Very incomplete list!in chronological order | |  Philip Livingston (1716-1778) — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.,January15, 1716.Member ofNew Yorkcolonial assembly, 1769, 1776;Delegateto Continental Congress from New York, 1775-78; died in office1778;signer,Declaration of Independence, 1776; member ofNew Yorkstate senate Southern District, 1777-78; died in office 1778.Presbyterian.Died while attending the sixth session of theContinentalCongress in York,YorkCounty, Pa.,June 12,1778 (age62 years, 148days).Entombed atProspectHill Cemetery, York, Pa.; memorial monument atConstitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.| |  Relatives: Sonof Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catrina (Van Brugh) Livingston;brother ofRobertLivingston (1708-1790),PeterVan Brugh Livingston andWilliamLivingston; married,April14, 1740, to Christina Ten Broeck; nephew ofJohnLivingston,RobertLivingston (1688-1775) andGilbertLivingston; uncle by marriage ofJamesDuane andWilliamDuer (1747-1799); uncle ofPeterRobert Livingston (1737-1794),WalterLivingston,PhilipPeter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who marriedNicholasBayard), Susannah Livingston (who marriedJohnCleves Symmes), Susanna Livingston (who marriedJohnKean (1756-1795)), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who marriedJohnJay) andHenryBrockholst Livingston; grandson ofRobertLivingston the Elder andPieterVan Brugh; grandfather ofStephenVan Rensselaer,PhilipSchuyler Van Rensselaer,RensselaerWesterlo andEdwardPhilip Livingston; grandnephew ofPieterSchuyler (1657-1724),JohannesCuyler andJohannesSchuyler (1668-1747); granduncle ofHenryWalter Livingston,PeterAugustus Jay (1776-1843),WilliamAlexander Duer,JohnDuer,WilliamJay andCharlesLudlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather ofPhilipSchuyler,EdwardLivingston (1796-1840) andHenryBell Van Rensselaer; great-granduncle ofPeterRobert Livingston (1789-1859),WilliamDuer (1805-1879),DenningDuer,HenryBrockholst Ledyard andJohnJay II; second great-grandfather ofKiliaenVan Rensselaer; second great-granduncle ofNicholasFish,HamiltonFish Jr. (1849-1936),JohnKean (1852-1914),HamiltonFish Kean andCharlesLudlow Livingston (born 1870); third great-grandfather ofRobertReginald Livingston; third great-granduncle ofHerbertLivingston Satterlee,PeterAugustus Jay (1877-1933),BronsonMurray Cutting,HamiltonFish Jr. (1888-1991),RobertWinthrop Kean andBrockholstLivingston; fourth great-grandfather ofJohnEliot Thayer Jr.; fourth great-granduncle ofHamiltonFish Jr. (1926-1996) andThomasHoward Kean; fifth great-granduncle ofHamiltonFish (born 1951),AlexaFish Ward andThomasHoward Kean Jr.; ancestor *** ofRobertLivingston Beeckman; first cousin ofRobertGilbert Livingston,HenryGilbert Livingston andRobertR. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed ofRobertLivingston the Younger,JohannesSchuyler (1697-1746),CornelisCuyler,JohnCruger Jr.,RobertR. Livingston (1746-1813),PhilipVan Cortlandt,PierreVan Cortlandt Jr. andEdwardLivingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed ofDavidDavidse Schuyler,MyndertDavidtse Schuyler andHamiltonFish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed ofGilbertLivingston Thompson andJohnJacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed ofWilliamWaldorf Astor andJonathanMayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed ofGuyVernor Henry,WilliamAstor Chanler,LewisStuyvesant Chanler,MontgomerySchuyler Jr.,PeterGoelet Gerry,HelenRoosevelt Robinson andOgdenLivingston Mills; second cousin ofStephanusBayard,PierreVan Cortlandt,PhilipP. Schuyler,StephenJohn Schuyler andHenryCruger; second cousin once removed ofJeremiahVan Rensselaer,RobertVan Rensselaer,PieterSchuyler (1746-1792),JamesLivingston,PeterSamuel Schuyler,PhilipJeremiah Schuyler andJamesParker; second cousin twice removed ofPeterRobert Livingston (1766-1847),JacobRutsen Van Rensselaer,MaturinLivingston,JamesAlexander Hamilton,GeorgeWashington Schuyler,JohnCortlandt Parker andPhilipN. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed ofGerritSmith,ElizabethCady Stanton,JamesAdams Ekin,EugeneSchuyler,RichardWayne Parker andCharlesWolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed ofRobertRay Hamilton,JohnSluyter Wirt,CortlandtSchuyler Van Rensselaer andKarlCortlandt Schuyler; second cousin five times removed ofMariettaPeabody Tree andEndicottPeabody. | | | | Political family:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article |
