User:Jackyd101/Arlington Cemetery
Appearance
Name | Service | Date of birth | Date of death | Notes | Ref. |
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Creighton Abrams | US Army | September 15 1914 | September 4 1974 | Army Chief of Staff. | [1] |
Alexander Augusta | US Army | March 8 1825 | December 21 1890 | African-American surgeon and educator. | [1] |
Henry Harley Arnold | US Army / USAF | June 25 1886 | January 15 1950 | General of the Air Force and aviation pioneer. | [1] |
Romeyn B. Ayres | US Army | December 20 1825 | December 4 1888 | Army Brevet Major General. | [1] |
Fay Bainter | Civilian | December 7 1893 | April 16 1968 | Academy Award winning actress. Buried with husband Navy Lieut.-Com. Reginald Venable. | [1] |
Bernt Balchen | US Army / USAF | October 23 1899 | October 17 1973 | Aviation pioneer and polar explorer. | [1] |
Thomas Scott Baldwin | US Army | June 30 1860 | May 17 1950 | Aviation pioneer. | [1] |
Charles Bassett | USAF | December 30 1931 | February 28 1966 | Astronaut, killed in training accident. | [1] |
Sosthenes Behn | US Army | January 30 1882 | June 6 1957 | Telecommunications expert and founder of ITT Corporation. | [1] |
Hugh R. Belknap | US Army | September 01 1860 | † | November 12 1901Illinois congressman, son of William Worth Belknap. | [1] |
William Worth Belknap | US Army | September 22 1829 | October 13 1890 | Army Major-General and United States Secretary of War. | [1] |
Constance Bennett | Civilian | October 22 1905 | July 25 1965 | Actress and business woman. Buried with husband Air Force Brig.-Gen. John Coulter. | [1] |
Floyd Bennett | USN | October 25 1890 | April 25 1928 | Aviation pioneer, polar explorer and Medal of Honor recipient. | [1] |
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. | US Army | December 17 1897 | November 13 1961 | Army general and ambassador to Norway, Poland, Spain and others. | [1] |
Hiram Bingham | US Army | November 19 1875 | June 6 1956 | Explorer, academic, Connecticut governor and US senator. | [1] |
Hugo Black | US Army | February 27 1875 | September 25 1956 | US senator and Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
Harry Blackmun | Civilian | November 12 1908 | March 4 1999 | Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
Charles F. Blair, Jr. | USN / USAF | July 19 1909 | September 2 1978 | Aviation pioneer. | [1] |
Jeremy Michael Boorda | USN | November 26 1939 | May 16 1996 | Navy admiral and Chief of Naval Operations. | [1] |
Gregory Boyington | USMC | December 4 1912 | January 27 1967 | Medal of Honor recipient and commander of the Black Sheep Squadron. | [1] |
Omar Bradley | US Army | February 12 1893 | April 08 1981 | General of the Army, commander of the First Army in the Second World War. | [1] |
William J. Brennan Jr. | US Army | April 25 1906 | July 25 1997 | Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
George Scratchley Brown | USAF | August 17 1918 | December 5 1978 | Air Force general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. | [1] |
Ron Brown | US Army | August 1 1941 | April 3 1996 | United States Secretary of Commerce, died in 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash. | [1] |
William Jennings Bryan | Civilian | March 19 1860 | June 26 1925 | United States Secretary of State. | [1] |
Omar Bundy | US Army | June 17 1861 | January 20 1940 | Army Major-General of the First World War. | [1] |
Warren E. Burger | Civilian | September 17 1907 | June 25 1995 | Chief Justice of the United States. | [1] |
Richard Evelyn Byrd | USN | October 25 1888 | March 11 1957 | Medal of Honor recipient, polar explorer and aviation pioneer. | [1][2] |
Marion Carl | USMC | November 1 1915 | June 28 1998 | Marines Major-General and fighter ace. | [1] |
Roger Chaffee | USN | February 15 1935 | January 27 1967 | Astronaut. Killed in fire aboard Apollo 1. | [1] |
Jacob Chestnut | US Army | April 28 1940 | July 24 1998 | United States Capitol Police officer killed in the United States Capitol shooting incident. | [1] |
Claire Lee Chennault | US Army | September 6 1893 | July 27 1958 | Commander of the Flying Tigers. | [1] |
Bennett Champ Clark | US Army | January 8 1890 | July 13 1954 | Senator from Missouri. | [1] |
Clark Clifford | USN | December 25 1906 | October 8 1998 | United States Secretary of Defense and White House Counsel. | [1] |
