List of burials at Oak Hill Cemetery

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

 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
 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

C

 Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida
 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

D

 Rachel Davies – see Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) under "F"
 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

E

 John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War
 George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana

F

 William Harrell Felton (1823–1909), politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
 Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) (1846–1915), Welsh-born minister
 Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland
 Judith Ellen Foster (1840-1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer
 Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine

G

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

I

 Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois
 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

K

 Philip Barton Key (1757–1815), Representative from Maryland
 Philip Barton Key II (1815–1859), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia

L

 William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York

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
 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

 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
 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
 Wendy Pepper (1964–2017), fashion designer
 George Peter (1779–1861), Representative from Maryland
 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
 John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina

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
 Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), CBS and ABC newscaster; war correspondent; film star
 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
 Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent
 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.  Later served as Assistant Quartermaster General. 
 James True (1880–1946) Washington DC journalist. 
 James Noble Tyner (1826–1904), Representative from Indiana, Postmaster General under President Ulysses S. Grant

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

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