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1. CONG_150807_002.JPG: Heroes of 1814 -- Star-Spangled Banner Historic Trail -- Congressional Cemetery, founded 1807, is the resting ground for many War of 1812 figures. Among them are Navy Yard Commandant Thomas Tingey, the first architect of the Capitol, Dr. William Thornton, State Department Clerk Stephen Pleasonton, and National Intelligencer newspaper editor Joseph Gales. Chocktaw Indian Chief Pushmataha, who served with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans, is also buried here. Joseph Gale's grave maker memorializes the editor of the National Intelligencer as "a journalist of the highest integrity." Saving the Declaration: Thanks to Stephen Pleasonton, the Declaration of Independence escaped the flames of August 1814. Just before the British arrived, Pleasonton rounded up 22 carts, loaded them with the nation's most precious documents, and led them to safety in Leesburg, Virginia. Stephen Pleasonton, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Choctaw Chief Pushmataha, Basement chamber in Leesburg, VA that stored precious federal documents. Photograph by Ralph Eshelman In the summer of 1814 the United States had been at war with Great Britain for two years. Battlefronts had erupted from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. On August 24, following their victory over the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland, British troops marched on Washington with devastating results. The Star-Spangled Banner Historic Trail reveals sites of the War of 1812 in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland. Visit ChesapeakeExplorerApp.com or download the Chesapeake Explorer App.
2. CONG_150807_016.JPG: John William Fulcher January 24, 1946 At Home with the Dogs
3. CONG_150807_021.JPG: Music is the Answer Jan. 1, 1947 Joyce E. Palmer
4. CONG_150807_027.JPG: Reverend Willie Wilson "Nano Kwado Boafd I" March 8, 1944 Mary L. Wilson "Queen Yadda Anika", August 14, 1952
5. CONG_150807_040.JPG: Stephen Joshua Solarz 1940-2010 Distinguished member of the United States House of Representatives 1975-1993 Steadfast friend of the oppressed. Champion of Freedom. Stephen J. Solarz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stephen Joshua Solarz (September 12, 1940 – November 29, 2010) was a United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a cosponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush.
6. CONG_150807_043.JPG: Robbins Warren M. Robbins Sept. 4th 1923 - Dec. 4th, 2008 Founder National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution "Our hope is to provide a foundation for interracial understanding." -- WMR [1977]
7. CONG_150807_049.JPG: Alain Leroy Locke 1885-1954 Beloved son of Pliny Ishmael and Mary Hawkins Locke Philosopher * Educator * Cosmopolitan * Herald of the Harlem Renaissance * Exponent of cultural pluralism Philosophy chair, Howard University. First African-American Rhodes Scholar. Alain LeRoy Locke From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect -- the acknowledged "Dean" -- of the Harlem Renaissance. As a result, popular listings of influential African-Americans have repeatedly included him. On March 19, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."
8. CONG_150807_053.JPG: Flora Adams Darling 25 July 1840 - 6 January 1910 Founder of the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812 8 January 1892 Donated by Association of State Presidents Past and Present, NSUSD 1812, 2009 Flora Adams Darling From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Flora Adams Darling (July 25, 1840 – January 6, 1910) was an American author. She is primarily noted for playing a role in founding the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1890. She was born Sophronia A. Adams in Lancaster, New Hampshire, the fifth of eleven children of Harvey Adams, a member of the Adams political family, and his second wife Nancy Dustin Adams, n�e Rowell. She is still listed as "Fronia Adams" on the 1860 census, and is living in Lancaster with her family at age nineteen. At some point after this, she changed her name to Flora. She was educated at Lancaster and Sanbornton. In later life, she claimed to have been married in New York City on March 12, 1860, to Edward Irving Darling on March 12, 1860, a man 22 years her senior. The couple had an only son, Edward Irving Darling, Jr., born October 9, 1862. She maintained that her husband died December 2, 1863 from wounds received on November 29 at the first Battle of Franklin, Tennessee; where she claims that Edward was serving as a brigadier-general in the Confederate Army. Flora then attempted to travel north to her home and son under a flag of truce, but was taken by the Federals as a prisoner of war. Later, following an appeal lasting 30 years, she won a case against the Federal government for false imprisonment and theft of her possessions, and was awarded $5,683. Despite growing increasingly deaf following the war, Flora became a prolific writer who was published in magazines and journals, and wrote a number of novels and short stories. In 1886, based on the merits of her writing, she was granted an honorary A.M. from Western Maryland College. She was also awarded an honorary degree from the Kentucky Military Institute. She lived in Washington, D. C. for forty years, where she was socially active and developed an interest in founding patriotic societies. Flora played a role in founding the Daughters of the American Revolution on October 11, 1890, although the society does not recognize her as one of its founders. She then founded the General Society of Daughters of the Revolution on June 18, 1891, and the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812 on January 8, 1892. Each society was founded in turn because of disagreements she held with members of the previous organization. In 1910, while visiting her brother in New York, she died of apoplexy. Female members of the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812 between the age of 18 to 35 are termed "Flora Adams Darling Daughters" in her memory.
