List of burials at Oak Hill Cemetery
This is a list of notable burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Northwest, Washington, D.C..
A
- Alice Acheson (1895–1996), painter
- Dean Acheson (1893–1971), Secretary of State under President Harry Truman
- Frederick Aiken (1832–1878), attorney for Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Mary Surratt
B
- Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), founder of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
- Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), Presbyterian minister and educator
- Henry W. Barry (1840–1875), Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army and Representative from Mississippi[1]
- Alice Birney (1858–1907), co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association
- Walker Blaine (1855–1890), assistant Secretary of State, solicitor of the Department of State
- Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921–2014), executive editor for The Washington Post
- Glenn Brenner (1948–1992), Washington, D.C., sportscasting legend[2]
- Frederick H. Brooke (1876–1960), architect
- Thomas Barbour Bryan, businessman, lawyer, and politician
C
- Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida[3]
- Frances Carpenter (1890–1972), photographer and writer
- Samuel S. Carroll (1832–1893), U.S.Army general
- Joseph Casey (1814–1879), Representative from Pennsylvania
- Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), architect
- William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), banker and philanthropist
- Richard Cutts (1771–1845), Representative from Massachusetts, Comptroller of the Treasury[4]
D
- Josiah Dent (1817–1899), third president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
- Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834), frontier minister and writer
- William M. Dunn (1814–1887), Representative from Indiana, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army[5]
E
- John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War[6]
- George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana[7]
F
- Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland[8]
- Judith Ellen Foster (1840–1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer
- Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine[9]
G
- Charles C. Glover (1846–1936), banker and philanthropist
- Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), Senator from Maryland[10]
- Katharine Graham (1917–2001), president of The Washington Post
- Charles Griffin (1825–1867), Union general in the American Civil War
H
- Peter V. Hagner (1815–1893), U.S. Army officer
- John Harris (1793–1864), U.S. Marine Corps colonel and sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps
- James P. Heath (1777–1854), Representative from Maryland
- John J. Hemphill (1849–1912), Representative from South Carolina[11]
- Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
- Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), statistician and inventor
- Samuel Hooper (1808–1875), Representative from Massachusetts[12]
- William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Secretary of the Navy
I
- Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois[13]
- O.H. Irish (1830–1886), Chief, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, United States Department of the Treasury
J
- Thomas S. Jesup (1788–1860), Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army from 1818 to 1860
K
- Philip Barton Key (1757–1815), Representative from Maryland[14]
L
- William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York[15]
M
- John B. Montgomery (1794–1872), U.S. Navy officer during Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
- Gale W. McGee (1915–1992), Senator from Wyoming, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States
- Henrietta McKenney (1825–1887), painter
- John R. McPherson (1833–1897), Senator from New Jersey[16]
- Richard Mohun (1864–1915), explorer and diplomat
- Charles Morris (1784–1856), Commodore, U.S. Navy, an officer from 1799 to 1847, during Quasi-War, First Barbary War, Second Barbary War and War of 1812
N
- Francis G. Newlands (1846–1917), Representative and Senator from Nevada, white supremacist
- John George Nicolay (1832–1901), private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln
O
- Štefan Osuský (1889–1973), Slovak diplomat
P
- Carlile Pollock Patterson (1816–1881), fourth superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
- John Barton Payne (1855–1935), politician, lawyer, and judge and United States Secretary of the Interior
- John Howard Payne (1791–1852), composer of "Home! Sweet Home!"
- Paul J. Pelz (1841–1918), architect of the Library of Congress
- George Peter (1779–1861), Representative from Maryland[17]
- George Peter (1829–1893), Maryland politician, son of George Peter (1779–1861)
- Albert Pike (1809–1891), American attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason
- Charles Pomeroy (1825–1891), Representative from Iowa[18]
- John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina[19]
R
- William Radford (1808–1890), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy
- Jesse L. Reno (1823–1862), U.S. Army officer from Virginia
- Zalmon Richards (1811–1899), Educator and first president of the National Education Association
- William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), U.S. Navy admiral, and naval and military historian
S
- Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), United States Navy rear admiral (exhumed in 1896 and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia)
- Willis Shapley (1917–2005), NASA executive[20]
- Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), CBS and ABC newscaster; war correspondent; film star
- Joseph Smith (1790–1877), United States Navy rear admiral
- E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819–1899), novelist
- Samuel Sprigg (c. 1783 – 1855), governor of Maryland
- Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), Attorney General under President James Buchanan, Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln
- Hestor L. Stevens (1803–1864), Representative from Michigan[21]
- Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent[22][circular reference]
- Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
T
- Lorenzo Thomas (1804–1875), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, acting Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson
- Theodore Timby (1822–1909), inventor of the revolving turret first introduced on the Civil War ship USS Monitor, and many other inventions.
- Charles Henry Tompkins (1830–1915), brevet Brigadier General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Recipient of the Medal of Honor.[23] Later served as Assistant Quartermaster General.
- Robin Toner (1954–2008) journalist
- James True (1880–1946) Washington DC journalist.
- James Noble Tyner (1826–1904), Representative from Indiana, Postmaster General under President Ulysses S. Grant[24]
U
- Henry Ulke (1821–1910), portrait painter, photographer, entymologist; painted more than 100 portraits of high government officials
- Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy under President John Tyler; originally buried at the Congressional Cemetery
W
- Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from Mississippi
- George Corbin Washington (1789–1854), Representative from Maryland, grand-nephew of George Washington
- Edward Douglass White (1844–1921), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States
- Cadmus M. Wilcox (1824–1890), U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War; Confederate general during the American Civil War
Y
- David Levy Yulee (1810–1886), Senator from Florida, first Jew to serve in the U.S. Senate[25][citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 616.
- ^ Shapiro, Leonard (January 18, 1992). "Laughter Amid the Sorrow". The Washington Post.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 771.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 912.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 990.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 999.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1026.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1073.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1091.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1139.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1233.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1275.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1311.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1380.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1450.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1565.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1725.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1750.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1751.
- ^ "Reno Hill Pathway Double Crypts (1 to 42)" (PDF). Oak Hill Cemetery Burial Records. Georgetown, D.C.: Oak Hill Cemetery. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 1974.
- ^ Cornelius Stribling
- ^ "Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients - (M-Z)". www.history.army.mil. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 2072.
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 2215.
References
- Dodge, Andrew R. (2005). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774–2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0160731761.
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External links
- Notable figures — Oak Hill Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation
- Burial records — Oak Hill Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation
- Category: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia at WikiTree
- Oak Hill Cemetery at BillionGraves
- Oak Hill Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Oak Hill Cemetery at The Political Graveyard