List of burials at Oak Hill Cemetery

This is a list of notable burials at Oak Hill Cemetery, Northwest, Washington, D.C.

A Alice Acheson (1895–1996), painter Dean Acheson (1893–1971), Secretary of State under President Harry Truman Henry Addison (1798–1870), mayor of Georgetown Alvey A. Adee (1842–1924), assistant Secretary of State for 38 years John Adlum (1759–1836), pioneering viticulturalist, Revolutionary War soldier, judge Frederick Aiken (1832–1878), attorney for Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Mary Surratt Ethel Armes (1876–1945), journalist and author Conway Hillyer Arnold (1848–1917), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy

B George M. Bache (1841–1896), Union Navy officer Gamaliel Bailey (1807–1859), physician, abolitionist journalist, editor, publisher Marcellus Bailey (1840–1921), patent attorney who worked with Alexander Graham Bell Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey (1812–1888), anti-slavery writer, newspaper editor/publisher, poet, lyricist Theodorus Bailey (1805–1877), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), founder of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution George Ellis Baker (1816–1887), member of New York State Assembly Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), Presbyterian minister and educator Amzi L. Barber (1843–1909), pioneer of the asphalt industry Joseph Barnes (1817–1883), physician and U.S. Surgeon General of the U.S. Army Bob Barr (1856–1930), baseball pitcher Henry W. Barry (1840–1875), Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army and Representative from Mississippi George Beall (1729–1807), landowner in Maryland and Georgetown Charles Milton Bell (1848–1893), portrait photographer known for his work with Native Americans Alice Birney (1858–1907), co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association William Birney (1819–1907), Union Army general, professor, lawyer, author Walker Blaine (1855–1890), assistant Secretary of State, solicitor of the Department of State James H. Blake (1768–1819), physician and mayor of Washington, D.C. Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921–2014), executive editor for The Washington Post Glenn Brenner (1948–1992), Washington, D.C., sportscasting legend Alexander B. Britton (1867–1926), lawyer Frederick H. Brooke (1876–1960), architect Alfred Hulse Brooks (1871–1924), geologist and namesake for Brooks Range in Alaska Obadiah Bruen Brown (1779–1852), Baptist clergyman, chaplain of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate David K. E. Bruce (1898–1977), ambassador to France, Germany, and the United Kingdom Evangeline Bruce (1914–1995), society hostess and writer Charles Page Bryan, lawyer, politician, and diplomat Daniel Bryan, politician, abolitionist, lawyer, poet, and postmaster Thomas Barbour Bryan, businessman, lawyer, and politician Wiley T. Buchanan Jr. (1913–1986), Chief of Protocol of the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Luxeumbourg and Austria William P. Burch (died 1926), racehorse trainer

C Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida Horace Capron (1804–1885), founder of Laurel, Maryland, Union Army officer, United States Commissioner of Agriculture Frances Carpenter (1890–1972), photographer and writer Samuel S. Carroll (1832–1893), U.S.Army general Samuel P. Carter (1819–1891), naval officer in American Civil War, rear admiral in U.S. Navy Joseph Casey (1814–1879), Representative from Pennsylvania Sylvester Churchill (1783–1862), journalist and officer in the Regular Army Robert E. Clary (1805–1890), U.S. Army soldier in the Civil War Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), architect John H. C. Coffin (1815–1890), American astronomer and educator George Radcliffe Colton (1865–1916), governor of Puerto Rico Henry D. Cooke (1825–1881), first territorial governor of the District of Columbia Thomas Corcoran, mayor of Georgetown, District of Columbia William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), banker and philanthropist Henry K. Craig (1791–1869), U.S. Army officer in Mexican-American War and Civil War Richard R. Crawford (died 1888), lawyer and mayor of Georgetown Mary Mayo Crenshaw (1875–1951), civil servant and author Mary Cutts (1814–1856), socialite and historian Richard Cutts (1771–1845), Representative from Massachusetts, Comptroller of the Treasury

D Jean Margaret Davenport (1829–1903), actress; her married name was Lander F. Elwood Davis (1915–2012), lawyer and philanthropist Alexander de Bodisco (1786–1853), Russian Minister to the United States Sophie Radford de Meissner (1854–1957), author, socialite and spiritualist Josiah Dent (1817–1899), third president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia John Watkinson Douglass (1827–1909), president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834), frontier minister and writer William M. Dunn (1814–1887), Representative from Indiana, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army Betty Duvall (1845–1891), Confederate spy

E Mary Henderson Eastman (1818–1887), historian and novelist who wrote about Native American life Seth Eastman (1808–1875), U.S. Army general, illustrator, painter John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War Margaret "Peggy" Eaton (1799–1879), wife of John Eaton, confidant of Andrew Jackson and subject of Petticoat AffairNotable American Women Campbell Dallas Emory (1839–1878), U.S. military officer, served as aide de camp of Major General George Meade during the American Civil War Lydia S. English (1802–1866), founder of Georgetown Female Seminary George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana William Corcoran Eustis (1862–1921), U.S. Army captain, personal assistant to General John J. Pershing during World War I Tom Evers (1852–1925), baseball player

