List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery

This is a list of notable individuals buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Military

Medal of Honor recipients

As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery,[1] nine of whom are Canadians.

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

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  • George Emerson Albee (1845–1918), US Army officer; received for actions during the Indian Wars
  • Edward G. Allen (1859–1917), US Navy Chief Petty Officer during the Boxer Rebellion
  • Beauford T. Anderson (1922–1996), US Army soldier during World War II

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  • James Alexander Campbell (1844-1904), US Army Private, Company A, 2nd New York Cavalry. Received while his command was retreating before superior numbers at Woodstock, Virginia, he voluntarily rushed back with one companion and rescued his commanding officer, who had been unhorsed and left behind. At Amelia courthouse he captured two battle flags. Civil War
  • Albertus W. Catlin (1868–1933), US Marine Corps Brigadier General; received for his actions during the intervention at Veracruz, Mexico
  • Jon R. Cavaiani (1943–2014), US Army Command Sergeant Major. Received for his actions while serving as platoon leader providing security for an isolated radio relay site located within enemy-held territory that came under attack. Prisoner of war during the Vietnam War (1971–1973)[2]
  • Justice M. Chambers (1908–1982), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions in during the Battle of Iwo Jima
  • Donald Cook (1934–1967), (cenotaph) US Marine Corps officer. Received for his actions while a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. His body was never recovered; his cenotaph is located in Memorial Section 1
  • Louis Cukela (1888–1956), US Marine Corps Major, awarded two Medals of Honor for same act in World War I

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  • William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (1883–1959), US Army Major General, commanded the 165th Infantry Regiment (federalized designation of the 69th New York Infantry, the "Fighting Irish") during World War I, and was Chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and National Security Medal, making him the only person to hold all four of the United States' highest awards

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  • James A. Graham (1940–1967), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Vietnam War

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  • Louis van Iersel (1883-1987), US Army Sergeant, for action during World War I at Mouzon, France
  • Jonas H. Ingram (1886–1952), US Navy Admiral, for action in the 1914 Battle of Veracruz
  • Edouard Victor Michel Izac (1891–1990), for action during World War I as a US Navy Lieutenant

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  • Frank Monroe Upton (1896–1962), US Navy Sailor; received for action during World War I
  • Matt Urban (1919–1995), US Army Lieutenant Colonel; received seven Purple Hearts for service in World War II

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  • Frank Albert Young (1876–1941), US Marine Corps Private; received for his actions during the China Relief Expedition
  • Gerald Orren Young (1930–1990), US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; received for his actions in the Vietnam War

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  • Jay Zeamer, Jr. (1918–2007), US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; received for action during World War II with the Army Air Force

Flag officers

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  • John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), brevet brigadier general; Civil War, first governor of Wyoming Territory in 1869 and Third Assistant Secretary of State
  • Marion E. Carl (1915–1998), World War II US Marine Corps major general, fighter ace and record-setting test pilot
  • Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), lieutenant general, military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II
  • John Clem (1851–1937), major general, aka Johnny Shiloh, arguably the youngest Non-Commissioned Officer ever to serve in the US Armed Forces; was the last living Civil War veteran on active duty at the time of his retirement
  • John M. B. Clitz (1821–1897), US Navy Rear Admiral [5]
  • Edmund R. Colhoun (1821–1897), US Navy Rear Admiral
  • Charles M. "Savvy" Cooke, Jr. (1886–1970), US Navy Admiral
  • Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), brigadier general, served in Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War and the China Relief Expedition
  • Ernest T. Cragg (1922–2006), US Air Force Major General
  • George Crook (1828–1890), US Army Major General during the Civil War and campaigns against the Native Americans; one of his subordinates during the Civil War was future President Rutherford B. Hayes

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  • Arthur C. Davis (1893–1965), US Navy Admiral, pioneer of dive bombing
  • Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. (1880–1970), United States Army General; first African-American General Officer in the US Army and in the US military
  • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1912–2002), World War II pilot, first African-American US Air Force General
  • Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr. (1924–2014), US Navy pilot shot down over Vietnam and held as a POW for over seven years; achieve the rank of admiral before retiring from the Navy; served in the US Senate from Alabama
  • Sir John Dill (1881–1944), British diplomat and Field Marshal[6]
  • Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), Civil War General, erroneously credited with inventing baseball
  • Franklin J. Drake (1846–1929), US Navy Rear Admiral

