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Acheson, Dean Gooderham b. April 11, 1893 d. October 12, 1971
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Educated at the Harvard Law School, early in his career he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, prior to entering the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration as Under Secretary of the Treasury. During World War II, he served at the Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and after the war, he remained in the Truman Administration as Under Secretary of State for Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. On January 21, 1949...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Chapel, Lot 18
Aiken, Frederick Argyle b. September 20, 1837 d. December 23, 1878
The Conspirator, is a movie about Aiken and his client, Mrs. Surratt. Aiken is played by James McAvoy. Alexis Bledel plays his wife, Sarah. Mary Surratt is played by Robin Wright Penn.

Lincoln Assassination Trial Attorney. A Massachusetts native he moved with his parents to Hardwick, Vermont when he was ten years old. As a young man he studied at Middlebury College from 1855 to 1857. Drawn to journalism he became the editor of the Burlington Sentinel. After he married Sarah...[Read More] (Bio by: SLGMSD)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: North Hill, Lot 79
Baird, Spencer Fullerton b. February 3, 1823 d. August 19, 1887
Naturalist. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, he graduated from Dickinson College in 1840 and became professor of natural history there in 1845. Becoming assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1850, he began amassing the Smithsonian's huge collection of birds, reptiles, and other animals. He published "Birds" (1858), "Mammals of North America" (1859), and "History of North American Birds" (1875 to 1884). He was appointed Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries in 1871 and...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Balch, Rev. Stephen Bloomer b. April 5, 1747 d. September 22, 1833
Presbyterian Minister, Educator, Revolutionary War Officer. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774 and became head of the Lower Marlborough Academy in Calvert County, Maryland. During the Revolution he served as a Captain and led a charge of students on missions that harassed the British along the Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent River, a strategy that the more famous Joshua Barney would copy during the War of 1812. In 1780, Balch established Georgetown...[Read More]
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 632 1/2
Barnes, Joseph K. b. July 21, 1817 d. April 5, 1883
Civil War Union Brigader General
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 626
Barry, Henry W. b. 1840 d. 1875
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. In 1861, he helped organize a regiment of colored troops and was commissioned a 1st lieutenant in the Tenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted Colonel in command of the 8th US Colored Artillery Corps and particapated in the Kentucky Wilderness Campaigns the entire Civil War. For dedication of duty, he was brevetted Brigadier General of US Volunteers in March 1865. After the war, he was admitted to the bar in 1867...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Birney, William b. May 28, 1819 d. August 14, 1907
Civil War Union Brevet Major General. When the Civil War broke out, he was commissioned a Captain in the 1st New Jersey Infantry and took part in the Battle of Bull Run. Promoted to Major in the 4th New Jersey Infantry, he served with the 4th New Jersey through the Chancellorsville Campaign. Commissioned a Brigadier General in May 1863, he became the recruiting officer for black troops in Maryland. In 1864, Birney and his regiments became part of the Union Department of the South. Birney's...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 626
Blaine, James G. [original burial site] b. 1831 d. January, 1893
US Congressman, US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Born in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, he was raised in the western part of the state and was schooled at Washington College. After graduation, he taught school and attended law school; entering the newspaper business in Maine, he edited the Kennebec Journal in 1854 and established himself as a political power. Through his newspaper he successfully urged Maine voters to abandon the Whigs and adopt the infant Republican party, for...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Stewart, Lots 512-513 East.
