Benjamin Nute

Joseph Henry

1797–1878 (age 81)

Oak Hill Cemetery

First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and pioneering physicist.

Katharine Graham

1917–2001 (age 84)

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Publisher of The Washington Post who led the newspaper through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

Ben Bradlee

1921–2014 (age 93)

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Executive editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal.

Edwin M. Stanton

1814–1869 (age 55)

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U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Peggy Eaton

1799–1879 (age 80)

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Wife of Secretary of War John Eaton whose social status sparked the Petticoat Affair scandal.

Herman Hollerith

1860–1929 (age 69)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Inventor of the electric tabulating machine that revolutionized census data processing.