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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Washington-Walker family of Virginia</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 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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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Howell Lewis (1731-1813) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-lived.html">Granville County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/GO-born.html">Goochland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1731/09-13.html">September 13, 1731</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> from Granville County, 1785-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Granville County, 1787. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-died.html">Granville County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/11-29.html">November 29, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 77 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Lewis and Mary (Howell) Lewis; married to Isabella Willis; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html#927.14.05">Arthur Sidney Demarest</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pollack-pomerene.html#812.59.38">Claude Pollard</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/214183980">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Martha Washington (1731-1802) — also known as Martha Dandridge; Martha Dandridge Custis — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-born.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1731/06-13.html">June 13, 1731</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1789-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/05-22.html">May 22, 1802</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 343 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of John Dandridge and Frances (Jones) Dandridge; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/">1759</a> to Daniel Parke Custis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/01-06.html">January 6, 1759</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a> (uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>); mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#689.34.43">John Parke Custis</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#591.07.02">Burwell Bassett</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/JF-names.html">Dandridge, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha Washington">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2382">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34206">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267921875/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/466/36.08.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="George Washington"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/02-22.html">February 22, 1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1789-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-arts-sciences.html">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">acute bacterial epiglottitis</a>, at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/12-14.html">December 14, 1799</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 295 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07284">National Mall</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07304">Washington Circle</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html# ">Boston Public Garden</a>, Boston, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/01-06.html">January 6, 1759</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a> (aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#591.07.02">Burwell Bassett</a>); step-father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#689.34.43">John Parke Custis</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; granduncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrad.html#558.09.06">Charles Magill Conrad</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#628.01.46">George Corbin Washington</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ball.html#066.19.54">Thomas Henry Ball Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/debolt-deckard.html#496.88.36">William de Bruyn=Kops</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#060.69.24">Horace Lee Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#058.85.53">Edwin McPherson Holden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ball.html#620.12.96">Claude C. Ball</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#585.42.27">Arthur Wesley Holden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html#461.56.33">Joshua Fry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#082.68.80">Alexander Dimitry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leakin-leaver.html#812.13.09">Tobias Lear</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathews.html#501.08.36">David Mathews</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/putnam.html#610.71.80">Rufus Putnam</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Washington counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/WA.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/WA.html">Colo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/WA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WA.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/WA.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WA.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/WA.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WA.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/WA.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WA.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/WA.html">La.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/WA.html">Maine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA.html">Md.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/WA.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WA.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/WA.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/WA.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WA.html">N.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/WA.html">Okla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/WA.html">Ore.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WA.html">Pa.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA.html">R.I.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WA.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WA.html">Tex.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/WA.html">Utah</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA.html">Vt.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WA.html">Va.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WA.html">Wis.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-counties.html">state</a> of Washington is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CO-names.html">Coos County, New Hampshire</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">minor planet</a> 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#554.92.79">George Washington Lent Marr</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heaney-heartwell.html#289.43.71">George Washington Heard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnet-barnette.html#157.71.38">George Washington Barnett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis4.html#212.48.19">George Washington Davis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owen.html#894.09.10">George W. Owen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todhunter-tomlin.html#590.80.32">George W. Toland</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#778.26.16">George W. Lay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patterson.html#456.26.14">George W. Patterson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/toth-towns.html#755.08.85">George W. B. Towns</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams4.html#964.94.01">George Washington Adams</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobby-hodgdon.html#166.43.91">George Washington Hockley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smyth.html#440.13.76">George W. Smyth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#217.14.19">G. W. Ingersoll</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkins.html#569.60.54">George W. Hopkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/montgomery.html#999.04.74">George Washington Montgomery</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duncan.html#037.12.36">Joseph George Washington Duncan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#125.81.80">George W. Kittredge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#867.46.20">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#283.75.90">George W. Harrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#915.84.55">George Washington Ewing</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#201.25.56">George Washington Seabrook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morrison.html#662.85.45">George W. Morrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#836.61.99">George Washington Woodward</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright4.html#179.14.14">George Washington Wright</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trinidad-triplett.html#269.63.56">George Washington Triplett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glassbrook-glenmore.html#834.43.88">George Washington