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Charles D. Griffin, US Navy admiral

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  • Rae Landy (1885–1952), Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Colonel who served in World War I and World War II
  • Henry Louis Larsen (1890–1962), US Marine Corps Lieutenant General; commanded the first deployed American troops in both World Wars; Governor of Guam and American Samoa
  • John Marshall Lee (1914–2003), US Navy Vice Admiral, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, NATO, S.A.L.T Talks; Navy Cross, DSM, Legion of Merit; son of Lieutenant Colonel Alva Lee

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  • Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845–1912), US Army Lieutenant General and father of General Douglas MacArthur
  • Newton E. Mason (1850–1945), US Navy Rear Admiral
  • Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), US Army Major General and Adjutant General of the US Army; Uncle to John McCain Sr, Grand-Uncle of John McCain Jr.
  • John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981), US Navy admiral and father of Senator John McCain
  • John S. McCain, Sr. (1884–1945), US Navy admiral, grandfather of Senator John McCain, and father of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.
  • William Alexander McCain (1878–1960), US Army brigadier general, brother of John McCain Sr., uncle of John McCain Jr.
  • Bowman H. McCalla (1844–1910), US Navy Rear Admiral
  • Stewart L. McKenney (1917–2012), brigadier general, mayor of American Vienna Occupation
  • Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892), brigadier general; Arlington National Cemetery was established by Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House and appropriated the grounds on June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery
  • Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925), US 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
  • Joseph Mower (1827–1870), major general, served in the western Union Armies during the Civil War

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  • Reginald F. Nicholson (1852–1939), US Navy rear admiral; last US Navy officer on active duty to have seen service during the Civil War; first US naval attaché to Ecuador and Peru

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John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

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  • George S. Patton IV (1923–2004), US Army major general and son of famed World War II general George S. Patton
  • Raymond Stanton Patton (1882–1937), rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929–1937)
  • John J. Pershing (1860–1948), commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and America's first General of the Armies
  • 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

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  • Robert A. "Fuzzy" Theobald (1884–1957), US Navy rear admiral who commanded Navy forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II

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  • Howard L. Vickery (1892–1946), vice admiral, US Navy and World War II merchant shipbuilder

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Other military burials

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Charles Burlingame, pilot killed during September 11 attacks

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  • Roger Chaffee (1935–1967), astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire
  • Samuel-Edmour St. Onge Chapleau (1839–1921), US Army major in the Civil War; Clerk of the Senate of Canada and Clerk of the Parliaments of Canada, 1900–1917[12]
  • William Christman (1843–1864), first soldier buried at Arlington
  • Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862–1918), Congressman from New York, killed in action in 1918
  • William Colby (1920-1996) Member of the Office of Strategic Services, Director of Central Intelligence.
  • Richard E. Cole (1915–2019), Air Force lieutenant colonel, last surviving participant in the Doolittle Raid.
  • Truman W. Crawford (1934–2003), US Marine Corps colonel (1966–1996); commander of the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps; oldest active duty Marine at the time of his retirement; formerly US Air Force master sergeant (1953–1963); musical director of the US Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps[13]
  • William P. Cronan (1879–1929), US Navy officer and 19th Naval Governor of Guam
  • Scott Crossfield (1921–2006), US Naval aviator and test pilot; first to fly at twice the speed of sound; played a major role in the design and development of the North American X-15

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  • Benjamin R. Jacobs (1879-1963), served as a US Army captain in both World War I and World War II, with his wife, Margaret Ann Connell Jacobs (1890-1973)
  • James Jabara (1923–1966), first American jet ace in history, credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft
  • George Juskalian (1914–2010), US Army veteran, three decades and fought in three wars – World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War

