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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Philadelphia County, Pa.</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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Peter and Paul</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01232">Cedar Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms04407">Chelton Hills Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00050">Christ Church Burial Ground</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00595">Emanuel Protestant Episcopal Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03695">First Baptist Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href=" ">First Presbyterian Church</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01756">First Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms05052">Free Quaker Burial Ground</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03363">Friends Fair Hill Burying Ground</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01404">Friends Western Burial Ground</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01184">Friends' Arch Street Burial Ground</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01915">Glenwood Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01673">Gloria Dei Church Burial Ground</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms07902">Independence National Historical Park</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms05958">Ivy Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03353">Ivy Hill Mausoleum</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02520">Logan Graveyard in Stenton Park</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00587">Monument Cemetery</a> (now gone) <li>Philadelphia <a href=" ">Mt. Peace Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms05973">Mt. Vernon Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href=" ">Municipal Service Building Plaza</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02274">New Cathedral Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03681">New Market Street Baptist Church Graveyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01201">North Cedar Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms05158">Old Cathedral Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01330">Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02277">Old St. Peter's Church Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href=" ">Philadelphia City Hall Grounds</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href=" ">Pine Street Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03684">Presbyterian Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03389">St. Dominic's Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01414">St. James the Less Church Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01460">St. John's Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02515">St. John's Lutheran Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02719">St. Mary's Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00678">St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms04068">St. Paul's Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms03548">St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00805">St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms01682">Second Presbyterian Church Graveyard</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02725">Union Sixth Street Cemetery</a> (now gone) <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms02013">William Penn Cemetery</a> <li>Philadelphia <a href="cms00792">Woodlands Cemetery</a> <li>Frankford, Philadelphia <a href="cms03663">Frankford Cemetery</a> <li>Frankford, Philadelphia <a href="cms00854">Mt. Sinai Cemetery</a> <li>Roxborough, Philadelphia <a href=" ">St. Mary's Episcopal Church</a> <li>West Philadelphia, Philadelphia <a href="cms06564">Mt. Moriah Cemetery</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms05302">Private or family graveyards</a> Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Leonard Myers (1827-1905) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Attleborough (now Langhorne), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/11-13.html">November 13, 1827</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1863-69, 1869-75; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/02-11.html">February 11, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 90 days</a>). Interment in a 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 Arnold Myers and Fleurette (Gottschalk) Myers; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/">1852</a> to Esther de Benneville 'Hettie' Keim; father of Fleurette de Benneville Myers (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#238.38.30">John Cromwell Bell</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#654.82.74">John Cromwell Bell 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/16765.html">Bell-Myers family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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=M001131">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408093">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard Myers">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8596634">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> Edward de Veaux Morrell (1862-1917) — of Torresdale, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/08-07.html">August 7, 1862</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1900-07. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/index.html">1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Interment in a 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: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/">1889</a> to Louise Bouvier Drexel.</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=M000965">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407933">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05021">Unknown Locations</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nicholas Eveleigh (c.1748-1791) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., about 1748. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1781; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1781-82; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1787-88. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/04-16.html">April 16, 1791</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">about 43 years</a>). Interment somewhere. <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 Eveleigh, Jr. and Elizabeth Eveleigh; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/05-05.html">May 5, 1774</a>, to Mary Shubrick (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#934.25.05">Thomas Shubrick</a>; who later married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</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/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000263">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412147">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> George Lewis Balcom (1819-1900) — also known as George L. Balcom — of Cavendish, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WI-lived.html">Windsor County</a>, Vt.; Claremont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/SU-lived.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.H. Born in Sudbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/10-09.html">October 9, 1819</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sthse.html">Vermont state house of representatives</a>, 1855-57; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/sthse.html">New Hampshire state house of representatives</a>, 1883-84; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/NH.html">1884</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/stsen.html">New Hampshire state senate</a> 7th District, 1889-90. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Claremont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/SU-died.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/05-13.html">May 13, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 216 days</a>). Interment somewhere. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William E. Wallace (d. 1998) — U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Vladivostok</a>, as of 1943; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Moscow</a>, as of 1944; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Shanghai</a>, as of 1946; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Chungking</a>, as of 1947; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ET-consuls.html ">Addis Ababa</a>, as of 1948. Captured by the Japanese during World War II; released in a diplomatic prisoner exchange; survived two <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">assassination attempts</a> in Russia; his Russian wife was taken prisoner by the Soviets. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/index.html">1998</a>. Interment somewhere. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Adath Jeshurun Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arnold Katz (c.1857-1927) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Bodenhausen, Hesse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, about 1857. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Shipping agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">notary public</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AH-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Austria-Hungary</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1891-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1894-1917. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">myocardial degeneration</a>, in Jewish <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/11-09.html">November 9, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Adath Jeshurun Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967) — also known as Avrum Moishe Grunfeld — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UP-born.html">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/08-04.html">August 4, 1887</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Business executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/PA.html">1928</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/PA.html">1948</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/PA.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/PA.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/PA.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/PA.html">1964</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-arbitration-assoc.html">American Arbitration Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/01-05.html">January 5, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 154 days</a>). Interment at Adath Jeshurun Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/127704778">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02003">Arch Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Bryan (1731-1791) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1731/index.html">1731</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stcn.html">Pennsylvania State Council</a>, 1776-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pres.html">President of Pennsylvania</a>, 1778; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1780-91; died in office 1791. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/01-27.html">January 27, 1791</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 years</a>). Interment at Arch Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-bryan/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Bryan">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Reed (1741-1785) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/08-27.html">August 27, 1741</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1778; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pres.html">President of Pennsylvania</a>, 1778-81. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/03-05.html">March 5, 1785</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 190 days</a>). Original interment at Arch Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery; reinterment in 1867 at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>. <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 Andrew Reed and Theodosia (Bowes) Reed; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed1.html#958.46.07">Bowes R. Reed</a> and Sarah Reed (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pettit.html#204.97.98">Charles Pettit</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/18975.html">Reed family</a> of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.</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=R000123">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409102">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joseph-reed/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Reed (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20308">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05092">Baptist Burial Ground on Second Street</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathan Bryan (1748-1798) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/JN-lived.html">Jones County</a>, N.C. Born in Craven County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/JN-born.html">Jones County</a>), N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1748/index.html">1748</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> from Jones County, 1781-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1787, 1791-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a>, 1795-98 (at-large 1795-97, 10th District 1797-98); died in office 1798. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/06-04.html">June 4, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Original interment at Baptist Burial Ground on Second Street; reinterment to unknown location; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000991">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401943">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08011">Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul</a> 1723 Race Street Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Dennis Joseph Dougherty (1865-1951) — also known as Dennis Dougherty; "The Great Builder" — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Ashland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SC-born.html">Schuylkill County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/08-16.html">August 16, 1865</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; bishop of Buffalo, N.Y., 1916-18; archbishop of Philadelphia, Pa., 1918-51; cardinal, 1921-51; offered prayer, Republican National Convention, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/speakers.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/speakers.html">1948</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/05-31.html">May 31, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 288 days</a>). Entombed at Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. <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 Patrick Dougherty and Bridget (Henry) Dougherty; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccormick.html#327.74.78">Joseph Carroll McCormick</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">Cardinal Dougherty <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened 1956, closed 2010), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis Joseph Dougherty">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8051968">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> Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923-2012) — also known as Anthony Bevilacqua — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Wynnewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/06-17.html">June 17, 1923</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; bishop of Pittsburgh, 1983-88; archbishop of Philadelphia, 1988-2003; cardinal from 1991; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2000 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 2000 ; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> in 2003-04 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/vice.html">protecting</a> priests who were suspected of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexually abusing children</a>; later, it was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found</a> that he had ordered a subordinate to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">destroy a list</a> of 35 abusive priests, and that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/abuse-authority.html">punished a priest</a> who had raised concerns about possible abuse. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died in Wynnewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/01-31.html">January 31, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 228 days</a>). Entombed at Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. <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 Luigi Bevilacqua and Maria (Codella) Bevilacqua.</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/Anthony Bevilacqua">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192992617">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> Patrick John Ryan (1831-1911) — also known as P. J. Ryan — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/02-20.html">February 20, 1831</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; archbishop of Philadelphia, 1884-1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 1900. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/02-11.html">February 11, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 356 days</a>). Entombed at Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. <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 Jeremiah Ryan and Mary Ryan.</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/Patrick John Ryan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8052987">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01232">Cedar Hill Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Walker Foulkrod (1846-1910) — also known as William W. Foulkrod — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Frankford, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/11-22.html">November 22, 1846</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Wholesale dry goods business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">hosiery manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1907-10; died in office 1910. Died in Frankford, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/11-13.html">November 13, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 356 days</a>). Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000318">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404267">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> John Paul Verree (1817-1889) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/index.html">1817</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1859-63. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/index.html">1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000090">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411145">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04407">Chelton Hills Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Fred Christian Gartner (1896-1972) — also known as Fred C. Gartner — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/03-14.html">March 14, 1896</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1933-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1939-41; defeated, 1940 (5th District), 1958 (6th District); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/PA.html">1960</a>. Died in Somers Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/09-01.html">September 1, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 171 days</a>). Interment at Chelton Hills Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000087">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404459">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9955703">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00050">Christ Church Burial Ground</a> 302 Arch Street Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Founded 1719 Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1971 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=44588&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Powel (1738-1793) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1738/10-28.html">October 28, 1738</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1775-76, 1789-90; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1790-93. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/09-29.html">September 29, 1793</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 336 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Powel (1704-1759) and Mary (Morris) Powel; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/08-07.html">August 7, 1769</a>, to Elizabeth Willing (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#921.55.52">Charles Willing</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#852.57.23">Anthony Morris (c.1682-1763)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#579.87.99">Anthony Morris (1654-1721)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#892.96.78">Eugene McLanahan Wilson</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffin.html#027.47.42">Charles Hudson Griffin</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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0699.html">Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Samuel Powel">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7596815">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> Matthew Clarkson (1733-1800) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., April, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1733/index.html">1733</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1792-96. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/10-05.html">October 5, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Cornelia (DePeyster) Clarkson and Matthew Clarkson (1699-1739); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1753/06-13.html">June 13, 1753</a>, to Mary Boude; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#630.79.23">Johannes DePeyster</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#849.76.43">Johannes de Peyster</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#032.54.77">Abraham de Peyster</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russen-ruther.html#016.40.36">Henry Rutgers</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#514.67.03">Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens5.html#622.01.04">John Stevens III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000472">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402610">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew Clarkson (mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595001">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> John Inskeep (1757-1834) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/01-29.html">January 29, 1757</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1800-01, 1805-06; president, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> Company of North America, 1806-31. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/12-18.html">December 18, 1834</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7638643">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/00649615/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/370/29.47.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Benjamin Franklin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) — also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone"; "Martha Careful"; "Benevolus"; "Caelia Shortface" — of Pennsylvania. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1706/01-17.html">January 17, 1706</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1775; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1775-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1778-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-diplomats.html ">Sweden</a>, 1782-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pres.html">President of Pennsylvania</a>, 1785-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/deist.html">Deist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-arts-sciences.html">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. Famed for his experiments with electricity; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">invented</a> bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/04-17.html">April 17, 1790</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 90 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground; statue erected 1856 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html# ">Old City Hall Grounds</a>, Boston, Mass.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-buried.html#cms07901">La Arcata Court</a>, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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 Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/09-01.html">September 1, 1730</a>, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#869.81.95">Richard Bache</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#979.61.64">Franklin Davenport</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a> and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#138.28.12">William John Duane</a>); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#508.04.57">William Wallace Irwin</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#707.94.66">Elise du Pont</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fogleson-folse.html#343.91.75">Charles James Folger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#803.40.72">Benjamin Dexter Sprague</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barie-barker.html#203.03.89">Wharton Barker</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#032.33.79">Thomas Mott Osborne</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#417.76.61">Charles Devens Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#039.21.18">Lithgow Osborne</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#484.18.15">George Hammond Parshall</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania 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/williams5.html#973.20.76">Jonathan Williams</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">Franklin counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/FR.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/FR.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/FR.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FR.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/FR.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/FR.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/FR.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/FR.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/FR.html">La.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/FR.html">Maine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/FR.html">Mass.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/FR.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/FR.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/FR.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FR.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR.html">N.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FR.html">Pa.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/FR.html">Vt.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FK.html">Va.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/FR.html">Wash.</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Franklin, 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> 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), 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/butler1.html#133.84.30">Benjamin F. Butler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halla-halsell.html#884.25.56">Benjamin F. Hallett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wade.html#542.93.95">Benjamin F. Wade</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallace.html#640.35.30">Benjamin Franklin Wallace</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#922.91.80">Benjamin Cromwell Franklin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#310.31.30">Benjamin Franklin Perry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson1.html#022.19.55">Benjamin Franklin Robinson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin F. Randolph</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/masone-masten.html#221.79.16">Benjamin Franklin Massey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raub-rawson.html#648.71.73">Benjamin F. Rawls</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#820.48.99">Benjamin Franklin Leiter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomas1.html#341.70.22">Benjamin Franklin Thomas</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall1.html#113.39.32">Benjamin F. Hall</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andridge-anstine.html#861.56.61">Benjamin F. Angel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#418.57.18">Benjamin Franklin Ross</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#139.47.08">Benjamin F. Flanders</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#886.88.69">Benjamin F. Bomar</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heisel-hellyer.html#429.48.39">Benjamin Franklin Hellen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mozer-mullarky.html#100.09.06">Benjamin F. Mudge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler1.html#027.42.42">Benjamin F. Butler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#612.62.31">Benjamin F. Loan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simpson.html#606.59.81">Benjamin F. Simpson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/terry.html#650.36.64">Benjamin Franklin Terry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#071.99.03">Benjamin Franklin Junkin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/partington-pastuszka.html#066.54.48">Benjamin F. Partridge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lange-lanham.html#499.37.27">B. F. Langworthy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harding.html#285.58.05">Benjamin F. Harding</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#637.37.02">Benjamin Mebane</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whittemore.html#269.34.15">B. F. Whittemore</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradley1.html#442.75.38">Benjamin Franklin Bradley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#546.08.97">Benjamin Franklin Claypool</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#005.80.12">Benjamin Franklin Saffold</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coad-coatsworth.html#737.11.74">Benjamin F. Coates</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin1.html#443.87.57">B. Franklin Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howells-howey.html#859.35.76">Benjamin Franklin Howey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin1.html#034.51.30">Benjamin F. Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rice.html#315.62.83">Benjamin Franklin Rice</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.22.82">Benjamin F. Randolph</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkins.html#935.98.85">Benjamin F. Hopkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tracy.html#494.38.55">Benjamin F. Tracy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/briggs.html#163.63.88">Benjamin Franklin Briggs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grady.html#666.01.27">Benjamin F. Grady</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farlin-farquhar.html#073.37.73">Benjamin F. Farnham</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meyering-michalski.html#492.72.70">Benjamin F. Meyers</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white1.html#346.66.86">Benjamin Franklin White</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#153.24.89">Benjamin Franklin Prescott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jolley-jondahl.html#389.63.42">Benjamin F. Jonas</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fisher.html#116.17.32">B. Franklin Fisher</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/potterton-powe.html#965.56.48">Benjamin Franklin Potts</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fulwood-fyke.html#942.19.20">Benjamin F. Funk</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marsh-marshal.html#325.70.44">Benjamin F. Marsh</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnold.html#312.51.70">Frank B. Arnold</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heathman-hedlund.html#092.45.95">Benjamin F. Heckert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradley1.html#200.87.91">Benjamin F. Bradley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howell.html#566.34.07">Benjamin F. Howell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller1.html#206.47.96">Benjamin Franklin Miller</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mahady-mahone.html#751.65.41">Benjamin F. Mahan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html#452.01.31">Ben Franklin Caldwell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/till-tillinghaust.html#315.25.94">Benjamin Franklin Tilley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hackley-hagenbarth.html#980.96.58">Benjamin F. Hackney</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcmillan.html#571.48.54">B. F. McMillan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#435.01.21">Benjamin F. Shively</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hipke-hisson.html#375.54.25">B. Frank Hires</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#671.12.90">B. Frank Mebane</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murphy1.html#122.78.72">B. Frank Murphy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/starr.html#375.65.78">Benjamin F. Starr</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones1.html#397.53.67">Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wellstone-wenstrom.html#000.98.80">Benjamin F. Welty</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones1.html#644.52.77">Benjamin F. