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Smith Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms05087">Brick Presbyterian Church</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms11050">Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms04149">Church of the Heavenly Rest</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms10544">City Hall Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms09179">Columbia University</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms03654">Dutch Church Burial Ground</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms02513">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms02222">General Grant Memorial</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms10765">Grand Army Plaza</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms08349">Hartman Triangle</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms10545">Herald Square</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms05335">Madison Square Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms07597">Morningside Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms10179">National September 11 Memorial</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms04987">New York City Marble Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms01445">New York Marble Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms02972">Old Collegiate Dutch Church Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms01480">Old St. Patrick's Cathedral</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms08249">Old St. Thomas Church</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms07777">Riverside Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms02961">St. Andrew's Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms10108">St. Luke's Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms05836">St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms09405">St. Patrick's Cathedral</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms06081">St. Patrick's Old Cathedral</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms01053">St. Paul's Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms05004">St. Paul's Chapel</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms01544">St. Paul's Churchyard</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms03664">St. Stephen's Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms06430">Straus Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms07595">Tompkins Square Park</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms02313">Trinity Cemetery</a> <li>Manhattan <a href="#cms00598">Trinity Churchyard</a> <li>Greenwich Village, Manhattan <a href="#cms09074">Church of the Ascension</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms10070">Private or family graveyard</a> New York County, <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Leisler (c.1640-1691) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bockenheim, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Frankfurt am Main, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>), about 1640. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fur.html">Fur trader</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">tobacco business</a>; following the English Revolution of 1688, which brought Protestant rulers William and Mary to power, he led "Leisler's Rebellion" and seized control of the colony; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/colgov.html">Colonial Governor of New York</a>, 1689-91; provided land for a settlement of French Huguenot refugees (now the city of New Rochelle); following the arrival of a new royal governor, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">ousted</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a>, charged with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">treason</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced to death</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/execution.html">executed</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/strangulation.html">hanging</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stabbing.html">decapitation</a>, 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/date/died-05-16.html">May 16</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1691.html">1691</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Four years later, he was posthumously exonerated by an act of Parliament. Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; subsequent interment at <a href="#cms03654">Dutch Church Burial Ground</a>, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment to unknown location; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms10071">Broadview Avenue</a>, New Rochelle, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>.</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.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/Jacob Leisler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/162834255">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07598">Alfred E. Smith Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/495/23.56.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Alfred E. Smith"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873-1944) — also known as Alfred E. Smith; Al Smith; "The Happy Warrior"; "The Brown Derby"; "The King of Oliver Street"; "The First Citizen" — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/12-30.html">December 30, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 2nd District, 1904-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1913; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NY.html">1912</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NY.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/NY.html">1936</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 11th District, 1915; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1919-21, 1923-29; defeated, 1920; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/index.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/index.html">1932</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1928; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn8.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 12th District, 1938. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/10-04.html">October 4, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 279 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.; statue at Alfred E. Smith Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alfred Emanuel Smith and Catherine (Mulvihill) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/05-06.html">May 6, 1900</a>, to Catherine A. Dunn.</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/ingersoll.html#689.46.90">Raymond V. Ingersoll</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/procum-pryde.html#015.44.98">Joseph M. Proskauer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#171.45.08">George R. Van Namee</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/strange-straton.html#227.47.20">John Roach Straton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shawcroft-sheean.html#754.96.14">Clarence J. Shearn</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#499.68.09">Wythe Leigh Kinsolving</a></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 Alfred E. Smith <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">State Office Building</a> (built 1928) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-names.html">Albany, New York</a>, is <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 Alfred E. Smith (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-names.html">South Portland, Maine</a>; scrapped 1970) 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://www.nga.org/governor/alfred-emanuel-smith/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al Smith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/568/000056400">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808341">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/959">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Alfred E. Smith: Robert A. Slayton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684863022/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684863022&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith</a> — Christopher M. Finan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080901632X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080901632X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alfred E. Smith : The Happy Warrior</a> — Scott Farris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762763787/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0762763787&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a></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 Red Book 1924</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05087">Brick Presbyterian Church</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/712/75.42.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Samuel Osgood"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) — of Andover (part now in North Andover), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Andover (part now in North Andover), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1748/02-03.html">February 3, 1748</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention</a>, 1779-80; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts</a>, 1781-84; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1784; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1789-91; Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr1792-meeting.html">1792</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#440.13.51">George Clinton</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1800-02. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. 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/1813/08-12.html">August 12, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 190 days</a>). Original interment at Brick Presbyterian Church; reinterment in 1856 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Peter Osgood and Sarah (Johnson) Osgood; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/">1786</a> to Mary Browne; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#924.83.01">William Crowninshield Endicott</a>.</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/10001-1645.html">Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000116">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408372">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Osgood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/58818279">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: U.S. Postal Museum</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms11050">Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Norman Dinkins (1927-2020) — also known as David N. Dinkins — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/07-10.html">July 10, 1927</a>. Democrat. Served in U.S. Marines, 1945-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 78th District; elected 1965; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> 78th District, 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NY.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/NY.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/NY.html">1988</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/NY.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NY.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NY.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/NY.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#3">borough president of Manhattan, New York</a>, 1986-89; defeated, 1977 (primary), 1981 (primary), 1981 (Liberal); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1990-93; defeated, 1993; Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr1992-meeting.html">1992</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> Black mayor of New York City. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2020/11-23.html">November 23, 2020</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 136 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. <table width=100% align="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 Harvey Dinkins, Jr. and Sarah 'Sally' (Lucy) Dinkins; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/">1953</a> to Joyce Burrows (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#985.70.04">Daniel L. Burrows</a>).</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 (1989): "Strong enough to draw the line, caring enough to find the solution."</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/David N. Dinkins">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/214/000023145">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227755">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/218956860">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34805">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 David Dinkins: Chris McNickle, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412849594/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1412849594&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Power of the Mayor: David Dinkins: 1990-1993</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04149">Church of the Heavenly Rest</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916) — also known as Thomas L. James — of Tenafly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-lived.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Utica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-born.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/03-29.html">March 29, 1831</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Canal toll collector</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">customs inspector</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#2">New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1873-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1881-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/tenafly.html">mayor of Tenafly, N.J.</a>, 1896. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, following several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">strokes of apoplexy</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/09-11.html">September 11, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 166 days</a>). Entombed at Church of the Heavenly Rest. <table width=100% align="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 James and Jane Maria (Price) James; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/">1852</a> to Emily Ida Freeburn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/04-29.html">April 29, 1896</a>, to Jeane (Freeburn) Barden; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/02-03.html">February 3, 1904</a>, to Edith Colbourne; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/05-10.html">May 10, 1911</a>, to Flora (MacDonnell) Gaffney; father of Ella James (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pearson.html#691.36.18">Henry George 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Lemuel James">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12739703">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms10544">City Hall Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8750622777/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/186/49.71.jpg" width=70 height=91 border=0 alt="Horace Greeley"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace Greeley (1811-1872) — also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White Hat" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Chappaqua, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Amherst, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/02-03.html">February 3, 1811</a>. Founder and editor of the New York Tribune <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 6th District, 1848-49; defeated (Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/OR.html">1860</a>; after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Davis</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">Republican National Committee from New York</a>, 1866-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/comp.html">New York state comptroller</a>, 1869; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1872. Died in Pleasantville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-29.html">November 29, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 300 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at City Hall Park; statue at <a href="#cms10545">Herald Square</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/07-05.html">July 5, 1836</a>, to Mary Young Cheney; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#613.14.66">Wallace M. Greeley</a>.</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/grimke-grissom.html#820.02.54">Josiah B. Grinnell</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Greeley counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/GL.html">Kan.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/GR.html">Neb.</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/CO/WE-names.html">Greeley, Colorado</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Horace Greeley <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-names.html">Chappaqua, New York</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> Horace Greeley, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KW-names.html">Keweenaw County, Michigan</a>, is <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 Horace Greeley (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">North Atlantic Ocean</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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#823.37.40">Horace G. Snover</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knowles-knowlton.html#050.33.08">Horace G. Knowles</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#454.49.71">Horace Greeley Dawson, 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">Personal motto: "Go West, young man."</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=G000405">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404755">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Greeley">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/352/000050202">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/414">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 Horace Greeley: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083711439X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=083711439X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-1865</a> (1869) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1410213196/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1410213196&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Recollections Of A Busy Life</a></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 Horace Greeley: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809000725/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809000725&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Horace Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader</a> — Harry J. Maihafer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574881051/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1574881051&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana</a> — Wilbur J. Granberg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007E6Y1I/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007E6Y1I&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Spread the truth : The life of Horace Greeley</a> — Doris Faber, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0133947181/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0133947181&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Horace Greeley: The People's Editor</a> — Coy F. Cross, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826316050/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0826316050&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Go West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for America</a> — J. Parton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1417965525/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1417965525&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune</a></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: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09179">Columbia University</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5517542144/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/035/97.75.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="John Purroy Mitchel"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) — of New York. Born in Fordham, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/07-19.html">July 19, 1879</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mozer-mullarky.html#489.68.33">George V. Mullan</a>, 1902-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1913; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1914-17; defeated (Fusion), 1917; on April 17, 1914, at Park Row, New York, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> by an Michael P. Mahoney, an unemployed carpenter; the bullet missed the mayor, but struck and wounded Frank L. Polk, the city's Corporation Counsel. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Killed in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">plane crash</a> during <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-i.html">World War I</a> military training, at Gerstner Field, near Holmwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CL-died.html">Calcasieu Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/07-06.html">July 6, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Columbia University. <table width=100% align="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 Mitchel and Mary (Purroy) Mitchel; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/04-05.html">April 5, 1909</a>, to Olive Child; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purchio-puthuff.html#408.48.78">Henry D. Purroy</a>.</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 P. Mitchel (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1971) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Purroy Mitchel">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=43645">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03654">Dutch Church Burial Ground</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodorus Bailey (1758-1828) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born near Fishkill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/10-12.html">October 12, 1758</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 5th District, 1793-97, 1799-1801, 1801-03; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Dutchess County, 1801-02; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1803-04; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#2">New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1804-28. 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/1828/09-06.html">September 6, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 330 days</a>). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground; reinterment in 1864 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms01400">Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery</a>, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000049">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401054">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodorus Bailey (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6942082">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 Leisler (c.1640-1691) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bockenheim, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Frankfurt am Main, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>), about 1640. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fur.html">Fur trader</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">tobacco business</a>; following the English Revolution of 1688, which brought Protestant rulers William and Mary to power, he led "Leisler's Rebellion" and seized control of the colony; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/colgov.html">Colonial Governor of New York</a>, 1689-91; provided land for a settlement of French Huguenot refugees (now the city of New Rochelle); following the arrival of a new royal governor, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">ousted</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a>, charged with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">treason</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced to death</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/execution.html">executed</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/strangulation.html">hanging</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stabbing.html">decapitation</a>, 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/date/died-05-16.html">May 16</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1691.html">1691</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Four years later, he was posthumously exonerated by an act of Parliament. Original interment at <a href="#cms10070">a private or family graveyard</a>, New York County, N.Y.; subsequent interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground; reinterment to unknown location; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms10071">Broadview Avenue</a>, New Rochelle, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>.</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.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/Jacob Leisler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/162834255">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 Rutgers (1745-1830) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; New Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, N.J. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/10-07.html">October 7, 1745</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1777-78, 1783-84, 1800-02, 1803-05, 1806-08; resigned 1778. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Dutch Reformed</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/02-17.html">February 17, 1830</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 133 days</a>). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground; reinterment in 1865 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hendrick Rutgers and Catharine (De Peyster) Rutgers; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#630.79.23">Johannes DePeyster</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#849.76.43">Johannes de Peyster</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#032.54.77">Abraham de Peyster</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens5.html#622.01.04">John Stevens III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Rutgers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> (founded 1766 as Queens College; renamed 1825 as Rutgers College) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-names.html">New Brunswick, New Jersey</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Henry <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Street</a> and Rutgers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Street</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, are both <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/Henry Rutgers">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6405221">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02513">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Gelston (1744-1828) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bridgehampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/07-04.html">July 4, 1744</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn1.html">Delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1777; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Suffolk County, 1777-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1784-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County Surrogate</a>, 1787-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1789; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1790-94, 1798-1802; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1793; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1801-20. 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/1828/08-21.html">August 21, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gehant-geoghan.html#733.27.38">John Gelston</a>.