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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Mercer County, N.J.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born about 1713. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-officials.html">Hunterdon County Judge</a>, 1768-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Hunterdon County, 1776-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New Jersey State House of Assembly</a>, 1776-78. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney failure</a>, in Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/05-11.html">May 11, 1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1865 at <a href="#cms03844">First Baptist Church Cemetery</a>, Hopewell, N.J.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Hart and Martha (Furman) Hart; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/">1741</a> to Deborah Scudder; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brentano-brewington.html#017.25.15">John Hart Brewer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eachus-earlston.html#900.41.42">Lummie J. Earle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#110.79.21">Absalom Price Lanning</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#024.59.11">William Mershon Lanning</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#176.74.70">Homer Nichols Lockwood</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#522.22.57">Frederick B. Piatt</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a>.</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Hart (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000288">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412156">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Hart (New Jersey politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2731">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06718">Ewing Cemetery</a> 78 Scotch Road Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1975256&">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> Edward Lawrence Katzenbach (1878-1934) — also known as Edward L. Katzenbach — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-21.html">October 21, 1878</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; counsel for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banks</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">paper</a> companies; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/attygn.html">New Jersey state attorney general</a>, 1924-29. <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/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/12-18.html">December 18, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 58 days</a>). Interment at Ewing 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 Frank Snowden Katzenbach and Augusta Susan (Mushbach) Katzenbach; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#426.26.22">Frank Snowden Katzenbach Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/11-07.html">November 7, 1911</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#117.65.27">Marie Louise Hunt Hilson</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#153.36.80">Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#722.96.18">Frank Snowden Katzenbach III</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#846.11.09">John Imlay</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#714.83.12">James Henderson Imlay</a>.</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/17177.html">Katzenbach family</a> of 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward L. Katzenbach">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10634697">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> Marie Hilson Katzenbach (1882-1970) — also known as Marie H. Katzenbach; Marie Louise Hunt Hilson — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/12-08.html">December 8, 1882</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/librarian.html">Librarian</a>; member, New Jersey State Board of Education, 1921-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cncn9.html">delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention</a> from Mercer County, 1947. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/colonial-dames.html">Colonial Dames</a>. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/02-04.html">February 4, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 58 days</a>). Interment at Ewing 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: Daughter of Cleveland Hilson and Matilda Emily (Hunt) Hilson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/11-07.html">November 7, 1911</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#959.20.98">Edward Lawrence Katzenbach</a>; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#153.36.80">Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach</a>; second great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fulwood-fyke.html#653.28.76">Moore Furman</a>.</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/17177.html">Katzenbach family</a> of 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">The Marie Katzenbach <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School for the Deaf</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-names.html">Trenton, New Jersey</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</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/Marie Hilson Katzenbach">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10637874">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Howard Woodson Jr. (1916-1999) — also known as S. Howard Woodson, Jr. — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/05-08.html">May 8, 1916</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NJ.html">1964</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a>, 1964-76 (Mercer County 1964-67, District 6-B 1968-73, 13th District 1974-76); resigned 1976. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/07-28.html">July 28, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 81 days</a>). Interment at Ewing 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">Epitaph: "He devoted his life to preaching, teaching and living the Word of God."</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/98040226">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=170116">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Ewing Church Cemetery</a> 100 Scotch Road Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1648997&">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> William Mershon Lanning (1849-1912) — also known as William M. Lanning — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Ewingville (now part of Ewing), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/01-01.html">January 1, 1849</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; district judge in New Jersey, 1887-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention</a>, 1894; president, Mechanics' National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Trenton, 1899; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1903-04; resigned 1904; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New Jersey</a>, 1904-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit</a>, 1909-12; died in office 1912. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/02-16.html">February 16, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 46 days</a>). Interment at Ewing 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">Relatives: Son of Elijah Webster Lanning and Cornelia Ann (Mershon) Lanning; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/08-03.html">August 3, 1881</a>, to Jennie Hemenway; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hart.html#021.99.94">John Hart</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#110.79.21">Absalom Price Lanning</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#071.22.23">Samuel Laning</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#399.19.94">John Lanning</a>.</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0374.html">Coberly-Hovermale family</a> of West Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0071.html">Hendricks family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000084">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406593">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1342&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7683499">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> Alfred Reed (1839-1918) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/12-23.html">December 23, 1839</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1867-68; common pleas court judge in New Jersey, 1869; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1875-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/vchan.html">vice-chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1895-1904. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-06.html">December 6, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at Ewing 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">Relatives: Son of George B. Reed and Mary (Hepburn) Reed; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/08-01.html">August 1, 1878</a>, to Rosalba Ellmaker Souder.</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/15401274">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> Frank Snowden Katzenbach Jr. (1868-1929) — also known as Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr. — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/11-05.html">November 5, 1868</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1902-06; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1907; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1920-29; died in office 1929. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">sepsis</a> resulting from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">leg infection</a>, in Mercer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/03-13.html">March 13, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at Ewing 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">Relatives: Son of Frank Snowden Katzenbach and Augusta Susan (Mushbach) Katzenbach; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#959.20.98">Edward Lawrence Katzenbach</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/11-10.html">November 10, 1904</a>, to Natalie (McNeal) Grunn; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#722.96.18">Frank Snowden Katzenbach III</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#153.36.80">Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#846.11.09">John Imlay</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#714.83.12">James Henderson Imlay</a>.</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/17177.html">Katzenbach family</a> of 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank S. Katzenbach">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44847117">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> Frank Snowden Katzenbach III (1907-1964) — also known as Frank S. Katzenbach III — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Florence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-born.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/06-07.html">June 7, 1907</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NJ.html">1940</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/index.html">1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at Ewing 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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#426.26.22">Frank Snowden Katzenbach Jr.</a> and Natalie (McNeal) Katzenbach; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#959.20.98">Edward Lawrence Katzenbach</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#846.11.09">John Imlay</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#153.36.80">Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#714.83.12">James Henderson Imlay</a>.</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/17177.html">Katzenbach family</a> of 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://findagrave.com/memorial/44846242">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04307">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Hamilton Square, Mercer County, New Jersey <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 Skelton (1806-1879) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 2nd District, 1851-55. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/index.html">1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000464">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409955">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01948">Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> Hamilton Square, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> George Robbins Robbins (1808-1875) — of New Jersey. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/index.html">1808</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 2nd District, 1855-59. