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. | |  Levi Lincoln (1749-1820) — of Massachusetts. Born in Hingham,PlymouthCounty, Mass.,May 15,1749.Democrat. State court judge in Massachusetts, 1775;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779;Delegateto Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1796; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1797;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1800-01;U.S.Secretary of State, 1801;U.S.Attorney General, 1801-05;LieutenantGovernor of Massachusetts, 1807-09;Governor ofMassachusetts, 1808-09.Died in Worcester,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,April14, 1820 (age70 years, 335days).Interment atWorcesterRural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass. | | John Brown (1757-1837) — of Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.Born inStaunton,Va.,September12, 1757.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;lawyer;member ofVirginiastate senate, 1784-88;Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1787-88;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1789-92 (at-large 1789-91, 2ndDistrict 1791-92);U.S.Senator from Kentucky, 1792-1805.Scotch-Irishancestry. Member,Freemasons.Slaveowner. Died in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,August29, 1837 (age79 years, 351days).Interment atFrankfortCemetery, Frankfort, Ky. | | Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782-1868) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Worcester,WorcesterCounty, Mass.Born in Worcester,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,October25, 1782.Republican. Member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1812-13, 1844-45; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1814-22;Speaker ofthe Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822-23;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820;LieutenantGovernor of Massachusetts, 1823-24;justice ofMassachusetts state supreme court, 1824-25;Governor ofMassachusetts, 1825-34;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1834-41;U.S.Collector of Customs at Boston, Mass., Massachusetts, 1841-43;mayorof Worcester, Mass., 1848-49; Republican Presidential Elector forMassachusetts,1864.Died in Worcester,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,May 29,1868 (age85 years, 217days).Interment atWorcesterRural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass. | | Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) — of Paris,OxfordCounty, Maine.Born in Worcester,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,December28, 1788.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1818-21;U.S.Representative from Maine, 1821-26 (at-large 1821-25, 5thDistrict 1825-26);Governor ofMaine, 1827-29; died in office 1829.DiedOctober8, 1829 (age40 years, 284days).Entombed in mausoleum atStateof Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine. | | David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) — of Pennsylvania. Born near Norristown,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.,October31, 1788.Democrat. Member ofPennsylvaniastate house of representatives, 1819; member ofPennsylvaniastate senate 8th District, 1836-38;Governor ofPennsylvania, 1839-45.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati.Died in Harrisburg,DauphinCounty, Pa.,August6, 1867 (age78 years, 279days).Interment atHarrisburgCemetery, Harrisburg, Pa. | | George Bryan Porter (1791-1834) — also known asGeorge B. Porter — Born in Norristown,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.,February9, 1791.Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;AdjutantGeneral of Pennsylvania, 1824-29; member ofPennsylvaniastate house of representatives, 1827;Governorof Michigan Territory, 1831-34; died in office 1834.Presbyterian.Died in acholeraepidemic in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,July 6,1834 (age43 years, 147days).Interment atElmwoodCemetery, Detroit, Mich. | | Samuel LaRue Hodgen (1791-1864) — of Elizabethtown,HardinCounty, Ky.Born in Elizabethtown,HardinCounty, Ky.,April30, 1791.Republican.Merchant;postmaster atElizabethtown,Ky., 1861-64.Died in Elizabethtown,HardinCounty, Ky.,August15, 1864 (age73 years, 107days).Interment atElizabethtownCity Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky. | | James Madison Porter (1793-1862) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Norristown,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.,January6, 1793.Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;lawprofessor;U.S.Secretary of War, 1843-44; member of Pennsylvania statelegislature, 1849.Presbyterian.Founder,in 1826, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.Died in Easton,NorthamptonCounty, Pa.,November11, 1862 (age69 years, 309days).Interment atEastonCemetery, Easton, Pa. | | Mason Brown (1799-1867) — of Maysville,MasonCounty, Ky.; Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,November10, 1799.Democrat.Lawyer;circuit judge in Kentucky, 1839-49;secretaryof state of Kentucky, 1855-59;Kentuckystate treasurer, 1865-67.Died in Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.,January27, 1867 (age67 years, 78days).Interment atFrankfortCemetery, Frankfort, Ky. | | John Larue Helm (1802-1867) — of Kentucky. Born near Elizabethtown,HardinCounty, Ky.,July 4,1802.Lawyer;member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1826; member ofKentuckystate senate, 1844-48;LieutenantGovernor of Kentucky, 1848-50;Governor ofKentucky, 1850-51, 1867; died in office 1867.Died in Elizabethtown,HardinCounty, Ky.,September8, 1867 (age65 years, 66days).Interment atHelm Cemetery, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky. | | Alexander Lincoln (1806-1879) — of Hingham,PlymouthCounty, Mass.Born in Hingham,PlymouthCounty, Mass.,February12, 1806.Democrat.Merchant;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts,1860,1864(alternate).Died in Dansville,LivingstonCounty, N.Y.,October26, 1879 (age73 years, 256days).Interment atGreen Mount Cemetery, Dansville, N.Y.  | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) — also known as"Honest Abe";"OldAbe";"The Rail-Splitter";"TheIllinois Baboon";"The GreatEmancipator" —of New Salem,MenardCounty, Ill.; Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.Born in alogcabin, Hardin County (part now inLarueCounty), Ky.,February12, 1809.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War;postmaster;lawyer;member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1834-41;U.S.Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate forRepublican nomination for Vice President,1856;candidate forU.S.Senator from Illinois, 1858;Presidentof the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His electionas president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined topreserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,redefined American nationhood.Englishancestry.Elected in 1900 to theHallof Fame for Great Americans.Shotby theassassinJohn Wilkes Booth, during aplay atFord'sTheater,inWashington,D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson'sBoardingHouse, across the street, the following day,April15, 1865 (age56 years, 62days).Interment atOakRidge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument atNationalMall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 atJudiciaryPark, Washington, D.C.| |  Relatives: Sonof Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married,November4, 1842, toMaryAnn Todd (sister-in-law ofNinianWirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law ofNathanielHenry Rhodes Dawson andBenjaminHardin Helm; half-sister ofEmiliePariet Todd; aunt ofMarthaDee Todd; grandniece ofDavidRittenhouse Porter); father ofRobertTodd Lincoln; first cousin twice removed ofArtieClyde Sullinger; second cousin four times removed ofRichardHenry Lee,FrancisLightfoot Lee andArthurLee; third cousin twice removed ofLeviLincoln; third cousin thrice removed ofThomasSim Lee,HenryLee,CharlesLee,RichardBland Lee,EdmundJennings Lee andZacharyTaylor; fourth cousin once removed ofLeviLincoln Jr.,EnochLincoln andAlexanderLincoln. | | | | Political families:Walker-Edwardsfamily of North Carolina and Georgia;Lincoln#1 family of Kentucky;Lincoln#2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts;Porter-Lincolnfamily of Pennsylvania (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:ClementClaiborne Clay, Jr. —IshamN. Haynie —WilliamM. Stone —JohnPitcher —StephenMiller —JohnT. Stuart —WilliamH. Seward —HenryL. Burnett —JudahP. Benjamin —RobertToombs —RichardTaylor Jacob —GeorgeW. Jones —JamesAdams —JohnG. Nicolay —EdwardEverett —StephenT. Logan —FrancisP. Blair —JohnHay —HenryReed Rathbone —JamesA. Ekin —FrederickW. Seward —JohnH. Surratt —JohnH. Surratt, Jr. —JamesShields —EmilyT. Helm —JohnA. Campbell —JohnMerryman —BarnesCompton —JohnB. Castleman —MelvinD. Hildreth | | | | Lincoln counties inArk.,Colo.,Idaho,Kan.,La.,Minn.,Miss.,Mont.,Neb.,Nev.,N.M.,Okla.,Ore.,Wash.,W.Va.,Wis. andWyo. arenamed for him. | | | | ThecityofLincoln,Nebraska, isnamed forhim. — Lincoln MemorialUniversity,inHarrogate,Tennessee, isnamed forhim. — LincolnUniversity,inJeffersonCity, Missouri, isnamed forhim. — LincolnUniversity,nearOxford,Pennsylvania, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:AbrahamL. Keister—AbrahamL. Tucker—A.Lincoln Pohalski—AbrahamL. Brick—AbrahamL. Kellogg—AbrahamL. Day—AbrahamLincoln Bernstein—AbrahamL. Tyre—A.Lincoln Reiley—A.L. Helmick—AbrahamL. Sutton—A.Lincoln Acker—AbrahamL. Osgood—AbrahamL. Witmer—AbrahamL. Phillips—A.Lincoln Dryden—AbrahamL. Payton—AbrahamL. Alloway—AbrahamL. Field—AbrahamL. Doris—A.L. Auth—A.Lincoln Moore—A.Lincoln Niditch—AbrahamL. Rubenstein—AbrahamL. Davis, Jr.—AbrahamL. Freedman—A.L. Marovitz—LincolnGordon—AbrahamL. Banner—AbrahamLincoln Tosti | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraithas appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and onthe $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, hisportraitalso appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of variousdenominations from $1 to $500. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: DavidHerbert Donald,Lincoln —George Anastaplo,AbrahamLincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,ed.,TheLincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an AmericanIcon — Albert J. Beveridge,AbrahamLincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret,Lincoln'sWar : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commanderin Chief — David Herbert Donald,WeAre Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —Edward Steers, Jr.,Bloodon the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —Mario Cuomo,WhyLincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.Kauffman,AmericanBrutus : John Wilkes Booth and the LincolnConspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin,Teamof Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —Joshua Wolf Shenk,Lincoln'sMelancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled HisGreatness — John Channing Briggs,Lincoln'sSpeeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr.,TheEloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through HisWords — Harold Holzer,Lincolnat Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco lnPresident — Michael Lind,WhatLincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's GreatestPresident — Doris Kearns Goodwin,Teamof Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —Michael Burlingame, ed.,AbrahamLincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and JohnHay — Thomas J. Craughwell,StealingLincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr.,TheLong Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with StephenDouglas for the Heart and Soul of America — JohnStauffer,Giants:The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and AbrahamLincoln — Karen Judson,AbrahamLincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman,Lookingat Lincoln (for young readers) | | | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:Thomas J. DiLorenzo,TheReal Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and anUnnecessary War | | | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: GoreVidal,Lincoln:A Novel | | | | Image source: Three Decades of FederalLegislation (1885) |
| | Ninian Wirt Edwards (1809-1889) — also known asNinian W. Edwards — ofSangamonCounty, Ill.Born in Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.,April15, 1809.Democrat.Illinoisstate attorney general, 1834-35; member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1837-41, 1849-53; member ofIllinoisstate senate, 1845-49;delegateto Illinois state constitutional convention from Sangamon County,1847;Illinoissuperintendent of public instruction, 1854-57.Died in Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.,September2, 1889 (age80 years, 140days).Interment atOakRidge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. | | Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) — also known asMary Ann Todd — of Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.Born in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,December13, 1818.FirstLady of the United States, 1861-65.Female.Died in Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.,July 16,1882 (age63 years, 215days).Interment atOakRidge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. | | James Harlan (1820-1899) — of Mt. Pleasant,HenryCounty, Iowa.Born inClarkCounty, Ill.,August26, 1820.Republican.Iowasuperintendent of public instruction, 1847;presidentof Iowa Wesleyan College, 1853-55, 1869-70;U.S.Senator from Iowa, 1855-57, 1857-65, 1867-73;U.S.Secretary of the Interior, 1865-66; candidate for Republicannomination for Vice President,1868.Methodist.Died in Mt. Pleasant,HenryCounty, Iowa,October5, 1899 (age79 years, 40days).Interment atForestHome Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. | | Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson (1829-1895) — also known asN. H. R. Dawson — of Selma,DallasCounty, Ala.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,February14, 1829.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama,1860;Speakerof the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1880.Episcopalian.Died in Selma,DallasCounty, Ala.,February1, 1895 (age65 years, 352days).Interment atLiveOak Cemetery, Selma, Ala. | | Thomas Hart Shelby (1829-1895) — also known asThomas H. Shelby — of Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.Born inFayetteCounty, Ky.,February28, 1829.Democrat.U.S.Collector of Internal Revenue at Lexington, Kentucky, 1893-95;died in office 1895.Presbyterian.Died, fromdiseaseof the throat, in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,February19, 1895 (age65 years, 356days).Interment atLexingtonCemetery, Lexington, Ky. | | Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831-1863) — also known asBen Hardin Helm — Born in Bardstown,NelsonCounty, Ky.,June 2,1831.Lawyer;member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1855-56; declined appointment aspaymaster of the Union Army; general in the Confederate Army duringthe Civil War.Shotduring theBattle ofChickamauga, and died soon after, Chickamauga,WalkerCounty, Ga.,September21, 1863 (age32 years, 111days).Interment atHelm Cemetery, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky.  | Emily Todd Helm (1836-1930) — also known asEmily T. Helm;Emilie ParietTodd —of Elizabethtown,HardinCounty, Ky.Born in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,November11, 1836.Her husband was offered a position as paymaster of the Union Army,but chose to become a Confederate general, and was killed at theBattle of Chickamauga in 1863; she was granted safe passage to cometo the White House and stay with PresidentAbrahamLincoln and his family, despite harsh criticism in the Northernpress for harboring a Confederate; postmaster atElizabethtown,Ky., 1883-96.Female.Member,UnitedDaughters of the Confederacy.Died in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,February20, 1930 (age93 years, 101days).Interment atLexingtonCemetery, Lexington, Ky. | | Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) — Born in Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.,August1, 1843.Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;lawyer;Republican Presidential Elector for Illinois,1880;U.S.Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister toGreat Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman(1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers ofrailroadcars; part owner of Chicago Edison Companyelectricutility.Died, from acerebralhemorrhage, in Manchester,BenningtonCounty, Vt.,July 25,1926 (age82 years, 358days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Martha Dee Todd (1858-1909) — also known asM. D. Todd — of Cynthiana,HarrisonCounty, Ky.Born in Kentucky,September19, 1858.Postmaster atCynthiana,Ky., 1887-93.Female.Died inHarrisonCounty, Ky.,January12, 1909 (age50 years, 115days).Interment atBattleGrove Cemetery, Cynthiana, Ky.
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