</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=G000122">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404492">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Gelston">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13415361">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 Laurance (1750-1810) — of New York. Born near Falmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/index.html">1750</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1785-87; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1787-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 2nd District, 1789-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New York</a>, 1794-96; resigned 1796; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1796-1800. 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/1810/11-11.html">November 11, 1810</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Laurence (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-names.html">Houston, Texas</a>; scrapped 1963) 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=L000120">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406626">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1350&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Laurance">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8095996">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Lowrie (1784-1868) — of Butler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BT-lived.html">Butler County</a>, Pa. Born in Edinburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/12-10.html">December 10, 1784</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1811; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 19th District, 1815-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1819-25. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. 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/1868/12-14.html">December 14, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 4 days</a>). Entombed at First Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowrey-lowrie.html#015.88.36">Walter Hoge Lowrie</a>.</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=L000485">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406973">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8095978">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander McDougall (1731-1786) — of New York. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1731/index.html">1731</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1781; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1783-86; died in office 1786. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. 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/1786/06-09.html">June 9, 1786</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Entombed at First Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000415">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407415">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 Broome (1738-1810) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1738/07-19.html">July 19, 1738</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Importer and exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn1.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1777; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1800-02; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1803-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1804-10; died in office 1810. 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/1810/08-08.html">August 8, 1810</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 20 days</a>). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Broome and Marie (LaTourette) Broome; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/10-19.html">October 19, 1769</a>, to Rebecca Lloyd; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/">1806</a> to Ruth Hunter.</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/NY/BO.html">Broome County, N.Y.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-names.html">Broome, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Broome <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Street</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Broome (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/98447961">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02222">General Grant Memorial</a> 122nd St. & Riverside Dr. Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267600039/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/462/32.81.jpg" width=70 height=97 border=0 alt="Ulysses S. Grant"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) — also known as Ulysses S. Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant; "Savior of the Union"; "Lion of Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of American Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender Grant"; "The Galena Tanner"; "The Silent Soldier"; "The Silent General" — of Galena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/JD-lived.html">Jo Daviess County</a>, Ill. Born in Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CL-born.html">Clermont County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/04-27.html">April 27, 1822</a>. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1869-77; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/index.html">1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/throat-cancer.html">throat cancer</a>, at Mt. McGregor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SA-died.html">Saratoga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/07-23.html">July 23, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 87 days</a>). Interment at General Grant Memorial. <table width=100% align="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 Jesse Root Grant and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/08-22.html">August 22, 1848</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#334.53.02">Julia Boggs Dent</a> (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sharp.html#097.45.56">Alexander Sharp</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dent.html#760.18.13">George Wrenshall Dent</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dent.html#043.94.50">Lewis Dent</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#144.42.40">Frederick Dent Grant</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#500.19.17">Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.</a>; grandfather of Nellie Grant (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cronen-crosbie.html#495.04.57">William Pigott Cronan</a>); first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bird.html#941.57.26">William Augustus Bird</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#578.27.47">Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#089.34.88">Peter Buell Porter Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#722.35.36">Jabez Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#224.69.81">Samuel Lathrop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrell-merrifield.html#606.56.26">William Rush Merriam</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scudder.html#199.87.50">Henry Scudder</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#607.66.83">Jedediah Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#723.57.31">Jesse Monroe Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cole.html#596.85.32">Francis Watkinson Cole</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a>.</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/10001-2182.html">Grant family</a> of San Francisco, California (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/porter4.html#125.19.86">Horace Porter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#349.30.94">Ayres Phillips Merrill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#033.46.86">Robert Martin Douglas</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halstad-hamill.html#975.03.17">Thomas L. Hamer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/archibald-armstead.html#289.74.21">James Arkell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webster.html#247.62.18">Joseph D. Webster</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Grant counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/GN.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/GA.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/GR.html">La.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/GR.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/GN.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/GR.html">N.M.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ND/GA.html">N.Dak.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GN.html">Okla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/GR.html">Ore.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/GR.html">S.Dak.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/GA.html">Wash.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/GA.html">W.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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owenby-ozzard.html#701.32.59">Ulysses G. Owings</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/archibald-armstead.html#035.86.71">Ulysses G. Argetsinger</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scadden-schafe.html#842.06.76">Ulysses G. Scalley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cherry.html#461.66.66">U. S. G. Cherry</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer.html#689.18.56">Ulysses G. Palmer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#356.98.58">Ulysses S. G. Bieber</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/denivernais-denning.html#072.33.61">Ulysses G. Denman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crampton-crandall.html#412.08.62">Ulysses G. Crandell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#953.67.16">Ulysses S. G. Blakely</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rhodes.html#424.81.25">S. U. G. Rhodes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boothby-borunda.html#442.10.54">Ulysses G. Borden</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mena-mercado.html#514.75.05">U. Grant Mengel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#668.40.08">Ulysses G. Foster</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bale-baliles.html#734.96.14">U. S. Balentine</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#562.74.48">Ulysses G. Byers</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burch.html#454.21.48">U. Grant Burch, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leszynski-levi.html#568.30.66">U. S. Grant Leverett</a> </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. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5 silver certificates in 1887-1927.</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">Personal motto: "When in doubt, fight."</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/Ulysses S. Grant">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/966/000023897">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/411">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4093">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 Ulysses S. Grant: Jean Edward Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684849267/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684849267&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grant</a> — Frank J. Scaturro, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568331320/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1568331320&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">President Grant Reconsidered</a> — William S. McFeely, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393323943/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393323943&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grant</a> — Brooks D. Simpson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395659949/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0395659949&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865</a> — Brooks D. Simpson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807819662/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807819662&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868</a> — James S. Brisbin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006AG116/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006AG116&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax</a> — Josiah Bunting III, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069496/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069496&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ulysses S. Grant</a> — Michael Korda, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060590157/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060590157&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ulysses S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero</a> — Edward H. Bonekemper, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089526062X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=089526062X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius</a> — Harry J. Maihafer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574881051/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1574881051&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana</a> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385532415/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385532415&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace</a> — Charles Bracelen Flood, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306820285/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0306820285&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year</a> — Joan Waugh, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807833177/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807833177&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant: Nathan Miller, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684852063/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684852063&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Star-Spangled Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312309376/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312309376&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grant Comes East</a> — Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312342985/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312342985&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Never Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory</a></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> Julia Grant (1826-1902) — also known as Julia Boggs Dent — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-born.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/01-26.html">January 26, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1869-77. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/12-14.html">December 14, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 322 days</a>). Entombed at General Grant Memorial. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Frederick Fayette Dent and Ellen Bray (Wrenshall) Dent; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dent.html#760.18.13">George Wrenshall Dent</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dent.html#043.94.50">Lewis Dent</a> and Ellen Wrenshall 'Nellie' Dent (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sharp.html#097.45.56">Alexander Sharp</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/08-22.html">August 22, 1848</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#144.42.40">Frederick Dent Grant</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#500.19.17">Ulysses Simpson Grant 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/10001-2182.html">Grant family</a> of San Francisco, California (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia Grant">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9238">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34094">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms10765">Grand Army Plaza</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/53631677466/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/249/92.18.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="William Tecumseh Sherman"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) — Born in Lancaster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/02-08.html">February 8, 1820</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; in 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1869. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1905. 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/1891/02-14.html">February 14, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 6 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-buried.html#cms00518">Calvary Cemetery</a>, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms10766">Sherman Park</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/05-01.html">May 1, 1850</a>, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#534.99.67">Thomas Ewing</a>); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/terryll-thaxton.html#788.27.12">Alexander Montgomery Thackara</a>); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#955.11.22">Nelson Appleton Miles</a>) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#316.00.97">James Donald Cameron</a>); sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welles-wellmerling.html#111.95.76">Thomas Welles</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#032.33.79">Thomas Mott Osborne</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#417.76.61">Charles Devens Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#039.21.18">Lithgow Osborne</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#801.26.62">Phineas Taylor Barnum</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#781.68.07">Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#807.46.34">Blanche M. Woodward</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yadkin-yarrow.html#147.74.00">Ira Yale</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#992.70.06">Louis Ezekiel Stoddard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#193.65.27">Asbury Elliott Kellogg</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#152.06.17">Jonathan Brace</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#779.42.84">Chauncey Goodrich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#850.68.26">Elizur Goodrich</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#547.88.15">Philo Fairchild Barnum</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#088.18.66">Andrew Gould Chatfield</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raymond.html#942.25.27">Henry Jarvis Raymond</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#564.22.46">Edwin Olmstead Keeler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yadkin-yarrow.html#880.76.03">Charles Yale</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#626.06.04">David Lowrey Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#266.79.92">Chauncey Mitchell Depew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#049.29.31">Fred Lockwood Keeler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#567.62.77">Thomas McKeen Chidsey</a>.</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/10001-1197.html">Seymour family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1361.html">Ewing family</a> of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webster.html#247.62.18">Joseph D. Webster</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Sherman counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SR.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/SR.html">Neb.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/SH.html">Ore.</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">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WX-names.html">Sherman, Michigan</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> Sherman, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/LK-names.html">Lake</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/PA-names.html">Park</a> counties, Colorado, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#278.15.33">W. T. S. Rath</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Tecumseh Sherman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/275/000050125">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 William T. Sherman: Stanley P. Hirshson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471175781/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0471175781&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T. Sherman</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a></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: Great Men and Famous Women (1894)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08349">Hartman Triangle</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/214/81.47.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Gustave Hartman"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gustave Hartman (1880-1936) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HU-born.html">Hungary</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/08-12.html">August 12, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 16th District, 1905-06; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 10th District, 1908; municipal judge in New York, 1913-17, 1921-29; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1923, 1924, 1929; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NY.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-cong.html">American Jewish Congress</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/zionist-org-am.html">Zionist Organization of America</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-arbitration-assoc.html">American Arbitration 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>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>. Founder and president, Israel Orphan Asylum, New York City. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/11-12.html">November 12, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 92 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms02808">Mt. Carmel Cemetery</a>, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.; memorial monument at Hartman Triangle. <table width=100% align="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 Kalman Hartman and Sarah 'Sallie' (Luchs) Hartman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/09-09.html">September 9, 1928</a>, to May Weisser.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Beloved husband, devoted brother, a life of service."</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/20722848">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 Times, November 13, 1936</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms10545">Herald Square</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8750622777/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/186/49.71.jpg" width=70 height=91 border=0 alt="Horace Greeley"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horace Greeley (1811-1872) — also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White Hat" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Chappaqua, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Amherst, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/02-03.html">February 3, 1811</a>. Founder and editor of the New York Tribune <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 6th District, 1848-49; defeated (Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/OR.html">1860</a>; after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Davis</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">Republican National Committee from New York</a>, 1866-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/comp.html">New York state comptroller</a>, 1869; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1872. Died in Pleasantville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-29.html">November 29, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 300 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at <a href="#cms10544">City Hall Park</a>; statue at Herald Square. <table width=100% align="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 Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/07-05.html">July 5, 1836</a>, to Mary Young Cheney; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#613.14.66">Wallace M. Greeley</a>.</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/grimke-grissom.html#820.02.54">Josiah B. Grinnell</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Greeley counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/GL.html">Kan.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/GR.html">Neb.</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/CO/WE-names.html">Greeley, Colorado</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Horace Greeley <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-names.html">Chappaqua, New York</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> Horace Greeley, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KW-names.html">Keweenaw County, Michigan</a>, is <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 Horace Greeley (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">North Atlantic Ocean</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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#823.37.40">Horace G. Snover</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knowles-knowlton.html#050.33.08">Horace G. Knowles</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#454.49.71">Horace Greeley Dawson, 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">Personal motto: "Go West, young man."</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=G000405">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404755">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Greeley">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/352/000050202">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/414">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 Horace Greeley: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083711439X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=083711439X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-1865</a> (1869) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1410213196/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1410213196&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Recollections Of A Busy Life</a></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 Horace Greeley: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809000725/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809000725&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Horace Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader</a> — Harry J. Maihafer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574881051/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1574881051&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana</a> — Wilbur J. Granberg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007E6Y1I/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007E6Y1I&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Spread the truth : The life of Horace Greeley</a> — Doris Faber, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0133947181/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0133947181&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Horace Greeley: The People's Editor</a> — Coy F. Cross, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826316050/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0826316050&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Go West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for America</a> — J. Parton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1417965525/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1417965525&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune</a></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: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05335">Madison Square Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6268125072/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/515/43.58.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Chester A. Arthur"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) — also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur; "The Gentleman Boss"; "His Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our Chet"; "Dude President" — of New York. Born in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/10-05.html">October 5, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1870-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">New York Republican state chair</a>, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/NY.