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/index.html">1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Interment at Presbyterian 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=R000300">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409272">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03844">First Baptist Church Cemetery</a> Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey Founded 1715 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=641079&">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 Hart (c.1713-1779) — also known as "Honest John" — of Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J. Born about 1713. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-officials.html">Hunterdon County Judge</a>, 1768-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Hunterdon County, 1776-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New Jersey State House of Assembly</a>, 1776-78. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney failure</a>, in Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/05-11.html">May 11, 1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms06541">a private or family graveyard</a>, Mercer County, N.J.; reinterment in 1865 at First Baptist Church Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Hart and Martha (Furman) Hart; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/">1741</a> to Deborah Scudder; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brentano-brewington.html#017.25.15">John Hart Brewer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eachus-earlston.html#900.41.42">Lummie J. Earle</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#110.79.21">Absalom Price Lanning</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#024.59.11">William Mershon Lanning</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#176.74.70">Homer Nichols Lockwood</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#522.22.57">Frederick B. Piatt</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a>.</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Hart (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000288">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412156">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Hart (New Jersey politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2731">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> Jonathan Hunt Blackwell (1841-1919) — also known as Jonathan H. Blackwell — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Hopewell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/12-20.html">December 20, 1841</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Mercer County, 1875-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trea.html">New Jersey state treasurer</a>, 1885; appointed 1885. <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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/index.html">1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">about 77 years</a>). Interment at First Baptist 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">Relatives: Son of Stephen Blackwell and Francenia (Hunt) Blackwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/10-05.html">October 5, 1865</a>, to Susan Weart.</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/74854330">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05090">Lawrenceville Cemetery</a> Lawrenceville, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Joseph Lamb Bodine (1883-1950) — also known as Joseph L. Bodine — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-06.html">November 6, 1883</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for New Jersey</a>, 1919-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New Jersey</a>, 1920-29; resigned 1929; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1929-48; superior court judge in New Jersey, 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-10.html">June 10, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 216 days</a>). Interment at Lawrenceville 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 Joseph L. Bodine and Frances P. (Davis) Bodine; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-24.html">December 24, 1918</a>, to Gertrude Scudder.</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> Absalom Price Lanning (1809-1886) — also known as Absalom P. Lanning — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Lawrenceville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/09-18.html">September 18, 1809</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1868-69. Died in Lawrenceville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/09-26.html">September 26, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 8 days</a>). Interment at Lawrenceville 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 Edward Lanning and Nancy Ann (Bryant) Lanning; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/12-27.html">December 27, 1836</a>, to Henrietta Drake; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hart.html#021.99.94">John Hart</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#071.22.23">Samuel Laning</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#399.19.94">John Lanning</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#024.59.11">William Mershon Lanning</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eachus-earlston.html#900.41.42">Lummie J. Earle</a>.</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0374.html">Coberly-Hovermale family</a> of West Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0071.html">Hendricks family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/53877701">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05260">Unknown Location</a> Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01396">Princeton Cemetery</a> Witherspoon Street Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey Founded 1760 <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/531/34.01.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Grover Cleveland"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) — also known as Stephen Grover Cleveland; "Uncle Jumbo"; "The Veto Mayor"; "Grover The Good"; "The Sage of Princeton"; "Dumb Prophet"; "Buffalo Hangman"; "The Veto President"; "Beast of Buffalo"; "Big Steve" — of Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J.; Tamworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA-lived.html">Carroll County</a>, N.H. Born in Caldwell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/03-18.html">March 18, 1837</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-officials.html">Erie County Sheriff</a>, 1870-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/buffalo.html">mayor of Buffalo, N.Y.</a>, 1882; resigned 1882; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1883-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1885-89, 1893-97; defeated, 1888. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-chi.html">Sigma Chi</a>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1935. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/06-24.html">June 24, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at Princeton Cemetery; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-buried.html# ">City Hall Grounds</a>, Buffalo, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland and Anne (Neal) Cleveland; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-02.html">June 2, 1886</a>, to Frances Folsom and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#436.13.43">Frances Clara Folsom</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#024.00.71">Richard Folsom Cleveland</a> (son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#717.60.85">Thomas Frank Gailor</a>; brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#726.86.51">Frank Hoyt Gailor</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#256.23.03">Francis Landon Cleveland</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#770.37.91">James Harlan Cleveland</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#547.41.02">James Harlan Cleveland Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#322.93.90">Jonathan Usher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#123.19.22">Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#045.74.35">John Palmer Usher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#735.11.63">Robert Cleveland Usher</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#380.89.20">Ephraim Safford</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#639.15.77">Isaiah Kidder</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lord.html#827.56.76">Samuel Lord</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#028.37.68">Rollin Usher Tyler</a>.</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and 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/ellet-ellington.html#034.35.28">Henry T. Ellett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bismarck-bjorseth.html#208.88.56">Wilson S. Bissell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#822.76.01">David King Udall</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#350.33.14">Edward S. Bragg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grady.html#314.40.50">Thomas F. Grady</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bass.html#651.84.71">Lyman K. Bass</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#715.37.07">George B. Cortelyou</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogarth-hogenauer.html#732.70.04">J. Hampton Hoge</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cleveland counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CV.html">Ark.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CV.html">Okla.</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Cleveland, a volcano on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/AW-names.html">Chuginadak Island, Alaska</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/NC/CL-names.html">Grover, North Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Cleveland <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">National Forest</a> (established 1908), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-names.html">Riverside</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-names.html">Orange</a> counties, California, 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/cook4.html#648.73.90">Grover C. Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meyering-michalski.html#012.02.16">Grover C. Meyrs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talbot.html#087.33.01">Grover C. Talbot</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#776.85.03">Grover C. Helm</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robertson.html#425.11.58">Grover C. Robertson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cooley.html#103.23.95">G. C. Cooley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whalen.html#469.29.16">Grover A. Whalen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor4.html#307.51.54">Grover C. Taylor</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winn.html#948.23.71">Grover C. Winn</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#639.66.26">Grover C. Luke</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/albright.html#440.30.16">Grover C. Albright</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wellstone-wenstrom.html#535.66.27">Grover Cleveland Welsh</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#187.97.27">Grover C. Belknap</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#546.68.11">Grover C. Worrell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill4.html#311.13.36">Grover B. Hill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilas-dills.html#513.95.85">Grover C. Dillman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brenneman-brenner.html#634.76.46">Grover C. Brenneman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/george.html#513.87.70">Grover C. George</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell4.html#799.54.30">Grover C. Mitchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#468.47.58">Grover C. Ladner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall4.html#161.19.64">Grover C. Hall</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#124.90.44">Grover C. Tye</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cisco-clague.html#968.67.23">Grover C. Cisel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hedrick.html#769.53.19">Grover C. Hedrick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunter.html#283.04.38">Grover C. Hunter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/montgomery.html#172.05.02">Grover C. Montgomery</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farron-faulkland.html#310.26.32">Grover C. Farwell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilliam-gillon.html#571.90.74">Grover C. Gillingham</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#340.79.45">Grover C. Studivan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#952.54.89">Grover C. Layne</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudson.html#851.64.00">Grover C. Hudson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/combs.html#065.15.38">Grover C. Combs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snyder.html#853.59.65">Grover C. Snyder</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grovenor-guert.html#859.83.54">Grover C. Guernsey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#345.32.58">Grover C. Henderson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#675.29.28">Grover C. Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#054.81.70">Grover C. Jackson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunter.html#586.92.59">Grover C. Hunter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowens-bower.html#982.54.89">Grover C. Bower</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#763.74.36">Grover C. Land</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#336.22.61">Grover C. Moritz</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gregg.html#888.74.90">Grover C. Gregg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richardville-richman.html#687.78.30">Grover C. Richman, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/anderson4.html#138.08.05">Grover C. Anderson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/choate-chrisman.html#837.68.22">Grover C. Chriss</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#508.06.22">Grover C. Criswell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#652.69.29">Grover C. Brown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#819.63.65">Grover C. Robinson III</a> </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. $20 bill (1914-28), and on the $1,000 bill (1928-46).</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1884): "We love him for the enemies he has made."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Opposition slogan (1884): "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?"</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/steven-grover-cleveland/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover Cleveland">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/433/000026355">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166479">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/205">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4079">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 Grover Cleveland: Alyn Brodsky, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312268831/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312268831&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grover Cleveland : A Study in Character</a> — H. Paul Jeffers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038097746X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=038097746X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland</a> — Mark Wahlgren Summers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807848492/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807848492&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President, 1884</a> — Henry F. Graff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069232/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069232&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grover Cleveland</a> — Troy Senik, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982140747/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1982140747&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland</a> — Jeff C. Young, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766051285/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766051285&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grover Cleveland</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Grover Cleveland: Matthew Algeo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156976350X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=156976350X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The President Is a Sick Man: the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth</a> — Charles Lachman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620870967/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1620870967&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Secret Life : The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland</a></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"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Aaron Burr (1756-1836) — also known as Aaron Edwards — 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/1756/02-06.html">February 6, 1756</a>. Democrat. 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/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County 1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1789-91; appointed 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1791-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1801-05; Killed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#111.82.60">Alexander Hamilton</a> in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a>, July 11, 1804; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">treason</a> in 1807; found not guilty. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, after several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">strokes</a>, at the Winants or Port Richmond <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Port Richmond, Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/09-14.html">September 14, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah Burr (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reesor-reeve.html#869.86.24">Tapping Reeve</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/07-02.html">July 2, 1782</a>, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bartos-bason.html#276.22.55">Francis Stebbins Bartow</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/">1833</a> to Eliza (Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#089.37.58">Joseph Alston</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willauer-william.html#215.97.61">Thomas Willett</a>; ancestor of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#082.09.25">Karla Ballard</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#567.11.01">Anson Foster Keeler</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#492.07.22">Evert Harris Kittell</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#266.79.92">Chauncey Mitchell Depew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#781.68.07">Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#807.46.34">Blanche M. Woodward</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#612.92.69">Alfred Walstein Bangs</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#153.32.70">John Clarence Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#992.70.06">Louis Ezekiel Stoddard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purcell.html#228.61.46">John Cecil Purcell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#494.45.40">Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#235.05.44">Eli Thacher Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#082.28.77">George Smith Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beardmore-beattie.html#532.12.12">Howkin Bulkley Beardslee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooker.html#900.95.54">Edward Williams Hooker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#437.89.78">Greene Carrier Bronson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#043.83.53">Abijah Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingham-irelan.html#753.59.22">George Landon Ingraham</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#790.53.24">Dwight Arthur Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miley-millender.html#392.11.71">Charles Dunsmore Millard</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#929.47.54">Noah Phelps</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#788.84.18">Hezekiah Case</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams7.html#433.52.89">Parmenio Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#375.04.02">Jesse Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#002.57.43">Abiel Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#700.40.71">Henry Fisk Janes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#177.15.53">Jairus Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell5.html#124.41.70">John Leslie Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#904.82.30">Almon Case</a>.</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and 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/dayan-deamer.html#956.87.91">Jonathan Dayton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#037.21.71">John Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tatem-tayloe.html#075.92.34">John Tayler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#928.79.37">Walter D. Corrigan, Sr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mead.html#097.74.95">Cowles Mead</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin6.html#139.11.24">Luther Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#141.38.10">William P. Van Ness</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/swanton-swede.html#708.91.80">Samuel Swartwout</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#431.41.53">Theophilus W. Smith</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001133">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402077">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron Burr">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/184/000022118">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/151">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 Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374100160/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374100160&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805</a> — Milton Lomask, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374100179/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374100179&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836</a> — Joseph Wheelan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786714379/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786714379&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary</a> — Buckner F. Melton Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047139209X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=047139209X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Aaron Burr : Conspiracy to Treason</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> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307743268/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307743268&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr</a> — David O. Stewart, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439157189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439157189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America</a> — Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006BRMLS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006BRMLS&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the West</a></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 Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345339215/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345339215&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Burr</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 Witherspoon (1723-1794) — of Princeton, Somerset County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J. Born in Gifford, Haddingtonshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1723/02-05.html">February 5, 1723</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Presbyterian minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Somerset County, 1783, 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Somerset County, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Became <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">blind</a> in 1792. Died near Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/11-15.html">November 15, 1794</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 283 days</a>). Interment at Princeton Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Elizabeth Montgomery; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/">1791</a> to Ann (Marshall) Dill; father of James Witherspoon; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and 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=W000660">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411813">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Witherspoon">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1156">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> Frances Cleveland (1864-1947) — also known as Frances Clara Folsom — Born in Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-born.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-21.html">July 21, 1864</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1886-89, 1893-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-died.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/10-29.html">October 29, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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: Daughter of Oscar Folsom and Emma (Harmon) Folsom; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-02.html">June 2, 1886</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/02-10.html">February 10, 1913</a>, to Thomas Jecks Preston; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#024.00.71">Richard Folsom Cleveland</a>.