Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  Martha Washington (1731-1802) — also known asMartha Dandridge;Martha DandridgeCustis —Born inNew KentCounty, Va.,June 13,1731.FirstLady of the United States, 1789-97.Female.Slaveowner. Died inFairfaxCounty, Va.,May 22,1802 (age70 years, 343days).Entombed atMt.Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.  | George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as"Father of His Country";"TheAmerican Fabius" —of Virginia. Born inWestmorelandCounty, Va., February 11, 1731/32 o.s. (February22, 1732).Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in theContinental Army during the Revolutionary War;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787;Presidentof the United States, 1789-97.Episcopalian.Englishancestry. Member,Freemasons;Societyof the Cincinnati;AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, heserved as thefirstPresident and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected totheHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Slaveowner. Died, probably fromacute bacterialepiglottitis, atFairfaxCounty, Va.,December14, 1799 (age67 years, 295days).Entombed atMt.Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument atNationalMall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 atWashingtonCircle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 atBoston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married,January6, 1759, toMarthaDandridge Custis (aunt ofBurwellBassett); step-father ofJohnParke Custis; uncle ofBushrodWashington; granduncle by marriage ofCharlesMagill Conrad; granduncle ofJohnThornton Augustine Washington andGeorgeCorbin Washington; great-granduncle of Jane Washington AugustaThornton (who marriedJamesBurnie Beck); second great-granduncle ofGeorgeWashington Thornton Beck; first cousin six times removed ofArcherWoodford; second cousin ofHowellLewis; second cousin once removed ofMeriwetherLewis; second cousin twice removed ofHowellCobb (1772-1818),SulifandSutherland Ross andDavidShelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed ofWalkerPeyton Conway,HowellCobb (1815-1868),ThomasReade Rootes Cobb,JamesDavid Walker andDavidShelby Walker Jr.; second cousin four times removed ofAndrewJackson Cobb; second cousin five times removed ofThomasHenry Ball Jr.,Williamde Bruyn=Kops,HoraceLee Washington,EdwinMcPherson Holden,ClaudeC. Ball,ArthurWesley Holden andFranklinDelano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed ofHenryRootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed ofSamuelBullitt Churchill andThomasLeonidas Crittenden. | | | | Political family:Washingtonfamily of Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:HenryLee —JoshuaFry —AlexanderDimitry —TobiasLear —DavidMathews —RufusPutnam | | | | Washington counties inAla.,Ark.,Colo.,Fla.,Ga.,Idaho,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Kan.,Ky.,La.,Maine,Md.,Minn.,Miss.,Mo.,Neb.,N.Y.,N.C.,Ohio,Okla.,Ore.,Pa.,R.I.,Tenn.,Tex.,Utah,Vt.,Va. andWis. arenamed for him. | | | | ThecityofWashington,D.C., isnamed forhim. — Thestateof Washington isnamed forhim. —MountWashington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. — Theminorplanet886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:GeneralWashington Johnston—GeorgeWashington Lent Marr—GeorgeWashington Heard—GeorgeWashington Barnett—GeorgeWashington Davis—GeorgeW. Owen—GeorgeW. Toland—GeorgeW. Lay—GeorgeW. Patterson—GeorgeW. B. Towns—GeorgeWashington Adams—GeorgeWashington Hockley—GeorgeW. Smyth—G.W. Ingersoll—GeorgeW. Hopkins—GeorgeWashington Montgomery—JosephGeorge Washington Duncan—GeorgeW. Kittredge—GeorgeWashington Juden, Sr.