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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Walker (1744-1809) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-lived.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/02-13.html">February 13, 1744</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1790. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-02.html">December 2, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 292 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-buried.html#cms05083">a private or family graveyard</a>, Albemarle County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Walker and Mildred (Thornton) Walker; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/">1764</a> to Elizabeth Moore; uncle of Mildred Gilmer (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#091.92.58">Aylett Hawes</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#586.38.93">Richard Hawes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert Gallatin Hawes</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#659.83.99">Harry Bartow Hawes</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000059">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411238">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10430434">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 Brown (1757-1837) — of Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sn-born.html">Staunton</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/09-12.html">September 12, 1757</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/stsen.html">Virginia state senate</a>, 1784-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1787-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1789-92 (at-large 1789-91, 2nd District 1791-92); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kentucky</a>, 1792-1805. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/08-29.html">August 29, 1837</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 351 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. John Brown and Margaret (Preston) Brown; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#539.98.75">James Brown</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/02-21.html">February 21, 1799</a>, to Margaretta Mason; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown6.html#963.00.04">Mason Brown</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#188.09.98">Benjamin Gratz Brown</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>; 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 (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=B000929">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401881">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Brown (Kentucky)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/76643568">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 Brooke (c.1760-1800) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-lived.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-born.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va., about 1760. <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>, 1791-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1794-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/attygn.html">Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1796-1800; died in office 1800. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/02-27.html">February 27, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">about 40 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anne Hay (Taliaferro) Brooke and Richard Brooke; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/">1786</a> to Mary Ritchie Hopper; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BR.html">Brooke 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://www.nga.org/governor/robert-brooke/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Brooke (Virginia)">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 Madison (1763-1816) — of Kentucky. Born in Augusta County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/RC-born.html">Rockingham County</a>), Va., June, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/index.html">1763</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/aud.html">Kentucky auditor of public accounts</a>, 1796-1816; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1816; died in office 1816. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BR-died.html">Bourbon County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/10-14.html">October 14, 1816</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Madison and Agatha (Strother) Madison; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/02-11.html">February 11, 1796</a>, to Jane Smith; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#575.27.74">Andrew Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#054.81.51">Alexander Warfield Dorsey</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#119.14.06">Eli Huston Brown Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owenby-ozzard.html#550.57.25">Albin Owings Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#382.46.18">Eli Huston Brown III</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-madison/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Madison">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6864680">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 Walker (1764-1806) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/06-22.html">June 22, 1764</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1788-91, 1797-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 14th District, 1793-95. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-died.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., March, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 0 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-buried.html#cms05083">a private or family graveyard</a>, Albemarle County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Walker and Mildred (Thornton) Walker; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>; married to Jane Byrd Nelson; uncle of Mildred Gilmer (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#091.92.58">Aylett Hawes</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#586.38.93">Richard Hawes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert Gallatin Hawes</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#659.83.99">Harry Bartow Hawes</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000051">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411230">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/54005334">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) — of Missouri. Born near Ivy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/08-18.html">August 18, 1774</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/trgv1.html">Governor of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory</a>, 1807-09; died in office 1809. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Commanded expedition with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark9.html#714.09.48">William Clark</a> to Oregon, 1803-04. Died from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wounds</a> under <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/disappeared.html">mysterious circumstances</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">murder</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>?) at Grinder's Stand, an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">inn</a> on the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE-died.html">Lewis County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/10-11.html">October 11, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE-buried.html#cms04371">Meriwether Lewis Park</a>, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#512.39.40">David Meriwether (1755-1822)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#779.44.78">James Meriwether (1755-1817)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#368.69.43">George Rockingham Gilmer</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html#927.14.05">Arthur Sidney Demarest</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#917.68.66">James Meriwether (1788-1852)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#752.05.03">David Meriwether (1800-1893)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#185.16.94">James Archibald Meriwether</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#677.00.36">Reuben Handy Meriwether</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pollack-pomerene.html#812.59.38">Claude Pollard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shannon.html#999.85.68">George F. Shannon</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lewis counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/LW.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LW.