</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and 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">Cleveland <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a> of Languages (built 1911), at Wells <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">College</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-names.html">Aurora, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</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/Frances Cleveland">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4678">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34041">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5516951571/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/882/63.16.jpg" width=70 height=89 border=0 alt="George McAneny"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Francis McAneny (1869-1953) — also known as George McAneny — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Greenville (now part of Jersey City), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-born.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/12-24.html">December 24, 1869</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#3">Borough president of Manhattan, New York</a>, 1910-13; executive manager, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">New York Times</a>, 1916-21. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/07-29.html">July 29, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 217 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Francis McAneny and Katherine (Dilaway) McAneny; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/01-04.html">January 4, 1900</a>, to Marjorie Jacobi.</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/126787537">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: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002711276/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/459/58.45.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Norman Armour"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Norman Armour (1887-1982) — of Gladstone, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, N.J.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Brighton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a> of American parents, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-14.html">October 14, 1887</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HT-diplomats.html ">Haiti</a>, 1932-33, 1933-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CA-diplomats.html ">Canada</a>, 1935-38; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CE-diplomats.html ">Chile</a>, 1938-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-diplomats.html ">Argentina</a>, 1939-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VZ-diplomats.html ">Venezuela</a>, 1950-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GU-diplomats.html ">Guatemala</a>, 1954-55. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. One of five retired diplomats who co-signed a famous 1954 letter protesting U.S. Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccarthy.html#956.57.47">Joe McCarthy</a>'s attacks on the Foreign Service. 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/1982/09-27.html">September 27, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Allison Armour and Harriette (Foote) Armour; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/02-02.html">February 2, 1919</a>, to Princess Myra Koudacheff.</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/Norman Armour">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/armour-norman">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6443765">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: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Francis Goheen (1919-2008) — also known as Robert F. Goheen — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born, of American parents, in Vengurla, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IN-born.html">India</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/08-15.html">August 15, 1919</a>. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, Princeton University, 1957-72; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IN-diplomats.html ">India</a>, 1977-80. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/03-31.html">March 31, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Robert H. H. Goheen and Anne (Ewing) Goheen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/">1942</a> to Margaret Skelly.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert F. Goheen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/goheen-robert-francis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/894/000119537">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25674824">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 Potter Stockton (1826-1900) — also known as John P. Stockton — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/08-02.html">August 2, 1826</a>. Democrat. U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VT-diplomats.html ">Papal States</a>, 1858-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/NJ.html">1864</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/NJ.html">1876</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NJ.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1865-66, 1869-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/attygn.html">New Jersey state attorney general</a>, 1877-92. Died in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/01-22.html">January 22, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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/stockton.html#395.25.44">Robert Field Stockton</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#939.26.86">Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929)</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#686.94.98">Richard Stockton (1764-1828)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#568.05.78">Richard Stockton (1730-1781)</a>.</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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=S000939">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410398">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/stockton-john-potter ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Stryker Gummere (1852-1933) — also known as William S. Gummere; "Dollar-A-Life Gummere" — of Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/06-24.html">June 24, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; circuit judge in New Jersey, 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1895-1901; appointed 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1901-33. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in St. Barnabas <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/01-26.html">January 26, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 216 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Barker Gummere and Elizabeth (Stryker) Gummere; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#722.50.79">Samuel René Gummeré</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#067.13.46">Barker Gummere Jr.</a>; father of Elizabeth Gummere (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raymond.html#738.04.53">Thomas Lynch Raymond 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/15116.html">Gummere family</a> of Trenton, 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Stryker Gummere">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) — also known as George F. Kennan — of Pennsylvania. Born in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-born.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/02-16.html">February 16, 1904</a>. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ES-consuls.html ">Tallinn</a>, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Berlin</a>, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SV-diplomats.html ">Soviet Union</a>, 1952; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/YU-diplomats.html ">Yugoslavia</a>, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">declared</a> him <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">persona non grata</a> on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> in History for his book Russia Leaves the War; received the 1968 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> in Biography for his Memoirs; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1989. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/03-17.html">March 17, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/101.html">101 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/kennan-george-frost ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/989/000048845">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447832">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10648436">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about George Kenan: Walter Isaacson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684837714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684837714&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made</a> — John Lewis Gaddis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594203121/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1594203121&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George F. Kennan: An American Life</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 Wildman Ball (1909-1994) — also known as George W. Ball — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Des Moines, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO-born.html">Polk County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/12-21.html">December 21, 1909</a>. U.S. Representative to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/un.html ">United Nations</a>, 1968. Died at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/ny-hospital.html">New York 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/1994/05-26.html">May 26, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Amos Ball and Edna (Wildman) Ball; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/09-16.html">September 16, 1932</a>, to Ruth Murdoch.</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/ball-george-wildman ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9437175">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 Renshaw Thomson (1800-1862) — also known as John R. Thomson — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/index.html">1800</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1853-62; died in office 1862. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/index.html">1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at Princeton 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: Father of Amelia Thomson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/read.html#847.18.13">John Meredith Read</a>).</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/10001-0633.html">Read family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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=T000231">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410810">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> Alexander Taggart McGill (1845-1900) — also known as Alexander T. McGill — of Jersey City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-lived.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J. Born in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/10-20.html">October 20, 1845</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Hudson County, 1874-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-officials.html">Hudson County Prosecutor of the Pleas</a>, 1877-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-officials.html">Hudson County Law Judge</a>, 1882-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1887-1900; died in office 1900; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1895. 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/1900/04-21.html">April 21, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 183 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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. Alexander T. McGill.</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> Howard Alexander Smith (1880-1966) — also known as H. Alexander Smith — of Colorado Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/EP-lived.html">El Paso County</a>, Colo.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer 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/1880/01-30.html">January 30, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NJ.html">treasurer of New Jersey Republican Party</a>, 1934-41; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NJ.html">1940</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/NJ.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/NJ.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NJ.html">New Jersey Republican state chair</a>, 1941-43; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NJ.html">Republican National Committee from New Jersey</a>, 1942-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1944-59. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/10-27.html">October 27, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Dr. Abram Alexander Smith and Sue Lehn (Bender) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/06-21.html">June 21, 1902</a>, to Helen Dominick; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#008.13.89">Peter Hoyt Dominick</a>.