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. | |  Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. (1740-1823) — Born in Middletown,MiddlesexCounty, Conn.,December28, 1740.Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; justiceof the peace; member ofNorthwestTerritory House of Representatives, 1799-1801; U.S. Indian Agentto Cherokee Nation in Tennessee, 1801-23.Died inBradleyCounty, Tenn.,January28, 1823 (age82 years, 31days).Interment atGarrison Cemetery, Dayton, Tenn.| |  Relatives: Sonof Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother ofJosiahMeigs; married,February14, 1764, to Joanna Winborn; married,December22, 1774, to Grace Starr; father ofReturnJonathan Meigs Jr.; uncle ofHenryMeigs; grandfather ofReturnJonathan Meigs III; granduncle ofHenryMeigs Jr. andJohnForsyth Jr.; first cousin once removed ofMartinChittenden; first cousin twice removed ofChittendenLyon; second cousin twice removed ofJohnWillard; second cousin thrice removed ofRogerCalvin Leete; third cousin ofJonathanHunt; third cousin once removed ofElijahHunt Mills; third cousin twice removed ofElishaHotchkiss Jr.,ElishaHunt Allen,AnsonLevi Holcomb,GouverneurMorris,EnsignHosmer Kellogg,WilliamDean Kellogg andCharlesJenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesH. Eastman,WilliamFessenden Allen,RushGreen Leaming,FrederickWalker Pitkin,AlvredBayard Nettleton,RobertCleveland Usher,CharlesM. Hotchkiss,FrederickHobbes Allen,AllenClarence Wilcox andCarlTrumbull Hayden; fourth cousin ofThomasChittenden; fourth cousin once removed ofZinaHyde Jr.. | | | | Political families:Chittendenfamily of Connecticut;Meigsfamily of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Meigs County,Tenn. is named for him. | | | | See alsoWikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Josiah Meigs (1757-1822) — of New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.; St. Georges,Bermuda;Athens,ClarkeCounty, Ga.Born in Middletown,MiddlesexCounty, Conn.,August21, 1757.Lawyer;newspapereditor and publisher; actingpresident,University of Georgia, 1801-10; U.S. Surveyor General, 1812-14;Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1814-22; died in office 1822.Member,AmericanPhilosophical Society.Died inWashington,D.C.,September4, 1822 (age65 years, 14days).Original interment atHolmead's Burying Ground, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1878atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| | Relatives: Sonof Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother ofReturnJonathan Meigs, Sr.; married1782 to ClaraBenjamin; father ofHenryMeigs and Clara Meigs (who marriedJohnForsyth); uncle ofReturnJonathan Meigs Jr.; grandfather ofHenryMeigs Jr. andJohnForsyth Jr.; granduncle ofReturnJonathan Meigs III; first cousin once removed ofMartinChittenden; first cousin twice removed ofChittendenLyon; second cousin twice removed ofJohnWillard; second cousin thrice removed ofRogerCalvin Leete; third cousin ofJonathanHunt; third cousin once removed ofElijahHunt Mills; third cousin twice removed ofElishaHotchkiss Jr.,ElishaHunt Allen,AnsonLevi Holcomb,GouverneurMorris,EnsignHosmer Kellogg,WilliamDean Kellogg andCharlesJenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesH. Eastman,WilliamFessenden Allen,RushGreen Leaming,FrederickWalker Pitkin,AlvredBayard Nettleton,RobertCleveland Usher,CharlesM. Hotchkiss,FrederickHobbes Allen,AllenClarence Wilcox andCarlTrumbull Hayden; fourth cousin ofThomasChittenden; fourth cousin once removed ofZinaHyde Jr.. | | | | Political families:Chittendenfamily of Connecticut;Meigsfamily of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | ThecityofMeigs,Georgia, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