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/LE.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE.html">Tenn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/LE.html">Wash.</a> are named for him; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC.html">Lewis and Clark County, Mont.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker6.html#172.42.57">Meriwether Lewis Walker</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to 1927.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether Lewis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/678/000036570">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C. Danisi, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616145056/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616145056&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Uncovering the Truth About Meriwether Lewis</a> — Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517501872/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0517501872&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis and Clark: The Great Adventure</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Aylett Buckner (1784-1847) — also known as Richard A. Buckner — of Greensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GE-lived.html">Green County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-born.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/02-05.html">February 5, 1784</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1813-15, 1837-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 8th District, 1823-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/coajd.html">Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals</a>, 1831; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1832; candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1845. Slaveowner. Died in Greensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GE-died.html">Green County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/12-08.html">December 8, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 306 days</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Aylette Buckner (1745-1807) and Judith Presley (Thornton) Buckner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/10-07.html">October 7, 1805</a>, to Elizabeth Lewis Buckner; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner (1806-1869)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#420.57.73">Robert Pryor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#915.76.70">John Flournoy Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#916.73.04">Gustavus Adolphus Henry</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#913.23.45">Thomas Stanhope Flournoy</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#727.99.67">James Speed</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001033">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401983">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Aylett Buckner">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/37821202">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/politicalgraveyard/6267598157/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/681/60.97.jpg" width=70 height=79 border=0 alt="Zachary Taylor"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) — also known as "Old Rough and Ready" — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/11-24.html">November 24, 1784</a>. Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1849-50; died in office 1850. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, probably of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">gastroenteritis</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/white-house.html">White House</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/07-09.html">July 9, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 227 days</a>). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the theory. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms02214">Zachary Taylor National Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/06-21.html">June 21, 1810</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor6.html#060.12.22">Margaret Mackall Smith</a> (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#095.74.96">Benjamin Mackall IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#479.76.08">Thomas Mackall</a>); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Finis Davis</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor3.html#102.00.89">Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr.</a>; ancestor *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#817.13.16">Victor D. Crist</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#999.09.60">Charles Sumner Pendleton</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#320.61.72">Charles Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>.</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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#706.58.46">David R. Atchison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#785.23.78">Thomas Ewing</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Taylor counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/TA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TY.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/TY.html">Iowa</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/TA.html">Ky.</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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#489.85.33">Zachary T. Coy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#967.97.28">Zachary T. Bielby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harris9.html#315.46.75">Zachary T. Harris</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor never surrenders."</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/Zachary Taylor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/841/000031748">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1023">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4108">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack Bauer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807118516/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807118516&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest</a> — Elbert B. Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/070060362X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=070060362X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Taliaferro Helm (1790-1871) — also known as Francis T. Helm — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/index.html">1790</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/newport.html">Mayor of Newport, Ky.</a>, 1834-38, 1839-45; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/newport.html#2">Newport, Ky.</a>, 1839-49. Died in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-died.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/12-06.html">December 6, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-buried.html#cms00098">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Southgate, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Helm and Matilda (Taliaferro) Helm; married to Sarah Bankhead McKinney; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0149.html">Dorsey-Poffenbarger family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0349.html">Alston-Kenan family</a> of Milledgeville, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73154227">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 LaRue Hodgen (1791-1864) — of Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-lived.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky. Born in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-born.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/04-30.html">April 30, 1791</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/elizabethtown.html#2">Elizabethtown, Ky.