</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=S000553">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410035">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6559351623/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/021/52.45.jpg" width=70 height=82 border=0 alt="Henry van_Dyke"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/11-10.html">November 10, 1852</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Poet</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1913-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LX-diplomats.html ">Luxembourg</a>, 1913-17. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/04-10.html">April 10, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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: Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandyke.html#040.50.26">Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II</a>.</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 Henry Van Dyke (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</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/Henry van Dyke Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/van-dyke-henry ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/822/000114480">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">Image source: Library of Congress</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 Stockton (1764-1828) — of New Jersey. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/04-17.html">April 17, 1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for New Jersey</a>, 1789-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1796-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 2nd District, 1813-15; member of New Jersey state legislature, 1810; received 8 electoral votes for Vice-President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1820.html">1820</a>. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/03-07.html">March 7, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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/stockton.html#568.05.78">Richard Stockton (1730-1781)</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#395.25.44">Robert Field Stockton</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/field-fielding.html#810.07.73">Richard Stockton Field</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#371.88.95">John Potter Stockton</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#939.26.86">Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929)</a>.</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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=S000941">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410400">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Stockton %281764-1828%29">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866) — also known as Robert F. Stockton — of New Jersey. Born in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/08-20.html">August 20, 1795</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; served in the U.S. Navy during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/milgov.html">Military Governor of California</a>, 1846-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1851-53. Slaveowner. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-07.html">October 7, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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/stockton.html#686.94.98">Richard Stockton (1764-1828)</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#371.88.95">John Potter Stockton</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#568.05.78">Richard Stockton (1730-1781)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#939.26.86">Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929)</a>.</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SJ-names.html">Stockton, 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/MO/CE-names.html">Stockton, Missouri</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">borough</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-names.html">Stockton, New Jersey</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/TX/PE-names.html">Fort Stockton, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stockton Creek, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">tidal channel</a> in <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>.</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=S000942">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410401">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert F. Stockton">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> Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837-1892) — also known as Edward P. C. Lewis — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-lived.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/index.html">1837</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Hudson County, 1878; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NJ.html">1880</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-diplomats.html ">Portugal</a>, 1885-89. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/index.html">1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">about 55 years</a>). Interment at Princeton 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://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/lewis-edward-parke-custis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Stockton Field (1803-1870) — of Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SA-lived.html">Salem County</a>, N.J.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-born.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/12-31.html">December 31, 1803</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/attygn.html">New Jersey state attorney general</a>, 1838-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention</a>, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1862-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New Jersey</a>, 1863-70; resigned 1870. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/05-25.html">May 25, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 145 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#686.94.98">Richard Stockton (1764-1828)</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#568.05.78">Richard Stockton (1730-1781)</a>.</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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=F000106">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404063">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=750&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Stockton Field">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_6316595_000/pages/ldpd_6316595_000_00000041.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/726/18.94.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Roger A. Pryor"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) — also known as Roger A. Pryor — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/pb-lived.html">Petersburg</a>, Va.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born near Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/DI-born.html">Dinwiddie County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/07-19.html">July 19, 1828</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 4th District, 1859-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Virginia in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/NY.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/NY.html">1888</a>; common pleas court judge in New York, 1890-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1896-99. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/03-14.html">March 14, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 238 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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. Theodorick Bland Pryor and Lucy (Atkinson) Pryor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/11-08.html">November 8, 1848</a>, to Sara Agnes Rice.</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=P000558">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408941">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: Empire State Notables (1914)</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> Barbara Boggs Sigmund (1939-1990) — also known as Barbara B. Sigmund; "Mayor Barbara" — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/05-27.html">May 27, 1939</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NJ.html">1980</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1982; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/princeton.html">mayor of Princeton, N.J.</a>, 1984-90; died in office 1990; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1989. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">Lost her left eye</a> to cancer in 1982. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/10-10.html">October 10, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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: Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boggs.html#056.95.34">Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boggs.html#452.39.96">Corinne Claiborne Boggs</a>; sister of Cokie Roberts and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boggs.html#211.80.10">Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.</a>; second great-grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#196.25.07">John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne</a>; third great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#583.05.82">Ferdinand Leigh Claiborne</a>; third great-grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#928.16.41">William Charles Cole Claiborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#026.93.44">Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morrison.html#029.29.50">Jacob Haight Morrison IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morrison.html#937.16.02">de Lesseps Story Morrison</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#003.31.99">Thomas Claiborne (1749-1812)</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#209.79.40">John Claiborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/claiborne.html#054.46.38">Thomas Claiborne (1780-1856)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#751.60.81">Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#356.30.90">Claiborne de Borda Pell</a>.</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/10001-0143.html">Claiborne-Dallas family</a> of Virginia and Louisiana (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">Epitaph: "A passion for beauty and justice."</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/Barbara Boggs Sigmund">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> Hezekiah Mount (1813-1886) — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/07-24.html">July 24, 1813</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/princeton.html">Mayor of Princeton, N.J.</a>, 1864-65. Died in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/07-04.html">July 4, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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://findagrave.com/memorial/66819997">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 Dickinson Duffield (1871-1938) — also known as Edward D. Duffield — of South Orange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Born in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/03-03.html">March 3, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Essex County, 1904-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/southorange.html#2">village president of South Orange, New Jersey</a>, 1917; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NJ.html">1920</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/NJ.html">1936</a>; president, Prudential <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance</a> Company, 1922-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">acting president</a>, Princeton University, 1932-33; director, American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telegraph</a> Company. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, and died the next day, in South Orange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/09-17.html">September 17, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 198 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Thomas Duffield and Sarah Elizabeth (Green) Duffield; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/04-21.html">April 21, 1897</a>, to Josephine Reade Curtis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/">1916</a> to Barbara Freeman.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Ross Stevenson (1866-1939) — also known as J. Ross Stevenson — of Sedalia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PE-lived.html">Pettis County</a>, Mo.; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Ligonier, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WE-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/03-01.html">March 1, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">college professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1912 ; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1914-36. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/08-13.html">August 13, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 165 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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. Ross Stevenson and Martha A. (Harbison) Stevenson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/05-16.html">May 16, 1899</a>, to Florence Day.