This is the grave of Mark White. Born in 1940 in Henderson, Texas, White grew up in Houston and attended Baylor University in Waco. He then received his law degree from Baylor in 1965. He started a law practice in Houston, but very ambitious, was...
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This is the grave of Henry Wallace. Perhaps the single oddest figure in American political history, Wallace was born in 1888 on a farm near Orient, Iowa into a family.
This is the grave of Dan Moody. Born in 1893 in Taylor, Texas, Dan Moody's father was a local political leader and his mother was a school teacher. He went.
This is the grave of William Wilson. Born in 1862 in Blantyre, Scotland to a coal mining father, Wilson immigrated with his family to the United States in 1870. See, his father was on strike and the family was evicted from company housing. Unable to...
This is the grave of Daniel Tompkins. Born in 1774 in Scarsdale, New York, Tompkins graduated from Columbia in 1795. He studied law with John Jay, among others, and was.
This is the grave of Stephen A. Douglas. Born in 1813 in Brandon, Vermont, Douglass (the name originally had an extra "s" at the end) was the son of a.
This is the grave of the traitor John Archibald Campbell. Born in 1811 near Washington, Georgia, Campbell grew up elite and was very intelligent. He graduated from the University of Georgia when he was only 14 years old. He went to West Point, where he...
This is the grave of Sylvia Woods. Sylvia Woods was born in 1909 and became a long-time radical, working within the United Auto Workers. It is difficult to piece together.
This is the grave of Marshall Field. Field's tombstone claims he was born in 1835, but online sources say 1834. You'd be surprised how often the dates on tombstones are.
This is the grave of Prince Hall. No one knows when Prince Hall was born. It's generally considered to be between 1735 and 1738. No one knows where he was born either. After all, he was a slave. He didn't come from Africa, but whether...
This is the future grave of Kay Bailey Hutchison. Born Kathryn Bailey in Galveston in 1943, the future Kay Bailey Hutchison grew up in La Marque, Texas before attending the.
This is the grave of Henry Wise. Born in Accomack County, Virginia in 1806 to parents from the Virginia slaveholding plantation elite, Henry Wise grew up in luxury. He graduated.