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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Clinton-DeWitt family of New York</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> Charles De Witt (1727-1787) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1727/08-15.html">August 15, 1727</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Ulster County, 1781-85, 1787; died in office 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1784. Died in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-died.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/08-27.html">August 27, 1787</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html#cms02312">Dutch Reformed Cemetery</a>, Hurley, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Maria 'Mary' (Brodhead) DeWitt and Johannes DeWitt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/12-20.html">December 20, 1754</a>, to Blandina DuBois; father of Margaret DeWitt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#978.67.48">Johannes Bruyn</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000283">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403325">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Clinton (1736-1812) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y. Born in Little Britain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1736/08-09.html">August 9, 1736</a>. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1787-88, 1800-01 (Ulster County 1787-88, Orange County 1800-01); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Ulster County, 1788; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Middle District, 1788-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1801. Died in Little Britain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/12-22.html">December 22, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 135 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-buried.html#cms00062">Clinton Cemetery</a>, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment in 1879 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-buried.html#cms02784">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, New Windsor, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Clinton (1690-1773) and Elizabeth (Denniston) Clinton; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>; married to Mary DeWitt; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton (1767-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a>, Mary Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>), Katherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Clinton">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54080"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/440/13.51.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="George Clinton"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Clinton (1739-1812) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Little Britain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/07-26.html">July 26, 1739</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1775-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1777-95, 1801-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Ulster County, 1788; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1800-01; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1805-12; died in office 1812. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/04-20.html">April 20, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 269 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1908 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html#cms01254">Old Dutch Churchyard</a>, Kingston, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Clinton (1690-1773) and Elizabeth (Denniston) Clinton; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/02-07.html">February 7, 1770</a>, to Cornelia Tappen; father of Catherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>) and Elizabeth Denniston Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#288.54.59">Matthias Burnett Tallmadge</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton (1767-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a>, Mary Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>), Katherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Clinton counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CL.html">N.Y.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CI.html">Ohio</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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000527">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-clinton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Clinton %28vice president%29">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/052/000049902">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/209">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about George Clinton: John P. Kaminski, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0945612176/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0945612176&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Clinton : Yeoman Politician of the New Republic</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Public Library</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> Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. (1762-1848) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Croton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/08-29.html">August 29, 1762</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Westchester County, 1791-92, 1793-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1811-13; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Slaveowner. Died in Peekskill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/07-13.html">July 13, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 319 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms01257">Hillside Cemetery</a>, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a> and Joanna (Livingston) Van Cortlandt; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/">1801</a> to Catherine Clinton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>); married to Anne Stevenson; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#979.11.25">Stephanus Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#032.54.77">Abraham de Peyster</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#789.71.60">Jacobus Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#849.76.43">Johannes de Peyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#630.79.23">Johannes DePeyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#052.47.67">Montgomery Schuyler Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#498.42.59">James Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russen-ruther.html#016.40.36">Henry Rutgers</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#882.43.77">Frederick Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#037.30.75">Herbert Livingston Satterlee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens5.html#622.01.04">John Stevens III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#240.15.79">Karl Cortlandt Schuyler</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000023">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411076">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/17914070">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> Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848) — of Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-lived.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y.; Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/12-13.html">December 13, 1765</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Columbia County, 1793-94; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1795-1802 (Eastern District 1795-97, Middle District 1797-1802); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1797, 1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1802-04; appointed 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1804-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1821; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/albany.html">mayor of Albany, N.Y.