Blake, James H. b. 1768 d. July 29, 1819
US Mayor. Blake served as the Mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1813 to 1817.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este b. February 12, 1898 d. December 6, 1977
US Diplomat. He was the son of United States Senator William Cabell Bruce and served in both the Maryland and Virginia House of Delegates. A Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he joined the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA, and was administrative head of the London base of the OSS. He was appointed Ambassador to France, serving from 1949 to 1952 before being appointed Undersecretary of State by President Truman, Served as Ambassador to West Germany...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Bryan, Charles Page b. October 2, 1856 d. March 13, 1918
Diplomat. He attended the University of Virginia and Columbian College (now George Washington University) Law School and became an attorney in Colorado. Bryan also served as editor of two newspapers and a member of the Colorado National Guard. In 1880 he served in the state House of Representatives. In 1882 he moved to Chicago and joined the Illinois National Guard, attaining the rank of colonel on the staffs of several governors. From 1888 to 1897 he served in the Illinois House of...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 694
Call, Wilkinson b. January 9, 1834 d. August 24, 1910
US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Florida to the United States Senate. Served during the Civil War in the Confederate Army.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Capron, Horace b. August 31, 1804 d. February 22, 1885
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was called upon to establish and later to lead, an Illinois cavalry regiment. Appointed as Colonel of the 14th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, he was the oldest cavalry officer in the Union Army. Seeing action in a number of battles, he was wounded on August 3, 1864, at Athens, Georgia. Due to his injury he left active service and for merit was brevetted Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers on March 13, 1865...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Carpenter, Matthew Hale [original burial site] b. December 22, 1824 d. February 24, 1881
US Senator from Wisconsin. Born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter, the Vermont native attended West Point (1843 to 1845), studied law, and became a practicing attorney in Boston, Massachusetts in 1847. The following year he moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, where he changed his name to Matthew Hale Carpenter and served as District Attorney for Rock County (1850 to 1854). In 1858 he settled in Milwaukee, winning a reputation for tackling cases that involved important social issues of the day...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Carroll, Samuel Sprigg b. September 21, 1831 d. January 28, 1893
Civil War Union Brevet Major General. Nicknamed "Old Brick Top", when the Civil War began he was released from West Point for field duty in the fall of 1861. By December he was made Colonel of the 8th Ohio Regiment, joining his command in West Virginia. Known as a fearless leader, he fought in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Cedar Mountain and was wounded at Rapidan River. At the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, he ordered his troops to fix bayonets and charge, resulting in Union...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: North Hill, Lot 292, Carroll Family Mausoleum, Vault 15
Carter, Samuel Powhatan b. August 6, 1819 d. May 26, 1891
Civil War Union Brevet Major General. At the beginning of the Civil War, Carter was a professor at the Naval Academy when requseted for special duty at the US War Department. He was sent to Tennessee to organize and train volunteers troops. He soon was commanding a Tennessee Brigade and was commissioned a Brigadier General in May 1862. In 1863, he was placed in command of the XXIII Corps Cavalry Division. He led the Union Cavalry to victories across Tennessee at Holston, Carter's Station...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 822
Casey, Joseph b. December 17, 1814 d. February 10, 1879
US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 13th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1849 to 1851. Also served as Judge of the United States Court of Claims in 1861. (Bio by: K)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Chase, Salmon Portland [original burial site] b. January 13, 1808 d. May 7, 1873
US Senator, Ohio Governor, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. United States Chief Justice. Born in Cornish, New Hampshire, at the age of 9, his father died and he went to live with his uncle, Philander Chase, who was the Bishop of Ohio. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1826, then went to Washington D.C., where he studied law under William Wirt, who also at this time was United States attorney general. Wirt was also known to have participated in many of the most important Supreme Court cases...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Reno Hill, Lot 687 (Unmarked)
Cutler, Lloyd Norton b. November 10, 1917 d. May 8, 2005
A Washington legal mandarin for six decades he served as White House counsel under Presidents Carter, 1979-80 and Clinton in 1994. He was Senior counsel to the president on ratification of the SALT II Treaty from 1970 to 1980. He also served on President Reagan's Commission of Strategic Forces, known as the Scowcroft Commission, from 1983 to 1984 and the first President Bush's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform in 1989. From 2000 to 2001, he was the co-chairman of the Secretary of Energy...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Cutts, Richard b. 1771 d. 1845
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts 14th District and as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1801 to 1813. He also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State Legislature. He was originally interred in the St. John's Graveyard in Washington, D.C., but reinterred here in 1857. (Bio by: K)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Chapel Valley, Lot: 407

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