Dinwiddie County
Virginia
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Dinwiddie County
Virginia
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Dinwiddie County
Index to Locations Private or familygraveyards Dinwiddie County, Virginia
|  Peterson Goodwyn (1745-1818) — ofPetersburg,Va.Born inDinwiddieCounty, Va.,1745.Democrat.Planter;lawyer;colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1789-1802;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1803-18 (at-large 1803-07, 18thDistrict 1807-15, 19th District 1815-18); died in office 1818.Died inDinwiddieCounty, Va.,February21, 1818 (ageabout 72years).Interment in a private or family graveyard; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.
| John Claiborne (1777-1808) — of Brunswick,BrunswickCounty, Va.Born inBrunswickCounty, Va.,1777.U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1805-08 (at-large 1805-07, 17thDistrict 1807-08); died in office 1808.Died inBrunswickCounty, Va.,October9, 1808 (ageabout 31years).Interment in a private or family graveyard.
| Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1883-1968) — also known asArthur W. Mitchell — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born near Lafayette,ChambersCounty, Ala.,December22, 1883.Democrat.U.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1935-43; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Illinois,1940.Africanancestry.While a student at Tuskegee Institute, he served as office boy forBooker T. Washington.FirstAfrican-American Democrat ever elected to the U.S. Congress.Died near Petersburg,DinwiddieCounty, Va.,May 9,1968 (age84 years, 139days).Interment in a private or family graveyard.
| Patrick Magruder (1768-1819) — of Maryland. Born near Rockville,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,1768.Lawyer;member ofMarylandstate house of delegates, 1797; circuit judge in Maryland, 1802;U.S.Representative from Maryland at-large, 1805-07.Slaveowner. Died inPetersburg,Va.,December24, 1819 (ageabout 51years).Interment in a private or family graveyard.
| John Pegram (1773-1831) — of Virginia. Born inDinwiddieCounty, Va.,November16, 1773.Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1797-1801, 1813-15; member ofVirginiastate senate, 1804-08;U.S.Representative from Virginia 19th District, 1818-19.Slaveowner. Died inDinwiddieCounty, Va.,April 8,1831 (age57 years, 143days). Some sources say he died in the burning of a boat on theOhio River, but that was his son, James W. Pegram.Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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