</a>, 1824-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 10th District, 1829-31. Slaveowner. Died in Lyons, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WN-died.html">Wayne County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/03-13.html">March 13, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 91 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Philip Spencer and Abigail (Moore) Spencer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/02-18.html">February 18, 1784</a>, to Laura Canfield; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/">1808</a> to Mary (Clinton) Norton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton (1736-1812)</a>; half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton (1804-1849)</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton (1767-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton (1769-1828)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr. (1771-1809)</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton (1739-1812)</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/">1810</a> to Katharine (Clinton) Norton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton (1736-1812)</a>; half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton (1804-1849)</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton (1767-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton (1769-1828)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr. (1771-1809)</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton (1739-1812)</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#631.89.91">John Canfield Spencer</a> and Abby Spencer (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#103.01.69">John Townsend</a>); grandfather of Julia Isabella Townsend (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#998.25.12">Allen Munroe</a>).</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000721">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410190">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose Spencer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/497/000209867">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7640396">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 Clinton (1767-1829) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y. Born in Little Britain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/02-18.html">February 18, 1767</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Orange County, 1801-02. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-20.html">April 20, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 61 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton</a> and Mary (De Witt) Clinton; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a>, Mary Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>) and Katherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54049"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/026/12.20.jpg" width=70 height=94 border=0 alt="De_Witt Clinton"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) — also known as "Father of the Erie Canal" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Napanoch, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/03-02.html">March 2, 1769</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1797-98; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1798-1802, 1805-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1801; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1802-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1811-13; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1817-23, 1825-28; died in office 1828. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Chief advocate for the Erie <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Canal</a>, completed 1825. Slaveowner. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-died.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/02-11.html">February 11, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 346 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-buried.html#cms00062">Clinton Cemetery</a>, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton</a> and Mary (De Witt) Clinton; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a>, Mary Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>) and Katherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/02-13.html">February 13, 1796</a>, to Maria Franklin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/05-08.html">May 8, 1819</a>, to Catherine Livingston Jones; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Clinton counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CI.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CI.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CL.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CN.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CN.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CL.html">Mo.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CN.html">Pa.</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/DW.html">DeWitt County, Ill.</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">township and city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CN-names.html">DeWitt, Michigan</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CL-names.html">De Witt, Iowa</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/DW-names.html">DeWitt, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CR-names.html">De Witt, Missouri</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/stevens2.html#486.24.75">De Witt C. Stevens</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#766.14.56">DeWitt C. Walker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/standiford-stanislaus.html#582.62.05">De Witt C. Stanford</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/littlebandit-livesay.html#217.82.89">De Witt C. Littlejohn</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gage.html#666.03.69">De Witt C. Gage</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark2.html#473.38.90">DeWitt C. Clark</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#010.45.79">De Witt C. Leach</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/west-westbrook.html#904.20.27">Dewitt C. West</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/athon-atkins.html#476.14.63">John DeWitt Clinton Atkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson2.html#033.07.99">DeWitt C. Wilson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#686.08.44">De Witt C. Morris</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/giddey-gilberson.html#574.83.15">D. C. Giddings</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hough.html#152.68.28">DeWitt C. Hough</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones2.html#859.14.92">DeWitt C. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/toth-towns.html#445.63.34">De Witt C. Tower</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cools-coomer.html#486.01.44">D. C. Coolman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#407.09.50">DeWitt Clinton Cregier</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#534.17.08">DeWitt C. Hoyt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#727.59.94">DeWitt Clinton Senter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#108.93.79">De Witt C. Rugg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen2.html#666.33.30">DeWitt C. Allen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peck.html#651.01.64">DeWitt C. Peck</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richardville-richman.html#768.99.74">DeWitt C. Richman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/albritton-aldous.html#991.90.63">Dewitt C. Alden</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craige-cram.html#487.28.94">DeWitt C. Cram</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#355.28.67">De Witt C. Bolton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#553.80.79">DeWitt C. Huntington</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones2.html#014.94.08">DeWitt C. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ponce-ponder.html#225.98.65">DeWitt C. Pond</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#445.95.45">De Witt C. Carr</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#592.32.60">DeWitt C. Pierce</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#084.20.67">DeWitt C. Middleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#348.88.81">De Witt C. Badger</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#584.33.17">DeWitt C. Dominick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/becker.html#828.16.52">DeWitt C. Becker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/titus.html#927.99.98">De Witt C. Titus</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilsons-winford.html#228.41.92">De Witt C. Winchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/turner2.html#831.31.45">Dewitt C. Turner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rugh-rusch.html#442.97.89">Dewitt C. Ruscoe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#157.95.53">DeWitt C. Brown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/french-frensdorf.html#152.74.88">DeWitt C. French</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagan.html#480.76.07">De Witt C. Flanagan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cole.html#511.25.05">DeWitt C. Cole</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#854.70.13">DeWitt C. Talmage</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#032.63.35">Dewitt Clinton Chase</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poole.html#224.71.53">De Witt C. Poole, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cunningham.html#790.03.08">DeWitt C. Cunningham</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#942.92.06">Dewitt C. Chastain</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $1,000 note in 1898-1905.