List of burials at Oak Hill Cemetery

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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[]

• Gamaliel Bailey (1807-1859), physician, abolitionist journalist, editor, publisher
• Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey (1812–1888), anti-slavery writer,newspaper editor/publisher, poet, lyricist
• 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
• Charles Page Bryan, lawyer, politician, and diplomat^[3]
• Daniel Bryan, politician, abolitionist, lawyer, poet, and postmaster^[4]
• Thomas Barbour Bryan, businessman, lawyer, and politician^[5]

C[]

• Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida^[6]
• 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^[7]

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^[8]

E[]

• John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War^[9]
• George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana^[10]

F[]

• Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland^[11]
• Judith Ellen Foster (1840–1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer
• Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine^[12]

G[]

• Charles C. Glover (1846–1936), banker and philanthropist
• Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), Senator from Maryland^[13]
• 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^[14]
• Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), statistician and inventor
• Samuel Hooper (1808–1875), Representative from Massachusetts^[15]
• William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Secretary of the Navy

I[]

• Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois^[16]
• 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
• Nancy Johnson (1794-1890), inventor of the first Ice cream maker^[17]

K[]

• Philip Barton Key (1757–1815), Representative from Maryland^[18]

L[]

• William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York^[19]

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^[20]
• 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
• Jennie Byrd Bryan Payne (1857–1919), philanthropist, artist, and society figure^[21]
• 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^[22]
• 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^[23]
• John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina^[24]

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^[25]
• 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^[26]
• Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent^{[27][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.^[28] 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^[29]

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^{[30][citation needed]}

Notes[]

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.

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