Glasscock</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George W. Schuyler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hollowell-holmer.html#583.56.71">George Washington Holman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#540.05.68">George W. Greene</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George W. Wolcott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/partington-pastuszka.html#270.75.08">George W. Paschal</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dunlap.html#940.39.63">George Washington Dunlap</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warren.html#902.27.52">George Washington Warren</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill4.html#879.21.57">George Washington Hill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/logan.html#501.39.26">George Washington Logan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gersch-gibbon.html#170.15.82">George W. Getchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright4.html#064.08.10">George W. Wright</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#304.66.31">George W. Julian</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyal-dyell.html#360.57.33">George Washington Dyal</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladd.html#402.06.13">George W. Ladd</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peck.html#136.48.33">George W. Peck</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nemanich-neveu.html#616.96.96">George Washington Nesmith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#805.78.55">George W. Morgan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brooks.html#675.32.59">George Washington Brooks</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#635.10.15">George Washington Cowles</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gayle-geerlings.html#580.22.86">George W. Geddes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitmore-whitner.html#224.57.41">George Washington Whitmore</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#790.50.43">George Washington Bridges</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#289.20.42">George W. Cate</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houghtaling-housley.html#793.25.71">George W. Houk</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webber.html#862.08.53">George W. Webber</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#652.22.73">George W. Bemis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#540.52.55">George Washington Fairbrother</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glenni-glotzbach.html#494.60.24">George Washington Glick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#293.54.93">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker4.html#219.87.42">George W. Baker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheldrick-shenk.html#155.62.10">George W. Shell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/anderson4.html#232.00.48">George W. Anderson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crosse-crowe.html#975.67.54">George W. Crouse</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughey-hulka.html#895.22.71">George W. Hulick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html#500.94.80">George W. Allen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harper.html#194.43.19">George W. F. Harper</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark4.html#311.78.97">George Washington Clark</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccorquodale-mccuiston.html#944.54.44">George Washington McCrary</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gordon.html#799.48.29">George W. Gordon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kingdon-kingsland.html#303.21.06">George W. Kingsbury</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/courts-covode.html#127.31.81">George W. Covington</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#091.90.45">George Washington Fleeger</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steele.html#924.91.80">George W. Steele</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson4.html#072.19.58">George W. Wilson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin4.html#056.55.05">George W. Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#831.32.66">George W. E. Dorsey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#708.09.21">George W. Plunkitt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fulwood-fyke.html#834.51.92">George W. Furbush</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sutton.html#610.81.70">George W. Sutton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curtenius-curtin.html#862.34.73">George W. Curtin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ray.html#229.03.18">George W. Ray</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#907.06.43">George W. Roosevelt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#946.35.87">George W. Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#041.34.73">George W. Kipp</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell4.html#287.58.34">George W. Campbell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor4.html#968.80.68">George W. Taylor</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#209.56.23">George W. Stone</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barsham-bartless.html#050.81.32">George W. Bartch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shober-shorett.html#450.06.32">George W. Shonk</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patty-payn.html#931.09.43">George W. Paul</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook4.html#149.99.37">George W. Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murray4.html#549.68.79">George W. Murray</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#835.46.77">George W. Faris</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fite-fitzgarrald.html#159.97.18">George W. Fithian</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prince.html#001.71.20">George W. Prince</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#378.55.40">George W. Buckner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crofoot-crompton.html#470.18.29">George W. Cromer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#893.71.33">George W. Donaghey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#614.86.29">George W. Aldridge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#260.26.99">George Washington Wagoner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/godfroy-goetz.html#188.69.03">George Washington Goethals</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#019.99.20">George W. Armstrong</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lovejoy-lowdermilk.html#749.83.95">George W. Lovejoy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakar-oakleaf.html#480.49.87">George W. Oakes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hays.html#448.69.29">George W. Hays</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edman-edward.html#517.19.49">George W. Edmonds</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lindsay.html#568.80.87">George W. Lindsay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#363.90.11">George Washington Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tansil-tatar.html#721.90.67">T. G. W. Tarver</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/danielson-darke.html#092.75.97">George W. Darden</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#377.60.89">George Washington Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mead.html#288.50.36">George W. Mead</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gibbons.html#192.76.19">George W. Gibbons</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#728.51.99">George W. List</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#393.22.05">George W. Calkin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raub-rawson.html#682.25.95">George W. Rauch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/micheau-middleswarth.html#567.75.73">George W. Michell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#105.97.01">George Washington Jackson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#133.76.23">George W. Blanchard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#600.15.16">George Washington Herz</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#968.23.32">George W. Bristow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hardy.html#032.24.92">George Washington Hardy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#248.36.75">George W. Ballard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinnon-mclaud.html#835.81.14">George W. McKown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#087.61.15">George Thomas Washington</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins4.html#262.08.43">George W. Collins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#201.00.27">George A. Washington</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appears</a> on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait also appeared</a> on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000178">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411351">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Washington">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/107/000024035">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1075">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4136">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684831422/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684831422&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington</a> — James