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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Jackson-Lee family</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Howell Lewis (1731-1813) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-lived.html">Granville County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/GO-born.html">Goochland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1731/09-13.html">September 13, 1731</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> from Granville County, 1785-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Granville County, 1787. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-died.html">Granville County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/11-29.html">November 29, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 77 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Lewis and Mary (Howell) Lewis; married to Isabella Willis; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html#927.14.05">Arthur Sidney Demarest</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pollack-pomerene.html#812.59.38">Claude Pollard</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/214183980">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/262/89.36.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Richard Henry Lee"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-lived.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/01-20.html">January 20, 1732</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1774-79, 1784-85, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1777, 1780, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1789-92. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-died.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/06-19.html">June 19, 1794</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-buried.html#cms04562">Burnt House Field Cemetery</a>, Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/12-05.html">December 5, 1757</a>, to Ann Aylett; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/">1769</a> to Ann (Gaskins) Pinckard; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed and father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#011.98.58">Harrison Moore Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#254.24.96">James Offutt Lakin</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lee counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/LE.html">Ga.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LE.html">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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000201">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406704">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Henry Lee">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/925/000049778">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Richard Henry Lee: Oliver P. Chitwood, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0685308170/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0685308170&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Richard Henry Lee : Statesman of the Revolution</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267921875/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/466/36.08.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="George Washington"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/02-22.html">February 22, 1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1789-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-arts-sciences.html">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">acute bacterial epiglottitis</a>, at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/12-14.html">December 14, 1799</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 295 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07284">National Mall</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07304">Washington Circle</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html# ">Boston Public Garden</a>, Boston, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/01-06.html">January 6, 1759</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a> (aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#591.07.02">Burwell Bassett</a>); step-father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#689.34.43">John Parke Custis</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; granduncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrad.html#558.09.06">Charles Magill Conrad</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#628.01.46">George Corbin Washington</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ball.html#066.19.54">Thomas Henry Ball Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/debolt-deckard.html#496.88.36">William de Bruyn=Kops</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#060.69.24">Horace Lee Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#058.85.53">Edwin McPherson Holden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ball.html#620.12.96">Claude C. Ball</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#585.42.27">Arthur Wesley Holden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html#461.56.33">Joshua Fry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#082.68.80">Alexander Dimitry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leakin-leaver.html#812.13.09">Tobias Lear</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathews.html#501.08.36">David Mathews</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/putnam.html#610.71.80">Rufus Putnam</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Washington counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/WA.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/WA.html">Colo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/WA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WA.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/WA.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WA.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/WA.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WA.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/WA.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WA.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/WA.html">La.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/WA.html">Maine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA.html">Md.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/WA.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WA.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/WA.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/WA.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WA.html">N.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/WA.html">Okla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/WA.html">Ore.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WA.html">Pa.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA.html">R.I.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WA.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WA.html">Tex.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/WA.html">Utah</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA.html">Vt.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WA.html">Va.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WA.html">Wis.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-counties.html">state</a> of Washington is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CO-names.html">Coos County, New Hampshire</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">minor planet</a> 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#554.92.79">George Washington Lent Marr</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heaney-heartwell.html#289.43.71">George Washington Heard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnet-barnette.html#157.71.38">George Washington Barnett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis4.html#212.48.19">George Washington Davis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owen.html#894.09.10">George W. Owen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todhunter-tomlin.html#590.80.32">George W. Toland</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#778.26.16">George W. Lay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patterson.html#456.26.14">George W. Patterson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/toth-towns.html#755.08.85">George W. B. Towns</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams4.html#964.94.01">George Washington Adams</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobby-hodgdon.html#166.43.91">George Washington Hockley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smyth.html#440.13.76">George W. Smyth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#217.14.19">G. W. Ingersoll</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkins.html#569.60.54">George W. Hopkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/montgomery.html#999.04.74">George Washington Montgomery</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duncan.html#037.12.36">Joseph George Washington Duncan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#125.81.80">George W. Kittredge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#867.46.20">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#283.75.90">George W. Harrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#915.84.55">George Washington Ewing</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#201.25.56">George Washington Seabrook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morrison.html#662.85.45">George W. Morrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#836.61.99">George Washington Woodward</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright4.html#179.14.14">George Washington Wright</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trinidad-triplett.html#269.63.56">George Washington Triplett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glassbrook-glenmore.html#834.43.88">George Washington Glasscock</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George W. Schuyler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hollowell-holmer.html#583.56.71">George Washington Holman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#540.05.68">George W. Greene</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George W. Wolcott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/partington-pastuszka.html#270.75.08">George W. Paschal</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dunlap.html#940.39.63">George Washington Dunlap</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warren.html#902.27.52">George Washington Warren</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill4.html#879.21.57">George Washington Hill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/logan.html#501.39.26">George Washington Logan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gersch-gibbon.html#170.15.82">George W. Getchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright4.html#064.08.10">George W. Wright</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#304.66.31">George W. Julian</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dyal-dyell.html#360.57.33">George Washington Dyal</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladd.html#402.06.13">George W. Ladd</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peck.html#136.48.33">George W. Peck</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nemanich-neveu.html#616.96.96">George Washington Nesmith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#805.78.55">George W. Morgan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brooks.html#675.32.59">George Washington Brooks</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#635.10.15">George Washington Cowles</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gayle-geerlings.html#580.22.86">George W. Geddes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitmore-whitner.html#224.57.41">George Washington Whitmore</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#790.50.43">George Washington Bridges</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#289.20.42">George W. Cate</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houghtaling-housley.html#793.25.71">George W. Houk</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webber.html#862.08.53">George W. Webber</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#652.22.73">George W. Bemis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#540.52.55">George Washington Fairbrother</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glenni-glotzbach.html#494.60.24">George Washington Glick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#293.54.93">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker4.html#219.87.42">George W. Baker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheldrick-shenk.html#155.62.10">George W. Shell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/anderson4.html#232.00.48">George W. Anderson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crosse-crowe.html#975.67.54">George W. Crouse</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughey-hulka.html#895.22.71">George W. Hulick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html#500.94.80">George W. Allen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harper.html#194.43.19">George W. F. Harper</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark4.html#311.78.97">George Washington Clark</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccorquodale-mccuiston.html#944.54.44">George Washington McCrary</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gordon.html#799.48.29">George W. Gordon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kingdon-kingsland.html#303.21.06">George W. Kingsbury</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/courts-covode.html#127.31.81">George W. Covington</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#091.90.45">George Washington Fleeger</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steele.html#924.91.80">George W. Steele</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson4.html#072.19.58">George W. Wilson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin4.html#056.55.05">George W. Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#831.32.66">George W. E. Dorsey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#708.09.21">George W. Plunkitt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fulwood-fyke.html#834.51.92">George W. Furbush</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sutton.html#610.81.70">George W. Sutton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curtenius-curtin.html#862.34.73">George W. Curtin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ray.html#229.03.18">George W. Ray</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#907.06.43">George W. Roosevelt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#946.35.87">George W. Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#041.34.73">George W. Kipp</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell4.html#287.58.34">George W. Campbell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor4.html#968.80.68">George W. Taylor</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#209.56.23">George W. Stone</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barsham-bartless.html#050.81.32">George W. Bartch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shober-shorett.html#450.06.32">George W. Shonk</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patty-payn.html#931.09.43">George W. Paul</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook4.html#149.99.37">George W. Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murray4.html#549.68.79">George W. Murray</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#835.46.77">George W. Faris</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fite-fitzgarrald.html#159.97.18">George W. Fithian</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prince.html#001.71.20">George W. Prince</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#378.55.40">George W. Buckner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crofoot-crompton.html#470.18.29">George W. Cromer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#893.71.33">George W. Donaghey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#614.86.29">George W. Aldridge</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#260.26.99">George Washington Wagoner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/godfroy-goetz.html#188.69.03">George Washington Goethals</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#019.99.20">George W. Armstrong</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lovejoy-lowdermilk.html#749.83.95">George W. Lovejoy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakar-oakleaf.html#480.49.87">George W. Oakes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hays.html#448.69.29">George W. Hays</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edman-edward.html#517.19.49">George W. Edmonds</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lindsay.html#568.80.87">George W. Lindsay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#363.90.11">George Washington Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tansil-tatar.html#721.90.67">T. G. W. Tarver</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/danielson-darke.html#092.75.97">George W. Darden</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#377.60.89">George Washington Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mead.html#288.50.36">George W. Mead</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gibbons.html#192.76.19">George W. Gibbons</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#728.51.99">George W. List</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#393.22.05">George W. Calkin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raub-rawson.html#682.25.95">George W. Rauch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/micheau-middleswarth.html#567.75.73">George W. Michell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#105.97.01">George Washington Jackson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#133.76.23">George W. Blanchard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#600.15.16">George Washington Herz</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#968.23.32">George W. Bristow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hardy.html#032.24.92">George Washington Hardy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#248.36.75">George W. Ballard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinnon-mclaud.html#835.81.14">George W. McKown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#087.61.15">George Thomas Washington</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins4.html#262.08.43">George W. Collins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#201.00.27">George A. Washington</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appears</a> on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait also appeared</a> on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000178">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411351">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Washington">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/107/000024035">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1075">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4136">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684831422/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684831422&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington</a> — James Thomas Flexner, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316286168/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316286168&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Washington: The Indispensable Man</a> — Willard Sterne Randall, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080505992X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080505992X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Washington : A Life</a> — Richard Norton Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395855128/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0395855128&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation</a> — Henry Wiencek, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374175268/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374175268&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America</a> — James MacGregor Burns, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069364&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Washington</a> — Joseph J. Ellis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400040310/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400040310&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">His Excellency, George Washington</a> — Gore Vidal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300101716/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300101716&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson</a> — David Barton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care</a> — Wendie C. Old, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766020118/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766020118&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George Washington</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/10-14.html">October 14, 1734</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/hsbrg.html">Virginia House of Burgesses</a>, 1764; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1775-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/stsen.html">Virginia state senate</a>, 1778. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">pleurisy</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/01-11.html">January 11, 1797</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 89 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/RI-buried.html#cms04920">a private or family graveyard</a>, Richmond County, Va.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#011.98.58">Harrison Moore Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#254.24.96">James Offutt Lakin</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000190">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406693">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis Lightfoot Lee">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> Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) — of Maryland. Born in Annapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA-born.html">Anne Arundel County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1737/09-19.html">September 19, 1737</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland</a>, 1776-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1777-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maryland</a>, 1789-92. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-died.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/11-14.html">November 14, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 56 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/HO-buried.html#cms02419">Doughoregan Manor Chapel</a>, Ellicott City, Md.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth (Brooke) Carroll; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1768/06-05.html">June 5, 1768</a>, to Mary Darnell; father of Catharine 'Kitty' Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harper.html#497.45.46">Robert Goodloe Harper</a>); grandfather of Louisa Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#765.43.20">Isaac Rand Jackson</a>), Mary Sophia Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#729.08.48">Richard Henry Bayard</a>) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/odem-oestreicher.html#537.13.84">Charles Oliver O'Donnell</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</a>; third great-grandfather of Suzanne Howell Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill5.html#459.94.98">John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill</a>); third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/albritton-aldous.html#038.35.13">John Duffy Alderson</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#569.76.27">Daniel Carroll</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#445.18.18">Charles Carroll, Barrister</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hansford-hanzl.html#714.26.19">Alexander Contee Hanson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#392.09.84">Alexander Contee Magruder</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#997.11.62">John Read Magruder</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#677.00.36">Reuben Handy Meriwether</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0294.html">Eisenhower-Nixon family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Carroll counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CL.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CR.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CR.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CR.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CA.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CO.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CA.html">Md.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CR.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CR.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA.html">N.H.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CA.html">Ohio</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CR.html">Va.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EC.html">East Carroll Parish, La.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/WC.html">West Carroll Parish, La.</a>, are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walcott-waldren.html#427.51.85">Charles C. Walcutt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitch.html#203.13.10">Charles C. Fitch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freye-frimodig.html#356.57.04">Charles C. Frick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glover.html#912.03.49">Charles Carroll Glover, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000185">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402332">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Carroll of Carrollton">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> Arthur Lee (1740-1792) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/12-20.html">December 20, 1740</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of Virginia state legislature, 1781; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1782. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MI-died.html">Middlesex County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/12-12.html">December 12, 1792</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 358 days</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#608.41.50">Robert Todd Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#011.98.58">Harrison Moore Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#254.24.96">James Offutt Lakin</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000188">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406691">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819) — of Maryland. Born near Upper Marlboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-born.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/10-29.html">October 29, 1745</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maryland</a>, 1779-82, 1792-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland</a>, 1782-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1794. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Anglican</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died in Middleton Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/FR-died.html">Frederick County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/11-09.html">November 9, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 11 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-buried.html#cms04847">a private or family graveyard</a>, Prince George's County, Md.; reinterment in 1888 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-buried.html#cms03595">Mt. Carmel Roman Catholic Cemetery</a>, Upper Marlboro, Md. <table width=100% 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 Lee and Christiana (Sim) Lee; married to Mary Digges; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>; grandfather of Mary Digges Lee (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/odem-oestreicher.html#537.13.84">Charles Oliver O'Donnell</a>); third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/potterton-powe.html#949.48.86">Richard Potts</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hansford-hanzl.html#714.26.19">Alexander Contee Hanson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#392.09.84">Alexander Contee Magruder</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#569.76.27">Daniel Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#667.25.10">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#997.11.62">John Read Magruder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#146.63.27">John Howell Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0104.html">Muhlenberg-Hiester family</a> of Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000206">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406709">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-sim-lee/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21273728">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Smith (1750-1836) — of Virginia. Born near Locust Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/05-07.html">May 7, 1750</a>. Justice of the peace; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1779-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/stsen.html">Virginia state senate</a>, 1791-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1801-15 (at-large 1801-07, 3rd District 1807-15); served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FR-died.html">Frederick County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/03-05.html">March 5, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 303 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1890 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wc-buried.html#cms01294">Mt. Hebron Cemetery</a>, Winchester, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary (Jaquelin) Smith and John Smith (1715-1771); married to Anna Bull; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000564">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410047">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Smith (Virginia representative)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7685890">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/6268119970/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/015/69.29.jpg" width=70 height=71 border=0 alt="James Madison"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Madison (1751-1836) — also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights" — of Virginia. Born in Port Conway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/KG-born.html">King George County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1751/03-16.html">March 16, 1751</a>. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1780-83, 1787-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1801-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1809-17. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. He was elected in 1905 to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Montpelier, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/06-28.html">June 28, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 104 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-buried.html#cms01363">Montpelier Plantation</a>, Montpelier Station, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/09-15.html">September 15, 1794</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#035.26.68">Dolley Todd</a> (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#435.32.88">Richard Cutts</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#476.15.93">Samuel Bullitt Churchill</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#999.09.60">Charles Sumner Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#707.24.49">Gabriel Slaughter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#575.27.74">Andrew Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#420.57.73">Robert Pryor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#915.76.70">John Flournoy Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#916.73.04">Gustavus Adolphus Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#054.81.51">Alexander Warfield Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slaughter.html#889.24.10">Charles Rice Slaughter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#119.14.06">Eli Huston Brown Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Madison counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/MD.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MD.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MD.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/MA.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MA.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MD.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MD.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MD.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/MA.html">La.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MA.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MD.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/MA.html">Mont.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/MA.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/MD.html">N.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MD.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MD.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MB.html">Tex.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MD.html">Va.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-names.html">Madison, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Madison, in the White Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CO-names.html">Coos County, New Hampshire</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Madison (1808-13), and the subsequent <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/LE-names.html">Fort Madison, Iowa</a>, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS James Madison (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; scrapped 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#793.83.41">James Madison Broom</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#141.31.74">James Madison Hite Beale</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter5.html#516.00.84">James Madison Porter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html#049.56.18">James M. Buchanan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gregg.html#273.62.13">James Madison Gregg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#377.56.17">J. Madison Wells</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tansil-tatar.html#562.04.87">James M. Tarleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughes.html#384.04.77">James Madison Hughes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marvin.html#940.48.32">James M. Marvin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edman-edward.html#491.11.47">James M. Edmunds</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gayle-geerlings.html#324.83.02">James Madison Gaylord</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#694.32.25">James M. Leach</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/turner5.html#448.33.69">James Turner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvey.html#820.40.10">James M. Harvey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#785.08.81">James M. Seymour</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barie-barker.html#828.55.12">James Madison Barker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mullen.html#713.75.65">James Madison Mullen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#899.06.22">James M. Candler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinney.html#305.51.17">James Madison McKinney</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morton.html#619.07.47">James M. Morton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barreiro-barrett.html#945.22.53">James Madison Barrett, Sr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grovenor-guert.html#020.72.14">James M. Gudger, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morton.html#449.24.74">James Madison Morton, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#141.47.82">James Madison Woodard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/w-waddy.html#448.04.72">James M. Waddell, 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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.</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=M000043">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407071">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Madison">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/766/000024694">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/661">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4125">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 James Madison: Ralph Louis Ketcham, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813912652/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0813912652&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Madison : A Biography</a> — Garry Wills, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069054/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069054&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Madison</a> — Robert Allen Rutland, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700604650/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700604650&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidency of James Madison</a> — Charles Cerami, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1402202350/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1402202350&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and The Revolution That Created The Constitution</a> — Samuel Kernell, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804744955/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804744955&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government</a> — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312625006/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312625006&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Madison and the Making of America</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Lee (1756-1818) — also known as "Light Horse Harry" — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-lived.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PW-born.html">Prince William County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/01-29.html">January 29, 1756</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1786-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Westmoreland County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1791-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> at-large, 1799-1801. Eulogized <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a> as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.". Slaveowner. Died in Cumberland Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CM-died.html">Camden County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/03-25.html">March 25, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 55 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CM-buried.html# ">a private or family graveyard</a>, Camden County, Ga.; reinterment in 1913 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/lx-buried.html#cms03579">Lee Memorial Chapel</a>, Lexington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/">1782</a> to Matilda Ludwell Lee; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/06-18.html">June 18, 1793</a>, to Ann Hill Carter; father of Robert E. Lee; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee9.html#398.72.85">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#175.56.31">Richard Bland</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#533.48.40">Richard Randolph</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland (1742-1790)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#015.73.11">Peyton Randolph (1721-1775)</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#717.98.02">Edmund Jenings Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#195.59.87">Beverley Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#278.25.27">William Welby Beverley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#411.97.48">John Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#122.98.15">James Markham Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#965.59.53">Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#178.56.77">Alexander Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#768.81.84">Theodorick Bland (1776-1846)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#232.91.35">Peyton Randolph (1779-1828)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#834.77.16">Thomas Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#443.26.83">James Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#127.95.09">Edmund Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#532.18.36">Edmund Randolph Cocke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#391.36.91">John Augustine Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#140.75.64">William Marshall Bullitt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#072.12.75">Alexander Scott Bullitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0055.html">Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LE.html">Lee County, Va.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000195">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406698">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/henry-lee/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Lee III">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 Jackson (1757-1831) — of Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-lived.html">Harrison County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.); Zanesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-lived.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CE-born.html">Cecil County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/01-09.html">January 9, 1757</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1785-91, 1794; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1795-97, 1799-1803 (3rd District 1795-97, at-large 1799-1803); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1809-12. Died in Zanesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-died.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/05-17.html">May 17, 1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 128 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-buried.html# ">a private or family graveyard</a>, Muskingum County, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson3.html#167.98.27">Edward Brake Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (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=J000012">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405919">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Lee (1758-1815) — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., July, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/index.html">1758</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/VAcc nAL">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1795-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1800. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-died.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/06-24.html">June 24, 1815</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-buried.html#cms03125">Warrenton Cemetery</a>, Warrenton, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee (1756-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/">1789</a> to Anne Lee; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/">1809</a> to Margaret Scott; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#175.56.31">Richard Bland</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#533.48.40">Richard Randolph</a>; first cousin once removed and son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland (1742-1790)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#015.73.11">Peyton Randolph (1721-1775)</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#717.98.02">Edmund Jenings Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#195.59.87">Beverley Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#278.25.27">William Welby Beverley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#411.97.48">John Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#122.98.15">James Markham Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#965.59.53">Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#178.56.77">Alexander Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#768.81.84">Theodorick Bland (1776-1846)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#232.91.35">Peyton Randolph (1779-1828)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#834.77.16">Thomas Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#443.26.83">James Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#127.95.09">Edmund Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#532.18.36">Edmund Randolph Cocke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#391.36.91">John Augustine Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#140.75.64">William Marshall Bullitt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#072.12.75">Alexander Scott Bullitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Lee %28Attorney General%29">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> Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-lived.html">Alexandria</a>, Va.