</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/33099447">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 Milton Fessenden (1804-1883) — also known as John M. Fessenden — Born in Warren, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/12-21.html">December 21, 1804</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Civil engineer</a>; worked on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">canals</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html ">Dresden</a>, 1850-54. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/02-08.html">February 8, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 49 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Fessenden and Abigail Miller (Child) Fessenden; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/05-21.html">May 21, 1834</a>, to Mary Pierce Bumstead; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/06-25.html">June 25, 1868</a>, to Sarah Ann Murphy; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#891.88.11">Henry Nichols Blake</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#407.27.40">Joseph Palmer Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#083.03.95">Peter Rawson Taft</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grossi-grout.html#484.12.67">Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#477.85.86">Charles Grenfill Washburn</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0082.html">Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John M. Fessenden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10923243">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Beatty Alexander (1849-1927) — also known as Charles B. Alexander — of Tuxedo Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y.; 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/1849/12-06.html">December 6, 1849</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; director and counsel for Equitable Life <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a> company; director of the Middletown & Unionville <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, the Hocking Valley <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, and several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banks</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NY.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/NY.html">1916</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>; member, New York State Board of Regents, 1913-27. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</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/1927/02-07.html">February 7, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 63 days</a>). Interment at Princeton 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 Martyn Alexander and Susan Mary (Brown) Alexander; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/04-26.html">April 26, 1887</a>, to Harriet Crocker (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crocker.html#513.87.48">Charles Crocker</a>); father of Mary Alexander (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehouse.html#886.50.99">Sheldon Whitehouse (1883-1965)</a>) and Harriet Crocker Alexander (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#812.13.78">Winthrop Williams Aldrich</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehouse.html#708.55.52">Charles Sheldon Whitehouse</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehouse.html#086.83.28">Sheldon Whitehouse (born 1955)</a>.</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/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0285.html">Crocker-Whitehouse family</a> of Sacramento, California (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06956">St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery</a> Nassau Street Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Joseph Stanislaus Hoff (1868-1960) — also known as Joseph S. Hoff — of Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/12-09.html">December 9, 1868</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-parties.html">Chair of Mercer County Democratic Party</a>, 1913-20, 1925; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/princeton.html">mayor of Princeton, N.J.</a>, 1930-36; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NJ.html">1940</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/07-25.html">July 25, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Roman Catholic 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">Relatives: Son of Ignatz Hoff and Bridget Della (Dowd) Hoff; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/09-11.html">September 11, 1907</a>, to Emily Louisa Thompson.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04556">Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House Cemetery</a> Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Richard Stockton (1730-1781) — of New Jersey. Born near Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/10-01.html">October 1, 1730</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">Associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1774; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/02-28.html">February 28, 1781</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of Hannah Stockton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boude-bowe.html#418.31.89">Elias Boudinot</a>); father of Julia Stockton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rush.html#580.80.22">Benjamin Rush</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#010.15.76">William Bradford</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#686.94.98">Richard Stockton (1764-1828)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#395.25.44">Robert Field Stockton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/field-fielding.html#810.07.73">Richard Stockton Field</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#371.88.95">John Potter Stockton</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#939.26.86">Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929)</a>.</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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=S000940">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410399">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Stockton %281730-1781%29">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2732">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Smith Olden (1799-1876) — also known as Charles S. Olden — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/02-19.html">February 19, 1799</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Mercer County, 1845-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1860-63; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/04-07.html">April 7, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House 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 Hart Olden and Temperance (Smith) Olden; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/">1832</a> to Phoebe Ann Smith.</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/charles-smith-olden/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00970">First Baptist Church Cemetery</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> James Jefferson Wilson (1775-1824) — also known as James J. Wilson — of Trenton, Hunterdon County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1775/index.html">1775</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-officials.html">Hunterdon County Surrogate</a>, 1808; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Hunterdon County, 1809-11, 1822; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1815-21; resigned 1821; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html#2">Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1821-24. Died in Trenton, Hunterdon County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/07-28.html">July 28, 1824</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at First Baptist 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=W000595">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411750">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00491">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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 Ewing (1780-1832) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Bridgeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/06-08.html">June 8, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Federalist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a>, 1815; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1824-32. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cholera.html">cholera</a>, in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/08-05.html">August 5, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 58 days</a>). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard; cenotaph at <a href="#cms00536">Riverview 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#997.67.42">James Ewing</a> and Martha (Boyd) Ewing; married to Eleanor Graeme Armstrong.</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/ME-names.html">Ewing, 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/Charles Ewing (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/50062245">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 Beatty (1749-1826) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, N.J. Born in Neshaminy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/12-10.html">December 10, 1749</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stcn.html">New Jersey State Council</a> from Middlesex County, 1781-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1784-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Middlesex County, 1787; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Middlesex County, 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> at-large, 1793-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of New Jersey</a>, 1795-1805. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/05-30.html">May 30, 1826</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 171 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000282">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401276">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 Dickinson Woodruff (1762-1817) — also known as Aaron D. Woodruff — of Trenton, Hunterdon County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>), N.J. Born in Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/09-12.html">September 12, 1762</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Hunterdon County, 1791, 1793-98, 1800, 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/attygn.html">New Jersey state attorney general</a>, 1793-1811, 1812-17; died in office 1817; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1794-97. Died in Changewater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/WA-died.html">Warren County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/index.html">1817</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 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">Relatives: Son of Elias Woodruff and Mary (Joline) Woodruff; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/09-14.html">September 14, 1786</a>, to Grace Lowrey.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01690">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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 Smith (1740-1807) — of New Jersey. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/index.html">1740</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">Associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1777; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> at-large, 1795-97. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/08-29.html">August 29, 1807</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000555">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410037">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03242">Friends Burying Ground</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Richard Howell (1754-1802) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/GL-lived.html">Gloucester County</a>, N.J. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/10-23.html">October 23, 1754</a>. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Gloucester County, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1793-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1793-1801. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Died in Burlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-died.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/04-28.html">April 28, 1802</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 187 days</a>). Interment at Friends Burying Ground. <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 Ebenezer Howell and Sarah (Bond) Howell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/">1799</a> to Keziah Burr; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/afan-aieta.html#386.26.63">Daniel Agnew</a> and Varina Howell (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Finis Davis</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#094.82.04">Howell Morgan</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#375.37.77">Cecil Morgan</a>.