F David E. Finley Jr. (1890–1977), director of National Gallery of Art, led the Roberts Commission Antonia Willard Ford (1838–1871), Confederate spy Samuel Ford (1832–1900), member of the Maryland House of Delegates Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland Judith Ellen Foster (1840–1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine Jacob Fussell (1819–1912), American manufacturer

G John Garland (1793–1861), general in the Regular Army James Melville Gilliss (1811–1865), U.S. Navy officer, astronomer and founder of the United States Naval Observatory Charles C. Glover (1846–1936), banker and philanthropist Jane Cocking Glover (1789–1876), socialite and poet George Brown Goode (1851–1896), museum administrator at the Smithsonian Institution Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), Senator from Maryland Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. (1873–1919), Maryland state senator Katharine Graham (1917–2001), president of The Washington Post Phil Graham (1915–1963), publisher and co-owner of The Washington Post Charles Griffin (1825–1867), Union general in the American Civil War

H Alexander Burton Hagner (1826–1915), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Peter V. Hagner (1815–1893), U.S. Army officer William Wister Haines (1908–1989), author, screenwriter and playwright George E. Harris (1827–1911), U.S. Representative from Mississippi John Harris (1793–1864), U.S. Marine Corps colonel and sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps James P. Heath (1777–1854), Representative from Maryland John J. Hemphill (1849–1912), Representative from South Carolina Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution David Higgins (1789–1873), Ohio politician and judge Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), statistician and inventor Samuel Hooper (1808–1875), Representative from Massachusetts James Herron Hopkins (1831–1904), Representative from Pennsylvania George Horton (1859–1942), U.S. Consul General at Smyrna, writer Henry L. Howison (1837–1914), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy Sandy Hume (1969–1998), journalist for The Hill William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Secretary of the Navy

I Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois O.H. Irish (1830–1886), Chief, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, United States Department of the Treasury

J Thomas S. Jesup (1788–1860), Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army from 1818 to 1860 Alice Johnson (1860–1914), Broadway actress and singer Nancy Johnson (1794–1890), inventor of the first Ice cream maker Pierre Louis Jouy (1856–1894), ornithologist and naturalist George Joyce (died 1895), baseball player John A. Joyce (1842–1915), officer in the Union Army, poet and writer

K Beverley Kennon (1793–1844), officer in U.S. Navy Philip Barton Key (1757–1815), Representative from Maryland Philip Barton Key II (1818–1859), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and murder victimMurder of the U.S. Attorney John Jay Knox Jr. (1828–1892), Comptroller of the Currency, author of Coinage Act of 1873 Arthur Krock (1886–1974), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

L Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913), American inventor William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York William Wallace Lincoln (1850–1862), son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, original burial site

M Lily Mackall (1839–1861), Confederate spy William B. Magruder (1810–1869), physician and mayor of Washington City, District of Columbia Levi Maish (1837–1899), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Van H. Manning (1861–1932), director of U.S. Bureau of Mines William Marbury (1762–1835), one of the Midnight Judges appointed by President John Adams, plaintiff of Marbury v. Madison Elias Marks (1790–1886), founder of the South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute Alexander Macomb Mason (1841–1897), Confederate States Navy officer, explorer, diplomat Henry E. Maynadier (died 1868), U.S. Army officer known for the Raynolds Expedition and setting up peace talks with the Oglala and Brulé tribes Marshall McDonald (1835–1895), commissioner of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries Gale W. McGee (1915–1992), Senator from Wyoming, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States Henrietta McKenney (1825–1887), painter John E. McMahon (1860–1920), U.S. Army officer in World War I William McMurtrie (1851–1913), chemist who launched sugar beet industry John R. McPherson (1833–1897), Senator from New Jersey Livingston T. Merchant (1903–1976), U.S. diplomat and ambassador Mary Virginia Merrick (1866–1955), Catholic social reformer Richard T. Merrick (1828–1885), lawyer William Matthews Merrick (1818–1889), judge and U.S. Representative from Maryland Myrtilla Miner (1815–1864), educator and abolitionist in Washington, D.C. Charles Eli Mix (1810–1878), commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Richard Mohun (1864–1915), explorer and diplomat George Washington Montgomery (1804–1841), writer, translator and diplomat John B. Montgomery (1794–1872), U.S. Navy officer during Mexican–American War and the American Civil War Charles Morris (1784–1856), Commodore, U.S. Navy, an officer from 1799 to 1847, during Quasi-War, First Barbary War, Second Barbary War and War of 1812 Lawrence Quincy Mumford (1903–1982), librarian of the U.S. Congress Reuben D. Mussey Jr. (1833–1892), Union Army officer and lawyer

N Francis G. Newlands (1846–1917), Representative and Senator from Nevada, white supremacist John George Nicolay (1832–1901), private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln

O Herbert Gouverneur Ogden (1846–1906), geographer, topographer, cartographer Štefan Osuský (1889–1973), Slovak diplomat James F. Oyster (1851–1925), member of the D.C. Board of Commissioners

P William Tyler Page (1868–1942), public servant at U.S. Capitol, author of American Creed Edwin P. Parker Jr. (1891–1983), U.S. Army officer in World War II Carlile Pollock Patterson (1816–1881), fourth superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Jennie Byrd Bryan Payne (1857–1919), philanthropist, artist, and society figure