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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Died at Age 35</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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Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 24 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#339.44.06">Charleton Hunt (1801-1836)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 39 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#446.25.19">Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 54 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 114 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shepard.html#890.17.47">Lorenzo B. Shepard (1821-1856)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 115 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambers.html#610.78.69">Henry H. Chambers (1790-1826)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 183 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirchdorfer-kirkby.html#476.35.89">Max D. Kirjassoff (1888-1923)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 194 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#181.41.38">Rufus K. Polk (1866-1902)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens4.html#335.28.22">Inger Stevens (1934-1970)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 200 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/finch.html#155.40.48">John B. Finch (1852-1887)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 203 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcfarlane-mcgavock.html#297.03.93">Edward W. McGaughey (1817-1852)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 205 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halstad-hamill.html#755.98.23">Abdul Hamid (1903-1938)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 210 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hathcock-havenner.html#234.47.89">Robert Hopkins Hatton (1826-1862)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 217 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyons-lytle.html#577.51.38">Robert Todd Lytle (1804-1839)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 235 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan6.html#123.60.74">Michael J. Sullivan (1870-1906)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 237 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchwell-ciro.html#911.29.73">Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 253 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trimble.html#240.59.96">William Allen Trimble (1786-1821)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 254 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#965.50.94">Emmett Wilson (1882-1918)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 267 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kurtz.html#485.89.56">Kenneth S. Kurtz (1903-1939)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 272 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morrisseau-morroni.html#417.84.62">Peter R. Morrissey (1859-1895)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 298 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#054.40.67">Chester C. Chatfield (1821-1857)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 316 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#757.72.40">Augustus C. Remmel (1847-1883)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 319 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#889.91.51">Henry Clay, Jr. (1811-1847)</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> 35 years, 349 days:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#992.58.65">George Wells (1744-1780)</a> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Approximately 35 years:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pope.html#582.90.66">Patrick Hamilton Pope (1806-1841)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simonsen-simpkins.html#137.59.77">John Simpkins (1862-1898)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/turner7.html#012.08.76">Oscar Turner (1867-1902)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nash.html#116.87.60">Francis Nash (1742-1777)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vaughndean-vazquez.html#047.02.56">James H. Vawter (c.1832-1867)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#855.99.20">Nathaniel Huntington (1793-1828)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roads-robberson.html#779.59.19">William A. Robards (c.1816-1851)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomas2.html#325.46.65">David Thomas (1801-1836)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson5.html#694.88.19">James Thompson (c.1805-1840)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traeger-travia.html#488.88.19">H. Eric Trammell (1896-1932)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white8.html#968.36.48">Samuel A. White (1825-1860)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alt-amersoon.html#466.70.90">James A. Althauser (1884-1919)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan7.html#835.94.46">P. Andrew Sullivan (c.1855-1890)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#882.62.17">Charles F. Washburn (1849-1884)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kovach-krapohl.html#672.56.64">Robert F. Kraft (1859-1894)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#948.81.11">John N. Mellon (1852-1887)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/galbreath-gall.html#211.05.97">Josiah Gale (1828-1863)</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boe-boggess.html#297.62.09">Albert E. 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