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Isaac Pigeon Walker (1815-1872) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born near Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.), November
2, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Illinois
state house of representatives; Presidential Elector for
Illinois, 1840;
member of Wisconsin
territorial legislature, 1847-48; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1848-55.
Died in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., March 29,
1872 (age 56 years, 148
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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George Selden Wallace (b. 1871) —
also known as George S. Wallace —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born near Greenwood, Albemarle
County, Va., September
6, 1871.
Son of Charles Irving Wallace and Maria Logan (Sclater) Wallace;
married, October
4, 1905, to Frances Bodine Gibson.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; manager, telegraph
office; train
dispatcher for Chesapeake & Ohio Railway;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer; Cabell
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1905-08; member of West Virginia
Democratic State Executive Committee; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1912;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Cabell County, 1936;
appointed 1936; president, Union Bank &
Trust Co., Huntington.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary; Society
of the Cincinnati; Phi
Sigma Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Lewis Wallace (b. 1873) —
of Fredericksburg,
Va.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., September
3, 1873.
Son of Howson Hooe Wallace and Ellen Byrd (Lewis) Wallace.
Lawyer; mayor
of Fredericksburg, Va.; president, National Bank of
Fredericksburg.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Francis Eugene Walter (1894-1963) —
also known as Francis E. Walter —
of Easton, Northampton
County, Pa.
Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., May 26,
1894.
Son of Robley D. Walter and Susie E. Walter; married, December
19, 1925, to May M. Doyle.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
trustee, Easton Hospital;
bank
director; Northampton
County Solicitor, 1928-33; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1928,
1948
(alternate), 1952,
1956,
1960;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1933-63 (21st District 1933-45,
20th District 1945-53, 15th District 1953-63); died in office 1963.
Lutheran.
Member, Elks; Odd
Fellows; Eagles; Junior
Order; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died, of leukemia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 31,
1963 (age 69 years, 5
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edward Cary Walthall (1831-1898) —
also known as Edward C. Walthall —
of Grenada, Grenada
County, Miss.
Born in Virginia, April 4,
1831.
Democrat. Lawyer; law partner of Flavius
J. Lovejoy; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1876;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1885-94, 1895-98; died in office 1898.
Died April 21,
1898 (age 67 years, 17
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Holly Springs, Miss.
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William Thomas Ward (1808-1878) —
also known as William T. Ward —
of Kentucky.
Born in Virginia, August 9,
1808.
Lawyer; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member
of Kentucky state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1851-53; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died October
12, 1878 (age 70 years, 64
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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John William Warner (b. 1927) —
also known as John W. Warner —
of Middleburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1927.
Married, August 7,
1957, to Catherine Conover Mellon (divorced 1973); married, December
4, 1976, to Elizabeth Taylor (actress;
divorced 1982).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in
the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1979-; appointed 1979.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Earl Warren (1891-1974) —
also known as "Superchief" —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 19,
1891.
Son of Methias H. Warren and Chrystal (Hernlund) Warren; married, October
14, 1925, to Nina Palmquist Meyers.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War
I; Alameda
County District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
Temporary Chair, 1944;
California
Republican state chair, 1934-36; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1936-38; California
state attorney general, 1939-43; Governor of
California, 1943-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 1944;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Phi; Exchange
Club.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1974 (age 83 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David Dortch Warriner (1929-1986) —
also known as D. Dortch Warriner —
of Emporia,
Va.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., February
25, 1929.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1964
(alternate), 1972;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1974-86;
died in office 1986.
Died in Brunswick
County, Va., March 17,
1986 (age 57 years, 20
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) —
of Alexandria,
Va.; Richmond,
Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., June 5,
1762.
Nephew of George
Washington.
Lawyer; member of Virginia state legislature, 1787; delegate to
Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1798-1829; died in office 1829.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
26, 1829 (age 67 years, 174
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Mt. Vernon, Va.
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Arthur Vivian Watkins (1886-1973) —
also known as Arthur V. Watkins —
of Orem, Utah
County, Utah; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Midway, Wasatch
County, Utah, December
18, 1886.
Son of Arthur Watkins and Emily A. (Gerber) Watkins; married, June 18,
1913, to Andrea Rich.
Republican. Lawyer; rancher;
district judge in Utah, 1928-33; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Utah, 1936; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1944,
1948;
U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1947-59; defeated, 1958.
Mormon.
Member, Rotary; Lions; Kiwanis.
Died in Orem, Utah
County, Utah, September
1, 1973 (age 86 years, 257
days).