John Lincoln Clem | US Army | August 31 1851 | May 13 1937 | Army Major-General, known as the "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga". | [1] |
Leslie Coffelt | Civilian | August 15 1910 | November 1 1950 | White House Police officer killed in the assassination attempt on President Harry Truman. | [1] |
William Colby | US Army | January 4 1920 | April 27 1996 | Director of Central Intelligence. | [1] |
J. Lawton Collins | US Army | May 1 1896 | September 12 1987 | Army General, fought at Guadalcanal and the Normandy Landings. | [1] |
Lucien Conein | US Army | November 29 1919 | June 3 1998 | CIA operative in Vietnam. | [1] |
Charles Conrad Jr. | USN | June 2 1930 | July 8 1999 | Astronaut, commander of Apollo XII. | [2] |
John Sherman Cooper | US Army | August 23 1901 | February 21 1991 | Kentucky senator, ambassador to the United Nations, India, Nepal and Germany. | [1] |
George Crook | US Army | September 9 1830 | March 21 1890 | Army Major-General, known for his campaigns against Geronimo. | [1] |
Louis Cukela | USMC | May 1 1888 | March 19 1956 | Medal of Honor recipient. | [1] |
George Washington Custis | Civilian | April 30 1781 | October 10 1857 | Original owner of Arlington House, buried next to his wife Mary Custis (d. 1852). Third recorded burial on the site. | [1] |
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. | US Army | July 1 1877 | November 26 1970 | First African-American Army General. | [1] |
Cushman Kellogg Davis | US Army | June 16 1836 | November 27 1900 | Governor of Minnesota. | [1] |
Dwight F. Davis | US Army | July 5 1879 | November 28 1945 | United States Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, Founder of the Davis Cup. | [1] |
Jane Delano | US Army | March 12 1862 | April 15 1919 | Founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service. | [1] |
Jacob L. Devers | US Army | September 8 1887 | October 15 1979 | Army General during the [{Second World War]]. | [1] |
Sir John Dill | British Army | December 25 1881 | November 4 1944 | British Field Marshal and representative to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. | [1] |
Edward P. Doherty | US Army | 1840 | April 3 1897 | Captor of John Wilkes Booth. | [1] |
William J. Donovan | US Army | January 1 1883 | February 8 1959 | Medal of Honor recipient and director of the Office of Strategic Services. | [1] |
Jimmy Doolittle | US Army | December 14 1896 | September 27 1993 | Aviation pioneer and commander of the Doolittle Raid. | [1] |
Abner Doubleday | US Army | January 1 1883 | February 8 1959 | Army Major-General and purported inventor of baseball. | [1] |
William O. Douglas | US Army | October 16 1898 | January 19 1980 | Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
John Foster Dulles | US Army | February 25 1888 | May 24 1959 | United States Secretary of State. | [1] |
John Porter East | USMC | May 5 1931 | June 29 1986 | Academic and senator from North Carolina. | [1] |
Donn F. Eisele | USAF | June 23 1930 | December 2 1987 | Astronaut on Apollo VII. | [1] |
Medgar Evers | US Army | July 2 1925 | June 12 1963 | Civil Rights activist. | [1] |
Sir Moses Ezekiel | CS Army | October 28 1844 | March 4 1944 | Confederate Army officer and architect. | [1] |
Robert Fechner | US Army | March 22 1876 | December 31 1939 | Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps. | [1] |
Walter Flowers | US Army | April 12 1933 | April 12 1984 | Alabama congressman, served on the House Judiciary Committee. | [1] |
James Forrestal | USN | February 15 1892 | May 22 1949 | United States Secretary of the Navy. | [1] |
Robert C. Frasure | Civilian | April 20 1942 | August 19 1995 | Ambassador to Estonia, died in a vehicle accident on a diplomatic mission to Bosnia. | [1] |
Theodore Freeman | USAF | February 18 1930 | October 31 1964 | Astronaut, killed in training accident. | [1] |
Rene Arthur Gagnon | USMC | March 07 1926 | October 12 1979 | Marine featured in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Originally buried at Mount Calvary Mausoleum in Manchester, New Hampshire, removed to Arlington on July 7 1981. | [1] |
John Gibbon | US Army | April 20 1827 | February 6 1896 | Army Major-General, commander of the Iron Brigade. | [1] |
