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]
- Thomas Barbour Bryan, businessman and politician[3]
C
- Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida[4]
- 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[5]
D
- Rachel Davies – see Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) under "F"
- 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[6]
E
- John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War[7]
- George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana[8]
F
- William Harrell Felton (1823–1909), politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
- Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) (1846–1915), Welsh-born minister
- Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland[9]
- Judith Ellen Foster (1840-1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer
- Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine[10]
G
- Charles C. Glover (1846-1936), banker and philanthropist
- Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), Senator from Maryland[11]
- 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[12]
- Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
- Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), statistician and inventor
- Samuel Hooper (1808–1875), Representative from Massachusetts[13]
- William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Secretary of the Navy
I
- Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois[14]
- 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[15]
- Philip Barton Key II (1815–1859), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
L
- William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York[16]
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[17]
- John R. McPherson (1833–1897), Senator from New Jersey[18]
- 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
- 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
- Wendy Pepper (1964–2017), fashion designer
- George Peter (1779–1861), Representative from Maryland[19]
- 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[20]
- John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina[21]
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[22]
- Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), CBS and ABC newscaster; war correspondent; film star
- 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[23]
- Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent[24][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[25]. 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[26]
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[27][28][citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Dodge 2005, p. 616.
- ^ Shapiro, Leonard (January 18, 1992). "Laughter Amid the Sorrow". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Thomas Barbour Bryan (1828-1906) - Find A Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Henrietta Foxall McKenney Cragin at Find a Grave
- ^ 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.
- ^ It is not clear if Yulee converted before his marriage to Nancy Christian Wickliffe or on his deathbed. Nor is the documentary evidence clear if he was seated in the U.S. before or after his reported conversion to Christianity. The more accurate description of Yulee would be to note that he was the first U.S. Senator of Jewish heritage. The first openly professing Jew to be seated in the U.S. Senate was Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana.
References
- Dodge, Andrew R. (2005). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774–2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160731761.
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