9. CONG_150807_055.JPG: Kenneth Dresser Aug. 21 1938 - Sept. 8, 1995 Art director and creative designer, whose artistry enchanted millions The cemetery director mentioned the guy designed Superbowl halftime shows as well as the Disney electric parade.
10. CONG_150807_072.JPG: Inexorable death's doings
11. CONG_150807_078.JPG: Caspar Windus
12. CONG_150807_091.JPG: Erected by the Washington City Orphan Asylum and the Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia jointly, to mark the grave of Doctor James C. Hall Born at Alexandria, Va., January 10, 1805. Died at Washington, DC., June 7, 1880.
13. CONG_150807_103.JPG: Janice Lee Moncier, MS Feb. 23, 1946 - Jul. 16, 2014 Ann Elizabeth Norwood, MD Oct. 10, 1953 - Col. NC, USA (Ret) In loving memory of Blanche, Stella & Annie
14. CONG_150807_109.JPG: Matlovich Leonard Matlovich From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Technical Sergeant Leonard P. Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. Matlovich was the first gay service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gays, and perhaps the best-known gay man in America in the 1970s next to Harvey Milk. His fight to stay in the United States Air Force after coming out of the closet became a cause c�l�bre around which the gay community rallied. His case resulted in articles in newspapers and magazines throughout the country, numerous television interviews, and a television movie on NBC. His photograph appeared on the cover of the September 8, 1975, issue of Time magazine, making him a symbol for thousands of gay and lesbian servicemembers and gay people generally. Matlovich was the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a U.S. newsmagazine. According to author Randy Shilts, "It marked the first time the young gay movement had made the cover of a major newsweekly. To a movement still struggling for legitimacy, the event was a major turning point." In October 2006, Matlovich was honored by LGBT History Month as a leader in the history of the LGBT community.