John Gibson | Civilian | March 29 1956 | July 24 1974 | United States Capitol Police officer killed in the United States Capitol shooting incident. | [1] |
Arthur Goldberg | Civilian | August 8 1908 | January 19 1990 | United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
George Graham | US Army | May 16 1772 | August 9 1830 | United States Secretary of War. Originally buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington D.C., later reinterred at Arlington on an uncertain date. | [1] |
Adolphus Washington Greely | USN | March 27 1844 | October 20 1935 | Arctic explorer. | [1] |
S. David Griggs | USN | September 7 1939 | June 17 1989 | Astronaut, killed in aviation accident. | [1] |
Virgil Grissom | USAF | April 3 1926 | January 27 1967 | Astronaut. Killed in fire aboard Apollo 1. | [1] |
Leslie Groves | US Army | August 17 1896 | July 13 1970 | Military administrator of the Manhattan Project. | [1] |
Meyer Robert Guggenheim | US Army | May 17 1885 | November 16 1959 | Ambassador to Portugal. | [1] |
William Frederick Halsey | USN | October 30 1882 | October 20 1935 | Fleet Admiral of the Navy. | [1] |
Dashiell Hammett | US Army | May 27 1894 | January 10 1961 | Novelist. | [1] |
Ira Hamilton Hayes | USMC | January 01 1923 | January 24 1955 | Marine featured in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. | [1] |
Matthew Henson | Civilian | August 8 1866 | March 9 1955 | Polar explorer. Originally buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City with his wife Lucy Ross Henson, both were reinterred near Henson's long time travelling companion Robert Peary at Arlington on April 6 1988. | [1][2] |
Lewis Blaine Hershey | US Army | September 12 1893 | May 20 1977 | Army General, Director of the Selective Service System. | [1] |
Marguerite Higgins | Civilian | September 5 1920 | January 3 1966 | Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Buried with husband Air Force Lieut.-Gen. William E. Hall. | [1] |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | US Army | March 8 1841 | March 6 1935 | Chief Justice of the United States. | [1] |
Juliet Opie Hopkins | Civilian | May 7 1841 | March 9 1890 | Nursing pioneer known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South". Buried with her son-in-law General Romeyn B. Ayres. | [1] |
Grace Murray Hopper | USN | December 12 1906 | January 1 1992 | Computer pioneer. | [1] |
Kara Hultgreen | USN | October 5 1965 | October 25 1994 | First Navy female fighter pilot, killed in an aviation accident. | [1] |
Robert G. Ingersoll | US Army | August 11 1833 | July 21 1899 | Politician and philosopher. | [1] |
James Irwin | US Army | March 17 1930 | August 8 1991 | Asrtronaut, served on Apollo XV. | [1] |
Daniel James Jr. | USAF | February 11 1920 | February 25 1978 | First African-American Air Force General. | [1] |
Philip Kearny | US Army | June 1 1814 | † | September 1 1862Army General killed at the First Battle of Bull Run. Originally buried at Trinity Church, New York, reinterred at Arlington on April 12 1912. | [1] |
Kenneth Keating | US Army | May 18 1900 | May 5 1975 | Ambassador to India and Israel. | [1] |
William Pitt Kellogg | US Army | December 8 1930 | August 10 1918 | Louisiana senato and congressman, Governor of Louisiana. | [1] |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | Civilian | July 28 1929 | May 19 1994 | First Lady of the United States, buried with her first husband John F. Kennedy. | [1] |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy | USN | May 29 1917 | November 22 1963 | 35th President of the United States, assassinated in Dallas. | [1] |
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy | Civilian | August 7 1963 | August 09 1963 | Infant son of President John F. Kennedy, buried with his father and mother Jacqueline Kennedy. | [1] |
Robert F. Kennedy | USN | November 20 1925 | June 6 1968 | United States Attorney General and brother to President John F. Kennedy. Assassinated in Los Angeles. | [1] |
Otto Kerner, Jr. | US Army | August 15 1908 | May 9 1976 | Governor of Illinois. | [1] |
Harley Kilgore | US Army | January 11 1893 | February 28 1956 | Senator from West Virginia. | [1] |
Ivory Kimball | US Army | May 5 1743 | May 15 1916 | District of Columbia judge and advocate of Arlington Cemetery. | [1] |
Ivan Carl Kincheloe, Jr. | USAF | July 2 1928 | July 26 1958 | Astronaut, killed in aviation accident. | [1] |