 | Martin Chittenden (1763-1840) — of Williston,ChittendenCounty, Vt.; Jericho,ChittendenCounty, Vt.Born in Salisbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,March12, 1763.Member of Vermont state legislature, 1800;U.S.Representative from Vermont 4th District, 1803-13;Governor ofVermont, 1813-15.Died in Williston,ChittendenCounty, Vt.,September5, 1840 (age77 years, 177days).Interment atThomasChittenden Cemetery, Williston, Vt.| | Relatives: SonofThomasChittenden and Elizabeth (Meigs) Chittenden; brother of MaryChittenden (who marriedJonasGalusha) and Beulah Chittenden (who marriedMatthewLyon); married to Anna Bentley; uncle ofChittendenLyon; third great-grandnephew ofJohnWinthrop (1606-1676); fourth great-grandson ofJohnWinthrop (1588-1649); first cousin once removed ofReturnJonathan Meigs, Sr. andJosiahMeigs; first cousin four times removed ofFitz-JohnWinthrop; second cousin ofReturnJonathan Meigs Jr. andHenryMeigs; second cousin once removed ofJosiahC. Chittenden,ReturnJonathan Meigs III,AbelMadison Scranton,HenryMeigs Jr. andJohnForsyth Jr.; second cousin twice removed ofRogerCalvin Leete; third cousin once removed ofJonathanHunt,JeduthunWilcox,JohnWillard,ClarkS. Chittenden andRussellSage; third cousin twice removed ofLeonardWilcox andEdgarJared Doolittle; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesH. Chittenden; fourth cousin ofChaunceyGoodrich,OliverWolcott Jr.,ElizurGoodrich,FrederickWolcott andElijahHunt Mills; fourth cousin once removed ofEnochWoodbridge,ThomasLindall Winthrop,TimothyPitkin,ElishaHotchkiss Jr.,AlvahNash,DavidParmalee Kelsey,ElishaHunt Allen,AnsonLevi Holcomb,GouverneurMorris,EnsignHosmer Kellogg,WilliamDean Kellogg,CharlesJenkins Hayden andEliCoe Birdsey. | | | | Political families:Chittendenfamily of Connecticut;Meigsfamily of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Image source: Men of Vermont(1894) |
| | Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (1764-1825) — also known asReturn J. Meigs, Jr. — of Marietta,WashingtonCounty, Ohio.Born in Middletown,MiddlesexCounty, Conn.,November17, 1764.Democrat.Lawyer;postmaster atMarietta,Ohio, 1794-95;justice ofOhio state supreme court, 1803-04, 1808-09; resigned 1804;federaljudge, 1807-08;U.S.Senator from Ohio, 1808-10;Governor ofOhio, 1810-14;U.S.Postmaster General, 1814-23.Member,Freemasons.Died in Marietta,WashingtonCounty, Ohio,March29, 1825 (age60 years, 132days).Interment atMoundCemetery, Marietta, Ohio. | | John George Jackson (1777-1825) — also known asJohn G. Jackson — of Clarksburg,HarrisonCounty, Va. (now W.Va.).Born in Buckhannon, Lewis County, Va. (nowUpshurCounty, W.Va.),September22, 1777.Democrat. Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1798-1801, 1811-12;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07,1st District 1807-10, 1813-17);U.S.District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1819-25;died in office 1825.In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, has wasattackedand suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress, fought aduelwithJosephPearson of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded inthe hip.Slaveowner. Died in Clarksburg,HarrisonCounty, Va (now W.Va.),March28, 1825 (age47 years, 187days).Interment atOldJackson Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va. | | John Forsyth (1780-1841) — of Augusta,RichmondCounty, Ga.Born inFredericksburg,Va.,October22, 1780.Democrat.Lawyer;Georgiastate attorney general, 1808;U.S.Representative from Georgia, 1813-18, 1823-27 (at-large 1813-18,1823-25, 2nd District 1825-27, at-large 1827); resigned 1827;U.S.Senator from Georgia, 1818-19, 1829-34; U.S. Minister toSpain, 1819-23;Governor ofGeorgia, 1827-29;U.S.Secretary of State, 1834-41.Slaveowner. Died inWashington,D.C.,October21, 1841 (age60 years, 364days).Interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Henry Meigs (1782-1861) — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.,October28, 1782.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County, 1817-18;U.S.Representative from New York 2nd District, 1819-21.Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 20,1861 (age78 years, 204days).Original interment atSt. Luke's Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment atSt.Peter's Churchyard, Perth Amboy, N.J.