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1881; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1881-85; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/index.html">1884</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">Bright's disease</a> and a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, 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/1886/11-18.html">November 18, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison Square Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. William Arthur and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/10-25.html">October 25, 1859</a>, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#139.47.08">Benjamin Franklin Flanders</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#999.13.12">Cassius Montgomery Clay Twitchell</a>.</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.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/NE/AR.html">Arthur County, Neb.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/AR-names.html">Arthur, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/TA-names.html">Chester, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> Arthur, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/PO-names.html">Polk County, Minnesota</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heisel-hellyer.html#240.93.19">Chester A. Heitman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pike.html#413.32.94">Chester Arthur Pike</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson2.html#174.73.08">Chester A. Johnson</a> </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=A000303">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400945">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester A. Arthur">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/565/000024493">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19910">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 Chester A. Arthur: Thomas C. Reeves, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0945707037/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0945707037&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Gentleman Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur</a> — Justus D. Doenecke, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700602089/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700602089&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur</a> — George Frederick Howe, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0781249147/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0781249147&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Chester A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics</a> — Zachary Karabell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069518/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069518&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Chester Alan Arthur</a> — Paul Joseph, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577652363/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1577652363&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Chester Arthur</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"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1245586"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/231/48.38.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="William H. Seward"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Henry Seward (1801-1872) — also known as William H. Seward — of Auburn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-lived.html">Cayuga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/05-16.html">May 16, 1801</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; co-founded (with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weclew-weekes.html#930.88.30">Thurlow Weed</a>), the Albany Evening Journal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> in 1830; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 7th District, 1831-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1849-61; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/index.html">1856</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/index.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1861-69; as Secretary of State in 1867, he made a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed the territory "Seward's Folly". Survived an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">assassination attempt</a> on April 14, 1865 (the same night <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged. Died in Auburn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-died.html">Cayuga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/10-16.html">October 16, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-buried.html#cms00777">Fort Hill Cemetery</a>, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at Madison Square Park; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms07596">Volunteer Park</a>, Seattle, Wash. <table width=100% align="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/seward.html#236.50.53">Samuel Swayze Seward</a> and Mary (Jennings) Seward; married to Frances Adeline Miller; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#015.40.78">Frederick William Seward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#101.42.48">William Henry Seward Jr.</a>; uncle of Caroline Cornelia Canfield (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schneiderman-schrock.html#420.92.69">John Lawrence Schoolcraft</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#862.58.59">George Frederick Seward</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#049.77.66">Frederick Whittlesey Seward 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/10001-1858.html">Seward-Schoolcraft-Sherman family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#848.73.10">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barretto-barrows.html#995.38.07">Samuel J. Barrows</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#015.40.78">Frederick W. Seward</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#125.55.47">Elias P. Pellet</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Seward counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SW.html">Kan.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/SE.html">Neb.</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">Seward <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mountain</a>, in the Adirondack Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FR-names.html">Franklin County, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/SE-names.html">Seward, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-names.html">Seward, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/KP-names.html">Seward, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Seward <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (300 acres on a forested peninsula, established 1911), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Seward <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (three acres on East Broadway, opened 1903), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#924.30.04">W. Seward Whittlesey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomson.html#314.20.25">W. H. Seward Thomson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shaffner-shanley.html#182.91.54">William S. Shanahan</a> </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 $50 U.S. Treasury note in the 1890s.</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=S000261">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409762">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-henry-seward/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William H. Seward">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/945">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about William H. Seward: Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743270754/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743270754&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln</a> — Walter Stahr, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439121168/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439121168&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man</a> — Walter Stahr, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439121184/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439121184&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man</a> — Michael Burgan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791064182/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791064182&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">William Henry Seward : Senator and Statesman</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: New York Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3GQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA440-IA3"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/801/93.51.jpg" width=70 height=90 border=0 alt="Roscoe Conkling"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888) — also known as "The Oneida Chieftan"; "My Lord Roscoe" — of Utica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-lived.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/10-30.html">October 30, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/utica.html">mayor of Utica, N.Y.</a>, 1858-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1859-63, 1865-67 (20th District 1859-63, 21st District 1865-67); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1867, 1869-81; resigned 1881; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/index.html">1876</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/NY.html">1880</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">mastoiditis</a>, 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/1888/04-18.html">April 18, 1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 171 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-buried.html#cms00991">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Utica, N.Y.; statue at Madison Square Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#827.42.07">Alfred Conkling</a> and Elizabeth 'Eliza' (Cockburn) Conkling; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#490.06.59">Frederick Augustus Conkling</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/06-25.html">June 25, 1855</a>, to Julia Catherine Seymour (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#388.11.15">Henry Seymour</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#287.08.86">Horatio Seymour</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#358.48.30">Moses Seymour</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#053.56.67">Morris Woodruff Seymour</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#167.76.23">Alfred Conkling Coxe</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#783.11.24">Alfred Ronalds Conkling</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#884.87.43">Howard Conkling</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#833.30.07">Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1197.html">Seymour family</a> of New York and Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SV-names.html">Roscoe, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#700.09.43">Roscoe C. Chandley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patterson.html#700.44.30">Roscoe C. Patterson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washmon-waterlander.html#047.85.63">Roscoe C. Waterbury</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcculloch.html#750.70.51">Roscoe C. McCulloch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#715.32.38">Roscoe C. Marcum</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emery.html#530.89.03">Roscoe C. Emery</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simmons.html#539.05.86">Roscoe Conkling Simmons</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitch.html#797.25.26">Roscoe Conkling Fitch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandyne-vanmeter.html#005.61.69">Roscoe C. Van Marter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivant-summit.html#703.21.56">Roscoe C. Summers</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowe.html#532.84.31">Roscoe C. Rowe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lenahan-leonad.html#843.03.06">Roscoe C. Lennon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/austin.html#098.81.21">Roscoe C. Austin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobbs.html#944.08.68">Roscoe C. Hobbs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sproat-staebler.html#073.88.87">Roscoe C. Stacey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown7.html#741.73.96">Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#909.07.78">Roscoe C. Howard</a> </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=C000681">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402807">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe Conkling">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/241/000050091">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6653495">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=35278">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 Roscoe Conkling: Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00085BGXC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00085BGXC&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The gentleman from New York: A life of Roscoe Conkling</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07597">Morningside Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267608867/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/767/01.16.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Carl Schurz"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Carl Christian Schurz (1829-1906) — also known as Carl Schurz — of Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Wis.; Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Liblar (now part of Erfstadt), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/03-02.html">March 2, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1857; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/WI.html">1860</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/MO.html">1868</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/officers.html">Temporary Chair</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Missouri</a>, 1869-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1877-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/05-14.html">May 14, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms01193">Sleepy Hollow Cemetery</a>, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; statue at Morningside Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Christian Schurz and Mariana (Jussen) Schurz; brother of Antoinette Schurz (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#035.45.21">Edmund Jüssen</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/">1852</a> to Margarethe 'Molly' Meyer.</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/47567.html">Jussen-Schurz family</a> of Watertown, Wisconsin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/MI-names.html">Schurz, Nevada</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> Schurz, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/PA-names.html">Park County, Wyoming</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Carl Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Carl Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-names.html">Chicago, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/JF-names.html">Watertown, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Carl Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CM-names.html">New Braunfels, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson2.html#933.74.53">Carl S. Thompson</a> </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=S000151">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409658">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl Schurz">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/schurz-carl ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/933">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Carl Schurz: Hans Louis Trefousse, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0823218546/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0823218546&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Carl Schurz: A Biography</a></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: William C. Roberts, Leading Orators (1884)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms10179">National September 11 Memorial</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jasper Baxter (1957-2001) — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/01-28.html">January 28, 1957</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> 186th District, 1986. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Was conducting a seminar on the 93rd floor of 2 World Trade Center, when an airliner hijacked by terrorists was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">deliberately</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">crashed</a> into the building, causing an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">fire</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/collapse.html">collapse</a> of the structure, killing almost 3,000, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/09-11.html">September 11, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 226 days</a>). Cenotaph at National September 11 Memorial. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5841613">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04987">New York City Marble Cemetery</a> 52-74 East 2nd Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues Manhattan, New York County, New York Founded 1832 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Leggett Varian (1793-1864) — also known as Isaac L. Varian — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/06-25.html">June 25, 1793</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1831-33; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1838; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1839-41; defeated, 1838; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1842-45. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died in Peekskill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-10.html">August 10, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 46 days</a>). Interment at New York City Marble Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/">1811</a> to Catharine Hopper Dusenbury.</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/Isaac Varian">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9630">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=226363">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54422"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/142/46.79.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Stephen Allen"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Allen (1767-1852) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/07-02.html">July 2, 1767</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">Mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1821-24; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1826; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1829-32. Killed when the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">steamboat</a> Henry Clay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">burned</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">sank</a>, killing about eighty passengers, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Lower Hudson River</a>, next to what is now the Riverdale section of the Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/07-28.html">July 28, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 26 days</a>). Entombed at New York City Marble Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen Allen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9628">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 Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Marinus Willet (1740-1830) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SC-lived.html">Schenectady County</a>, N.Y. Born in Jamaica, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/07-31.html">July 31, 1740</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1783-84, 1819-20 (New York County 1783-84, Schenectady County 1819-20); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1807-08. 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/1830/08-22.html">August 22, 1830</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 22 days</a>). Interment at New York City Marble Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus Willet">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> Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Cork, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/04-24.html">April 24, 1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1812-13; appointed 1812. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. 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/1827/11-15.html">November 15, 1827</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 205 days</a>). Interment at New York City Marble Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="#cms01544">St. Paul's Churchyard</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of Robert Emmet (1778-1803; Irish nationalist and rebel leader); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/01-11.html">January 11, 1791</a>, to Jane Patten; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#145.73.32">Robert Emmet (1792-1873)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#285.44.79">William Colville Emmet</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#539.39.00">William Temple Emmet</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#492.99.30">Grenville Temple Emmet</a>.</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/10001-2598.html">Emmet-Slidell family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Addis Emmet">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> David Sherwood Jackson (1813-1872) — also known as David S. Jackson — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/index.html">1813</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 6th District, 1847-49. 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/1872/01-20.html">January 20, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at New York City Marble Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000007">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405914">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David S. Jackson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13415507">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267595955/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/777/02.93.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="James Monroe"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Monroe (1758-1831) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-lived.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-lived.html">Loudoun 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/1758/04-28.html">April 28, 1758</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1783-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Spotsylvania County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1794-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1803-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1799-1802, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1811-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1814-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1829. <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>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1930. Slaveowner. Died, probably of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, 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/1831/07-04.html">July 4, 1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 67 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="#cms01445">New York Marble Cemetery</a>; subsequently entombed at New York City Marble Cemetery; reinterment in 1858 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-buried.html#cms00943">Hollywood Cemetery</a>, Richmond, 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 Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/02-16.html">February 16, 1786</a>, to Eliza Kortright and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Kortright</a>; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hay.html#218.81.98">George Hay</a>) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones5.html#884.45.12">Joseph Jones</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#747.54.98">Thomas Bell Monroe</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#541.06.94">James Monroe (1799-1870)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#186.42.67">Victor Monroe</a>; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>); second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cole.html#148.74.70">Corinne Alsop Cole</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne Alsop Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#718.27.15">William Grayson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#546.45.35">Beverly Robinson Grayson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#957.55.71">John Brady Grayson</a>.</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/10001-1083.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1001.html">Monroe 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">Monroe counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ME.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/MO.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MO.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MO.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MO.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MO.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ME.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MO.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MO.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MO.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MO.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MO.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MN.html">Pa.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MN.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MO.html">W.Va.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MO.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/ZZ/LB-names.html">Monrovia, Liberia</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> Monroe, 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> Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ha-names.html">Hampton, Virginia</a>, is <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 Monroe (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1970) 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/monroe.html#541.06.94">James Monroe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#556.35.15">James Monroe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#034.96.95">James M. Pendleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James M. Jackson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leszynski-levi.html#135.89.70">James Monroe Letts</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ritchie.html#587.66.74">James M. Ritchie</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rossdale-rotan.html#527.68.83">James M. Rosse</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/comeau-compromiser.html#612.64.63">James M. Comly</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#997.59.33">James Monroe Buford</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seeligson-selby.html#329.17.49">James M. Seibert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dreyfus-drips.html#741.57.59">J. Monroe Driesbach</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowenberg-lown.html#013.81.25">James M. Lown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller5.html#468.94.70">James M. Miller</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones5.html#267.71.13">James Monroe Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#084.31.74">James Monroe Hale</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#006.74.74">James Monroe Spears</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#315.32.78">J. M. Alford</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowenberg-lown.html#373.41.08">James M. Lown, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miley-millender.html#479.33.91">James M. Miley</a> </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. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s.