Thomas Flexner, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316286168/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316286168&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Washington: The Indispensable Man</a> — Willard Sterne Randall, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080505992X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080505992X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Washington : A Life</a> — Richard Norton Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395855128/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0395855128&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation</a> — Henry Wiencek, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374175268/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374175268&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America</a> — James MacGregor Burns, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069364&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Washington</a> — Joseph J. Ellis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400040310/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400040310&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">His Excellency, George Washington</a> — Gore Vidal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300101716/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300101716&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson</a> — David Barton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care</a> — Wendie C. Old, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766020118/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766020118&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Washington</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Parke Custis (1754-1781) — also known as Jacky Custis — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-lived.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-born.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/11-27.html">November 27, 1754</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Fairfax County, 1778-81. Died, probably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/typhus.html">typhus</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">dysentery</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-died.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/11-05.html">November 5, 1781</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/26.html">26 years, 343 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Step-son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; son of Daniel Parke Custis and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/02-03.html">February 3, 1774</a>, to Eleanor Calvert; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#591.07.02">Burwell Bassett</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#841.23.27">William Henry Bagwell Custis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Parke Custis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119511159">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=174948">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-lived.html">Alexandria</a>, Va.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-lived.html">Richmond</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/06-05.html">June 5, 1762</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of Virginia state legislature, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Westmoreland County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1798-1829; died in office 1829. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/11-26.html">November 26, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 174 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Augustine Washington and Hannah (Bushrod) Washington; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2510&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushrod Washington">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bushrod Washington">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/963/000180423">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Burwell Bassett (1764-1841) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wb-lived.html">Williamsburg</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-born.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/03-18.html">March 18, 1764</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1787-89, 1819-21; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/stsen.html">Virginia state senate</a>, 1794-1805; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1805-13, 1815-19, 1821-29 (at-large 1805-07, 12th District 1807-09, 22nd District 1809-11, 12th District 1811-13, 13th District 1815-19, 8th District 1821-29). Slaveowner. Died, after a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fall</a> from his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/horse.html">horse</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-died.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/02-26.html">February 26, 1841</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-buried.html#cms05119">Eltham Plantation</a>, New Kent County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Burwell Bassett (1734-1793) and Anna Marie (Dandridge) Bassett; brother of Frances Bassett (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leakin-leaver.html#812.13.09">Tobias Lear</a>); married to Ann Claiborne; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>); first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#689.34.43">John Parke Custis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#409.35.97">Carter Bassett Harrison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#055.84.40">William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#929.47.78">John Scott Harrison</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#917.46.10">Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#829.98.96">Russell Benjamin Harrison</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#907.89.02">William Henry Harrison (1896-1990)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#157.69.66">Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#312.31.91">Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780)</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#278.25.27">William Welby Beverley</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#877.22.98">George Nicholas</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#133.01.52">Wilson Cary Nicholas</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#402.57.46">John Nicholas</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#232.91.35">Peyton Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#834.77.16">Thomas Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#777.13.81">Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#443.26.83">James Keith Marshall</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/downs-doxey.html#953.82.95">Peter Myndert Dox</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#127.95.09">Edmund Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#532.18.36">Edmund Randolph Cocke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#618.52.82">Connally Findlay Trigg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#640.84.55">Richard Evelyn Byrd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#659.83.99">Harry Bartow Hawes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000224">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401220">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell Bassett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10511851">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=112519">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Howell Cobb (1772-1818) — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-born.html">Granville County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/08-03.html">August 3, 1772</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1807-12 (at-large 1807-09, 2nd District 1809-11, at-large 1811-12). Slaveowner. Died near Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/05-27.html">May 27, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 297 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-buried.html#cms07104">a private or family graveyard</a>, Jefferson County, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Mildred (Lewis) Cobb; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/05-08.html">May 8, 1810</a>, to Martha A. Jacquelin (Rootes) Rootes; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000547">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402680">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33906508">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) — of Missouri. Born near Ivy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/08-18.html">August 18, 1774</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/trgv1.html">Governor of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory</a>, 1807-09; died in office 1809. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Commanded expedition with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark9.html#714.09.48">William Clark</a> to Oregon, 1803-04. Died from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wounds</a> under <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/disappeared.html">mysterious circumstances</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">murder</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>?) at Grinder's Stand, an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">inn</a> on the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE-died.html">Lewis County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/10-11.html">October 11, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE-buried.html#cms04371">Meriwether Lewis Park</a>, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#512.39.40">David Meriwether (1755-1822)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#779.44.78">James Meriwether (1755-1817)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#368.69.43">George Rockingham Gilmer</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html#927.14.05">Arthur Sidney Demarest</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#917.68.66">James Meriwether (1788-1852)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#752.05.03">David Meriwether (1800-1893)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#185.16.94">James Archibald Meriwether</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#677.00.36">Reuben Handy Meriwether</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pollack-pomerene.html#812.59.38">Claude Pollard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shannon.html#999.85.68">George F. Shannon</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lewis counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/LW.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LW.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/LE.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE.html">Tenn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/LE.html">Wash.</a> are named for him; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC.html">Lewis and Clark County, Mont.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker6.html#172.42.57">Meriwether Lewis Walker</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to 1927.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether Lewis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/678/000036570">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C. Danisi, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616145056/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616145056&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Uncovering the Truth About Meriwether Lewis</a> — Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517501872/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0517501872&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis and Clark: The Great Adventure</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Thornton Augustine Washington (1783-1841) — Born near Charles Town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/05-20.html">May 20, 1783</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1820. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died near Charles Town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Va (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/10-09.html">October 9, 1841</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 142 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thornton Augustine Washington and Mildred (Berry) Washington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/09-02.html">September 2, 1810</a>, to Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0149.html">Dorsey-Poffenbarger family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0349.html">Alston-Kenan family</a> of Milledgeville, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Thornton Augustine Washington">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Vivian Daniel (1784-1860) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-born.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/04-24.html">April 24, 1784</a>. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1809-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Virginia</a>, 1818; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia</a>, 1836-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1841-60. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/05-31.html">May 31, 1860</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 37 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-buried.html#cms00943">Hollywood Cemetery</a>, Richmond, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Travers Daniel and Frances (Moncure) Daniel; uncle of Margaret Eleanor Daniel (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniel-daniello.html#397.07.54">John Moncure Daniel</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0629.html">Stone-Daniel family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/944/000180404">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5671">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Corbin Washington (1789-1854) — also known as George C. Washington — of Rockville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born near Oak Grove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/08-20.html">August 20, 1789</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1816-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a>, 1827-33, 1835-37 (3rd District 1827-33, 5th District 1835-37); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/excn.html">Maryland state executive council</a>, 1834-35. Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/07-17.html">July 17, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 331 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0501.html">DeBruyn-Washington family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000179">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411352">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sulifand Sutherland Ross (1800-1856) — also known as Sulifand S. Ross — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Iowa. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/02-05.html">February 5, 1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/cncn1.html">Delegate to Iowa state constitutional convention</a> from Jefferson County, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Iowa state constitutional convention</a> from Jefferson County, 1846. Died in Eddyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WP-died.html">Wapello County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/09-16.html">September 16, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 224 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WP-buried.html#cms07483">somewhere</a> in Eddyville, Iowa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Ross and Nancy (Chinn) Ross; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/07-16.html">July 16, 1823</a>, to Mary Ann Junken; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/12-17.html">December 17, 1833</a>, to Elizabeth Junken; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-24.html">August 24, 1855</a>, to Jane Hill Gilmore; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#058.85.53">Edwin McPherson Holden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#585.42.27">Arthur Wesley Holden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ball.html#066.19.54">Thomas Henry Ball Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ball.html#620.12.96">Claude C. Ball</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0658.html">Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family</a> of Salisbury, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Magill Conrad (1804-1878) — of Louisiana. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wc-born.html">Winchester</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/12-24.html">December 24, 1804</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; fought a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> and killed his opponent; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/sthse.html">Louisiana state house of representatives</a>, 1840-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Louisiana</a>, 1842-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Louisiana state constitutional convention</a>, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 2nd District, 1849-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1850-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Louisiana to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-65. Slaveowner. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a> while testifying in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/courtroom.html">court</a>, and died a few days later, in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-died.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/02-11.html">February 11, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 49 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms02364">Girod Street Cemetery</a> (which no longer exists), New Orleans, La.; re-entombed in 1957 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms04141">Hope Mausoleum</a>, New Orleans, La. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandnephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0501.html">DeBruyn-Washington family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000703">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402828">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Magill Conrad">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walker Peyton Conway (1805-1884) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-lived.html">Stafford County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-born.