</a>, 1861-64. Died in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-15.html">August 15, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 107 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-buried.html#cms00874">Elizabethtown City Cemetery</a>, Elizabethtown, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Hodgen and Sarah (LaRue) Hodgen; brother of Elizabeth Hodgen (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#083.67.05">Horatio Gates Wintersmith</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/">1834</a> to Ann Elizabeth Montague; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#585.84.50">Charles G. Wintersmith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#914.76.00">Robert Lawrence Wintersmith</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#384.24.78">David Cooper Swan Wintersmith</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0200.html">Morehead-Wintersmith family</a> of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12136160">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> Mason Brown (1799-1867) — of Maysville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MA-lived.html">Mason County</a>, Ky.; Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/11-10.html">November 10, 1799</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1839-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Kentucky</a>, 1855-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/trea.html">Kentucky state treasurer</a>, 1865-67. Died in Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-27.html">January 27, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a> and Margaretta (Mason) Brown; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/03-10.html">March 10, 1825</a>, to Judith Ann Bledsoe (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#170.03.23">Jesse Bledsoe</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/12-08.html">December 8, 1835</a>, to Mary Yoder; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#188.09.98">Benjamin Gratz Brown</a>; nephew of John Mitchell Mason; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political 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/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason Brown">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/76717068">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 Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) — of Virginia. Born in Gilmerton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/04-06.html">April 6, 1802</a>. <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>, 1829-36, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates</a>, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1840-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th District 1843-44); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1844; died in office 1844. Slaveowner. Among those killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">cannon</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally burst</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on board</a> the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-died.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-28.html">February 28, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 328 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-buried.html#cms05083">a private or family graveyard</a>, Albemarle County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer; married to Anne Elizabeth Baker; nephew of Mildred Gilmer (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#091.92.58">Aylett Hawes</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#586.38.93">Richard Hawes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert Gallatin Hawes</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#659.83.99">Harry Bartow Hawes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/GI.html">Gilmer 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=G000218">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404580">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-walker-gilmer/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7220006">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 Strother Pendleton (1802-1868) — also known as John S. Pendleton; "The Lone Star" — of Culpeper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-lived.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va. Born near Culpeper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-born.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/03-01.html">March 1, 1802</a>. <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>, 1830-33, 1836-39; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CE-diplomats.html ">Chile</a>, 1842-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-diplomats.html ">Argentina</a>, 1851-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 9th District, 1845-49. Slaveowner. Died near Culpeper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-died.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/11-19.html">November 19, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 263 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-buried.html#cms04991">a private or family graveyard</a>, Culpeper County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Pendleton and Nancy (Strother) Pendleton; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/12-02.html">December 2, 1824</a>, to Lucy Ann Williams; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#718.27.15">William Grayson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#546.45.35">Beverly Robinson Grayson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#707.24.49">Gabriel Slaughter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garnet-garretson.html#543.31.18">James Benjamin Garnett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#957.55.71">John Brady Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</a>.</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000206">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408609">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/pendleton-john-strother ?">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 Larue Helm (1802-1867) — of Kentucky. Born near Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-born.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/07-04.html">July 4, 1802</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1826; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/stsen.html">Kentucky state senate</a>, 1844-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1848-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1850-51, 1867; died in office 1867. Died in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/09-08.html">September 8, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-buried.html# ">Helm Cemetery</a>, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Helm and Rebecca (LaRue) Helm; married to Lucinda Barbour Hardin; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#771.98.85">Benjamin Hardin Helm</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodge.html#504.21.67">Samuel LaRue Hodgen</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#585.84.50">Charles G. Wintersmith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#914.76.00">Robert Lawrence Wintersmith</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#384.24.78">David Cooper Swan Wintersmith</a>.</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/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0200.html">Morehead-Wintersmith family</a> of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-larue-helm/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6865234">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> Aylette Buckner (1806-1869) — of Kentucky. Born in Greensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GE-born.html">Green County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/07-21.html">July 21, 1806</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1842; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 4th District, 1847-49. Died in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/07-03.html">July 3, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 347 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elizabeth Lewis (Buckner) Buckner and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#420.57.73">Robert Pryor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#915.76.70">John Flournoy Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#916.73.04">Gustavus Adolphus Henry</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#913.23.45">Thomas Stanhope Flournoy</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#727.99.67">James Speed</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001032">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401982">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> Albert Gallatin Pendleton (1807-1875) — also known as Albert G. Pendleton — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/GI-lived.html">Giles County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-born.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/06-28.html">June 28, 1807</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Giles County, 1855-56. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/GI-died.html">Giles County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/06-19.html">June 19, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 356 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/GI-buried.html# ">Chapman Cemetery</a>, Ripplemead, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Pendleton and Nancy (Strother) Pendleton; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>; married to Elvina Chapman; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#718.27.15">William Grayson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#546.45.35">Beverly Robinson Grayson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#707.24.49">Gabriel Slaughter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garnet-garretson.html#543.31.18">James Benjamin Garnett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#957.55.71">John Brady Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</a>.