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  • William Cooper Talley (1831-1901), brevet brigadier general for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
  • Larry Thorne (born as Lauri Törni, 1919–1965), 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 US); also, the only former member of the Waffen SS to be interred in Arlington

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Other notable military service members
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
  • R. Lee Ermey (1944–2018), USMC staff sergeant and actor
  • Medgar Evers (1925–1963), NAACP field secretary in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement; assassinated in 1963

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  • Arthur A. Fletcher, civil rights advocate
  • Lawrence Freedman, former US Army Special operations soldier with Delta Force; CIA paramilitary operative killed in Somalia in 1992
  • William F. Friedman, US Army cryptologist who co-created the field of American cryptanalysis with his wife Elizebeth Friedman, and broke many ciphers, including the Japanese Code Purple in World War II

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Edward M. Kennedy, US Senator

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  • William Howard Taft, Secretary of War, President of the United States, and Chief Justice of the United States
  • John Tyler Jr. (1819–1896), son of President John Tyler;[27] served as Private Secretary to his father, Confederate Assistant Secretary of War

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John W. Weeks, Secretary of War
Heitman’s Almanac

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Notable civilians
Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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  • Elizebeth Friedman, noted cryptanalyst who broke thousands of ciphers during the Prohibition Era and World Wars, trained first group of WWI cryptologists. Buried with husband William Friedman.

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  • Maureen O'Hara (1920-2015), Actress, interred as Maureen FitzSimons Blair alongside her husband, Brigadier General Charles F. Blair, Jr. US Air Force Reserve.

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  • James Parks (1843–1929), freedman, the only person buried at Arlington Cemetery who was born on the grounds
Front face of the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery

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Other

Remains of the Space Shuttle Challenger's crew are interred in Section 46, including four civilians and three military members. Challenger Astronaut Judith Resnik is memorialized with a cenotaph.

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

References and notes
  1. Medal of Honor Recipients Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery. Retrieved on April 9, 2006.
  2. Los Angeles Times
  3. Schwan, Henry (April 5, 2018). "Mass. Medal of Honor recipient Tom Hudner buried in Arlington National Cemetery". metrowestdailynews.com. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  4. Michael Robert Patterson, ed. (May 13, 2009). "David E. Baker: Brigadier General, United States Air Force". Arlington National Cemetery Website. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  5. Arlingtoncemetery.net
  6. CWGC: John Dill
  7. John Spencer Hardy obituary, Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, May 3, 2012
  8. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=jeanne-m-holm&pid=139892802
  9. TogetherWeServed – VADM Benedict Semmes
  10. Sec. 64, grave 6992, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 247-248). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
  11. Paul Duggan (March 15, 2011). "Frank Buckles, last US veteran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  12. 1917–1918, Who's Who and Why in Canada, Vol. 13, p. 1139
  13. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/twcrawford.htm
  14. Records of the National Archive on POWs who died while in the USA
  15. Web pages of the Arlington National Cemetery on Anton Hilberath
  16. Web page of the Arlington National Cemetery with a listing of the graves of foreign nationals Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  17. "Jack Koehler AP correspondent, 82". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Associated Press. October 1, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  18. Knipp, Steven (7 June 2005). "Mystery of Chinese major buried in US war hero cemetery". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  19. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/acmaxwell.htm
  20. "Arlington Cemetery Listing
  21. New York Times Obituary, March 6, 1935; and www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm
  22. "Senator Frank Lautenberg laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery". WABC TV. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  23. Paul Laxalt Notice
  24. "Headstone A K Lowenstein". Arlington National Cemetery Website.
  25. Arlington Cemetery Net
  26. Spann had served in the USMC, but was not in the military, when killed. Because he had received the CIA's Intelligence Star, considered the equivalent of the US Military's Silver Star, his burial in Arlington was authorized. See: Bush At War, Bob Woodward, Simon and Schuester, 2002, p. 317
  27. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/john-tyler-jr.htm Arlingtoncemetery.net
  28. Rapp, David (2013-10-21). "Roll Call Founder Sid Yudain Dies at 90". Roll Call. Retrieved 2013-11-17.
  29. "Arabella Kennedy". Find A Grave.
  30. New York Times

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