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|  John Alexander “Black Jack” Logan - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Union Major General. In his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, he issued General Order No. 11 of May 5, 1868 which established "Decoration Day," now known as "Memorial Day," as a national holiday. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/5/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Samuel Beckley Holabird - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. On July 1, 1883, he was commissioned the United States Army's 17th Quartermaster General and served until June 16, 1890, when he retired after 40 years service. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/5/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Henry Jackson Hunt - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Union Brigadier General. He served with the Regular Army and after retirement became governor of the Soldiers' Home in Washington D.C., where he later died and now rests. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/5/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Harlan Fiske Stone - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person He was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the Chief Justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/6/2020 last visited: never |
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|  "Divine" - Baltimore, Maryland
in Grave of a Famous Person Grave of famed actor located in Prospect Hill Cemetery. posted by: flyingmoose location: Maryland date approved: 10/29/2020 last visited: never |
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|  James Smithson, Washington, D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person James Smithson, Esq.'s tomb is located in Mortuary Chapel in The Smithsonian Castle. posted by: Rose Red location: District of Columbia date approved: 5/2/2008 last visited: 2/21/2020 |
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|  Edwin McMasters Stanton - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/6/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Cordell Hull - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Senator, US Congressman, Nobel Prize Laureate. He served as Secretary of State in the first three Administrations of President Franklin Roosevelt posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/6/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Woodrow Wilson - Washington DC
in Grave of a Famous Person 28th United Sates President, 34th New Jersey Governor, Nobel Prize Laureate. His original name is Thomas Woodrow Wilson. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 6/3/2020 last visited: never |
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|  George Dewey - Washington D.C.
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Navy Admiral. He was in command of the United States Naval forces who inflicted a stunning victory over the Spanish Fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 during the Spanish-American War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: District of Columbia date approved: 8/5/2020 last visited: never |
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|  John Sidney “Slew” McCain, Sr - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Navy Admiral. A four-star Admiral, his son would also rise to four-star Admiral rank. His grandson, John Sidney McCain III would become a POW in Vietnam and later a U.S. Senator. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/6/2020 last visited: never |
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|  John Sidney McCain, Jr - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person He was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy. His father, John S. McCain, Sr was also an Admiral. His son John S McCain, III was a U.S. Senator. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/6/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Robert Todd Lincoln - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person Presidential Cabinet Secretary-Secretary of War 1881-1885, US Diplomat. He was the first child of 16th United States President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln and was the only one of the President's children to survive past the age of 18. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/19/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Rene Gagnon
in Grave of a Famous Person Located at Arlington National Cemetery, this is the gravesite of Rene Arthur Gagnon. He was one of the United States Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." posted by: Rock Chalk location: Virginia date approved: 11/29/2013 last visited: 10/17/2016 |
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|  Robert Dean Stethem, Jr - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Navy Sailor, Terrorist Victim. While flying home from Athens, Greece, Lebanese terrorists hijacked his airplane, Trans World Airlines Flight 847, and he was murdered solely because he was an American sailor. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/6/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Maxwell Reid Thurman - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person US Army General. He rose in rank to become the Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army, Commanding General of US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and Commander-in-Chief, US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/30/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Earle Gilmore Wheeler - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Army General. He was named the Chief of Staff of the Army in June, 1962. With limited command and combat experience, he became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1964; a post he held through most of the Vietnam Conflict. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/2/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Joseph Lawton Collins - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States World War II Army General. After Pearl Harbor, he became chief of staff of the Hawaiian Department. In February 1942, he was promoted to brigadier general and three months later was placed in command of the 25th Infantry Division. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/8/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Nathan Farragut Twining - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Air Force General. He became the third Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on August 15, 1957; the first Air Force officer to serve in that capacity, where he was an advocate of air power and military preparedness. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 7/1/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Lyman Louis Lemnitzer - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Army General. In 1944 he helped form the plans for the invasions of North Africa, Sicily Italy. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September 1960. Supreme NATO Allied Commander 1963 to 1966. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/19/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Harold Keith Johnson - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person US Army General. A combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War, he rose in rank to become the 24th US Army Chief of Staff. After the US declared war on Japan in December 1941, the Japanese invaded the Philippines and he was one of the American soldiers who surrendered at Bataan in April 1942 and was subject to brutality of the Japanese soldiers during the Bataan Death March. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/16/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Fred Keith Mahaffey - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Army General. He was posthumously inducted into the United States Army Ranger Hall of Fame and the building serving as the headquarters for the 3rd Infantry Division was named in his honor on May 16, 1989. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/19/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Louis Emil Denfeld - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person United States Navy Admiral. He was Chief of Naval Operations from December 15, 1947 to November 2, 1949. He retired in 1950. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/10/2020 last visited: never |
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|  Clark Louis Ruffner - Arlington VA
in Grave of a Famous Person US Army General. A veteran of World War II and the Korean War, he rose in rank to become The US Military Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 6/27/2020 last visited: never |
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|  General Omar Nelson Bradley - Arlington, VA
in Grave of a Famous Person The grave of General Omar Nelson Bradley is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, USA. posted by: Marine Biologist location: Virginia date approved: 12/14/2010 last visited: 10/17/2016 |
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