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-lived.html">Richmond</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/06-05.html">June 5, 1762</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of Virginia state legislature, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Westmoreland County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1798-1829; died in office 1829. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/11-26.html">November 26, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 174 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Augustine Washington and Hannah (Bushrod) Washington; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2510&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushrod Washington">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bushrod Washington">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/963/000180423">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (1764-1825) — also known as Return J. Meigs, Jr. — of Marietta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Ohio. Born in Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/11-17.html">November 17, 1764</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/marietta.html#2">Marietta, Ohio</a>, 1794-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/spju.html">justice of Ohio state supreme court</a>, 1803-04, 1808-09; resigned 1804; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#z">federal judge</a>, 1807-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Ohio</a>, 1808-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Ohio</a>, 1810-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1814-23. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Marietta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/03-29.html">March 29, 1825</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA-buried.html#cms01028">Mound Cemetery</a>, Marietta, Ohio. <table width=100% 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 Joanna (Winborn) Meigs and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#451.94.48">Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.</a>; father of Mary Sophia Meigs (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#282.75.32">Josiah Meigs</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#581.68.65">Return Jonathan Meigs III</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#659.28.97">Henry Meigs</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#974.07.84">Henry Meigs Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fornance-forsythe.html#715.19.72">John Forsyth Jr.</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chipp-chmielewski.html#503.51.36">Martin Chittenden</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyon.html#304.69.49">Chittenden Lyon</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willard.html#583.29.55">John Willard</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#537.42.17">Roger Calvin Leete</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chipp-chmielewski.html#966.75.11">Thomas Chittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#472.46.19">Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#147.60.12">Anson Levi Holcomb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#026.73.35">Gouverneur Morris</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#785.33.52">Ensign Hosmer Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayakawa-haydon.html#924.70.16">Charles Jenkins Hayden</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <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> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MG.html">Meigs County, Ohio</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000633">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407620">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/return-jonathan-meigs/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return J. Meigs Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21700">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Cutts (1771-1845) — of Pepperell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Saco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/06-28.html">June 28, 1771</a>. Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1790; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05, 14th District 1805-13); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">debt</a>, 1828. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/04-07.html">April 7, 1845</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 283 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms05752">St. John's Church Cemetery</a>, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1857 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/03-31.html">March 31, 1804</a>, to Anna Payne (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001033">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403140">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Cutts">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12478809">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> Howell Cobb (1772-1818) — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-born.html">Granville County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/08-03.html">August 3, 1772</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1807-12 (at-large 1807-09, 2nd District 1809-11, at-large 1811-12). Slaveowner. Died near Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/05-27.html">May 27, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 297 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-buried.html#cms07104">a private or family graveyard</a>, Jefferson County, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Mildred (Lewis) Cobb; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/05-08.html">May 8, 1810</a>, to Martha A. Jacquelin (Rootes) Rootes; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000547">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402680">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33906508">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edmund Jennings Lee (1772-1843) — of Alexandria, D.C. (now Va.). Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PW-born.html">Prince William County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/05-20.html">May 20, 1772</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/alexandria.html#3">mayor of Alexandria, D.C.</a>, 1815-18. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/05-30.html">May 30, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-buried.html#cms05807">Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Alexandria, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee (1756-1818)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>; married to Sarah Caldwell Lee; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#175.56.31">Richard Bland</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#533.48.40">Richard Randolph</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland (1742-1790)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#015.73.11">Peyton Randolph (1721-1775)</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#717.98.02">Edmund Jenings Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#195.59.87">Beverley Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#278.25.27">William Welby Beverley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#411.97.48">John Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#122.98.15">James Markham Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#965.59.53">Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#178.56.77">Alexander Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#768.81.84">Theodorick Bland (1776-1846)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#232.91.35">Peyton Randolph (1779-1828)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#834.77.16">Thomas Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#443.26.83">James Keith Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#127.95.09">Edmund Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#532.18.36">Edmund Randolph Cocke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#391.36.91">John Augustine Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#140.75.64">William Marshall Bullitt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#072.12.75">Alexander Scott Bullitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0104.html">Muhlenberg-Hiester family</a> of Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund Jennings Lee I">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19746267">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) — of Missouri. Born near Ivy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/08-18.html">August 18, 1774</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/trgv1.html">Governor of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory</a>, 1807-09; died in office 1809. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Commanded expedition with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark9.html#714.09.48">William Clark</a> to Oregon, 1803-04. Died from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wounds</a> under <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/disappeared.html">mysterious circumstances</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">murder</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>?) at Grinder's Stand, an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">inn</a> on the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE-died.html">Lewis County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/10-11.html">October 11, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE-buried.html#cms04371">Meriwether Lewis Park</a>, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#512.39.40">David Meriwether (1755-1822)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#779.44.78">James Meriwether (1755-1817)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#368.69.43">George Rockingham Gilmer</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html#927.14.05">Arthur Sidney Demarest</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#917.68.66">James Meriwether (1788-1852)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#752.05.03">David Meriwether (1800-1893)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#185.16.94">James Archibald Meriwether</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#677.00.36">Reuben Handy Meriwether</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#185.89.77">Theodorick Bland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#591.59.99">John Randolph of Roanoke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#278.45.61">Henry St. George Tucker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#626.93.98">Key Pittman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pollack-pomerene.html#812.59.38">Claude Pollard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#191.68.30">Vail Montgomery Pittman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shannon.html#999.85.68">George F. Shannon</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lewis counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/LW.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LW.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/LE.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/LE.html">Tenn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/LE.html">Wash.</a> are named for him; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC.html">Lewis and Clark County, Mont.</a> is named partly for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker6.html#172.42.57">Meriwether Lewis Walker</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to 1927.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether Lewis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/678/000036570">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C. Danisi, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616145056/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616145056&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Uncovering the Truth About Meriwether Lewis</a> — Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517501872/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0517501872&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis and Clark: The Great Adventure</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John George Jackson (1777-1825) — also known as John G. Jackson — of Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-lived.html">Harrison County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Buckhannon, Lewis County, Va. (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/UP-born.html">Upshur County</a>, W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/09-22.html">September 22, 1777</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1798-1801, 1811-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07, 1st District 1807-10, 1813-17); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia</a>, 1819-25; died in office 1825. In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, has was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">attacked</a> and suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress, fought a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#806.10.90">Joseph Pearson</a> of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded in the hip. Slaveowner. Died in Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-died.html">Harrison County</a>, Va (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/03-28.html">March 28, 1825</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 187 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-buried.html#cms03986">Old Jackson Cemetery</a>, Clarksburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#898.18.93">George Jackson</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson3.html#167.98.27">Edward Brake Jackson</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/">1800</a> to Mary Payne (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#435.32.88">Richard Cutts</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-19.html">July 19, 1810</a>, to Mary Sophia Meigs (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#423.29.42">Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#864.25.61">John Jay Jackson</a> and Mary Jackson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#768.96.23">John James Allen</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#809.39.43">John Jay Jackson Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James Monroe Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#090.99.95">Jacob Beeson Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#265.87.47">William Thomas Bland</a>.</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/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (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=J000021">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405927">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1157&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</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> Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MG-lived.html">Morgan County</a>, Ga.; Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WT-lived.html">Walton County</a>, Ga.; Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PS-born.html">Pittsylvania County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/01-14.html">January 14, 1783</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1808; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1815-17, 1827-31 (at-large 1815-17, 4th District 1827-29, at-large 1829-31); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1831-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1837-41. Slaveowner. Died in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-died.