Public Officials interred at Albany Rural Cemetery

Public Officials interred at Albany Rural Cemetery:

United States Officials

President

of the

United States

Chester Alan Arthur

Vice President

Chester Alan Arthur

Presidential Cabinet Officers

Gen. John G. Farnsworth

Adjutant General

Daniel Manning

Secretary of Treasury

William Learned Marcy

Secretary of State

William Learned Marcy

Secretary of War

Brig. Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver

Secretary of War

William Cox Redfield

Secretary of Commerce

John Canfield Spencer

Secretary of War

John Canfield Spencer

Secretary of Treasury

Diplomats

Daniel Dewey Barnard

Minister to Prussia

Harmanus Bleecker

Ambassador to the Netherlands

John Schuyler Crosby

Consul to Florence Italy

Gansevoort Melville

Secretary to the American Legation in London, England

James Russell Parsons

Consul General to Mexico

Robert Hewson Pruyn

Minister to Japan

Jared Lawrence Rathbone

Consul General to Paris, France

Bradford Ripley Wood

Minister to Denmark

Physician to the President

Janet G. Travell (Powell), MD

Physician to President John F. Kennedy

United States Senators

Charles Edward Dudley

Ira Harris

William Learned Marcy

William Paterson

Philip John Schuyler

United States Congressmen

Daniel Dewey Barnard

Harmanus Bleecker

John Cochrane

Erastus Corning

Parker Corning

Chesselden Ellis

Lemuel Jenkins

Gerrit Yates Lansing

Morris Smith Miller

Amasa J. Parker

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

Eli Perry

John V. L. Pruyn

William Cox Redfield

Marcus Tullius Reynolds

Rollin Brewster Sanford

John Lawrence Schoolcraft

George Newell Southwick

Ambrose Spencer

John Canfield Spencer

Alfred Billings Street

John Swinburne

Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck

Lyman Tremain

Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

Killian Van Rensselaer

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Solomon Van Rensselaer

Rensselaer Westerlo

Hugh White

Bradford Ripley Wood

Mary Shu-Fan Lin

Member of the Congress of the

Republic of China, Taiwan

Federal Judges

William Paterson

US Supreme Court

Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Jr.

US Supreme Court

B. Learned Hand

Chief Justice

Federal Court of Appeals Æ New York District

Surveyor General of the United States

Simeon DeWitt

New York State Officials

Governors

John Schuyler Crosby

Territorial Governor of Montana

John Alden Dix

William Learned Marcy

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

Brig. Gen. John Titcomb Sprague

Military Governor of Florida

after the Civil War

Peter Schuyler

English Colonial Governor of New York

John Tayler

Lieutenant Governor

Edwin Corning

John Tayler

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

Stephen Van Rensselaer

State Treasurer

Stephen Clark

Abraham Lansing

Abraham G. Lansing

Benjamin Knower

State Comptroller

Charles Henry Gaus

John Vernon Henry

William Learned Marcy

Archibald McIntyre

Secretary of State

Gen. John Palmer

John Canfield Spencer

John Van Ness Yates

Attorney General

Abraham Van Vechten

John Cochrane

William Paterson, N.J.

Ambrose Spencer

Lyman Tremain

John Van Buren

Surgeon General

Jacob Mosher, MD

John Swinburne, MD

S. O. Vanderpoel, MD

Sylvester D. Willard, MD

Adjutant General

John G. Farnsworth

Selden E. Marvin

John Palmer

Robert H. Pruyn

John Finley Rathbone

John Titcomb Sprague

Franklin Townsend

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Solomon Van Rensselaer

Quartermaster General

Chester Alan Arthur

George W. Pratt

Surveyor General

Simeon DeWitt

Philip J. Schuyler

State Geologist

James Hall

Ebenezer Emmons

State Paleontologist

James Hall

John Mason Clarke

Commissioner of the

Department of Conservation

Ellis J. Staley

New York State Librarian

Alfred Billings Street

Henry Holmes

Superintendent of

Public Instruction

Henry H. Van Dyke

New York State Poet

Alfred Billings Street

Commissioner of the State Board of Health

William Edward Milbank, MD

State Historian

Hugh Hastings

Superintendent of State Prisons

Louis D. Pilsbury

State Superintendent of Insurance

John F. Smyth

State Police Commissioner

Ronald Sharpe

State Police Commissioner in Pennsylvania

Regents of the

State University

Harmanus Bleecker

Erastus Corning, Vice-Chancellor

John N. Campbell

Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, DD, LL.D

John Lansing, Chancellor

Gerrit Yates Lansing, Chancellor

Thomas W. Olcott

Amasa J. Parker

John V. L. Pruyn, Chancellor

Albert Vander Veer, M.D.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, First Chancellor

Solomon Southwick

Abraham Van Vechten

Ruben Walworth, Chancellor

Dr. Peter Wendell, Chancellor

New York State Legislature

New York State Senators

Norton Chase

Lorenzo D. Collins

Erastus Corning, 2nd

Volkert Petrus Douw

Charles Edward Dudley

Leonard Gansevoort

Peter Gansevoort

Hamilton Harris

Ira Harris

Friend Humphrey

Abraham Lansing

Archibald McIntyre

James Briggs McEwan

Amasa J. Parker, Jr.