</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=C000525">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402659">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/dewitt-clinton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt Clinton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/055/000049905">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/208">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4126">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 De Witt Clinton: Evan Cornog, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195140516/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195140516&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Public Library</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 Clinton Jr. (1771-1809) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/06-06.html">June 6, 1771</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn2.html">Delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1801; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1803-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1805-09 (3rd District 1805, 2nd District 1805-09). Slaveowner. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/09-16.html">September 16, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html# ">St. Peters Episcopal Churchyard</a>, Bronx, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton</a> and Mary (De Witt) Clinton; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, Mary Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>) and Katherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000526">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402661">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Clinton (congressman)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/205312386">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> Matthias Burnett Tallmadge (1774-1819) — also known as Matthias B. Tallmadge — of Herkimer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HE-lived.html">Herkimer County</a>, N.Y. Born in Stanford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/03-01.html">March 1, 1774</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Western District, 1802-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New York</a>, 1805-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of New York</a>, 1814-19; resigned 1819. Died in Poughkeepsie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-died.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/10-01.html">October 1, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 214 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html# ">Old Baptist Burying Ground</a>, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/tallmadge-tannehill.html#617.20.02">James Tallmadge</a> and Anna (Sutherland) Tallmadge; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#455.30.99">James Tallmadge Jr.</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/">1803</a> to Elizabeth Denniston Clinton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#075.45.31">Solomon D. Sutherland</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#749.21.29">Joel Tallmadge Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#360.90.57">Jacob Livingston Sutherland</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#548.45.59">Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#463.36.32">John James Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#568.36.60">Isaac Smith Tallmadge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#837.01.91">Daniel Webster Tallmadge</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#361.75.00">Millard Ellsworth Lane</a>.</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/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0587.html">Thompson-Sutherland family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias B. Tallmadge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/207649279">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/tallmadge-matthias-burnett">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Townsend (1783-1854) — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/06-14.html">June 14, 1783</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Foundry business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/albany.html">mayor of Albany, N.Y.</a>, 1829-31. Died in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-died.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/08-26.html">August 26, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 73 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Townsend and Mary (Bennett) Townsend; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-07.html">July 7, 1810</a>, to Abby Spencer (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#631.89.91">John Canfield Spencer</a>); father of Julia Isabella Townsend (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#998.25.12">Allen Munroe</a>).</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Townsend (mayor)">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> Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt (1784-1867) — also known as Jacob H. DeWitt — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Marbletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/10-02.html">October 2, 1784</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1819-21; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Ulster County, 1839, 1847. Slaveowner. Died in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-died.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-30.html">January 30, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 120 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html# ">Houghtaling Cemetery</a>, Kingston, N.Y.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html# ">Old Dutch Churchyard</a>, Kingston, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 DeWitt and Elsie (Hasbrouck) DeWitt; married to Sarah Ann Sleight; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#727.88.10">Abraham Hasbrouck</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#552.35.96">Joseph Hasbrouck</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#831.56.50">Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#996.47.32">Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#516.13.11">Abraham Elting Hasbrouck</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#752.17.07">Solomon Hasbrouck</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#107.89.94">Abraham A. Deyo</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#132.04.35">Abraham A. Deyo Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000287">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403329">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6944297">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 D. Bruyn (1784-1849) — of Shawangunk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Shawangunk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/12-12.html">December 12, 1784</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1821-22, 1826 (Sullivan and Ulster counties 1821-22, Ulster County 1826); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>. Died in Shawangunk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-died.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/02-09.html">February 9, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 59 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html# ">Bruynswick Rural Cemetery</a>, Bruynswick, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/bruns-bruyn.html#978.67.48">Johannes Bruyn</a> and Margaret (De Witt) Bruyn; married to Maria Hasbrouck; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#332.28.16">Jacobus S. Bruyn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#047.80.59">Severyn Tenhout Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#605.56.52">Cornelius Bruyn</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#743.52.56">Andrew De Witt Bruyn</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15649558">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Owen Rowlett (c.1786-1847) — also known as Daniel Rowlett — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-born.