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#042.63.79">Benjamin Franklin Boley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/looney-lorch.html#117.72.66">Ben Franklin Looney</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#427.24.03">Benjamin F. Bledsoe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams1.html#610.03.71">Benjamin Franklin Williams</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelley.html#167.28.02">B. Frank Kelley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler1.html#348.37.80">Benjamin Franklin Butler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/james.html#845.17.38">Benjamin F. James</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heft-heiple.html#829.34.26">Frank B. Heintzleman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/feickert-fellman.html#635.66.59">Benjamin F. Feinberg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bunn.html#114.81.74">B. Franklin Bunn</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#910.88.26">Ben F. Cameron</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackdon-blackstone.html#096.45.16">Ben F. Blackmon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wheelock-whipp.html#260.89.20">B. Frank Whelchel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merritt.html#329.22.05">B. F. Merritt, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#476.39.42">Ben F. Hornsby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilas-dills.html#330.21.20">Ben Dillingham II</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. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half dollar coin (1948-63).</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=F000342">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404290">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/benjamin-franklin/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin Franklin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/franklin-benjamin ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/578/000026500">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/364">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 Benjamin Franklin: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486290735/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0486290735&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</a> — <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">An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place</a> (1744)</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 Benjamin Franklin: H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385493282/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385493282&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin</a> — Edmund S. Morgan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300095325/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300095325&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Benjamin Franklin</a> — Stacy Schiff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805066330/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805066330&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America</a> — Gordon S. Wood, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420019X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=159420019X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin</a> — Walter Isaacson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684807610/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684807610&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Benjamin Franklin : An American Life</a> — Carl Van Doren, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670157589/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670157589&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Benjamin Franklin</a> — Philip Dray, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140006032X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=140006032X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Stealing God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of 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">Image source: Library of Congress</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 Ross (1730-1779) — of Pennsylvania. Born in New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/05-10.html">May 10, 1730</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1774; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1779. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/07-14.html">July 14, 1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 65 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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: Brother of Gertrude Ross (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/read.html#246.02.01">George Read</a>) and Elizabeth Ross (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0633.html">Read family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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 George Ross (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 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=R000446">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409410">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Ross">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2775">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> Joseph Hewes (1730-1779) — of North Carolina. Born in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/07-09.html">July 9, 1730</a>. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1766-75, 1778-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina</a>, 1774-77, 1779; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/11-10.html">November 10, 1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 124 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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: Relative *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hessberg-hewson.html#010.06.45">Thomas Hewes</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=H000551">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405413">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Hewes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2773">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> Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) — of Bordentown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-lived.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1737/10-02.html">October 2, 1737</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1779; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#z">federal judge</a>, 1789. Designed the Stars and Stripes. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/05-09.html">May 9, 1791</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 219 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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: Married to the sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeague-mckechnie.html#162.71.08">Thomas McKean</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkinson-hormann.html#773.19.89">Joseph Hopkinson</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/10730.html">Hopkinson-McKean family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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=H000783">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405633">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis Hopkinson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/286/000102977">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2774">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> James Wilson (1742-1798) — of Reading, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-lived.html">Berks County</a>, Pa.; Carlisle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Pa.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Carskerdo, Fife, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/09-14.html">September 14, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1775; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1789-98; died in office 1798. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Edenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CW-died.html">Chowan County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/08-28.html">August 28, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 348 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CW-buried.html#cms04971">a private or family graveyard</a>, Chowan County, N.C.; reinterment in 1906 at Christ Church Burial Ground; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/11-05.html">November 5, 1771</a>, to Rachel Bird; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/">1793</a> to Hannah Gray.</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 James Wilson (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1964) 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=W000591">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411742">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2607&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Wilson (justice)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/James Wilson (U.S. Supreme Court)">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/122/000049972">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1682">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> Robert Morris (1734-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Liverpool, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/01-31.html">January 31, 1734</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1789-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Imprisoned</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">debt</a> from February 1798 to August 1801. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/05-08.html">May 8, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 97 days</a>). Entombed at Christ Church Burial Ground; statue at <a href="#cms07902">Independence National Historical Park</a>; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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 Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/03-02.html">March 2, 1769</a>, to Mary White; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#038.70.28">Thomas Morris</a> and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#122.98.15">James Markham Marshall</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#391.36.91">John Augustine Marshall</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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">Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and 1880s.</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=M000985">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407953">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Morris (financier)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/134/000049984">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/739">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 Robert Morris: Charles Rappleye, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416570918/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416570918&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution</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> Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) — also known as "Father of American Psychiatry" — of Pennsylvania. Born in Byberry Township (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/01-04.html">January 4, 1746</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1776-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/04-19.html">April 19, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 105 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/01-02.html">January 2, 1776</a>, to Julia Stockton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#568.05.78">Richard Stockton</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rush.html#102.29.97">Richard Rush</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/RU.html">Rush County, Ind.</a> is 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">Rush <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Street</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-names.html">Chicago, Illinois</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000514">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409473">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin Rush">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/598/000114256">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/915">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 Benjamin Rush: Alyn Brodsky, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312309112/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312309112&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Benjamin Rush : Patriot and Physician</a> — David Barton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0925279730/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0925279730&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Benjamin Rush</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">Benjamin Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence</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 Willing (1731-1821) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1731/12-19.html">December 19, 1731</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; city court justice, 1759; justice of the court of common pleas, 1761; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1763-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1767; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1775; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/01-19.html">January 19, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 31 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Anne (Shippen) Willing and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#921.55.52">Charles Willing</a>; brother of Elizabeth Willing (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/potterton-powe.html#685.77.79">Samuel Powel</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/">1763</a> to Anne McCall; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#157.96.59">William Shippen</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#860.88.84">Edward Shippen (1639-1712)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#393.56.68">Edward Shippen (1729-1806)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen (1823-1904)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell 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=W000556">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411712">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Willing">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595029">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 Morris Meredith (1799-1873) — also known as William M. Meredith — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/06-08.html">June 8, 1799</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1824-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1841-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1849-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1861-67. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/08-17.html">August 17, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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: Married to Catherine Keppele.</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/William Morris Meredith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/484/000209854">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11468047">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> Richard Bache (1737-1811) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Settle, Yorkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1737/09-12.html">September 12, 1737</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">marine</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a> business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1776-82. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-died.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/07-29.html">July 29, 1811</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 320 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/10-29.html">October 29, 1767</a>, to Sarah Franklin (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>); father of Deborah Franklin Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#138.28.12">William John Duane</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a>; grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#508.04.57">William Wallace Irwin</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#707.94.66">Elise du Pont</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/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Bache">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11323079">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> James Brown (1766-1835) — of Kentucky; New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-lived.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Born near Staunton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-born.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/09-11.html">September 11, 1766</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Kentucky</a>, 1791; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Kentucky</a>, 1792-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/trsc.html">secretary of Orleans Territory</a>, 1804; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Louisiana</a>, 1805-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Louisiana</a>, 1813-17, 1819-23; resigned 1823; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1823-29. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/04-07.html">April 7, 1835</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 208 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Rev. John Brown and Margaret (Preston) Brown; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a>; married to Ann Hart; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#223.53.09">James Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</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/10001-0021.html">Brown-Breckinridge family</a> of Lexington, Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000921">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401876">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Brown (Louisiana)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/brown-james ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9192007">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 Tilghman (1756-1827) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-lived.html">Talbot County</a>, Md.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-born.html">Talbot County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/08-12.html">August 12, 1756</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1788-90; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1791-93; Chief Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 3rd Circuit, 1801-02; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1806-27; died in office 1827; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1811. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/04-29.html">April 29, 1827</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 260 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Tilghman and Ann (Francis) Tilghman; married to Margaret Elizabeth Allen; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#934.19.64">Matthew Tilghman</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#665.06.14">Tench Tilghman</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#589.45.38">James Joseph Tilghman</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#733.37.87">Frisby Tilghman</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#402.58.29">Edward Tilghman Paca</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#445.18.18">Charles Carroll, Barrister</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd.html#357.70.69">Edward Lloyd (1744-1796)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd.html#127.30.15">Edward Lloyd (1779-1834)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#729.78.57">Philip Barton Key</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd.html#382.47.73">Henry Lloyd</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/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll 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://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2387&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11324748">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/tilghman-william">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</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> Pierce Butler (1744-1822) — of South Carolina. Born in County Carlow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/07-11.html">July 11, 1744</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1778-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of South Carolina</a>, 1779; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1789-96, 1802-04. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</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/1822/02-15.html">February 15, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 219 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms01873">St. Michael's Church Cemetery</a>, Charleston, S.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 Sir Richard Butler and Henrietta (Percy) Butler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/01-10.html">January 10, 1771</a>, to Mary Middleton (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#670.69.30">Henry Middleton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</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/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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 Pierce Butler (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; torpedoed and lost 1942 in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-names.html">Indian Ocean</a>) 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=B001186">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402128">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce Butler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/874/000180334">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2852">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> Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-born.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/12-29.html">December 29, 1760</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1794-1803; died in office 1803. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/05-09.html">May 9, 1803</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">42 years, 131 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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/mason.html#644.33.88">Thomson Mason</a> and Mary King (Barnes) Mason; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#809.44.86">John Thomson Mason (1765-1824)</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/05-01.html">May 1, 1783</a>, to Mary Elizabeth 'Polly' Armistead; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#006.07.06">John Thomson Mason (1787-1850)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#562.84.25">Armistead Thomson Mason</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#804.19.29">George Mason</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#481.33.98">John Thomson Mason Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#681.37.58">Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843)</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright5.html#282.90.68">Jerauld Wright</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#289.94.60">Thomson Francis Mason</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#092.76.53">James Murray Mason</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/10001-0880.html">Mason 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000226">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407244">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> James Forbes (c.1731-1780) — of Maryland. Born near Benedict, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CH-born.html">Charles County</a>, Md., about 1731. State court judge in Maryland, 1770; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1777-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland</a>, 1777-80; died in office 1780. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/03-25.html">March 25, 1780</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000256">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412149">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595054">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 Tazewell (1753-1799) — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1753/index.html">1753</a>. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1775; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cncb.html">delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1775; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Virginia state supreme court</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1794-99; died in office 1799. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/index.html">1799</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tazewell-temmey.html#824.37.52">Littleton Waller Tazewell</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/TZ.html">Tazewell County, Va.</a> is 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000107">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410689">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595106">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> Samuel Hardy (c.1758-1785) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/IW-born.html">Isle of Wight County</a>, Va., about 1758. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1778, 1780-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Virginia</a>, 1782; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1783-85; died in office 1785. Died while attending the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/legislative.html">Continental Congress</a> in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/10-17.html">October 17, 1785</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/27.html">about 27 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HR.html">Hardy County, W.Va.</a> is 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000199">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412154">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595308">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 Henry Drayton (1742-1779) — of South Carolina. Born near Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/09-20.html">September 20, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1778-79; died in office 1779. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/09-03.html">September 3, 1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Drayton and Charlotta (Bull) Drayton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/03-29.html">March 29, 1764</a>, to Dorothy Golightly; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#786.16.27">John Drayton (1766-1822)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#873.60.45">John Drayton (1831-1912)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#021.74.00">William Drayton</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/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000491">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403599">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595437">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> Samuel John Atlee (1739-1786) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/index.html">1739</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1778-82; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1782, 1785-86. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died at a session of the Pennsylvania <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/legislative.html">Assembly</a> at Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/11-25.html">November 25, 1786</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">about 47 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000333">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400982">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6433582">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 Smith (1745-1809) — of Pennsylvania. Born near Cruden, Aberdeenshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/index.html">1745</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1776-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1781-82; common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1791; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1794-1809; died in office 1809. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/03-31.html">March 31, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">about 63 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000616">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595615">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> John Meredith Read (1797-1874) — also known as John M. Read — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/07-21.html">July 21, 1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1823-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1837-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1858-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1872-73. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/11-29.html">November 29, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 131 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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/read.html#462.57.15">John Read</a> and Martha (Meredith) Read; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/03-20.html">March 20, 1828</a>, to Priscilla Marshall; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/07-26.html">July 26, 1855</a>, to Amelia Thomson (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomson.html#615.99.27">John Renshaw Thomson</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/read.html#200.81.14">John Meredith Read Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/read.html#246.02.01">George Read</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meredith.html#669.47.47">Samuel Meredith</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/10001-0633.html">Read family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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 M. Read">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13341442">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> Jacob Broom (1752-1810) — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1752/10-17.html">October 17, 1752</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/surveyor.html">Surveyor</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/wilmington.html#2">Wilmington, Del.</a>, 1776-92; member of Delaware state legislature, 1784-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton mill business</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/04-25.html">April 25, 1810</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Broom and Esther (Willis) Broom; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1773/">1773</a> to Rachel Pierce; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#793.83.41">James Madison Broom</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#118.51.72">Jacob Broom (1808-1864)</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/10170.html">Broom family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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/Jacob Broom">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11831771">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> Tench Coxe (1755-1824) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1755/05-22.html">May 22, 1755</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1789. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/07-17.html">July 17, 1824</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 56 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000842">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402959">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595515">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> John Cadwalader (1805-1879) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/04-01.html">April 1, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1855-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1858-79; died in office 1879. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/01-26.html">January 26, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 300 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Cadwalader and Mary (Biddle) Cadwalader; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/10-18.html">October 18, 1828</a>, to Mary Binney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/12-10.html">December 10, 1833</a>, to Henrietta Maria Bancker; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#888.67.06">Lambert Cadwalader</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#885.35.89">Benjamin Chew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#769.86.48">Alfred Wells</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#296.88.63">George Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#762.57.32">Benjamin Chew Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Dallas</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle 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/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll 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=C000011">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402173">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=346&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Cadwalader (jurist)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John Cadwalader">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11462574">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> John Dennis (1771-1806) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WO-lived.html">Worcester County</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/12-17.html">December 17, 1771</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1793-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a>, 1797-1805 (8th District 1797-1801, at-large 1801-05). Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/08-17.html">August 17, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 243 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Littleton Dennis (1728-1774) and Susanna (Upshur) Dennis; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dennis.html#870.42.08">Littleton Dennis (1765-1833)</a>; married to Elinor Jackson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dennis.html#103.23.42">John Dennis (1807-1859)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dennis.html#669.68.43">Littleton Purnell Dennis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#727.43.86">Edward Southey White</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#572.87.02">King Valentine Dennis White</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white5.html#126.71.94">John Edward White</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white9.html#574.61.24">Wallace Henry White</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white1.html#924.76.92">Arthur Percival White</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#778.27.72">Edward Homer White 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10400.html">White-Dennis-Adkins family</a> of Maryland.</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=D000243">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403381">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595564">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> Joseph Clay (1769-1811) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/07-24.html">July 24, 1769</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1803-08. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/08-27.html">August 27, 1811</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">42 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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: Married to Mary Ashmead.</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=C000486">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402624">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7955493">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> John Goddard Watmough (1793-1861) — also known as John G. Watmough — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/index.html">1793</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1831-35; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1841-44. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/index.html">1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">about 68 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000195">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411366">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7595468">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> Walter Patterson (d. 1852) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-lived.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Columbia County, 1817-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 5th District, 1821-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-officials.html">Columbia County Judge</a>, 1828. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/11-05.html">November 5, 1852</a>. Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Catherine (Livingston) Patterson and John Patterson.</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=P000131">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412085">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11323366">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> Michael Woolston Ash (1789-1858) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/03-05.html">March 5, 1789</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1835-37. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/12-14.html">December 14, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 284 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000305">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400947">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7596687">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> James Biddle (1783-1848) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/02-18.html">February 18, 1783</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-diplomats.html ">Cuba</a>, 1822. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/10-01.html">October 1, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 226 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a> and Hannah (Shepard) Biddle; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#416.99.59">John Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#340.29.58">Edward Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#336.94.27">George Ross Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#671.41.51">Robert Spencer Scull</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#324.72.01">Charles Elam Scull</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#689.47.53">Samuel Scull</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/biddle-james ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7743519">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> Charles Biddle (1745-1821) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/12-24.html">December 24, 1745</a>. Served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/vp.html">Vice-President of Pennsylvania</a>, 1785-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/soc.html">secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania</a>, 1787-91; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1810-14. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/04-04.html">April 4, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 101 days</a>). Entombed at Christ Church Burial Ground. <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 Biddle III and Mary (Scull) Biddle; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/11-25.html">November 25, 1778</a>, to Hannah Shepard; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#416.99.59">John Scull</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#340.29.58">Edward Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#336.94.27">George Ross Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#671.41.51">Robert Spencer Scull</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#324.72.01">Charles Elam Scull</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#689.47.53">Samuel Scull</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bully-bunker.html#217.17.73">David Thayer Bunker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#316.72.09">Wallace Raymond Crumb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#247.80.97">David Scull</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Charles Biddle">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8696865">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00595">Emanuel Protestant Episcopal Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Albert Castor (1855-1906) — also known as George A. Castor — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Holmesburg (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-06.html">August 6, 1855</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1904-06; died in office 1906. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/02-19.html">February 19, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 197 days</a>). Interment at Emanuel Protestant Episcopal Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000244">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402388">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03695">First Baptist Churchyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Ward (1725-1776) — of Westerly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, R.I. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1725/05-27.html">May 27, 1725</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1762-63, 1765-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island</a>, 1774-76; died in office 1776. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/03-26.html">March 26, 1776</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 304 days</a>). Original interment at First Baptist Churchyard; reinterment in 1860 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-buried.html#cms00525">Common Burying Ground</a>, Newport, R.I. <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/ward7.html#212.89.96">Richard Ward</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=W000140">congressional biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">First Presbyterian Church</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Shippen (1729-1806) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1729/02-16.html">February 16, 1729</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1791; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1799-1806. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/04-16.html">April 16, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 59 days</a>). Interment at First Presbyterian Church. <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/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a> and Sarah (Plumley) Shippen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1753/11-29.html">November 29, 1753</a>, to Margaret Francis; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#157.96.59">William Shippen</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen (1823-1904)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#860.88.84">Edward Shippen (1639-1712)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0699.html">Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Edward Shippen IV">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/45596126">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01756">First Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas McKean (1734-1817) — of New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New London Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-born.html">Chester County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/03-19.html">March 19, 1734</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/colasb.html">Delaware colonial Assembly</a>, 1765-76; common pleas court judge in Delaware, 1765-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1774-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/hsas.html">Delaware house of assembly</a>, 1777-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pres.html">President of Delaware</a>, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1777-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Articles of Confederation</a>, 1781; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1789-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1799-1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a> by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1807, but no trial was ever held. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/06-24.html">June 24, 1817</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 97 days</a>). Original interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery; reinterment in 1843 at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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 William McKean and Letitia (Finley) McKean; married to the sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkinson-hormann.html#999.46.65">Francis Hopkinson</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/">1763</a> to Mary Borden; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/">1774</a> to Sarah Armitage.</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/10730.html">Hopkinson-McKean family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MK.html">McKean County, Pa.</a> is 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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeegan-mckenty.html#406.29.47">Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pettit.html#402.38.03">Thomas McKean Pettit</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=M000493">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407488">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-mckean-3/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas McKean">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> Michael Keppele (1771-1821) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/09-09.html">September 9, 1771</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1811-12. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/02-02.html">February 2, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 146 days</a>). Original interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery; reinterment in 1847 at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>. <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: Married to Catherine Caldwell; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://findagrave.com/memorial/44297072">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05052">Free Quaker Burial Ground</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Timothy Matlack (1730-1829) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Haddonfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-born.html">Camden County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/03-28.html">March 28, 1730</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/soc.html">secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania</a>, 1777-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1780. Died in Holmesburg (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-14.html">April 14, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/99.html">99 years, 17 days</a>). Original interment at Free Quaker Burial Ground; reinterment in 1905 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms04912">a private or family graveyard</a>, Montgomery County, Pa. <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 Timothy Matlack (1695-1752) and Martha (Burr) Matlack; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/10-05.html">October 5, 1758</a>, to Ellen Yarnall; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haines.html#875.10.21">Caspar Wistar Haines</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathewson-matthaei.html#109.05.46">James Matlack</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/19225.html">Matlack-Whitall family</a> of Woodbury, New Jersey.</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=M000246">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407264">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03363">Friends Fair Hill Burying Ground</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Morris Davis (1815-1891) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Keene Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/08-16.html">August 16, 1815</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/PA.html">1856</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1861-63. Died in Keene Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/08-05.html">August 5, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at Friends Fair Hill Burying Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000143">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403276">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01404">Friends Western Burial Ground</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Thomas (1744-1832) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/index.html">1744</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1795-1801. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/index.html">1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">about 88 years</a>). Interment at Friends Western Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000183">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410764">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01184">Friends' Arch Street Burial Ground</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Waln (1765-1836) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/index.html">1765</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1798-1801. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/index.html">1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 years</a>). Interment at Friends' Arch Street Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000094">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411273">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01915">Glenwood Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Jones Rogers (1781-1832) — also known as Thomas J. Rogers — of Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NO-lived.html">Northampton County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/index.html">1781</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 8th District, 1815-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1818-24 (6th District 1818-23, 8th District 1823-24). Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/12-07.html">December 7, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms03681">New Market Street Baptist Church Graveyard</a>; reinterment in 1851 at Glenwood Cemetery. <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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rogers9.html#400.56.10">William Findlay Rogers</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=R000403">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409370">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01673">Gloria Dei Church Burial Ground</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Irvine (1741-1804) — of Carlisle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Pa.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in County Fermanagh, Ireland (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-born.html">Northern Ireland</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/11-03.html">November 3, 1741</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1786-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 7th District, 1793-95. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/07-29.html">July 29, 1804</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 269 days</a>). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1952 at Gloria Dei Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000035">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405892">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Irvine (general)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21243068">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 Smith (d. 1846) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1806-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1815-17. Died in Darby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-died.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/01-29.html">January 29, 1846</a>. Interment at Gloria Dei Church Burial Ground. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000617">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412103">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7666506">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07902">Independence National Historical Park</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Morris (1734-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Liverpool, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/01-31.html">January 31, 1734</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1789-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Imprisoned</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">debt</a> from February 1798 to August 1801. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/05-08.html">May 8, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 97 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="#cms00050">Christ Church Burial Ground</a>; statue at Independence National Historical Park; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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 Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/03-02.html">March 2, 1769</a>, to Mary White; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#038.70.28">Thomas Morris</a> and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#122.98.15">James Markham Marshall</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#391.36.91">John Augustine Marshall</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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">Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and 1880s.</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=M000985">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407953">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Morris (financier)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/134/000049984">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/739">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 Robert Morris: Charles Rappleye, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416570918/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416570918&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05958">Ivy Hill Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Thomas Harrison (c.1849-1903) — also known as John T. Harrison — of Germantown, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born about 1849. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> from Philadelphia County, 1891-96, 1901-02; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 4th District, 1903; died in office 1903. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/12-18.html">December 18, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03353">Ivy Hill Mausoleum</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Potter Darrow (1859-1943) — also known as George P. Darrow — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Waterford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/02-04.html">February 4, 1859</a>. Republican. Member, board of managers, Mutual <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Fire Insurance</a> Company of Germantown; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1915-37, 1939-41 (6th District 1915-23, 7th District 1923-37, 1939-41). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/06-07.html">June 7, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 123 days</a>). Interment at Ivy Hill Mausoleum. <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 Edmund Darrow and Elizabeth (Potter) Darrow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/02-08.html">February 8, 1887</a>, to Sarah Johnson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/09-16.html">September 16, 1897</a>, to Elizabeth Shore.</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=D000063">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403202">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a> 3822 Ridge Avenue Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Founded 1836 Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1977 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=45266&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Strumberg Stokley (1823-1902) — also known as William S. Stokley — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/index.html">1823</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1872-81; defeated, 1881. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/02-21.html">February 21, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Entombed at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/35645587">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> Richard Rush (1780-1859) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/08-29.html">August 29, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1814-17; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1847-49; received one electoral vote for Vice-President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1820.html">1820</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1825-29; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1828. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/07-30.html">July 30, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 335 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/rush.html#580.80.22">Benjamin Rush</a> and Julia (Stockton) Rush; married to Catherine E. Murray.</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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/Richard Rush">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/rush-richard ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/601/000114259">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22740">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 Richard Rush: Anthony Mark Brescia, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007F08UU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007F08UU&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Richard Rush and the French Revolution of 1848</a> — J. H. Powell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007ESCQS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007ESCQS&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Richard Rush, Republican diplomat, 1780-1859</a> — Douglas Dykstra, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007AEMAM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007AEMAM&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Richard Rush ministry to Great Britain, 1818-1825</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> Hilary Baker (1746-1798) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/02-21.html">February 21, 1746</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hardware.html">Hardware merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1796-98; died in office 1798. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/09-25.html">September 25, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 216 days</a>). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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: Married to Anna Maria Kreider.</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/Hilary Baker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14588175">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> John Barker (c.1746-1818) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born about 1746. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">tailor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-officials.html">Philadelphia County Sheriff</a>, 1794-97, 1803-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1808-10, 1812-13. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/04-03.html">April 3, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Barker; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barie-barker.html#769.19.00">James Nelson Barker</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 Barker (Philadelphia)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/42982159">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> Benjamin Wood Richards (1797-1851) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-born.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/11-12.html">November 12, 1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1829, 1830-32. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/07-12.html">July 12, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 242 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Richards and Margueretta (Wood) Richards; married to Sarah Ann Lippincott; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rossdale-rotan.html#463.89.32">William Henry Rossell</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#707.94.66">Elise du Pont</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rossdale-rotan.html#859.48.88">William Trent Rossell</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/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0520.html">Rossell-Ellis-Conger-Richards family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11893642">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> Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-1858) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/06-10.html">June 10, 1810</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1854-56. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a> of poems and plays. Died, of apoplexy (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/06-17.html">June 17, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#023.12.72">Thomas Kittera</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/10617.html">Kittera-Conrad family</a> of Lancaster and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/415/68.41.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Edwin H. Fitler"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edwin Henry Fitler (1825-1896) — also known as Edwin H. Fitler — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Kensington (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/12-02.html">December 2, 1825</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Rope and cordage manufacturer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1887-91; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/index.html">1888</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in Torresdale, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/05-31.html">May 31, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 181 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Fitler and Elizabeth (Wonderly) Fitler; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/">1850</a> to Josephine R. Baker; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#989.75.85">Margaretta Large Fitler</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#729.26.37">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</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/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller 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 Edwin H. Fitler <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1897-98), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Fitler Square, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">public park</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin Henry Fitler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14118024">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=23524">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">Image source: Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 1888</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> Samuel George King (1816-1899) — also known as Samuel King — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/index.html">1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1881-84; defeated, 1884. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/index.html">1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">about 83 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Vaux (1816-1895) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/index.html">1816</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1856-58; defeated, 1854, 1858; member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1890-91. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/index.html">1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000078">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411135">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> John Edgar Reyburn (1845-1914) — also known as John E. Reyburn — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New Carlisle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CK-born.html">Clark County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-07.html">February 7, 1845</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> from Philadelphia County, 1871, 1874-76; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 5th District, 1877-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1890-97, 1906-07 (4th District 1890-97, 2nd District 1906-07); candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1907-11. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/index.html">1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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: Married to Margretta Crozier; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/resa-reynold.html#301.73.85">William Stuart Reyburn</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=R000168">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409145">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3GQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128-IA3"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/625/73.05.jpg" width=70 height=84 border=0 alt="Samuel J. Randall"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Jackson Randall (1828-1890) — also known as Samuel J. Randall; "The Great Commoner" — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/10-10.html">October 10, 1828</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 1st District, 1858-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1863-90 (1st District 1863-75, 3rd District 1875-90); died in office 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1876-81; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/index.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/index.html">1884</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">septicemia</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/04-13.html">April 13, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 185 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000039">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409020">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel J. Randall">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/104/000049954">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">Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)</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 McKean (1734-1817) — of New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New London Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-born.html">Chester County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/03-19.html">March 19, 1734</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/colasb.html">Delaware colonial Assembly</a>, 1765-76; common pleas court judge in Delaware, 1765-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1774-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/hsas.html">Delaware house of assembly</a>, 1777-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pres.html">President of Delaware</a>, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1777-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Articles of Confederation</a>, 1781; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1789-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1799-1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a> by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1807, but no trial was ever held. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/06-24.html">June 24, 1817</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 97 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms01756">First Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a>; reinterment in 1843 at Laurel Hill Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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 William McKean and Letitia (Finley) McKean; married to the sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkinson-hormann.html#999.46.65">Francis Hopkinson</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/">1763</a> to Mary Borden; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/">1774</a> to Sarah Armitage.</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/10730.html">Hopkinson-McKean family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MK.html">McKean County, Pa.</a> is 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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeegan-mckenty.html#406.29.47">Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pettit.html#402.38.03">Thomas McKean Pettit</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=M000493">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407488">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-mckean-3/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas McKean">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> Michael Keppele (1771-1821) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/09-09.html">September 9, 1771</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1811-12. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/02-02.html">February 2, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 146 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms01756">First Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a>; reinterment in 1847 at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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: Married to Catherine Caldwell; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://findagrave.com/memorial/44297072">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> James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/06-17.html">June 17, 1784</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Playwright</a>; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; severely wounded in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a>, 1814; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1819-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/PAcc nPH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1829-38. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/03-09.html">March 9, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 265 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/barie-barker.html#367.48.09">John Barker</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/dames Nelson Barker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/77892238">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 Dilworth Gilpin (1801-1860) — also known as Henry D. Gilpin — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Lancaster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/04-14.html">April 14, 1801</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1831-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1840-41. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/01-29.html">January 29, 1860</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Joshua Gilpin and Mary (Dilworth) Gilpin; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmour-givhan.html#027.89.53">William Gilpin</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 D. Gilpin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21801">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 John Duane (1780-1865) — Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/05-09.html">May 9, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1809, 1812-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1833. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/09-27.html">September 27, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 141 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Catherine (Corcoran) Duane and William Duane; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/12-31.html">December 31, 1805</a>, to Deborah Franklin Bache (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#869.81.95">Richard Bache</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>); third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#707.94.66">Elise du Pont</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/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0520.html">Rossell-Ellis-Conger-Richards family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William J. Duane">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/501/000209871">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31438846">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> Ebenezer Hazard (1745-1817) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/01-15.html">January 15, 1745</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Publisher</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#2">New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1775-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1782-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/06-13.html">June 13, 1817</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 149 days</a>). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Hazard and Catherine (Clarkson) Hazard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/10-18.html">October 18, 1783</a>, to Abigail Arthur; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#405.45.96">Erskine Hazard</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#615.47.93">John Alsop</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#735.94.39">John Alsop King</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#639.10.19">James Gore King</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king3.html#075.68.15">Edward King</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#455.80.42">Rufus King (1814-1876)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#506.81.76">Rufus King (1817-1891)</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#522.22.57">Frederick B. Piatt</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#233.50.73">Benjamin Hazard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#023.20.47">Nathaniel Hazard</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#927.13.32">Augustus George Hazard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#931.69.74">Samuel Austin Gager</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peckham-peisner.html#733.67.18">Rufus Wheeler Peckham</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peckham-peisner.html#571.37.59">Rufus Wheeler Peckham Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#972.80.44">Benjamin Hard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#472.46.19">Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#582.50.39">Reuben Bostwick Heacock</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#922.40.73">Gideon Hard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#667.79.10">Graham Hurd Chapin</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <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/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts (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/Ebenezer Hazard">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/42714200">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> Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904-1974) — also known as Charles E. Bohlen; Chip Bohlen — of Ipswich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Clayton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/08-30.html">August 30, 1904</a>. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-consuls.html ">Prague</a>, 1929-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Paris</a>, 1931-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Moscow</a>, 1934; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Moscow</a>, 1938-40; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SV-diplomats.html ">Soviet Union</a>, 1953-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-diplomats.html ">Philippines</a>, 1957-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1962-68. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, at Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a> Center, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/01-01.html">January 1, 1974</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 124 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Bohlen and Celestine (Eustis) Bohlen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to Avis Howard Thayer (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#034.25.16">Charles Wheeler Thayer</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boghos-boker.html#906.18.67">Avis Thayer Bohlen</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/estevan-evanoff.html#766.79.92">James Biddle Eustis</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/10001-0622.html">Bohlen-Eustis-Thayer family</a> of Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Charles E. Bohlen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bohlen-charles-eustis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/578/000119221">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21661">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 Charles Bohlen: Walter Isaacson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684837714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684837714&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made</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 Sergeant (1779-1852) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/12-05.html">December 5, 1779</a>. Republican. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1810; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1815-23, 1827-29, 1837-41 (1st District 1815-23, 2nd District 1827-29, 1837-41); National Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1832. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/11-23.html">November 23, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/sena-serphin.html#456.80.86">Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant</a> and Margaret (Spencer) Sergeant; married to Margaretta Watmough; father of Margaretta Sergeant (who married of Gen. George Gordon Meade); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wise.html#941.53.87">Richard Alsop Wise</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wise.html#931.71.46">John Sergeant Wise</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#433.80.17">John Crain Kunkel</a>; third great-grandfather of Margaretta 'Happy' Fitler (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#729.26.37">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#989.75.85">Happy Rockefeller</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/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller 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 John Sergeant (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; scrapped 1972) 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=S000246">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409749">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23305">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> John Robbins Jr. (1808-1880) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/index.html">1808</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1849-55, 1875-77 (4th District 1849-53, 3rd District 1853-55, 5th District 1875-77); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1860. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/index.html">1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000301">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409273">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> Adolph Edward Borie (1809-1880) — also known as Adolph E. Borie — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/11-25.html">November 25, 1809</a>. President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Commerce, Philadelphia, 1848-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1869. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/02-05.html">February 5, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 72 days</a>). Entombed at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Joseph Borie and Sophia (Beauveau) Borie; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/">1839</a> to Elizabeth Dundas McKean.</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/Adolph E. Borie">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15042131">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/725/40.36.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Boies Penrose"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Boies Penrose (1860-1921) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/11-01.html">November 1, 1860</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> from Philadelphia County 8th District, 1885-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 6th District, 1887-98; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/PA.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/PA.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/PA.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/PA.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1897-1921; died in office 1921; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/PA.html">Pennsylvania Republican state chair</a>, 1903-04; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/PA.html">Republican National Committee from Pennsylvania</a>, 1904-21. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/12-31.html">December 31, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 60 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery; statue erected 1930 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-buried.html#cms07592">Capitol Park</a>, Harrisburg, Pa. <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 A. F. Penrose and Sarah Hanna (Boies) Penrose; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#416.99.59">John Scull</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#340.29.58">Edward Scull</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#336.94.27">George Ross Scull</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#671.41.51">Robert Spencer Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000217">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408620">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/529/000173010">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">Image source: Munsey's Magazine, June 1919</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> Joseph Reed (1741-1785) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/08-27.html">August 27, 1741</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1778; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pres.html">President of Pennsylvania</a>, 1778-81. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/03-05.html">March 5, 1785</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 190 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms02003">Arch Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a>; reinterment in 1867 at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Andrew Reed and Theodosia (Bowes) Reed; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed1.html#958.46.07">Bowes R. Reed</a> and Sarah Reed (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pettit.html#204.97.98">Charles Pettit</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/18975.html">Reed family</a> of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.</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=R000123">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409102">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joseph-reed/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Reed (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20308">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> Wharton Barker (1846-1921) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-01.html">May 1, 1846</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; People's candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1900. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/04-09.html">April 9, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 343 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Abraham Barker and Sarah (Wharton) Barker; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/">1867</a> to Margaret Corlies; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanwood-starin.html#232.90.08">George Benjamin Starbuck</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#032.33.79">Thomas Mott Osborne</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#417.76.61">Charles Devens Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#039.21.18">Lithgow Osborne</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fogleson-folse.html#343.91.75">Charles James Folger</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton Barker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21731208">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> Edward Joy Morris (1815-1881) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/07-16.html">July 16, 1815</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1841; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1843-45, 1857-61 (1st District 1843-45, 2nd District 1857-61); U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-diplomats.html ">Two Sicilies</a>, 1850-53; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1861-70. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/12-31.html">December 31, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 168 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000975">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407943">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/morris-edward-joy">U.S. State Dept career summary</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 Henry Boker (1823-1890) — also known as George H. Boker — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/10-06.html">October 6, 1823</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">poet</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1871-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-diplomats.html ">Russia</a>, 1875-78. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">throat infection</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/01-02.html">January 2, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 S. Boker; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/">1844</a> to Julia Mandeville Riggs.</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/boker-george-henry ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/760/000048616">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28849603">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 Harrison Bingham (1841-1912) — also known as Henry H. Bingham — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/12-04.html">December 4, 1841</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html#2">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1867-72; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/PA.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/PA.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/PA.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/PA.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/PA.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a> (alternate; chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/PA.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1879-1912; died in office 1912. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> in 1893 for action at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/03-22.html">March 22, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 109 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BI.html">Bingham County, Idaho</a> is 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000469">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401450">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3632">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> James Page (1795-1875) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/03-08.html">March 8, 1795</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html#2">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1833-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/PAcc nPH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1846-49. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arch-masons.html">Royal Arch Masons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/04-05.html">April 5, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Stephen Page and Mary Page.</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/67508493">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 Sharswood (1810-1883) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-07.html">July 7, 1810</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1837; district judge in Pennsylvania, 1845-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1868-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1879-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/05-28.html">May 28, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS George Sharswood (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; scrapped 1962) 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">Epitaph: "This monument, erected by membes of the Philadelphia bar, commemorates the genius and virtues of one distinguished as a legal author and professor of law, President Judge of the District Court, Associate and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania."</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/George Sharswood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11654435">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> Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746-1793) — Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/index.html">1746</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1777-80. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/10-08.html">October 8, 1793</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">about 47 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms03684">Presbyterian Churchyard</a>; reinterment in 1878 at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Abigail (Dickinson) Sergeant and Jonathan Sergeant; married to Margaret Spencer and Elizabeth Rittenhouse (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/riter-rivero.html#398.76.53">David Rittenhouse</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#790.50.08">John Sergeant</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#433.80.17">John Crain Kunkel</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#989.75.85">Happy Rockefeller</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#745.32.90">Edwin W. Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#281.35.23">Samuel Herbert Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#639.70.53">Charles E. Wooster</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/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0426.html">Sergeant-Whitehill-Kunkel-Spencer family</a> of Pennsylvania (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=S000247">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409750">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23306">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 Biddle (1827-1875) — of Pennsylvania. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/01-02.html">January 2, 1827</a>. U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-diplomats.html ">Cuba</a>, 1866; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EL-diplomats.html ">Salvador</a>, 1871-73. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EC-died.html">Ecuador</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/04-07.html">April 7, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 95 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Caldwell (Keppele) Biddle and James Cornell Biddle; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/11-07.html">November 7, 1861</a>, to Sarah Frederica White; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kenton-kerns.html#141.58.00">Michael Keppele</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle 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/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell 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://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/biddle-thomas ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44297201">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> Alexander Cummings (1810-1879) — also known as "Old Straw Hat" — of Colorado. Born in Williamsport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LY-born.html">Lycoming County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/11-17.html">November 17, 1810</a>. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Colorado Territory</a>, 1865-67. Died in Ottawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-died.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/07-16.html">July 16, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 241 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Adams Jr. (1849-1906) — also known as Bertie Adams — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/02-26.html">February 26, 1849</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 6th District, 1883-86; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-diplomats.html ">Brazil</a>, 1889-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1893-1906; died in office 1906; drafted and introduced the declaration of war against Spain, 1898. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-war-1812.html">Sons of the War of 1812</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Despondent over heavy losses in stock speculation and the prospect of defeat at the polls, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">pistol shot</a>, in his rooms at the Metropolitan Club, and died soon after in Emergency <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/06-01.html">June 1, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 95 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000044">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400705">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Adams Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/adams-robert">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/763/000118409">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21655">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 Miller Watts (1805-1890) — also known as Henry M. Watts — of Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Carlisle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/10-10.html">October 10, 1805</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1835-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1842-45; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1868-69. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/11-30.html">November 30, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 51 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 David Watts and Juliana (Miller) Watts; brother of Julianna Watts (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/">1838</a> to Anna Maria Schoenberger; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watts.html#763.46.35">Ethelbert Watts</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/watts-henry-miller ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/93254547">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> Persifor Frazer Smith (1798-1858) — also known as Persifor F. Smith — Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/11-16.html">November 16, 1798</a>. General in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/milgov.html">Military Governor of California</a>. Died in Leavenworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/LV-died.html">Leavenworth County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/05-17.html">May 17, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 182 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/04-18.html">April 18, 1854</a>, to Ann M. Millard.</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/Persifor Frazer Smith">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> Joseph Hemphill (1770-1842) — of West Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-lived.html">Chester County</a>, Pa.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Thornbury Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-born.html">Chester County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/01-07.html">January 7, 1770</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1797-1800, 1805, 1831-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1801-03, 1819-26, 1829-31 (3rd District 1801-03, 1st District 1819-23, 2nd District 1823-26, 3rd District 1829-31). Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/05-29.html">May 29, 1842</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000470">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405333">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21809">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 Darrah Kelley (1814-1890) — also known as William D. Kelley; "Pig-Iron Kelley" — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/04-12.html">April 12, 1814</a>. Republican. State court judge in Pennsylvania, 1846; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/PA.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 4th District, 1861-90; died in office 1890; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/index.html">1868</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/01-09.html">January 9, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 272 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000062">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406232">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/469/000204854">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> Robert Hermann Foerderer (1860-1903) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Frankenhausen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/05-16.html">May 16, 1860</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1901-03 (at-large 1901-03, 4th District 1903); died in office 1903. Died in Torresdale, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/07-26.html">July 26, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000232">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404187">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> William Drayton (1776-1846) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in St. Augustine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SJ-born.html">St. Johns County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/12-30.html">December 30, 1776</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1806-08; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1825-33. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-24.html">May 24, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 145 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Drayton (1732-1790) and Mary (Motte) Drayton; married to Maria Miles Heyard; nephew of Sarah Katherine Motte (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#934.25.05">Thomas Shubrick</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mottashed-moultin.html#963.10.30">Isaac Motte</a> and Charlotte Motte (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#717.87.78">William Henry Drayton</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#786.16.27">John Drayton (1766-1822)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#873.60.45">John Drayton (1831-1912)</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/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000490">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403598">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Drayton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21786">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 Millward (1822-1871) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/index.html">1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1855-57, 1859-61 (3rd District 1855-57, 4th District 1859-61). Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/index.html">1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000782">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407760">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> Charles Brown (1797-1883) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/09-23.html">September 23, 1797</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1830-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1834; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 2nd District, 1838-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1841-43, 1847-49 (1st District 1841-43, 3rd District 1847-49); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/PAcc nPH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1853-57. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/09-04.html">September 4, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 346 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shuldberg-shuttleworth.html#838.10.17">Francis Rawn Shunk</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#026.03.06">Francis Shunk Brown</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#858.17.90">Francis Shunk Brown 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10487.html">Findlay-Brown family</a> of Pennsylvania.