15. CONG_150807_111.JPG: Never Again 6 July 1943 Never Forget 22 June 1988 A Gay Vietnam Veteran: When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
16. CONG_150807_115.JPG: Never again 20 Aug 1936 Never forget "If you have done nothing to erase prejudice, wherever it exists, best weep for yourself and your country." -- Cliff Anchor
17. CONG_150807_123.JPG: Clyde Anderson Tolson May 22, 1900 - April 14, 1975 Clyde Tolson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clyde Anderson Tolson (May 22, 1900 – April 14, 1975) was Associate Director of the FBI from 1930 until 1972, primarily responsible for personnel and discipline. He is best known as the prot�g� and intimate companion of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
18. CONG_150807_126.JPG: Tom "Gator" Swann Proud Gay Veteran Mar. 5, 1958 - "Never give up hope or give in to discrimination"
19. CONG_150807_129.JPG: Michael Taylor Epstein March 10, 1937 - May 6, 2000
20. CONG_150807_135.JPG: Mame Grace Eynon
21. CONG_150807_218.JPG: F. Joyce Carr Holochwost 1935-1973 Our Sweet Blue Eyes Rest In Peace
22. CONG_150807_240.JPG: Paul Marshall Mesterhazy February 5, 1971 - November 18, 2014 Our Son, Brother, Husband, Uncle & Friend
23. CONG_150807_248.JPG: Dandridge Featherston Hering 1925-2012 USMA 1947 Gentleman * Warrior * Equestrian * Yachtsman * Bibliophile Together 44 Years Joel Leenaars 1935 - Scholar
24. CONG_150807_254.JPG: Gittings - Lahusen Equality Barbara Gittings 1932-2007 Kay Tobin Lahusen 1930-20 Partners in life, married in our hearts
25. CONG_150807_256.JPG: Ruth Rappaport May 27, 1923 - Nov. 17, 2010 Ruth Rappaport From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Rappaport (1923–2010) was an American librarian. Her mother's cousin was Helena Rubinstein. Ruth was born in Leipzig, Saxony, and came to Switzerland with her family in 1938. She later came to America. Her parents returned to Germany, and in 1943 her father died in Buchenwald and her mother died in Ravensbrueck. From 1948 to 1950 she lived in Jerusalem and served as a correspondent for the Jewish Transcript. In 1959 she began working for the U.S. Air Force, and as such managed a library at Naha Air Base in Okinawa. In 1963, she began managing the libraries in Saigon for the U.S. Navy, agreeing to do so only if there would be no censorship. In 1966 the U.S. Army took over those libraries, but Ruth stayed. While in Vietnam she supervised the library system as it grew from a few books to 39 branch libraries and 117 field collections. She also organized senior officers on U.S. bases throughout Southeast Asia. After this she worked at the Library of Congress for twenty-two years; her first assignment there was to help recatalog books in the Delta collection, which was a collection of pornography and erotica confiscated by the FBI and kept in a locked cage. Its contents are now integrated with the rest of the collections. In the mid-1970s she and other catalogers worked to start the Library of Congress Professional Guild (AFSCME Local 2910), because they felt that managers were demanding unreasonable quotas of books cataloged per day. In 2006 she became a founding member of Capitol Hill Village, an organization created to help seniors age in place. She was also a founding member of the Hill Havurah. Some of her papers are held at the University of Washington as the Ruth Rappaport papers. The Ruth Rappaport Wisdom Award was created "to recognize the work of one individual annually that has displayed remarkable warmth, wisdom, and commitment to the Capitol Hill Community."
26. CONG_150807_272.JPG: John Walker Maury He was born in Carolina County Virginia on the 15th day of May AD 1809, and died in the city of Washington on the 2nd day of February AD 1855. His character was blended with all that can elevate or adorn and hi life was a bright example of the nobility and power of virtue.
27. CONG_150807_283.JPG: Paul K. Williams, president of Historic Congressional Cemetery
28. CONG_150807_287.JPG: Mann, Thomas. 1948- Librarian. Chicago: Charles H. and Margaret Mann, 1948. Rev. ed. Baton Rouge, 1976: Washington, DC, 1980. Future corrected edition in the hands of a Higher Editor. 1. Christian. 2. Z710.M23 025.5'24 0221-1948 AACR2 MARC Library of Congress
29. CONG_150807_312.JPG: William Niskanen 1933-2011 Economist and Friend of Liberty William A. Niskanen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Arthur Niskanen (March 13, 1933, Bend, Oregon – October 26, 2011, Washington, D.C.) was an American economist noted as one of the architects of President Ronald Reagan's economic programme and for his contributions to public choice theory. He was also a long-time chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute.