| | Samuel Hardy (c.1758-1785) — of Virginia. Born inIsle ofWight County, Va., about 1758.Lawyer;member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1778, 1780-82;LieutenantGovernor of Virginia, 1782;Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-85; died in office1785.Died while attending theContinental Congress in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,October17, 1785 (ageabout 27years).Interment atChristChurch Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa. | | Samuel John Atlee (1739-1786) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Trenton,MercerCounty, N.J.,1739.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;Delegateto Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-82; member ofPennsylvaniastate house of representatives, 1782, 1785-86.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati.Died at a session of the PennsylvaniaAssembly atPhiladelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,November25, 1786 (ageabout 47years).Interment atChristChurch Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa. | | Abner Nash (1740-1786) — ofJonesCounty, N.C.Born near Farmville,PrinceEdward County, Va.,August8, 1740.Lawyer;member ofVirginiaHouse of Burgesses, 1761-65; member ofNorthCarolina house of commons, 1777-78, 1782, 1784-85; member ofNorthCarolina state senate from Jones County, 1779;Governor ofNorth Carolina, 1780-81;Delegateto Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-86; died inoffice 1786.Welshancestry.Died while attending a session of theContinental Congress, inNew York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,December2, 1786 (age46 years, 116days).Original interment atSt.Paul's Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment atPembrokePlantation Cemetery, New Bern, N.C. | | Benjamin Andrew (1730-1790) — of Georgia. Born in Dorchester, Charleston District (nowDorchesterCounty), S.C.,1730.Planter;member ofGeorgiaState Executive Council, 1777; electedDelegateto Continental Congress from Georgia 1780, but did not serve.Died on the floor of the GeorgiaHouse of Representatives, inthe thenstatecapitol building, Augusta,RichmondCounty, Ga.,December16, 1790 (ageabout 60years).Burial location unknown. | | John Caldwell (1757-1804) — of Kentucky. Born inPrinceEdward County, Va.,1757.Member ofKentuckystate senate, 1792;LieutenantGovernor of Kentucky, 1804; died in office 1804.Died, of an "inflammation of the brain" (probably astroke),while presiding over the KentuckyState Senate, at the thenstatecapitol building, Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.,1804(ageabout47 years).Interment atFrankfortCemetery, Frankfort, Ky. | | Thomas Tyler Bouldin (1781-1834) — of Virginia. Born near Charlotte Court House,CharlotteCounty, Va.,1781.Democrat.Lawyer;circuit judge in Virginia, 1810;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1829-33, 1833-34 (5th District1829-33, 8th District 1833-34); died in office 1834.Slaveowner. Died while addressing theHouse of Representatives in theU.S.Capitol Building,Washington,D.C.,February11, 1834 (ageabout 52years).Intermentaprivate or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.  | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) — also known as"Old Man Eloquent";"TheAccidental President";"The MassachusettsMadman" —of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Quincy,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy),NorfolkCounty, Mass.,July 11,1767.Lawyer;U.S. Minister toNetherlands, 1794-97;Prussia, 1797-1801;Russia, 1809-14;Great Britain, 1815-17; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1802;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808;U.S.Secretary of State, 1817-25;Presidentof the United States, 1825-29;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office1848; candidate forGovernor ofMassachusetts, 1834.Unitarian.Englishancestry. Member,AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1905.Suffered astrokewhile speaking on the floor of the U.S.House ofRepresentatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later inthe Speaker'soffice,U.S.CapitolBuilding,Washington,D.C.,February23, 1848 (age80 years, 227days).Original interment atHancockCemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment atUnitedFirst Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: SonofJohnAdams andAbigailAdams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who marriedWilliamStephens Smith); married,July 26,1797, toLouisaCatherine Johnson (daughter ofJoshuaJohnson; sister-in-law ofJohnPope; niece ofThomasJohnson); father ofGeorgeWashington Adams andCharlesFrancis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather ofJohnQuincy Adams (1833-1894) andBrooksAdams; great-grandfather ofCharlesFrancis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather ofThomasBoylston Adams; first cousin ofWilliamCranch; second cousin once removed ofSamuelAdams; second cousin twice removed ofEdwardM. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed ofArthurChapin; second cousin five times removed ofDenwoodLynn Chapin; third cousin ofJosephAllen; third cousin once removed ofSamuelSewall,JosiahQuincy,ThomasCogswell (1799-1868) andJohnMilton Thayer; third cousin twice removed ofWilliamVincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed ofLymanKidder Bass,DanielT. Hayden,ArthurLaban Bates andAlmurStiles Whiting; fourth cousin ofJeremiahMason,JosiahQuincy Jr.,GeorgeBailey Loring andThomasCogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed ofAsahelOtis,ErastusFairbanks,CharlesStetson,HenryBrewster Stanton,CharlesAdams Jr.,IsaiahStetson,JoshuaPerkins,EliThayer,BaileyFrye Adams andSamuelMiller Quincy. | | | | Political family:Kidderfamily of Bangor, Maine (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:JohnSmith —ThurlowWeed | | | | Adams counties inIll. andInd. arenamed for him. | | | | MountQuincy Adams, in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. —MountQuincy Adams, on the border betweenBritishColumbia, Canada, andHoonah-AngoonCensus Area, Alaska, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:J.Q. A. Vale—JohnQ. A. Brackett—JohnQ. A. Shelden—J.Q. A. Reber | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S.State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C.Nagel,JohnQuincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — LynnHudson Parsons,JohnQuincy Adams — Robert V. Remini,JohnQuincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan,Mr.Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's ExtraordinaryPost-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy,Profilesin Courage — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | John C. Bell (c.1831-1860) — ofElDorado County, Calif.Born about 1831. Member ofCaliforniastate assembly 18th District, 1860; died in office 1860.During an argument just outside theAssembly session in theCaliforniaState Capitol, wasshot andstabbedby Dr. W. H. Stone,mortallywounded, and died four days later, in Sacramento,SacramentoCounty, Calif.,April15, 1860 (ageabout 29years).Interment atSacramentoCity Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif. | | Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (1821-1864) — also known asMuscoe R. H. Garnett — ofEssexCounty, Va.Born inEssexCounty, Va.,July 25,1821.Democrat.Delegateto Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850-51; member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1853-57;U.S.Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1856-61;delegateto Virginia secession convention from Essex & King-and-Queencounties, 1861;Representativefrom Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; died inoffice 1864.Slaveowner. Contractedtyphoidfever while attending theConfederate Congress, in theVirginiaStateCapitol, Richmond, Va., and died at his home inEssexCounty, Va.,February14, 1864 (age42 years, 204days).Intermentaprivate or family graveyard, Essex County, Va. | | Jeremiah Weldon South (1805-1880) — also known asJere South;"The Father of BreathittCounty" —ofOwsleyCounty, Ky.Born inMadisonCounty, Ky.,July 10,1805.Member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1840; member ofKentuckystate senate, 1843-47.Died on the floor of the KentuckyState Senate, oldStateCapitol Building, Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.,April15, 1880 (age74 years, 280days).Interment atFrankfortCemetery, Frankfort, Ky. | | Leonidas Johnson Rountree (1868-1923) — also known asLee J. Rountree — of Texas. Born in Dripping Springs,HaysCounty, Tex.,July 15,1868.Newspaperpublisher; member ofTexasstate house of representatives, 1921-23; died in office 1923.Died of astroke,after giving a passionate speech in theHouse ofRepresentatives, in the TexasCapitol,Austin,TravisCounty, Tex.,May 2,1923 (age54 years, 291days).Interment atBryanCity Cemetery, Bryan, Tex. | | Edward Everett Eslick (1872-1932) — also known asEdward E. Eslick — of Pulaski,GilesCounty, Tenn.Born near Pulaski,GilesCounty, Tenn.,April19, 1872.Democrat.Lawyer;alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,1916;U.S.Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1925-32; died inoffice 1932.Died suddenly while addressing the U.S.House ofRepresentatives, in the U.S.CapitolBuilding,Washington,D.C.,June 14,1932 (age60 years, 56days).Interment atMaplewoodCemetery, Pulaski, Tenn. | | Morris Michael Edelstein (1888-1941) — also known asM. Michael Edelstein — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Meseritz (Międzyrzec),Poland,February5, 1888.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from New York 14th District, 1940-41; died inoffice 1941.Jewish.Completed delivery of a speech on the floor of the U.S.House ofRepresentatives, and then died nearby in the House cloakroom, intheU.S.Capitol Building,Washington,D.C.,June 4,1941 (age53 years, 119days).Interment atMt.Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens, N.Y. | | Russell Vernon Mack (1891-1960) — also known asRussell V. Mack — of Hoquiam,GraysHarbor County, Wash.Born in Hillman,MontmorencyCounty, Mich.,June 13,1891.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;newspaperpublisher;U.S.Representative from Washington 3rd District, 1947-60; died inoffice 1960.Episcopalian.Member,AmericanLegion;Elks.Died suddenly, from acoronaryocclusion, on the floor of the U.S.House ofRepresentatives, in theU.S.Capitol Building,Washington,D.C.,March28, 1960 (age68 years, 289days).Interment atFernHill Cemetery, Aberdeen, Wash. | | William B. Hoyt (c.1938-1992) — also known asBill Hoyt — of Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.Born about 1938. Democrat.Schoolteacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from NewYork,1972;member ofNew Yorkstate assembly 144th District, 1975-92; died in office 1992; candidate formayorof Buffalo, N.Y., 1989.Suffered aheartattack and collapsed, during anAssembly session, in theStateCapitol Building, and died soon after in the AlbanyMedicalCenter, Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.,March25, 1992 (ageabout 54years).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives:Married to Susan Curran. |
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