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. | |  Tapping Reeve (1744-1823) — Born in Brookhaven,SuffolkCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,October1, 1744.Lawyer;member ofConnecticutcouncil of assistants, 1792; superior court judge in Connecticut,1798-1815.Founderof the Litchfield Law School, the first law school in the U.S.Died in Litchfield,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,December13, 1823 (age79 years, 73days).Interment atEastCemetery, Litchfield, Conn. | | Pierpont Edwards (1750-1826) — of Connecticut. Born in Northampton,HampshireCounty, Mass.,April 8,1750.Lawyer;served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;Delegateto Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1787-88;delegateto Connecticut convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives, 1789-90;U.S.Attorney for Connecticut, 1789;U.S.District Judge for Connecticut, 1806;delegateto Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818.Member,Freemasons.Died in Bridgeport,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,April 5,1826 (age75 years, 362days).Interment atGroveStreet Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.| |  Relatives: Sonof Jonathan Edwards and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards; married to FrancesOgden; father ofHenryWaggaman Edwards; uncle ofAaronBurr andTheodoreDwight; second great-grandson ofThomasWillett; first cousin once removed ofJohnDavenport andJamesDavenport; first cousin twice removed ofTheodoreDavenport; first cousin four times removed ofEvertHarris Kittell; first cousin six times removed ofArthurCallen Kittell Jr.; second cousin once removed ofBenjaminTallmadge; second cousin twice removed ofCharlesRobert Sherman andFrederickAugustus Tallmadge; second cousin thrice removed ofCharlesTaylor Sherman,JohnAppleton,WilliamTecumseh Sherman,LampsonParker Sherman,JohnSherman,JosephPomeroy Root andEdwardWilliams Hooker; second cousin four times removed ofEzekielGilbert Stoddard,GeorgeLandon Ingraham,CharlesDunsmore Millard andBlancheM. Woodward; second cousin five times removed ofCharlesH. Chittenden,BradfordR. Lansing,DanielPhoenix Ingraham andLouisEzekiel Stoddard; third cousin once removed ofNoahPhelps andHezekiahCase; third cousin twice removed ofParmenioAdams,ElishaPhelps,AmbroseTuttle,JesseHoyt,AbielCase,JairusCase,JohnLeslie Russell,GeorgeWashington Wolcott,WilliamDean Kellogg andAlmonCase; third cousin thrice removed ofAmosPettibone,WalterBooth,NormanA. Phelps,OliverDwight Filley,WilliamWarner Hoppin,JohnSmith Phelps,AsahelPierson Case,HiramBidwell Case,LeslieWead Russell,CharlesHazen Russell,JohnClarence Keeler andLovelDavis Parmelee; fourth cousin once removed ofWilliamGreene. | | | | Political families:Davenport-Huntingtonfamily of Stamford, Connecticut;Edwards-Burr-Davenportfamily of Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | John Davenport (1752-1830) — of Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,January16, 1752.Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives, 1776; postmaster atStamford,Conn., 1787-92;U.S.Representative from Connecticut, 1799-1817 (at-large 1799-1805,2nd District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09, 3rd District 1809-11,at-large 1811-17).Died in Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,November28, 1830 (age78 years, 316days).Interment atNorthfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.| | Relatives: SonofAbrahamDavenport (1715-1789) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport;brother ofJamesDavenport; married to Mary Sylvester Welles; father ofTheodoreDavenport; first cousin ofHenryHuntington andGurdonHuntington; first cousin once removed ofPierpontEdwards,AbrahamDavenport (1767-1837) andBenjaminNicoll Huntington; first cousin twice removed ofThaddeusBetts; first cousin thrice removed ofJosephPomeroy Root; first cousin five times removed ofAlfredCollins Lockwood andRandolphAppleton Kidder; second cousin ofAaronBurr,TheodoreDwight,AbelHuntington andHenryWaggaman Edwards; second cousin once removed ofSamuelHuntington; second cousin twice removed ofBenjaminHuntington andRogerWolcott; second cousin thrice removed ofEvertHarris Kittell; second cousin four times removed ofJohnFoster Dulles andAllenWelsh Dulles; second cousin five times removed ofArthurCallen Kittell Jr.; third cousin