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- CONG_201023_001.JPG: Phase III Limited Reopening
We ask all persons entering [to] follow the preventative guidance from local and federal authorities to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Practice Social Distancing: No Gathering
Private Property * No Trespassing
- CONG_201023_004.JPG: Phase III Limited Reopening
We ask all persons entering [to] follow the preventative guidance from local and federal authorities to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Face Covering Mandatory at Entrance/Exit
Strongly Recommended Elsewhere in Cemetery
Private Property * No Trespassing
Notice
The use or entry of wheeled devices, including but not limited to bikes, scooters (motorized or non-motorized), or self- balancing personal transporters, are strictly prohibited in the Cemetery.
Individual who have medical limitations and/or child/baby carriers are exempt from this prohibition.
- CONG_201023_010.JPG: Jim Graham
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James McMillan Nielson Graham (August 26, 1945 – June 11, 2017) was a Scottish-born American politician and a member of the Council of the District of Columbia. He was a Democrat who represented Ward 1 in Washington, D.C. from 1999 until 2015.
- CONG_201023_015.JPG: Your donations have helped this cemetery go from that... to this!
- CONG_201023_017.JPG: Gadsby Vault
- CONG_201023_036.JPG: Gary Robert Teske
International Economist
Dec 22. 1947 - Oct. 25, 1993
- CONG_201023_041.JPG: Daniel Patterson (naval officer)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Todd Patterson (March 6, 1786 – August 25, 1839) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War, and the War of 1812.
- CONG_201023_053.JPG: Beloved Cokie
Put on the jewels and take up the tools.
- CONG_201023_056.JPG: Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts
Dec. 27, 1943 - Sept. 17, 2019
Cokie Roberts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019) was an American journalist and bestselling author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steve, wrote a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She served on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.
- CONG_201023_062.JPG: Thomas Hale Boggs Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boggs was the son of Thomas Hale Boggs (1914–1972), a United States Representative from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, and Lindy Boggs (1916–2013), her husband's successor in the 2nd congressional district and thereafter U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican under U.S. President Bill Clinton. His siblings included journalist and news commentator Cokie Roberts (1943–2019) and Barbara Boggs Sigmund (1939–1990), who served as the mayor of Princeton, New Jersey.
Boggs, a Democrat, began his legal practice in New Orleans and later moved to Washington, D.C., to become a lawyer and lobbyist. He joined the law/lobbyist firm of James R. Patton Jr., which today is known as Squire Patton Boggs. Boggs was the firm's senior partner. With Patton Boggs, he was known for lobbying on major issues, including:
Repealing the Glass-Steagall Act on behalf of the American Bankers Association
Litigation against Chevron for environmental issues in Ecuador
The $1.5 billion federal bailout of Chrysler in 1979
In 1970, Boggs unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives from Maryland's 8th congressional district against incumbent Republican Gilbert Gude. The district is currently represented by the Democrat Jamie Raskin. Boggs represented dozens of corporations, trade associations, and state and foreign governments. In 2013, The American Lawyer magazine named Boggs one of the "Top 50 Innovators in Big Law in the Last 50 Years." The National Law Journal termed him one of the most influential lawyers in the nation.
- CONG_201023_072.JPG: Hale Boggs
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission.
In 1972, while he was still majority leader, Boggs was on a fundraising drive in Alaska when the twin engine airplane in which he was travelling with Alaska congressman Nick Begich and two others, disappeared while flying from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska.
- CONG_201023_091.JPG: Virginia Wallace Taylor
"Ginny"
- CONG_201023_094.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 in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect -- the acknowledged "Dean" -- of the Harlem Renaissance. He is frequently included in listings of influential African Americans. 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."
- CONG_201023_101.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
Warren M. Robbins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warren Murray Robbins (September 4, 1923 – December 4, 2008) was an American art collector, whose collection of African art led to the formation of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Robbins was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1923, to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He attend the University of New Hampshire where he earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1945. He was awarded a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1949, majoring in history. After graduating from college, he taught briefly at Nurnberg American High School and then became a cultural affairs officer for the Department of State.
While working as a cultural attaché for the State Department at the United States Embassy in Bonn, he was walking the streets of Hamburg in the late 1950s or early 1960s with future United States Senator S. I. Hayakawa when he impulsively entered into an antiques shop and spent $15 on a carved-wood figure of a man and woman, the work of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Back in Hamburg a year later, he spent $1,000 on 32 African masks, textiles and other pieces in a different shop.
Returning to the United States, Robbins purchased a home in Washington, D.C. which he decorated with the 33 items he had brought back from Europe, and adorned the rooms with tropical plants to evoke the jungles of Africa. After an article was printed about his collection in The Washington Post, he invited in curious visitors who started appearing at his door to take a look. He created this informal museum in his basement as part of an effort to promote cultural communication during the Civil Rights Movement. Robbins was unapologetic in the face of complaints that he was a white man operating a museum of African art, noting that "I make no apologies for being white. You don't have to be Chinese to appreciate ancient ceramics, and you don't have to be a fish to be an ichthyologist."
He established the beginnings of a freestanding museum near Capitol Hill in 1963, raising $13,000 and taking a mortgage to purchase for $35,000 half of a home at 316-18 A Street Northeast that had been the residence of abolitionist Frederick Douglass from 1871 to 1877. When it opened in May 1964, it was the first museum in the United States dedicated to African art exclusively. The Frederick Douglass Institute of Negro Arts and History was established in 1966. In addition to Robbins' existing collection, the museum also displayed items borrowed from Life magazine photographer Eliot Elisofon and items on loan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
In succeeding years, Robbins raised money to acquire the remaining half of the Douglass house, naming it the Museum of African Art. As the collection grew, he purchased adjoining residences, with his museum ultimately including nine townhouses, 16 garages and two carriage houses.
His first visit to Africa was in 1973, by which time his museum's collections had grown to 5,000 pieces with a staff of 20. Robbins had raised funds to purchase from a Manhattan art gallery a bearded icon called Afo-A-Kom, considered sacred by the Kom people of West Africa, which had been taken from a hill-top village in Cameroon in 1966. Returning the figure, Robbins was welcomed by Nsom Nggue, then king of the Kom people, greeted by men and women in tribal dress.
Robbins lobbied his friends in Congress to have the Smithsonian Institution assume management of the collection, which took place in 1979. He was the museum's first director, remaining in the position until 1983 when he was named founding director emeritus and a Smithsonian senior scholar, and replaced as director by Sylvia H. Williams. The museum was relocated to the National Mall in 1987 and renamed the National Museum of African Art. By the time of his death in 2008, the Museum included more than nine thousand objects from Africa, including headdresses, pottery, copper reliefs, musical instruments, baskets, and ceremonial objects, as well as more than 30 thousand volumes on African art, culture and history.
Robbins died at age 85 on December 4, 2008 at George Washington University Hospital from complications resulting from a fall at his home a month before his death. His interment was at Congressional Cemetery.
- CONG_201023_106.JPG: Raher Davis
Forever Friends
- CONG_201023_110.JPG: Warren Robbins
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Founder
National Museum of African Art 1964
- CONG_201023_111.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.
- CONG_201023_121.JPG: Phase I Limited Reopening
While we look forward to a time when we can safely welcome and accommodate public access to Historic Congressional Cemetery, we are restricting entry until further notice and under the following conditions.
Open to K9 Corps Members ONLY
NO Public ...
- 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 Boullée 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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