</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=M000858">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407829">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-monroe/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Monroe">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/monroe-james ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/026/000043894">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/724">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4123">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 Monroe: Harry Ammon, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813912660/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0813912660&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity</a></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> Lorenzo Bingham Shepard (1821-1856) — also known as Lorenzo B. Shepard — of New York. Born in Cairo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/05-27.html">May 27, 1821</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1849-50; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1852/NY.html">1852</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1856/NY.html">1856</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County District Attorney</a>, 1854; New York City Corporation Counsel, 1855-56. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. 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/1856/09-18.html">September 18, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 114 days</a>). Original interment at New York City Marble Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of David Shepard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/07-05.html">July 5, 1842</a>, to Lucy Morse; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shepard.html#382.04.26">Edward Morse Shepard</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "This monument Is erected by the voluntary subscriptions of Citizens who valued him as a public officer, of Associates and Clients Who trusted him as a Counsellor, of Friends who loved him as a man, Just, generous and true, In all the relations of Life."</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/Lorenzo B. Shepard">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01445">New York Marble Cemetery</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York Founded 1830 Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1980 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Aaron Clark (1787-1861) — also known as "King of the Lotteries"; "Dancing Mayor" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Worthington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HM-born.html">Hampshire County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/10-16.html">October 16, 1787</a>. Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1837-39; defeated, 1839. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-02.html">August 2, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at New York Marble Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of David Clark and Lydia (Benjamin) Clark; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-18.html">May 18, 1815</a>, to Catherine Maria Lamb.</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/Aaron Clark">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3786">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=226360">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54103"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/455/30.99.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="James Tallmadge, Jr."></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Tallmadge Jr. (1778-1853) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in Stanford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/01-28.html">January 28, 1778</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 4th District, 1817-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1821; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Dutchess County, 1824; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1825-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> of New York University, 1830-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1846. 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/1853/09-29.html">September 29, 1853</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 244 days</a>). Interment at New York Marble Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#617.20.02">James Tallmadge</a> and Anna (Sutherland) Tallmadge; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#288.54.59">Matthias Burnett Tallmadge</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#075.45.31">Solomon D. Sutherland</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#749.21.29">Joel Tallmadge Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#360.90.57">Jacob Livingston Sutherland</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#548.45.59">Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#463.36.32">John James Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#568.36.60">Isaac Smith Tallmadge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#837.01.91">Daniel Webster Tallmadge</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#361.75.00">Millard Ellsworth Lane</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1386.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000031">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410620">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267595955/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/777/02.93.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="James Monroe"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Monroe (1758-1831) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-lived.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-lived.html">Loudoun 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/1758/04-28.html">April 28, 1758</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia</a>, 1783-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Spotsylvania County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Virginia</a>, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1794-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1803-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1799-1802, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1811-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1814-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1829. <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>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1930. Slaveowner. Died, probably of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, 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/1831/07-04.html">July 4, 1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 67 days</a>). Originally entombed at New York Marble Cemetery; subsequently entombed at <a href="#cms04987">New York City Marble Cemetery</a>; reinterment in 1858 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-buried.html#cms00943">Hollywood Cemetery</a>, Richmond, 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 Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/02-16.html">February 16, 1786</a>, to Eliza Kortright and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Kortright</a>; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hay.html#218.81.98">George Hay</a>) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones5.html#884.45.12">Joseph Jones</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#747.54.98">Thomas Bell Monroe</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#541.06.94">James Monroe (1799-1870)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#186.42.67">Victor Monroe</a>; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>); second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cole.html#148.74.70">Corinne Alsop Cole</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne Alsop Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#718.27.15">William Grayson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#546.45.35">Beverly Robinson Grayson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#957.55.71">John Brady Grayson</a>.</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/10001-1083.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1001.html">Monroe 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">Monroe counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ME.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/MO.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MO.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MO.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MO.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MO.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ME.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MO.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MO.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MO.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MO.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MO.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MN.html">Pa.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MN.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MO.html">W.Va.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MO.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/ZZ/LB-names.html">Monrovia, Liberia</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> Monroe, 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> Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ha-names.html">Hampton, Virginia</a>, is <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 Monroe (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1970) 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/monroe.html#541.06.94">James Monroe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#556.35.15">James Monroe</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#034.96.95">James M. Pendleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson5.html#616.41.82">James M. Jackson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leszynski-levi.html#135.89.70">James Monroe Letts</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ritchie.html#587.66.74">James M. Ritchie</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rossdale-rotan.html#527.68.83">James M. Rosse</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/comeau-compromiser.html#612.64.63">James M. Comly</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#997.59.33">James Monroe Buford</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seeligson-selby.html#329.17.49">James M. Seibert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dreyfus-drips.html#741.57.59">J. Monroe Driesbach</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowenberg-lown.html#013.81.25">James M. Lown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller5.html#468.94.70">James M. Miller</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones5.html#267.71.13">James Monroe Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#084.31.74">James Monroe Hale</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#006.74.74">James Monroe Spears</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#315.32.78">J. M. Alford</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowenberg-lown.html#373.41.08">James M. Lown, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miley-millender.html#479.33.91">James M. Miley</a> </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. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s.</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=M000858">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407829">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-monroe/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Monroe">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/monroe-james ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/026/000043894">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/724">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4123">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 Monroe: Harry Ammon, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813912660/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0813912660&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity</a></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> Myndert Van Schaick (1782-1865) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/09-02.html">September 2, 1782</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1832; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1833-36; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1849. 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/1865/12-01.html">December 1, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 90 days</a>). Original interment at New York Marble Cemetery; reinterment in 1891 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Goose Van Schaick and Maria (Ten Broeck) Van Schaick; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/">1815</a> to Elizabeth Hone (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holten-hook.html#354.50.47">Philip Hone</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#171.82.45">Sybrant G. Van Schaick</a>.</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/46081.html">VanSchaick-Hone family</a> of Albany and New York City, New York.</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/Myndert Van Schaick">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/96835189">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=226546">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6268125960/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/681/37.58.jpg" width=70 height=82 border=0 alt="Stevens T. Mason"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843) — also known as Stevens T. Mason; Tom Mason; "The Boy Governor"; "Young Hotspur"; "The Stripling" — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born near Leesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-born.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/10-27.html">October 27, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/trsc.html">Secretary of Michigan Territory</a>, 1831; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Michigan Territory</a>, 1834-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1835-40. 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/1843/01-04.html">January 4, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/31.html">31 years, 69 days</a>). Originally entombed at New York Marble Cemetery; reinterment in 1905 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms04297">Capitol Park</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#006.07.06">John Thomson Mason (1787-1850)</a> and Elizabeth Baker (Moir) Mason; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/11-01.html">November 1, 1838</a>, to Julia Elizabeth Phelps; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#562.84.25">Armistead Thomson Mason</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#208.63.70">Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#809.44.86">John Thomson Mason (1765-1824)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#644.33.88">Thomson Mason</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright5.html#282.90.68">Jerauld Wright</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#804.19.29">George Mason</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#481.33.98">John Thomson Mason Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#289.94.60">Thomson Francis Mason</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#092.76.53">James Murray Mason</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodroads-gorbey.html#383.73.78">Charles O'Conor Goolrick</a>.</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/10001-1059.html">Lee-Mason family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MS.html">Mason County, Mich.</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/stevens-thomson-mason/">National Governors Association biography</a></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 Stevens T. Mason: Harlan L. Hagman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0931600022/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0931600022&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bright Michigan Morning : The Years of Governor Tom Mason</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">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> Peter Sharpe (1777-1842) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/12-10.html">December 10, 1777</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1814-15, 1816-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1820-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1821; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1821, 1823-25 (2nd District 1821, 3rd District 1823-25); defeated, 1824. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/08-03.html">August 3, 1842</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 236 days</a>). Original interment at New York Marble Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000297">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409796">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter Sharpe">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> Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835) — also known as Philip J. Schuyler — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1768/01-21.html">January 21, 1768</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Dutchess County, 1797-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 5th District, 1817-19. Slaveowner. Died, of consumption (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>), 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/1835/02-21.html">February 21, 1835</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 31 days</a>). Original interment at New York Marble Cemetery; subsequent interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms04876">a private or family graveyard</a>, Dutchess County, N.Y.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms01400">Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery</a>, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a> and Catherine (Van Rensselaer) Schuyler; brother of Elizabeth Schuyler (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#111.82.60">Alexander Hamilton</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#979.11.25">Stephanus Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#789.71.60">Jacobus Van Cortlandt</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#498.42.59">James Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#882.43.77">Frederick Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson (1733-1800)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbeel-hudnut.html#707.25.81">John Hubner II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#658.98.75">Marietta Peabody Tree</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#913.34.82">Endicott Peabody</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#514.67.03">Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#240.15.79">Karl Cortlandt Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1859.html">Schuyler family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2893.html">VanRensselaer-Gansevoort family</a> of Albany, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000153">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409660">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip Jeremiah Schuyler">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02972">Old Collegiate Dutch Church Cemetery</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (1764-1831) — also known as Gurdon S. Mumford — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/index.html">1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1805-11 (3rd District 1805-09, 2nd District 1809-11). Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/index.html">1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Interment at Old Collegiate Dutch Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001076">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408041">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01480">Old St. Patrick's Cathedral</a> Mott Street Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John McKeon (1808-1883) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/03-29.html">March 29, 1808</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1832-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1835-37, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County District Attorney</a>, 1846-50, 1882-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1854-58; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/NY.html">1864</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. 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/1883/11-22.html">November 22, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 238 days</a>). Entombed at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Capt. James McKeon.</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=M000509">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407503">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John McKeon">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> John Kelly (1822-1886) — also known as "Honest John" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/04-20.html">April 20, 1822</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 4th District, 1855-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County Sheriff</a>, 1859-62, 1865-67; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/NY.html">1864</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/NY.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/NY.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/NY.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/NY.html">1884</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Leader of Tammany Hall for many years. 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/1886/06-01.html">June 1, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 42 days</a>). Interment at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral. <table width=100% align="left"><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/grady.html#314.40.50">Thomas F. Grady</a></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=K000075">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406245">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Kelly (New York politician)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08249">Old St. Thomas Church</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Duer (1747-1799) — also known as "Philo-Publius" — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Devon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1747/03-18.html">March 18, 1747</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">timber and lumber merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn1.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Eastern District, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1777; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1785-86; went bankrupt as a result of the Panic of 1792, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">debt</a>. Died, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/captivity.html">debtor's prison</a>, New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/04-18.html">April 18, 1799</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 31 days</a>). Originally entombed at Old St. Thomas Church; reinterment at <a href="#cms02313">Trinity Cemetery</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Duer and Frances (Frye) Duer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/">1779</a> to Catherine Alexander; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer (1782-1858)</a>; nephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer (1805-1879)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; first cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000514">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403624">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Duer (Continental congressman)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/16791329">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07777">Riverside Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2001702320/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/308/96.36.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Samuel J. Tilden"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886) — also known as Samuel J. Tilden; "The Great Reformer"; "The Great Forecloser" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New Lebanon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/02-09.html">February 9, 1814</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn4.html">Delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1846; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1846, 1872 (New York County 1846, New York County 18th District 1872); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/NY.html">1864</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">New York Democratic state chair</a>, 1872-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1875-77; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1876. Died near Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/08-04.html">August 4, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 176 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-buried.html#cms02308">Cemetery of the Evergreens</a>, New Lebanon, N.Y.; statue erected 1926 at Riverside Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elam Tilden and Polly Younglove (Jones) Tilden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#759.91.17">Moses Younglove Tilden</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughey-hulka.html#726.97.22">Calvin Tilden Hulburd</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#102.07.68">Stephen Daniel Tilden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#789.26.22">Daniel Rose Tilden</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#185.09.83">George Galen Tilden</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#504.88.18">Lucien Cooper Tilden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#273.65.21">Julius Galen Tilden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#654.00.80">Fred Chester Tilden</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-4188.html">Tilden family</a> of New Lebanon, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bigelow.html#562.32.71">John Bigelow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hutchison-hyche.html#275.09.69">Pulaski F. Hyatt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lambdin-lamy.html#177.98.71">Daniel S. Lamont</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/niles.html#229.47.96">William W. Niles</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Samuel J. Tilden <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened 1930), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroney-montfort.html#535.82.21">Samuel T. Montague</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#179.08.52">Samuel T. Munson</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "I still trust the people."</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/samuel-jones-tilden/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel J. Tilden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/263/000050113">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1036">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Samuel J. Tilden: Alexander C. Flick & Gustav Lobrano, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0837169127/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0837169127&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Samuel Jones Tilden</a> — William Severn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679240756/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679240756&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Samuel J. Tilden and the Stolen Election</a> — William H. Rehnquist, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375413871/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375413871&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Centennial Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02961">St. Andrew's Cemetery</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles McVean (1802-1848) — of Canajoharie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MN-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born near Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/index.html">1802</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 15th District, 1833-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MN-officials.html">Montgomery County District Attorney</a>, 1836-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1848; died in office 1848. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/12-22.html">December 22, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 years</a>). Interment at St. Andrew's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000607">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407596">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/17349198">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms10108">St. Luke's Cemetery</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Meigs (1782-1861) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/10-28.html">October 28, 1782</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1817-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 2nd District, 1819-21. 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/1861/05-20.html">May 20, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 204 days</a>). Original interment at St. Luke's Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-buried.html#cms02747">St. Peter's Churchyard</a>, Perth Amboy, N.J. <table width=100% align="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/meekins-mellen.html#282.75.32">Josiah Meigs</a> and Clara (Benjamin) Meigs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/02-19.html">February 19, 1806</a>, to Julia Austin; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#974.07.84">Henry Meigs Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#451.94.48">Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fornance-forsythe.html#715.19.72">John Forsyth Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#423.29.42">Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#581.68.65">Return Jonathan Meigs III</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/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyon.html#304.69.49">Chittenden Lyon</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#902.20.77">Benjamin Lewis Fairchild</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boardman.html#893.69.66">William Whiting Boardman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#165.89.17">Jonathan Hunt</a> and <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> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boardman.html#997.61.23">Mabel Thorp Boardman</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ede-edlin.html#293.51.72">Bela Edgerton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#525.38.95">Isaac Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thye-tiernan.html#341.80.46">Heman Ticknor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#136.15.39">Martin Olds</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#808.19.60">Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell5.html#124.41.70">John Leslie Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</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/ede-edlin.html#757.92.13">Alfred Peck Edgerton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayakawa-haydon.html#924.70.16">Charles Jenkins Hayden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ede-edlin.html#435.96.70">Joseph Ketchum Edgerton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#017.20.15">Morgan Gardner Bulkeley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell6.html#625.36.81">Leslie Wead Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#154.19.52">William Henry Bulkeley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell2.html#450.95.89">Charles Hazen Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#153.32.70">John Clarence Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/culver.html#948.68.07">Henry Stark Culver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bingham.html#140.17.44">Hiram Bingham</a>.</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/10001-1395.html">Meigs family</a> of Middletown, Connecticut (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=M000632">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407619">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Meigs">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05836">St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard</a> Tenth Street & Second Avenue Manhattan, New York County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=641176&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/747/08.36.jpg" width=70 height=118 border=0 alt="Daniel D. Tompkins"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y. Born in Scarsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/06-21.html">June 21, 1774</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1801; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1802-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1805; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1807-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1821. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. 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/1825/06-11.html">June 11, 1825</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 355 days</a>). Entombed at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#922.67.39">Jonathan Griffin Tompkins</a> and Sarah Ann (Hyatt) Tompkins; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#830.40.76">Caleb Tompkins</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/02-20.html">February 20, 1798</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#599.15.89">Hannah Minthorne</a>; father of Arietta Minthorne Tompkins (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#260.18.93">Mangle Minthorne Tompkins</a>; grandfather of Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/venables-vermillion.html#337.50.72">Theodore Chardavoyne Vermilye</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#541.43.02">Martin Keeler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#412.80.96">Stephen Hiram Keeler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benedict.html#345.50.36">Erastus DeWitt Benedict</a>.</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/10001-1386.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1961.html">Tompkins #1 family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO.html">Tompkins County, N.Y.</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">Tompkins Square <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farlin-farquhar.html#815.63.79">Daniel D. T. Farnsworth</a> </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=T000306">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410879">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/daniel-d-tompkins/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel D. Tompkins">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/268/000050118">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1039">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 Red Book 1896</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54432"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/354/50.47.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Philip Hone"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Philip Hone (1780-1851) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/10-25.html">October 25, 1780</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; president, Delaware and Hudson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Canal</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1826-27. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Kept a famous diary of New York life in the 19th century. 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/1851/05-05.html">May 5, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Esther (Bourdet) Hone and Philip Hone (1743-1798); married to Catherine Dunscombe; uncle of Elizabeth Hone (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#374.70.24">Myndert Van Schaick</a>).</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/46081.html">VanSchaick-Hone family</a> of Albany and New York City, New York.</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">borough</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WN-names.html">Honesdale, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip Hone">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/17015735">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 Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hannah Tompkins (1781-1829) — also known as Hannah Minthorne — Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/08-28.html">August 28, 1781</a>. First Lady of New York, 1807-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/second.html">Second Lady of the United States</a>, 1817-25. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Tompkinsville (now part of Staten Island), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/02-18.html">February 18, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Mangle Minthorne and Aryet (Constable) Minthorne; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/02-20.html">February 20, 1798</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#747.08.36">Daniel D. Tompkins</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#922.67.39">Jonathan Griffin Tompkins</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#830.40.76">Caleb Tompkins</a>); mother of Arietta Minthorne Tompkins (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#260.18.93">Mangle Minthorne Tompkins</a>; grandmother of Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/venables-vermillion.html#337.50.72">Theodore Chardavoyne Vermilye</a>); great-grandmother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>.</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/10001-1386.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1961.html">Tompkins #1 family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah Tompkins">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44851527">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=37755">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ogden Hoffman (1793-1856) — also known as Josiah Ogden Hoffman — of Goshen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/05-03.html">May 3, 1793</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1826, 1828 (Orange County 1826, New York County 1828); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1837-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1841-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1854-55. 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/1856/05-01.html">May 1, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 364 days</a>). Entombed at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoffman.html#543.93.60">Josiah Ogden Hoffman</a> and Mary (Colden) Hoffman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/12-27.html">December 27, 1819</a>, to Emily Burrall; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/">1838</a> to Virginia E. Southard (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#034.67.38">Samuel Lewis Southard</a>); father of Charles Fenno Hoffman and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoffman.html#406.82.95">Ogden Hoffman 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/11041.html">Southard-Hoffman family</a> of New York and New Jersey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000687">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405540">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden Hoffman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13415750">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Folsom (1802-1869) — of New York. Born in Kennebunk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/05-23.html">May 23, 1802</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1845-47; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1850-53. Died in Rome, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-died.html">Italy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/03-27.html">March 27, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Folsom and Edna (Ela) Folsom; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/11-20.html">November 20, 1839</a>, to Margaret Cornelia Winthrop (second great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#563.19.80">John Winthrop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#418.47.71">Pieter Stuyvesant</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a>); grandfather of Winifred Folsom (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dehart-deland.html#953.77.40">Edward Henry Delafield</a>).</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/10001-1216.html">Chapin-Fish family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/folsom-george ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/91368421">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> Nicholas Fish (1758-1833) — Born in Newtown, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/08-28.html">August 28, 1758</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of New York</a>, 1786; Federalist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1804, 1806; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1810 (Federalist), 1811. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/06-20.html">June 20, 1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 296 days</a>). Entombed at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Elizabeth Stuyvesant (great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a>; second great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#418.47.71">Pieter Stuyvesant</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish (1848-1902)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1216.html">Chapin-Fish family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas Fish">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/341">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54352"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/418/47.71.jpg" width=70 height=89 border=0 alt="Peter Stuyvesant"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Pieter Stuyvesant (c.1612-1672) — also known as Peter Stuyvesant; "Old Silver Leg" — of Nieuw Amsterdam, Niew Neederlandt (now part of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.); New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Peperga, Friesland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-born.html">Netherlands</a>, about 1612. Dutch Director-General (colonial governor) of New Netherland, 1647-64. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Frisian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">Lost his right leg</a> in battle in 1644. 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/1672.html">1672</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Entombed at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Judith Bayard; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#400.94.04">Nicholas Bayard (c.1644-1707)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>; second great-grandfather of Elizabeth Stuyvesant (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#018.85.94">Nicholas Fish (1758-1833)</a>) and Margaret Cornelia Winthrop (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/folsom.html#949.66.94">George Folsom</a>); second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard (1736-1802)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#311.28.60">John Bubenheim Bayard</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#367.01.69">James Asheton Bayard Sr.</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish (1848-1902)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>; fourth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#729.08.48">Richard Henry Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirkpatrick.html#499.80.34">Littleton Kirkpatrick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#459.41.40">James Asheton Bayard Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>, Winifred Folsom (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dehart-deland.html#953.77.40">Edward Henry Delafield</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>; fifth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#827.27.04">Thomas Francis Bayard Sr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirkpatrick.html#962.83.32">Andrew Kirkpatrick</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>; sixth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a>; sixth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#814.07.63">Thomas Francis Bayard Jr.</a>; seventh great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a>; seventh great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#449.01.75">Thomas Francis Bayard III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#379.41.92">Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter Stuyvesant">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/999">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 Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09405">St. Patrick's Cathedral</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Patrick Joseph Hayes (1867-1938) — Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/11-20.html">November 20, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Catholic priest</a>; archbishop of New York, 1919-38; cardinal, 1924-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1924. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> caused by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">coronary thrombosis</a>, in Monticello, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SV-died.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/09-04.html">September 4, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 288 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SV-buried.html#cms09406">St. Joseph's Camp Grotto Chapel</a>, Near Forestburgh, Sullivan County, N.Y.; re-entombed at St. Patrick's Cathedral. <table width=100% align="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 Hayes and Mary (Gleason) Hayes.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick Joseph Hayes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18388">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06081">St. Patrick's Old Cathedral</a> 233 Mott Street Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles O'Conor (1804-1884) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Nantucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NA-lived.html">Nantucket County</a>, Mass. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/01-04.html">January 4, 1804</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1853-54; senior counsel for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Davis</a> during his treason trial; as special deputy attorney general for New York State, was counsel for the prosecution in the trial of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#373.92.54">William M. Tweed</a>; Straight Out Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1872. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Nantucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NA-died.html">Nantucket County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/05-12.html">May 12, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 129 days</a>). Entombed at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. <table width=100% align="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 O'Conor.</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 O'Conor">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01053">St. Paul's Cemetery</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Campbell Patrick White (1787-1859) — also known as Campbell P. White — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/11-30.html">November 30, 1787</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1829-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1845. 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/1859/02-12.html">February 12, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000358">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411520">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05004">St. Paul's Chapel</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Houstoun (1755-1813) — of Georgia. Born in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-born.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1755/index.html">1755</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia</a>, 1784-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/03-17.html">March 17, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Chapel. <table width=100% align="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-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinch-clingman.html#125.08.33">Duncan Lamont Clinch</a>.</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=H000832">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405679">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01544">St. Paul's Churchyard</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Denning (1740-1819) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in St. John's, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NF-born.html">Newfoundland</a>, April, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/index.html">1740</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1784-87, 1797-98; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1798-1808; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1799; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 2nd District, 1809. 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/1819/10-30.html">October 30, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/06-28.html">June 28, 1765</a>, to Sarah Hawxhurst; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/">1777</a> to Amy (Hawxhurst) McIntosh; father of Hannah Maria Denning (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>.</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/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000240">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403378">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Denning">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abner Nash (1740-1786) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/JN-lived.html">Jones County</a>, N.C. Born near Farmville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-born.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/08-08.html">August 8, 1740</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/burg.html">Virginia House of Burgesses</a>, 1761-65; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1777-78, 1782, 1784-85; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> from Jones County, 1779; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1780-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina</a>, 1782-86; died in office 1786. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Died while attending a session of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/legislative.html">Continental Congress</a>, 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/1786/12-02.html">December 2, 1786</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 116 days</a>). Original interment at St. Paul's Churchyard; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-buried.html#cms08079">Pembroke Plantation Cemetery</a>, New Bern, N.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 Abner Nash (1685-1732) and Elizabeth (Hinton) Nash; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nash.html#116.87.60">Francis Nash</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/">1766</a> to Justina Davis Dobbs; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/">1774</a> to Mary Whiting Jones.</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 Abner Nash (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1964) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000007">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408101">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/abner-nash/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner Nash">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8055254">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Cork, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/04-24.html">April 24, 1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1812-13; appointed 1812. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. 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/1827/11-15.html">November 15, 1827</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 205 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms04987">New York City Marble Cemetery</a>; cenotaph at St. Paul's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of Robert Emmet (1778-1803; Irish nationalist and rebel leader); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/01-11.html">January 11, 1791</a>, to Jane Patten; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#145.73.32">Robert Emmet (1792-1873)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#285.44.79">William Colville Emmet</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#539.39.00">William Temple Emmet</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#492.99.30">Grenville Temple Emmet</a>.</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/10001-2598.html">Emmet-Slidell family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Addis Emmet">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03664">St. Stephen's Cemetery</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Henry Hobart Haws (1809-1858) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/index.html">1809</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 4th District, 1851-53. 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/1858/01-27.html">January 27, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">about 48 years</a>). Original interment at St. Stephen's Cemetery; reinterment in 1866 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000380">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405248">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3886">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06430">Straus Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isidor Straus (1845-1912) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Otterberg, Bavaria (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-06.html">February 6, 1845</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 15th District, 1894-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. One of the owners of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store in New York. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">Perished</a> in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamship</a> Titanic, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/04-15.html">April 15, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 69 days</a>); his body was subsequently recovered. Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms06866">Beth El Cemetery</a>, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.; later interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Straus Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Lazarus Straus and Sara (Straus) Straus; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#575.76.31">Oscar Solomon Straus</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/07-12.html">July 12, 1871</a>, to Ida Blum; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#358.36.62">Jesse Isidor Straus</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#770.49.32">Nathan Straus Jr.</a>; grandfather of Evelyn Straus Weil (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#973.52.17">George Backer</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schauber-schemanske.html#366.74.81">Stuart Scheftel</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#363.05.73">Ronald Peter Straus</a>.</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/10001-1623.html">Straus-Morgenthau-Lehman-Vanderbilt family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Straus Hall (built 1926), a dormitory at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-names.html">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his wife.  — Straus <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (established 1895 as Schuyler Square; renamed 1907 as Bloomingdale Square; renamed 1915 as Straus Park), at Broadway and West End Avenue in Morningside Heights, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his wife.</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=S001000">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410458">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3678">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Isidor Straus: June Hall McCash, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881462772/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0881462772&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07595">Tompkins Square Park</a> Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/53036935320/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/686/18.03.