Interment at Eastlawn
Memorial Hills, Orem, Utah.
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James H. Webb (b. 1946) —
also known as Jim Webb —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., February
9, 1946.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
lawyer; author; screenwriter;
journalist;
U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1987-88; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 2007-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 2008.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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Nathaniel Jarrett Webb (1891-1943) —
also known as N. J. Webb —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born in Prince
George County, Va., April 25,
1891.
Son of James Duncan Webb (1848-1933) and Helen Howerton (Rives) Webb
(1851-1930); married to Lalie Lett (1899-1992; niece of Robert
Walker Perkins).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school
teacher; athletic
coach; lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1936-39.
Methodist.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Isle of
Wight County, Va., July 18,
1943 (age 52 years, 84
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Newport News, Va.
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Herman Welker (1906-1957) —
of Payette, Payette
County, Idaho.
Born in Cambridge, Washington
County, Idaho, December
11, 1906.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World
War II; member of Idaho
state senate, 1948-50; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1951-57.
Died October
30, 1957 (age 50 years, 323
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Jesse Felix West (1862-1929) —
also known as Jesse F. West —
of Waverly, Sussex
County, Va.
Born in Waverly, Sussex
County, Va., July 16,
1862.
Son of Henry Thomas West and Susan (Cockes) West; married, September
20, 1887, to Nannie Baird; brother of Junius
Edgar West.
Democrat. Lawyer; county judge in Virginia, 1892-1904;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1900;
circuit judge in Virginia, 1904-22; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1922-29; died in office 1929.
Christian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died October
25, 1929 (age 67 years, 101
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Junius Edgar West (1866-1947) —
of Waverly, Sussex
County, Va.; Suffolk,
Va.
Born near Waverly, Sussex
County, Va., July 12,
1866.
Son of Henry Thomas West and Susan (Cockes) West; brother of Jesse
Felix West; married, February
17, 1903, to Margaret Olive Beale.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; insurance
business; lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1896,
1936;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1902; member of Virginia
state senate, 1912-21; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1922-30.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Rotary; Junior
Order; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, of cancer, in
a hospital
at Richmond,
Va., January
1, 1947 (age 80 years, 173
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.
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James Diament Westcott, Jr. (1802-1880) —
also known as James D. Westcott, Jr. —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Alexandria,
Va., May 10,
1802.
Father of James
D. Westcott.
Democrat. Lawyer; secretary
of Florida Territory, 1830-34; member of Florida
territorial House of Representatives, 1832; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County,
1838-39; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1845-49.
About 1832, he was wounded in a duel
with Thomas
Baltzell.
Died in Montreal, Quebec,
January
19, 1880 (age 77 years, 254
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Louis N. Whealton (c.1872-1951) —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Virginia, about 1872.
Lawyer; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1914-15.
Died in December, 1951
(age about
79 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Edward Wiggins (1927-2000) —
also known as Charles E. Wiggins —
of El Monte, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; West Covina, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in El Monte, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
3, 1927.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; mayor of
El Monte, Calif., 1964-66; U.S.
Representative from California, 1967-79 (25th District 1967-75,
39th District 1975-79); Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1984-96.
Member, Lions; American Bar
Association.
Died, of complications from diabetes
and heart
disease, at Sunrise Hospital
and Medical Center, Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., March 2,
2000 (age 72 years, 90
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (1891-1960) —
also known as Richard B. Wigglesworth —
of Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 25,
1891.
Married, April 30,
1931, to Florence Joyes Booth.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War
I; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1928-58 (14th District
1928-33, 13th District 1933-58); alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1948;
U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1958-60, died in office 1960.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
22, 1960 (age 69 years, 180
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder (b. 1931) —
also known as L. Douglas Wilder —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born January
17, 1931.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1980;
Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia; elected 1985; Governor of
Virginia, 1990-94; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1992;
Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; mayor
of Richmond, Va., 2005-.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1990.
Still living as of 2009.
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Nathaniel Williams, Jr. (1742-1805) —
of Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., October
1, 1742.
First cousin of John
Williams of Montpelier, Richard
Henderson and Thomas
Henderson; brother of John
Williams, Robert
Williams and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford.
Lawyer; planter; delegate to
North Carolina provincial congress, 1775.
Accidentally drowned
while trying to ford a swollen stream, in Rockingham
County, N.C., January
25, 1805 (age 62 years, 116
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Williams (1744-1790) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., August 4,
1744.
First cousin of John
Williams of Montpelier, Richard
Henderson and Thomas
Henderson; brother of John
Williams, Nathaniel
Williams, Jr. and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford.