</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/10001-0457.html">Davis-Howell-Morgan-Agnew family</a> of New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/richard-howell/">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> Lambert Cadwalader (1742-1823) — of Pennsylvania; New Jersey. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., December, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/index.html">1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey</a>, 1784-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> at-large, 1789-91, 1793-95. Slaveowner. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-13.html">September 13, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Friends Burying Ground. <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 Dr. Thomas Cadwalader and Hannah (Lambert) Cadwalader; brother of Margaret Cadwalader (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meredith.html#669.47.47">Samuel Meredith</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/">1793</a> to Mary McCall; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#763.43.62">John Cadwalader (1805-1879)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#769.86.48">Alfred Wells</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#776.52.49">John Cadwalader (1843-1925)</a>.</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/10001-0633.html">Read family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000012">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402174">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6684155">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03300">Friends Graveyard</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> George Clymer (1739-1813) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/03-16.html">March 16, 1739</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> at-large, 1789-91. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Morrisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-died.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/01-23.html">January 23, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at Friends Graveyard; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Christopher Clymer and Deborah (Fitzwater) Clymer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/03-18.html">March 18, 1765</a>, to Elizabeth Meredith (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meredith.html#669.47.47">Samuel Meredith</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a>.</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/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell 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">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS George Clymer (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; torpedoed and wrecked in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">South Atlantic Ocean</a>, 1942) 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=C000538">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402671">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Clymer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2768">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02444">Friends Meeting House Burial Ground</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Philemon Dickinson (1739-1809) — of Delaware; New Jersey. Born near Trappe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-born.html">Talbot County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/04-05.html">April 5, 1739</a>. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1782-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1790-93. Died near Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/02-04.html">February 4, 1809</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at Friends Meeting House Burial Ground. <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 Dickinson and Mary (Cadwalader) Dickinson; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickinson.html#385.32.47">John Dickinson</a>.</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=D000324">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403444">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03958">Greenwood Cemetery</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson (1855-1932) — also known as Elijah C. Hutchinson — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Windsor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-07.html">August 7, 1855</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">Merchant miller</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1896-97; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Mercer County, 1899-1904; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/NJ.html">1912</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1915-23; defeated, 1922. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/06-25.html">June 25, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 323 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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=H001012">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405851">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00925">Mercer Cemetery</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Ira Wells Wood (1856-1931) — also known as Ira W. Wood — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Wilkes-Barre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-born.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/06-19.html">June 19, 1856</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1899-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1904-13. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/10-05.html">October 5, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at Mercer 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 Isaac Wood and Emily H. (Wells) Wood.</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=W000695">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411847">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira W. Wood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10203024">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 Manners (1786-1853) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-lived.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-born.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/04-08.html">April 8, 1786</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Hunterdon County, 1850-52. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Died, from "affection of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart</a>," in Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-died.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/06-24.html">June 24, 1853</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 77 days</a>). Interment at Mercer 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: First cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manners-manning.html#180.73.81">David Stout Manners</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/powhatan-prangley.html#519.50.40">Horace Griggs Prall</a>.</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/13450.html">Manners-Prall family</a> of Trenton, New Jersey.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01183">Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Allan Bartholomew Walsh (1874-1953) — also known as Allan B. Walsh — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/08-29.html">August 29, 1874</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1910-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1913-15. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/index.html">1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Interment at Our Lady of Lourdes 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=W000095">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411274">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00536">Riverview Cemetery</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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/8751750096/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/832/49.13.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="George B. McClellan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) — also known as George B. McClellan; "Little Mac" — of New Jersey. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/12-03.html">December 3, 1826</a>. Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1864; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1878-81. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/10-29.html">October 29, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at Riverview Cemetery; statue erected 1907 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07924">Connecticut Avenue</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 George McClellan and Elizabeth Steinmetz (Brinton) McClellan; married to Mary Ellen Marcy (daughter of Gen. Randolph Barnes Marcy; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#464.14.25">Laban Marcy</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcclellan.html#914.22.66">George Brinton McClellan (1865-1940)</a>.</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/10176.html">Howe family</a> of Massachusetts.</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 George B. McClellan (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1973) 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/harvey.html#568.81.70">George Harvey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbeel-hudnut.html#544.99.59">George B. Hudnall</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcclellan.html#914.22.66">George B. McClellan</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-brinton-mcclellan/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George B. McClellan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/287/000050137">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 George B. McClellan: Stephen W. Sears, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306809133/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0306809133&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">George B. McClellan : The Young Napoleon</a></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> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Lewis Dayton (1807-1864) — also known as William L. Dayton — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Basking Ridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SO-born.html">Somerset County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/02-17.html">February 17, 1807</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stcn.html">New Jersey State Council</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1838; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1842-51; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1856; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/attygn.html">New Jersey state attorney general</a>, 1857-61; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1861-64, died in office 1864. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/12-01.html">December 1, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 288 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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 Joel Dayton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dayan-deamer.html#460.75.52">William Lewis Dayton Jr.</a>; distant relative *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dayan-deamer.html#956.87.91">Jonathan Dayton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10396.html">Dayton family</a> of Elizabeth, 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=D000166">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403298">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William L. Dayton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dayton-william-lewis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Mercer Beasley (1815-1897) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/index.html">1815</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Whig candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1851; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1864-97; died in office 1897. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">bronchial pneumonia</a>, in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/02-19.html">February 19, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at Riverview 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. Frederick Beasley.</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/8116392">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 Taylor Bird (1829-1911) — of Bloomsbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-lived.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J.; Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-lived.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J.; Flemington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-lived.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J.; Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Bloomsbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-born.