page_title: Congressional Cemetery
section_title: Other notable interments
hierarchical_section_title: Congressional Cemetery / Other notable interments
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of Chief Taza (Apache) at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. The Cemetery is a National Historic Landmark
context_page_description: The Congressional Cemetery, officially Washington Parish Burial Ground, is a historic and active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the only American "cemetery of national memory" founded before the Civil War.
  Over 65,000 individuals are buried or memorialized at the cemetery, including many who helped form the nation and the city of Washington in the early 19th century.
  Although the Episcopal Christ Church, Washington Parish owns the cemetery, the U.S. government has purchased 806 burial plots, which are administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Congress, located about a mile and a half to the northwest, has greatly influenced the history of the cemetery. The cemetery still sells plots, and is an active burial ground. From the Washington Metro, the cemetery lies three blocks east of the Potomac Avenue station and two blocks south of the Stadium-Armory station.
  Many members of the U.S. Congress who died while Congress was in session are interred at Congressional Cemetery.
context_section_description: Joseph Anderson (1757–1837), U.S. Senator — Tennessee, Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury
  Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867), Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Charter member National Academy of Sciences
  Philip Pendleton Barbour (1783–1841), U.S. Congressman — Virginia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
  Marion Barry (1936–2014), Mayor of the District of Columbia, DC City Council Member, Civil Rights Movement activist
  Theodorick Bland (1741–1790), U.S. Congressman — Virginia; the first to die in office
  Thomas Blount (1759–1812) U.S. Congressman — North Carolina, Revolutionary War prisoner of war
  Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. (1940–2014), District of Columbia lawyer and lobbyist
  John Edward Bouligny (1824–1864), U.S. Congressman — Louisiana; the only member of the Louisiana Congressional delegation to retain his seat after the state seceded during the Civil War (grave unmarked)
  Lemuel Jackson Bowden (1815–1864), U.S. Senator — Virginia; represented Virginia during the Civil War
  John Brademas (1927 – 2016), U.S. Congressman - Indiana; NYU, President and Chair, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  Mathew Brady (1822–1896), Civil War photographer
  William A. Burwell (1780–1821), U.S. Congressman — Virginia; private secretary to Thomas Jefferson
  Levi Casey (1752–1807), U.S. Congressman — South Carolina; Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia and American Continental Army
  Herbert L. Clarke (1867–1945), Internationally known Cornet Soloist and Solo Cornetist for the John Philip Sousa Band
  Francis Doyle (1833–1871), brother of Peter Doyle and first Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia officer to be killed in the line of duty
  Peter Doyle (1843–1907), partner to poet Walt Whitman
  Owen Thomas Edgar (1831–1929), longest surviving Mexican–American War veteran
  John Forsyth (1780–1841), U.S. Congressman and Senator — Georgia, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Secretary of State
  Henry Stephen Fox (1791–1846), British diplomat
  Mary Fuller (1888–1973), silent film actress
  Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814), Vice President and the only signer of the Declaration of Independence buried in Washington, D.C.
  Count Adam Gurowski (1805–1866), a fiery one-eyed Polish exile and radical
  George Hadfield, architect; superintendent of construction for the U.S. Capitol
  Archibald Henderson (1783–1859), the longest-serving Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
  Dandridge Featherston Hering (1925-2012), West Point graduate, founder of the San Francisco's Barbary Coast Boating Club.
  David Herold (1842–1865), conspirator of the Abraham Lincoln assassination
  J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), FBI Director
  Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955), sculptor, social reformer
  Horatio King (1811–1897), U.S. Postmaster General
  Tom Lantos (1928–2008), U.S. Congressman — California; Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress
  Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), African American Writer, Philosopher, and Educator
  Belva Ann Lockwood (1830–1917), first woman attorney permitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court
  Joseph Lovell (1788–1836), Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
  Charles Edward Luckett (1845–1923) and Sarah Frances Whitlock Luckett (1860–1917), grandparents of first lady Nancy Reagan and parents of Edith Luckett Davis.
  Alexander Macomb (1782–1841), War of 1812 Hero, Commanding General of the Army and namesake of Macomb County and Macomb Township, Michigan; Macomb, Illinois, and Macomb Mountain in New York
  Leonard Matlovich (1943–1988), gay rights activist and Air Force veteran
  Robert Mills (1781–1855), architect and designer of the Washington Monument
  Robert Adam Mosbacher (1927–2010), U.S. Secretary of Commerce
  Joseph Nicollet (1786–1843), mathematician and explorer who mapped the upper Mississippi River; namesake of City of Nicollet, County of Nicollet and Nicollet Island in Minnesota.
  Daniel Patterson (1786–1831) U.S. Navy commodore
  Alfred Pleasonton (1824–1897) U.S. Army officer in the Union cavalry during the Civil War
  Push-Ma-Ta-Ha (c. 1760–1824), Native American (Choctaw) Chief
  Warren M. Robbins (1923–2008), founde
caption: Chief Taza
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