Random Famous People Buried at Rock Creek Cemetery (72 items)

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  (#1) Abner Taylor

  • Dec. at 74 (1829-1903)

  Known as: American politician
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  (#2) Abraham Baldwin

  • Dec. at 53 (1754-1807)

  Known as: American politician
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  (#3) Alexander Robey Shepherd

  • Dec. at 67 (1835-1902)

  Known as: American politician, Governor of District of Columbia from 1873 to 1874
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  (#4) Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  • Dec. at 96 (1884-1980)

  Known as: Republican Party icon, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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  (#5) Alice Warfield Allen

  Known as: Mother of the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson
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  (#6) Anna Broom McCeney

  Known as: Mother of vaudeville performer La Belle Titcomb
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  (#7) Anthony Francis Lucas

  • Dec. at 66 (1855-1921)

  Known as: Croatian-born mechanical engineer
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  (#8) Blair Lee, III

  Known as: American Democratic politician
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  (#9) Burton K. Wheeler

  • Dec. at 93 (1882-1975)

  Known as: American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator
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  (#10) Catherine Cate Coblentz

  • Dec. at 54 (1897-1951)

  Known as: Writer and wife of William Coblentz
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  (#11) Charles Doolittle Walcott

  • Dec. at 77 (1850-1927)

  Known as: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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  (#12) Charles Francis Jenkins

  • Dec. at 67 (1867-1934)

  Known as: American television & motion picture pioneer
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  (#13) Charles S. Fairfax

  • Dec. at 40 (1829-1869)

  Known as: Virginia born California politician
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  (#14) Christian Heurich

  Known as: German-born American founder of Heurich Brewery
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  (#15) Cleveland Abbe

  • Dec. at 78 (1838-1916)

  Known as: Prominent American meteorologist
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  (#16) Clover Hooper Adams

  Known as: Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer
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  (#17) Doug Allison

  • Dec. at 70 (1846-1916)

  Known as: American baseball player
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  (#18) Emile Berliner

  • Dec. at 78 (1851-1929)

  Known as: German-born American inventor of the gramophone
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  (#19) Evalyn Walsh McLean

  • Dec. at 61 (1886-1947)

  Known as: Wealthy heiress and one-time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post
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  (#20) Frank Crawford Armstrong

  • Dec. at 74 (1835-1909)

  Known as: Confederate general
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  (#21) Frank Hatton

  • Dec. at 48 (1846-1894)

  Known as: U.S. Postmaster General and editor of the Washington Post
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  (#22) Fulton Lewis

  • Dec. at 63 (1903-1966)

  Known as: American radio and television broadcaster
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  (#23) George E. Lemon

  Known as: Patent lawyer and founder the journalNational Tribune.
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  (#24) George L. Harrison

  • Dec. at 71 (1887-1958)

  Known as: American banker, insurance executive and political advisor during The Second World War
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  (#25) George Taylor

  • Dec. at 65 (1716-1781)

  Known as: American attorney and Democratic politician
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  (#26) George Washington Riggs

  • Dec. at 68 (1813-1881)

  Known as: American banker, founder of Riggs Bank
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  (#27) Gerald A. Drew

  • Dec. at 67 (1903-1970)

  Known as: United States Ambassador to Haiti and Bolivia
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  (#28) Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

  • Dec. at 91 (1875-1966)

  Known as: President of the National Geographic Society
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  (#29) Harlan F. Stone

  • Dec. at 74 (1872-1946)

  Known as: Chief Justice of the U.S.
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  (#30) Henry Adams

  • Dec. at 80 (1838-1918)

  Known as: American writer
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  (#31) Henry Baldwin

  • Dec. at 64 (1780-1844)

  Known as: Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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  (#32) Hubert Dilger

  • Dec. at 75 (1836-1911)

  Known as: American Civil War artillerist, Captain in the Union Army, Medal of Honor recipient
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  (#33) Isidor Rayner

  • Dec. at 62 (1850-1912)

  Known as: American Democratic politician, member of the Senate
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  (#34) Israel Moore Foster

  • Dec. at 77 (1873-1950)

  Known as: American Republican Representative in Congress
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  (#35) James Alexander Williamson

  • Dec. at 73 (1829-1902)

  Known as: Union Army general during the American Civil War, Medal of Honor recipient
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  (#36) James B. Aswell

  Known as: American educator and member of the House of Representatives
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  (#37) James Kimbrough Jones

  • Dec. at 69 (1839-1908)

  Known as: American politician
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  (#38) Jane Lawton

  • Dec. at 63 (1944-2007)

  Known as: Maryland Democratic politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
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  (#39) John B. Raymond

  • Dec. at 42 (1844-1886)

  Known as: American politician
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  (#40) John Marshall Harlan

  • Dec. at 78 (1833-1911)

  Known as: American Supreme Court associate justice
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  (#41) Julius Garfinckel

  • Dec. at 64 (1872-1936)

  Known as: American merchant, founder of Washington department store Garfinckel's
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  (#42) Matthew Gault Emery

  • Dec. at 83 (1818-1901)

  Known as: Mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1870 to 1871
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  (#43) Melville Bell

  Known as: Scottish teacher and inventor, father of Alexander Graham Bell
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  (#44) Montgomery Blair

  • Dec. at 70 (1813-1883)

  Known as: Lincoln's Postmaster General
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  (#45) Nelson T. Johnson

  • Dec. at 67 (1887-1954)

  Known as: American ambassador
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  (#46) Oliver Hudson Kelley

  • Dec. at 87 (1826-1913)

  Known as: A founder of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
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  (#47) Patricia Roberts Harris

  • Dec. at 61 (1924-1985)

  Known as: Ambassador, first African American female to serve in a Presidential Cabinet
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  (#48) Paul Warnke

  • Dec. at 81 (1920-2001)

  Known as: Assistant Secretary of State from 1966–1969; SALT Negotiator and Director of the Arms Control and disarmament Agency under President Clinton
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  (#49) Paulina Longworth Sturm

  Known as: Granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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  (#50) Peter Force

  • Dec. at 78 (1790-1868)

  Known as: American politician, American lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War, newspaper editor, archivist, and historian

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