</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/26506633">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/politicalgraveyard/6268123608/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/848/31.47.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Abraham Lincoln"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) — also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The Illinois Baboon" — of New Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MN-lived.html">Menard County</a>, Ill.; Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-lived.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill. Born in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-log-cabin.html">log cabin</a>, Hardin County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LR-born.html">Larue County</a>), Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/02-12.html">February 12, 1809</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1834-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/index.html">1856</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Illinois</a>, 1858; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this, redefined American nationhood. He was. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Elected in 1900 to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> by the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">assassin</a> John Wilkes Booth, during a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">play</a> at Ford's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/theaters.html">Theater</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Boarding House</a>, across the street, the following day, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-15.html">April 15, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 62 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-buried.html#cms00230">Oak Ridge Cemetery</a>, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07284">National Mall</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07305">Judiciary Park</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/11-04.html">November 4, 1842</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#849.06.72">Mary Ann Todd</a> (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards6.html#527.37.13">Ninian Wirt Edwards</a>; half-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#705.45.25">Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#771.98.85">Benjamin Hardin Helm</a>; half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emilie Pariet Todd</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todd.html#329.83.69">Martha Dee Todd</a>; grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter2.html#384.82.11">David Rittenhouse Porter</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#954.69.03">Levi Lincoln</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#300.55.99">Levi Lincoln Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#019.12.46">Enoch Lincoln</a>.</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/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0337.html">Edwards-Cook 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#040.44.35">Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#223.25.06">Isham N. Haynie</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#620.10.23">William M. Stone</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#912.41.63">John Pitcher</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller8.html#994.90.93">Stephen Miller</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stuart.html#825.70.85">John T. Stuart</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#231.48.38">William H. Seward</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnett.html#424.51.71">Henry L. Burnett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benjamin.html#395.46.65">Judah P. Benjamin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tooley-tossy.html#730.55.92">Robert Toombs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson-jacobi.html#683.63.46">Richard Taylor Jacob</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#848.73.10">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#686.06.01">James Adams</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#346.91.50">John G. Nicolay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everett.html#682.37.80">Edward Everett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/logan.html#801.10.91">Stephen T. Logan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#061.23.89">Francis P. Blair</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hay.html#668.05.28">John Hay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#097.53.67">Henry Reed Rathbone</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James A. Ekin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#015.40.78">Frederick W. Seward</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#141.69.05">John H. Surratt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#466.63.23">John H. Surratt, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shields.html#173.93.82">James Shields</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily T. Helm</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell5.html#943.13.24">John A. Campbell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merriwether-mesta.html#203.02.09">John Merryman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/compton.html#915.69.31">Barnes Compton</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lincoln counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/LN.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/LN.html">Colo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/LI.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/LC.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/LN.html">La.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/LI.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LI.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LI.html">Mont.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LI.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/LI.html">Nev.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/LI.html">N.M.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/LI.html">Okla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LN.html">Ore.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/LI.html">Wash.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/LI.html">W.Va.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/LI.html">Wis.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/LI.html">Wyo.</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/NE/LA-names.html">Lincoln, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lincoln Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CL-names.html">Harrogate, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lincoln <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CO-names.html">Jefferson City, Missouri</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lincoln <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, near <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-names.html">Oxford, 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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#044.54.84">Abraham L. Keister</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#774.64.53">Abraham L. Tucker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#485.03.84">Abraham L. Brick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#458.63.56">Abraham L. Kellogg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berl-berrien.html#123.26.15">Abraham Lincoln Bernstein</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reidelbach-reilley.html#544.58.20">A. Lincoln Reiley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#410.33.41">A. L. Helmick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sutton.html#643.93.07">Abraham L. Sutton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#851.63.38">A. Lincoln Acker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osburn-ostrowski.html#187.77.66">Abraham L. Osgood</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#336.68.14">Abraham L. Witmer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#755.74.34">Abraham L. Phillips</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#572.34.99">Abraham L. Payton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/auth-avern.html#886.87.86">A. L. Auth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moore1.html#651.06.46">A. Lincoln Moore</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#351.98.23">A. Lincoln Niditch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/royal-rubin.html#087.46.50">Abraham L. Rubenstein</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis1.html#852.57.04">Abraham L. Davis, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/frederick-freels.html#841.63.11">Abraham L. Freedman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#134.20.77">A. L. Marovitz</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gordon.html#495.72.67">Lincoln Gordon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bankson-barbosa.html#211.62.00">Abraham L. Banner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tooley-tossy.html#110.91.68">Abraham Lincoln Tosti</a> </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 has appeared</a> on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait also appeared</a> on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $1 to $500.