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/08-16.html">August 16, 1829</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 3rd District, 1869-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention</a>, 1876; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/vchan.html">vice-chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1882-96. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/05-06.html">May 6, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 263 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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=B000478">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401459">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 H. Backes (1864-1935) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-18.html">August 18, 1864</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/vchan.html">vice-chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1913-27. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/06-15.html">June 15, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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 Backes and Mary (Hannes) Backes; married to Elizabeth C. Hattersley.</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/60276410">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> Frank Obadiah Briggs (1851-1913) — also known as Frank O. Briggs — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/08-12.html">August 12, 1851</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">Mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1899-1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trea.html">New Jersey state treasurer</a>, 1902-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1907-13. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/05-08.html">May 8, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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/briggs.html#855.54.62">James Frankland Briggs</a>.</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=B000827">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401784">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> A. Dayton Oliphant (1887-1963) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-28.html">October 28, 1887</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1915-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-officials.html">Mercer County Prosecutor of the Pleas</a>, 1918-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-parties.html">chair of Mercer County Republican Party</a>, 1921; circuit judge in New Jersey, 1927-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1945-46, 1948-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery</a>, 1946-48. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/06-25.html">June 25, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 240 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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 Duncan Oliphant and Elizabeth Van Dever (Dayton) Oliphant; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-21.html">June 21, 1924</a>, to Marguerite A. Broughton.</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 Halstead (1794-1878) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-lived.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J. Born in Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/06-04.html">June 4, 1794</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; state supreme court reporter, 1821-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-officials.html">Hunterdon County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1824-29, 1833-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> at-large, 1837-39, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for New Jersey</a>, 1850-53; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/03-04.html">March 4, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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 to Frances Mary Bostwick.</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=H000092">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404974">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Halstead">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7751499">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Lane Powers (1896-1968) — also known as D. Lane Powers — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/07-29.html">July 29, 1896</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1928-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1933-45. Died in Feasterville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-died.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/03-28.html">March 28, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 243 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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=P000488">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408873">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Ewing (1744-1823) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J.; Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/07-12.html">July 12, 1744</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Cumberland County, 1778-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/trenton.html">mayor of Trenton, N.J.</a>, 1797-1803. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/10-23.html">October 23, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 103 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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 Thomas Ewing and Mary (Maskell) Ewing; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/10-15.html">October 15, 1778</a>, to Martha Boyd; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#084.95.42">Charles Ewing</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10178552">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 Hart Brewer (1844-1900) — also known as J. Hart Brewer — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Woodsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/03-29.html">March 29, 1844</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Mercer County, 1876; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 2nd District, 1881-85; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/NJ.html">1888</a>. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/12-21.html">December 21, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 267 days</a>). Interment at Riverview 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: Second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hart.html#021.99.94">John Hart</a>.</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0374.html">Coberly-Hovermale family</a> of West Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0071.html">Hendricks family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000810">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401767">Govtrack.us page</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> Charles Ewing (1780-1832) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Bridgeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/06-08.html">June 8, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Federalist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a>, 1815; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1824-32. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cholera.html">cholera</a>, in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/08-05.html">August 5, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 58 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms00491">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a>; cenotaph at Riverview 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/ewing.html#997.67.42">James Ewing</a> and Martha (Boyd) Ewing; married to Eleanor Graeme Armstrong.</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/ME-names.html">Ewing, 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/Charles Ewing (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/50062245">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05091">St. Mary's Cemetery</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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> Richard Joseph Hughes (1909-1992) — also known as Richard J. Hughes — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Florence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU-born.html">Burlington County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/08-10.html">August 10, 1909</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 4th District, 1938; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-parties.html">chair of Mercer County Democratic Party</a>, 1944-45; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NJ.html">1948</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NJ.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/NJ.html">1968</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NJ.html">1972</a>; county judge in New Jersey, 1948-52; superior court judge in New Jersey, 1952-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1962-70; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NJ.html">Democratic National Committee from New Jersey</a>, 1970-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1973-79. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-theta.html">Phi Kappa Theta</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Boca Raton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-died.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/12-07.html">December 7, 1992</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 119 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary'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">Relatives: Step-father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murphy9.html#556.48.09">William Michael Murphy Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murphy6.html#945.43.91">Michael Murphy</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughes.html#402.30.79">Brian M. Hughes</a>.</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/12468.html">Murphy-Hughes family</a> of 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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickson-higginbottom.html#838.62.54">William T. Hiering</a></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 Richard J. Hughes <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Justice Complex</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-names.html">Trenton, 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://www.nga.org/governor/governor-richard-joseph-hughes/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard J. Hughes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/564/000122198">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Richard J. Hughes: John B. Wefing, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813546419/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0813546419&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life and Times of Richard J. Hughes: The Politics of Civility</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> Harry Heher (1889-1972) — of Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/03-20.html">March 20, 1889</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-parties.html">chair of Mercer County Democratic Party</a>, 1921; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NJ.html">New Jersey Democratic state chair</a>, 1922-32; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NJ.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NJ.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NJ.html">1932</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1933-59. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-law-inst.html">American Law Institute</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died at Morris Hall <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Health and Rehabilitation Center</a>, Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/10-17.html">October 17, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary'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">Relatives: Son of John Heher and Anna (Spelman) Heher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/08-05.html">August 5, 1925</a>, to Anne Egan.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05251">St. Michael's Episcopal Churchyard</a> Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey <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 Brearley (1741-1790) — also known as David Brearly — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-lived.html">Hunterdon County</a>, N.J. Born in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/06-11.html">June 11, 1741</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court</a>, 1779-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from Hunterdon County, 1787; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for New Jersey</a>, 1789-90; died in office 1790. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/08-16.html">August 16, 1790</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Episcopal 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://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=246&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Brearley">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4725">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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