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. | |  John Whittlesey (1741-1812) — of New Preston, Washington,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.; Salisbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Newington,HartfordCounty, Conn.,December23, 1741.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;delegateto Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1788; member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives, 1790.Died in Salisbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,March22, 1812 (age70 years, 90days).Interment atChapinville Cemetery, Chapinville, Salisbury, Conn. | | Matthew Beale Whittlesey (1766-1847) — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Washington,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,October13, 1766.Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Danbury, 1810.Died in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,October10, 1847 (age80 years, 362days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn. | | Elisha Whittlesey (1783-1863) — of Canfield,MahoningCounty, Ohio.Born in Washington,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,October19, 1783.Schoolteacher;lawyer;MahoningCounty Prosecuting Attorney; served in the U.S. Army during theWar of 1812; member ofOhiostate house of representatives, 1820-21;U.S.Representative from Ohio, 1823-38 (13th District 1823-33, 16thDistrict 1833-38); resigned 1838; First Comptroller, U.S. Treasury,1849-57, 1861-63.Died inWashington,D.C.,January7, 1863 (age79 years, 80days).Interment atCanfieldVillage Cemetery, Canfield, Ohio. | | William Augustus Whittlesey (1796-1866) — of Marietta,WashingtonCounty, Ohio.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,July 14,1796.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofOhiostate house of representatives, 1839-40;U.S.Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1849-51;mayorof Marietta, Ohio, 1856, 1860, 1862.Died in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,November6, 1866 (age70 years, 115days).Interment atMoundCemetery, Marietta, Ohio. | | Thomas Tucker Whittlesey (1798-1868) — also known asThomas T. Whittlesey — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,December8, 1798.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Connecticut, 1836-39 (at-large 1836-37, 3rdDistrict 1837-39); member ofWisconsinstate senate, 1853-54.Died in Pheasant Branch,DaneCounty, Wis.,August20, 1868 (age69 years, 256days).Interment atForestHill Cemetery, Madison, Wis. | | Frederick Whittlesey (1799-1851) — of Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.Born in New Preston, Washington,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,June 12,1799.Lawyer;MonroeCounty Treasurer, 1829-30;U.S.Representative from New York, 1831-35 (27th District 1831-33,28th District 1833-35);Justice ofNew York Supreme Court, 1847-48;lawprofessor.Died in Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.,September19, 1851 (age52 years, 99days).Interment atMt.Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.; cenotaph atNew Preston Village Cemetery, New Preston, Washington, Conn. | | William Seward Whittlesey (1840-1917) — also known asW. Seward Whittlesey — of Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.Born in Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.,July 15,1840.Republican. Postmaster atRochester,N.Y., 1907-11.Episcopalian.Member,Freemasons;OddFellows;Sons ofthe American Revolution.Died, frompneumonia,in Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.,1917(ageabout76 years).Interment atMt.Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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