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 De Hart (1727-1795) — of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth,UnionCounty), N.J.Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth,UnionCounty), N.J.,July 25,1727.Delegateto Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1774-76; postmaster atElizabethtown,N.J., 1775-76;associatejustice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1776-77;mayorof Elizabethtown, N.J., 1789-95; died in office 1795.Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth,UnionCounty), N.J.,June 1,1795 (age67 years, 311days).Interment atSt.John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.  | Winfield Scott (1786-1866) — also known as"Old Fuss and Feathers" — Born inDinwiddieCounty, Va.,June 13,1786.Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate forWhig nomination for President, 1839, 1844, 1848; general in the U.S.Army during the Mexican War; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1852.Died in West Point,OrangeCounty, N.Y.,May 29,1866 (age79 years, 350days).Interment atUnited States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.;statue erected 1874 atScottCircle, Washington, D.C.| |  Relatives: Sonof William Scott and Anna (Mason) Scott; married1817 to MaryD. Mayo (granddaughter ofJohnDe Hart); great-granduncle ofPhilipC. Hanna; first cousin twice removed ofFrankNewsum Julian. | | |  | Political family:Scott-DeHart-Hannafamily of New Jersey and Alabama. | | |  | Scott County,Iowa is named for him. | | |  | FortScott (military installation 1842-73), and the subsequentcityofFortScott, Kansas, werenamed forhim. | | |  | Other politicians named for him:WinfieldS. Sherwood—WinfieldS. Sherwood—WinfieldScott Featherston—WinfieldS. Hancock—WinfieldS. Cameron—WinfieldS. Hanford—WinfieldS. Smyth—WinfieldS. Bird—W. S.Bell—WinfieldS. Holden—WinfieldS. Huntley—WinfieldScott Nay—WinfieldS. Smith—WinfieldS. Kerr—WinfieldScott Moore—WinfieldS. Little—WinfieldS. Withrow—WinfieldS. Choate—WinfieldS. Holt—WinfieldS. Pope—WinfieldS. Watson—WinfieldS. Keenholts—WinfieldScott Silloway—WinfieldS. Vandewater—WinfieldS. Braddock—W. S.Allen—WinfieldS. Hammond—WinfieldS. Phillips—WinfieldS. Spencer—WinfieldS. Rose—WinfieldS. Schuster—WinfieldScott Allison—WinfieldS. Boynton—WinfieldS. Kenyon—WinfieldS. Tibbetts—WinfieldS. Harrold—WinfieldScott Reed—WinfieldS. Grove—WinfieldS. Rogers—WinfieldS. Brown—WinfieldS. Hooper—WinfieldS. Pealer—WinfieldS. Wallace, Jr.—WinfieldS. Hinds | | |  | Epitaph: "History records his EminentServices as a Warrior, Pacificator, and General In Chief of theArmies of the United States. Medals, and an Equestrian Statue orderedby Congress in the Capital of his Country, are his Public Monuments.This stone is a mark of the love and veneration of his Daughters.Requiescat in Pace." | | |  | See alsoWikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | |  | Books about Winfield Scott: Timothy D.Johnson,WinfieldScott: The Quest for Military Glory | | |  | Image source: Great Men and FamousWomen (1894) |
| | Philip C. Hanna (1857-1929) — of Des Moines,PolkCounty, Iowa; Waterloo,Black HawkCounty, Iowa.Born in Waterloo,Black HawkCounty, Iowa,June 27,1857.Republican. U.S. Consul inLa Guaira, 1891-94;Trinidad, 1897;San Juan, 1897-98;HonoraryConsul for Venezuela inDesMoines, Iowa, 1895-97; U.S. Consul General inMonterrey, 1899-1919.Died in San Diego,San DiegoCounty, Calif.,February17, 1929 (age71 years, 235days).Interment atElmwoodCemetery, Waterloo, Iowa. | | Frank Newsum Julian (1872-1944) — also known asFrank N. Julian — of Tuscumbia,ColbertCounty, Ala.Born in Tuscumbia,ColbertCounty, Ala.,June 18,1872.Secretaryof state of Alabama, 1907-10.Presbyterian.Member,Sonsof Confederate Veterans;Woodmen;Maccabees.DiedNovember30, 1944 (age72 years, 165days).Burial location unknown.
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