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/07-01.html">July 1, 1805</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Stafford County, 1832-33. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fb-died.html">Fredericksburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/03-01.html">March 1, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 244 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fb-buried.html#cms06317">Fredericksburg Cemetery</a>, Fredericksburg, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Moncure Conway and Catharine Storke (Peyton) Conway; married to Margaret Eleanor Daniel (nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniel-daniello.html#678.51.41">Peter Vivian Daniel</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniel-daniello.html#397.07.54">John Moncure Daniel</a>); second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/debolt-deckard.html#496.88.36">William de Bruyn=Kops</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marvin.html#935.95.34">Lee Marvin</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#060.69.24">Horace Lee Washington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#994.99.14">Daniel French Slaughter</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#444.50.21">Daniel French Slaughter Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75533245">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/default.aspx?id=41"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/476/15.93.jpg" width=70 height=94 border=0 alt="Samuel B. Churchill"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Bullitt Churchill (1812-1890) — also known as Samuel B. Churchill — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo.; Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky.; Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born near Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/12-06.html">December 6, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/saintlouis.html#2">St. Louis, Mo.</a>, 1842-45; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a>, 1858; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/MO.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Kentucky</a>, 1867-71, 1879-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, from "<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">brain congestion</a>", in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/05-14.html">May 14, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 159 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms00479">Cave Hill Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Churchill and Abigail Pope (Oldham) Churchill; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/06-25.html">June 25, 1836</a>, to Amelia Chouteau Walker; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Kentucky Secretary of State</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Henry Bagwell Custis (1814-1889) — also known as William H. B. Custis — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AC-lived.html">Accomack County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AC-born.html">Accomack County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/12-28.html">December 28, 1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Accomac County, 1861. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AC-died.html">Accomack County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/10-07.html">October 7, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 283 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AC-buried.html#cms06525">a private or family graveyard</a>, Accomack County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Bagwell Custis and Elizabeth (Fletcher) Custis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/09-19.html">September 19, 1840</a>, to Emeline V. S. Conquest; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#689.34.43">John Parke Custis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Howell Cobb (1815-1868) — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/09-07.html">September 7, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1843-51, 1855-57 (at-large 1843-45, 6th District 1845-51, 1855-57); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1851-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1857-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-09.html">October 9, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 32 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/">1835</a> to Mary Ann Lamar; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#338.39.52">Andrew Cobb Erwin</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Howell Cobb (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scuttled as a breakwater in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-names.html">Cook Inlet</a>, 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000548">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402681">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/howell-cobb/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell Cobb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/124/000206503">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8962">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Howell Cobb: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083699163X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=083699163X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States, With its Objects and Purposes</a> (1856)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Shelby Walker (1815-1891) — also known as David S. Walker — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-02.html">May 2, 1815</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/tallahassee.html">mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/spju.html">justice of Florida state supreme court</a>, 1860-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Florida</a>, 1865-68; defeated (American), 1856; circuit judge in Florida, 1878-91. Died in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-died.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/07-20.html">July 20, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 79 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html#cms04267">St. John's Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; married to Philoclea Alston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#875.57.46">Augustus A. Alston</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#927.28.36">Willis Alston</a>); father of Courtney Walker (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#339.70.96">Robert Spratt Cockrell</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#575.27.74">Andrew Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The David S. Walker <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Library</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LE-names.html">Tallahassee, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/david-shelby-walker/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David S. Walker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10181239">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (1819-1893) — also known as Thomas L. Crittenden — of Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky.; Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/05-15.html">May 15, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Liverpool</a>, 1849-53; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/10-23.html">October 23, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sarah O. (Lee) Crittenden and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#432.06.89">John Jordan Crittenden</a>; married to Catherine Lucy Todd; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#787.62.12">Thomas Turpin Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#658.58.19">Robert Crittenden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#138.09.08">John Crittenden</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#718.56.21">Alexander Parker Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#339.61.88">Thomas Theodore Crittenden</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#355.43.54">Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5894064">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1898) — also known as Henry R. Jackson — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-born.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/06-24.html">June 24, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Georgia</a>, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1854-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/GA.html">1860</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Georgia secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/05-23.html">May 23, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 333 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms01326">Bonaventure Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Jackson and Martha Jacquelina (Rootes) Jackson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-31.html">January 31, 1844</a>, to Cornelia Augusta Davenport; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/12-29.html">December 29, 1866</a>, to Florence Barclay King (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>); great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0503.html">Bowen-Washburn family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry R. Jackson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jackson-henry-rootes">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10045">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) — also known as Thomas R. R. Cobb — of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/04-10.html">April 10, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">killed</a> in the battle of Fredericksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-died.