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List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery

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This list states all of the notable individuals that are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Military burials[]

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Charles D. Griffin, Navy four-star Admiral.

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  • John Irwin (1832-1901), United States Navy rear admiral

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  • James Jabara (1923–1966), the first American jet ace in history, credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
  • Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (1920–1978), USAF, first African American four-star General in the U.S. Armed Forces
  • George Juskalian (1914-2010), U.S. Army veteran, three decades and fought in three wars including World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War.

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  • Henry Louis Larsen (1890–1962), Marine Lieutenant General; commanded the first deployed American troops in both World Wars; Governor of Guam and American Samoa.
  • Alva Lee (1885-1956), Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. Army; China, Philippines, WWI,and WWII; father of Vice Admiral John Marshall Lee.
  • John Marshall Lee (1914-2003), Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; WWII, Korea, Vietnam, NATO, S.A.L.T Talks; Navy Cross, DSM, Legion of Merit; son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alva Lee.
  • Ruth A. Lucas (1920-2013), the first African American female Air Force Colonel
  • Francis Lupo (1895–1918), private killed in France during World War I; holds the distinction of possibly being the longest U.S. service member missing in action to be found (1918–2003)

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  • Newton E. Mason (1850-1945), United States Navy rear admiral
  • Mark Matthews (1894–2005), last surviving Buffalo Soldier
  • Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), US Army officer and Adjutant Generals of the U.S. Army; Uncle to McCain Sr, grand-uncle of McCain Jr.
  • John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981), U.S. Navy admiral and father of Senator John McCain
  • John S. McCain, Sr. (1884–1945), U.S. Navy admiral, grandfather of Senator John McCain, and father of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.
  • David McCampbell (1910–1996), the U.S. Navy's top World War II fighter ace with 34 kills
  • Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816–1892), Brigadier General. Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House and appropriated the grounds on June 15, 1864 for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide and 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, and containing the remains of 2,111 Civil War dead, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards (91 m) of Arlington House with his wife, father and son.
  • Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925) U.S. Army Lieutenant General; served in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. Noted for accepting the surrender of Geronimo and his band of Apache.
  • Glenn Miller (1904–1944), Major and well known band leader who disappeared over the English Channel while flying to Paris. His body was never found, but he has a memorial headstone.

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  • Brandon Van Parys (fought in Iraq from January 15, 2007 until his death on February 5, 2007. He was killed by a rocket propelled grenade in the Al Anbar Province.)
  • George S. Patton IV (1923–2004), Major General of the Army and son of famed WWII General, George S. Patton
  • John J. Pershing (1860–1948), America's first General of the Armies, commanded American forces in World War I
  • David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), Admiral, Union Navy, Civil War, most notable as the Union naval commander during the Vicksburg Campaign, a turning point of the war which split the Confederacy in two.
  • Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
  • Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (1945 – 1994), attorney, Pulitzer prize winning author and officer in the United States Marine Corps

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  • Robert A. "Fuzzy" Theobald (1884-1957), U.S. Navy rear admiral who commanded Navy forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II
  • Larry Thorne (1919–1965)  Finland, Finnish soldier who served in the US special forces and was a World War II veteran; called "soldier who fought under three flags (Finland, Germany and USA)". Reputedly the only former Waffen-SS member to be buried at the cemetery.

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  • Matt Urban (1919–1995), Colonel, U.S Army, most highly decorated soldier for valor in the history of the U.S. military

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Medal of Honor recipients[]

Main article: List of Medal of Honor recipients buried at Arlington National Cemetery

As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery,[13] nine of whom are Canadians.

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Alan Louis Eggers, Medal of Honor recipient for World War I.

Wartime service members with other distinguished careers[]

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Charles Burlingame, pilot killed during September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Medgar Evers, civil rights activist.

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John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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John W. Weeks, Secretary of War

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  • Dashiell Hammett, author
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, wounded three times in the Civil War, "The Great Dissenter"[14]
  • Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral, pioneering computer scientist

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  • Edward Stanley Kellogg (1870–1948), U.S. Navy Captain, 16th Governor of American Samoa (1923–1925).
  • Edward M. Kennedy (1932–2009), U.S. Army Veteran (1951–1953), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009).
  • John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Navy officer during World War II, U.S. Representative (1947–1953), U.S. Senator (1953–1961), President of the United States, (1961–1963).
  • Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), Attorney General of the United States (1961–1964), U.S. Senator from New York (1965–1968).
  • Frank Kowalski, U.S. Army veteran of World War II; U.S. Representative from Connecticut

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  • Phelps Phelps, 38th Governor of American Samoa and United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
  • Spot Poles, considered among the greatest outfielders of the Negro Leagues

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  • Samuel W. Small, journalist, evangelist, prohibitionist.
  • Johnny Micheal Spann, CIA officer, first American killed in Afghanistan. Although Spann had served in the USMC, he was not in the military when killed. However, because he had received the CIA's Intelligence Star, considered the equivalent of the US Military's Silver Star and recognized as such by President George W. Bush, Spann was approved for burial in Arlington National Cemetery.[16]
  • Ted Stevens, (1923–2010), US Senator from Alaska
  • Samuel S. Stratton, 15-term U.S. Representative from New York

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  • William Howard Taft, Secretary of War, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States

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Notable civilians[]

  • James Parks, freedman, the only person buried at Arlington Cemetery who was born on the grounds.

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Remains from all of the Space Shuttle Challenger's crew are interred in Section 46, including four civilians and three military members.

Whether or not they were wartime service members, U.S. presidents are eligible to be buried at Arlington, since they oversaw the armed forces as commanders-in-chief.

Four state funerals have been held at Arlington: those of Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, that of General John J. Pershing, and that of U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy.

References[]

  1. ↑ Michael Robert Patterson, ed (May 13, 2009). "David E. Baker: Brigadier General, United States Air Force". Arlington National Cemetery Website. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/debaker.htm. Retrieved March 16, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Paul Duggan (March 15, 2011). "Frank Buckles, last U.S. vet­eran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington". http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/frank-buckles-last-known-us-world-war-i-veteran-is-laid-to-rest-at-arlington/2011/03/10/ABHVLFZ_story.html. Retrieved March 16, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Find-A-Grave Memorial: Adm John Mellen Brady Clitz (1821-1897)
  4. ↑ Find-A-Grave Memorial: Edmund Ross Colhoun (1821-1897)
  5. ↑ Find-A-Grave: Charles Maynard Cooke, Jr. (1886-1970)
  6. ↑ Find-A-Grave Memorial" Adm Franklin J. Drake (1846-1929)
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ Find-A-Grave: William Alexander Glassford
  9. ↑ John Spencer Hardy obituary, Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, May 3, 2012
  10. ↑ "Former AP executive Koehler, who also served a week in Reagan White House, dies in Conn. at 82". Associated Press. Minneapolis Star Tribune. 2012-09-29. http://www.startribune.com/nation/171938881.html?refer=y. Retrieved 2012-10-08. 
  11. ↑ TogetherWeServed - VADM Benedict Semmes
  12. ↑ Find-A-Grave Memorial: Joseph S. Skerrett (1833-1897)
  13. ↑ Medal of Honor Recipients Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery. Retrieved on April 9, 2006.
  14. ↑ New York Times Obituary, March 6, 1935; and www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm
  15. ↑ "Headstone A K Lowenstein". Arlington National Cemetery Website. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/aklowen.jpg. 
  16. ↑ Bush At War, Bob Woodward, Simon and Schuester, 2002, page 317

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