The Congressional Cemetery or Washington Parish Burial Ground is a historic and active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the only American "cemetery of national memory" founded before the Civil War. Over 65,000 individuals are buried or memorialized at the cemetery, including many who helped form the nation and the city of Washington in the early 19th century.

Though the cemetery is privately owned, the U.S. government owns 806 burial plots administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Congress, located about a mile and a half (2.4 km) to the northwest, has greatly influenced the history of the cemetery.The cemetery still sells plots, and is an active burial ground. From the Washington Metro, the cemetery lies three blocks east of the Potomac Avenue station and two blocks south of the Stadium-Armory station.

Many members of the U.S. Congress who died while Congress was in session are interred at Congressional Cemetery. Other burials include early landowners and speculators, the builders and architects of early Washington, Native American diplomats, Washington mayors, and Civil War veterans. Nineteenth-century Washington, D.C. families unaffiliated with the federal government also have graves and tombs at the cemetery.

In all, there are one Vice President, one Supreme Court justice, six Cabinet members, 19 Senators and 71 Representatives (including a former Speaker of the House) buried there, as well as veterans of every American war, and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1969 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011.

Grand funerals

Several nationally important or otherwise remarkable funerals have taken place at the Congressional Cemetery. These funerals featured long formal processions starting at the White House or the Capitol, moving down Pennsylvania Avenue to E Street SE, and thence to the cemetery. Parts of this road were specially funded by Congress to facilitate these processions. The form and protocol of these funerals formed the basis for later U.S. state funerals, including those of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.

These funerals include those held to honor:

• George Clinton, Vice President, funeral held April 22, 1812. The procession included President James Madison as well as the officers and members of both houses of Congress.
• William Henry Harrison, President, 1841. After services at the White House the procession included the new President John Tyler and former President John Quincy Adams, as well as officers and members of the Congress and the state legislature of Maryland, extending over two miles long.
• Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of State, Thomas W. Gilmer, Secretary of the Navy, Commodore Beverly Kennon, Chief of the Bureau of Construction & Equipment, David Gardiner, former Senator from New York, victims of a February 28, 1844 explosion on the USS Princeton. Virgil Maxcy, Chargé d'Affaires of the United States to Belgium was also killed in the explosion, but was buried separately in his family plot.
• John Quincy Adams, former President, former Senator, and Representative, who died in the Capitol, funeral held February 28, 1848.
• Dolley Madison, former First Lady, funeral held July 16, 1849. President Zachary Taylor and his Cabinet attended services at St. John's Church in Lafayette Square, whence the cortege proceeded to the Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery.
• Zachary Taylor, President, funeral held July 13, 1850. Proceeding from the White House, the cortege included the new President Millard Fillmore, the Cabinet, the officers and members of both houses of Congress, numerous military units, and Taylor's favorite horse, Old Whitey.

Congressional cenotaphs

William Thornton (1759-1828), first Architect of the Capitol, is the only person who did not serve as a congressman to be honored with one of the cenotaphs designed by Benjamin Latrobe at the Congressional Cemetery.

• John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), President, Senator, and Representative — Massachusetts, cenotaph only and was interred in the Public Vault in 1848. R54/S101.
• James C. Alvord, (1808–1839), Representative — Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R57/S141.
• Simeon H. Anderson, (1802-1840), Representative — Kentucky, cenotaph only. R57/S135
• Charles Andrews, (1814-1852), Representative — Maine, cenotaph only. R54/S161.
• Chester Ashley, (1791-1848), Senator — Arkansas, cenotaph only. R60/S144.
• Goldsmith Bailey, (1823 - 1862), Representative — Massachusetts. R59/S143.
• Thomas Henry Bayly, (1810-1859), Representative — Virginia. R60/S122.
• William Lee Ball, (1781–1824), Representative — Virginia, War of 1812 soldier. R29/S37-38.