</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=L000313">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406807">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham Lincoln">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/332/000024260">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1118823">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/627">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4097">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Abraham Lincoln: David Herbert Donald, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/068482535X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=068482535X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln</a> — George Anastaplo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847694313/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0847694313&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Abraham Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography</a> — G. S. Boritt, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195144589/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195144589&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American Icon</a> — Albert J. Beveridge, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0403008654/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0403008654&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858</a> — Geoffrey Perret, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507388/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375507388&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief</a> — David Herbert Donald, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743254686/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743254686&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends</a> — Edward Steers, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813122171/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0813122171&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln</a> — Mario Cuomo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0151009996/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0151009996&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Why Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever</a> — Michael W. Kauffman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037550785X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=037550785X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies</a> — Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684824906/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684824906&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln</a> — Joshua Wolf Shenk, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618551166/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618551166&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln's Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness</a> — John Channing Briggs, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801881064/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801881064&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered</a> — Ronald C. White, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400061199/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400061199&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words</a> — Harold Holzer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743224663/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743224663&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln President</a> — Michael Lind, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385507399/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385507399&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">What Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President</a> — Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743270754/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743270754&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln</a> — Michael Burlingame, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809327384/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809327384&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay</a> — Thomas J. Craughwell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674024583/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674024583&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Stealing Lincoln's Body</a> — Roy Morris, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060852097/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060852097&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America</a> — John Stauffer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446580090/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446580090&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln</a> — Karen Judson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766022773/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766022773&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Abraham Lincoln</a> (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039924039X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039924039X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Looking at Lincoln</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Abraham Lincoln: Thomas J. DiLorenzo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761526463/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0761526463&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore Vidal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375708766/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375708766&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln: A Novel</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ninian Wirt Edwards (1809-1889) — also known as Ninian W. Edwards — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-lived.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill. Born in Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/04-15.html">April 15, 1809</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/attygn.html">Illinois state attorney general</a>, 1834-35; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1837-41, 1849-53; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html">Illinois state senate</a>, 1845-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention</a> from Sangamon County, 1847; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sppi.html">Illinois superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1854-57. Died in Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-died.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/09-02.html">September 2, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 140 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-buried.html#cms00230">Oak Ridge Cemetery</a>, Springfield, Ill. <table width=100% 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/edwards6.html#072.80.69">Ninian Edwards</a> and Elvira (Lane) Edwards; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/02-18.html">February 18, 1832</a>, to Elizabeth Parker Todd (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>; half-sister-in-law <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#705.45.25">Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson</a>; half-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#771.98.85">Benjamin Hardin Helm</a>; half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emilie Pariet Todd</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards2.html#789.49.67">Cyrus Edwards</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook5.html#242.12.35">John Pope Cook</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards1.html#768.35.15">Benjamin Edwards</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/metaker-meyenborg.html#551.56.29">Richard Lee Metcalfe</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/metaker-meyenborg.html#542.26.26">Theodore W. Metcalfe</a>.