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. | | John Wentworth (1719-1781) — of Somersworth,StraffordCounty, N.H.Born in Dover,StraffordCounty, N.H.,March30, 1719.Member ofNewHampshire colonial Assembly, 1768-75;justice ofNew Hampshire state supreme court, 1776-81.Died in Somersworth,StraffordCounty, N.H.,May 17,1781 (age62 years, 48days).Interment atOld Town Cemetery, Rollinsford, N.H. | | John Wentworth Jr. (1745-1787) — of Dover,StraffordCounty, N.H.Born in Salmon Falls, Rollinsford,StraffordCounty, N.H.,July 17,1745.Lawyer;StraffordCounty Register of Probate, 1773-87; member ofNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1776; member ofNewHampshire Governor's Council, 1776-84;Delegateto Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1778;signer,Articles of Confederation, 1778; member ofNewHampshire state senate from Strafford County, 1784-86.Died in Dover,StraffordCounty, N.H.,January10, 1787 (age41 years, 177days).Interment atPineHill Cemetery, Dover, N.H. | | Benjamin Pierce (1757-1839) — of Hillsborough,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.Born in Chelmsford,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,December25, 1757.Governorof New Hampshire, 1827-28, 1829-30.Died in Hillsborough,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.,April 1,1839 (age81 years, 97days).Interment atPineHill Cemetery, Hillsborough, N.H. | | John Appleton (1758-1829) — Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,March 1,1758.U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) inCalais, 1802-07.Died in Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,August9, 1829 (age71 years, 161days).Burial location unknown. | | Thomas Appleton (1763-1840) — of Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts,April 2,1763.U.S. Consul inLeghorn, 1798-1840, died in office 1840.Died in Leghorn (Livorno),Italy,April27, 1840 (age77 years, 25days).Burial location unknown. | | Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in New Ipswich,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.,October6, 1779.Merchant;member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1815-16, 1821, 1823-24, 1827;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1831-33, 1842.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,July 14,1861 (age81 years, 281days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Isaac Appleton and Mary (Adams) Appleton; married,April13, 1806, to Maria Theresa Gold; married,January8, 1839, to Harriet Coffin Sumner; father of Francis ElizabethAppleton (who married of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); first cousin ofJamesAppleton,WilliamAppleton andNathanDane Appleton; first cousin once removed ofJohnAppleton (1804-1891),JanePierce andJohnAppleton (1815-1864); first cousin twice removed ofFrancisHenry Appleton; first cousin thrice removed ofArthurTaggard Appleton; first cousin four times removed ofLeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall andRandolphAppleton Kidder; first cousin five times removed ofWilliamLawrence Saltonstall; second cousin once removed ofAndrewAdams; third cousin once removed ofThomasPassmore Treadwell; third cousin twice removed ofRobertOdiorne Treadwell; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesWilloughby Dayton; fourth cousin ofJohnAppleton (1758-1829),ThomasAppleton andLeonardWhite; fourth cousin once removed ofJohnJames Appleton,SamuelFinley Vinton,JohnLarkin Payson andAlonzoSidney Upham. | | |  | Political families:Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire;Appleton#3 family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | John McNeil Jr. (1784-1850) — also known asJohn McNiel Jr. — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Hillsborough,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.,March25, 1784.Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;U.S.Surveyor of Customs at Boston, Mass., Massachusetts, 1830-41.Died, fromlungcongestion, in the IrvingHotel,Washington,D.C.,February23, 1850 (age65 years, 335days).Interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | James Appleton (1785-1862) — also known as"Father of Prohibition" — of Gloucester,EssexCounty, Mass.; Portland,CumberlandCounty, Maine; Ipswich,EssexCounty, Mass.Born in Ipswich,EssexCounty, Mass.,February14, 1785.General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1813-14;first topropose state prohibition on the manufacture and sale of liquor,1832; member ofMainestate house of representatives, 1836-37; Liberty candidate forGovernor ofMaine, 1842, 1843, 1844.Died in Ipswich,EssexCounty, Mass.,August25, 1862 (age77 years, 192days).Burial location unknown. | | William Appleton (1786-1862) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Brookfield,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,November16, 1786.U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55, 1861 (1st District1851-53, 5th District 1853-55, 1861); defeated, 1854, 1856.Died in Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,February15, 1862 (age75 years, 91days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. | | Chester Wentworth (1790-1885) — of Barkhamsted,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.; Winchester,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Sandisfield,BerkshireCounty, Mass.,January8, 1790.Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Barkhamsted, 1835.Died in Winsted,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,February4, 1885 (age95 years, 27days).Interment atForest View Cemetery, Winsted, Conn. | | Nathan Dane Appleton (1794-1861) — also known asNathan D. Appleton — of Alfred,YorkCounty, Maine.Born in Ipswich,EssexCounty, Mass.,May 20,1794.Lawyer;law partner ofJohnH. Goodenow;Mainestate attorney general, 1857-59.Died in Alfred,YorkCounty, Maine,November12, 1861 (age67 years, 176days).Interment atParish Cemetery, Alfred, Maine. | | David Meriwether (1800-1893) — Born inLouisaCounty, Va.,October30, 1800.Democrat. Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1832; candidate forU.S.Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1847, 1851;delegateto Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849;secretaryof state of Kentucky, 1851-52;U.S.Senator from Kentucky, 1852;Governorof New Mexico Territory, 1853-57; member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1858-85;Speaker ofthe Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1859.Slaveowner. Died near Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,April 4,1893 (age92 years, 156days).Interment atCaveHill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. | | Tappan Wentworth (1802-1875) — of Lowell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Dover,StraffordCounty, N.H.,February24, 1802.Lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1848-49, 1865-66; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1851, 1859-60, 1863-64;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1853-55; delegateto Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1864.Died in Lowell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,June 12,1875 (age73 years, 108days).Interment atLowellCemetery, Lowell, Mass.  | Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) — also known as"Young Hickory";"YoungHickory of the Granite Hills";"The FaintingGeneral" —of Hillsborough,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.Born in Hillsborough,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.,November23, 1804.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1829-33;Speaker ofthe New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1832-33;U.S.Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1833-37;U.S.Senator from New Hampshire, 1837-42;U.S.Attorney for New Hampshire, 1845-47; general in the U.S. Armyduring the Mexican War;delegateto New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1850;Presidentof the United States, 1853-57; candidate for Democraticnomination for President,1856.Episcopalian.Died in Concord,MerrimackCounty, N.H.,October8, 1869 (age64 years, 319days).Interment atOldNorth Cemetery, Concord, N.H.| |  Relatives: SonofBenjaminPierce and Anna (Kendrick) Pierce; half-brother of ElizabethAndrews Pierce (who marriedJohnMcNeil Jr.); married,November19, 1834, toJaneMeans Appleton; uncle of Anne McNeil (who marriedTappanWentworth); granduncle of Frances McNeil (who marriedJohnMurray Corse); cousin by marriage ofDavidMeriwether; fourth cousin ofCharlesJohnson Aspinwall; fourth cousin once removed ofJedediahSabin. | | |  | Political families:Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire;Meriwetherfamily of Georgia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | Pierce counties inGa.,Neb.,Wash. andWis. arenamed for him. | | |  | Franklin PierceUniversity,Rindge,New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. —MountPierce (formerly called Bald Mountain; later, Mount Clinton; receivedcurrent name 1913), in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. | | |  | Other politicians named for him:FranklinP. Saunders—FrankP. Woodbury—FrankP. Holland—FrankP. Dunwell—FrankTyler—F.P. Combest—F.Pierce Mortimer—FrankP. Alspaugh—FranklinPierce Lambert—FranklinPierce McGowan—FranklinPierce Huddle, Jr. | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | |  | Books about Franklin Pierce: RoyNichols,FranklinPierce : Young Hickory of the Granite Hills — LarryGara,ThePresidency of Franklin Pierce | | |  | Critical books about Franklin Pierce:Nathan Miller,Star-SpangledMen : America's Ten Worst Presidents | | |  | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | John Appleton (1804-1891) — of Bangor,PenobscotCounty, Maine.Born in New Ipswich,HillsboroughCounty, N.H.,July 12,1804.Lawyer;justiceof Maine state supreme court, 1852-62;chiefjustice of Maine state supreme court, 1862-83.Died in Bangor,PenobscotCounty, Maine,February7, 1891 (age86 years, 210days).Entombed atMt.Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.| |  Relatives: Sonof John Appleton (1763-1849) and Elizabeth (Peabody) Appleton;married1834 to SarahNewcomb Allen; married1876 to AnnVaughan 'Annie' Greely; first cousin ofJanePierce; first cousin once removed ofNathanAppleton,JamesAppleton,WilliamAppleton andNathanDane Appleton; first cousin twice removed ofArthurTaggard Appleton; second cousin ofJohnAppleton (1815-1864); second cousin once removed ofFrancisHenry Appleton; second cousin twice removed ofJabezHuntington andJohnBrown; second cousin thrice removed ofLeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall andRandolphAppleton Kidder; second cousin four times removed ofWilliamLawrence Saltonstall; third cousin once removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington andSeluciusGarfield; third cousin twice removed ofDanielParrish Witter andCharlesDarwin Garfield; fourth cousin ofJabezWilliams Huntington,JohnBrown Francis,ThomasPassmore Treadwell andJoshuaPerkins; fourth cousin once removed ofEdwardBiddle,CharlesBiddle,EnochWoodbridge,JohnAppleton (1758-1829),ThomasAppleton,TimothyPitkin,LeonardWhite,RobertOdiorne Treadwell,GeorgeDouglas Perkins,ThomasDudley Bradstreet,AlbertPorter Bradstreet,GeorgeParker Bradstreet andAlbertLemando Bingham. | | |  | Political families:Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire;Appleton#3 family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Jane Pierce (1806-1863) — also known asJane Means Appleton — Born in Hampton,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,March12, 1806.FirstLady of the United States, 1853-57.Female.Died in Andover,EssexCounty, Mass.,December2, 1863 (age57 years, 265days).Interment atOldNorth Cemetery, Concord, N.H.| |  Relatives:Daughter of Jesse Appleton and Elizabeth (Means) Appleton; married,November19, 1834, toFranklinPierce (son ofBenjaminPierce); first cousin ofJohnAppleton (1804-1891); first cousin once removed ofNathanAppleton,JamesAppleton,WilliamAppleton andNathanDane Appleton; first cousin twice removed ofArthurTaggard Appleton; first cousin four times removed ofJohnForbes Kerry; second cousin ofJohnAppleton (1815-1864); second cousin once removed ofFrancisHenry Appleton; second cousin twice removed ofJabezHuntington andJohnBrown; second cousin thrice removed ofLeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall andRandolphAppleton Kidder; second cousin four times removed ofWilliamLawrence Saltonstall; third cousin once removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington andSeluciusGarfield; third cousin twice removed ofDanielParrish Witter andCharlesDarwin Garfield; fourth cousin ofJabezWilliams Huntington,JohnBrown Francis,ThomasPassmore Treadwell andJoshuaPerkins; fourth cousin once removed ofEdwardBiddle,CharlesBiddle,EnochWoodbridge,JohnAppleton (1758-1829),ThomasAppleton,TimothyPitkin,LeonardWhite,RobertOdiorne Treadwell,GeorgeDouglas Perkins,ThomasDudley Bradstreet,AlbertPorter Bradstreet,GeorgeParker Bradstreet andAlbertLemando Bingham. | | |  | Political families:Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail |
| | John Appleton (1815-1864) — of Portland,CumberlandCounty, Maine.Born in Beverly,EssexCounty, Mass.,February11, 1815.Democrat.Lawyer;newspapereditor; U.S. Charge d'Affaires toBolivia, 1848-49;U.S.Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1851-53; U.S. Minister toRussia, 1860-61.Died in Portland,CumberlandCounty, Maine,August22, 1864 (age49 years, 193days).Interment atEvergreenCemetery, Portland, Maine.| |  Relatives: Sonof John White Appleton and Sophia (Williams) Appleton; married1840 to SusanLovering Dodge; nephew ofJamesAppleton andNathanDane Appleton; first cousin once removed ofNathanAppleton,WilliamAppleton,ElijahLivermore Hamlin andHannibalHamlin; first cousin thrice removed ofRandolphAppleton Kidder; second cousin ofJohnAppleton (1804-1891),JanePierce,CharlesHamlin andHannibalEmery Hamlin; second cousin once removed ofFrancisHenry Appleton andIsaiahKidder Stetson; second cousin twice removed ofArthurTaggard Appleton andClarenceCutting Stetson; second cousin thrice removed ofPierpontEdwards,LeverettSaltonstall andRichardSaltonstall; second cousin four times removed ofWilliamLawrence Saltonstall; third cousin ofEdwardWilliams Hooker; third cousin twice removed ofJohnDavenport,AaronBurr,JamesDavenport,TheodoreDwight andHenryWaggaman Edwards; third cousin thrice removed ofJonathanHunt; fourth cousin ofThomasPassmore Treadwell; fourth cousin once removed ofJohnAppleton (1758-1829),ThomasAppleton,LeonardWhite,JedediahSabin,CharlesRobert Sherman,TheodoreDavenport,ChaunceyFitch Cleveland,RobertOdiorne Treadwell andGeorgePickering Bemis. | | |  | Political families:Kidderfamily of Bangor, Maine;Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire;Appleton#3 family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S.State Dept career summary —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Eli Wentworth (1830-1894) — of Milton,StraffordCounty, N.H.Born in Milton,StraffordCounty, N.H.,April 8,1830.Member ofNewHampshire state senate 6th District, 1860-62.Died, frompneumonia,in Milton,StraffordCounty, N.H.,October31, 1894 (age64 years, 206days).Burial location unknown. | | John Murray Corse (1835-1893) — also known asJohn M. Corse — of Burlington,Des MoinesCounty, Iowa; Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Pittsburgh,AlleghenyCounty, Pa.,April27, 1835.Democrat.Book andstationery business; candidate forsecretaryof state of Iowa, 1860; general in the Union Army during theCivil War;U.S.Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago, Illinois, 1868-69;postmaster atBoston,Mass., 1886-91.Died in Winchester,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,April27, 1893 (age58 years, 0days).Entombed atAspenGrove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa; statue atCrapo Park, Burlington, Iowa.| |  Relatives: SonofJohnLockwood Corse and Sarah (Murray) Corse; married,December23, 1856, to Ellen Edwards Prince; married,June 23,1882, to Frances McNeil (grandniece ofFranklinPierce; great-granddaughter ofBenjaminPierce). | | |  | Political family:Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | CorseElementarySchool, inBurlington,Iowa, isnamedpartly for him. — The John CorseMemorialBridge, which carries U.S. Highway 6 over the Iowa River, atIowa City,Iowa, isnamed forhim. | | |  | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Francis Henry Appleton (1847-1939) — also known asFrancis H. Appleton — of Peabody,EssexCounty, Mass.; Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,June 17,1847.Republican. Member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1891-92; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Massachusetts,1892;member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1902-03.Member,Sons ofthe American Revolution;AmericanForestry Association.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,April 5,1939 (age91 years, 292days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Francis Henry Appleton (1823-1854) and Georgiana Crowninshield(Silsbee) Appleton; married,June 2,1874, to Fanny Rollins Tappan; married,November6, 1907, to Mary Spencer Tappan; nephew ofNathanielSilsbee Jr.; grandson ofNathanielSilsbee andWilliamAppleton; grandnephew ofJacobCrowninshield andBenjaminWilliams Crowninshield; second great-grandson ofJamesSullivan; first cousin twice removed ofNathanAppleton,JamesAppleton,NathanDane Appleton,LeverettSaltonstall andRichardSaltonstall; first cousin thrice removed ofWilliamLawrence Saltonstall; second cousin ofWilliamCrowninshield Endicott; second cousin once removed ofJohnAppleton (1804-1891),JanePierce,JohnAppleton (1815-1864) andCharlesFrancis Adams; third cousin once removed ofArthurTaggard Appleton; third cousin twice removed ofRandolphAppleton Kidder; fourth cousin once removed ofThomasPassmore Treadwell. | | |  | Political families:Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Arthur Taggard Appleton (1884-1961) — also known asArthur T. Appleton — of Dublin,CheshireCounty, N.H.Born in Dublin,CheshireCounty, N.H.,May 8,1884.Republican.Electricalcontractor; member ofNewHampshire Governor's Council 4th District; elected 1938.Died in Dublin,CheshireCounty, N.H.,August16, 1961 (age77 years, 100days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof Charles Francis Appleton and Lillian Gertrude (Jones) Appleton;married,September26, 1908, to Alice Ethel Fox; first cousin twice removed ofJohnAppleton (1804-1891) andJanePierce; first cousin thrice removed ofNathanAppleton,JamesAppleton,WilliamAppleton andNathanDane Appleton; second cousin twice removed ofJohnAppleton (1815-1864); second cousin four times removed ofJabezHuntington,JohnBrown andErastusFairbanks; third cousin once removed ofFrancisHenry Appleton; third cousin thrice removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington,HoraceFairbanks,FranklinFairbanks andJohnMason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofSeluciusGarfield,LeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall andRandolphAppleton Kidder. | | |  | Political families:Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Appleton#2 family of New Hampshire (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). |
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