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. | | Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) — of Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.;LuzerneCounty, Pa.; Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,July 17,1745.Farmer;EssexCounty Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge inMassachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts statelegislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during theRevolutionary War;delegateto Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789;U.S.Postmaster General, 1791-95;U.S.Secretary of War, 1795;U.S.Secretary of State, 1795-1800;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2ndDistrict 1815-17); member ofMassachusettsGovernor's Council, 1817-18.Puritan;laterUnitarian.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati.Censuredby the Senate in 1811 for violating aninjunctionof secrecy.Died in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,January29, 1829 (age83 years, 196days).Interment atBroadStreet Cemetery, Salem, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering;married,April 8,1776, to Rebecca White; granduncle ofDudleyLeavitt Pickman; second great-granduncle ofJohnGardner Coolidge andAugustusPeabody Gardner; third great-granduncle ofJohnLee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle ofLeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall,WilliamGurdon Saltonstall,JohnLee Saltonstall Jr. andWilliamAmory Gardner Minot; fifth great-granduncle ofMariettaPeabody Tree,EndicottPeabody,WilliamLawrence Saltonstall andJohnForbes Kerry; ancestor *** ofSusanWalker FitzGerald; first cousin once removed ofBenjaminGoodhue andJohnWingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed ofJohnWingate Weeks (1860-1926); first cousin four times removed ofCharlesSinclair Weeks; second cousin twice removed ofJohnAlbion Andrew; second cousin thrice removed ofIsaacLibbey,JohnForrester Andrew andHenryHersey Andrew; second cousin four times removed ofLlewellynLibby andWilliamF. Nason; second cousin five times removed ofAugustineB. Libby,AlbanahHarvey Libby andFrederickEdwin Hanscom; third cousin once removed ofLutherWalter Badger; third cousin twice removed ofAmosTuck; third cousin thrice removed ofHiramAugustus Huse (1840-1907) andHiramAugustus Huse (1843-1902). | | |  | Political families:Weeksfamily of Lancaster, New Hampshire;Pickmanfamily of Salem, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | |  | Books about Timothy Pickering: DavidMcLean,TimothyPickering and the Age of the American Revolution —Gerald H. Clarfield,TimothyPickering and the American Republic |
| | Benjamin Pickman Jr. (1763-1843) — of Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.Born in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,September30, 1763.Member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1797-1802, 1812-13; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1803;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1809-11.Died in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,August16, 1843 (age79 years, 320days).Interment atBroadStreet Cemetery, Salem, Mass. | | Dudley Leavitt Pickman (1779-1846) — of Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.Born in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,1779.Shipowner;importerand exporter; investor and stockholder incotton andwoolenmills andrailroads;financier;member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1820.DiedNovember4, 1846 (ageabout 67years).Interment atHarmonyGrove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof William Pickman and Eliza (Leavitt) Pickman; married,September6, 1810, to Catherine Saunders (sister-in-law ofLeverettSaltonstall (1783-1845)); grandnephew ofTimothyPickering; first cousin ofBenjaminPickman Jr.; first cousin once removed ofBenjaminToppan Pickman; first cousin twice removed ofGeorgeBailey Loring; first cousin thrice removed ofGeorgePeabody Wetmore; first cousin four times removed ofMaudeAlice Keteltas Wetmore; second cousin once removed ofBenjaminGoodhue andJohnWingate Weeks (1781-1853); second cousin twice removed ofJohnGardner Coolidge andAugustusPeabody Gardner; second cousin thrice removed ofJohnLee Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed ofLeverettSaltonstall (1892-1979),RichardSaltonstall,WilliamGurdon Saltonstall,JohnLee Saltonstall Jr. andWilliamAmory Gardner Minot; second cousin five times removed ofMariettaPeabody Tree,EndicottPeabody,WilliamLawrence Saltonstall andJohnForbes Kerry; third cousin once removed ofJohnWingate Weeks (1860-1926); third cousin twice removed ofCharlesSinclair Weeks; fourth cousin ofJohnAlbion Andrew; fourth cousin once removed ofLutherWalter Badger,IsaacLibbey,JohnForrester Andrew andHenryHersey Andrew. | | |  | Political families:Saltonstallfamily of Massachusetts;Pickmanfamily of Salem, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) — of Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.Born in Haverhill,EssexCounty, Mass.,June 13,1783.Whig.Lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1813-14, 1816, 1822, 1829, 1834,1844; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1817-19;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820;mayor ofSalem, Mass., 1836-38;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1838-43.Died in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,May 8,1845 (age61 years, 329days).Interment atHarmonyGrove Cemetery, Salem, Mass. | | Benjamin Toppan Pickman (1790-1835) — also known asBenjamin T. Pickman — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,1790.Member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1833-35.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,March12, 1835 (ageabout 44years).Burial location unknown. | | George Peabody Wetmore (1846-1921) — also known asGeorge P. Wetmore — of Newport,NewportCounty, R.I.Born in London,England,of American parents,August2, 1846.Republican. Republican Presidential Elector for Rhode Island,1880(voted forJamesA. Garfield andChesterA. Arthur); Republican Presidential Elector for Rhode Island,1884(voted forJamesG. Blaine andJohnA. Logan);Governor ofRhode Island, 1885-87;U.S.Senator from Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-13.Member,Skulland Bones.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,September11, 1921 (age75 years, 40days).Interment atIslandCemetery, Newport, R.I.
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