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va., about 1786. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1837-38, 1839-40, 1843-44. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FN-died.html">Fannin County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/12-02.html">December 2, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FN-buried.html#cms05621">Inglish Cemetery</a>, Bonham, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Rowlett and Jemima (Owen) Rowlett; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#311.83.02">Joseph Rowlett</a>; married to Mary Anne Jones; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#646.66.37">Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#698.18.92">Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#820.86.21">Reed Owen Smoot</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (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> John Canfield Spencer (1788-1855) — also known as John C. Spencer — of Canandaigua, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OT-lived.html">Ontario County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/01-08.html">January 8, 1788</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/canandaigua.html#3">Canandaigua, N.Y.</a>, 1816; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 21st District, 1817-19; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Ontario County, 1819-21, 1831, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1820; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 7th District, 1825-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of New York</a>, 1839-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1843-44. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-died.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/05-18.html">May 18, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 130 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer</a> and Laura (Canfield) Spencer; brother of Abby Spencer (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#103.01.69">John Townsend</a>); uncle of Julia Isabella Townsend (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#998.25.12">Allen Munroe</a>); first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dayan-deamer.html#232.06.76">Charles Willoughby Dayton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John C. Spencer (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; scrapped 1962) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000727">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410196">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Canfield Spencer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/493/000209863">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6911960">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 Gerrit De Witt (1789-1839) — also known as Charles G. De Witt — of Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Greenhill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/11-07.html">November 7, 1789</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1829-31; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CX-diplomats.html ">Central America</a>, 1833-39. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on board a river steamer</a> on the Hudson River near Newburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/04-12.html">April 12, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html#cms02312">Dutch Reformed Cemetery</a>, Hurley, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Garrit V. De Witt and Catherine (Ten Eyck) De Witt; married to Catherine Bogert Godwin; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000284">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403326">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/de-witt-charles-gerrit ?">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> Joseph Rowlett (1793-1865) — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-born.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/02-23.html">February 23, 1793</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1838-50. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/HE-died.html">Henry County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/12-21.html">December 21, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 301 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Rowlett and Jemima (Owen) Rowlett; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#755.87.43">Daniel Owen Rowlett</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#646.66.37">Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#698.18.92">Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#820.86.21">Reed Owen Smoot</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (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> James Graham Clinton (1804-1849) — also known as James G. Clinton — of New York. Born in Little Britain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/01-02.html">January 2, 1804</a>. Democrat. Common pleas court judge in New York, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1841-45 (6th District 1841-43, 9th District 1843-45). Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/05-28.html">May 28, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 146 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-buried.html#cms00062">Clinton Cemetery</a>, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-buried.html#cms02784">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, New Windsor, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton</a> and Mary (Little) Clinton; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a>, Mary Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>) and Katherine Clinton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000528">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402662">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James G. Clinton">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 William Clinton (1807-1885) — also known as George W. Clinton — of Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/04-24.html">April 24, 1807</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/buffalo.html">Mayor of Buffalo, N.Y.</a>, 1842-43; Buffalo superior court judge, 1854-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1867. Died in Menands, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-died.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/09-07.html">September 7, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-buried.html#cms00118">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Buffalo, N.Y. <table width=100% 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/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a> and Maria (Franklin) Clinton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/05-15.html">May 15, 1832</a>, to Laura Catharine Spencer; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#781.46.16">James Graham Clinton</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#056.32.63">James Clinton</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6690912">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 Munroe (1815-1869) — of Elbridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-lived.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Elbridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-born.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/11-24.html">November 24, 1815</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 22nd District, 1852-55. Died in Elbridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-died.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/06-07.html">June 7, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 195 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-buried.html#cms00239">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Syracuse, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Nathan Munroe and Cynthia (Champlin) Munroe; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#998.25.12">Allen Munroe</a>; married to Caroline A. Clark.