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William Cabell Rives (1793-1868) —
of Milton (unknown
county), Va.
Born in Nelson
County, Va., May 4,
1793.
Democrat. Delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1817-20, 1822-23; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1823-29; U.S.
Minister to France, 1829-32, 1849-53; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1832-34, 1836-39, 1841-45; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., April 25,
1868 (age 74 years, 357
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gilmerton, Albemarle
County, Va., April 6,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1829-36, 1838-39; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1838-39; Governor of
Virginia, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th
District 1843-44); U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1844; died in office 1844.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon accidentally
burst on board
the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 41 years, 328
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at in a private or family
graveyard.
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John Walker (1744-1809) —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., February
13, 1744.
Planter;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790.
Died in Orange
County, Va., December
2, 1809 (age 65 years, 292
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Francis Walker (1764-1806) —
of Virginia.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., June 22,
1764.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1788-91, 1797-1801; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 14th District, 1793-95.
Died in Albemarle
County, Va., March, 1806
(age 41
years, 0 days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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| Politicians buried
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) —
also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of
Monticello"; "Friend of the People";
"Father of the University of Virginia" —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., April 13,
1743.
Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;
U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice
President of the United States, 1797-1801; President
of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),
1796.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. nickel
(five
cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2
bill since the 1860s.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4,
1826 (age 83 years, 82
days).
Interment at Monticello Graveyard; cenotaph at University
of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January
1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton (died 1782); third cousin once
removed of John
Marshall; father-in-law of Thomas
Mann Randolph and John
Wayles Eppes; uncle of Dabney
Carr; great-granduncle of John
Jordan Crittenden; second cousin once removed of William
Segar Archer; granduncle of Dabney
Smith Carr; grandfather of Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who
married Nicholas
Philip Trist), Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; ancestor of Lloyd
Lee Gravely. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Jefferson
M. Levy — Joshua
Fry |
| | | Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Thomas
Jefferson Campbell
— Thomas
Jefferson Kennard
— Thomas
J. Gazley
— Thomas
Jefferson Word
— Thomas
J. Drake
— Thomas
Jefferson Heard
— Thomas
Jefferson Green
— Thomas
Jefferson Rusk
— Thomas
Jefferson Withers
— Thomas
J. Parsons
— Thomas
J. Dryer
— Thomas
J. Foster
— Thomas
J. Henley
— Thomas
J. Barr
— Thomas
Jefferson Jennings
— Thomas
J. Henderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Van Alstyne
— Thomas
Jefferson Cason
— Thomas
Jefferson Buford
— T.
Jefferson Coolidge
— Thomas
J. Megibben
— Thomas
J. Bunn
— Thomas
J. Hardin
— Thomas
J. Brown
— Thomas
Jefferson Speer
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Hudson
— Thomas
J. Selby
— Thomas
Jefferson Deavitt
— Thomas
Jefferson Majors
— Thomas
Jefferson Wood
— Thomas
Jefferson Nunn
— Thomas
J. Strait
— Thomas
J. Humes
— T.
J. Appleyard
— Thomas
J. Clunie
— Thomas
J. Steele
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Halsey
— Thomas
Jefferson Lilly
— Thomas
J. Randolph
— Tom
J. Terral
— T.
Jeff Busby
— Thomas
Jefferson Murphy
— Thomas
J. Hamilton
— Thomas
J. Ryan
— Tom
J. Murray
— Tom
Steed
— Thomas
J. Anderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Roberts
— Thomas
J. Barlow III
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| | | Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants
is obedience to God." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J.
Ellis, American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard
Sterne Randall, Thomas
Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas
Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas
Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan
Dunn, Jefferson's
Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 —
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's
Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher
Hitchens, Thomas
Jefferson : Author of America |
| | | Critical books about Thomas Jefferson:
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761-1820) —
also known as Wilson C. Nicholas —
of Charlottesville,
Va.
Born in Virginia, January
31, 1761.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1784-88, 1789, 1794-1800; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1799-1804; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1807-09 (21st District 1807-09,
20th District 1809); Governor of
Virginia, 1814-16.
Died October
10, 1820 (age 59 years, 253
days).
Interment at Monticello Graveyard.
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Thomas Mann Randolph (1768-1828) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, October
1, 1768.
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1819-22.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., June 20,
1828 (age 59 years, 263
days).
Interment at Monticello Graveyard.
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Dabney Smith Carr (1802-1854) —
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., March 5,
1802.
Son of Peter Carr and Hester (Smith) Carr.
Newspaper
publisher; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1843-49.
Died in Charlottesville,
Va., March 24,
1854 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Monticello Graveyard.
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George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) —
also known as George W. Randolph —
of Virginia.
Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., March 10,
1818.
Son of Thomas
Mann Randolph.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1862.
Episcopalian.
After the collapse of the Confederacy,
fled
to Europe to avoid
capture; pardoned
in 1866.
Died of pulmonary
pneumonia, near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., April 3,
1867 (age 49 years, 24
days). His portrait appeared on Confederate States $100
notes in 1862-64.
Interment at Monticello Graveyard.
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