William Franklin Knox | US Army | January 1 1874 | April 28 1944 | United States Secretary of the Navy. | [1] |
Bertram Korn | USN | October 6 1918 | December 11 1979 | Prominent military rabbi and Jewish historian. | [1] |
Thomas George Lanphier, Jr. | USAF | November 27 1915 | November 26 1987 | Pilot who shot down and killed Isoroku Yamamoto. | [1] |
William D. Leahy | USN | May 6 1875 | July 20 1959 | Fleet Admiral of the Navy. | [1] |
Pierre Charles L'Enfant | US Army | August 2 1754 | June 14 1825 | Revoluntionary War soldier and planner of Washington D.C.. Originally buried at Chilharn Castle Manor, Maryland, reinterred at Arlington on April 28 1909. | [1] |
John Archer Lejeune | USMC | January 10 1867 | November 20 1942 | Commandant of the Marine Corps. | [1] |
Evelyn Lincoln | Civilian | June 25 1909 | May 11 1985 | Private secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Ashes interred with husband Army Tech. Sergeant Harold W. Lincoln. | [1] |
Robert Todd Lincoln | US Army | August 1 1843 | June 26 1926 | United States Secretary of War. | [1] |
James McCubbin Lingan | US Army | May 13 1751 | July 28 1812 | Revolutionary War general, murdered by a mob in Baltimore. Originally buried in Georgetown reinterred at Arlington on November 5 1908. | [1] |
Peter Lisagor | US Army | August 5 1915 | December 10 1976 | Newspaper journalist. | [1] |
John Davis Lodge | USN | 1985-10-29 October 29 1985 | Professional actor, Governor of Connecticut, Ambassador to Spain, Switzerland and Argentina. | [1] | |
Joe Louis | US Army | May 13 1914 | April 12 1981 | Professional boxer, Heavyweight Champion of the World, known as "The Brown Bomber". | [1] |
Arthur MacArthur Jr. | US Army | June 2 1845 | September 5 1912 | Medal of Honor recipient, Army Lieutenant General and Governor of the Philippines. | [1] |
George C. Marshall | US Army | December 31 1880 | October 16 1959 | Nobel Prize for Peace recipient, Army General and United States Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. | [1] |
Thurgood Marshall | Civilian | July 2 1908 | January 24 1993 | First African-American Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
Lee Marvin | USMC | February 19 1924 | August 29 1987 | Academy Award winning actor. | [1] |
Anthony C. McAuliffe | US Army | July 3 1898 | August 11 1975 | Army General, commander at the Battle of Bastogne. | [1] |
Montgomery Meigs | US Army | May 3 1816 | January 2 1892 | Army Major General, architect and Founder of Arlington Cemetery. | [1] |
Nelson Appleton Miles | US Army | August 8 1839 | May 15 1925 | Medal of Honor recipient, General in Chief of the Army. | [1] |
Marc Mitscher | USN | January 26 1887 | February 3 1947 | Commander of the Atlantic Fleet. | [1] |
Audie Murphy | US Army | June 20 1924 | May 28 1971 | Most decorated soldier of World War II and film actor. | [1] |
Simon Newcomb | USN | March 12 1835 | July 11 1909 | Astronomer and mathematician. | [1] |
James Parks | Civilian | 1843 | August 21 1929 | Former slave, maintainence man for Arlington Cemetery from 1864–1929 and only person buried at the cemetery to have also been born on the property. | [1] |
Robert Peary | USN | May 6 1856 | February 20 1920 | Polar explorer and joint discoverer of the North Pole. | [1] |
John J. Pershing | US Army | September 13 1860 | July 15 1948 | General of the Armies, commander of the American Expeditionary Force and Pulitzer Prize winning author. | [1] |
David Dixon Porter | USN | June 8 1813 | February 13 1891 | Navy admiral of the Civil War. | [1] |
John Wesley Powell | US Army | March 24 1834 | September 23 1902 | Explorer, geologist and Native American liguist. | [1] |
Francis Gary Powers | USAF | August 17 1929 | August 1 1977 | CIA pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in the U-2 incident. | [1] |
Mary Randolph | Civilian | August 9 1762 | January 23 1828 | Author and close friend of the Custis family. At her bequest she was buried at Arlington in 1828, the first recorded burial on the property. | [1] |
Vinnie Ream | Civilian | September 25 1847 | November 20 1914 | Sculptor of Abraham Lincoln. Interred with husband Army Lieutenant Richard Hoxie. | [1] |
Walter Reed | US Army | September 13 1851 | November 22 1902 | Surgeon and medical pioneer. | [1] |