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Munroe (New York)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75852580">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> Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) — also known as Abraham O. Smoot; A. O. Smoot — of Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah; Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-lived.html">Utah County</a>, Utah. Born in Owenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/OW-born.html">Owen County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/02-17.html">February 17, 1815</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/saltlakecity.html">Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah</a>, 1857-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/provo.html">mayor of Provo, Utah</a>, 1868-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. Died in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-died.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/03-06.html">March 6, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 17 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Washigton Smoot and Nancy Ann (Rowlett) Smoot; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/11-11.html">November 11, 1838</a>, to Margaret Thompson McMeans; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/02-17.html">February 17, 1856</a>, to Anna Kirstine Mauritzdatter; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#698.18.92">Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#820.86.21">Reed Owen Smoot</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#755.87.43">Daniel Owen Rowlett</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#311.83.02">Joseph Rowlett</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>.</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/10001-0075.html">Bullock family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building (opened 1962), at Brigham Young <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-names.html">Provo, Utah</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham O. Smoot">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> Allen Munroe (1819-1884) — of Syracuse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-lived.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-born.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/03-09.html">March 9, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">grain milling business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; vice-president, Oswego and Syracuse <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/syracuse.html">mayor of Syracuse, N.Y.</a>, 1854; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 22nd District, 1860-63; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Onondaga County 1st District, 1876. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Syracuse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-died.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/10-05.html">October 5, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 210 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-buried.html#cms00239">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Syracuse, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Nathan Munroe and Cynthia (Champlin) Munroe; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#190.31.04">James Munroe</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/">1846</a> to Julia Isabella Townsend (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#103.01.69">John Townsend</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#631.89.91">John Canfield Spencer</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#123.92.96">Ambrose Spencer</a>).</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen Munroe">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75623194">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 Kimball Bullock (1821-1901) — also known as Benjamin K. Bullock — of Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-lived.html">Utah County</a>, Utah. Born in Grafton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/GR-born.html">Grafton County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/01-27.html">January 27, 1821</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/provo.html">Mayor of Provo, Utah</a>, 1855-60, 1863; appointed 1863. Died in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-died.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/03-22.html">March 22, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-buried.html#cms04347">Provo City Cemetery</a>, Provo, Utah. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Bullock and Dorothy (Kimball) Bullock; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#994.87.14">Isaac Bullock</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/01-26.html">January 26, 1851</a>, to Martha Elizabeth Hart; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/02-20.html">February 20, 1856</a>, to Ann Sykes; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#664.29.09">James Robert Bullock</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#329.26.30">Stephen Bullock</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#123.28.10">Nathaniel Bullock</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#063.29.03">Richmond Martin Bullock</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#931.84.55">Jonathan Russell Bullock</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#830.46.73">Alexander Hamilton Bullock</a>.</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/10001-0075.html">Bullock family</a> of Massachusetts (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/25358342">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> Isaac Bullock (1824-1891) — of Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-lived.html">Utah County</a>, Utah. Born in Grafton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/GR-born.html">Grafton County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-21.html">October 21, 1824</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/provo.html">Mayor of Provo, Utah</a>, 1863; resigned 1863. Died in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-died.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/03-16.html">March 16, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-buried.html#cms04347">Provo City Cemetery</a>, Provo, Utah. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Bullock and Dorothy (Kimball) Bullock; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#611.96.36">Benjamin Kimball Bullock</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/12-14.html">December 14, 1856</a>, to Electa Wood; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#664.29.09">James Robert Bullock</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#329.26.30">Stephen Bullock</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#123.28.10">Nathaniel Bullock</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#063.29.03">Richmond Martin Bullock</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#931.84.55">Jonathan Russell Bullock</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#830.46.73">Alexander Hamilton Bullock</a>.</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/10001-0075.html">Bullock family</a> of Massachusetts (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> David Miller De Witt (1837-1912) — also known as David M. De Witt — of Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-born.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/11-25.html">November 25, 1837</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-officials.html">Ulster County District Attorney</a>, 1863-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 14th District, 1873-75; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Ulster County 2nd District, 1883; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-officials.html">Ulster County Surrogate</a>, 1885-86. Died in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-died.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/06-23.html">June 23, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html#cms01073">Wiltwyck Cemetery</a>, Kingston, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Lydia A. (Miller) DeWitt and Moses Edward DeWitt; married to Mary Antoinette MacDonald; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#565.52.03">Charles Gerrit De Witt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000285">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403327">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David M. De Witt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10933394">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 Willoughby Dayton (1846-1910) — also known as Charles W. Dayton — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/10-03.html">October 3, 1846</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 23rd District, 1881; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#2">New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1893-97; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NY.