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. | |  Jared Lewis Rathbone (1791-1845) — also known asJared Rathbone — of Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.Born in Colchester,New LondonCounty, Conn.,August2, 1791.Whig.Merchant;bankdirector;mayor ofAlbany, N.Y., 1838-41.Died in Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.,May 13,1845 (age53 years, 284days).Interment atAlbanyRural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y. | | Ira Harris (1802-1875) — of Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.Born in Charleston,MontgomeryCounty, N.Y.,May 31,1802.Republican.Lawyer;member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from Albany County, 1845-46;delegateto New York state constitutional convention, 1846; member ofNew Yorkstate senate 3rd District, 1847;Justice ofNew York Supreme Court, 1847-59;U.S.Senator from New York, 1861-67;delegateto New York state constitutional convention, 1867.Died in Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.,December2, 1875 (age73 years, 185days).Interment atAlbanyRural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y. | | Thomas Ewing Miller (1829-1909) — of Columbus,FranklinCounty, Ohio.Born in Ohio,June 19,1829.U.S. Consul inBordeaux, 1856-57; postmaster atColumbus,Ohio, 1857-58, 1858-60.Died inFranklinCounty, Ohio,May 6,1909 (age79 years, 321days).Interment atGreenLawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. | | Henry Reed Rathbone (1837-1911) — Born in Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.,July 1,1837.Lawyer;major in the Union Army during the Civil War; on April 14, 1865, hewas seated in the box at Ford's Theater with PresidentAbrahamLincoln; when John Wilkes Booth shot the president, Rathboneattempted to apprehend Booth, and suffered knife wounds; subsequentlyhis mental health deteriorated; U.S. Consul inHanover, as of 1882-83.On December 23, 1883, hekilledhis wife, and stabbed himself in a suicide attempt; he waschargedwith murder,convicted,and found insane; he died more than 25 years later, in theAsylum forthe Criminal Insane, Hildesheim,Germany,August14, 1911 (age74 years, 44days).Original interment atStadtfriedhof Engesohde, Hanover, Germany; reinterment 1952 tounknown location. | | Jared Lawrence Rathbone (1844-1907) — Born in Albany,AlbanyCounty, N.Y.,September28, 1844.Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul General inParis, 1887-91.Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,May 2,1907 (age62 years, 216days).Interment atHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park, Calif. | | Henry Riggs Rathbone (1870-1928) — also known asHenry R. Rathbone — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Kenilworth,CookCounty, Ill.Born inWashington,D.C.,February12, 1870.Republican.Lawyer;alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,1916;U.S.Representative from Illinois at-large, 1923-28; defeated inprimary, 1918; died in office 1928.Member,DeltaKappa Epsilon;PhiDelta Phi;Freemasons;KnightsTemplar;Shriners;OddFellows;Knightsof Pythias.Died in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,July 15,1928 (age58 years, 154days).Interment atRosehillCemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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