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. | |  William Irving (1766-1821) — of New York. Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,August15, 1766.Democrat.U.S.Representative from New York 2nd District, 1814-19.Slaveowner. Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November8, 1821 (age55 years, 85days).Interment atSleepyHollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. | | Peter Irving (1771-1838) — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.BornOctober30, 1771.Member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County, 1802-03.DiedJune 27,1838 (age66 years, 240days).Interment atSleepyHollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. | | James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) — Born in Pleasant Valley,DutchessCounty, N.Y.,August22, 1778.Novelist;poet;U.S.Secretary of the Navy, 1838-41.Said to have written the rhyme 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickledpeppers'.Died in Hyde Park,DutchessCounty, N.Y.,April 6,1860 (age81 years, 228days).Interment atGreen-WoodCemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. | | John Treat Irving (1778-1838) — also known asJohn T. Irving — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 26,1778.Lawyer;member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County, 1816-17, 1818-20; commonpleas court judge in New York, 1821-38.Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,March15, 1838 (age59 years, 293days).Interment atGreen-WoodCemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.  | Washington Irving (1783-1859) — also known as"Dietrich Knickerbocker";"Jonathan Oldstyle";"GeoffreyCrayon" —of New York. Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April 3,1783.Essayist;historian;authorofThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories; U.S.Minister toSpain, 1842-46.Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Died in Tarrytown,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,November28, 1859 (age76 years, 239days).Interment atSleepyHollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.| |  Relatives: Sonof William Irving (1731-1807) and Sarah (Sanders) Irving; brother ofWilliamIrving (1766-1821),PeterIrving andJohnTreat Irving; great-granduncle ofRobertBroadnax Glenn. | | | | Political family:Irvingfamily of New York City, New York. | | | | Cross-reference:WilliamP. Duval | | | | ThecityofIrving,Texas, isnamed forhim. — ThevillageofIrvington,New York, isnamed forhim. — Washington IrvingElementarySchool, inEdmond,Oklahoma, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:WashingtonIrving Howard—W.Irving Babcock—WashingtonI. Wallace—W.I. Babb—WashingtonIrving Gadbois—WashingtonI. Smith—W.Irving Vanderpoel—WashingtonI. Kilpatrick | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Washington Irving: GeorgeS. Hellman,WashingtonIrving Esquire : Ambassador at Large from the New World to theOld | | | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp(1940) |
| | Robert Broadnax Glenn (1854-1920) — also known asRobert B. Glenn — of Winston-Salem,ForsythCounty, N.C.Born inRockinghamCounty, N.C.,August11, 1854.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, 1893-97;member ofNorthCarolina state senate 26th District, 1899-1900;Governor ofNorth Carolina, 1905-09; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from North Carolina,1912.Member,Anti-SaloonLeague.Died, from aheartattack, in his room at the Royal AlexandraHotel,Winnipeg,Manitoba,May16, 1920 (age65 years, 279days).Interment atSalemCemetery, Winston-Salem, N.C.
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