Congressional Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

  • Joseph Anderson, (1757–1837), U.S. Senator — Tennessee, Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury
  • Alexander Dallas Bache, (1806–1867), Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Charter member National Academy of Sciences
  • Philip Pendleton Barbour, (1783–1841), U.S. Congressman — Virginia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Theodorick Bland, (1741–1790), U.S. Congressman — Virginia; the first to die in office
  • Thomas Blount, (1759–1812) U.S. Congressman — North Carolina, Revolutionary War prisoner of war
  • John Edward Bouligny, (1824–1864), U.S. Congressman — Louisiana; the only member of the Louisiana Congressional delegation to retain his seat after the state seceded during the Civil War (grave unmarked)
  • Lemuel Jackson Bowden, (1815–1864), U.S. Senator — Virginia; represented Virginia during the Civil War
  • Mathew Brady, (1822–1896), Civil War photographer
  • Jacob Jennings Brown, (1775–1828), commanding general U.S. Army, hero of the War of 1812
  • William A. Burwell, (1780–1821), U.S. Congressman — Virginia; private secretary to Thomas Jefferson
  • Levi Casey, (1752–1807), U.S. Congressman — South Carolina; Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia and American Continental Army
  • Owen Thomas Edgar, (1831–1929), longest surviving Mexican-American War veteran
  • John Forsyth, (1780–1841), U.S. Congressman and Senator — Georgia, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Secretary of State
  • Henry Stephen Fox, (1791–1846), British diplomat
  • Mary Fuller, (1888–1973), silent film actress (unmarked)
  • Elbridge Gerry, (1744–1814), Vice President and the only signer of the Declaration of Independence buried in Washington, D.C.
  • George Hadfield, architect; superintendent of construction for the U.S. Capitol
  • Archibald Henderson, (1783–1859), the longest serving Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
  • David Herold, (1842–1865), conspirator of the Abraham Lincoln assassination
  • J. Edgar Hoover, (1895–1972), FBI Director
  • Adelaide Johnson, (1859–1955), sculptor, social reformer
  • Horatio King, (1811–1897), U.S. Postmaster General
  • Tom Lantos, (1928–2008), U.S. Congressman — California; Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress
  • Belva Ann Lockwood, (1830–1917), first woman attorney permitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Joseph Lovell, (1788–1836), Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
  • Alexander Macomb, Jr., (1782–1841), War of 1812 Hero, Commanding General of the Army and namesake of Macomb County and Macomb Township, Michigan; Macomb, Illinois and Macomb Mountain in New York
  • Leonard Matlovich, (1943–1988), gay-rights activist and Air Force veteran
  • Robert Mills, (1781–1855), architect and designer of the Washington Monument
  • Robert Adam Mosbacher, (1927–2010), U.S. Secretary of Commerce
  • Joseph Nicollet, (1786–1843), Mathematician and explorer who mapped the upper Mississippi River; namesake of City of Nicollet, County of Nicollet and Nicollet Island in Minnesota.
  • Daniel Patterson, (1786–1831) U.S. Navy commodore
  • Push-Ma-Ha-Ta, (c. 1760–1824), Native American (Choctaw) Chief
  • Edith Nourse Rogers, (1881–1960), social reformer, U.S. Congresswoman — Massachusetts; sponsor of the G. I. Bill and Womens Army Corps
  • Alexander Smyth, (1765–1830), lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman — Virginia
  • John Philip Sousa, (1854–1932), composer of many noted military and patriotic marches and conductor of the U.S. Marine Band
  • Samuel L. Southard, (1787–1842), U.S. Senator — New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New Jersey
  • Chief Taza, (c. 1849–1876), Apache Chief
  • William Thornton, (1759–1828), physician, painter, designer and first Architect of the Capitol and superintendent of the U.S. Patent Office
  • Thomas Tingey, (1750–1829), U.S. Navy commodore
  • John Payne Todd, son of Dolley Madison, step son of President James Madison
  • Clyde Tolson, (1900–1975), associate director of the FBI
  • Joseph Gilbert Totten, (1788–1864), military officer, longtime Army Chief of Engineers, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, cofounder of the National Academy of Sciences and namesake of Fort Totten in Washington, D.C.
  • Uriah Tracy, (1755–1807), U.S. Congressman and Senator — Connecticut
  • Abel P. Upshur, (1790–1844), lawyer, Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Secretary of State
  • William Wirt, (1772–1834), U.S. Attorney General, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, author

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