</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/10001-0337.html">Edwards-Cook family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles G. Wintersmith (1812-1881) — of Kentucky. Born in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-born.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/07-15.html">July 15, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 5th District, 1855. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/10-14.html">October 14, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 91 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-buried.html#cms00874">Elizabethtown City Cemetery</a>, Elizabethtown, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#083.67.05">Horatio Gates Wintersmith</a> and Elizabeth (Hodgen) Wintersmith; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#289.30.75">Richard Curd Wintersmith</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#914.76.00">Robert Lawrence Wintersmith</a>; married to Emily Cotton and Malvina Underwood Gorin; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodge.html#504.21.67">Samuel LaRue Hodgen</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#384.24.78">David Cooper Swan Wintersmith</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0200.html">Morehead-Wintersmith family</a> of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11924891">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/default.aspx?id=41"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/476/15.93.jpg" width=70 height=94 border=0 alt="Samuel B. Churchill"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Bullitt Churchill (1812-1890) — also known as Samuel B. Churchill — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo.; Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky.; Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born near Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/12-06.html">December 6, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/saintlouis.html#2">St. Louis, Mo.</a>, 1842-45; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a>, 1858; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/MO.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Kentucky</a>, 1867-71, 1879-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, from "<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">brain congestion</a>", in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/05-14.html">May 14, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 159 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms00479">Cave Hill Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Churchill and Abigail Pope (Oldham) Churchill; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/06-25.html">June 25, 1836</a>, to Amelia Chouteau Walker; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Kentucky Secretary of State</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Shelby Walker (1815-1891) — also known as David S. Walker — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-02.html">May 2, 1815</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/tallahassee.html">mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/spju.html">justice of Florida state supreme court</a>, 1860-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Florida</a>, 1865-68; defeated (American), 1856; circuit judge in Florida, 1878-91. Died in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-died.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/07-20.html">July 20, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 79 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html#cms04267">St. John's Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; married to Philoclea Alston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#875.57.46">Augustus A. Alston</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#927.28.36">Willis Alston</a>); father of Courtney Walker (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#339.70.96">Robert Spratt Cockrell</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#575.27.74">Andrew Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The David S. Walker <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Library</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LE-names.html">Tallahassee, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/david-shelby-walker/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David S. Walker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10181239">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Aylett Hawes Buckner (1816-1894) — also known as Aylett H. Buckner — of Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/AU-lived.html">Audrain County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fb-born.html">Fredericksburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/12-14.html">December 14, 1816</a>. Democrat. Circuit judge in Missouri, 1857; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a>, 1873-85 (13th District 1873-83, 7th District 1883-85). Slaveowner. Died in Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/AU-died.html">Audrain County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/02-05.html">February 5, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 53 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/AU-buried.html#cms03226">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Mexico, Mo. <table width=100% 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 Bailey Buckner and Mildred (Strother) Buckner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/09-16.html">September 16, 1841</a>, to Eliza L. Clark; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#091.92.58">Aylett Hawes</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#586.38.93">Richard Hawes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert Gallatin Hawes</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#659.83.99">Harry Bartow Hawes</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#420.57.73">Robert Pryor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#915.76.70">John Flournoy Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#916.73.04">Gustavus Adolphus Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#913.23.45">Thomas Stanhope Flournoy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0999.html">Tyler family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001031">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401981">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6927535">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 Lawrence Wintersmith (1816-1890) — also known as R. L. Wintersmith — of Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-lived.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky. Born in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-born.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/08-13.html">August 13, 1816</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/KY.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/KY.html">1880</a> (alternate). Died in Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/02-26.html">February 26, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 197 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-buried.html#cms00874">Elizabethtown City Cemetery</a>, Elizabethtown, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#083.67.05">Horatio Gates Wintersmith</a> and Elizabeth (Hodgen) Wintersmith; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#289.30.75">Richard Curd Wintersmith</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#585.84.50">Charles G. Wintersmith</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/08-14.html">August 14, 1838</a>, to Euphemia Swan; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#384.24.78">David Cooper Swan Wintersmith</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodge.html#504.21.67">Samuel LaRue Hodgen</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0200.html">Morehead-Wintersmith family</a> of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12102380">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 John Helm (1817-1868) — also known as Charles J. Helm — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky. Born in Hornellsville (now Hornell), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-born.html">Steuben County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/06-21.html">June 21, 1817</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-consuls.html ">Havana</a>, 1858-61. Died in Havana (La Habana), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-died.html">Cuba</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/02-26.html">February 26, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 250 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-buried.html#cms00098">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Southgate, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sallie Bankhead (McKinney) Helm and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0149.html">Dorsey-Poffenbarger family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0349.html">Alston-Kenan family</a> of Milledgeville, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73083607">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> Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) — also known as Mary Ann Todd — of Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-lived.