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Alvord, James Church [cenotaph] b. April 14, 1808 d. September 27, 1839
US Congressman. Elected as a Whig to represent Massachusetts' 6th District in the US House of Representatives, he served for six months in 1839. His death came before the Congress assembled. Alvord was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. An 1827 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, he was admitted to the bar in 1830 and returned to his hometown to set up practice. He was professor pro tempore at the Cambridge Law School (1833), a member of the State House of...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 141
Anderson, Joseph b. November 5, 1757 d. April 17, 1837
US Senator. Following service throughout the Revolutionary War, in which he attained the rank of Major, he was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Delaware. Appointed United States Judge of the Territory South of the Ohio River in 1791, he later was a member of the first Tennessee Constitutional Convention. He was elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee and served from 1797 to 1815. He served as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury from 1815 to 1836. He was the...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 31, Site 44
Anderson, Simeon H. [cenotaph] b. March 2, 1802 d. August 11, 1840
US Congressman. Born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He quickly became a rising star in state politics, especially after marrying the daughter of future Kentucky Governor William Owsley. Anderson served in the State House of Representatives from 1828 to 1829, in 1832, and from 1836 to 1838. During that time he purchased Owsley's 300-acre farm near Lancaster, "Pleasant Retreat", and it would remain in the family until...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 135
Andrews, Charles [cenotaph] b. February 11, 1814 d. April 30, 1852
US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent Maine's 4th District in the Thirty-Second Congress, he served from 1851 until his death in office. Andrews was born in Paris, Oxford County, Maine. He graduated from Hebron Academy, was admitted to the bar in 1837, and established a law practice in his hometown. From 1839 to 1843 he was a member of the State House of Representatives, serving as Speaker in 1842, followed by three years as clerk of the courts for Oxford County. In 1848 he was a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 54, Site 161
Ashley, Chester [cenotaph] b. June 1, 1791 d. April 29, 1848
US Senator, Attorney. He was a prominent figure in the early history of Arkansas. Raised in Hudson, New York, he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (1813) and Connecticut's Litchfield Law School (1814) before beginning his law career in Hudson. Personal ambition led him to seek his fortune in the western frontier and in 1820 he settled in Little Rock, in what was then the Arkansas Territory. He immediately formed a partnership with another newcomer to the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 60, Site 144
Bache, Alexander Dallas b. July 19, 1806 d. February 17, 1867
Graduated West Point in 1825 at the top of his class. Professor of natural philosophy and chemistry University of Pennsylvania. Appointed Superintendent of the Coast Survey by Pres. Tyler in 1843, a position he held until 1861. Bache introduced many new and innovative ideas into the Coast Survey including the involvement of many of the top scientific minds of the day. When President Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, Bache and about four dozen other scientists, many...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Connelly)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 32, Site 194
Bailey, Goldsmith Fox [cenotaph] b. July 17, 1823 d. May 8, 1862
US Congressman. Elected as a Republican to represent Massachusetts' 9th District in the Thirty-Seventh Congress, he served from 1861 until his death. Bailey was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. After the death of his father in 1826 he moved with his mother to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, which he called home for the rest of his life. At age 17 he was sent to Vermont to apprentice at the Bellows Falls Gazette and in 1844 became that newspaper's editor and publisher, while studying law...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 59, Site 143
Ball, William Lee b. January 2, 1781 d. February 29, 1824
US Congressman from Virginia. The son of Colonel James Bell, a longtime member of the Virginia House of Delegates, he received a liberal education before following his father into a political career. He served seven terms in the House of Delegates (1805 to 1806, 1810 to 1814) and four in the State Senate (1814 to 1817). During the War of 1812 he was assigned as paymaster for the 92nd Virginia Regiment. An early Republican, Ball was elected to four consecutive terms in the US House of...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 29, Site 38
Barbour, Philip Pendleton b. May 25, 1783 d. February 25, 1841
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, US Congressman. Born in Gordonsville, Virginia, he was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced to practice law in Bardstown, Kentucky. In 1801, he returned to Virginia, resumed to practice law and was a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates (1812-14). In 1814, he was elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress and to next four Congresses serving until 1825. Not a candidate for renomination, he was appointed a judge of the general...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 144
Barrow, Alexander [original burial site] b. March 27, 1801 d. December 29, 1846
US Senator. Elected as a Whig to represent Louisiana in the US Senate, he served from 1841 until his death in office. Barrow was born near Nashville, Tennessee, and attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1816 to 1818. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and moved to Louisiana. By the late 1820s he had abandoned legal practice to run a successful plantation, Afton Villa, in the West Feliciana Parish. As a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Public vault