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-28.html">December 28, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#118.73.06">Joseph Henry Lumpkin</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#586.18.09">John Henry Lumpkin</a> and Marion McHenry Lumpkin (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barretto-barrows.html#326.13.18">Middleton Pope Barrow</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0450.html">Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/LU.html">Lumpkin County, Ga.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000512">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406998">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/wilson-lumpkin/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson Lumpkin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9830">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Thornton Augustine Washington (1783-1841) — Born near Charles Town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/05-20.html">May 20, 1783</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1820. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died near Charles Town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Va (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/10-09.html">October 9, 1841</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 142 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thornton Augustine Washington and Mildred (Berry) Washington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/09-02.html">September 2, 1810</a>, to Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#659.79.97">Walker Peyton Conway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0149.html">Dorsey-Poffenbarger family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0349.html">Alston-Kenan family</a> of Milledgeville, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Thornton Augustine Washington">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267598157/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/681/60.97.jpg" width=70 height=79 border=0 alt="Zachary Taylor"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) — also known as "Old Rough and Ready" — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/11-24.html">November 24, 1784</a>. Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1849-50; died in office 1850. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, probably of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">gastroenteritis</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/white-house.html">White House</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/07-09.html">July 9, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 227 days</a>). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the theory. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms02214">Zachary Taylor National Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/06-21.html">June 21, 1810</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor6.html#060.12.22">Margaret Mackall Smith</a> (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#095.74.96">Benjamin Mackall IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#479.76.08">Thomas Mackall</a>); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Finis Davis</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor3.html#102.00.89">Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr.</a>; ancestor *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#817.13.16">Victor D. Crist</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#999.09.60">Charles Sumner Pendleton</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#320.61.72">Charles Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#706.58.46">David R. Atchison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#785.23.78">Thomas Ewing</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Taylor counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/TA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TY.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/TY.html">Iowa</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/TA.html">Ky.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#489.85.33">Zachary T. Coy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#967.97.28">Zachary T. Bielby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harris9.html#315.46.75">Zachary T. Harris</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor never surrenders."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary Taylor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/841/000031748">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1023">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4108">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack Bauer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807118516/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807118516&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest</a> — Elbert B. Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/070060362X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=070060362X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Breathitt (1786-1834) — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-born.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/09-09.html">September 9, 1786</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1828-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1832-34; died in office 1834. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a> in Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/02-21.html">February 21, 1834</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 165 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-buried.html#cms05590">Breathitt Cemetery</a>, Near Russellville, Logan County, Ky.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-buried.html#cms00189">Maple Grove Cemetery</a>, Russellville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Breathitt and Elizabeth Dawson (Whitsett) Breathitt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/03-26.html">March 26, 1812</a>, to Caroline Matilda Whitaker; uncle of Lavinia Sappington (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#124.28.22">Meredith Miles Marmaduke</a>) and Jane Breathitt Sappington (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson2.html#582.14.45">Claiborne Fox Jackson</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#078.39.23">John Sappington Marmaduke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#204.33.38">James Breathitt</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#872.19.28">Erasmus L. Pearson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#562.28.95">James Breathitt Jr.</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#485.47.21">Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#751.58.49">Isaac Breathed Snodgrass</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0195.html">Henshaw-Breathitt-Snodgrass-Sappington family</a> of West Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BH.html">Breathitt County, Ky.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-breathitt/">National Governors Association biography</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 Lee (1788-1871) — of Petersville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/FR-lived.html">Frederick County</a>, Md. Born near Frederick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/FR-born.html">Frederick County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/01-30.html">January 30, 1788</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 4th District, 1823-25; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1837; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1852-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. 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/1871/05-17.html">May 17, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 107 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-buried.html#cms01492">New Cathedral Cemetery</a>, Baltimore, Md. <table width=100% 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 Mary (Digges) Lee and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>; married to Harriet Julianna Carroll (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#885.35.89">Benjamin Chew</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#667.25.10">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#692.07.46">Outerbridge Horsey</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hansford-hanzl.html#714.26.19">Alexander Contee Hanson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#392.09.84">Alexander Contee Magruder</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#569.76.27">Daniel Carroll</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#997.11.62">John Read Magruder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#982.73.82">Blair Lee III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#776.61.78">Edward Brooke Lee Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0104.html">Muhlenberg-Hiester family</a> of Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000196">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406699">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Lee (Maryland politician)">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> Henry King (1790-1861) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Palmer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HA-born.html">Hampden County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/07-06.html">July 6, 1790</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 12th District, 1825-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 8th District, 1831-35. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/07-13.html">July 13, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LE-buried.html#cms00540">Union and West End Cemetery</a>, Allentown, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel King and Hannah (Lord) King; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; uncle of Florence Barclay King (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000202">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406363">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> Meredith Miles Marmaduke (1791-1864) — also known as Meredith M. Marmaduke — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SA-lived.html">Saline County</a>, Mo. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/08-25.html">August 25, 1791</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Missouri</a>, 1840-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention</a> 26th District, 1845-46. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/03-26.html">March 26, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 214 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SA-buried.html#cms05189">Sappington Cemetery State Historic Site</a>, Near Arrow Rock, Saline County, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Vincent Marmaduke and Sarah (Porter) Marmaduke; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/01-24.html">January 24, 1826</a>, to Lavinia Sappington (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson2.html#582.14.45">Claiborne Fox Jackson</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#264.01.17">John Breathitt</a>; grandaunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#872.19.28">Erasmus L. Pearson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#751.58.49">Isaac Breathed Snodgrass</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#078.39.23">John Sappington Marmaduke</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0195.html">Henshaw-Breathitt-Snodgrass-Sappington family</a> of West Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/meredith-miles-marmaduke/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Brake Jackson (1793-1826) — of Virginia. Born in Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-born.html">Harrison County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/01-25.html">January 25, 1793</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1815-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1820-23 (1st District 1820-21, 18th District 1821-23). Died in Bedford Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BD-died.html">Bedford County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/09-08.html">September 8, 1826</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">33 years, 226 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BD-buried.html#cms08027">somewhere</a> in Bedford County, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#898.18.93">George Jackson</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000010">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405917">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> Hancock Lee Jackson (1796-1876) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/RA-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MD-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/05-12.html">May 12, 1796</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/cncn2.html">Delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention</a> 11th District, 1845-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Missouri</a>, 1857-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1857. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/03-19.html">March 19, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 312 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-buried.html#cms05167">Pioneer Cemetery</a>, Salem, Ore. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Jackson and Mary Forrest (Hancock) Jackson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/03-08.html">March 8, 1821</a>, to Ursula D. Oldham; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson2.html#582.14.45">Claiborne Fox Jackson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/hancock-lee-jackson/">National Governors Association biography</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 James Allen (1797-1871) — of Virginia. Born in Woodstock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SH-born.html">Shenandoah County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/09-25.html">September 25, 1797</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/stsen.html">Virginia state senate</a>, 1828; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 20th District, 1833-35; state court judge in Virginia, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Virginia state supreme court</a>, 1840. Slaveowner. Died near Fincastle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BO-died.html">Botetourt County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/09-18.html">September 18, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 358 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BO-buried.html#cms00173">Lauderdale Cemetery</a>, Fincastle, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen7.html#764.94.57">Robert Allen</a>; married to Mary Jackson (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000132">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400788">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Chilton (1798-1854) — of Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-lived.