Green Mount Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in

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, United States. Established on March 15, 1838, and dedicated on July 13, 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures interred in its grounds as well as many prominent Baltimore-area families. It retained the name Green Mount when the land was purchased from the heirs of Baltimore merchant Robert Oliver. Green Mount is a treasury of precious works of art, including striking works by major sculptors including William H. Rinehart and Hans Schuler. The cemetery was listed in the

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in 1980. Guided tours are available at various times of the year. A Baltimore City Landmark plaque at the entrance reads: In addition to John Wilkes Booth, two other conspirators in the assassination of

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are buried here, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlen. It is common for visitors to the cemetery to leave pennies on the graves of the three men; the one-cent coin features the likeness of the president they successfully sought to murder. The abdicated King Edward VIII and his wife, the Duchess of Windsor, had planned for a burial in a purchased plot in Rose Circle at Green Mount Cemetery, near where the father of the Duchess was interred. However, in 1965 an agreement with Queen Elizabeth II allowed for the former king and duchess to be buried near other members of the British royal family in the Royal Burial Ground near

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* Arunah Abell (1808–1888), journalist, newspaper publisher. * William Julian Albert (1816–1879), U.S. Congressman. * Harry W. Archer Jr. (died 1910), American politician and lawyer * Henry W. Archer (1813–1887), American politician and lawyer * James J. Archer (1860–1921), American politician * Samuel Arnold (1834–1906), Lincoln assassination conspirator. * James Bankhead (1783–1856), U. S. Army General that served in the War of 1812, Second Seminole War, and

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. * Robert T. Banks (1822–1901), Mayor of Baltimore * Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873), a

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man and diplomat. * James Lawrence Bartol (1813–1887), American jurist * Joseph Colt Bloodgood (1867–1935), American surgeon * A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970), photographer. * Elizabeth ("Betsy") Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), Baltimore-born wife of

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's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte. * Carroll Bond (1873–1943), jurist. * Elijah Bond, (1847–1921), lawyer and inventor. * Asia Frigga (Booth) Clarke, (1835–1888), author and sister of John Wilkes Booth. * John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865), assassin of President

. * Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), English actor. * Augustus Bradford (1806–1881), Governor of Maryland. * Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826–1905) lawyer and politician in California, Louisiana and Maryland, and general in the Confederate army. * Jesse D. Bright (1812–1875), United States Senator from Indiana. * Nathan C. Brooks (1809–1898), American educator, historian and poet * Frank Brown (1846–1920), Governor of Maryland * Edward Nathaniel Brush (1852–1933), psychiatrist and superintendent of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital * James M. Buchanan (1803–1876), judge and United States Ambassador to Denmark. * James Buck (1808–1865),

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recipient. * John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889),

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. * John Lee Chapman (1811–1880), Mayor of Baltimore, glass maker, railroad executive. * George Colton (1817–1898), member of the Maryland House of Delegates * Albert Constable (1805–1855), member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Henry Winter Davis (1817–1865), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1863–65. * William Daniel, state legislator and Prohibition Party vice presidential candidate, 1884. * Allen Welsh Dulles (1893–1969), director of the

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and a member of the

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. * Wendell E. Dunn (1894–1965), educator and principal of Forest Park High School. * Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. (1922–2007), metallurgist and chemical engineer. * Thomas Dunn (1925–2008), musician and conductor. * Johnny Eck (1911–1991), American freak show performer born without legs. * Arnold Elzey (1816–1871), Confederate Civil War general. * George F. Emmons (1811–1884), Rear Admiral,

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. * D. Hopper Emory (1841–1916), Maryland state senator * George Hyde Fallon (1902–1980), U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland. * Henry D. Farnandis (1817–1900), Maryland state politician and lawyer. * Charles W. Field (1857–1917), Maryland state delegate. * Elizabeth Gault Fisher (1909–2000), entomologist, bacteriologist, and bryologist. * John Sterett Gittings (1798-1879) and grandson John Sterett Gittings (1848-1926), bankers, politicians, commissioners * Richard Fuller (1804–1876), minister and founder of the Southern Baptist movement. * William H.B. Fusselbaugh, member of the Maryland House of Delegates * Charles D. Gaither (1860–1947), U.S. Army officer, Baltimore police commissioner, member of the Maryland House of Delegates * George M. Gill (1803–1887), lawyer. * James Hall (1802–1889), founder of Maryland-in-Africa * Robert G. Harper (1765–1825), United States Senator from Maryland. * Solomon Hillen Jr. (1810–1873), Mayor of Baltimore, U.S. Representative from Maryland, member of the Maryland House of Delegates *

