Nathaniel C. Sears

Joseph Henry

1797–1878 (age 81)

Oak Hill Cemetery

First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and pioneering physicist.

Francis G. Newlands

1848–1917 (age 69)

Oak Hill Cemetery

U.S. Senator and Congressman from Nevada who championed irrigation and conservation.

Katharine Graham

1917–2001 (age 84)

Oak Hill Cemetery

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

Gamaliel Bailey

1807–1859 (age 52)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Abolitionist editor and publisher of the National Era newspaper.

Ben Bradlee

1921–2014 (age 93)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Executive editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal.

Edwin M. Stanton

1814–1869 (age 55)

Oak Hill Cemetery

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