Bayly, Thomas Henry [cenotaph] b. December 11, 1810 d. June 23, 1856
US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent Virginia's 1st and 7th Districts in the US House of Representatives, he served from 1844 until his death in office. The son of US Congressman Thomas Monteagle Bayly, he was born at the family estate "Mount Custis" near Drummondtown, Virginia. Graduating from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1829, he was admitted to the bar the following year and practiced law in Accomack County. He was a member of the State House of Delegates (...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 60, Site 122
Bell, James [cenotaph] b. November 13, 1804 d. May 26, 1857
US Senator. The son of Samuel Bell, the 14th Governor of New Hampshire, he was born in Francestown, Hillsborough County. He received an excellent education, attending the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut before being admitted to the bar in 1825. Returning to his home state, he had a successful practice in Gilmanton and, after 1831, in Exeter. In 1846 he closed his law office and moved to...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 60, Site 101
Benham, Henry Washington b. April 17, 1813 d. June 1, 1884
Civil War Union Mayor General. He graduated from West Point first in the class of 1837 and when the Civil War started he was assigned as Chief Engineer of the Department of Ohio in May 1861. Although assigned as an engineer he directed pursuits of Confederates forces in western Virginia and was commissioned Brigadier General in command of a brigade in the occupation of Union Armies in western Virginia. He took part in unsuccessful frontal assaults at Fort Pulaski and at Secessionville, South...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 52, Site 249
Berret, James G. b. 1815 d. April 15, 1901
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He served in the Maryland state legislature from 1837 to 1839, was appointed to the United States Treasury by President Martin Van Buren, and as Postmaster of the District of Columbia by President Franklin Pierce. He also served as the Mayor of Washington D.C. from 1858 to 1861. In 1861, when the civil war broke out, Congress enacted a law requiring all officers of national, state and municipal governments to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. He...[Read More] (Bio by: DXA)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Berret Vault
Betts, Thaddeus [cenotaph] b. February 4, 1789 d. April 7, 1840
US Senator, Connecticut Lieutenant Governor. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1807, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1810 and returned to Norwalk to commence practice. After membership in the State House of Representatives (1815, 1830) and State Senate (1831), he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and served three terms, under Governors John Samuel Peters (1831 to 1833) and Samuel A. Foot (1834 to 1835). A Whig, Betts was elected to the US...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 114
Bibb, George Mortimer [cenotaph] b. October 30, 1776 d. April 14, 1859
US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, he attended what is now Princeton University and graduated from William and Mary College in 1792. After being admitted to the bar, he moved to Kentucky in 1798 and became a lawyer in Lexington, later settling in Frankfort. His endeavors as a politician and jurist were marked by restlessness; he would attain a high office, only to resign (or refuse to run again) and return to private law practice. He served three...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 143
Black, Henry [cenotaph] b. February 25, 1783 d. November 28, 1841
US Congressman. Born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, he was active as a farmer while studying law independently. His first public office was as a local justice of the peace. He was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1816 to 1818, and an associate judge of Somerset County from 1820 to 1840. In 1841 Black was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy left by the death of Charles Ogle; he served exactly five months, from June 28 to November 28...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 56, Site 126
Black, James Augustus [cenotaph] b. 1793 d. April 3, 1848
US Congressman, Manufacturer. He was born and educated on his father's plantation near Abbeville, South Carolina, and served as a Lieutenant with the 8th Infantry during the War of 1812. Following his discharge in 1815 he co-founded the King's Mountain Iron Works near what is now Cherokee Falls, and built it into one of the southeast's largest iron producers. In 1822 he suffered a setback when flooding destroyed his furnaces; forced to sell his assets at public auction, he bought them...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 55, Site 104
Blair, James b. 1790 d. April 1, 1834
US Congressman. Nicknamed "The Waxhaw Giant". Elected to represent South Carolina's 9th District in the US House of Representatives, he served four terms, from 1821 to 1822 and from 1829 until his death. Blair was born in South Carolina's Waxhaw Settlement to a family of Irish-Scots immigrants. He became Sheriff of the Lancaster District while in his early 20s, and in 1818 was elected General of the State Militia's 8th Brigade. From roughly 1820 he operated a successful plantation along...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 30, Site 72
Bland, Theodorick b. March 21, 1742 d. June 1, 1790
US Congressman. Elected to represent Virginia's 9th District in the First Congress, he served from 1789 until his death. He was the first US Congressman to die in office. Bland was born at Cawsons in Prince George County, Virginia, into a family of notable planters and politicians. His uncle was Continental Congressman Richard Bland. After receiving a classical education in England, he studied medicine in Edinburgh and returned home to work as a physician. During the Revolution he entered the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bobb Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 31, Site 48

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