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The Political Graveyard: Bibb County, Ga.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Bibb County, Ga.</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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Long</b>; <b>Jeff Long</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-slavery.html">slavery</a> near Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CD-born.html">Crawford County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/03-03.html">March 3, 1836</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Merchant tailor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 4th District, 1870-71; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/GA.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/GA.html">1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/02-04.html">February 4, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 338 days</a>). Interment at Linwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000419">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406910">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7117178">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms01230">Riverside Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Macon, Bibb County, Georgia <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Emory Speer (1848-1918)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in Culloden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MO-born.html">Monroe County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/09-03.html">September 3, 1848</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 9th District, 1879-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia</a>, 1883-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia</a>, 1885-1918; died in office 1918. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-13.html">December 13, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000711">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410181">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2251&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/speer-emory">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Augustus Bootle (1902-2005)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>William A. Bootle</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Walterboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CO-born.html">Colleton County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/08-19.html">August 19, 1902</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia</a>, 1929-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia</a>, 1954-72; took senior status 1972. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/civitan.html">Civitan</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/01-25.html">January 25, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/102.html">102 years, 159 days</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Philip Loraine Bootle and Laura Lilla (Benton) Bootle; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-24.html">November 24, 1928</a>, to Virginia Childs.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The William Augustus Bootle <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Federal Building</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Courthouse</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-names.html">Macon, Georgia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=213&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/30284659">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Chauncey Vibbard (1811-1891)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of New York. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/index.html">1811</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 18th District, 1861-63. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/index.html">1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000094">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411149">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ed Gochenour (c.1953-1999)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born about 1953. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1980. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/11-07.html">November 7, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 years</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Denmark Groover Jr. (1922-2001)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Quitman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BO-born.html">Brooks County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/06-30.html">June 30, 1922</a>. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a> from Bibb County, 1953-57, 1963-65, 1971-75, 1983-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-assoc-justice.html">Association of Trial Lawyers of America</a>. During World War II, served as a pilot in the "Black Sheep Squadron"; an injury left his right arm <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">partially paralyzed</a>. Sponsored the bill to put the Confederate battle flag on the Georgia state flag in 1956; supported the removal of the emblem in 2001. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/04-18.html">April 18, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 292 days</a>). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians formerly buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3GQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128-IA3"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/687/03.90.jpg" width=70 height=88 border=0 alt="Lucius Q. C. Lamar"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Lucius Q. C. Lamar</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Covington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/NE-lived.html">Newton County</a>, Ga.; Abbeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-lived.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss.; Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-lived.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss. Born near Eatonton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/PU-born.html">Putnam County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/09-17.html">September 17, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention</a>, 1865, 1868, 1875, 1877, 1881; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Mississippi</a>, 1877-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1885-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1888-93; died in office 1893. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/01-23.html">January 23, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 128 days</a>). Original interment at Riverside Cemetery; reinterment in 1894 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-buried.html#cms01332">St. Peter's Cemetery</a>, Oxford, Miss. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#816.10.63">Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834)</a> and Sarah Williamson (Bird) Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#529.83.94">Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar</a> and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chappel-chartrand.html#646.53.06">Absalom Harris Chappell</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#981.18.56">William Bailey Lamar</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#485.90.31">William McKendree Robbins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#639.34.50">Joseph Rucker Lamar</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#625.86.37">Gaston Ahi Robbins</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10253.html">Lamar family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Lamar counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LM.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/LM.html">Ga.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LM.html">Miss.</a> are named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a>, at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-names.html">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. &nbsp;&mdash; Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">River</a>, in Yellowstone National Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/PA-names.html">Park County, Wyoming</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. &nbsp;&mdash; Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Boulevard</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-names.html">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. &nbsp;&mdash; Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-names.html">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. &nbsp;&mdash; Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (founded 1964), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LA-names.html">Meridian, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000030">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406540">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1331&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar">Ballotpedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/890/000180350">NNDB dossier</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5695">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar:</i> John F. Kennedy, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060955449/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060955449&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Profiles in Courage</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms00292">Rose Hill Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Riverside Dr. <br> Macon, Bibb County, Georgia <br> <i>Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1973</i><br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Alfred Holt Colquitt (1824-1894)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Alfred H. Colquitt</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WT-born.html">Walton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/04-20.html">April 20, 1824</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 2nd District, 1853-55; member of Georgia state legislature, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Georgia secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/GA.html">1868</a>; received 5 electoral votes for Vice-President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1872.html">1872</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1877-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1883-94; died in office 1894. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/03-26.html">March 26, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 340 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collinsworth-combest.html#018.04.89">Walter Terry Colquitt</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10331.html">Lane-Colquitt family</a> of North Carolina.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000647">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402775">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/alfred-holt-colquitt/">National Governors Association biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred H. Colquitt">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839-1914)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Augustus O. Bacon</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BY-born.html">Bryan County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/10-20.html">October 20, 1839</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1871-83, 1892-93; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/GA.html">1884</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1895-1914; died in office 1914. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/02-14.html">February 14, 1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 117 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. Augustus Octavius Bacon and Mary Louisa (Jones) Bacon; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/04-19.html">April 19, 1864</a>, to Virginia Lamar.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BC.html">Bacon County, Ga.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000014">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401019">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus Octavius Bacon">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Jackson (1819-1887)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga.; Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga.; Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/10-18.html">October 18, 1819</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1845-49; superior court judge in Georgia, 1846-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 6th District, 1857-61; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Georgia state supreme court</a>, 1875-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Georgia Supreme Court</a>, 1880-87; died in office 1887. Slaveowner. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/01-13.html">January 13, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 87 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#548.27.26">Jabez Young Jackson</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#077.80.05">James Jackson (1757-1806)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10753.html">Jackson family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000016">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405924">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Jackson %28congressman%29">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Washington Bonaparte Towns (1801-1854)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>George W. B. Towns</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Talbotton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TB-lived.html">Talbot County</a>, Ga. Born in Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/05-04.html">May 4, 1801</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1829; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1835-36, 1837-39, 1846-47 (at-large 1835-36, 1837-39, 3rd District 1846-47); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1847-51. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/07-15.html">July 15, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TN.html">Towns County, Ga.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000327">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410898">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-washington-towns/">National Governors Association biography</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Nathaniel Edwin Harris (1846-1929)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Nat E. Harris</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga.; Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CA-lived.html">Carter County</a>, Tenn. Born in Jonesborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/01-21.html">January 21, 1846</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1882-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1894-96; superior court judge in Georgia, 1912; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1915-17. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/chi-phi.html">Chi Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-confed-vets.html">United Confederate Veterans</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/09-21.html">September 21, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 243 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Alexander Nelson Harris and Edna (Haynes) Harris; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/01-12.html">January 12, 1873</a>, to Fannie Burke; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/07-06.html">July 6, 1899</a>, to Hattie G. Jobe; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#056.13.32">Landon Carter Haynes</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor1.html#336.69.77">Alfred Alexander Taylor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor7.html#387.42.05">Robert Love Taylor</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11078.html">Taylor family</a> of Tennessee.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/nathaniel-edwin-harris/">National Governors Association biography</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>North Winship (1885-1968)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-born.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/12-31.html">December 31, 1885</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FP-consuls.html ">Tahiti</a>, 1910; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-consuls.html ">Owen Sound</a>, 1913-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Petrograd</a>, 1914-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Milan</a>, 1917-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IN-consuls.html ">Bombay</a>, 1921-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HR-consuls.html ">Fiume</a>, 1923-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EG-consuls.html ">Cairo</a>, 1924-27; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html ">Copenhagen</a>, 1928-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-consuls.html ">Toronto</a>, as of 1943; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-consuls.html ">Montreal</a>, as of 1945-47; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SF-diplomats.html ">South Africa</a>, 1948-49; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SF-diplomats.html ">South Africa</a>, 1949. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/index.html">1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 years</a>). Entombed at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Nathaniel R. Winship and Mary A. (North) Winship; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/">1921</a> to Catherine (Colfelt) Taylor.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/winship-north ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7973137">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Henderson Blount (1837-1903)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>James H. Blount</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born near Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JO-born.html">Jones County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/09-12.html">September 12, 1837</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 6th District, 1873-93; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/diplo.html ">Hawaiian Islands</a>, 1893. Slaveowner. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/03-08.html">March 8, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 177 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blount.html#118.74.08">James Henderson Blount Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12868.html">Blount-Comer family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000568">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401541">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/blount-james-henderson ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Eugenius A. Nisbet</b>; <b>E. A. Nisbet</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GE-born.html">Greene County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/12-07.html">December 7, 1803</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1827-30; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1830-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> at-large, 1839-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Georgia state supreme court</a>, 1845-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Georgia secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861. Slaveowner. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/03-18.html">March 18, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cooper.html#078.44.35">Mark Anthony Cooper</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10232.html">Candler family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000111">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408195">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Clifford Anderson (1833-1899)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NT-born.html">Nottoway County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/03-23.html">March 23, 1833</a>. State court judge in Georgia, 1856-58; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1859; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Georgia in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1864-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/attygn.html">Georgia state attorney general</a>, 1880-90. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/12-19.html">December 19, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles Lafayette Bartlett (1853-1938)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Charles L. Bartlett</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Monticello, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JS-born.html">Jasper County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/01-31.html">January 31, 1853</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1882-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1888-90; superior court judge in Georgia, 1893-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 6th District, 1895-1915; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/GA.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>). Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/04-21.html">April 21, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 80 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of George T. Bartlett and Virginia L. (Saunders) Bartlett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/12-03.html">December 3, 1874</a>, to Lella Carlton.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000199">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401198">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Hardeman Jr. (1825-1891)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Eatonton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/PU-born.html">Putnam County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/01-12.html">January 12, 1825</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1853-57, 1863-64, 1874; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1859-61, 1883-85 (3rd District 1859-61, at-large 1883-85); colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/macon.html#3">Macon, Ga.</a>, 1885-90. Slaveowner. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/03-06.html">March 6, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 53 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Hardeman <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-names.html">Macon, Georgia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000181">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405062">Govtrack.us page</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Hardeman, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Philip Cook (1817-1894)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Americus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/SU-lived.html">Sumter County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TW-born.html">Twiggs County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/07-31.html">July 31, 1817</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1850; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention</a>, 1865; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 3rd District, 1873-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Georgia</a>, 1890-94; died in office 1894. Slaveowner. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/05-21.html">May 21, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 294 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CK.html">Cook County, Ga.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000724">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402846">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Graybill Lamar (1798-1861)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Henry G. Lamar</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JO-born.html">Jones County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/07-10.html">July 10, 1798</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> at-large, 1829-33. Slaveowner. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-10.html">September 10, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 62 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000027">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406537">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Basil Lamar (1812-1862)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>John B. Lamar</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Milledgeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BD-born.html">Baldwin County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/11-05.html">November 5, 1812</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> at-large, 1843; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Mortally wounded</a> in the battle at Cramptons Gap, Frederick County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>), Md., and died the following day, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-15.html">September 15, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000029">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406539">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Harry S. Edwards</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-born.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/04-23.html">April 23, 1855</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/macon.html#3">Macon, Ga.</a>, 1900-13; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/GA.html">1904</a>; Proleague Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1920. Died in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/10-22.html">October 22, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 182 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Corson Edwards and Elizabeth Griffin (Hunt) Edwards; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/01-13.html">January 13, 1881</a>, to Mary Roxie Lane.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry Stillwell Edwards">Wikipedia article</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8002190">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Samuel Francis Gove (1822-1900)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of Georgia. Born in Weymouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/03-09.html">March 9, 1822</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 4th District, 1868-69. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Ordained as a minister in 1877 and was a traveling missionary for much of the rest of his life. Slaveowner. Died in St. Augustine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SJ-died.html">St. Johns County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/12-03.html">December 3, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000347">congressional biography</a>&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404703">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Coke Howard (1817-1893)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; also known as <b>Thomas C. Howard</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CD-lived.html">Crawford County</a>, Ga.; Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/index.html">1817</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1840; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/atlanta.html#2">Atlanta, Ga.</a>, 1856-58, 1861-65. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/index.html">1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Marianna Hall; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#986.05.33">William Schley Howard</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#616.92.18">Robert Augustus Alston</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#629.70.98">Pierre D. Howard Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1314.html">Howard family</a> of Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25315887">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George W. Ashburn (c.1814-1868)</b>&nbsp;&mdash; of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MU-lived.html">Muscogee County</a>, Ga. Born about 1814. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotelier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton broker</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; opposed to secession, and led a regiment of Southern loyalists; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention</a>, 1867. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by a group of masked men, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">boarding house</a> at Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MU-died.html">Muscogee County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/03-31.html">March 31, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/">1847</a> to Martha Ann Smith.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#031.91.79">W. D. Chipley</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20>&nbsp;</td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/138680977">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general sideline */ google_ad_slot = "2646840196"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general bottomline */ google_ad_slot = "1170106998"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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