Frank Reynolds | US Army | November 29 1923 | July 20 1983 | Journalist and broadcaster. | [1] |
Edmund Rice | US Army | December 2 1842 | July 20 1906 | Medal of Honor recipient and military inventor. | [1] |
Hyman G. Rickover | USN | January 27 1900 | July 8 1986 | Admiral known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy". | [1] |
Mary Roberts Rinehart | Civilian | August 12 1876 | September 22 1958 | Author and war correspondant. Buried with husband Army Major Dr. Stanley Rinehart. | [1] |
John Rodgers | USN | January 15 1881 | August 27 1926 | Aviation pioneer. | [1] |
John Augustus Rodgers | USN | July 26 1848 | March 2 1933 | Admiral of the Spanish-American War. | [1] |
Thomas Slidell Rodgers | USN | August 18 1858 | February 29 1931 | Admiral of the First World War. | [1] |
William Starke Rosecrans | US Army | September 6 1819 | March 11 1898 | Civil War general and California congressman. | [1] |
William Russell | US Army | 1735 | January 14 1793 | Revolutionary War officer and Virginia State Senator. Originally buried in Fincastle County, Virginia, reinterred at Arlington on July 7 1943. | [1] |
William Thomas Sampson | USN | February 9 1840 | May 6 1902 | Admiral of the Spanish-American War. | [1] |
Winfield Scott Schley | USN | October 9 1839 | October 2 1909 | Admiral of the Spanish-American War. | [1] |
Dick Scobee | USAF | May 19 1939 | January 28 1986 | Astronaut, killed in the Challenger disaster. | [1] |
Thomas E. Selfridge | US Army | February 8 1882 | September 17 1908 | Aviation pioneer, first aviation fatality. | [1] |
Philip Henry Sheridan | US Army | March 6 1831 | August 5 1888 | General in Chief of the Army, victor at the battles of Cedar Creek and Five Forks. | [1] |
Daniel Edgar Sickles | US Army | October 20 1819 | May 3 1914 | Civil War general, congressman and murderer of Philip Barton Key II. | [1] |
Michael J. Smith | USN | April 30 1945 | January 28 1986 | Astronaut, killed in the Challenger disaster. | [1] |
Walter Bedell Smith | US Army | October 5 1895 | August 9 1961 | Army general, ambassador and Director of the CIA. | [1] |
Robert Dean Stethem | USN | November 17 1961 | June 15 1985 | Sailor murdered by hijackers on TWA Flight 847 in Athens, Greece. | [1] |
Potter Stewart | USN | January 23 1915 | December 7 1985 | Justice of the Supreme Court. | [1] |
Michael Strank | USMC | November 10 1919 | † | March 1 1945Marine featured in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Originally buried at the Marine Cemetery on Iwo Jima, reinterred at Arlington on January 13 1949. | [1] |
William Howard Taft | Supreme Commander | September 15 1857 | March 8 1930 | 27th President of the United States. | [1] |
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg | USAF | January 24 1899 | April 2 1954 | Air Force Chief of Staff. | [1] |
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV | USAF | August 23 1881 | September 2 1953 | Army general captured at the Battle of Bataan. | [1] |
Earl Warren | Civilian | March 19 1891 | July 9 1974 | Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States. | [1] |
John Wingate Weeks | USN | April 11 1860 | July 12 1926 | United States Secretary of War. | [1] |
George Westinghouse | US Army / USN | October 6 1846 | March 12 1914 | Civil engineer. | [1] |
Joseph Wheeler | CS Army | September 10 1836 | January 25 1906 | Confederate General and Alabama congressman. | [1] |
Leonard Wood | US Army | October 9 1860 | August 7 1927 | Governor of Cuba and the Philippines. | [1] |
Name | Service | Date of birth | Date of death | Notes | Ref. |
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Ignace Jan Paderewski | Civilian | November 11 1860 | June 29 1941 | Composer and President-in-exile of Poland. Originally buried at Arlington, but returned to St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw Poland in 1992. | [1] |
Name | Service | Date of birth | Date of death | Notes | Ref. |
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Archibald Butt | US Army | September 26 1865 | April 15 1912 | Pesidential military aide, died on RMS Titanic. | [1] |
Glenn Miller | US Army | March 1 1904 | † | December 16 1944Musician and big band leader, missing in action over the English Channel. | [1] |
[1] - married to Marguerite Higgins
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