Cornelius R. Parsons

George W. Pratt

John V.L. Pruyn

Philip John Schuyler

John Canfield Spencer

Ambrose Spencer

Charles Stanford

John Tayler

Abraham Ten Broeck

Dirck W. Ten Broeck

John Boyd Thacher

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Abraham Van Vechten

Abraham Yates, Jr.

New York State Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly

John Lansing

Edward Livingston

Robert Hewson Pruyn

John Canfield Spencer

Dirck Ten Broeck

Lyman Tremain

Truman Giles Younglove

Assemblymen

Daniel Dewey Barnard

Gen. Lewis Benedict

Harmanus Bleecker

James Boyd

Jesse Buel

George Campbell

Norton Chase

Lorenzo D. Collins

Erastus Corning, 2nd

John Alden Dix

Leonard Gansevoort

Peter Gansevoort

J. Palmer Harcourt

Hamilton Harris

Ira Harris

John Vernon Henry

Lansing Hotaling

John Lansing

Archibald McIntyre

James Briggs McEwan

Amasa J. Parker

Amasa J. Parker, Jr.

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

Eli Perry

John V. L. Pruyn

John Cayler Schuyler

William S. Shepard

Ambrose Spencer

John Canfield Spencer

Barent Philip Staats

Ellis J. Staley

John Tayler

Jacob Lansing Ten Eyck

Franklin Townsend

Adam Van Allen

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

Stephen Van Rensselaer

John W. Van Valkenburgh

Abraham Van Vechten

Teunis Van Vechten

John Van Ness Yates

John Walker

Walter E. Ward

Thurlow Weed

Judges

New York Court of Appeals

Samuel Hand

William Law Learned

Amasa J. Parker

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

New York State Supreme Court

Chief Judge

William Law Learned

John Lansing, Jr.*

Ambrose Spencer

Robert Yates

Supreme Court Judge

George H. Fitts

Randall James LeBoeuf

Ira Harris

D. Cady Herrick

Elisha P. Hurlbut

Gerrit Yates Lansing

William Learned Marcy

Amasa J. Parker

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Jr.

Marcus Tullius Reynolds

Ellis J. Staley

Ellis J. Staley, Jr.

Lyman Tremain

Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne

Federal Officials Pre-Revolution

Continental Congress

Leonard Gansevoort

John Lansing, Jr.*

William J. Paterson -

Representing New Jersey

Philip John Schuyler

Abraham Ten Broeck

Abraham Yates, Jr.

Philadelphia Constitutional Convention

William J. Paterson

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

representing New Jersey

John Lansing, Jr.*

Robert Yates

First Term United States Senator

from New York

Philip John Schuyler

Commander of the

Northern Department,

Revolutionary War

Major General Philip John Schuyler

Colony of New York

Colonial Assembly

Under British Rule Prior to the Declaration of Independence

Johannes Abeel

(1695)

Jan Jansen Bleecker

(1701)

Johannes Bleecker, Jr.

(1701-1702)

Johannes Cuyler

(1705)

Johannes De Peyster

(1744)

Volkert Petrus Douw

(1759-1766)

Hendrick Hansen

(1699)

Johannes Schuyler

(1710-1713)

Myndert Schuyler

(1702-1710)

Philip Schuyler

(1737)

Abraham Ten Broeck

(1760-1765)

Dirck Ten Broeck

(1737)

New York Provincial Congress

During the Revolutionary War

Volkert Petrus Douw, Vice-President

Leonard Gansevoort, Chairman

William Paterson, New Jersey

Philip John Schuyler

Abraham Ten Broeck, Chairman

Abraham Yates, Jr., President-Chairman

Robert Yates

Commission to

Draft New York StateÕs

Constitution

John Lansing, Jr.*

Abraham Ten Broeck , President

Abraham Yates, Jr., Chairman

Robert Yates

First and Second

New York Constitutional Conventions

Leonard Gansevoort

Ambrose Spencer

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Abraham Van Vetchen

Colonial Judges

Court of Common Pleas

(dissolved in 1776)

Peter Schuyler

John Abeel

Rutger Bleecker

Leonard Gansevoort

Volkert P. Douw

* Abducted in New York City on 12.12.1829 and was not seen again.