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Samuel S. Cox"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-1889) — also known as Samuel S. Cox; "Sunset Cox" — of Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ohio; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Zanesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-born.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/09-30.html">September 30, 1824</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1857-65 (12th District 1857-63, 7th District 1863-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/OH.html">1864</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/speakers.html">speaker</a>); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/NY.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/NY.html">1876</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1869-73, 1873-85, 1886-89 (6th District 1869-73, 1873-85, 9th District 1885, 1886-89); defeated, 1872; died in office 1889; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-diplomats.html ">Turkey</a>, 1885-86. 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/1889/09-10.html">September 10, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at Tompkins Square Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000839">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402956">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/cox-samuel-sullivan ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3869">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: Three Decades of Federal Legislation (1885)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02313">Trinity Cemetery</a> Amsterdam Avenue at 155th Street Manhattan, New York County, New York Founded 1842 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1653368&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Fernando Wood (1812-1881) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/06-14.html">June 14, 1812</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1841-43, 1863-65, 1867-81 (3rd District 1841-43, 5th District 1863-65, 9th District 1867-73, 10th District 1873-75, 9th District 1875-81); defeated (Mozart Hall), 1864; died in office 1881; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1855-57, 1860-61; defeated, 1850, 1857, 1861 (Mozart Hall), 1867 (Mozart Hall); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> by the House of Representatives in 1868 for using <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obscenity.html">unparliamentary language</a>. Died in Hot Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/GA-died.html">Garland County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/02-14.html">February 14, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 245 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood1.html#908.02.52">Benjamin Wood</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000694">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411846">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando Wood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4880">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=65247">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 Fernando Wood: Jerome Mushkat, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087338413X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=087338413X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fernando Wood : A Political 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> Abraham Oakey Hall (1826-1898) — also known as A. Oakey Hall; "Elegant Oakey"; "Hans Yorkel" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/07-26.html">July 26, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-officials.html">New York County District Attorney</a>, 1855-57, 1862-67; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/NY.html">1856</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1869-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1871-73 on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of covering up corruption during his mayoralty; acquitted. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/10-07.html">October 7, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 73 days</a>). Entombed at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A. Oakey Hall">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/16011638">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=64637">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1214925"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/839/61.56.jpg" width=70 height=115 border=0 alt="Cadwallader D. Colden"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Cadwallader David Colden (1769-1834) — also known as Cadwallader D. Colden — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Flushing, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/04-04.html">April 4, 1769</a>. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1817-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1818-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 2nd District, 1821-23; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1825-27; resigned 1827. Slaveowner. Died in Jersey City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-died.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/02-07.html">February 7, 1834</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 309 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms02309">Grace Church Cemetery</a>, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.; reinterment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000604">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402733">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadwallader D. Colden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/79689844">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 Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Adams Dix (1798-1879) — also known as John A. Dix — of Cooperstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y.; Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Boscawen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/07-24.html">July 24, 1798</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of New York</a>, 1833-39; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Albany County, 1842; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1845-49; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#2">New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1860-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1866-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1873-75; defeated, 1848 (Free Soil), 1874; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1876. 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/1879/04-21.html">April 21, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a></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-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#223.65.89">John Jordan Morgan</a>; son of Col. Timothy Dix, Jr. and Abigail (Wilkins) Dix; married to Catharine Waine Morgan; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#184.57.68">Roger Sherman</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/read.html#516.26.90">Nathan Read</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#660.44.61">Roger Sherman Baldwin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawyn-day.html#175.75.17">Sherman Day</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoagland-hobbie.html#694.38.00">Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evar-everel.html#905.67.06">William Maxwell Evarts</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoagland-hobbie.html#657.30.33">George Frisbie Hoar</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walbridge.html#865.62.29">John Hill Walbridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walbridge.html#870.72.95">Henry E. Walbridge</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dana.html#889.25.06">Judah Dana</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#826.88.28">Charles Kirk Tilden</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#707.40.36">Simeon Eben Baldwin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoagland-hobbie.html#529.19.33">Rockwood Hoar</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoagland-hobbie.html#149.45.68">Sherman Hoar</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evar-everel.html#720.99.92">Maxwell Evarts</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#821.98.10">Arthur Outram Sherman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#559.08.23">Abel Merrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#071.22.23">Samuel Laning</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#118.03.57">Orsamus Cook Merrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keys-kickham.html#155.30.73">Amariah Kibbe Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#399.19.94">John Lanning</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#001.75.05">Timothy Merrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dana.html#004.89.55">John Winchester Dana</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dana.html#512.42.66">Charles Smith Dana</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#266.79.92">Chauncey Mitchell Depew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#673.98.13">John Frederick Addis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#783.42.92">Henry de Forest Baldwin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoagland-hobbie.html#573.12.50">Roger Sherman Hoar</a>.</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.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">Fort Dix (established 1917 as Camp Dix; later Fort Dix; now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">U.S. Army post</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-names.html">Burlington County, New Jersey</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Dix <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mountain</a>, in the Ardirondack Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-names.html">Essex County, New York</a>, is <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 John A. Dix (built 1942-43 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-names.html">South Portland, Maine</a>; sold 1947, scrapped 1968) 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=D000365">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403482">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-adams-dix/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John A. Dix">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dix-john-adams ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/419/000115074">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5892251">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=53076">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Duer (1747-1799) — also known as "Philo-Publius" — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Devon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1747/03-18.html">March 18, 1747</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">timber and lumber merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn1.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Eastern District, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1777; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1785-86; went bankrupt as a result of the Panic of 1792, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/debt.html">debt</a>. Died, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/captivity.html">debtor's prison</a>, New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/04-18.html">April 18, 1799</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 31 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="#cms08249">Old St. Thomas Church</a>; reinterment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Duer and Frances (Frye) Duer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/">1779</a> to Catherine Alexander; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer (1782-1858)</a>; nephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer (1805-1879)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; first cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000514">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403624">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Duer (Continental congressman)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/16791329">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 Monroe (1799-1870) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Orange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/09-10.html">September 10, 1799</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1839-41; defeated, 1835 (3rd District), 1836 (3rd District), 1840 (3rd District), 1846 (6th District), 1848 (Independent Whig, 6th District); Patriot candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1842; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 10th District, 1850, 1852. Died in Orange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/09-07.html">September 7, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 362 days</a>). Entombed at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/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 Andrew Augustine Monroe and Ann (Bell) Monroe; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#747.54.98">Thomas Bell Monroe</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/04-17.html">April 17, 1822</a>, to Elizabeth Mary Douglas; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#777.02.93">James Monroe (1758-1831)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#186.42.67">Victor Monroe</a>; grandfather of Douglas Robinson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cole.html#148.74.70">Corinne Alsop Cole</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne Alsop Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#718.27.15">William Grayson</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#546.45.35">Beverly Robinson Grayson</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#957.55.71">John Brady Grayson</a>.</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/10001-1643.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1001.html">Monroe 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=M000856">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407830">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13428548">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=71414">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Augustus Darling (1817-1895) — also known as William A. Darling — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/12-27.html">December 27, 1817</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Wholesale grocer</a>; president, Third Avenue <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Railroad</a>, 1854-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 9th District, 1865-67; defeated, 1866 (9th District), 1872 (10th District); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1867; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#6">U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue at New York City, New York</a>, 1869-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>. 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/1895/05-26.html">May 26, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000055">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403194">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7718413">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=65248">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Seabury (1873-1958) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/02-22.html">February 22, 1873</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1907-14; defeated, 1905; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1914-16; defeated (Progressive), 1913; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1916; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/05-07.html">May 7, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. William Jones Seabury and Alice Van Wyck (Beare) Seabury; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/06-06.html">June 6, 1900</a>, to Josephine Maud Richey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Samuel Seabury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Playground</a> (opened 1962, renamed 1989), Lexington Avenue at 96th Street, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Seabury (judge)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6273093">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 Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877) — also known as John W. Chanler — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/09-14.html">September 14, 1826</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 10th District, 1858-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1863-69. On May 14, 1866, he offered a resolution defending President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson1.html#846.03.55">Andrew Johnson</a>'s veto of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Reconstruction</a> enactments, which he called "the wicked and revolutionary acts of a few malignant and mischievous men." On motion of Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schenck.html#276.95.03">Robert C. Schenck</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">insulting</a> the House of Representatives. Died in Barrytown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-died.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/10-19.html">October 19, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John White Chanler and Elizabeth Sheriffe (Winthrop) Chanler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-22.html">January 22, 1862</a>, to Margaret Astor Ward (first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1214.html">Chanler-Astor-Ward family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000302">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402444">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7718373">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Barrytown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y.; Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-lived.html">France</a>. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/06-11.html">June 11, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Explorer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 14th District, 1899-1901. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost a lower leg</a>. Died in Mentone (Menton), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/03-04.html">March 4, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 266 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#799.25.22">John Winthrop Chanler</a> and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/">1903</a> to Minnie 'Beatrice' Ashley; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#012.22.53">John Armstrong Jr.</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#001.12.84">James Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#099.45.57">John Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1214.html">Chanler-Astor-Ward family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000303">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402445">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7633856">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Haight (1817-1885) — of New York. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/03-26.html">March 26, 1817</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 9th District, 1861-63; defeated, 1862. Died in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-died.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/09-15.html">September 15, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000021">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404906">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7719505">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Isaac Cotheal (1804-1894) — also known as Alexander Cotheal — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/11-05.html">November 5, 1804</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">Shipping executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">linguist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NC-consuls.html">Consul-General for Nicaragua</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-consuls.html">New York, N.Y.</a>, 1871-94. <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/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>. 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/1894/02-26.html">February 26, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 113 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Cotheal and Phebe Berrian (Warner) Cotheal.</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/39477728">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> Seth C. Hawley (1810-1884) — of Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y. Born in Glens Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/02-10.html">February 10, 1810</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Erie County, 1840-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad builder</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BI-consuls.html ">Nassau</a>, 1863; chief clerk, New York City <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police</a> Department; the New York Times called him "the brains of the department.". <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, 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/1884/11-10.html">November 10, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890) — Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/06-10.html">June 10, 1822</a>. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Republican Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr1880-meeting.html">1880</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gareche-garlak.html#952.86.76">James A. Garfield</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnoldus-arzeno.html#515.43.58">Chester A. Arthur</a>). 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/1890/02-22.html">February 22, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Backhouse Astor and Margaret Alida Rebecca (Armstrong) Astor; married to Charlotte Augusta Gibbes; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#012.22.53">John Armstrong Jr.</a> and John Jacob Astor; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#001.12.84">James Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#099.45.57">John Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson (1733-1800)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#514.67.03">Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1643.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1214.html">Chanler-Astor-Ward family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Jacob Astor III">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2304">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> Herbert Livingston Satterlee (1863-1947) — also known as Herbert L. Satterlee — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/10-31.html">October 31, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; private secretary for U.S. Senator <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evar-everel.html#905.67.06">William M. Evarts</a>, 1887-89; served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; counsel for Missouri, Kansas & Texas <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1898-1902; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1906-07; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/MD.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/navy-league.html">Navy League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/07-14.html">July 14, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 256 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George LeRoy Bowen Satterlee and Sarah Bradley (Wilcox) Satterlee; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/11-15.html">November 15, 1909</a>, to Louisa Pierpont Morgan (daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan); second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#470.59.11">Pieter Van Brugh</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#713.10.70">Johannes Cuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#526.80.03">John Cruger Jr.</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#687.42.97">Henry Cruger</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>.</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.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/Herbert L. Satterlee">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/98394568">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8751760574/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/303/52.14.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="John C. Fremont"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) — also known as John C. Frémont; "The Pathfinder"; "The Champion of Freedom" — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-born.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/01-21.html">January 21, 1813</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Explorer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/milgov.html">Military Governor of California</a>, 1847; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">mutiny</a>, 1847; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">court-martialed</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">mutiny</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">disobedience</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">conduct prejudicial to order</a>; penalty remitted by Pres. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#210.42.53">James K. Polk</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1850-51; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1856; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Arizona Territory</a>, 1878-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1888. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">hotel room</a> at New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/07-13.html">July 13, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 173 days</a>). Original interment at Trinity Cemetery; reinterment in 1891 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-buried.html#cms02470">Rockland Cemetery</a>, Nyack, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor) Frémont; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/10-19.html">October 19, 1841</a>, to Jessie Benton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benton.html#298.11.03">Thomas Hart Benton</a>).</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/10001-1083.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill8.html#809.31.39">Selah Hill</a></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/CO/FR.html">Fremont County, Colo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/FR.html">Fremont County, Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/FE.html">Fremont County, Iowa</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/FR.html">Fremont County, Wyo.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fremont <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MY-names.html">Monterey County</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SO-names.html">San Benito County</a>, California, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Fremont <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/CC-names.html">Coconino County, Arizona</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-names.html">Fremont, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SA-names.html">Fremont, Ohio</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DD-names.html">Fremont, Nebraska</a>, is <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 John C. Fremont (built 1941 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; mined and wrecked in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-names.html">Manila Bay, Philippines</a>, 1945) 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/hill5.html#773.85.51">John F. Hill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/slavens-slingluff.html#695.85.38">John C. F. Slayton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cox.html#472.04.45">John Fremont Cox</a> </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 (1856): "Free Soil, Free Men, Fremont."