30. CONG_150807_314.JPG: Robert Leon Lester, Jr. Oct. 19, 1937 - Apr. 1, 2012 Loivng Husband, Father, Grandfather & Son Michael D. Green February 17, 1941 August 23, 2013 Theda Perdue April 2, 1949 Historians of American Indians Advocates for Justice
31. CONG_150807_317.JPG: James Gillespie Representative from North Carolina Died Jan. 10, 1805 James Gillespie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Gillespie (c. 1747 – 11 January 1805) was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1793 and 1799. There is some uncertainty about Gillespie's birthplace. The Dictionary of North Carolina Biography and some family sources state that he was born in County Monaghan, Ireland. The Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress gives his birthplace as Kenansville, North Carolina. Gillespie pursued classical studies and served in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1776 and served in the North Carolina House of Commons (1779–1783), then in the North Carolina Senate (1784–1786), before being elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 4th and 5th U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1799) and later to the 8th United States Congress (March 4, 1803 - January 11, 1805). He died on January 11, 1805, shortly before completing his term in Congress. He was buried at the Presbyterian Burying Ground in Washington, D.C. By an act of Congress, his remains were removed to Congressional Cemetery in April 1892. A cenotaph at the cemetery is located at Range 31 Site 58; his remains were buried at Range 60 Site 58 in 1893.
32. CONG_150807_324.JPG: Thomas Tingey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Tingey (11 September 1750 – 23 February 1829) was a Commodore of the United States Navy. Originally serving in the British Navy, Tingey later served in the Continental Navy. Tingey served with distinction during the Quasi-War and would serve as the commandant of the navy yard until his death.
33. CONG_150807_338.JPG: Judith Medora Capen 3 Oct. 1949
34. CONG_150807_341.JPG: September 11 Memorial Grove Remembrance For those who no longer hear noisy leaves shimming in the summer breeze... For those who might have sought shelter from the mid-day sun under a nave of gnarled hornbeams. For those who would drive in the quiet space amid a grove of flowering trees... For those who perished on September 11, 2001
35. CONG_150807_350.JPG: Tom Lantos From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (February 1, 1928 – February 11, 2008) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California, serving from 1981 until his death as the representative from a district that included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwestern San Francisco. Lantos had announced in early January 2008 that he would not run for reelection because of cancer of the esophagus, but died before finishing his term. A Hungarian-American, Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor to have served in the United States Congress. In speaking before the House of Representatives after his death, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated that Lantos "devoted his public life to shining a bright light on the dark corners of oppression... He used his powerful voice to stir the consciousness of world leaders and the public alike." U2 lead singer Bono called him a "prizefighter", whose stamina would make him go "any amount of rounds, with anyone, anywhere, to protect human rights and common decency". In 2008, after his death, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which he founded in 1983, was renamed the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. Its mission is partly "to promote, defend and advocate internationally recognized human rights". In 2011, the Tom Lantos Institute was set up in Budapest to promote tolerance and support minority issues in central and eastern Europe and in the world.
36. CONG_150807_359.JPG: Tom was a man of exceptional brilliance and strength whose devotion and love for his family inspired all who knew him. He was a proud "American by choice", a powerful voice for the cause of all humanity, a champion of human rights and a devoted friend to Hungary and Israel. His message remains eternally relevant: "The veneer of civilization is paper thin -- we are its guardians and we can never sleep." -- Tom Lantos
Wikipedia Description: Congressional Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Congressional Cemetery is an historic cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the bank of the Anacostia River. It is the final resting place of hundreds of individuals who helped form the nation and the city of Washington in the early 1800s. Many members of United States Congress who died while Congress was in session are interred at Congressional. Other burials include the early land owners and speculators, the builders and architects of the great buildings of Washington, native American diplomats, mayors of Washington, and hundreds of Civil War veterans. Nineteenth-century Washington, D.C. families unaffiliated with the federal government have also had graves and tombs at the cemetery. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1969.

It was first established by private citizens in 1807 and later given over to Christ Church, which later gave it the name Washington Parish Burial Ground. By 1817 sites were set aside for government legislators and officials; this includes cenotaphs for many legislators buried elsewhere. The cenotaphs were designed by Benjamin Latrobe. The Latrobe design consists of a large square block with recessed panels set on a wider plinth and surmounted by a conical point. The design is considered a rare and possibly unique example of Visionary architecture in the United States, of the kind practiced by the 18th-century French visionary architects Etienne-Louis Boull�e and Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

The cemetery is still owned by Christ Church but is now managed by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery (APHCC). In recent years, Congressional has witnessed a great turn around in its situation. Where the grass was unmowed in 2000, the board now has established an endowment fund that will maintain the lawn in perpetuity. The Association hosts over 500 volunteers each year working on a wide variety of projects: from planting bulbs to resetting tombstones to pruning trees, doing research, and writing a newsletter.

