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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

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
 * Mary Mayo Crenshaw (1875–1951), civil servant and author
 * 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 (1854–1857), 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 (1899–1879), wife of John Eaton, confidant of Andrew Jackson and subject of Petticoat Affair
 * 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

F

 * David E. Finley Jr. (1890–1977), director of National Gallery of Art, led the Roberts Commission
 * Antonia Willard Ford (1838–1871), Confederate spy
 * 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
 * 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 victim
 * John Jay Knox Jr. (1828–1892), Comptroller of the Currency, author of Coinage Act of 1873

L

 * Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913), American inventor
 * William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York

M

 * Lily Mackall (1839–1861), Confederate spy
 * William B. Magruder (1810–1869), physician and mayor of Washington City, District of Columbia
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

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
 * John Barton Payne (1855–1935), politician, lawyer, and judge and United States Secretary of the Interior
 * John Howard Payne (1791–1852), composer of "Home! Sweet Home!"
 * Henry Pellew (1828–1923), 6th Viscount Exmouth
 * Paul J. Pelz (1841–1918), architect of the Library of Congress
 * Charles H. Percy (1919–2011), U.S. senator from Illinois and president of Bell & Howell
 * George Peter (1779–1861), Representative from Maryland
 * George Peter (1829–1893), Maryland politician, son of George Peter (1779–1861)
 * Seth Ledyard Phelps (1824–1885), U.S. Navy officer, Minister to Peru, president of the DC Board of Commissioners
 * Albert Pike (1809–1891), American attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason
 * William Pinkney (1810–1883), fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
 * Benjamin F. Pleasants (1795–1879), acting Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury
 * Charles Pomeroy (1825–1891), Representative from Iowa
 * John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina
 * Charles Henry Poor (1808–1882), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy
 * Levin M. Powell (1798–1885), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy known for developing riverine warfare techniques
 * Robert E. Preston (1836–1911), director of the United States Mint

R

 * William Radford (1808–1890), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy
 * George D. Ramsay (1802–1882), Chief of Ordnance of the U.S. Army
 * Jesse L. Reno (1823–1862), U.S. Army officer from Virginia
 * Zalmon Richards (1811–1899), Educator and first president of the National Education Association
 * Benjamin F. Rice (1828–1905), U.S. senator from Arkansas
 * William Adams Richardson (1821–1896), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, chief justice of the U.S. Court of Claims
 * John Rodgers (1812–1882), U.S. navy admiral
 * William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), U.S. Navy admiral, and naval and military historian
 * George W. Roosevelt (1843–1907), Medal of Honor recipient in American Civil War
 * Stephen Clegg Rowan (1808–1890), vice admiral of the U.S. Navy

S

 * Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), United States Navy rear admiral (exhumed in 1896 and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia)
 * Thomas Sewall (1786–1845), American physician known for getting convicted for body snatching
 * Willis Shapley (1917–2005), NASA executive
 * William Shubrick (1790–1874), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy
 * Lorenzo Sitgreaves (1810–1888), U.S. Army officer who led Sitgreaves Expedition
 * Walter T. Skallerup Jr. (1921–1987), lawyer who worked for the U.S. Department of Defense and as General Counsel of the Navy
 * Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), CBS and ABC newscaster; war correspondent; film star
 * Joseph Smith (1790–1877), United States Navy rear admiral
 * Joseph B. Smith (1826–1862), United States Navy officer killed in action in the American Civil War
 * E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819–1899), novelist
 * Samuel Spencer (1847–1906), railroad executive
 * Samuel Spencer (1910–1997), president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
 * Samuel Sprigg (c. 1783 – 1855), governor of Maryland
 * Fabius Stanly (1815–1882), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy
 * Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), Attorney General under President James Buchanan, Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln
 * Hestor L. Stevens (1803–1864), Representative from Michigan
 * Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent
 * Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

T

 * Charles C. Tansill (1890–1964), professor of history and author
 * Joseph Pannell Taylor (1796–1864), U.S. Army and Union Army general, brother of President Zachary Taylor
 * Lorenzo Thomas (1804–1875), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, acting Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson
 * Theodore Timby (1822–1909), inventor of the revolving turret first introduced on the Civil War ship USS Monitor, and many other inventions.
 * Charles Henry Tompkins (1830–1915), brevet Brigadier General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Robin Toner (1954–2008), journalist and New York Times political correspondent
 * Nathan Towson (1784–1854), U.S. Army general in War of 1812 and Mexican-American War
 * Charles R. Train (1879–1967), rear admiral of the U.S. Navy
 * James True (1880–1946) Washington DC journalist
 * James Noble Tyner (1826–1904), Representative from Indiana, Postmaster General under President Ulysses S. Grant

U

 * Henry Ulke (1821–1910), portrait painter, photographer, entomologist; painted more than 100 portraits of high government officials
 * Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy under President John Tyler; originally buried at the Congressional Cemetery

V

 * Cornelius P. Van Ness (1782–1852), governor of Vermont and diplomat to Spain
 * John Peter Van Ness (1769–1846), U.S. Representative from New York and mayor of Washington, D.C.
 * Marcia Van Ness (1782–1832), American socialite

W

 * Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from Mississippi
 * Richard Wallach (1816–1881), mayor of the City of Washington, D.C.
 * Howard Wall (1854–1909), professional baseball player
 * George Corbin Washington (1789–1854), Representative from Maryland, grand-nephew of George Washington
 * William Benning Webb (1825–1896), police superintendent and president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
 * Aristides Welch (1811–1890), race horse breeder
 * Edward Douglass White (1844–1921), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States
 * John Brewer Wight (1853–1923), president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
 * Cadmus M. Wilcox (1824–1890), U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War; Confederate general during the American Civil War
 * John A. Wilcox (1819–1864), U.S. Representative from Mississippi, Confederate Congress member
 * Joseph Edward Willard (1865–1924), U.S. ambassador to Spain and Virginia politician
 * William Orton Williams (1839–1863), Confederate officer during the American Civil War, executed as spy
 * Gilbert C. Wiltse (1838–1893), naval officer in command at the 1893 Hawaiian Kingdom overthrow
 * William W. W. Wood (1818–1882), engineer in the U.S. Navy
 * Daniel Phineas Woodbury (1812–1864), U.S. soldier and energy; monument only
 * Maxwell Van Zandt Woodhull (1843–1921), Union Army Officer during American Civil War
 * Andrew Wylie (1814–1905), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
 * Robert H. Wyman (1822–1882), rear admiral in the U.S. Navy

Y

 * Ammi B. Young (1798–1874), architect known for his Greek Revival and Neo-Renaissance styles
 * David Levy Yulee (1810–1886), Senator from Florida, first Jew to serve in the U.S. Senate