</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=F000374">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404319">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Charles Frémont">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/885/000049738">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2615">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 John C. Fremont: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0815411642/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0815411642&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Memoirs of My Life and Times</a></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 John C. Fremont: Tom Chaffin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809075571/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809075571&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire</a> — David Roberts, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684834820/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684834820&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the American West</a> — Andrew Rolle, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080612380X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080612380X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a></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: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00598">Trinity Churchyard</a> 74 Trinity Place Manhattan, New York County, New York Founded 1697 Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1976 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=230947&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Lamb (1735-1800) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1735/01-01.html">January 1, 1735</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/eyedoctor.html">Optician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">wine merchant</a>; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1784-97. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. 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/1800/05-31.html">May 31, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anthony Lamb and Cornelia (Ham) Lamb; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1755/11-13.html">November 13, 1755</a>, to Catherine Jandine; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richards.html#168.30.82">Eugene Lamb Richards 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.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 Lamb (general)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11796158">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?53993"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/163/13.60.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="Albert Gallatin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) — also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Pa.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Geneva, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-born.html">Switzerland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1761/01-29.html">January 29, 1761</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1790; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1790-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1793-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 11th District, 1795-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1815-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1826-27. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> ancestry. Died in Astoria, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-died.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/08-12.html">August 12, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 195 days</a>). Entombed at Trinity Churchyard; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07599">Treasury Building Grounds</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 Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/">1789</a> to Sophie Allègre; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/11-11.html">November 11, 1793</a>, to Hannah Nicholson; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davie-davila.html#408.61.93">May Preston Davie</a>; cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nicholson.html#408.64.04">Joseph Hopper Nicholson</a>.</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.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/dawson.html#951.19.18">John L. Dawson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Gallatin counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/GA.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GL.html">Ky.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/GA.html">Mont.</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/TN/SM-names.html">Gallatin, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SL-names.html">Galatia, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Gallatin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">River</a>, which flows through <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/GA-names.html">Gallatin County, Montana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Albert Gallatin (built 1941 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California</a>; torpedoed and sunk 1944 in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-names.html">Arabian Sea</a>) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#872.92.14">Albert Galliton Harrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jewett.html#154.59.90">Albert G. Jewett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert G. Hawes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wait-walberg.html#944.25.08">Albert G. Wakefield</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert G. Pendleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talbott.html#626.26.93">Albert Gallatin Talbott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dow.html#464.32.77">Albert G. Dow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#899.40.25">Albert G. Dole</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#922.22.69">Albert Gallatin Kellogg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#721.92.24">Albert Gallatin Marchand</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#394.42.94">Albert G. Brown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#499.26.17">Albert G. Brodhead, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allison.html#211.03.04">Albert G. Allison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richner-rider.html#721.52.46">Albert G. Riddle</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watkins-watrous.html#654.35.38">Albert Galiton Watkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#647.14.33">Albert Gallatin Rhea</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#129.34.80">Albert G. Porter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/egbert.html#696.43.32">Albert Gallatin Egbert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jenkins.html#405.90.04">Albert Gallatin Jenkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/callan-came.html#735.19.84">Albert Gallatin Calvert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawrence.html#687.36.22">Albert G. Lawrence</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#924.47.00">Albert G. Foster</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simms-simonetti.html#364.91.15">Albert G. Simms</a> </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. $500 note in 1862-63.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000020">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404397">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert Gallatin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/gallatin-abraham-albert-alphonse ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/996/000049849">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/375">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Albert Gallatin: John Austin Stevens, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898751616/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0898751616&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Albert Gallatin: An American Statesman</a> — L. B. Kuppenheimer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0275953882/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0275953882&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability</a> — Nicholas Dungan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814721117/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814721117&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father</a> — Raymond Walters, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822952106/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822952106&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Paul Richard (1697-1756) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1697.html">1697</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">Mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1735-39. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/index.html">1756</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul Richard">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=145095&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2029408"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/111/82.60.jpg" width=70 height=92 border=0 alt="Alexander Hamilton"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) — also known as "Alexander the Coppersmith" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Charles Town, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SC-born.html">Nevis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/01-11.html">January 11, 1757</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1782-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1786-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from New York County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1789-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</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>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1915. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">mortally wounded</a> in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/duels.html">duel</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day 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/1804/07-12.html">July 12, 1804</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 183 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07599">Treasury Building Grounds</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html#cms10089">Commonwealth Avenue Mall</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 James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/12-14.html">December 14, 1780</a>, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#967.93.14">Alexander Hamilton Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#975.50.00">William Stephen Hamilton</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#199.91.30">Laurens M. Hamilton</a>; ancestor *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#062.75.68">Robert Hamilton Woodruff</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trippe-trumbo.html#650.91.52">Robert Troup</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tatem-tayloe.html#075.92.34">John Tayler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#141.38.10">William P. Van Ness</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Hamilton counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/HM.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/HM.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HA.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/HM.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/HM.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HA.html">N.Y.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA.html">Ohio</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HA.html">Tenn.</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/OH/BU-names.html">Hamilton, Ohio</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buell.html#181.87.54">Alexander H. Buell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hollander-holley.html#672.68.17">Alexander H. Holley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stephens.html#807.77.49">Alexander H. Stephens</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#830.46.73">Alexander H. Bullock</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailey1.html#579.20.76">Alexander H. Bailey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rice.html#133.33.19">Alexander H. Rice</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallach-walser.html#549.54.58">Alexander H. Wallis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones1.html#328.04.59">Alexander Hamilton Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/waterman.html#957.86.08">Alexander H. Waterman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffinburg-cohelan.html#952.18.35">Alexander H. Coffroth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudley.html#366.75.69">Alexander H. Dudley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/resa-reynold.html#173.59.64">Alexander H. Revell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hare-harju.html#787.84.52">Alexander Hamilton Hargis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#923.86.84">Alexander Hamilton Phillips</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#225.15.57">Alex Woodle</a> </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. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $2 to $1,000.</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">Personal motto: "Do it better yet."</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=H000101">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404983">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander Hamilton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/183/000022117">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/437">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://history.nycourts.gov/figure/alexander-hamilton/">Historical Society of the New York Courts</a></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 Alexander Hamilton: Richard Brookhiser, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684863316/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684863316&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alexander Hamilton, American</a> — Forrest McDonald, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039330048X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039330048X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alexander Hamilton: A Biography</a> — Gertrude Atherton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0781269466/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0781269466&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Conqueror : Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton</a> — Ron Chernow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594200092/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1594200092&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alexander Hamilton</a> — Thomas Fleming, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465017371/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465017371&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America</a> — Arnold A. Rogow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809016214/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809016214&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr</a> — Willard Sterne Randall, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060195495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060195495&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alexander Hamilton: A Life</a> — John Harper, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521834856/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521834856&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy</a> — Stephen F. Knott, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700611576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700611576&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth</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> — Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0840764464/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0840764464&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Alexander Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307382842/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307382842&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Hamilton's Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution -- and What It means for Americans Today</a></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: U.S. postage stamp (1957)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Swartwout (1783-1856) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Poughkeepsie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/11-17.html">November 17, 1783</a>. He was participant in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>'s "Western Conspiracy"; delivered a message from Burr to Gen. James Wilkinson in New Orleans; subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in November 1806 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">misprision of treason</a>, but released a few months later; early promoter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; openly supported the Texas Republic in its war for independence from Mexico; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1829-38; in 1838, it was alleged that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzled</a> more than $1.2 million from the New York customs house, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a> to England; later investigation implicated a subordinate of his as having obtained most of that money; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">forfeited</a> his property and returned to the U.S. in 1841. 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/1856/11-21.html">November 21, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 4 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Abraham Swartwout and Maria (North) Swartwout; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/">1814</a> to Alice Ann Cooper.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Swartwout">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11898421">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Lewis (1713-1803) — of New York. Born in Llandaff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/WL-born.html">Wales</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1713/03-21.html">March 21, 1713</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1775; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/12-30.html">December 30, 1803</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 284 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms10903">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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#035.70.56">Morgan Lewis</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000282">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406780">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis Lewis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/976/000051823">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> John Jordan Morgan (1770-1849) — also known as John J. Morgan — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/index.html">1770</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1818-19, 1836, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1821-25, 1834-35 (2nd District 1821-23, 3rd District 1823-25, 1834-35); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1841. Died in Port Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/07-29.html">July 29, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#242.75.21">John Adams Dix</a>.</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.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=M000953">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407921">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John J. Morgan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=226361">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hugh Williamson (1735-1819) — of Edenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CW-lived.html">Chowan County</a>, N.C. Born in West Nottingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-born.html">Chester County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1735/12-05.html">December 5, 1735</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Preacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1782; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina</a>, 1782; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> at-large, 1789-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. 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/1819/05-22.html">May 22, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 168 days</a>). Entombed at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Williamson, Sr. and Mary (Davison) Williamson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/">1789</a> to Maria Apthorpe; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pomeroy.html#957.57.30">Joseph Pomeroy</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pomeroy.html#817.48.00">John Means Pomeroy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pomeroy.html#822.21.85">William Culbertson Pomeroy</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pomeroy.html#328.03.13">Albert Nevin Pomeroy</a>.</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/17998.html">Pomeroy family</a> of Pennsylvania.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WI.html">Williamson County, Tenn.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Hugh Williamson (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; ran aground and wrecked in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-names.html">Pernambuco, Brazil</a>, 1946; later scrapped) 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=W000551">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411707">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/139/11.24.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Luther Martin"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Luther Martin (1748-1826) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, Md. Born in New Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1748/02-20.html">February 20, 1748</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/attygn.html">Maryland state attorney general</a>, 1778-1805, 1818-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland</a>, 1784; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; defense attorney for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#351.26.27">Samuel Chase</a> in his 1805 impeachment trial, and for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a> in his 1807 treason trial. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</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/1826/07-10.html">July 10, 1826</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 140 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Martin and Hannah Martin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/12-25.html">December 25, 1783</a>, to Maria Cresap (first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#841.38.35">Joseph Cresap</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#781.97.76">James Cresap</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#077.73.23">Thomas Cresap</a>).</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/11825.html">Cresap family</a> of Maryland.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000194">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther Martin">Wikipedia article</a></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"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Morin Scott (1730-1784) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/index.html">1730</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1777; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1777-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of New York</a>, 1778-84; died in office 1784; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1780-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. 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/1784/09-14.html">September 14, 1784</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Scott and Marian (Morin) Scott; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott6.html#945.60.66">Lewis Allaire Scott</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000179">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409685">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7633951">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 Alsop (1724-1794) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New Windsor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1724/index.html">1724</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1774-76. Died in Newtown, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-died.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/11-22.html">November 22, 1794</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Alsop, Sr. and Abigail (Sackett) Alsop; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/06-06.html">June 6, 1766</a>, to Mary Frogat; father of Mary Alsop (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#776.37.65">Rufus King (1755-1827)</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#735.94.39">John Alsop King</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king5.html#639.10.19">James Gore King</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king3.html#075.68.15">Edward King</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#455.80.42">Rufus King (1814-1876)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king7.html#506.81.76">Rufus King (1817-1891)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#970.87.08">Ebenezer Hazard</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#405.45.96">Erskine Hazard</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#928.28.53">John Forbes Kerry</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#972.80.44">Benjamin Hard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#582.50.39">Reuben Bostwick Heacock</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#472.46.19">Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#922.40.73">Gideon Hard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#667.79.10">Graham Hurd Chapin</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booth.html#996.77.61">Walter Booth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#744.42.48">Truman Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nemanich-neveu.html#901.80.17">Austin George Nettleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#169.76.66">Charles M. Hotchkiss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#485.50.85">George Winthrop Fairchild</a>.</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/10001-1594.html">King family</a> of Jamaica and New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000164">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400819">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Alsop">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7633943">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=176203">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Livingston (1740-1797) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/11-27.html">November 27, 1740</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-officials.html">Albany County Judge</a>, 1774-75; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Albany County, 1777-79, 1784-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1777-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New York</a>, 1784-85. 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/1797/05-14.html">May 14, 1797</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 168 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a> and Maria (Thong) Livingston; brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#551.47.26">James Duane</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/03-13.html">March 13, 1767</a>, to Cornelia Schuyler; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#470.59.11">Pieter Van Brugh</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#713.10.70">Johannes Cuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#037.30.75">Herbert Livingston Satterlee</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; first cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#345.74.40">William Duer (1747-1799)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, Catherine Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>), Susannah Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#718.93.55">John Cleves Symmes</a>), Susanna Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#407.71.23">John Kean (1756-1795)</a>), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#526.80.03">John Cruger Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean (1852-1914)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean Jr.