—GeorgeW. Jones—GeorgeWashington Lane—GeorgeW. Harrison—GeorgeWashington Ewing—GeorgeWashington Seabrook—GeorgeW. Morrison—GeorgeW. Woodward—GeorgeWashington Wright—GeorgeWashington Triplett—GeorgeWashington Glasscock—GeorgeW. Schuyler—GeorgeWashington Holman—GeorgeW. Greene—GeorgeW. Johnson—GeorgeW. Wolcott—GeorgeW. Paschal—GeorgeWashington Dunlap—GeorgeWashington Warren—GeorgeWashington Hill—GeorgeWashington Logan—GeorgeW. Getchell—GeorgeW. Wright—GeorgeW. Julian—GeorgeWashington Dyal—GeorgeW. Ladd—GeorgeW. Peck—GeorgeWashington Nesmith—GeorgeW. Morgan—GeorgeWashington Brooks—GeorgeWashington Cowles—GeorgeW. Geddes—GeorgeWashington Whitmore—GeorgeWashington Bridges—GeorgeW. Cate—GeorgeW. Houk—GeorgeW. Webber—GeorgeW. Bemis—GeorgeW. Batchelder—GeorgeWashington Fairbrother—GeorgeW. Glick—GeorgeW. Ryland—GeorgeW. Jones—GeorgeW. Baker—GeorgeW. Shell—GeorgeW. Anderson—GeorgeW. Crouse—GeorgeW. Hulick—GeorgeW. Allen—GeorgeW. F. Harper—GeorgeWashington Clark—GeorgeW. McCrary—GeorgeW. Gordon—GeorgeW. Kingsbury—GeorgeW. Covington—GeorgeWashington Fleeger—GeorgeW. Steele—GeorgeW. Wilson—GeorgeW. Martin—GeorgeW. E. Dorsey—GeorgeW. Plunkitt—GeorgeW. Furbush—GeorgeW. Sutton—GeorgeW. Curtin—GeorgeW. Ray—GeorgeW. Roosevelt—GeorgeW. Smith—GeorgeW. Kipp—GeorgeW. Campbell—GeorgeW. Taylor—GeorgeW. Stone—GeorgeW. Bartch—GeorgeW. Shonk—GeorgeW. Paul—GeorgeW. Cook—GeorgeW. Clarke—GeorgeW. Murray—GeorgeW. Faris—GeorgeW. Fithian—GeorgeW. Prince—GeorgeW. Buckner—GeorgeW. Cromer—GeorgeW. Donaghey—GeorgeT. Beck—GeorgeW. Aldridge—GeorgeWashington Wagoner—GeorgeWashington Goethals—GeorgeW. Armstrong—GeorgeW. Lovejoy—GeorgeW. Oakes—GeorgeW. Hays—GeorgeW. Edmonds—GeorgeW. Lindsay—GeorgeWashington Jones—T.G. W. Tarver—GeorgeW. Darden—GeorgeW. McCaskrin—GeorgeWashington English—GeorgeWashington Jones—GeorgeW. Mead—GeorgeW. Collins—GeorgeW. Gibbons—GeorgeW. List—GeorgeW. Calkin—GeorgeWashington Sullivan—GeorgeW. Rauch—GeorgeW. Michell—GeorgeWashington Jackson—GeorgeW. Blanchard—GeorgeWashington Herz—GeorgeW. Bristow—GeorgeWashington Hardy—GeorgeW. Ballard—GeorgeW. McKown—GeorgeW. Collins | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. Hisportraitalso appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency,and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about George Washington: RichardBrookhiser,FoundingFather: Rediscovering George Washington — James ThomasFlexner,Washington:The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall,GeorgeWashington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith,Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation —Henry Wiencek,AnImperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation ofAmerica — James MacGregor Burns,GeorgeWashington — Joseph J. Ellis,HisExcellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal,InventingA Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton,TheBulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's ProvidentialCare — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] — Wendie C. Old,GeorgeWashington (for young readers) | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | John Parke Custis (1754-1781) — also known asJacky Custis — ofFairfaxCounty, Va.Born inNew KentCounty, Va.,November27, 1754.Planter;member ofVirginiastate house of delegates from Fairfax County, 1778-81.Died, probably fromtyphus ordysentery,inNewKent County, Va.,November5, 1781 (age26 years, 343days).Interment atMt.Vernon, Fairfax County, Va. | | Carter Bassett Harrison (c.1756-1808) — of Virginia. Born inCharlesCity County, Va., about 1756.Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1784-86, 1805-08;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1793-99 (13th District 1793-97,at-large 1797-99).Died inPrinceGeorge County, Va.,April18, 1808 (ageabout 52years).Burial location unknown. | | Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) — ofAlexandria,Va.;Richmond,Va.Born inWestmorelandCounty, Va.,June 5,1762.Lawyer;member of Virginia state legislature, 1787;delegateto Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution fromWestmoreland County, 1788;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1798-1829; died in office 1829.Episcopalian.Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,November26, 1829 (age67 years, 174days).Entombed atMt.Vernon, Fairfax County, Va. | | Tobias Lear (1762-1816) — of Virginia. Born in Portsmouth,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,September19, 1762.Private secretary toGeorgeWashington, 1790-99; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) inCape Hatien, 1801-03.Killedhimself, in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,October11, 1816 (age54 years, 22days).Interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Burwell Bassett (1764-1841) — ofWilliamsburg,Va.Born inNew KentCounty, Va.,March18, 1764.Democrat. Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1787-89, 1819-21; member ofVirginiastate senate, 1794-1805;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1805-13, 1815-19, 1821-29 (at-large1805-07, 12th District 1807-09, 22nd District 1809-11, 12th District1811-13, 13th District 1815-19, 8th District 1821-29).Slaveowner. Died, after afall fromhishorse, inNew KentCounty, Va.,February26, 1841 (age76 years, 345days).Interment atElthamPlantation, New Kent County, Va.  | William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) — also known as"Tippecanoe";"OldTip";"Farmer of North Bend";"General Mum";"Cincinnatus of theWest" —of Vincennes,KnoxCounty, Ind.; Cincinnati,HamiltonCounty, Ohio.Born in Berkeley,CharlesCity County, Va.,February9, 1773.Whig.Secretaryof Northwest Territory, 1798-99;Delegateto U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800;Governorof Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army duringthe War of 1812;U.S.Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member ofOhiostate senate, 1819-21; Presidential Elector for Ohio,1820(voted forJamesMonroe andDanielD. Tompkins); candidate forGovernor ofOhio, 1820; Presidential Elector for Ohio,1824(voted forHenryClay andNathanSanford);U.S.Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister toGran Colombia, 1828-29;Presidentof the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.Episcopalian.Englishancestry.Slaveowner. Died ofpneumoniaortyphoid,at theWhiteHouse,Washington,D.C.,April 4,1841 (age68 years, 54days).Interment atHarrisonTomb, North Bend, Ohio.| | Relatives: SonofBenjaminHarrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother ofCarterBassett Harrison; married,November22, 1795, toAnnaTuthill Symmes (daughter ofJohnCleves Symmes); father ofJohnScott Harrison (1804-1878); grandfather ofBenjaminHarrison (1833-1901) andJohnScott Harrison (1844-1926); great-grandfather ofRussellBenjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather ofWilliamHenry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin ofBeverleyRandolph andBurwellBassett; first cousin once removed ofRobertCarter Nicholas (1729-1780) andWilliamFitzhugh; first cousin twice removed ofCarterHenry Harrison andJohnBreckinridge Castleman; first cousin thrice removed ofCarterHenry Harrison II; second cousin ofGeorgeNicholas,WilsonCary Nicholas andJohnNicholas; second cousin once removed ofPeytonRandolph andRobertCarter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed ofThomasMarshall,JamesKeith Marshall,PeterMyndert Dox,EdmundRandolph andWilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee; second cousin thrice removed ofEdmundRandolph Cocke,ConnallyFindlay Trigg,RichardEvelyn Byrd,HarryBartow Hawes andWilliamWelby Beverley; second cousin four times removed ofFrancisBeverley Biddle andHarryFlood Byrd; second cousin five times removed ofHarryFlood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofRobertMonroe Harrison. | | | | Political families:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York;Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardsonfamily of Virginia;Washingtonfamily of Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Harrison counties inInd.,Iowa,Miss. andOhio arenamed for him. | | | | ThecityofHarrison,New Jersey, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:WilliamH. Harrison Taylor—WilliamH. H. Bingham—WilliamH. H. Ross—WilliamH. H. Comstock—WilliamH. H. Bailey—WilliamH. H. Lewis—W.H. H. Eba—WilliamH. H. Wroe—WilliamH. H. Dickinson—WilliamH. H. Gere—WilliamH. H. Clayton—WilliamH. H. Allen—WilliamH. H. Beadle—WilliamH. H. Keeney—WilliamH. H. Varney—WilliamH. H. Cowles—WilliamH. H. Stowell—WilliamH. H. Miller—WilliamH. H. Cook—WilliamH. H. Hill—WilliamH. H. Flick—WilliamH. H. Sieg—WilliamH. H. Slack—WilliamH. H. Webster—WilliamH. H. Fine—WilliamH. Heard—WilliamH. H. Hart—WilliamH. H. Llewellyn—WilliamH. H. Lea—WilliamH. H. Cash—WilliamH. H. Bowen—WilliamH. H. Heath—WilliamH. H. Gardner | | | | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe andTyler Too." | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about William Henry Harrison:Freeman Cleaves,OldTippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —Norma Lois Peterson,Presidenciesof William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — DavidLillard,WilliamHenry Harrison (for young readers) | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | John Thornton Augustine Washington (1783-1841) — Born near Charles Town,JeffersonCounty, Va. (now W.Va.),May 20,1783.Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1820.Episcopalian.Died near Charles Town,JeffersonCounty, Va (now W.Va.),October9, 1841 (age58 years, 142days).Burial location unknown. | | George Corbin Washington (1789-1854) — also known asGeorge C. Washington — of Rockville,MontgomeryCounty, Md.Born near Oak Grove,WestmorelandCounty, Va.,August20, 1789.Member ofMarylandstate house of delegates, 1816-19;U.S.Representative from Maryland, 1827-33, 1835-37 (3rd District1827-33, 5th District 1835-37); member ofMarylandstate executive council, 1834-35.Slaveowner. Died in Georgetown,Washington,D.C.,July 17,1854 (age64 years, 331days).Interment atOakHill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | John Scott Harrison (1804-1878) — of Cleves,HamiltonCounty, Ohio.Born in Vincennes,KnoxCounty, Ind.,October4, 1804.Farmer;U.S.Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1853-57.Died near North Bend,HamiltonCounty, Ohio,May 25,1878 (age73 years, 233days).Interment atHarrisonTomb, North Bend, Ohio.| | Relatives: SonofWilliamHenry Harrison (1773-1841) andAnnaHarrison; married1824 toLucretia Knapp; married,August12, 1831, to Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin; father ofBenjaminHarrison (1833-1901) andJohnScott Harrison (1844-1926); nephew ofCarterBassett Harrison; grandson ofBenjaminHarrison (1726-1791) andJohnCleves Symmes; grandfather ofRussellBenjamin Harrison; great-grandfather ofWilliamHenry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin once removed ofBeverleyRandolph andBurwellBassett; first cousin twice removed ofRobertCarter Nicholas (1729-1780) andWilliamFitzhugh; second cousin once removed ofGeorgeNicholas,WilsonCary Nicholas,JohnNicholas,CarterHenry Harrison andJohnBreckinridge Castleman; second cousin twice removed ofCarterHenry Harrison II; third cousin ofPeytonRandolph andRobertCarter Nicholas (1787-1857); third cousin once removed ofThomasMarshall,JamesKeith Marshall,PeterMyndert Dox,EdmundRandolph andWilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee; third cousin twice removed ofEdmundRandolph Cocke,ConnallyFindlay Trigg,RichardEvelyn Byrd,HarryBartow Hawes andWilliamWelby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed ofFrancisBeverley Biddle andHarryFlood Byrd; fourth cousin once removed ofBerthaMapes. | | | | Political families:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York;Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardsonfamily of Virginia;Washingtonfamily of Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article |
| | William Henry Bagwell Custis (1814-1889) — also known asWilliam H. B. Custis — ofAccomackCounty, Va.Born inAccomackCounty, Va.,December28, 1814.Delegateto Virginia secession convention from Accomac County, 1861.Died inAccomackCounty, Va.,October7, 1889 (age74 years, 283days).Intermentaprivate or family graveyard, Accomack County, Va. | | Horace Lee Washington (1864-1938) — Born inWashington,D.C.,June 4,1864.Lawyer;U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General inCairo, 1894-96; U.S. Consul inAlexandretta, 1896-99;Valencia, 1899-1900;Geneva, 1901-05;Liverpool, 1909-22; U.S. Consul General inCape Town, 1905-06;Marseille, 1908-09;Liverpool, as of 1924;London, as of 1926-27.DiedAugust27, 1938 (age74 years, 84days).Burial location unknown.
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