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Greenmount Cemetery
Greenmount Cemetery , is a cemetery located in Baltimore, Maryland , United States . It is noted for the large number of historical figures that have been interred in its grounds as well as a large number of prominent Baltimore area families
Persons of note interred
Samuel Arnold (1834 - 1906 ), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806 - 1873 ), a United States Congressman and diplomat .
John Wilkes Booth (1838 - 1865 ), The assassin of President Lincoln .
James Buck (1808 - 1865 ), an American Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.
John Archibald Campbell (1811 - 1889 ), was an United States Supreme Court Justice .
Allen Welsh Dulles (1893 - 1969 ), director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961 and a member of the Warren Commission .
Johns Hopkins (1759 - 1873 ), businessman and a philanthropist . He left substantial bequests in his will to found the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital .
Benjamin Chew Howard (1791 – 1872 ), a congressman and the fifth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court
Reverdy Johnson (1796 – 1876 ), statesman and jurist.
Harriet Lane , (1830 - 1903 ), niece President James Buchanan , acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861 .
Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807 - 1891 ), military officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War .
John P. Kennedy (1795 - 1870 ), former congressman and United States Secretary of the Navy .
Sidney Lanier (1842 – 1881 ), musician and poet .
Walter Lord (1917 - 2002 ), author , best known for his novel A Night To Remember .
John Gresham Machen (1881 -1937 ), influential American Presbyterian theologian
Theodore R. McKeldin (1900 - 1974 ), former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland .
Louis McLane (May 28 , 1786 -October 7 , 1857 ), former United States congressman from Delaware , Secretary of the Treasury , and later the Secretary of State .
Robert Milligan McLane (1815 – 1898 ), former Governor of Maryland .
Louis Wardlaw Miles (1873 - 1944 ), World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.
Harry W. Nice , (1877 - 1941 ), former Governor of Maryland .
Michael O'Laughlin (1840 - 1867 ), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
Edward Coate Pinkney (1802 - 1828 ), poet .
William Rinehart (1825 - 1874 ), sculptor .
Albert C. Ritchie (1876 - 1836 ), former Governor of Maryland .
Thomas Swann (1809 - 1883 , former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland .
Isaac R. Trimble (1802 – 1888 ), a U.S. Army officer, civil engineer , a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War .
Daniel Turner (1794 - 1850 ), United States Navy officer during the War of 1812 .
William Pinkney Whyte (1824 – 1908 ), former Maryland State Delegate , State Comptroller , a United States Senator , the State Governor , the Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland , and State Attorney General .
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