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky. Born near Lancaster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GD-born.html">Garrard County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/07-30.html">July 30, 1798</a>. Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a>, 1827-31, 1833-35 (11th District 1827-31, 6th District 1833-35). According to family legend, helped Davy Crockett write his autobiography. Slaveowner. Died in Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/08-15.html">August 15, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 16 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MO-buried.html#cms03199">Montgomery Old Cemetery</a>, Montgomery, 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 Margaret (Bledsoe) Chilton and Thomas John Chilton; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/08-10.html">August 10, 1815</a>, to Francis Tribble Stoner; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000359">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402498">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/35244936">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 Rand Jackson (c.1798-1842) — Born in Newburyport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., about 1798. U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-diplomats.html ">Denmark</a>, 1841-42, died in office 1842. Died in Copenhagen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-died.html">Denmark</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/07-27.html">July 27, 1842</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">about 44 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Abraham Jackson and Hannah Gyles (Pardsons) Jackson; married to Louisa Carroll (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#667.25.10">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0375.html">Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jackson-isaac-rand">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 Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) — also known as Joseph H. Lumpkin — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/OG-born.html">Oglethorpe County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/12-23.html">December 23, 1799</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1824-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Georgia Supreme Court</a>, 1845-67; died in office 1867. Died in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-died.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/06-04.html">June 4, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 163 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#856.82.84">Wilson Lumpkin</a>; married to Callender Cunningham Grieve; father of Marion McHenry Lumpkin (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0450.html">Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Henry Lumpkin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/67524008">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Butler King (1800-1864) — also known as T. Butler King — of Waynesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BA-lived.html">Brantley County</a>, Ga.; Frederica, St. Simons Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-lived.html">Glynn County</a>, Ga. Born in Palmer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HA-born.html">Hampden County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/08-27.html">August 27, 1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1832-37, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Georgia state constitutional convention</a>, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1839-43, 1845-50 (at-large 1839-43, 1st District 1845-50); delegate to Whig National Convention from Georgia, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/CAcc nSF">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1851-53. Slaveowner. Died in Waresboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WR-died.html">Ware County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-10.html">May 10, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-buried.html#cms02368">Christ Churchyard</a>, Frederica, St. Simons Island, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel King and Hannah (Lord) King; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/">1824</a> to Anna Matilda Page; father of Georgia Page King (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#349.39.92">John Randolph Wilder</a>; who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#637.89.13">Joseph John Wilder</a>), Florence Barclay King (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia (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=K000215">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406375">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Jay Jackson (1800-1877) — also known as John J. Jackson — of Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born in Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-born.html">Harrison County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/02-13.html">February 13, 1800</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1838-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Wood County, 1861. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-died.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/01-01.html">January 1, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-buried.html#cms03882">Riverview Cemetery</a>, Parkersburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/">1823</a> to Emma G. Beeson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/">1843</a> to Jane Gardner; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#809.39.43">John Jay Jackson Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James Monroe Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#090.99.95">Jacob Beeson Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Dimitry (1805-1883) — also known as Tobias Guarneriius — of New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-lived.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/02-07.html">February 7, 1805</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">college professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">linguist</a>; as a young man, took part in several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duels</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/sppi.html">Louisiana superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1848-51; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR-diplomats.html ">Costa Rica</a>, 1859-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NC-diplomats.html ">Nicaragua</a>, 1859-61. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/greek.html">Greek</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">Alabama Indian</a> ancestry. Died in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-died.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/01-30.html">January 30, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 357 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms02289">St. Louis Cemetery No. 1</a>, New Orleans, La. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Andrea Drussakis Dimitry and Marie Celeste (Dragon) Dimitry; married to Mary Powell Mills (daughter of Robert Mills); second great-grandfather and great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dimitry-alexander ?">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> Claiborne Fox Jackson (1806-1862) — of Arrow Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SA-lived.html">Saline County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FE-born.html">Fleming County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/04-04.html">April 4, 1806</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a>, 1836, 1842-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Missouri State House of Representatives</a>, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention</a> 10th District, 1845-46; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a>, 1848-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1861. Died in Little Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-died.html">Pulaski County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-06.html">December 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 246 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SA-buried.html#cms05189">Sappington Cemetery State Historic Site</a>, Near Arrow Rock, Saline County, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dempsey Carroll Jackson and Mary (Pickett) Jackson; brother-in-law of Lavinia Sappington (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#124.28.22">Meredith Miles Marmaduke</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/02-17.html">February 17, 1831</a>, to Jane Breathitt Sappington (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#264.01.17">John Breathitt</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#078.39.23">John Sappington Marmaduke</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#204.33.38">James Breathitt</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/09-12.html">September 12, 1833</a>, to Louisa Catherine Sappington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/11-27.html">November 27, 1838</a>, to Eliza Whitsett Sappington; step-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#872.19.28">Erasmus L. Pearson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/claiborne-fox-jackson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne Fox Jackson">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> William Parish Chilton (1810-1871) — also known as William P. Chilton — of Alabama. Born near Elizabethtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-born.html">Hardin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/08-10.html">August 10, 1810</a>. Member of Alabama state legislature, 1839; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a> 7th District, 1843; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of Alabama state supreme court</a>, 1852-56; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/stsen.html">Alabama state senate</a>, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Alabama in the Confederate Congress</a> 6th District, 1862-65. Died in Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/01-20.html">January 20, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 163 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-buried.html#cms00862">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Montgomery, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Margaret (Bledsoe) Chilton and Thomas John Chilton; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/">1829</a> to Mary Catherine Morgan (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#110.24.39">John Tyler Morgan</a>); married to Elvira Frances Morgan; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CI.html">Chilton County, Ala.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8025338">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> Howell Cobb (1815-1868) — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/09-07.html">September 7, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1843-51, 1855-57 (at-large 1843-45, 6th District 1845-51, 1855-57); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1851-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1857-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-09.html">October 9, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 32 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/">1835</a> to Mary Ann Lamar; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#338.39.52">Andrew Cobb Erwin</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Howell Cobb (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scuttled as a breakwater in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-names.html">Cook Inlet</a>, 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000548">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402681">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/howell-cobb/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell Cobb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/124/000206503">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8962">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Howell Cobb: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083699163X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=083699163X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States, With its Objects and Purposes</a> (1856)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Shelby Walker (1815-1891) — also known as David S. Walker — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-02.html">May 2, 1815</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/tallahassee.html">mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/spju.html">justice of Florida state supreme court</a>, 1860-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Florida</a>, 1865-68; defeated (American), 1856; circuit judge in Florida, 1878-91. Died in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-died.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/07-20.html">July 20, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 79 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html#cms04267">St. John's Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; married to Philoclea Alston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#875.57.46">Augustus A. Alston</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#927.28.36">Willis Alston</a>); father of Courtney Walker (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#339.70.96">Robert Spratt Cockrell</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#575.27.74">Andrew Dorsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The David S. Walker <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Library</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LE-names.html">Tallahassee, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/david-shelby-walker/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David S. Walker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10181239">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joshua Chilton (1818-1862) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SH-lived.html">Shannon County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/09-28.html">September 28, 1818</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Shannon County, 1846-55; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 24th District, 1860-61. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> by Union troops as an alleged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Southern sympathizer</a>, and while a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/captivity.html">prisoner</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, near Rolla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PH-died.html">Phelps County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/08-28.html">August 28, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 334 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 Thomas Boggs Chilton and Susannah (Inman) Chilton; married to Elizabeth Chilton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/104687448">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (1819-1893) — also known as Thomas L. Crittenden — of Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky.; Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/05-15.html">May 15, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Liverpool</a>, 1849-53; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/10-23.html">October 23, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sarah O. (Lee) Crittenden and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#432.06.89">John Jordan Crittenden</a>; married to Catherine Lucy Todd; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#787.62.12">Thomas Turpin Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#658.58.19">Robert Crittenden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#138.09.08">John Crittenden</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#718.56.21">Alexander Parker Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#339.61.88">Thomas Theodore Crittenden</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#355.43.54">Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5894064">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1898) — also known as Henry R. Jackson — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-born.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/06-24.html">June 24, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Georgia</a>, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-diplomats.html ">Austria</a>, 1854-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/GA.html">1860</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Georgia secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/05-23.html">May 23, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 333 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms01326">Bonaventure Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Jackson and Martha Jacquelina (Rootes) Jackson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-31.html">January 31, 1844</a>, to Cornelia Augusta Davenport; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/12-29.html">December 29, 1866</a>, to Florence Barclay King (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#261.56.68">John Floyd King</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>); great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0503.html">Bowen-Washburn family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry R. Jackson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jackson-henry-rootes">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10045">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) — also known as Thomas R. R. Cobb — of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/04-10.html">April 10, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">killed</a> in the battle of Fredericksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-died.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-13.html">December 13, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/">1844</a> to Marion McHenry Lumpkin (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#118.73.06">Joseph Henry Lumpkin</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#856.82.84">Wilson Lumpkin</a>); father of Marion Birdie Cobb (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#997.75.90">Michael Hoke Smith</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YyoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190-IA2"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/110/24.39.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="John T. Morgan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907) — also known as John T. Morgan — of Selma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Ala. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MM-born.html">McMinn County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/06-20.html">June 20, 1824</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Alabama secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/AL.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/AL.html">1900</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Alabama</a>, 1877-1907; died in office 1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Southern Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/06-11.html">June 11, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 356 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DS-buried.html#cms00181">Live Oak Cemetery</a>, Selma, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Washington Morgan and Frances (Irby) Morgan; brother of Mary Catherine Morgan (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/02-11.html">February 11, 1846</a>, to Cornelia G. Willis; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Morgan (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; collided, exploded, and sank in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, 1943) 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=M000954">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407922">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Tyler Morgan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8760">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: Men of Mark in America (1906)</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 Jay Jackson Jr. (1824-1907) — of Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-born.html">Wood County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/08-04.html">August 4, 1824</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1851-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia</a>, 1861-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for West Virginia</a>, 1864-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Virginia</a>, 1901-05. Died in Atlantic City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/AT-died.html">Atlantic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/09-01.html">September 1, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-buried.html#cms03882">Riverview Cemetery</a>, Parkersburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Emma (Beeson) Jackson and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#864.25.61">John Jay Jackson</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James Monroe Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#090.99.95">Jacob Beeson Jackson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/07-08.html">July 8, 1847</a>, to Carrie C. Clime; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Monroe Jackson (1825-1901) — also known as James M. Jackson — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-born.html">Wood County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/12-03.html">December 3, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> 1st District, 1870-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to West Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1872; circuit judge in West Virginia, 1873-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 4th District, 1889-90; criminal court judge in West Virginia, 1891-1901. Died in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-died.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/02-14.html">February 14, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-buried.html#cms03882">Riverview Cemetery</a>, Parkersburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#777.02.93">James Monroe</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Emma (Beeson) Jackson and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#864.25.61">John Jay Jackson</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#809.39.43">John Jay Jackson Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#090.99.95">Jacob Beeson Jackson</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#265.87.47">William Thomas Bland</a>.</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/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (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=J000018">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405925">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7791303">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Beeson Jackson (1829-1893) — also known as Jacob B. Jackson — of Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-06.html">April 6, 1829</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> 1st District, 1875-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/parkersburg.html">mayor of Parkersburg, W.Va.</a>, 1879; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1881-85. Died in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-died.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/12-11.html">December 11, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-buried.html#cms03882">Riverview Cemetery</a>, Parkersburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#864.25.61">John Jay Jackson</a> and Emma (Beeson) Jackson; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#809.39.43">John Jay Jackson Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James Monroe Jackson</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/jacob-beeson-jackson/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James David Walker (1830-1906) — also known as James D. Walker — of Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Ark. Born near Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/12-13.html">December 13, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arkansas</a>, 1879-85. Died in Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/11-17.html">November 17, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 339 days</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Volney Walker and Susan Howard (McLean) Walker; married to Mary W. Walker; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#216.74.58">John McLean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#440.37.08">Finis Ewing McLean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#383.94.41">Wilkinson Call</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000057">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411236">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James D. Walker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9010565">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Sappington Marmaduke (1833-1887) — of Missouri. Born in Arrow Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SA-born.html">Saline County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/03-14.html">March 14, 1833</a>. Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1885-87; died in office 1887. Died in Jefferson City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CO-died.html">Cole County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/12-28.html">December 28, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CO-buried.html#cms04767">Woodland Cemetery</a>, Jefferson City, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#124.28.22">Meredith Miles Marmaduke</a> and Lavinia (Sappington) Marmaduke; nephew of Jane Breathitt Sappington (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson2.html#582.14.45">Claiborne Fox Jackson</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#264.01.17">John Breathitt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#872.19.28">Erasmus L. Pearson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#204.33.38">James Breathitt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#751.58.49">Isaac Breathed Snodgrass</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#562.28.95">James Breathitt Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#485.47.21">Edward Thompson Breathitt 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/10001-0195.html">Henshaw-Breathitt-Snodgrass-Sappington family</a> of West Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-sappington-marmaduke/">National Governors Association biography</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 Floyd King (1842-1915) — also known as J. Floyd King — of Vidalia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CO-lived.html">Concordia Parish</a>, La. Born in St. Simons Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-born.html">Glynn County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-20.html">April 20, 1842</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 5th District, 1879-87. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/05-08.html">May 8, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anna Matilda (Page) King and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king8.html#408.52.83">Thomas Butler King</a>; brother of Florence Barclay King (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king4.html#944.17.53">Henry King</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia (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=K000206">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406367">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> Commodore Perry Chilton (1844-1906) — also known as Perry Chilton — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SH-lived.html">Shannon County</a>, Mo. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/12-06.html">December 6, 1844</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Shannon County, 1887-88, 1893-94. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/08-17.html">August 17, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 254 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SH-buried.html# ">Chilton Cemetery</a>, Eminence, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">Oliver Hazard Perry</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a> and Elizabeth (Chilton) Chilton; married to Cynthia Emmaline Freeman; double first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8842579">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Shelby Walker Jr. (1846-1889) — also known as David S. Walker, Jr. — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-born.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/10-10.html">October 10, 1846</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/tallahassee.html">mayor of Tallahassee, Fla.</a>, 1875, 1878-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1883; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Florida state constitutional convention</a>, 1885; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1887. Died in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-died.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-06.html">December 6, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 57 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-buried.html#cms04267">St. John's Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Tallahassee, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and Philoclea Edgeworth 'Florida' (Alston) Walker; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#311.92.96">David Walker</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker4.html#953.42.68">George Walker</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0077.html">Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0402.html">Lewis-Pollard family</a> of Texas (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10181312">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Shadrach Chilton (1847-1926) — of Van Buren, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CA-lived.html">Carter County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CA-born.html">Carter County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/02-08.html">February 8, 1847</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CA-officials.html">Carter County Probate Judge</a>, 1882; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Carter County, 1907-08, 1911-12. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CA-died.html">Carter County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/02-23.html">February 23, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 15 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CA-buried.html# ">Reed Cemetery</a>, Carter County, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Chilton and Sophia (Chilton) Chilton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/">1869</a> to Cynthia Coleman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/">1898</a> to Mary A. Kelly; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; double first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44691565">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 Breathitt (1852-1934) — of Hopkinsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CH-lived.html">Christian County</a>, Ky. Born in Hopkinsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CH-born.html">Christian County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/09-04.html">September 4, 1852</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1883-84, 1887-88; district judge in Kentucky 3rd District, 1896-1900; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/KY.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/KY.html">1912</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CH-officials.html">Christian County Probate Judge</a>, 1905-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/attygn.html">Kentucky state attorney general</a>, 1908-12. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Hopkinsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CH-died.html">Christian County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/02-01.html">February 1, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 150 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 John William Breathitt and Katherine (Webber) Breathitt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-20.html">December 20, 1889</a>, to Olivia Maggie Thompson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#562.28.95">James Breathitt Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#485.47.21">Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr.</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#264.01.17">John Breathitt</a>; first cousin once removed of Jane Breathitt Sappington (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson2.html#582.14.45">Claiborne Fox Jackson</a>); second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#078.39.23">John Sappington Marmaduke</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#751.58.49">Isaac Breathed Snodgrass</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#872.19.28">Erasmus L. Pearson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0195.html">Henshaw-Breathitt-Snodgrass-Sappington family</a> of West Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace George Chilton (1853-1932) — also known as Horace Chilton — of Tyler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/SM-lived.html">Smith County</a>, Tex.; Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex. Born near Tyler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/SM-born.html">Smith County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/12-29.html">December 29, 1853</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Printer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/TX.html">1888</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/TX.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1891-92, 1895-1901. Accidentally <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> over a chair, broke his upper leg, never recovered from the injury, and died three months later, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney</a> disease and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">senility</a>, in Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-died.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/06-12.html">June 12, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 166 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/SM-buried.html#cms00601">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Tyler, 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 George Washington Chilton and Ella (Goodman) Chilton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/02-20.html">February 20, 1877</a>, to Mary W. Grinnan; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000357">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402496">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Chilton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8217894">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/997/75.90.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Hoke Smith"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Michael Hoke Smith (1855-1931) — also known as M. Hoke Smith — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CA-born.html">Catawba County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/09-02.html">September 2, 1855</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1893-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1907-09, 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1911-21. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/11-27.html">November 27, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-buried.html#cms00699">Oakland Cemetery</a>, Atlanta, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hildreth Hosea Smith and Mary Brent (Hoke) Smith; married to Marion Birdie Cobb (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#963.59.62">Michael Hoke</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#348.86.74">John Franklin Hoke</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#444.67.11">William Alexander Hoke</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0450.html">Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Hoke Smith <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened 1923 as junior high, became high school 1947, closed 1985), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-names.html">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Hoke Smith (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-names.html">Savannah, Georgia</a>; scrapped 1967) 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=S000551">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410033">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/hoke-smith/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M. Hoke Smith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9663">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: New York World, March 5, 1893</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Thomas Bland (1861-1928) — also known as William T. Bland — of Atchison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/AT-lived.html">Atchison County</a>, Kan.; Kansas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Mo.; Orlando, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Fla. Born in Weston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/LE-born.html">Lewis County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/01-21.html">January 21, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/atchison.html">mayor of Atchison, Kan.</a>, 1894; district judge in Kansas, 1896-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 5th District, 1919-21; defeated, 1920. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died in Orlando, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/01-15.html">January 15, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-buried.html#cms00421">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Orlando, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#275.41.20">John George Jackson</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James Monroe Jackson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000547">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401522">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> Erasmus L. Pearson (1865-1931) — also known as Ras L. Pearson — of Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PI-lived.html">Pike County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PI-born.html">Pike County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/12-27.html">December 27, 1865</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PI-parties.html">chair of Pike County Democratic Party</a>, 1919-21. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/LI-died.html">Lincoln County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/01-24.html">January 24, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PI-buried.html# ">Bowling Green City Cemetery</a>, Bowling Green, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. Erasmus Darwin Pearson and Orpha Matilda (Dysart) Pearson; step-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson2.html#582.14.45">Claiborne Fox Jackson</a>; grandnephew of Lavinia Sappington (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#124.28.22">Meredith Miles Marmaduke</a>); great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#264.01.17">John Breathitt</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#078.39.23">John Sappington Marmaduke</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#204.33.38">James Breathitt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#751.58.49">Isaac Breathed Snodgrass</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#562.28.95">James Breathitt Jr.</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#485.47.21">Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0195.html">Henshaw-Breathitt-Snodgrass-Sappington family</a> of West Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/84060514">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> Andrew Cobb Erwin (1884-1941) — also known as Andrew C. Erwin — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-born.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/12-22.html">December 22, 1884</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate</a> business; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/athens.html">mayor of Athens, Ga.</a>, 1918-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/GA.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/GA.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/GA.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/GA.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">Hit by a car</a> on the street in front of his house, and died as a result, in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-died.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/02-16.html">February 16, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 56 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alexander Smith Erwin and Mary Ann Lamar (Cobb) Erwin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/04-24.html">April 24, 1912</a>, to Camilla Oliver McWhorter (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcredmond-meachem.html#609.89.69">Robert Ligon McWhorter</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>.</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/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Bounds Chilton (1890-1934) — also known as Arthur B. Chilton; "A.B.C." — of Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/07-14.html">July 14, 1890</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama</a>, 1931-34. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">polycystic kidney disease</a>, in Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/04-21.html">April 21, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-buried.html#cms00352">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Montgomery, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. Claudius Lysias Chilton and Mabel Cecelia (Pierce) Chilton; married to Frances Louise Wheeler; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#110.24.39">John Tyler Morgan</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/62979353">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Ligon McWhorter (1891-1960) — also known as Bob McWhorter — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/OG-born.html">Oglethorpe County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/06-04.html">June 4, 1891</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">Law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/athens.html">mayor of Athens, Ga.</a>, 1940-47; named to the College Football <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/other-hof.html">Hall of Fame</a> in 1954. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/chi-phi.html">Chi Phi</a>. Died in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-died.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/06-29.html">June 29, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 25 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hamilton McWhorter and Sallie (Pharr) McWhorter; brother of Camilla Oliver McWhorter (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#338.39.52">Andrew Cobb Erwin</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-12.html">October 12, 1921</a>, to Louise Walker.</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/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (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">McWhorter Hall (dormitory, built 1966, rebuilt in new location 2004), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-names.html">Athens, Georgia</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/Bob McWhorter">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/83679963">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> Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr. (1922-1973) — also known as Drake Dimitry — of Royal Oak, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-lived.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich. Born in Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/11-24.html">November 24, 1922</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; owner of Heights Manufacturing Company, which built antenna towers; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 13th District, 1956. Injured in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile collision</a> on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">icy roads</a> near Almont, Mich., and died soon after in Mt. Clemens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-died.html">Macomb County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/03-23.html">March 23, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 119 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00618">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% 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 Dracos Alexander Dimitry and Elizabeth Stanton (Bisland) Dimitry; second great-grandson and great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#082.68.80">Alexander Dimitry</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1268.html">King family</a> of Savannah, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192777295">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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