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1907-10; defeated, 1901; died in office 1910. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/12-07.html">December 7, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 65 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% 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 Abram Child Dayton and Maria Annis (Tomlinson) Dayton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/">1874</a> to Laura Augusta Newman; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#259.69.16">Andrew Adams</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#631.89.91">John Canfield Spencer</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#467.11.41">Nathan Appleton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#592.99.74">Rhamanthus Menville Stocker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911) — of Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-lived.html">Utah County</a>, Utah. Born in Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-born.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/03-11.html">March 11, 1856</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/stsen.html">Utah state senate</a>, 1890. Died in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-died.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/05-22.html">May 22, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-buried.html#cms04347">Provo City Cemetery</a>, Provo, Utah. <table width=100% 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/smithberger-smyser.html#646.66.37">Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895)</a> and Diana (Eldredge) Smoot; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#820.86.21">Reed Owen Smoot</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-30.html">October 30, 1878</a>, to Electa Bullock; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/06-06.html">June 6, 1894</a>, to Zina Melinda Huntington; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#755.87.43">Daniel Owen Rowlett</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#311.83.02">Joseph Rowlett</a>.</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/10001-0075.html">Bullock family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25149046">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/3572530962/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/820/86.21.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Reed Smoot"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Reed Owen Smoot (1862-1941) — also known as Reed Smoot — of Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-lived.html">Utah County</a>, Utah. Born in Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-born.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-10.html">January 10, 1862</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Utah</a>, 1903-33; delegate to Republican National Convention from Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/UT.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/UT.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/UT.html">1916</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/UT.html">1920</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/UT.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/UT.html">1928</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/UT.html">1932</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/UT.html">Republican National Committee from Utah</a>, 1912-20. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Died in St. Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-died.html">Pinellas County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/02-09.html">February 9, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-buried.html#cms04347">Provo City Cemetery</a>, Provo, Utah. <table width=100% 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/smithberger-smyser.html#646.66.37">Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895)</a> and Anna Kristina (Mauritzdatter) Smoot; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#698.18.92">Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911)</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/09-17.html">September 17, 1884</a>, to Alpha May Eldredge; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/07-02.html">July 2, 1930</a>, to Alice (Taylor) Sheets; half-uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#755.87.43">Daniel Owen Rowlett</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#311.83.02">Joseph Rowlett</a>.</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/10001-0075.html">Bullock family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000644">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410118">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed Smoot">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/225/000175697">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7129274">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: American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902</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> Abraham Owen Smoot III (1879-1937) — also known as A. O. Smoot — of Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-lived.html">Utah County</a>, Utah. Born in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-born.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/09-09.html">September 9, 1879</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/provo.html">Mayor of Provo, Utah</a>, 1934-35. Died in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-died.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-16.html">July 16, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 310 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#698.18.92">Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911)</a> and Electa (Bullock) Smoot; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#938.89.45">Isaac Albert Smoot</a>; half-nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#820.86.21">Reed Owen Smoot</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#646.66.37">Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#994.87.14">Isaac Bullock</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#611.96.36">Benjamin Kimball Bullock</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#755.87.43">Daniel Owen Rowlett</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#311.83.02">Joseph Rowlett</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Albert Smoot (1880-1957) — also known as I. A. Smoot — of Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah. Born in Provo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-born.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/11-03.html">November 3, 1880</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/sthse.html">Utah state house of representatives</a>, 1928-32; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/saltlakecity.html#2">Salt Lake City, Utah</a>, 1933-50 (acting, 1933-34); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/UT.html">1952</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. Died in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/03-12.html">March 12, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 129 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#698.18.92">Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911)</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#940.62.96">Abraham Owen Smoot III</a>; half-nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#820.86.21">Reed Owen Smoot</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smithberger-smyser.html#646.66.37">Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#994.87.14">Isaac Bullock</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#611.96.36">Benjamin Kimball Bullock</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#755.87.43">Daniel Owen Rowlett</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowlands-roxburgh.html#311.83.02">Joseph Rowlett</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</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/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0133.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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