• Nick Begich, (1932-1972), Representative Alaska, shares cenotaph with Hale Boggs. They were both lost in a plane crash. R53/S123.
• James Bell, (1804-1857), Senator — New Hampshire, cenotaph only. R60/S101
• Thaddeus Betts, (1789-1840), Senator — Connecticut, cenotaph only. Name spelled Thaddel S Betts on cenotaph. R57/S114.
• George M. Bibb, (1776-1859), Senator — Kentucky, cenotaph only. R 57/ S 143.
• Henry Black, (1783-1841), Representative — Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R56/S126.
• James A. Black, (1793-1848), Representative South Carolina, cenotaph only. R55/S104.
• James Blair, (1786–1834), Representative — South Carolina. R30/S72.
• Theodorick Bland, (1741–1790), Representative — Virginia; the first to die in office, reinterred 1828 with cenotaph. R31/S48.
• Thomas Hale Boggs, (1914-1972), Representative Louisiana, shares cenotaph with Nick Begich. They were both lost in a plane crash. R53/S123.
• Pierre Bossier (1797-1844), Representative Louisiana. R54/S123.
• Thomas Bouldin (1781-1834), Representative Virginia, cenotaph only. Only congressman to die while addressing Congress. R29/S72.
• Edward Bradley, (1808–1847), Representative — Michigan, cenotaph only. R55/S107.
• Samuel Brenton, (1810-1847), Representative Indiana, cenotaph only. R60/S104.
• Elijah Brigham, (1751-1816), Representative Massachusetts. R30/S14.
• Preston Brooks, (1819-1857), Representative South Carolina; beat Senator Sumner with a cane, cenotaph only. R60/S116
• Anson Brown, (1800-1840), Representative New York, cenotaph only. R57/S138.
• Nathan Bryan, (1748-1798), Representative North Carolina, cenotaph, burial site unknown. R57/S117
• Alexander H. Buell, (1801-1853), Representative New York, cenotaph only. R54/S157
• Barker Burnell, (1798-1844), Representative Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R60/S104.
• James Burrill, Jr., (1772-1820), Senator Massachusetts. R29/S31-32.
• Silas M. Burroughs, (1810-1860), Representative New York. R60/S66.
• William A. Burwell, (1780–1821), Representative — Virginia; private secretary to Thomas Jefferson, cenotaph but burial site unknown. R56/S102.
• Andrew Pickens Butler, (1796–1857), Representative — South Carolina, cenotaph only. R60/S84
• Chester Pierce Butler, (1798-1850), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R57/S163.

• John C. Calhoun, (1782–1850), Vice President, Senator, Representative South Carolina, cenotaph only. R60/S146
• Brookins Campbell, (1808-1853), Representative Tennessee, centotaph only. R60/S137.
• Timothy J. Carter, (1800-1838), Representative Maine. R30/S54-56.
• Levi Casey, (1752–1807), Representative — South Carolina; Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia and American Continental Army. R29/S63.
• Jonathan Cilley, (1802-1838), Representative Maine, killed in a duel by Rep. William J. Graves, cenotaph only. R30/S60.
• Henry Clay, (1777–1852), Senator, Representative Kentucky, "the Great Compromiser," centotaph only. R60/S149.
• John E. Coffee, (1782-1836), Representative Georgia, reelected posthumously, cenotaph only. R56/S122.
• Thomas Buchecker Cooper, (1823-1862), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R59/S146.