| | Relatives: SonofJosiahMeigs and Clara (Benjamin) Meigs; married,February19, 1806, to Julia Austin; father ofHenryMeigs Jr.; nephew ofReturnJonathan Meigs, Sr.; uncle ofJohnForsyth Jr.; first cousin ofReturnJonathan Meigs Jr.; first cousin once removed ofReturnJonathan Meigs III; second cousin ofMartinChittenden; second cousin once removed ofTimothyPitkin andChittendenLyon; second cousin twice removed ofBenjaminLewis Fairchild; third cousin ofWilliamWhiting Boardman; third cousin once removed ofJonathanHunt andJohnWillard; third cousin twice removed ofRogerCalvin Leete andMabelThorp Boardman; fourth cousin ofElijahHunt Mills,WilliamWoodbridge,BelaEdgerton,IsaacBackus,HemanTicknor,MartinOlds,EliphaletAdams Bulkeley,JohnLeslie Russell,HenryTitus Backus andJoshuaPerkins; fourth cousin once removed ofThomasChittenden,ElishaHotchkiss Jr.,ElishaHunt Allen,AnsonLevi Holcomb,GouverneurMorris,EnsignHosmer Kellogg,AlfredPeck Edgerton,WilliamDean Kellogg,CharlesJenkins Hayden,JosephKetchum Edgerton,MorganGardner Bulkeley,LeslieWead Russell,WilliamHenry Bulkeley,CharlesHazen Russell,JohnClarence Keeler,HenryStark Culver andHiramBingham. | | | | Political family:Meigsfamily of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article |
| | Return Jonathan Meigs III (1801-1891) — also known asReturn J. Meigs III — of Nashville,DavidsonCounty, Tenn.;Washington,D.C.Born in Winchester,ClarkCounty, Ky.,April14, 1801.Lawyer;U.S. Indian Agent to Creek and Cherokee Nations, 1834;U.S.Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1841-42; member ofTennesseestate senate, 1850; clerk of the District of Columbia SupremeCourt, 1863-91.Died inWashington,D.C.,October19, 1891 (age90 years, 188days).Interment atOakHill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Henry Meigs Jr. (1809-1887) — of Bayonne,HudsonCounty, N.J.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 7,1809.Republican.Mayorof Bayonne, N.J., 1869-79; president, New York Stock Exchange,1877.Died in Bayonne,HudsonCounty, N.J.,June 7,1887 (age78 years, 31days).Interment atSt.Peter's Churchyard, Perth Amboy, N.J.| | Relatives: SonofHenryMeigs and Julia (Austin) Meigs; grandson ofJosiahMeigs; grandnephew ofReturnJonathan Meigs, Sr.; first cousin ofJohnForsyth Jr.; first cousin once removed ofReturnJonathan Meigs Jr.; second cousin ofReturnJonathan Meigs III; second cousin once removed ofMartinChittenden; second cousin twice removed ofTimothyPitkin; third cousin ofChittendenLyon; third cousin once removed ofWilliamWhiting Boardman andBenjaminLewis Fairchild; third cousin twice removed ofJonathanHunt; fourth cousin ofJohnWillard; fourth cousin once removed ofElijahHunt Mills,WilliamWoodbridge,BelaEdgerton,IsaacBackus,HemanTicknor,MartinOlds,EliphaletAdams Bulkeley,JohnLeslie Russell,HenryTitus Backus,JoshuaPerkins,RogerCalvin Leete andMabelThorp Boardman. | | | | Political family:Meigsfamily of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | John Forsyth Jr. (1812-1877) — of Mobile,MobileCounty, Ala.; Columbus,MuscogeeCounty, Ga.Born in Augusta,RichmondCounty, Ga.,October31, 1812.Democrat.U.S.Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, 1835-38;postmaster atColumbus,Ga., 1845-49; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;newspapereditor; U.S. Minister toMexico, 1856-58; member ofAlabamastate house of representatives, 1859;mayor ofMobile, Ala., 1861, 1865.Died in Mobile,MobileCounty, Ala.,May 2,1877 (age64 years, 183days).Interment atMagnoliaCemetery, Mobile, Ala.| | Relatives: SonofJohnForsyth and Clara (Meigs) Forsyth; married1834 toMargaret Hull; nephew ofHenryMeigs; grandson ofJosiahMeigs; grandnephew ofReturnJonathan Meigs, Sr.; first cousin ofHenryMeigs Jr.; first cousin once removed ofReturnJonathan Meigs Jr.; second cousin ofReturnJonathan Meigs III; second cousin once removed ofMartinChittenden; second cousin twice removed ofTimothyPitkin; third cousin ofChittendenLyon; third cousin once removed ofWilliamWhiting Boardman andBenjaminLewis Fairchild; third cousin twice removed ofJonathanHunt; fourth cousin ofJohnWillard; fourth cousin once removed ofElijahHunt Mills,WilliamWoodbridge,BelaEdgerton,IsaacBackus,HemanTicknor,MartinOlds,EliphaletAdams Bulkeley,JohnLeslie Russell,HenryTitus Backus,JoshuaPerkins,RogerCalvin Leete andMabelThorp Boardman. | | | | Political family:Meigsfamily of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary |
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