Lawyer; Adjutant
General of North Carolina.
Died in North Carolina, 1790
(age about
45 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Eugene McLanahan Wilson (1833-1890) —
also known as Eugene M. Wilson —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Morgantown, Monongalia
County, Va. (now W.Va.), December
25, 1833.
Great-grandson of Isaac
Griffin; grandson of Thomas
Wilson; son of Edgar
Campbell Wilson.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1857-61; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1869-71; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1872-73, 1874-75; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Minnesota, 1876;
member of Minnesota
state senate 27th District, 1879; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1888.
Died April 10,
1890 (age 56 years, 106
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876) —
of Accomac, Accomack
County, Va.
Born in Virginia, December
3, 1806.
Uncle of George
Douglas Wise; father of Richard
Alsop Wise and John
Sergeant Wise.
Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1833-44 (8th District 1833-35, 21st
District 1835-41, 8th District 1841-43, 7th District 1843-44); U.S.
Minister to Brazil, 1844-47; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850; Governor of
Virginia, 1856-59; delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Died September
12, 1876 (age 69 years, 284
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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John Sergeant Wise (1846-1913) —
also known as John S. Wise —
of Virginia.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
December
27, 1846.
Grandson of John
Sergeant; son of Henry
Alexander Wise; cousin of George
Douglas Wise; brother of Richard
Alsop Wise.
Republican. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1882-83; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1883-85; candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1885.
Died near Princess Anne, Somerset
County, Md., May 12,
1913 (age 66 years, 136
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Jesse Paine Wolcott (1893-1969) —
also known as Jesse P. Wolcott —
of Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Gardner, Worcester
County, Mass., March 3,
1893.
Son of William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott;
married 1927
to Grace Sullivan.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; St.
Clair County Prosecuting Attorney, 1927-30; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 7th District, 1931-57.
Universalist
or Congregationalist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; American
Legion; Moose.
Died January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 331
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frank Rudolph Wolf (b. 1939) —
also known as Frank R. Wolf —
of Vienna, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
30, 1939.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1981-; defeated,
1976, 1978.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Clifton Alexander Woodrum (1887-1950) —
also known as Clifton A. Woodrum —
of Roanoke,
Va.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., April 27,
1887.
Grandfather of Clifton
Alexander Woodrum III.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1923-45 (6th District 1923-33,
at-large 1933-35, 6th District 1935-45).
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in 1950
(age about
63 years).
Interment at Fair
View Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.
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Clifton Alexander Woodrum III (b. 1938) —
also known as Clifton A. Woodrum III; Chip
Woodrum —
of Roanoke,
Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 23,
1938.
Grandson of Clifton
Alexander Woodrum.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1972;
Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1972-76; member of Virginia
state house of delegates 16th District, 1980-.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2001.
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James Pleasant Woods (1868-1948) —
also known as James P. Woods —
of Roanoke,
Va.
Born near Roanoke, Roanoke
County, Va., February
4, 1868.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor of
Roanoke, Va., 1898-1900; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1919-23; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1920.
Died in Roanoke,
Va., July 7,
1948 (age 80 years, 154
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Burial Park, Roanoke, Va.
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Samuel Hughes Woodson (1779-1827) —
of near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., 1779.
Son of Tucker Woodson (c.1744-1779) and Elizabeth (Moore) Woodson;
third cousin once removed of Frederick
Bates, James
Woodson Bates and Edward
Bates; married to Anna Randolph Meade; father of Tucker
Woodson (1804-1874), David
Meade Woodson and Samuel
Hughes Woodson (1815-1881); first cousin of Silas
Woodson; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Woodson and John
Archibald Woodson; grandfather of John
McDowell Woodson; third cousin thrice removed of James
Alexander Woodson and Urey
Woodson.
Lawyer; Jessamine
County Court Clerk, 1803-19; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1821-23; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1825-26.
Died near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., 1827
(age about
48 years).
Interment at Crocket
Burying Ground, Nicholasville, Ky.
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Samuel S. Yoder (1841-1921) —
of Bluffton, Allen
County, Ohio; Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Berlin, Holmes
County, Ohio, August
16, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
lawyer; probate judge in Ohio, 1882-86; member of Ohio
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1883-85; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 1887-91; Sergeant-at-Arms
of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1891-93.
Died May 11,
1921 (age 79 years, 268
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ernest Foster Young (b. 1870) —
also known as Ernest F. Young —
of Dunn, Harnett
County, N.C.
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., March 22,
1870.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Harnett County, 1913.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Burial
location unknown.
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