</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=B000906">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401863">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> Jonathan Williams (1750-1815) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/05-20.html">May 20, 1750</a>. Secretary to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>, 1770-75; first superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1815; died in office 1815. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-16.html">May 16, 1815</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 361 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="# ">Pine Street Cemetery</a>; reinterment in 1862 at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">neighborhood</a> of Williamsburg, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000523">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411680">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan Williams (engineer)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7863652">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> John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858) — also known as John K. Kane — of Pennsylvania. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/05-16.html">May 16, 1795</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1824-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1845-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1846. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/02-21.html">February 21, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/04-20.html">April 20, 1819</a>, to Jane Duval Leiper (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#526.66.22">George Gray Leiper</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#965.40.05">Elisha Kent Kane</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/26739.html">Kane-Leiper family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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/6433401">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> Lewis Charles Levin (1808-1860) — also known as Lewis C. Levin — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/11-10.html">November 10, 1808</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1845-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/03-14.html">March 14, 1860</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000262">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406764">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> George Washington Toland (1796-1869) — also known as George W. Toland — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/index.html">1796</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 1st District, 1834-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1837-43. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/index.html">1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000296">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410869">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> Joel Cook (1842-1910) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/03-20.html">March 20, 1842</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1907-10; died in office 1910. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/12-15.html">December 15, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000718">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402841">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> George Deardorff McCreary (1846-1915) — also known as George D. McCreary — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in York Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AD-born.html">Adams County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/09-28.html">September 28, 1846</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 6th District, 1903-13. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/07-20.html">July 20, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 295 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 B. McCreary; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/06-18.html">June 18, 1878</a>, to Kate R. Howell.</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=M000381">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407384">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> Charles Naylor (1806-1872) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/10-06.html">October 6, 1806</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1837-41; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/12-24.html">December 24, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 79 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000011">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408105">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> James Harper (1780-1873) — of Pennsylvania. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/03-28.html">March 28, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1833-37. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/03-31.html">March 31, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000221">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405099">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> Job Roberts Tyson (1803-1858) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/index.html">1803</a>. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1855-57. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/index.html">1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">about 55 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000454">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411022">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> George Nicholas Eckert (1802-1865) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Womelsdorf, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-born.html">Berks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/07-04.html">July 4, 1802</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 14th District, 1847-49. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/06-28.html">June 28, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000034">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403729">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> Owen Jones (1819-1878) — of Pennsylvania. Born near Ardmore, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-born.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/12-29.html">December 29, 1819</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1857-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/PA.html">1860</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/12-25.html">December 25, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 361 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000245">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406138">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> David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/04-08.html">April 8, 1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">Astronomer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">mathematician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clocks.html">clockmaker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/surveyor.html">surveyor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/trea.html">Pennsylvania state treasurer</a>, 1777-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> director of the U.S. Mint. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/06-26.html">June 26, 1796</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 79 days</a>). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Matthias Rittenhouse and Elizabeth (Williams) Rittenhouse; married to Eleanor Coulston and Hannah Jacobs; father of Elizabeth Rittenhouse (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#456.80.86">Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant</a>); second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myers.html#855.43.82">Barton Myers</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#318.55.49">Robert Baldwin cyers</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/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0426.html">Sergeant-Whitehill-Kunkel-Spencer family</a> of Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0359.html">Myers family</a> of Norfolk, 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">Rittenhouse <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Square</a> (originally Southwest Square; renamed 1825) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Rittenhouse, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">crater on the Moon</a>, about 26 km (16 miles) in diameter, 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.nndb.com/people/172/000172653">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22735">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> Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (1838-1903) — also known as Robert J. C. Walker — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Williamsport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LY-lived.html">Lycoming County</a>, Pa. Born near West Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-born.html">Chester County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/10-20.html">October 20, 1838</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">magazine publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil producer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">land</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">coal mining</a> business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 16th District, 1881-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/chemical.html">chemist</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/12-19.html">December 19, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 60 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000066">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411245">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> Frederick Halterman (1831-1907) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/10-22.html">October 22, 1831</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1895-97. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/03-22.html">March 22, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000093">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404975">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> William Stuart Reyburn (1882-1946) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/12-17.html">December 17, 1882</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> from Philadelphia County, 1909-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1911-13. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html">Delta Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/index.html">1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">about 63 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/resa-reynold.html#131.39.74">John Edgar Reyburn</a> and Margretta (Crozier) Reyburn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/06-10.html">June 10, 1911</a>, to Georgie Fontaine Maury.</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=R000169">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409146">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> John Moffet (1831-1884) — of Pennsylvania. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/04-05.html">April 5, 1831</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1869. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/06-19.html">June 19, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 75 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000838">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407812">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> William Henry Kemble (d. 1891) — also known as William H. Kemble — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/trea.html">Pennsylvania state treasurer</a>, 1865-68; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/PA.html">Republican National Committee from Pennsylvania</a>, 1868-. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/09-26.html">September 26, 1891</a>. Entombed at Laurel Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/461/40.05.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Edward Shippen"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Shippen (1823-1904) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/11-16.html">November 16, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1872-88, 1892-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CE-consuls.html">Consul for Chile</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1872-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EC-consuls.html">Consul for Ecuador</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1873-97. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/03-14.html">March 14, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 119 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Dr. Joseph Galloway Shippen and Anna Maria (Buckley) Shippen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/06-29.html">June 29, 1849</a>, to Augusta Chauncey Twiggs; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#393.56.68">Edward Shippen (1729-1806)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#157.96.59">William Shippen</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#860.88.84">Edward Shippen (1639-1712)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#885.35.89">Benjamin Chew</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#296.88.63">George Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#762.57.32">Benjamin Chew Howard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Dallas</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</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/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll 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/40661972">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">Image source: Philadelphia Times, December 20, 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> Matthias William Baldwin (1795-1866) — also known as Matthias W. Baldwin — Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/12-10.html">December 10, 1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/jeweler.html">Jeweler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">inventor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">locomotive manufacturer</a>; abolitionist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1837. Died in Wissinoming, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/09-07.html">September 7, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery; statue at <a href="# ">Philadelphia City Hall Grounds</a>. <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 Baldwin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Matthias Baldwin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias W. Baldwin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21656">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> Charles Bingham Penrose (1798-1857) — also known as Charles B. Penrose — of Carlisle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Pa.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/10-06.html">October 6, 1798</a>. Whig. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1833-41, 1857 (16th District 1833-37, 14th District 1837-41, 1st District 1857); died in office 1857; delegate to Whig National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1839 (Convention Secretary; speaker). Died in Harrisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-died.html">Dauphin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/04-06.html">April 6, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 182 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Clement Biddle Penrose and Anne Howard (Bingham) Penrose; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/03-16.html">March 16, 1824</a>, to Valeria Fullerton Biddle (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle (1808-1889)</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle (1808-1889)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://findagrave.com/memorial/134196391">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> Rudolph Koradi (1824-1907) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Zurich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-born.html">Switzerland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/12-24.html">December 24, 1824</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-consuls.html">Consul for Switzerland</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1864-1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/01-12.html">January 12, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 19 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/131414252">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 Cardwell Potter (1822-1902) — also known as Henry C. Potter — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/02-28.html">February 28, 1822</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Commission merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coffee-tea.html">coffee</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">importer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NC-consuls.html">Consul for Nicaragua</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1875-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Costa Rica</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1899-1902. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/03-06.html">March 6, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 6 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Potter and Harriet (Cardwell) Potter; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/">1852</a> to Amanda Inskeep Moore.</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/148564807">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/813/43.36.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Alfred J. Ostheimer"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred J. Ostheimer (1845-1903) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/09-22.html">September 22, 1845</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Importer and exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AH-consuls.html">Consul for Austria-Hungary</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1894-1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-consuls.html">Honorary Consul for Japan</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1897-1903. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/10-21.html">October 21, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Maurice Ostheimer and Elizabeth (Lipmann) Ostheimer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/10-28.html">October 28, 1871</a>, to Ellen Hackes.</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/158570536">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">Image source: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 23, 1903</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> Edward Smith Sayres (1797-1877) — also known as Edward S. Sayres — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Marcus Hook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/10-05.html">October 5, 1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1841-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Portugal</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1850-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Denmark</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1862. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/03-22.html">March 22, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 168 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Caleb Smith Sayre and Susanna (Richards) Sayre; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/07-25.html">July 25, 1839</a>, to Jane Humes.</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/51644971">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 Dawson Coleman (1825-1878) — also known as G. Dawson Coleman — of Lebanon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-lived.html">Lebanon County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/01-13.html">January 13, 1825</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/PA.html">1860</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 16th District, 1867-69. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/09-09.html">September 9, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colebank-coleman.html#122.43.14">B. Dawson Coleman</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 Mason Jr. (1834-1907) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in San Juan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/SJ-born.html">San Juan Municipio</a>, Puerto Rico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/03-06.html">March 6, 1834</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1877-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Portugal</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1877-1906. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/11-29.html">November 29, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Mason and Mary Eliza (Babson) Mason; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/02-23.html">February 23, 1865</a>, to Mary Bleight Hazlehurst; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#700.40.71">Henry Fisk Janes</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#009.95.38">Arthur Taggard Appleton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stoutenburgh-strang.html#725.24.67">William Henry Harrison Stowell</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#609.75.27">Carlos Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#027.69.91">Elijah Livermore Hamlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#116.78.71">Hannibal Hamlin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#345.18.26">George Pickering Bemis</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/10001-0134.html">Hamlin-Bemis family</a> of Bangor, Maine (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/58495253">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2909004949/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/944/07.10.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="J. Edward Addicks"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Edward Charles O'Sullivan Addicks (1841-1919) — also known as J. Edward Addicks; "Gas Addicks"; "Napoleon of Gas"; "Frenzied Financier" — of Claymont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/11-21.html">November 21, 1841</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">Flour merchant</a>; built and controlled the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">illuminating gas</a> industry in Boston and other cities; tried for years without success to win a seat in the U.S. Senate; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/DE.html">Republican National Committee from Delaware</a>, 1904; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/DE.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in New York, 1913, over his refusal to acknowledge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">money judgements</a> against him by creditors, and released on bond; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> in 1915 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of court</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/08-07.html">August 7, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 259 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 E. C. O'Sullivan Addicks and Margaretta McLeod (Turner) Addicks; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/">1864</a> to Laura Wattson Butcher; married to Rosalie Butcher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/12-14.html">December 14, 1898</a>, to Ida (Carr) Wilson.</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/J. Edward Addicks">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/70928989">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">Image source: Library of Congress</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> Helen Murphy (1860-1940) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/index.html">1860</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/eyedoctor.html">oculist</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1922, 1928; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/11-09.html">November 9, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 James Murphy and Susan Bispham (Roe) Murphy.</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 Franklin Robinson (1821-1894) — also known as H. Frank Robinson — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/08-30.html">August 30, 1821</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Russia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1892-94. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/09-29.html">September 29, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/184512770">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> Lawrence Seckel (1747-1823) — of Pennsylvania. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1747/05-11.html">May 11, 1747</a>. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1789-90. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/03-06.html">March 6, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 299 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms01460">St. John's Churchyard</a>; reinterment in 1924 at Laurel Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Erskine Hazard (1789-1865) — of Mauch Chunk (now part of Jim Thorpe), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CB-lived.html">Carbon County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/11-30.html">November 30, 1789</a>. Innovative <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">industrialist</a>; he and business partner <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white5.html#211.33.11">Josiah White</a>, built <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">iron foundries</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">canals</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; they were pioneers in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">anthracite coal mining</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">bridge builder</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/jimthorpe.html#5">Mauch Chunk, Pa.</a>, 1819-26. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/02-25.html">February 25, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 87 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/hayworth-heacock.html#970.87.08">Ebenezer Hazard</a> and Abigail (Arthur) Hazard; married to Mary Fullerton; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#615.47.93">John Alsop</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#735.94.39">John Alsop King</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#639.10.19">James Gore King</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king3.html#075.68.15">Edward King</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#455.80.42">Rufus King (1814-1876)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#506.81.76">Rufus King (1817-1891)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#522.22.57">Frederick B. Piatt</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#233.50.73">Benjamin Hazard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#023.20.47">Nathaniel Hazard</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#927.13.32">Augustus George Hazard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#931.69.74">Samuel Austin Gager</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peckham-peisner.html#733.67.18">Rufus Wheeler Peckham</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <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/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts (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/Erskine Hazard">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33753049">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> Samuel Megargee (1805-1865) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/08-10.html">August 10, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber merchant</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/PA.html">1860</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/06-29.html">June 29, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Catherine (Castor) Megargee and Jonathan Megargee; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#030.23.25">Sylvester Edwin Megargee</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/136284959">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95504977/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/030/30.57.jpg" width=70 height=88 border=0 alt="Albert Barnes"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Barnes (1798-1870) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Rome, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-born.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/12-01.html">December 1, 1798</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 1856. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-24.html">December 24, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 23 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert Barnes (theologian)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/50998915">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">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/265/91.81.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="David H. Lane"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David H. Lane (1840-1925) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/index.html">1840</a>. Republican. Philadelphia city recorder, 1879-83; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/PA.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/PA.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/PA.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/PA.html">1908</a>. In his will, he bequeathed $500 to every boy who was named for him while he was alive; 26 qualified to receive the money. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/01-24.html">January 24, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">about 84 years</a>). Entombed at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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 Peter Lane and Isabella (Asher) Lane.</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/145955879">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">Image source: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 1909</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> Napoleon Bonaparte Kelly (1862-1928) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CA-born.html">Camden County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/07-15.html">July 15, 1862</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1901-07. Died in Lansdowne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-died.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/07-18.html">July 18, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">Napoleon Bonaparte</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/181067025">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> Joseph H. Klemmer (1855-1935) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-24.html">August 24, 1855</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/PA.html">1884</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/PA.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a> (alternate). Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., June, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/index.html">1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/104966922">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> B. Dawson Coleman — of Lebanon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-lived.html">Lebanon County</a>, Pa. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/PA.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/PA.html">1924</a>. Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery. <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/colebank-coleman.html#158.61.17">George Dawson Coleman</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02520">Logan Graveyard in Stenton Park</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Logan (1753-1821) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1753/09-09.html">September 9, 1753</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1801-07. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/04-09.html">April 9, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 212 days</a>). Interment at Logan Graveyard in Stenton Park. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000401">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406892">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00587">Monument Cemetery</a> (now gone) Broad & Berk Streets Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Dunning Moore (1817-1887) — also known as Henry D. Moore — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/index.html">1817</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1849-53; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1856; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/PA.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/trea.html">Pennsylvania state treasurer</a>, 1861-63, 1864-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/PAcc nPH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1869-70. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/index.html">1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Original interment at Monument Cemetery; reinterment in 1956 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms02120">Lawnview Cemetery</a>, Rockledge, Pa. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000900">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407872">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> Thomas Birch Florence (1812-1875) — also known as Thomas B. Florence — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/01-26.html">January 26, 1812</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1851-61. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/07-03.html">July 3, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 158 days</a>). Original interment at Monument Cemetery; reinterment in 1956 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms02120">Lawnview Cemetery</a>, Rockledge, Pa. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000214">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404169">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> John Hull Campbell (1800-1868) — of Pennsylvania. Born in York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/10-10.html">October 10, 1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1831; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1845-47. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/01-19.html">January 19, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 101 days</a>). Original interment at Monument Cemetery; reinterment in 1956 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms02120">Lawnview Cemetery</a>, Rockledge, Pa. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000093">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402248">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> James Landy (1813-1875) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/10-13.html">October 13, 1813</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1857-59. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/07-25.html">July 25, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 285 days</a>). Original interment at Monument Cemetery; reinterment in 1956 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms02120">Lawnview Cemetery</a>, Rockledge, Pa. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000056">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406565">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Mt. Peace Cemetery</a> 3111 West Lehigh Avenue Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1628663&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Hahn Albrecht (1885-1929) — also known as Charles H. Albrecht — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/02-22.html">February 22, 1885</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DR-consuls.html ">Santo Domingo</a>, 1913-15; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ES-consuls.html ">Reval</a>, 1920-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-consuls.html ">Danzig</a>, 1922-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TH-consuls.html ">Bangkok</a>, 1923-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KY-consuls.html ">Nairobi</a>, 1926-29, died in office 1929. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">gastric ailment</a>, in Nairobi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KY-died.html">Kenya</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/08-07.html">August 7, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 166 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Peace Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/135951528">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05973">Mt. Vernon Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Churchill Houston (c.1746-1788) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, N.J. Born in Sumter District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SU-born.html">Sumter County</a>), S.C., about 1746. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Somerset County, 1777-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1779-81, 1784-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; clerk, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1781-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, while lodging at an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">inn</a> in Frankford, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/08-12.html">August 12, 1788</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">about 42 years</a>). Interment at Mt. Vernon Cemetery. <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: Married to Jane Smith.</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=H000830">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405677">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31886636">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> Lars Westergaard (1829-1893) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/index.html">1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1866-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AH-consuls.html">Consul for Austria-Hungary</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1872-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1874-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/04-13.html">April 13, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">about 63 years</a>). Interment at Mt. Vernon Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/53531927">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred E. Burk (1864-1921) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/11-05.html">November 5, 1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">Leather business</a>; with his brother Louis, developed and owned the Garden Pier in Atlantic City, N.J.; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/PA.html">1920</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/05-13.html">May 13, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 189 days</a>). Original interment at Mt. Vernon Cemetery; re-entombed in 1939 in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms00360">West Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>, Bala Cynwyd, Pa. <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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burgett-burkan.html#881.94.78">Henry Burk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burgett-burkan.html#549.06.99">Charles D. Burk</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/13296.html">Burk family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Municipal Service Building Plaza</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank Lazarro Rizzo (1920-1991) — also known as Frank L. Rizzo; "Cisco Kid"; "The Super Cop"; "The Big Bambino"; "The General" — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/10-23.html">October 23, 1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1972-80; defeated, 1983 (Democratic primary), 1987 (Republican); nominated, but died before the election 1991. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died, apparently from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/07-16.html">July 16, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 266 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-buried.html#cms04799">Holy Sepulchre Cemetery</a>, Cheltenham, Pa.; statue (now gone) at Municipal Service Building Plaza. <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">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/101/000161615">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2489">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 Frank Rizzo: Joseph R. Daughen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316095214/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316095214&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Cop Who Would Be King : Mayor Frank Rizzo</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02274">New Cathedral Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Ripley Chandler (1792-1880) — also known as Joseph R. Chandler — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/08-22.html">August 22, 1792</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1849-55; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-diplomats.html ">Two Sicilies</a>, 1858. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/07-10.html">July 10, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at New Cathedral Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000292">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402434">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chandler-joseph-ripley">U.S. State Dept career summary</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> Sylvester Edwin Megargee (1847-1930) — also known as S. Edwin Megargee — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/08-06.html">August 6, 1847</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-consuls.html">Consul for Greece</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1900-03. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/02-17.html">February 17, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 195 days</a>). Interment at New Cathedral Cemetery. <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 Sylvester Jacob Megarge and Annie Marie Byrne (Gaffney) Megarge; married to Marie A. Preaut and Adalaide Concetta Piccioli; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#814.09.74">Samuel Megargee</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/171891719">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 A. Préaut (1818-1888) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/index.html">1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Russia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1863-88. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/05-03.html">May 3, 1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at New Cathedral Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192644521">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03681">New Market Street Baptist Church Graveyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Jones Rogers (1781-1832) — also known as Thomas J. Rogers — of Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NO-lived.html">Northampton County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/index.html">1781</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 8th District, 1815-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1818-24 (6th District 1818-23, 8th District 1823-24). Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/12-07.html">December 7, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Original interment at New Market Street Baptist Church Graveyard; reinterment in 1851 at <a href="#cms01915">Glenwood Cemetery</a>. <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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rogers9.html#400.56.10">William Findlay Rogers</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=R000403">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409370">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01201">North Cedar Hill Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred Marpole Waldron (1865-1952) — also known as Alfred M. Waldron — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/09-21.html">September 21, 1865</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/PA.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/PA.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/PA.html">1932</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1933-35. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/06-28.html">June 28, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at North Cedar Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000040">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411220">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred M. Waldron">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19060">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 Martin (1845-1920) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/08-20.html">August 20, 1845</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/PA.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/PA.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/soc.html">secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania</a>, 1897-99; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1899-1902, 1917-20 (8th District 1899-1902, 5th District 1917-20); died in office 1920. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/05-31.html">May 31, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 285 days</a>). Interment at North Cedar Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/70348871">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> Horatio Balch Hackett (1844-1905) — also known as Horatio B. Hackett — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SA-born.html">Salem County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-08.html">January 8, 1844</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/PA.html">1888</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 8th District, 1903-05; died in office 1905. Died in Pasco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/07-12.html">July 12, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 185 days</a>). Entombed at North Cedar Hill Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11883778">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> Edwin Keen Borie (1866-1926) — also known as Edwin K. Borie — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/02-25.html">February 25, 1866</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/PA.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/PA.html">1924</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/10-30.html">October 30, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at North Cedar Hill Cemetery. <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 Forbes Borie and Jane (Emery) Borie; married to Theodora M. Simpson.</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/212209534">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05158">Old Cathedral Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Campbell (1812-1893) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/09-01.html">September 1, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1842-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1852-53; resigned 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1853-57. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/01-27.html">January 27, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at Old Cathedral Cemetery. <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 Anthony Campbell and Catharine (McGarvey) Campbell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/">1845</a> to Emilie Chapron.</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/James Campbell (Postmaster General)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/16626720">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5852660321/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/878/28.73.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Maurice F. Egan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) — also known as Maurice F. Egan — of South Bend, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/SJ-lived.html">St. Joseph County</a>, Ind.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/05-24.html">May 24, 1852</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-diplomats.html ">Denmark</a>, 1907-17. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/01-15.html">January 15, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at Old Cathedral Cemetery. <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 Maurice Egan and Margaret (MacMullen) Egan; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/">1880</a> to Katharine Mullin.</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/Maurice Francis Egan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/egan-maurice-francis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13122584">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">Image source: Library of Congress</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> Leon de la Cova (1822-1879) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Caracas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VZ-born.html">Venezuela</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/index.html">1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Colombia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1867-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VZ-consuls.html">Consul for Venezuela</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1869-77. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Venezuelan</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/01-26.html">January 26, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">about 56 years</a>). Interment at Old Cathedral Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/156670418">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01330">Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> 412 Pine Street Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1965320&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Shippen (1639-1712) — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Methley, Yorkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-03-05.html">March 5</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1639.html">1639</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1701-03. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1712/10-02.html">October 2, 1712</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <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 Shippen and Mary Shippen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1671.html">1671</a> to Elizabeth Lybrand; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1689.html">1689</a> to Rebecca (Howard) Richardson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1706/">1706</a> to Esther (Wilcox) James; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a>, Anne Nancy Shippen (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#921.55.52">Charles Willing</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#157.96.59">William Shippen (1712-1801)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#393.56.68">Edward Shippen (1729-1806)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen (1823-1904)</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0699.html">Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Edward Shippen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18313283">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> Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/10-24.html">October 24, 1749</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1780-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1791-1800, 1811-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania</a>, 1800-01; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1812; district judge in Pennsylvania, 1821-22. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/10-31.html">October 31, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <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 Hannah (Whiting) Ingersoll and Jared Ingersoll (1722-1781); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/12-06.html">December 6, 1781</a>, to Elizabeth Pettit; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#524.16.25">Charles Jared Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#083.89.11">Joseph Reed Ingersoll</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#050.76.07">Charles Edward Ingersoll</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#877.33.50">Jonathan Ingersoll</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#970.95.77">Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#199.05.27">Charles Anthony Ingersoll</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#236.98.89">Colin Macrae Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#767.56.05">Charles Roberts Ingersoll</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#539.12.14">George Pratt Ingersoll</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#761.44.25">Laman Ingersoll</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#030.10.55">Ebon Clarke Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#167.92.03">Robert Green Ingersoll</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#059.67.97">Charles Phelps</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#551.04.51">John Carter Ingersoll</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#026.73.35">Gouverneur Morris</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#475.20.85">Bennet Bicknell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#232.62.06">Frederick Hobbes Allen</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#152.06.17">Jonathan Brace</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#496.05.79">Thomas Kimberly Brace</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#437.89.78">Greene Carrier Bronson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#526.52.89">John Russell Kellogg</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/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of 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">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Jared Ingersoll (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; scrapped 1964) 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=I000018">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405880">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared Ingersoll">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/104/000159624">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4719">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 Shippen (1712-1801) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1712/10-01.html">October 1, 1712</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1778. Died in Germantown, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/11-04.html">November 4, 1801</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <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 Abigail (Grosse) Shippen and Joseph Shippen; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#393.56.68">Edward Shippen (1729-1806)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#860.88.84">Edward Shippen (1639-1712)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen (1823-1904)</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell 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=S000368">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409862">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75988598">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> Charles Pettit (1736-1806) — Born near Amwell (now Mt. Airy), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-born.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1736/index.html">1736</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of New Jersey</a>, 1776-78; resigned 1778; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1783-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1785-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">importer and exporter</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/09-03.html">September 3, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <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: Married to Sarah Reed (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed1.html#958.46.07">Bowes R. Reed</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed5.html#176.73.21">Joseph Reed</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/18975.html">Reed family</a> of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.</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=P000276">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408676">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19513048">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> Joel Barlow Sutherland (1792-1861) — also known as Joel B. Sutherland — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/index.html">1792</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 2nd District, 1825-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1827-37 (3rd District 1827-29, 1st District 1829-37). Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/index.html">1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001083">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410536">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7600250">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02277">Old St. Peter's Church Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles John Biddle (1819-1873) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/04-30.html">April 30, 1819</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1861-63. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/09-28.html">September 28, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at Old St. Peter's Church Cemetery. <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 Nicholas Biddle and Jane Margaret (Craig) Biddle; married to Emma Mather; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#416.99.59">John Scull</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#340.29.58">Edward Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#336.94.27">George Ross Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#671.41.51">Robert Spencer Scull</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#689.47.53">Samuel Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#324.72.01">Charles Elam Scull</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000439">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401425">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Philadelphia City Hall Grounds</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Matthias William Baldwin (1795-1866) — also known as Matthias W. Baldwin — Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/12-10.html">December 10, 1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/jeweler.html">Jeweler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">inventor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">locomotive manufacturer</a>; abolitionist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1837. Died in Wissinoming, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/09-07.html">September 7, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>; statue at Philadelphia City Hall Grounds. <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 Baldwin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Matthias Baldwin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias W. Baldwin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21656">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Pine Street Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jonathan Williams (1750-1815) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/05-20.html">May 20, 1750</a>. Secretary to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a>, 1770-75; first superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1815; died in office 1815. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-16.html">May 16, 1815</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 361 days</a>). Original interment at Pine Street Cemetery; reinterment in 1862 at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>. <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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">neighborhood</a> of Williamsburg, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000523">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411680">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan Williams (engineer)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7863652">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03684">Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746-1793) — Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/index.html">1746</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1777-80. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/10-08.html">October 8, 1793</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">about 47 years</a>). Original interment at Presbyterian Churchyard; reinterment in 1878 at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>. <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 Abigail (Dickinson) Sergeant and Jonathan Sergeant; married to Margaret Spencer and Elizabeth Rittenhouse (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/riter-rivero.html#398.76.53">David Rittenhouse</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#790.50.08">John Sergeant</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#433.80.17">John Crain Kunkel</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#989.75.85">Happy Rockefeller</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#745.32.90">Edwin W. Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#281.35.23">Samuel Herbert Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#639.70.53">Charles E. Wooster</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/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0426.html">Sergeant-Whitehill-Kunkel-Spencer family</a> of Pennsylvania (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=S000247">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409750">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23306">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03389">St. Dominic's Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey (1891-1949) — also known as Frank J. G. Dorsey — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-26.html">April 26, 1891</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1935-39; defeated, 1938. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mil-ord-world-wars.html">Military Order of the World Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-nu.html">Sigma Nu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-gamma-sigma.html">Beta Gamma Sigma</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/07-13.html">July 13, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at St. Dominic's Cemetery. <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 Henry Dorsey and Ellen Catherine (Maher) Dorsey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/04-04.html">April 4, 1920</a>, to Cecelia May Alphonsene Ward.</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=D000438">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403548">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01414">St. James the Less Church Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/10506781096/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/033/74.44.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="John Wanamaker"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Wanamaker (1838-1922) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/07-11.html">July 11, 1838</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; opened John Wanamaker & Company <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">store</a> in 1877 (forerunner of modern <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">department store</a>); organizer and director, Merchants' <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; director, Philadelphia and Reading <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; organizer (with others) and trustee, Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1889-93; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/PA.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/PA.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">Alsatian</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/12-12.html">December 12, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 154 days</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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 Nelson Wanamaker and Elizabeth Deshong (Kochersperger) Wanamaker; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/">1860</a> to Mary Erringer Brown; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#203.88.06">Thomas Brown Wanamaker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#653.25.32">Lewis Rodman Wanamaker</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/10001-0413.html">Wanamaker-Welsh-Dulles-Brown family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of Wanamaker (now part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-names.html">Indianapolis, Indiana</a>), was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/JA-names.html">Wanamaker, South Dakota</a> (now a ghost town), 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Wanamaker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1069">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">Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)</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 Bradford Reed (1806-1876) — also known as William B. Reed — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/06-30.html">June 30, 1806</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1838-39; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 1st District, 1841; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-diplomats.html ">China</a>, 1857-58. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/02-18.html">February 18, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/reed-william-bradford ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</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> Leland Harrison (1883-1951) — of Illinois; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/04-25.html">April 25, 1883</a>. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-diplomats.html ">Sweden</a>, 1927-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-diplomats.html ">Uruguay</a>, 1929-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RM-diplomats.html ">Romania</a>, 1935-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-diplomats.html ">Switzerland</a>, 1937-47. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/06-06.html">June 6, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 42 days</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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 W. Henry Harrison and Helen (Skidmore) Harrison; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/06-27.html">June 27, 1925</a>, to Anne C. Coleman.</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/harrison-leland ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</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 Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/02-07.html">February 7, 1839</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit</a>, 1892-1909. