The Political Graveyard: Nantucket County, Mass.

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Nantucket County
Massachusetts

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Nantucket County

Index to Locations

Nantucket Friends Burying Ground

Nantucket New North Cemetery

Nantucket Prospect Hill Cemetery

Siasconset, Nantucket Siasconset Chapel

Friends Burying Ground
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Politicians buried here:

Walter Folger, Jr. (1765-1849) — of Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass. Born in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., June 12, 1765. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1809-15, 1822; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1817-21. Died in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., September 8, 1849 (age 84 years, 88 days). Interment at Friends Burying Ground.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Gideon Gardner (1759-1832) — of Massachusetts. Born in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., May 30, 1759. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1809-11. Died in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., March 22, 1832 (age 72 years, 297 days). Interment at Friends Burying Ground.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

New North Cemetery
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Politicians buried here:
	Whiting Willauer (1906-1962) — of Massachusetts. Born in 1906. U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, 1954-58; Costa Rica, 1958-61. Died in 1962 (age about 56 years). Interment at New North Cemetery.
	James Cowles Hart Bonbright (1903-1993) — also known as James C. H. Bonbright — of Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y. Born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., January 19, 1903. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Canton, 1929; U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1955-58; Sweden, 1958-61. Died February 10, 1993 (age 90 years, 22 days). Interment at New North Cemetery.

Prospect Hill Cemetery
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Politicians buried here:

Barker Burnell (1798-1843) — of Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass. Born in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Mass., January 30, 1798. Whig. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1819; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1824-25; delegate to Whig National Convention from Massachusetts, 1839 (member, Balloting Committee; speaker); U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1841-43 (11th District 1841-43, 10th District 1843); died in office 1843. Died in Washington, D.C., June 15, 1843 (age 45 years, 136 days). Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1844 at Prospect Hill Cemetery.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Siasconset Chapel
Siasconset, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Politicians buried here:
	Reginald Bragonier, Jr. (d. 1982) — of Baltimore, Md. U.S. Vice Consul in Montevideo, 1938-43. Died in 1982. Interment at Siasconset Chapel.

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