• Jacob Crowninshield, (1770-1806), Representative Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R57/S108
• Ezra Darby, (1768-1808), Representative from New Jersey. R24/S4.
• Warren R. Davis, (1793–1835), Representative — South Carolina. R30/S67.
• John Dawson (US politician) (1762-1814), Representative Virginia. R30/S11.
• John Bennett Dawson (1798-1845), Representative Louisiana. R30/S11-12.
• Benjamin Franklin Deming, (1790-1834), Representative Vermont, cenotaph only. R56/S120.
• Charles Denison, (1818-1867), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R59/S119.
• Rodolphus Dickinson, (1797-1849), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R57/S157.
• David Dickson (1794-1836), Representative Mississippi, cenotaph only. R57/S120.
• Davis Dimock, Jr. (1801-1842), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R55/S135.
• Nathan Fellows Dixon (1774-1842), Senator Rhode Island, cenotaph only. R55/S138.
• Philip Doddridge, (1773-1832), Representative Virginia. R29/S65.
• George Coke Dromgoole, (1797-1847) Representative Virginia. R55/S111.
• Josiah Evans, (1786-1858), Senator South Carolina. R60/S96.
• Presley Underwood Ewing, (1822-1854), Representative Kentucky, cenotaph only. R60/S128.
• John Fairfield (1797-1847), Representative, Senator, Governor Maine, cenotaph only. R54/S116.
• Darwin Abel Finney (1814-1863), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R59/S116.
• Orin Fowler (1791-1852), Representative Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R54/S160.
• Henry Frick (1795-1844), Representative Pennsylvania. R54/S117.
• John Gaillard, (1765–1826), Senator — South Carolina. R29/S40.
• James Gillespie, (1747–1805), Revolutionary War soldier, Representative — North Carolina, reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1893 at R60/S58. Cenotaph at R31/S59.
• William Osborne Goode (1797-1859), Representative Virginia, cenotaph only. R60/S69.
• Peterson Goodwyn (1745-1818), Representative Virginia, cenotaph only. R57/S111.
• Henry Grider (1796-1866), Representative Kentucky, cenotaph only. R59/S125.
• Richard W. Habersham, (1786-1842), Representative Georgia, cenotaph only. R54/S137.
• Thomas Lyon Hamer (1800-1846), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R56/S156.
• Cornelius S. Hamilton (1821-1867), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R59/S97.
• Luther Hanchett (1825-1862), Representative Wisconsin, cenotaph only. R59/S140.
• John H. Harmanson (1803-1850), Representative Louisiana, cenotaph only. R55/S157.
• Francis Jacob Harper (1800-1837), Representative Pennsylvania, died before taking office. Reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1848. R55/S101.
• Sampson Willis Harris (1809-1857), Representative Alabama, cenotaph only. R60/S119.
• Thomas L. Harris (1816-1858), Representative Illinois, cenotaph only. R60/S78.
• Albert Galliton Harrison, (1800-1839), Representative Missouri. R54/S132.
• Thomas Hartley (1748-1800), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R56/S107.
• William Soden Hastings (1798-1842), Representative Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R57/S132.
• Nathaniel Hazard (1776-1820), Representative Rhode Island. R29/S28.
• David Heaton (1823-1870), Representative North Carolina, cenotaph only. R59/S101.