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/01-21.html">January 21, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 349 days</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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 Trevanion Barlow Dallas and Jane Stevenson (Wilkins) Dallas; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/10-22.html">October 22, 1867</a>, to Ellen Markoe Wharton; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#289.37.90">George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864)</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Chew Nicklin</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#503.24.91">Alexander James Dallas</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#356.30.90">Claiborne de Borda Pell</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</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/10001-0143.html">Claiborne-Dallas family</a> of Virginia and Louisiana; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/141726664">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> Martin Russell Thayer (1819-1906) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/index.html">1819</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1863-67; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1867. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/index.html">1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000150">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410732">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/021/90.79.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="Horace Binney"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace Binney (1780-1875) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Northern Liberties (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/01-04.html">January 4, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1806-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1833-35. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/08-12.html">August 12, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 220 days</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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 Barnabas Binney.</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 Horace Binney (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; wrecked and scrapped 1958) 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=B000475">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401456">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Binney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6702132">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">Image source: Twentieth-Century Bench and Bar of Pennsylvania (1903)</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 Brown Wanamaker (1861-1908) — also known as Thomas B. Wanamaker — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/03-27.html">March 27, 1861</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DR-consuls.html">Consul for Santo Domingo</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1885-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DR-consuls.html">Consul for Dominican Republic</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1895-1903. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a>, in the Liverpool <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/03-02.html">March 2, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 341 days</a>). Interment at St. James the Less Church Cemetery. <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/walworth-warburton.html#033.74.44">John Wanamaker</a> and Mary Erringer (Brown) Wanamaker; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#653.25.32">Lewis Rodman Wanamaker</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/">1887</a> to Mary Lowber Welsh (half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wellstone-wenstrom.html#156.66.00">Samuel Welsh</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/10001-0413.html">Wanamaker-Welsh-Dulles-Brown family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21380771">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> Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928) — also known as Rodman Wanamaker — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/02-13.html">February 13, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Department store executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-consuls.html">Consul for Uruguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1914-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DR-consuls.html">Consul for Dominican Republic</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1921; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PG-consuls.html">Consul-General for Paraguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1921. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a>, in Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/03-09.html">March 9, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 25 days</a>). Entombed at St. James the Less Church Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-buried.html# ">Rue du Maréchal Leclerc</a>, Sarcus, Picardy, France. <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/walworth-warburton.html#033.74.44">John Wanamaker</a> and Mary Erringer (Brown) Wanamaker; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#203.88.06">Thomas Brown Wanamaker</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/11-04.html">November 4, 1886</a>, to Fernanda Antonia Henry; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/">1909</a> to Violet Douglas Marie Cruger.</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/10001-0413.html">Wanamaker-Welsh-Dulles-Brown family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Rodman Wanamaker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21380791">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01460">St. John's Churchyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Kean (1756-1795) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/index.html">1756</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1785-87. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/05-04.html">May 4, 1795</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">about 38 years</a>). Interment at St. John's Churchyard. <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 Kean and Jane (Watson) Kean; married to Susanna Livingston (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>; sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean (1852-1914)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean 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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000027">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406198">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Kean (South Carolina)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lawrence Seckel (1747-1823) — of Pennsylvania. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1747/05-11.html">May 11, 1747</a>. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1789-90. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/03-06.html">March 6, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 299 days</a>). Original interment at St. John's Churchyard; reinterment in 1924 at <a href="#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02515">St. John's Lutheran Churchyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Michael Leib (1760-1822) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/01-08.html">January 8, 1760</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1795; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1799-1806 (1st District 1799-1801, 2nd District 1801-03, 1st District 1803-06); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1809-14; resigned 1814; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html#2">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1814-15; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 1st District, 1818-22. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/12-08.html">December 8, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 334 days</a>). Interment at St. John's Lutheran Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000229">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406733">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02719">St. Mary's Churchyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Madison Broom (1776-1850) — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born near Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/index.html">1776</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1805-07; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1824. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/01-15.html">January 15, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at St. Mary's Churchyard. <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/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#255.42.01">Jacob Broom (1752-1810)</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#118.51.72">Jacob Broom (1808-1864)</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/10170.html">Broom family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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=B000888">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401845">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00678">St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churchyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Fitzsimons (1741-1811) — of Pennsylvania. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/index.html">1741</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1782; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1786-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1789-95 (at-large 1789-93, 1st District 1793-95). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</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/1811/08-26.html">August 26, 1811</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000178">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404133">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04068">St. Paul's Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Blair McClenachan (d. 1812) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1790-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1797-99. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/05-08.html">May 8, 1812</a>. Entombed at St. Paul's Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000336">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412070">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03548">St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Kittera (1789-1839) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Lancaster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/03-21.html">March 21, 1789</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1826-27. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/06-16.html">June 16, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 87 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cemetery. <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/kirksey-kittleman.html#362.45.62">John Wilkes Kittera</a>; father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrad.html#594.19.57">Robert Taylor Conrad</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/10617.html">Kittera-Conrad family</a> of Lancaster and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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=K000254">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406413">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00805">St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard</a> 313 Pine Street Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1990077&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864) — also known as George M. Dallas — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/07-10.html">July 10, 1792</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1828-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1829-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1831-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1833-35; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-diplomats.html ">Russia</a>, 1837-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1856-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1845-49. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/12-31.html">December 31, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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/dales-dalto.html#503.24.91">Alexander James Dallas</a> and Arabella Maria (Smith) Dallas; brother of Sophia Burrell Dallas (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/05-23.html">May 23, 1816</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Chew Nicklin</a> (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#885.35.89">Benjamin Chew</a>); uncle of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>), Sophia Arabella Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#508.04.57">William Wallace Irwin</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#483.78.52">George Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#356.30.90">Claiborne de Borda Pell</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0143.html">Claiborne-Dallas family</a> of Virginia and Louisiana (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">Dallas counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/DA.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/DA.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/DA.html">Mo.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA.html">Tex.</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/TX/DA-names.html">Dallas, Texas</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">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/condon.html#565.04.81">George M. Condon</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=D000011">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403154">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George M. Dallas">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dallas-george-mifflin ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/620/000052464">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2844">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 George Mifflin Dallas: John M. Belohlavek, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0271005106/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0271005106&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Mifflin Dallas : Jacksonian Patrician</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> Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817) — also known as Alexander J. Dallas — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JM-born.html">Jamaica</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/06-21.html">June 21, 1759</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/soc.html">secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania</a>, 1791-1801; resigned 1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1801-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1814-16. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/01-16.html">January 16, 1817</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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 Dr. Robert Charles Dallas and Sarah Elizabeth (Cormack) Dallas; married to Arabella Maria Smith; father of Sophia Burrell Dallas (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#690.87.76">Richard Bache Jr.</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#289.37.90">George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864)</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Chew Nicklin</a>); grandfather of Mary Blechenden Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>), Sophia Arabella Bache (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#508.04.57">William Wallace Irwin</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#483.78.52">George Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irwin.html#156.31.03">Robert Walker Irwin</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#356.30.90">Claiborne de Borda Pell</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0143.html">Claiborne-Dallas family</a> of Virginia and Louisiana (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/birdsall-biship.html#844.17.85">James G. Birney</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS.html">Dallas County, Ala.</a> is 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 World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Alexander J. Dallas (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/504/000209874">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6661789">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 Jones (1760-1831) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/index.html">1760</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1801-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1813-14. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/09-06.html">September 6, 1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 years</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000258">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406150">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> Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1786-1868) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/06-14.html">June 14, 1786</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1835-37, 1841-49; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1852-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/02-20.html">February 20, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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/ingersoll.html#918.45.60">Jared Ingersoll</a> and Elizabeth (Pettit) Ingersoll; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#524.16.25">Charles Jared Ingersoll</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/09-22.html">September 22, 1813</a>, to Ann Wilcocks; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#050.76.07">Charles Edward Ingersoll</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#877.33.50">Jonathan Ingersoll</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#970.95.77">Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#199.05.27">Charles Anthony Ingersoll</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#236.98.89">Colin Macrae Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#767.56.05">Charles Roberts Ingersoll</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#539.12.14">George Pratt Ingersoll</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#761.44.25">Laman Ingersoll</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#030.10.55">Ebon Clarke Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#167.92.03">Robert Green Ingersoll</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#059.67.97">Charles Phelps</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#551.04.51">John Carter Ingersoll</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#152.06.17">Jonathan Brace</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#026.73.35">Gouverneur Morris</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000019">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405881">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Reed Ingersoll">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/ingersoll-joseph-reed ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6906175">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> James Stokes Biddle (1818-1900) — also known as James S. Biddle — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/01-15.html">January 15, 1818</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1871. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-died.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/07-26.html">July 26, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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 Biddle (1787-1836) and Ann Hervey (Stokes) Biddle; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/">1846</a> to Meta Craig Biddle; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle (1745-1821)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#416.99.59">John Scull</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#567.64.39">Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#340.29.58">Edward Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#336.94.27">George Ross Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#671.41.51">Robert Spencer Scull</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#689.47.53">Samuel Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#324.72.01">Charles Elam Scull</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://findagrave.com/memorial/11316595">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> Benjamin Chew (1722-1810) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1722/11-29.html">November 29, 1722</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1774-77. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Anglican</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/01-20.html">January 20, 1810</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 52 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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 Chew and Mary (Galloway) Chew; married to Mary Galloway and Elizabeth Oswald; father of Margaret Oswald 'Peggy' Chew (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#624.56.05">John Eager Howard</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#296.88.63">George Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#762.57.32">Benjamin Chew Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Chew Nicklin</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#289.37.90">George Mifflin Dallas</a>) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/odem-oestreicher.html#537.13.84">Charles Oliver O'Donnell</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; second cousin once removed of Mary Chew (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#533.33.33">William Paca</a>); second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#402.58.29">Edward Tilghman Paca</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#318.94.75">Joseph Richard Chew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#515.52.58">St. Clair Ballard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#895.73.40">Lewis Ballard</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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee 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://findagrave.com/memorial/11316238">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> Sophia Dallas (1798-1869) — also known as Sophia Chew Nicklin — Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/06-25.html">June 25, 1798</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/second.html">Second Lady of the United States</a>, 1845-49. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-11.html">January 11, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 200 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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 Philip Houlbrook Nicklin and Julianna (Chew) Nicklin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/05-23.html">May 23, 1816</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#289.37.90">George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864)</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#503.24.91">Alexander James Dallas</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#483.78.52">George Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917)</a>); granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#885.35.89">Benjamin Chew</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#296.88.63">George Howard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#762.57.32">Benjamin Chew Howard</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#402.58.29">Edward Tilghman Paca</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/10001-0149.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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Sophia Dallas">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44932009">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=37741">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> James Searle (1730-1797) — of Pennsylvania. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/index.html">1730</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1778. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/08-07.html">August 7, 1797</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000210">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409715">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> Richard Peters Jr. (1744-1828) — of Pennsylvania. Born near Philadelphia (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/06-22.html">June 22, 1744</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1782-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1787-90; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1791; district judge in Pennsylvania, 1792-1828. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/08-22.html">August 22, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000255">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408658">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> John Swanwick (1740-1798) — of Pennsylvania. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/index.html">1740</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1795-98; died in office 1798. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/08-01.html">August 1, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001095">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410548">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> John Rutledge Jr. (1766-1819) — of South Carolina. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/index.html">1766</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Peter, 1792-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1797-1803 (at-large 1797-99, 1st District 1799-1803). Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/09-01.html">September 1, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">about 53 years</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge</a> and Elizabeth (Grimke) Rutledge; married to Sarah Motte Smith; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#272.20.23">Thomas Rhett Smith</a> and Sarah Ann Rutledge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grimke-grissom.html#879.11.70">John Faucheraud Grimké</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#225.35.30">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1829-1893)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#165.35.77">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1861-1925)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grimke-grissom.html#635.28.41">Archibald Henry Grimké</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/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000553">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409509">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11841541">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> Samuel Breck (1771-1862) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/07-17.html">July 17, 1771</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1817-21, 1832-34 (1st District 1817-21, 2nd District 1832-34); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1823-25. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/08-31.html">August 31, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 45 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#837.65.36">Daniel Breck</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=B000783">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401741">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> William Eckart Lehman (1821-1895) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/08-21.html">August 21, 1821</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1861-63. Died in Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-19.html">July 19, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000227">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406731">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6906163">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> John Cadwalader (1843-1925) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/06-27.html">June 27, 1843</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/PA.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/PA.html">1904</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/03-11.html">March 11, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard. <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/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a> and Henrietta Maria (Bancker) Cadwalader; married to Mary Helen Fisher; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#888.67.06">Lambert Cadwalader</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#885.35.89">Benjamin Chew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#769.86.48">Alfred Wells</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#296.88.63">George Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#762.57.32">Benjamin Chew Howard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dales-dalto.html#421.54.73">Sophia Dallas</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</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/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll 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/88427519">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01682">Second Presbyterian Church Graveyard</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jonathan Bayard Smith (1742-1812) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/02-21.html">February 21, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1777; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1778. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/06-16.html">June 16, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 116 days</a>). Interment at Second Presbyterian Church 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000578">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410059">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02725">Union Sixth Street Cemetery</a> (now gone) Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lemuel Paynter (1788-1863) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Lewes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/index.html">1788</a>. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 1st District, 1837-41. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/08-01.html">August 1, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Original interment at Union Sixth Street Cemetery; reinterment in 1906 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-buried.html#cms08054">Arlington Cemetery</a>, Drexel Hill, Pa. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000155">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408559">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6905549">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02013">William Penn Cemetery</a> Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Roberts Reading (1826-1886) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/index.html">1826</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 5th District, 1869-70. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/index.html">1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Interment at William Penn Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000096">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409076">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00792">Woodlands Cemetery</a> 4000 Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Founded 1840 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=46665&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Harris Brewster (1816-1888) — of Pennsylvania. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SA-born.html">Salem County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/10-13.html">October 13, 1816</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/attygn.html">Pennsylvania state attorney general</a>, 1867-69; resigned 1869; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1882-85. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/04-04.html">April 4, 1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Francis E. Brewster and Maria (Hampton) Brewster; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Elizabeth von Myerbach de Reinfeldts; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/">1870</a> to Mary Walker (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker7.html#339.59.21">Robert John Walker</a>); grandfather of Anna Willis Baugh Brewster (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#111.99.75">Francis White</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</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/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York (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/Benjamin Harris Brewster">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7761502">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 Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) — also known as William C. Bullitt — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/01-25.html">January 25, 1891</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper correspondent</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SV-diplomats.html ">Soviet Union</a>, 1933-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1936-40; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1943. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Co-author</a>, with Sigmund Freud, of a psychological study of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson9.html#878.23.04">Woodrow Wilson</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/leukemia.html">leukemia</a>, in Neuilly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/02-15.html">February 15, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 21 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Louise Gross (Horwitz) Bullitt and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#506.21.96">William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914)</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/">1915</a> to Ernesta Bowen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/">1923</a> to Louise (Bryant) Reed; father of Anne Moen Bullitt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewster.html#818.32.51">Daniel Baugh Brewster</a>); second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#487.79.57">Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816)</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html#943.66.62">John Fry</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#299.11.81">Cuthbert Bullitt</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html#461.56.33">Joshua Fry</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#140.75.64">William Marshall Bullitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#072.12.75">Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#727.99.67">James Speed</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#716.70.61">Hugh Kennedy Bullitt</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/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0375.html">Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry 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/William Christian Bullitt%2C Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bullitt-william-christian ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/162/000127778">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6788602">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 William C. Bullitt: Michael Cassella-Blackburn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0275968200/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0275968200&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Donkey, the Carrot, and the Club : William C. Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1948</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 Porter (1780-1843) — of Pennsylvania. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/index.html">1780</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; captain of the United States frigate Essex, the the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> U.S. war vessel to carry the Stars and Stripes in a naval battle, March 25, 1813; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AG-consuls.html ">Algiers</a>, 1830-31; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1831-39; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1839-43, died in office 1843. Died in Constantinople (now Istanbul), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-died.html">Turkey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/03-03.html">March 3, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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: Uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#023.62.33">John Porter Brown</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter4.html#603.16.64">George A. Porter</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/14359.html">Porter family</a> of Ohio.</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/porter-david ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</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 Thompson (1806-1874) — of Erie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a>. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1832; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1838; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 23rd District, 1845-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1857; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court</a>, 1867-72. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/index.html">1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">about 68 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000204">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410783">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> James Hepburn Campbell (1820-1895) — also known as James H. Campbell — of Pennsylvania. Born in Williamsport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LY-born.html">Lycoming County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/02-08.html">February 8, 1820</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 11th District, 1855-57, 1859-63; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-diplomats.html ">Sweden</a>, 1864-67. Died near Wayne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-died.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/04-12.html">April 12, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 63 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000088">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402244">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/campbell-james-hepburn ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</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 Scott (1824-1896) — of Huntingdon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/HU-lived.html">Huntingdon County</a>, Pa. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/index.html">1824</a>. Republican. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1869-75. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/index.html">1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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/scott5.html#474.77.37">John Scott (1784-1850)</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott4.html#495.13.94">George W. Scott</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/11002.html">Scott family</a> of Pennsylvania.</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=S000177">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409683">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> Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/10-03.html">October 3, 1782</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">poet</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1813-15, 1841-49 (1st District 1813-15, 3rd District 1841-43, 4th District 1843-49); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1815-29; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#z">federal judge</a>, 1853. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-14.html">May 14, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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/ingersoll.html#918.45.60">Jared Ingersoll</a> and Elizabeth (Pellet) Ingersoll; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#083.89.11">Joseph Reed Ingersoll</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/10-18.html">October 18, 1804</a>, to Mary Wilcocks; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#050.76.07">Charles Edward Ingersoll</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#877.33.50">Jonathan Ingersoll</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#970.95.77">Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#199.05.27">Charles Anthony Ingersoll</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#236.98.89">Colin Macrae Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#767.56.05">Charles Roberts Ingersoll</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#539.12.14">George Pratt Ingersoll</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#761.44.25">Laman Ingersoll</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#030.10.55">Ebon Clarke Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#167.92.03">Robert Green Ingersoll</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#059.67.97">Charles Phelps</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#551.04.51">John Carter Ingersoll</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#152.06.17">Jonathan Brace</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#026.73.35">Gouverneur Morris</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</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/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000015">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405877">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> Ethelbert Watts (1845-1919) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-25.html">February 25, 1845</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">pig iron manufacturer</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-consuls.html ">Horgen</a>, 1896-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JM-consuls.html ">Kingston</a>, 1899-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-consuls.html ">Prague</a>, 1901-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BA-consuls.html ">Hamilton</a>, 1918; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EG-consuls.html ">Cairo</a>, 1897-99; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">St. Petersburg</a>, 1903-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html ">Brussels</a>, 1907-17. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/07-13.html">July 13, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 138 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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/watts.html#616.34.34">Henry Miller Watts</a> and Anna Maria (Schoenberger) Watts; nephew of Julianna Watts (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</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/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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://findagrave.com/memorial/137203645">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> Samuel Moore (1774-1861) — of Doylestown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-lived.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/index.html">1774</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1818-22 (6th District 1818-21, 7th District 1821-22). Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/index.html">1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000916">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407888">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> Henry Horn (1786-1862) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/index.html">1786</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 2nd District, 1831-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/PAcc nPH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1845-46. Died in Flourtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-12.html">January 12, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000787">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405637">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> Alan Wood Jr. (1834-1902) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/index.html">1834</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 7th District, 1875-77. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/index.html">1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">about 68 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood5.html#208.55.45">John Wood</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=W000688">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411840">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> Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) — also known as Paul P. Cret — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Lyon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/10-24.html">October 24, 1876</a>. Served in French army during World War I; naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/architect.html">architect</a>; member, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 1940-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/09-08.html">September 8, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 319 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul Philippe Cret">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10193475">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.cfa.gov/about-cfa/who-we-are/paul-p-cret">U.S. Commission of Fine Arts</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/599/76.91.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Charles H. Meyer"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Henry Meyer (1826-1898) — also known as Charles H. Meyer; Carl H. Meyer; Karl Heinrich Meyer — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Schleiz, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/03-15.html">March 15, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">importer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html">Consul for Germany</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1872-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">silk ribbon manufacturer</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/08-14.html">August 14, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 152 days</a>). During a lawsuit following his death, his successor as German Consul <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">alleged</a> that Mr. Meyer had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">defaulted</a> with at least $11,000 of the consulate's funds; this was denied by the executors of his estate, and the outcome of the dispute is unknown. Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Christoph Heinrich Meyer and Marie (Felder) Meyer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/04-16.html">April 16, 1857</a>, to Sophie Karoline Wilhelmine Brossman.</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/137501272">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">Image source: Philadelphia Times, August 18, 1898</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> Bernard Henry (1783-1863) — Born in Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/index.html">1783</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GI-consuls.html ">Gibraltar</a>, as of 1816-32. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/08-13.html">August 13, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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: Father of Henry Henry (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prince.html#082.62.40">Frederick Octavius Prince</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prince.html#559.83.19">Frederick Henry Prince</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/24566.html">Prince-Henry family</a> of Winchester, Massachusetts.</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/73920827">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> Robert J. Winsmore (1851-1915) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/index.html">1851</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CX-consuls.html">Consul-General for Central America</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1898; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HO-consuls.html">Consul-General for Honduras</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1898-1907. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/06-09.html">June 9, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">about 63 years</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Capt. Robert H. Winsmore and Cynthia (Davis) Winsmore.</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/137093113">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> Bertram Graeme Frazier (1878-1963) — also known as Bertram G. Frazier — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/02-03.html">February 3, 1878</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 4th District, 1927-34, 1947-50; defeated, 1934. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Germantown, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/07-01.html">July 1, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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: Married to Lotta Gertrude Eagan.</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> Johan Nordahl Wallem (1843-1909) — also known as J. N. Wallem — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Bergen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/05-24.html">May 24, 1843</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Denmark</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1895-1907; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1895-1903. Died in Lansdowne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-died.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/12-20.html">December 20, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 210 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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: Married to Linda Huston.</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/135781558">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> Edward Knight (1813-1892) — of Pennsylvania. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/12-08.html">December 8, 1813</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/07-21.html">July 21, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 226 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/06-18.html">June 18, 1856</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>; elected 1882. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/03-22.html">March 22, 1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 277 days</a>). Interment at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Christian Bullitt and Theresa (Langhorne) Bullitt; married to Louisa Gross Horwitz; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#559.12.89">William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#487.79.57">Alexander Scott Bullitt (1761-1816)</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html#943.66.62">John Fry</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#299.11.81">Cuthbert Bullitt</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html#461.56.33">Joshua Fry</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#140.75.64">William Marshall Bullitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#072.12.75">Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#727.99.67">James Speed</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#716.70.61">Hugh Kennedy Bullitt</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/10001-0012.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; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0375.html">Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry 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/136296771">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> Harry Davault Beaston (1857-1939) — also known as Harry D. Beaston — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/05-08.html">May 8, 1857</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/PA.html">1900</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/PA.html">1916</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/05-15.html">May 15, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 7 days</a>). Entombed at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Joseph L. Beaston and Margaret (Davault) Beaston; married to Sarah Tait.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1897-1961) — also known as A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/12-17.html">December 17, 1897</a>. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">shipping business</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-diplomats.html ">Norway</a>, 1935-37, 1941-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1941-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/YU-diplomats.html ">Yugoslavia</a>, 1941; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CZ-diplomats.html ">Czechoslovakia</a>, 1941-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-diplomats.html ">Greece</a>, 1941-42; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-diplomats.html ">Poland</a>, 1937-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-diplomats.html ">Belgium</a>, 1941-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1942-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-diplomats.html ">Norway</a>, 1942-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/YU-diplomats.html ">Yugoslavia</a>, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-diplomats.html ">Greece</a>, 1942-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CZ-diplomats.html ">Czechoslovakia</a>, 1943; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1961. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a> and a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">Walter Reed Army Medical Center</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/11-13.html">November 13, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 331 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va.; cenotaph at Woodlands Cemetery. <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 Cordelia Rundell (Bradley) Biddle and Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/06-16.html">June 16, 1915</a>, to Mary Lillian Duke (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#534.91.75">James Buchanan Duke</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/">1931</a> to Margaret (Thompson) Schulze (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson9.html#392.35.40">William Boyce Thompson</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/">1946</a> to Margaret Atkinson Loughborough; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#996.30.33">Charles John Biddle</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#920.19.96">James Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#318.47.75">John Biddle (1792-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#783.04.03">Richard Biddle</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#728.33.99">James Stokes Biddle</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#416.99.59">John Scull</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#861.56.95">John Biddle (1859-1936)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#176.84.34">Edward MacFunn Biddle</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#865.11.89">Charles Bingham Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#340.29.58">Edward Scull</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#400.10.78">Thomas Biddle</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#725.40.36">Boies Penrose</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#602.22.78">Spencer Penrose</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#359.14.56">Edward MacFunn Biddle 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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/Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/biddle-anthony-joseph-drexel ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/073/000120710">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03663">Frankford Cemetery</a> Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Jacob Harper (1800-1837) — also known as Francis J. Harper — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/03-05.html">March 5, 1800</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1832; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 2nd District, 1834-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 3rd District, 1837; died in office 1837. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/03-18.html">March 18, 1837</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">37 years, 13 days</a>). Original interment at Frankford Cemetery; reinterment in 1848 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000220">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405098">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00854">Mt. Sinai Cemetery</a> Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Bacharach (1870-1956) — also known as "Boardwalk Ike" — of Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-lived.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J.; Brigantine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-lived.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/01-05.html">January 5, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Atlantic County, 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 2nd District, 1915-37; defeated, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NJ.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/09-05.html">September 5, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 244 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. <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 Jacob Bacharach and Betty (Nusbaum) Bacharach; married to Florence Scull.</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=B000009">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401015">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> Benjamin Martin Golder (1891-1946) — also known as Benjamin M. Golder — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Alliance, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SA-born.html">Salem County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/12-23.html">December 23, 1891</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1917-25; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 4th District, 1925-33; defeated, 1940; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/12-30.html">December 30, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000259">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404621">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin M. Golder">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> George Washington Oakes (b. 1861) — also known as George W. Oakes; George Washington Ochs; George W. Ochs — of Chattanooga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Tenn. Born in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-born.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/10-27.html">October 27, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/TN.html">1892</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/chattanooga.html">mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn.</a>, 1893-97; delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Tennessee, 1896; served in the U.S. Army during World War I. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/civitan.html">Civitan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-historical-assoc.html">American Historical Association</a>. Interment at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. <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/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">Relatives: Son of Julius Ochs and Bertha (Levy) Ochs; brother of Adolph S. Ochs; married to Bertie Gans.</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/George Oakes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/142443008">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 Myer Phillips (1811-1884) — also known as Henry M. Phillips — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/06-30.html">June 30, 1811</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 4th District, 1857-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/PA.html">1860</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/08-28.html">August 28, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 59 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000308">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408708">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> Jerome H. Louchheim (d. 1945) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/PA.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/PA.html">1940</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/index.html">1945</a>. Interment at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">St. Mary's Episcopal Church</a> 630 East Cathedral Road Roxborough, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2427013&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Marion Taitt (1862-1943) — also known as Francis M. Taitt — of Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-lived.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa. Born in Burlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-born.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-03.html">January 3, 1862</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Episcopal priest</a>; bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1931-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 1940. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Crozer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Upland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-died.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/07-17.html">July 17, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 195 days</a>). Entombed at St. Mary's Episcopal Church. <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/bio/marianetti-markowitz.html#596.92.65">Francis Marion</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 James Monroe Taitt and Elizabeth Ward (Conway) Taitt.</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/Francis M. Taitt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/132853391">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06564">Mt. Moriah Cemetery</a> 62nd & Kingsessing Avenue West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1619546&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Russell Young (1840-1899) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-born.html">Northern Ireland</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/11-20.html">November 20, 1840</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper correspondent and managing editor</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-diplomats.html ">China</a>, 1882-85; Librarian of Congress, 1897-99. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/01-17.html">January 17, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 58 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Moriah Cemetery. <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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/young5.html#471.05.74">James Rankin Young</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/14296.html">Young family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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 Russell Young">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/young-john-russell ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19538510">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 McCandless (1835-1884) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-29.html">September 29, 1835</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 1st District, 1867-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/soi.html">Pennsylvania secretary of internal affairs</a>, 1875-79. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/06-17.html">June 17, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 262 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Moriah Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Israel Wilson Durham (1855-1909) — also known as Israel W. Durham; "Old Man"; "Peerless Leader" — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/10-24.html">October 24, 1855</a>. Republican. Philadelphia police magistrate, 1885-95; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/PA.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/PA.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/PA.html">1908</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a>, 1897-98, 1909 (6th District 1897-98, 2nd District 1909); died in office 1909; Pennsylvania State Insurance Commissioner, 1900-05. President and principal owner of the Philadelphia Phillies <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">professional baseball</a> team, 1909. Died suddenly, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">interstital nephritis</a>, in Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/06-28.html">June 28, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Moriah Cemetery. <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 Durham and Jane Elizabeth (Norris) Durham.</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/Israel Wilson Durham">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/36612440">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/559/00.84.jpg" width=70 height=119 border=0 alt="Samuel L. Gracey"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Levis Gracey (1835-1911) — also known as Samuel L. Gracey — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del.; Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Chelsea, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass.; Natick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass.; Lynn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass.; Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-08.html">September 8, 1835</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Methodist minister</a>; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Foochow</a>, 1890-93, 1897-1911, died in office 1911. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, when he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stabbing.html">cut his throat</a> with a razor, in the West Newton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/asylum.html">Sanitarium</a>, West Newton, Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-died.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/08-19.html">August 19, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Moriah Cemetery. <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 Gracey and Ann Elizabeth Bartram (Leech) Gracey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/11-21.html">November 21, 1860</a>, to Leonora Thompson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/01-15.html">January 15, 1900</a>, to Cordania Elizabeth 'Corda' (Perkins) Pratt; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#315.80.27">Spencer Pettis Gracey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#096.64.38">Wilbur Tirrell Gracey</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/24564.html">Gracey family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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: "Soldier - Clergyman - Diplomat"</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/43745322">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">Image source: Washington Evening Srar, June 25, 1911</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 Andrew Walker (b. 1878) — also known as James Walker — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. 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