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/12-13.html">December 13, 1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1861-65. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-died.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/07-16.html">July 16, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 215 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-buried.html#cms00230">Oak Ridge Cemetery</a>, Springfield, Ill. <table width=100% 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 Robert Smith Todd and Eliza Ann (Parker) Todd; half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/11-04.html">November 4, 1842</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todd.html#329.83.69">Martha Dee Todd</a>; grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter2.html#384.82.11">David Rittenhouse Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter4.html#541.67.99">George Bryan Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter5.html#516.00.84">James Madison Porter</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rilling-ripps.html#801.67.49">Arthur Rumney Ringwalt</a>.</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/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary Todd Lincoln">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1341">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34103">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> Hubbard Dozier Helm (1821-1885) — also known as H. D. Helm — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky. Born in Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/02-21.html">February 21, 1821</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/KY.html">1860</a>. Died in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-died.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/09-15.html">September 15, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 206 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-buried.html#cms00098">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Southgate, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sallie Bankhead (McKinney) Helm and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/">1842</a> to Elizabeth Stanton Tarvin; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0149.html">Dorsey-Poffenbarger family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0349.html">Alston-Kenan family</a> of Milledgeville, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73157907">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 Gratz Brown (1826-1885) — also known as B. Gratz Brown; "Boozy Gratz" — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/05-28.html">May 28, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1852-58; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/MO.html">1860</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Missouri</a>, 1863-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1871-73; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1872. Died in Kirkwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-died.html">St. Louis County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/12-13.html">December 13, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 199 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-buried.html#cms02079">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Kirkwood, Mo. <table width=100% 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/brown6.html#963.00.04">Mason Brown</a> and Judith Ann (Bledsoe) Brown; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/">1858</a> to Mary Hanson Gunn; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#170.03.23">Jesse Bledsoe</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0021.html">Brown-Breckinridge family</a> of Lexington, Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000905">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401862">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/benjamin-gratz-brown/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin Gratz Brown">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/919/000164427">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18514">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> Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson (1829-1895) — also known as N. H. R. Dawson — of Selma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Ala. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/02-14.html">February 14, 1829</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/AL.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Alabama State House of Representatives</a>, 1880. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Selma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-died.html">Dallas County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/02-01.html">February 1, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-buried.html#cms00181">Live Oak Cemetery</a>, Selma, Ala. <table width=100% 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 Lawrence E. Dawson and Mary Wilkinson (Rhodes) Dawson; married to Elodie Breck Todd (half-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards6.html#527.37.13">Ninian Wirt Edwards</a>; sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#771.98.85">Benjamin Hardin Helm</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emilie Pariet Todd</a>).</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/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0337.html">Edwards-Cook 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/34186549">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 David Walker (1830-1906) — also known as James D. Walker — of Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Ark. Born near Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/12-13.html">December 13, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arkansas</a>, 1879-85. Died in Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/11-17.html">November 17, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 339 days</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Volney Walker and Susan Howard (McLean) Walker; married to Mary W. Walker; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#216.74.58">John McLean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#440.37.08">Finis Ewing McLean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#383.94.41">Wilkinson Call</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000057">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411236">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James D. Walker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9010565">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831-1863) — also known as Ben Hardin Helm — Born in Bardstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/NE-born.html">Nelson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/06-02.html">June 2, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1855-56; declined appointment as paymaster of the Union Army; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> during the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Battle of Chickamauga</a>, and died soon after, Chickamauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WL-died.html">Walker County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-21.html">September 21, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/32.html">32 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-buried.html# ">Helm Cemetery</a>, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a> and Lucinda Barbour (Hardin) Helm; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/">1856</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emilie Pariet Todd</a> (half-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards6.html#527.37.13">Ninian Wirt Edwards</a>; sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#705.45.25">Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson</a>).</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/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0337.html">Edwards-Cook 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/8925">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/emily-todd-helm/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/563/34.51.