).
Interment at Robinson
Graveyard, Near Point Blank, San Jacinto County, Tex.
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James Wood (1747-1813) —
of Virginia.
Born in 1747.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1775; Governor of
Virginia, 1796-99.
Died June 16,
1813 (age about 65
years).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.
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Levi Woodbury (1789-1851) —
of Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Francestown, Hillsborough
County, N.H., December
22, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1816-23; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1823-24; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1825; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1825; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1825-31, 1841-45; resigned 1845; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1831-34; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-41; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-51; died in office 1851;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1848.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
4, 1851 (age 61 years, 256
days).
Interment at Harmony
Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H.
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Joseph Albert Wright (1810-1867) —
of Indiana.
Born in Washington, Washington
County, Pa., April
17, 1810.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1833-34, 1836-37; member of Indiana
state senate, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1843-45; Governor of
Indiana, 1849-57; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1857-61, 1865-67, died in office 1867; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1862-63.
Methodist.
Died in Berlin, Germany,
May
11, 1867 (age 57 years, 24
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Silas Wright Jr. (1795-1847) —
of Canton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., May 24,
1795.
Democrat. Lawyer; St.
Lawrence County Surrogate, 1821-24; member of New York
state senate 4th District, 1824-27; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1827-29, 1829-30; New York
state comptroller, 1829-34; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1833-44; resigned 1844; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1844;
Governor
of New York, 1845-47; defeated, 1846.
Died in Canton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., August
27, 1847 (age 52 years, 95
days).
Interment at Silas
Wright Cemetery, Canton, N.Y.; memorial monument at Weybridge Town Center, Weybridge, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of Silas Wright and Eleanor (Goodale) Wright; second cousin thrice
removed of Henry
Merrill Wolcott; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Ellsworth Goodell; third cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; fourth cousin of Morris
Woodruff, Martin
Keeler, Marshall
Chapin and William
Dean Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Theodore
Dwight, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Charles
Phelps Huntington, George
Catlin Woodruff, Stephen
Hiram Keeler, Lewis
Bartholomew Woodruff, Edmund
Gillett Chapin, William
Chapman Williston, Zenas
Ferry Moody, Charles
Edward Phelps, Arthur
Chapin and John
Wingate Weeks. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Wright counties in Minn. and Mo. are
named for him; Wright County,
Iowa may have been named for him. |
| | | Wright Peak,
in the Ardirondack Mountains, Essex
County, New York, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $50 gold certificate from the 1880s until
1913. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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George Wythe (1726-1806) —
of York
County, Va.
Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton,
Va.), December
3, 1726.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1758-68; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Virginia,
1777; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York
County, 1788.
Episcopalian.
Apparently murdered
— poisoned
by his grandnephew — and died two weeks later, in Richmond,
Va., June 8,
1806 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Bartlett Yancey (1785-1828) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., February
19, 1785.
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15,
9th District 1815-17); member of North
Carolina state senate, 1817-27.
Slaveowner.
Died near Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., August
30, 1828 (age 43 years, 193
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Joseph Christopher Yates (1768-1837) —
also known as Joseph C. Yates —
of Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., November
9, 1768.
Democrat. Lawyer; one
of the founders
of Union College, 1795; mayor
of Schenectady, N.Y., 1798-1807; member of New York
state senate Eastern District, 1805-08; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1808-22; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; Governor of
New York, 1823-24.
Died in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., March
19, 1837 (age 68 years, 130
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Archibald Yell (1797-1847) —
of Fayetteville, Washington
County, Ark.
Born in North Carolina, August
9, 1797.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; federal
judge, 1832-35; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1836-39, 1845-46; resigned
1846; Governor of
Arkansas, 1840-44; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War.
Slaveowner.
Killed in the Mexican
War Battle of Buena Vista, Coahuila,
February
22, 1847 (age 49 years, 197
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Fayetteville, Ark.
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Henderson King Yoakum (1810-1856) —
of Tennessee.
Born September
6, 1810.
Mayor
of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1837; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1839.
Died November
30, 1856 (age 46 years, 85
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Huntsville, Tex.
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David Levy Yulee (1810-1886) —
also known as David Levy; "Father of Florida's
Railroads" —
of St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla.; Homosassa, Citrus
County, Fla.
Born in St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, June 12,
1810.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from St. Johns County,
1838-39; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1845-51, 1855-61; imprisoned
as a Confederate
at Fort Pulaski, Fla. for a time after the Civil War.
Jewish.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1886 (age 76 years, 120
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Francis Marion Ziebach (1830-1929) —
also known as Frank Ziebach —
of South Dakota.
Born in 1830.
Democrat. Member
Dakota territorial council, 1883-84; delegate
to South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1883; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Dakota Territory Territory, 1884;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Dakota, 1908.
Died in 1929
(age about
99 years).
Interment at Yankton
Municipal Cemetery, Yankton, S.Dak.
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