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The Political Graveyard: April 29, 1865
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: April 29, 1865</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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J. Mills</a> — Topsham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Vt.</li> <li><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-04-29.html">Politicians who were born on April 29</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/born.html">politicians who were born in 1865</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Politicians who were married on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><i>None currently in database.</i></li> <li><i>See:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/married-04-29.html">Politicians who were married on April 29</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/married.html">politicians who were married in 1865</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Politicians who died on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><i>None currently in database.</i></li> <li><i>See:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-04-29.html">Politicians who died on April 29</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/died.html">politicians who died in 1865</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><i>Age 72:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#918.73.61">Thomas King Carroll</a></li> <li><i>Age 68:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#922.40.73">Gideon Hard</a></li> <li><i>Age 53:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilman.html#361.60.94">David Gilman</a></li> <li><i>Age 51:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller4.html#972.67.18">Homer V. M. Miller</a></li> <li><i>Age 45:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html#070.08.95">Henry Watkins Allen</a></li> <li><i>Age 40:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gundry-guthery.html#181.69.29">Joseph Gunsaulus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raab-radway.html#348.51.36">Henry L. Radaz</a></li> <li><i>Age 39:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/starke-starosciak.html#942.10.91">Henry H. Starkweather</a></li> <li><i>Age 38:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnes.html#258.21.86">John A. Barnes</a></li> <li><i>Age 37:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sewell-seyler.html#645.58.44">Franklin Barlow Sexton</a></li> <li><i>Age 35:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sutphen-sutto.html#348.76.87">Adolph Sutro</a></li> <li><i>Age 34:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker9.html#565.55.93">William Baker</a></li> <li><i>Age 33:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#004.43.52">Franklin Woodruff</a></li> <li><i>Age 26:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stearns.html#261.98.19">Marcellus L. Stearns</a></li> <li><i>Age 21:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#130.66.34">Arthur Clarence Walworth</a></li> <li><i>Age 17:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#747.60.04">James C. Brown</a></li> <li><i>Age 10:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#171.50.24">George T. Smith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/young7.html#739.32.68">Robert C. Young</a></li> <li><i>Age 7:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/loges-lonergan.html#800.51.17">Tennent Lomax</a></li> <li><i>Age 5:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crawford.html#387.30.34">Leonard J. Crawford</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/estevan-evanoff.html#934.53.70">José Maria Esteva</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#791.71.54">Isaac N. Enloe</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanborn.html#697.46.68">Charles E. Sanborn</a></li> <li><i>Age 3:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#651.10.52">Tracy R. Bangs</a></li> <li><i>Age 2:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heaney-heartwell.html#779.18.19">William Randolph Hearst</a></li> <li><i>Age 1:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sauner-sawtelle.html#652.01.78">Alfred Savarian</a></li> </ul><br> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</span></td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <br clear="all"> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a></b> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:8pt;"> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are <b>incomplete</b>; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is <b>not</b> guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-29.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-29.html</a>.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b>Copyright notices:</b> (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute <b>fair use</b> under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b>What is a "political graveyard"?</b> See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b>Site information:</b> The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by <b>Lawrence Kestenbaum</b>, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is <b>The Political Graveyard, P.O. 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