</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#687.42.97">Henry Cruger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#052.47.67">Montgomery Schuyler Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#240.15.79">Karl Cortlandt Schuyler</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000373">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406865">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 Sloss Hobart (1738-1805) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1738/05-06.html">May 6, 1738</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1777-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from New York County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1798; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New York</a>, 1798. 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/1805/02-04.html">February 4, 1805</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000661">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405516">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 Jackson Oakley (1783-1857) — also known as Thomas J. Oakley — of Poughkeepsie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born near Poughkeepsie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/11-10.html">November 10, 1783</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-officials.html">Dutchess County Surrogate</a>, 1810-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1813-15, 1827-28 (4th District 1813-15, 5th District 1827-28); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Dutchess County, 1815-16, 1817-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1819-21; appointed 1819; New York City superior court judge, 1828-57; died in office 1857. 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/1857/05-11.html">May 11, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 182 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000003">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408315">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7633888">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://history.nycourts.gov/figure/thomas-oakley/">Historical Society of the New York Courts</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Anthony James Bleecker (1799-1884) — also known as Anthony J. Bleecker — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/10-20.html">October 20, 1799</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/auctioneer.html">Auctioneer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/NY.html">1856</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/speakers.html">speaker</a>); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1856. 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/1884/01-17.html">January 17, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 89 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/">1824</a> to Cornelia Van Benthuysen.</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/11904095">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=71576">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Harison (1747-1829) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1747/index.html">1747</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1787-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from New York County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for New York</a>, 1789-1801. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/index.html">1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 years</a>). Entombed at Trinity Churchyard. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John R. Fellows (1832-1896) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RE-born.html">Rensselaer County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/07-29.html">July 29, 1832</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to Arkansas secession convention</a>, 1861; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/stsen.html">Arkansas state senate</a>, 1866-67; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NY.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/NY.html">1888</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/NY.html">1892</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NY.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1891-93 (6th District 1891-93, 14th District 1893); Gold Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr1896-election.html">1896</a>. 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/1896/12-07.html">December 7, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 131 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000067">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404025">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13428475">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 Alexander (1691-1756) — Born in Muthill, Perthshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-05-27.html">May 27</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1691.html">1691</a>. In Scotland, he joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">revolt</a> that attempted to install James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender") as king; to avoid <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prosecution</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">treason</a>, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a> to New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/surveyor.html">surveyor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member New York governor's council, 1721-32, 1737; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/colag.html">Colonial Attorney-General of New York</a>, 1721-23. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/04-02.html">April 2, 1756</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 311 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Maria (Spratt) Provost (step-daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/procum-pryde.html#673.04.01">David Provost</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens5.html#622.01.04">John Stevens III</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; sixth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">township</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-names.html">Alexandria, New Jersey</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/James Alexander (lawyer)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11998071">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 Ward (1767-1816) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/02-14.html">February 14, 1767</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1791-97; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1798-1809; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1801-02. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/09-19.html">September 19, 1816</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 218 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Ward (South Carolina)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12453388">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> Silas Talbot (1751-1813) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MN-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, N.Y. Born in Dighton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1751/01-11.html">January 11, 1751</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Montgomery County, 1791-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 10th District, 1793-95. 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/1813/06-30.html">June 30, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000019">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410609">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 Watts (1749-1836) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/index.html">1749</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1788-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1793-95. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/index.html">1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</a>). Entombed at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000211">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411380">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> Aaron Hackley Jr. (1783-1868) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HE-lived.html">Herkimer County</a>, N.Y. Born in Wallingford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/05-06.html">May 6, 1783</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Herkimer County, 1813-15, 1817-18, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1819-21; county judge in New York, 1823-24. 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/1868/12-28.html">December 28, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000006">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404891">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13428496">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Hogan (1792-1874) — of Hogansburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/07-17.html">July 17, 1792</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Franklin County, 1823; state court judge in New York, 1829; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 19th District, 1831-33. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/11-25.html">November 25, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 131 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000694">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405547">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13428458">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 Duer (1782-1858) — of New York. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/10-07.html">October 7, 1782</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1828-29. 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/1858/08-08.html">August 8, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#345.74.40">William Duer (1747-1799)</a> and Catherine (Alexander) Duer; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer (1805-1879)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexander.html#224.99.12">James Alexander</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#470.59.11">Pieter Van Brugh</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#032.54.77">Abraham de Peyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#713.10.70">Johannes Cuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#849.76.43">Johannes de Peyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens5.html#622.01.04">John Stevens III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#630.79.23">Johannes DePeyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#526.80.03">John Cruger Jr.</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#687.42.97">Henry Cruger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russen-ruther.html#016.40.36">Henry Rutgers</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#037.30.75">Herbert Livingston Satterlee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#052.47.67">Montgomery Schuyler Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Duer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12098240">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lewis Allaire Scott (1759-1798) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/02-11.html">February 11, 1759</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of New York</a>, 1784-93. 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/1798/03-17.html">March 17, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott5.html#671.19.67">John Morin Scott</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/78649683">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Horatio Gates (1726-1806) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1726/index.html">1726</a>. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1800-01. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GT.html">Gates County, N.C.</a> is named for him.</td></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 Church Cruger (1807-1879) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/index.html">1807</a>. Whig. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1852. 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/1879/11-17.html">November 17, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Entombed at Trinity Churchyard. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) — also known as Charles L. Livingston — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/index.html">1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1829-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1834-37. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/index.html">1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a> and Cornelia (Van Horne) Livingston; married to Margaret Allen; nephew of Catherine Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>) and Susanna Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#407.71.23">John Kean (1756-1795)</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexander.html#224.99.12">James Alexander</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#470.59.11">Pieter Van Brugh</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#032.54.77">Abraham de Peyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#713.10.70">Johannes Cuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#849.76.43">Johannes de Peyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens5.html#622.01.04">John Stevens III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean (1852-1914)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#630.79.23">Johannes DePeyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#526.80.03">John Cruger Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean Jr.</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#687.42.97">Henry Cruger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russen-ruther.html#016.40.36">Henry Rutgers</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#037.30.75">Herbert Livingston Satterlee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#052.47.67">Montgomery Schuyler Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/96533524">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Holland (1702-1756) — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1702/index.html">1702</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/albany.html">Mayor of Albany, N.Y.</a>, 1733-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1747-56; died in office 1756. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Anglican</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. 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/1756/11-10.html">November 10, 1756</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Original interment at Trinity Churchyard; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Holland and Jenny (Seeley) Holland; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1726/06-24.html">June 24, 1726</a>, to Magdalena Bayeux; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/">1739</a> to Frances Nicoll.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward Holland (mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61503622">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 Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823) — also known as Brockholst Livingston — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/11-25.html">November 25, 1757</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1788-89, 1800-02; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1806-23. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/03-18.html">March 18, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 113 days</a>). Original interment at Trinity Churchyard; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Susannah (French) Livingston and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>; brother of Susannah Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#718.93.55">John Cleves Symmes</a>) and Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/">1774</a> to Ann Ludlow; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockenbrough-brockmeyer.html#968.03.71">Anthony Brockholls</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#470.59.11">Pieter Van Brugh</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/french-frensdorf.html#384.86.00">Phillip French</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#713.10.70">Johannes Cuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a>; first cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#551.47.26">James Duane</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#345.74.40">William Duer (1747-1799)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, Catherine Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>), Susanna Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#407.71.23">John Kean (1756-1795)</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#514.67.03">Matthew Clarkson</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#526.80.03">John Cruger Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean (1852-1914)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#037.30.75">Herbert Livingston Satterlee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean Jr.</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#498.42.59">James Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#687.42.97">Henry Cruger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#882.43.77">Frederick Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#052.47.67">Montgomery Schuyler Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#240.15.79">Karl Cortlandt Schuyler</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/958/000180418">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> William Livingston (1723-1790) — of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>), N.J. Born in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1723/11-30.html">November 30, 1723</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/colasb.html">New York colonial assembly</a>, 1759-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1774-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1776-90; died in office 1790; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1776-90; died in office 1790; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-died.html">Union County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/07-25.html">July 25, 1790</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 237 days</a>). Originally entombed at Trinity Churchyard; re-entombed in 1846 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catherine (Van Brugh) Livingston; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston (1716-1778)</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/">1745</a> to Susannah French (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/french-frensdorf.html#384.86.00">Phillip French</a>); father of Susannah Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#718.93.55">John Cleves Symmes</a>), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; uncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#551.47.26">James Duane</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#345.74.40">William Duer (1747-1799)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, Catherine Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>) and Susanna Livingston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#407.71.23">John Kean (1756-1795)</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#470.59.11">Pieter Van Brugh</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#713.10.70">Johannes Cuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#767.34.55">John Jay II</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#635.63.07">William Duer (1805-1879)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#112.09.04">Denning Duer</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870)</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#973.60.22">Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#438.67.46">Nicholas Fish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#367.32.64">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#319.31.40">John Kean (1852-1914)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#724.71.29">Hamilton Fish Kean</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#666.25.08">Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#359.18.06">Brockholst Livingston</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#037.30.75">Herbert Livingston Satterlee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#446.68.36">Robert Winthrop Kean</a>; fourth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#177.95.46">Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#994.36.12">Thomas Howard Kean</a>; fifth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#910.15.98">Hamilton Fish (born 1951)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward1.html#557.36.23">Alexa Fish Ward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#903.35.73">Thomas Howard Kean Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#526.80.03">John Cruger Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#694.24.43">Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#607.06.15">Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#052.47.67">Montgomery Schuyler Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#687.42.97">Henry Cruger</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#084.28.63">George Washington Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#399.45.73">Philip N. Schuyler</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#239.05.05">Eugene Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#739.36.35">Robert Ray Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#240.15.79">Karl Cortlandt Schuyler</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#658.98.75">Marietta Peabody Tree</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#913.34.82">Endicott Peabody</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1308.html">Livingston-Duer family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000374">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406866">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-livingston/">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> Theodorick Bland (1742-1790) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PG-lived.html">Prince George County</a>, Va. Born in Cawsons, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PG-born.html">Prince George County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/03-21.html">March 21, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</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>, 1780-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Prince George County, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> at-large, 1789-90; died in office 1790. 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/1790/06-01.html">June 1, 1790</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 72 days</a>). Original interment at Trinity Churchyard; reinterment in 1828 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Theodorick Bland (1708-1803) and Frances Elizabeth (Bolling) Bland; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1768/">1768</a> to Martha Dangerfield; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#175.56.31">Richard Bland</a>; uncle of <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>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#533.48.40">Richard Randolph</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#082.77.22">Nathaniel Beverly Tucker</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#015.73.11">Peyton Randolph (1721-1775)</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> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>; first cousin thrice removed 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>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#278.25.27">William Welby Beverley</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marvin.html#935.95.34">Lee Marvin</a>; second cousin 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> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#195.59.87">Beverley Randolph</a>; second cousin once removed 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/engmark-erick.html#745.54.86">John Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#768.81.84">Theodorick Bland (1776-1846)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#232.91.35">Peyton Randolph (1779-1828)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marshall.html#834.77.16">Thomas Marshall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robertson.html#313.14.44">John Robertson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</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/randolph.html#127.95.09">Edmund Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#535.97.29">John Breckinridge Castleman</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</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>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#775.45.59">Douglass Townshend Bolling</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#227.14.12">Joel Walker Flood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis8.html#152.31.41">Thomas Lawton Davis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#618.52.82">Connally Findlay Trigg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</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>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#689.77.06">Francis Beverley Biddle</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#190.99.55">Richard Walker Bolling</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#999.74.54">Henry De La Warr Flood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#123.05.64">Joel West Flood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; third cousin of <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> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/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>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#368.69.43">George Rockingham Gilmer</a> and <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/robertson.html#330.62.42">William Henry Robertson</a>.</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1059.html">Lee-Mason 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=B000546">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401521">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodorick Bland (congressman)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09074">Church of the Ascension</a> Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.playbill.com/news/article/44097-Auntie-Mame-Tony-Winner-Peggy-Cass-Dies-at-74"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/429/89.91.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Peggy Cass"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peggy Cass (1924-1999) — also known as Margaret Mary Cass — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-21.html">May 21, 1924</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Actor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">comedian</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/03-08.html">March 8, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 291 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Church of the Ascension. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Raymond James Cass and Margaret Gertrude (McLaughlin) Cass; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1979/">1979</a> to Eugene Michael Feeney.</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/Peggy Cass">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/523/000110193">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143918">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13212212">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: Playbill, March 10, 1999</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. 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