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="Emily T. Helm"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Emily Todd Helm (1836-1930) — also known as Emily T. Helm; Emilie Pariet Todd — of Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-lived.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/11-11.html">November 11, 1836</a>. Her husband was offered a position as paymaster of the Union Army, but chose to become a Confederate general, and was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863; she was granted safe passage to come to the White House and stay with President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> and his family, despite harsh criticism in the Northern press for harboring a Confederate; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/elizabethtown.html#2">Elizabethtown, Ky.</a>, 1883-96. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-dtrs-confederacy.html">United Daughters of the Confederacy</a>. Died in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/02-20.html">February 20, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth (Humphreys) Todd; half-sister of Elizabeth Parker Todd (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards6.html#527.37.13">Ninian Wirt Edwards</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#849.06.72">Mary Ann Todd</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>); sister of Elodie Breck Todd (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#705.45.25">Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/">1856</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#771.98.85">Benjamin Hardin Helm</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a>); aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todd.html#329.83.69">Martha Dee Todd</a>; grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown6.html#963.00.04">Mason Brown</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rilling-ripps.html#801.67.49">Arthur Rumney Ringwalt</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#188.09.98">Benjamin Gratz Brown</a>.</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/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0337.html">Edwards-Cook 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/7146459">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 Lehrman Institute</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 Cooper Swan Wintersmith (1839-1912) — also known as David C. Swan Wintersmith — of Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-lived.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky. Born in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/05-04.html">May 4, 1839</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/elizabethtown.html#2">Elizabethtown, Ky.</a>, 1864-66, 1870-71, 1871-83. Died in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-10.html">November 10, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms00479">Cave Hill Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#914.76.00">Robert Lawrence Wintersmith</a> and Euphemia (Swan) Wintersmith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/08-27.html">August 27, 1868</a>, to Willie Shirley; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#585.84.50">Charles G. Wintersmith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#289.30.75">Richard Curd Wintersmith</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#083.67.05">Horatio Gates Wintersmith</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodge.html#504.21.67">Samuel LaRue Hodgen</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0200.html">Morehead-Wintersmith family</a> of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/176970465">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 Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) — Born in Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-born.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/08-01.html">August 1, 1843</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman (1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad cars</a>; part owner of Chicago Edison Company <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">electric utility</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/BE-died.html">Bennington County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/07-25.html">July 25, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 358 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#849.06.72">Mary Todd Lincoln</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/09-24.html">September 24, 1868</a>, to Mary Eunice Harlan (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harlan.html#662.81.42">James Harlan</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter2.html#384.82.11">David Rittenhouse Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter4.html#541.67.99">George Bryan Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter5.html#516.00.84">James Madison Porter</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todd.html#329.83.69">Martha Dee Todd</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rilling-ripps.html#801.67.49">Arthur Rumney Ringwalt</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#954.69.03">Levi Lincoln</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Todd Lincoln">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/lincoln-robert-todd ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/130/000057956">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/628">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 T. Lincoln: Jason Emerson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809330555/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809330555&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Shelby Walker Jr. (1846-1889) — also known as David S. Walker, Jr. — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-born.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/10-10.html">October 10, 1846</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/tallahassee.html">mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.</a>, 1875, 1878-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1883; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Florida state constitutional convention</a>, 1885; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1887. Died in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-died.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-06.html">December 6, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 57 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html#cms04267">St. John's Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and Philoclea Edgeworth 'Florida' (Alston) Walker; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10181312">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Martha Dee Todd (1858-1909) — also known as M. D. Todd — of Cynthiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HI-lived.html">Harrison County</a>, Ky. Born in Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/09-19.html">September 19, 1858</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/cynthiana.html#2">Cynthiana, Ky.</a>, 1887-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HI-died.html">Harrison County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/01-12.html">January 12, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 115 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HI-buried.html#cms00009">Battle Grove Cemetery</a>, Cynthiana, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of George Rogers Clark Todd and Anna H. (Curry) Todd; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#849.06.72">Mary Ann Todd</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily Todd Helm</a>; great-grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter2.html#384.82.11">David Rittenhouse Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter4.html#541.67.99">George Bryan Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter5.html#516.00.84">James Madison Porter</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rilling-ripps.html#801.67.49">Arthur Rumney Ringwalt</a>.</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/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/43077824">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> Arthur Rumney Ringwalt (1899-1981) — also known as Arthur R. Ringwalt — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-born.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/02-24.html">February 24, 1899</a>. U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Shanghai</a>, 1928-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Yunnanfu</a>, 1934, 1938; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Kweilin</a>, 1943-44; chief, U.S. State Department Division on Chinese Affairs, 1946. 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