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. | |  Simon Cameron (1799-1889) — also known as"The Czar ofPennsylvania" —of Harrisburg,DauphinCounty, Pa.Born in Maytown,LancasterCounty, Pa.,March 8,1799.AdjutantGeneral of Pennsylvania, 1829-30;U.S.Senator from Pennsylvania, 1845-49, 1857-61, 1867-77; resigned1861, 1877; candidate for Republican nomination for President,1860;U.S.Secretary of War, 1861-62; U.S. Minister toRussia, 1862.Member,Freemasons.Died near Maytown,LancasterCounty, Pa.,June 26,1889 (age90 years, 110days).Interment atHarrisburgCemetery, Harrisburg, Pa. | | Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833-1917) — also known asWayne MacVeagh — ofChesterCounty, Pa.; Bryn Mawr,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.Born in Phoenixville,ChesterCounty, Pa.,April19, 1833.Republican.Lawyer;ChesterCounty District Attorney, 1859-64; served in the Union Armyduring the Civil War;PennsylvaniaRepublican state chair, 1863; U.S. Minister toTurkey, 1870-71;delegateto Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1872;U.S.Attorney General, 1881; U.S. Ambassador toItaly, 1893-97.Methodist.Member,DeltaKappa Epsilon.Died inWashington,D.C.,January11, 1917 (age83 years, 267days).Interment atChurchof the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.| |  Relatives: Sonof Maj. John MacVeagh and Margaret (Lincoln) MacVeagh; brother ofFranklinMacVeagh; married,May 22,1856, to Letitia Miner 'Letty' Lewis; married,December27, 1866, to Virginia Rolette Cameron (daughter ofSimonCameron); father ofCharlesMacVeagh; grandfather ofLincolnMacVeagh. | | | | Political families:Seymourfamily of New York and Connecticut;MacVeaghfamily of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Epitaph: "Genial to his friends.Enlightening to all. Keen eyed, clear spoken. He remembered, heobserved, he foresaw." | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934) — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born inChesterCounty, Pa.,November22, 1837.Democrat.Lawyer;wholesalegrocer; delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention fromIllinois, 1896;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1909-13.DiedJuly 6,1934 (age96 years, 226days).Interment atGracelandCemetery, Chicago, Ill. | | Charles MacVeagh (1860-1931) — ofWashington,D.C.Born in West Chester,ChesterCounty, Pa.,June 6,1860.Lawyer;general solicitor and assistant general counsel, U.S.SteelCorporation, 1901-25; U.S. Ambassador toJapan, 1925-29.Episcopalian.Member,DeltaKappa Epsilon.Died in Mission Canyon,SantaBarbara County, Calif.,December4, 1931 (age71 years, 181days).Interment atChurchof the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa. | | Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972) — of New Canaan,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Narragansett Pier, Narragansett,WashingtonCounty, R.I.,October1, 1890.Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister toGreece, 1933-41;Iceland, 1941-42;South Africa, 1942-43; U.S. Ambassador toYugoslavia, 1943-44;Greece, 1943-47;Portugal, 1948-52;Spain, 1952-53.Episcopalian.Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Died, in anursinghome at Adelphi,PrinceGeorge's County, Md.,January15, 1972 (age81 years, 106days).Interment atChurchof the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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