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-13.html">December 13, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/">1844</a> to Marion McHenry Lumpkin (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#118.73.06">Joseph Henry Lumpkin</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#856.82.84">Wilson Lumpkin</a>); father of Marion Birdie Cobb (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#997.75.90">Michael Hoke Smith</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Moncure Daniel (1825-1865) — also known as John M. Daniel — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-born.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/10-24.html">October 24, 1825</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SR-diplomats.html ">Sardinia</a>, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SR-diplomats.html ">Sardinia</a>, 1854-61. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/03-30.html">March 30, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 157 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-buried.html#cms00943">Hollywood Cemetery</a>, Richmond, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Moncure Daniel (1798-1844) and Eliza (Mitchell) Daniel; nephew of Margaret Eleanor Daniel (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#896.97.37">Thomas Stone</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniel-daniello.html#678.51.41">Peter Vivian Daniel</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0629.html">Stone-Daniel family</a> of Maryland (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/daniel-john-moncure ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/943/000180403">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6497088">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about John Moncure Daniel: Peter Bridges, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873387368/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0873387368&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James David Walker (1830-1906) — also known as James D. Walker — of Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Ark. Born near Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/12-13.html">December 13, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arkansas</a>, 1879-85. Died in Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/11-17.html">November 17, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 339 days</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Volney Walker and Susan Howard (McLean) Walker; married to Mary W. Walker; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#216.74.58">John McLean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#440.37.08">Finis Ewing McLean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#383.94.41">Wilkinson Call</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000057">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411236">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James D. Walker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9010565">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Shelby Walker Jr. (1846-1889) — also known as David S. Walker, Jr. — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-born.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/10-10.html">October 10, 1846</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/tallahassee.html">mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.</a>, 1875, 1878-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1883; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Florida state constitutional convention</a>, 1885; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1887. Died in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-died.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-06.html">December 6, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 57 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html#cms04267">St. John's Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and Philoclea Edgeworth 'Florida' (Alston) Walker; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10181312">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Henry Ball Jr. (1859-1944) — also known as Thomas H. Ball; Tom Ball — of Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WK-lived.html">Walker County</a>, Tex.; Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WK-born.html">Walker County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/01-14.html">January 14, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/TX.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/TX.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/TX.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/TX.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/TX.html">1912</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/TX.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/TX.html">1928</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1897-1903 (1st District 1897-1903, 8th District 1903); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1914. Died in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-died.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/05-07.html">May 7, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 114 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms04762">Forest Park Cemetery</a>, Houston, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Henry Ball and Mariah O. Spivey (Cleveland) Ball; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/">1881</a> to Minnie Fisher; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000101">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401103">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8062586">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William de Bruyn=Kops (1860-1957) — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/11-04.html">November 4, 1860</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-consuls.html">Savannah, Ga.</a>, 1888-1903. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/08-08.html">August 8, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/96.html">96 years, 277 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms00502">Laurel Grove North Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/debolt-deckard.html#733.24.14">Cornelius Jan de Bruyn=Kops</a> and Jane Washington (Davidson) Kops; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/">1913</a> to Ada Martin Turner; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marvin.html#935.95.34">Lee Marvin</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0501.html">DeBruyn-Washington family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/185005495">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace Lee Washington (1864-1938) — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/06-04.html">June 4, 1864</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EG-consuls.html ">Cairo</a>, 1894-96; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-consuls.html ">Alexandretta</a>, 1896-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-consuls.html ">Valencia</a>, 1899-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-consuls.html ">Geneva</a>, 1901-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Liverpool</a>, 1909-22; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SF-consuls.html ">Cape Town</a>, 1905-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Marseille</a>, 1908-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Liverpool</a>, as of 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">London</a>, as of 1926-27. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-27.html">August 27, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 84 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Washington and Katherine (Lee) Washington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/09-22.html">September 22, 1897</a>, to Helen Stewart Williams; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0501.html">DeBruyn-Washington family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edwin McPherson Holden (b. 1869) — also known as Edwin M. Holden — of Idaho Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BV-lived.html">Bonneville County</a>, Idaho. Born in Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/03-26.html">March 26, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/ID.html">Idaho Democratic state chair</a>, 1930; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/spju.html">justice of Idaho state supreme court</a>, 1933-50; resigned 1950. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Cornelius Holden and Louisa Sutherland (Ross) Holden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#585.42.27">Arthur Wesley Holden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-24.html">October 24, 1900</a>, to Ethel Thomas; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0501.html">DeBruyn-Washington family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edith Wilson (1872-1961) — also known as Edith Bolling; Edith Bolling Galt — Born in Wytheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WY-born.html">Wythe County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/10-15.html">October 15, 1872</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1915-21. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/12-28.html">December 28, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 74 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms02220">Washington National Cathedral</a>, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WY-buried.html#cms00941">East End Cemetery</a>, Wytheville, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of William Holcombe Bolling and Sarah Spears 'Sallie' (White) Bolling; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-18.html">December 18, 1915</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson9.html#878.23.04">Woodrow Wilson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/04-30.html">April 30, 1896</a>, to Norman Galt; second great-grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>; fourth great-grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#533.48.40">Richard Randolph</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#175.56.31">Richard Bland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#015.73.11">Peyton Randolph (1721-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Washington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#717.98.02">Edmund Jenings Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#689.34.43">John Parke Custis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#195.59.87">Beverley Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#591.07.02">Burwell Bassett</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#965.59.53">Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#432.06.89">John Jordan Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#787.62.12">Thomas Turpin Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#658.58.19">Robert Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#411.97.48">John Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#122.98.15">James Markham Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#178.56.77">Alexander Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#232.91.35">Peyton Randolph (1779-1828)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#718.56.21">Alexander Parker Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#339.61.88">Thomas Theodore Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#999.74.54">Henry De La Warr Flood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#123.05.64">Joel West Flood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith Wilson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19670">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32189">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Claude C. Ball (b. 1873) — of Muncie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DE-lived.html">Delaware County</a>, Ind. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/09-26.html">September 26, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Indiana</a> 8th District, 1930. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George M. Ball and Susanna (Hale) Ball; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/08-08.html">August 8, 1905</a>, to Edna M. Sutton; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Wesley Holden (1877-1967) — also known as Arthur W. Holden — of Idaho Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BV-lived.html">Bonneville County</a>, Idaho. Born in Nebraska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/07-17.html">July 17, 1877</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/ID.html">1916</a>. Died in Idaho Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BV-died.html">Bonneville County</a>, Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/05-26.html">May 26, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BV-buried.html#cms05394">Rose Hill Cemetery</a>, Idaho Falls, Idaho. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Louisa Sutherland (Ross) Holden and William C. Holden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#058.85.53">Edwin McPherson Holden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/11-19.html">November 19, 1902</a>, to Mercedes Greenwood; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/876/28.99.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Franklin D. Roosevelt"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt; "F.D.R." — of Hyde Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hyde Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/01-30.html">January 30, 1882</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">1944</a>; contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">legs were paralyzed</a> for the rest of his life; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1929-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February 15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#956.93.06">Anton J. Cermak</a> were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Led the nation through the Depression and World War II. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Warm Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ME-died.html">Meriwether County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/04-12.html">April 12, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms02371">Roosevelt Home</a>, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Federal Triangle</a>, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07283">West Potomac Park</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/03-17.html">March 17, 1905</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Douglas Robinson</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#241.11.81">James Roosevelt (1907-1991)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; half-uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#520.64.42">Katharine Price Collier St. George</a>; first cousin once removed of Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shober-shorett.html#064.13.40">Francis Emanuel Shober</a>); first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Kortright</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#121.55.32">William Phillips</a>); second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#713.08.78">Samuel Gager</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mchie-mcintire.html#089.80.30">Ross T. McIntire</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#077.09.20">Milton Lipson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howells-howey.html#213.78.22">W. W. Howes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barton.html#112.99.31">Bruce Barton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin5.html#144.27.80">Joseph W. Martin, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rosenberger-rosenstein.html#647.24.89">Samuel I. Rosenman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuckerman-turnbull.html#799.89.22">Rexford G. Tugwell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moffat-molumby.html#982.18.80">Raymond Moley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berl-berrien.html#889.67.51">Adolf A. Berle</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html#605.38.97">George E. Allen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#053.26.25">Lorence E. Asman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#492.99.30">Grenville T. Emmet</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#477.77.14">Eliot Janeway</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#778.76.23">Jonathan Daniels</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#500.80.04">Ralph Bellamy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#499.68.09">Wythe Leigh Kinsolving</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Franklin Delano Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/WA-names.html">Lubec, Maine</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NB-names.html">Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">borough</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-names.html">Roosevelt, New Jersey</a> (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — F. D. Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-airports.html">Airport</a>, on the Caribbean island of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EU-names.html">Sint Eustatius</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The F. D. Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-hospitals.html">Teaching Hospital</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LO-names.html">Banská Bystrica, Slovakia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrettson-gartin.html#410.59.56">Frank Garrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#464.77.15">Franklin D. Roosevelt Keesee</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appears</a> on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin).</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/franklin-delano-roosevelt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin D. Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/115/000024043">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740483">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/897">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4049">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871137801/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0871137801&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America</a> — Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684804484/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684804484&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II</a> — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517202964/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0517202964&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">FDR : 1882-1945</a> — Bernard Bellush, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0404515851/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0404515851&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin Roosevelt as Governor of New York</a> — Robert H. Jackson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195168267/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195168267&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">That Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> — Jonas Klein, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0839710364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0839710364&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Beloved Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello</a> — Conrad Black, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586481843/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586481843&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom</a> — Charles Peters, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586481126/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586481126&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World</a> — Steven Neal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060013761/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060013761&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Happy Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever</a> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385519583/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385519583&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> — Hazel Rowley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374158576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374158576&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage</a> — Alan Brinkley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199732027/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199732027&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> — Stanley Weintraub, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306821184/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0306821184&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life</a> — Karen Bornemann Spies, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766020096/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766020096&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Jim Powell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761501657/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0761501657&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression</a> — John T. Flynn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0930073274/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0930073274&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Roosevelt Myth</a> — Burton W. Folsom, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416592229/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416592229&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Philip Roth, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618509283/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618509283&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Plot Against America: A Novel</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Archer Woodford (1899-1955) — of Kentucky. Born in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BR-born.html">Bourbon County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/06-11.html">June 11, 1899</a>. U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html ">Sao Paulo</a>, as of 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html ">Rio de Janeiro</a>, as of 1927; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HO-consuls.html ">Puerto Cortes</a>, as of 1929; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Berlin</a>, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Berlin</a>, as of 1935; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VZ-consuls.html ">Maracaibo</a>, 1936-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Hamburg</a>, 1940-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AO-consuls.html ">Luanda</a>, as of 1943-44. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/09-10.html">September 10, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 91 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BR-buried.html#cms01745">Paris Cemetery</a>, Paris, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Walker Woodford and Alice (Brooks) Woodford; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/07-29.html">July 29, 1936</a>, to Edith M. Pauli; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#130.13.60">Matthew Clay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#889.48.22">Green Clay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#084.40.12">Henry Clay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#497.04.62">Porter Clay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#694.62.87">Cassius Marcellus Clay</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#786.72.05">Oliver Carroll Clay</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#052.20.67">Thomas Hart Clay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#889.91.51">Henry Clay Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#150.36.83">James Brown Clay</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/113113232">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel French Slaughter (1900-1963) — also known as D. French Slaughter — of Mitchells, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-lived.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va. Born in Mitchells, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-born.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/02-20.html">February 20, 1900</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1950. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/06-02.html">June 2, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-buried.html# ">Mitchells Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a>, Mitchells, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel Alexander Slaughter and Katherine (Somerville) Slaughter; married to Caroline Strother; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#444.50.21">Daniel French Slaughter Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#707.24.49">Gabriel Slaughter</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#889.24.10">Charles Rice Slaughter</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39492215">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lee Marvin (1924-1987) — of Tucson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-lived.html">Pima County</a>, Ariz. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/02-19.html">February 19, 1924</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960 /speakers.html">honored guest</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1960. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Tucson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Tucson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/PI-died.html">Pima County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/08-29.html">August 29, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">Robert E. Lee</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Lamont Waltman 'Monty' Marvin and Courtenay (Davidge) Marvin; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/debolt-deckard.html#496.88.36">William de Bruyn=Kops</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0501.html">DeBruyn-Washington family</a> of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee Marvin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/314/000026236">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1600">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel French Slaughter Jr. (1925-1998) — also known as D. French Slaughter, Jr. — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wc-lived.html">Winchester</a>, Va. Born in Culpeper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-born.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/05-20.html">May 20, 1925</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 7th District, 1985-91; resigned 1991. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/cv-died.html">Charlottesville</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/10-02.html">October 2, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 135 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-buried.html# ">Mitchells Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a>, Mitchells, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#994.99.14">Daniel French Slaughter</a> and Caroline (Strother) Slaughter; married to Kathleen Wilson Rowe; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#707.24.49">Gabriel Slaughter</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#889.24.10">Charles Rice Slaughter</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000479">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409968">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39554786">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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