The Association web site is by far the most expansive cemetery web site with over 25,000 obituaries, news clips back to the 1820s, then and now photographs, and transcripts of descriptions of early Washington. Various themed tours are in the works and some available on the web site highlighting many of the everyday patriots that helped form the Nation and its capital city. [www.congressionalcemetery.org]

The cemetery celebrated its bicentennial in 2007 with a Heritage Festival on May 19, 2007 on the grounds of the cemetery. The Festival included marching bands (honoring John Philip Sousa), Civil War re-enactors, stone conservation demonstrations, several themed tours, landscape and watershed management demonstrations, stone rubbings and other activities.

Congressional Cemetery is also known for allowing members of the APHCC to walk dogs off-leash on the cemetery grounds. In addition to their annual dues, K-9 Corps members pay an additional fee for the privilege of walking their dog in one of Washington, DC's great open spaces. K-9 Corps members provide about one-third of Congressional Cemetery's operating income. Dog walkers follow a set of rules and regulations and provide valuable volunteer time to restore and beautify this historic place. The K-9 Corps maintains a web presence at [www.cemeterydogs.org]

The K-9 Corps program is near-universally recognized as providing the impetus for the revitalization of Congressional Cemetery, which had fallen into tremendous disrepair and neglect prior to the program's creation. In 2008, the Association will restrict K-9 membership, and is placing restrictions on the dogwalkers, now that the cemetery is on the upswing.

Notable interments:

* Joseph Anderson, Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury
* William Lee Ball, War of 1812 soldier, U.S. Congressman
* Theodorick Bland, U.S. Congressman
* Thomas Blount, Revolutionary War soldier, U.S. Congressman
* Mathew Brady, photographer
* William A. Burwell, U.S. Congressman, Thomas Jefferson's private secretary
* Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, architect, U.S. Army Captain, topographer
* John W. Carrington former Fire Chief of Washington, D.C.
* John Dawson, U.S. Congressman
* Owen Thomas Edgar, last surviving Mexican-American War veteran
* Mary Fuller, silent film actress
* John Gaillard, U.S. Senator
* Elbridge Gerry, U.S. Vice President and the only signer of the Declaration of Independence buried in Washington, D.C.
* James Gillespie, Revolutionary War soldier, U.S. Congressman
* William Montrose Graham, Jr., Major General in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War
* George Hadfield, architect
* Archibald Henderson, the longest serving Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
* David Herold, conspirator of the Abraham Lincoln assassination
* J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director
* Robertson Howard, attorney, editor for West Publishing, and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
* Samuel Humphreys, Chief Constructor of the Navy
* Adelaide Johnson, sculptor, social reformer
* Charles West Kendall, U.S. Congressman
* Horatio King, U.S. Postmaster General
* Joseph Lovell, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
* Alexander Macomb, Jr., Revolutionary War officer
* Leonard Matlovich, gay-rights activist and Air Force veteran
* Robert Mills, architect
* James Noble, U.S. Senator
* William Pinkney, Attorney General, statesman, diplomat
* Push-Ma-Ha-Ta, Native American (Choctaw) Chief
* Edith Nourse Rogers, reformer, U.S. Congresswoman
* Alexander Smyth, lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman
* John Philip Sousa, composer
* Richard Stanford, U.S. Congressman
* William Taylor, U.S. Congressman
* William Thornton, architect
* Thomas Tingey, U.S. Navy officer
* Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI
* Joseph Gilbert Totten, military officer, regent of the Smithsonian Institution
* Uriah Tracy, U.S. Congressman: subsequently U.S. Senator
* William Upham, U.S. Senator
* Abel P. Upshur, lawyer, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Secretary of State
* Charles H. Upton, U.S. Congressman, consul to Switzerland
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