ofJabezHuntington,AaronKitchell,JoshuaCoit,SamuelH. Huntington,AugustusSeymour Porter (1769-1849) andPeterBuell Porter; third cousin once removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington,ZinaHyde Jr.,CharlesRobert Sherman,NathanielHuntington,JamesHuntington,WilliamAugustus Bird,AugustusSeymour Porter (1798-1872),JosephLyman Huntington,PeterBuell Porter Jr.,ElishaMills Huntington andPeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed ofWilliamWoodbridge,JabezWilliams Huntington,IsaacBackus,JohnHall Brockway,HenryTitus Backus,CharlesTaylor Sherman,JohnAppleton,EdwardGreen Bradford,WilliamTecumseh Sherman,LampsonParker Sherman,UlyssesSimpson Grant,JohnSherman,RobertCoit Jr.,CollinsDwight Huntington,GeorgeMilo Huntington,ThomasWorcester Hyde,AlonzoMark Leffingwell,AbialLathrop,PeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925) andEdwardWilliams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed ofAlexanderHamilton Waterman,MatthewGriswold,GeorgeDouglas Perkins,EliasMulford Condit,EzekielGilbert Stoddard,EdwardGreen Bradford II,FrederickDent Grant,UlyssesSimpson Grant Jr.,WilliamBarret Ridgely,CharlesEdward Hyde,ClementPhineas Kellogg,HermanArod Gager,WilliamBrainard Coit,JohnSedgwick Hyde,EdwardWarden Hyde,JohnLeffingwell Randolph,FrancisWatkinson Cole,GeorgeLeffingwell Reed andBlancheM. Woodward; fourth cousin ofChaunceyGoodrich,ElizurGoodrich andHezekiahCase; fourth cousin once removed ofParmenioAdams,AmbroseTuttle,JesseHoyt,AbielCase,CharlesPhelps Huntington,JairusCase,JohnArnold Rockwell,JohnLeslie Russell,GeorgeWashington Wolcott,WilliamDean Kellogg,AlmonCase andAlansonPike. | | | | Political families:Huntington#1 family of Norwich, Connecticut;Davenport-Huntingtonfamily of Stamford, Connecticut;Edwards-Burr-Davenportfamily of Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Aaron Burr (1756-1836) — also known asAaron Edwards — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.,February6, 1756.Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the RevolutionaryWar;lawyer;member ofNew Yorkstate assembly, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01);New Yorkstate attorney general, 1789-91; appointed 1789;U.S.Senator from New York, 1791-97;VicePresident of the United States, 1801-05; KilledAlexanderHamilton in aduel,July 11, 1804;triedfortreasonin 1807; found not guilty.Presbyterian.Slaveowner. Died, after severalstrokes,at the Winants or Port RichmondHotel,Port Richmond, Staten Island,RichmondCounty, N.Y.,September14, 1836 (age80 years, 221days).Interment atPrincetonCemetery, Princeton, N.J.| | Relatives: Sonof Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of SarahBurr (who marriedTappingReeve); married,July 2,1782, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removedofFrancisStebbins Bartow); married1833 to Eliza(Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who marriedJosephAlston); nephew ofPierpontEdwards; third great-grandson ofThomasWillett; ancestor ofKarlaBallard; first cousin ofTheodoreDwight andHenryWaggaman Edwards; first cousin four times removed ofAnsonFoster Keeler; second cousin ofJohnDavenport andJamesDavenport; second cousin once removed ofTheodoreDavenport; second cousin twice removed ofCharlesRobert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed ofCharlesTaylor Sherman,WilliamTecumseh Sherman,LampsonParker Sherman,JohnSherman andEvertHarris Kittell; second cousin four times removed ofChaunceyMitchell Depew,EzekielGilbert Stoddard,StillmanStephen Light andBlancheM. Woodward; second cousin five times removed ofAlfredWalstein Bangs,JohnClarence Keeler,LouisEzekiel Stoddard,JohnCecil Purcell andArthurCallen Kittell Jr.; third cousin ofBenjaminTallmadge; third cousin once removed ofFrederickAugustus Tallmadge; third cousin twice removed ofEliThacher Hoyt,GeorgeSmith Catlin,JohnAppleton,HowkinBulkley Beardslee,JosephPomeroy Root andEdwardWilliams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed ofGreeneCarrier Bronson,AbijahCatlin,DavidMunson Osborne,GeorgeLandon Ingraham,DwightArthur Silliman andCharlesDunsmore Millard; fourth cousin ofNoahPhelps andHezekiahCase; fourth cousin once removed ofParmenioAdams,ElishaPhelps,AmbroseTuttle,JesseHoyt,AbielCase,HenryFisk Janes,JairusCase,JohnLeslie Russell,GeorgeWashington Wolcott,WilliamDean Kellogg andAlmonCase. | | | | Political family:Edwards-Burr-Davenportfamily of Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:JonathanDayton —NathanielPendleton —JohnSmith —JohnTayler —WalterD. Corrigan, Sr. —CowlesMead —LutherMartin —WilliamP. Van Ness —SamuelSwartwout —WilliamWirt —TheophilusW. Smith | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask,AaronBurr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President,1756-1805 — Milton Lomask,AaronBurr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 —Joseph Wheelan,Jefferson'sVendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and theJudiciary — Buckner F. Melton Jr.,AaronBurr : Conspiracy to Treason — Thomas Fleming,Duel:Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future ofAmerica — Arnold A. Rogow,AFatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —H. W. Brands,TheHeartbreak of Aaron Burr — David O. Stewart,AmericanEmperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson'sAmerica — Donald Barr Chidsey,Thegreat conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in theWest — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Fiction about Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal,Burr |
| | James Davenport (1758-1797) — of Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,October12, 1758.Lawyer;member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives, 1785; member ofConnecticutcouncil of assistants, 1790-96; common pleas court judge inConnecticut, 1792;U.S.Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1796-97; died in office1797.Died in Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,August3, 1797 (age38 years, 295days).Interment atNorthfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.| | Relatives: SonofAbrahamDavenport (1715-1789) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport;brother ofJohnDavenport; married,May 7,1777, to Abigail Fitch; married,November6, 1790, to Mehitable Coggeshall; uncle ofTheodoreDavenport; first cousin ofHenryHuntington andGurdonHuntington; first cousin once removed ofPierpontEdwards,AbrahamDavenport (1767-1837) andBenjaminNicoll Huntington; first cousin twice removed ofThaddeusBetts; first cousin thrice removed ofJosephPomeroy Root; first cousin five times removed ofAlfredCollins Lockwood andRandolphAppleton Kidder; second cousin ofAaronBurr,TheodoreDwight,AbelHuntington andHenryWaggaman Edwards; second cousin once removed ofSamuelHuntington; second cousin twice removed ofBenjaminHuntington andRogerWolcott; second cousin thrice removed ofEvertHarris Kittell; second cousin four times removed ofJohnFoster Dulles andAllenWelsh Dulles; second cousin five times removed ofArthurCallen Kittell Jr.; third cousin ofJabezHuntington,AaronKitchell,JoshuaCoit,SamuelH. Huntington,AugustusSeymour Porter (1769-1849) andPeterBuell Porter; third cousin once removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington,ZinaHyde Jr.,CharlesRobert Sherman,NathanielHuntington,JamesHuntington,WilliamAugustus Bird,AugustusSeymour Porter (1798-1872),JosephLyman Huntington,PeterBuell Porter Jr.,ElishaMills Huntington andPeterAugustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed ofWilliamWoodbridge,JabezWilliams Huntington,IsaacBackus,JohnHall Brockway,HenryTitus Backus,CharlesTaylor Sherman,JohnAppleton,EdwardGreen Bradford,WilliamTecumseh Sherman,LampsonParker Sherman,UlyssesSimpson Grant,JohnSherman,RobertCoit Jr.,CollinsDwight Huntington,GeorgeMilo Huntington,ThomasWorcester Hyde,AlonzoMark Leffingwell,AbialLathrop,PeterAugustus Porter (1853-1925) andEdwardWilliams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed ofAlexanderHamilton Waterman,MatthewGriswold,GeorgeDouglas Perkins,EliasMulford Condit,EzekielGilbert Stoddard,EdwardGreen Bradford II,FrederickDent Grant,UlyssesSimpson Grant Jr.,WilliamBarret Ridgely,CharlesEdward Hyde,ClementPhineas Kellogg,HermanArod Gager,WilliamBrainard Coit,JohnSedgwick Hyde,EdwardWarden Hyde,JohnLeffingwell Randolph,FrancisWatkinson Cole,GeorgeLeffingwell Reed andBlancheM. Woodward; fourth cousin ofChaunceyGoodrich,ElizurGoodrich andHezekiahCase; fourth cousin once removed ofParmenioAdams,AmbroseTuttle,JesseHoyt,AbielCase,CharlesPhelps Huntington,JairusCase,JohnArnold Rockwell,JohnLeslie Russell,GeorgeWashington Wolcott,WilliamDean Kellogg,AlmonCase andAlansonPike. | | | | Political families:Huntington#1 family of Norwich, Connecticut;Davenport-Huntingtonfamily of Stamford, Connecticut;Edwards-Burr-Davenportfamily of Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Theodore Dwight (1764-1846) — of Hartford,HartfordCounty, Conn.; Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.; New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Northampton,HampshireCounty, Mass.,December15, 1764.Lawyer;newspapereditor;U.S.Representative from Connecticut 6th District, 1806-07; member ofConnecticutcouncil of assistants, 1809-15.Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,June 12,1846 (age81 years, 179days).Interment atGreen-WoodCemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.| | Relatives: Sonof Timothy Dwight and Mary (Edwards) Dwight; married to AbigailAlsop; nephew ofPierpontEdwards; third great-grandson ofThomasWillett; first cousin ofAaronBurr andHenryWaggaman Edwards; second cousin ofJohnDavenport andJamesDavenport; second cousin once removed ofTheodoreDavenport; second cousin thrice removed ofEvertHarris Kittell andFrancisWatkinson Cole; second cousin five times removed ofArthurCallen Kittell Jr.; third cousin ofBenjaminTallmadge andGreeneCarrier Bronson; third cousin once removed ofCharlesRobert Sherman,FrederickAugustus Tallmadge andElishaHunt Allen; third cousin twice removed ofCharlesTaylor Sherman,JohnAppleton,WilliamTecumseh Sherman,LampsonParker Sherman,JohnSherman,JosephPomeroy Root,WilliamChapman Williston,WilliamFessenden Allen,FrederickHobbes Allen andEdwardWilliams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed ofEzekielGilbert Stoddard,MauriceLauchlin Wright,GeorgeLandon Ingraham,GeorgeWilliston Nash,CharlesDunsmore Millard,FranklinClark Pomeroy andBlancheM. Woodward; fourth cousin ofNoahPhelps andHezekiahCase; fourth cousin once removed ofParmenioAdams,MorrisWoodruff,ElishaPhelps,AmbroseTuttle,JesseHoyt,AbielCase,SilasWright Jr.,JairusCase,JohnLeslie Russell,JamesSamuel Wadsworth,GeorgeWashington Wolcott,WilliamDean Kellogg andAlmonCase. | | | | Political family:Edwards-Burr-Davenportfamily of Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Henry Waggaman Edwards (1779-1847) — also known asHenry W. Edwards — of New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.Born in New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn., October,1779.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1819-23;U.S.Senator from Connecticut, 1823-27; member ofConnecticutstate senate at-large, 1828-29; member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from New Haven, 1830;Speaker ofthe Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1830;Governor ofConnecticut, 1833-34, 1835-38.Died in New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.,July 22,1847 (age67 years, 0days).Interment atGroveStreet Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.| | Relatives: Sonof Frances (Ogden) Edwards andPierpontEdwards; married to Lydia Miller; third great-grandson ofThomasWillett; first cousin ofAaronBurr andTheodoreDwight; second cousin ofJohnDavenport andJamesDavenport; second cousin once removed ofTheodoreDavenport; second cousin thrice removed ofEvertHarris Kittell; second cousin five times removed ofArthurCallen Kittell Jr.; third cousin ofBenjaminTallmadge; third cousin once removed ofCharlesRobert Sherman,FrederickAugustus Tallmadge andSimeonHarrison; third cousin twice removed ofCharlesTaylor Sherman,JohnAppleton,WilliamTecumseh Sherman,LampsonParker Sherman,JohnSherman,JosephPomeroy Root andEdwardWilliams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed ofEzekielGilbert Stoddard,GeorgeLandon Ingraham,SimeonHarrison Rollinson,CharlesDunsmore Millard andBlancheM. Woodward; fourth cousin ofNoahPhelps,JohnCondit andHezekiahCase; fourth cousin once removed ofParmenioAdams,SilasCondit,ElishaPhelps,AmbroseTuttle,JesseHoyt,AbielCase,StephenWhitaker Fullerton,JairusCase,JohnLeslie Russell,GeorgeWashington Wolcott,WilliamDean Kellogg andAlmonCase. | | | | Political family:Edwards-Burr-Davenportfamily of Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Joseph Alston (1779-1816) — of South Carolina. Born in All Saints Parish, Georgetown District (nowGeorgetownCounty), S.C.,1779.Lawyer;member ofSouthCarolina state house of representatives, 1802-04, 1812 (ChristChurch 1802-04, All Saints 1812);Governor ofSouth Carolina, 1812-14.Died in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,September19, 1816 (ageabout 37years).Interment atOaksCemetery, Murrells Inlet, S.C.
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