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. 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. | |  Stephen Trigg (1742-1782) — Born inSpotsylvaniaCounty, Va.,1742.Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1779-80.Killedin the Battle of Blue Licks, in what is nowRobertsonCounty, Ky.,August19, 1782 (ageabout 40years).Intermentsomewherein Nicholas County, Ky. | | John Johns Trigg (1748-1804) — ofBedfordCounty, Va.Born in Lunenburg County (part now inBedfordCounty), Va.,1748.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1784-92;delegateto Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from BedfordCounty, 1788; member ofVirginiastate senate, 1792-96;U.S.Representative from Virginia at-large, 1797-1804; died in office1804.Slaveowner. Died inBedfordCounty, Va.,May 17,1804 (ageabout 55years).Intermenta private or family graveyard, Bedford County, Va. | | Abram Trigg (b. 1750) — of Christiansburg,MontgomeryCounty, Va.Born in Virginia,1750.U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1797-1809 (at-large 1797-1807, 6thDistrict 1807-09).Slaveowner. Interment in private or family graveyard. | | John Thorton (1786-1847) — of Missouri. BornDecember24, 1786.Member ofMissouristate house of representatives, 1824-32, 1836;Speaker ofthe Missouri State House of Representatives, 1828-30.Died inClayCounty, Mo.,October24, 1847 (age60 years, 304days).Interment atFairviewCemetery, Liberty, Mo. | | Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880) — also known asStephen T. Logan — ofBarrenCounty, Ky.; Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.Born inFranklinCounty, Ky.,February24, 1800.Republican.Lawyer;BarrenCounty Commonwealth Attorney, 1822-32; circuit judge in Illinois,1835-40; law partner ofAbrahamLincoln, 1841-44; member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1843-47, 1855-56;delegateto Illinois state constitutional convention from Sangamon County,1847; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,1860.Died in Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.,July 24,1880 (age80 years, 151days).Interment atOakRidge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. | | Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887) — of Liberty,ClayCounty, Mo.; Richmond,RayCounty, Mo.Born in Maysville,MasonCounty, Ky.,July 9,1808.Lawyer;member ofMissouristate house of representatives, 1836, 1840, 1854; in 1838, herefused to obey an order to execute Joseph Smith and other Mormonleaders, calling it "cold-blooded murder"; colonel in the U.S. Armyduring the Mexican War; led Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico,1846-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri,1876.Died in Richmond,RayCounty, Mo.,August8, 1887 (age79 years, 30days).Interment atFairviewCemetery, Liberty, Mo.; statue atCounty Courthouse Grounds, Richmond, Mo.
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