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(1795–1873), businessman and philanthropist. His bequests helped found the

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and Johns Hopkins Hospital. *

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(1791–1872), a congressman and reporter of decisions of the

* Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), a career

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ordnance officer and a Confederate general in the

. * Jesse Hunt (1793–1872), mayor of Baltimore. * Obed Hussey (1792–1860), inventor and rival of Cyrus McCormick. * Henry Barton Jacobs (1858–1939), physician and educator * John Hanson Thomas Jerome (1816–1863), Mayor of Baltimore * Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), statesman, United States Senator and

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. * Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807–1891), military officer in the

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. * Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806–1893), U.S. Congressman * Anthony Kennedy (1810–1892), United States Senator. * John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), congressman and

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. * Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of President James Buchanan, acted as

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from 1857 to 1861. * Sidney Lanier (1842–1881), musician and poet. * Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Jr. (1806–1878), civil engineer and Green Mount's landscape architect. * Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe (1833–1911), Mayor of Baltimore and speaker of the

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* John H. B. Latrobe (1803–1891), lawyer and inventor. * James O. Law (1809–1847), Mayor of Baltimore and merchant. * James Fenner Lee (1843–1898), member of the Maryland Senate * Walter Lord (1917–2002), author, best known for his book on the sinking of the ''

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'', '' A Night to Remember''. * John Gresham Machen (1881–1937),

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theologian and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in

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, Pennsylvania. * John MacTavish (1787–1852), British

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in the 1840s. * Henry Mankin (1804–1876),

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and Shipping Tycoon and founder of Hampden a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. * Charles Marshall (1830–1902),

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in the

, aide de camp, assistant adjutant general, and military secretary for the Army of Northern Virginia and Gen. Robert E. Lee. * Theodore R. McKeldin (1900–1974), Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland. * Louis McLane (1786–1857),

man from

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, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and later the United States Secretary of State. * Robert Milligan McLane (1815–1898), Governor of Maryland. * Louis Wardlaw Miles (1873–1944),

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Recipient. * Arthur C. Needles (1867–1936), president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. * John Nelson (1794–1860),

. * Benjamin Franklin Newcomer (1827–1901), railroad executive and bank president. * Harry W. Nice (1877–1941), Governor of Maryland. * Daniel S. Norton (1829–1870), United States Senator from Minnesota. * Michael O'Laughlen (1840–1867), Lincoln assassination conspirator. *

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(1808–1896), businessman and philanthropist, founder of Baltimore's public library system and co-founder of the Sheppard Pratt Hospital. * James H. Preston (1860–1938), 35th Mayor of Baltimore. * James R. Price (1862–1929), sports journalist and executive. * Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828), poet. * John P. Poe, Sr. (1836–1909), Attorney General of Maryland, 1891–95. * Isaac Freeman Rasin (1833–1907), Baltimore politician and political boss * William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor. * Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867), U.S. Navy officer. * Albert C. Ritchie (1876–1936), Governor of Maryland, 1920–35. * Winford Henry Smith (1877–1961), physician. * William Wallace Spence (1815–1915), financier. * Major General George H. Steuart (1790–1867), a

general in the War of 1812. * George H. Steuart (1828–1903), Confederate Civil War general. * Thomas Swann (1809–1883), Governor of Maryland, 1866–69, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th Districts, 1869–79, Mayor of Baltimore, 1856–60. * Joseph Pembroke Thom (1828–1899), member of the Maryland House of Delegates, military officer in the Mexican–American War and Confederate States Army. * Isaac R. Trimble (1802–1888), U.S. Army officer, civil engineer, railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the Civil War. * Daniel Turner (1794–1850),

officer during the War of 1812. * Erastus B. Tyler (1822–1891), Union Army general in the

. * Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795–1873), Quaker elder, author, and co-founder of

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* John B. Van Meter (1842–1930) U.S. Navy chaplain, academic, and co-founder of Goucher College * Joshua Van Sant (1803–1884), Mayor of Baltimore * John Carroll Walsh (1816–1894), state senator * Henry Walters (1848–1931), president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, art collector whose bequest to the City of Baltimore in 1931 started the

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. * William Thompson Walters (1820–1894),

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distributor, banker, railroad magnate and art collector. * Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869–1896), Father of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Wife of Prince Edward Duke of Windsor. * William Pinkney Whyte (1824–1908), Maryland State Delegate, State

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, a United States Senator, the State Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore, and Attorney General of Maryland. * Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer (1812–1878), Episcopal bishop of

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. * John H. Winder (1800–1865), Confederate general during the Civil War.

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