Richard Smith Chew

James G. Blaine

1830–1893 (age 63)

Oak Hill Cemetery

U.S. Secretary of State and Speaker of the House who was a leading Republican figure in the Gilded Age.

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.

Dean Acheson

1893–1971 (age 78)

Oak Hill Cemetery

U.S. Secretary of State under President Truman who played a key role in Cold War foreign policy.

Myrtilla Miner

1815–1864 (age 49)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Founder of the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in Washington, D.C.

Philip Barton Key

1757–1815 (age 58)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Philip Barton Key (1757-1815) was a Maryland lawyer and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Adolf Cluss

1825–1905 (age 80)

Oak Hill Cemetery

German-American architect who designed numerous public buildings in Washington, D.C.