• J. Pinckney Henderson (1799-1858), Senator Texas, cenotaph only. R60/S91.
• Robert Pryor Henry (1788-1826), Representative Kentucky, cenotaph only. R57/S123.
• Richard P. Herrick (1791-1846), Representative New York, cenotaph only. R54/S114.
• Daniel Hiester (1747-1804), Representative Pennsylvania and Maryland, cenotaph only. R56/S104.
• James M. Hinds (1833-1868), Representative Arkansas, cenotaph only. R59/S107.
• Elijah Hise (1802-1867), Representative Kentucky, cenotaph only. R59/S113.
• Truman H. Hoag (1816-1870), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R59/S91.
• George Holcombe (1786-1828), Representative New Jersey. R31/S50.
• John M. Holley (1802-1848), Representative New York, cenotaph only. R57/S154.
• Gabriel Holmes (1764-1829), Representative Governor North Carolina, cenotaph only. R56/S111.
• Benjamin F. Hopkins (1820-1870), Representative Wisconsin, cenotaph only. R59/S128.
• John Westbrook Hornbeck (1804-1848), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R54/S105.
• James Humphrey (1811-1866), Representative New York, cenotaph only. R59/S128.
• Jonathan Hunt (1787-1832), Representative Vermont, cenotaph only. R29/S52.
• James Jackson (1757-1820), Representative, Senator, Governor Georgia. R29/S60.
• James Johnson (1774-1826), Representative Kentucky, cenotaph only. R57/S128.
• Philip Johnson (1818-1867), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R59/S123.
• Charles Clement Johnston (1795-1832), Representative Virginia. R29/S48.
• Josiah S. Johnston (1784-1833), Representative Louisiana, cenotaph only. R57/S160.
• James Jones (1769-1801), Representative Georgia. R29/S56.
• Elias Kane (1794-1835), Senator Illinois, cenotaph only. R31/S72.
• Orlando Kellogg (1809-1865), Representative New York, cenotaph only. R59/S131.
• Daniel P. King (1801-1850), Representative Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R55/S160.
• George L. Kinnard (1803-1836), Representative Indiana, cenotaph only. R57/S126.
• Joab Lawler (1796-1838), Representative Alabama. R31/S54.
• Joseph Lawrence (1786-1842), Representative Pennsylvania. R56/S137.
• James Lent (1782–1833), Representative New York, cenotaph and burial, later reinterred in New York. R29/S68.
• John Linn (1763-1821), Representative New Jersey, cenotaph only. R57/S105.
• James Lockhart, Representative Indiana, cenotaph only. R60/S108.
• Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864), Representative Illinois, cenotaph only. R59/S134.
• William Lowndes (1782-1822), Representative South Carolina, cenotaph only. R55/S129.
• Francis Malbone (1759-1809), Representative, Senator Rhode Island, died on the steps of the Capitol. R25/S2.
• Richard Irvine Manning I, (1789-1836), Representative, Governor South Carolina, cenotaph only. R31/S65.
• Felix Grundy McConnell (1809-1846), Representative Alabama. R55/S114.
• Isaac McKim (1775-1838), Representative Maryland, cenotaph only. R30/S58.
• Jeremiah McLene (1767–1837), Representative — Ohio, Major General of militia in the American Revolution, Ohio Secretary of State. R31/S63.
• James Meacham (1810-1856), Representative Vermont, cenotaph only. R60/S125.
• John Millen (1804-1843), Representative Georgia, cenotaph only. R54/S129.
• John Gaines Miller (1812-1856), Representative Missouri, cenotaph only. R60/S113.
• George Edward Mitchell (1781-1832), Representative Maryland. R29/S54.
• John Gallagher Montgomery (1805-1857), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R60/S110.
• Heman A. Moore (1809-1844), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R55/S123.
• Henry Augustus Muhlenberg (1823-1854), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R60/S134.
• George Mumford (?-1818), Representative North Carolina. R29/S19.
• Henry Nes (1799-1850), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R55/S154.
• James Noble (1785–1831), Senator — Indiana. R29/S46.
• John William Noell (1816-1863), Representative Missouri, cenotaph only. R59/S137.
• Thomas E. Noell (1839-1867), Representative Missouri, cenotaph only. R59/S94.
• Moses Norris, Jr. (1799-1853), Representative, Senator New Hampshire, cenotaph only. R60/S87.
• Tip O'Neil (1912-1994), Representative Massachusetts. Burial in Massachusetts with cenotaph and additional marker at Congressional Cemetery. R52/S123.
• Charles Ogle (1798-1841) Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R56/S128.
• Isaac S. Pennybacker (1805-1847), Representative, Senator Virginia, cenotaph only. R54/S111.
• Joseph Hopkins Peyton (1808-1845), Representative Tennessee, cenotaph only. R55/S120.
• William Pinkney (1764-1822), Representative, Senator Maryland, Attorney General. R29/S36.
• William Wilson Potter (1793-1839), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R55/S132.
• John A. Quitman (1799-1858), Representative, Governor Mississippi, cenotaph only. R60/S81.
• William Sterrett Ramsey (1810-1840), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R56/S135.
• Christopher Rankin (1788-1826), Representative Mississippi. R29/S42.
• Robert Rantoul, Jr. (1805-1852), Representative, Senator Massachusetts, cenotaph only. R60/S140.
• Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803-1857), Senator Texas, cenotaph only. R60/S93.
• Lemuel Sawyer (1777-1852), Representative North Carolina, cenotaph only. R30/S26.
• John Schwartz (1793-1860), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R60/S72.
• George W. Scranton (1811-1861), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R59/S149.
• Alexander D. Sims (1803-1848), Representative South Carolina, cenotaph only. R56/S155.
• Thomas D. Singleton (?-1833), Representative South Carolina. R30/S51.
• Charles Slade (?-1834), Representative Illinois, cenotaph only. R56/S114.
• Jesse Slocumb (1780-1820), Representative North Carolina. R29/S29.
• John Smilie, (1741–1812), Representative — Pennsylvania. R30/S10.
• Nathan Smith (1770-1835), Senator Connecticut, cenotaph only. R30/S63.
• Alexander Smyth (1765–1830), lawyer, soldier, Representative — Virginia. R29/S44.
• John F. Snodgrass (1802-1854), Representative Virginia, cenotaph only. R60/S131.
• Samuel L. Southard (1787-1842), Senator, Governor New Jersey. R55/S140.
• Cyrus Spink (1793-1859), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R60/S75.
• Richard Stanford (1767-1816), Representative North Carolina. R29/S15.

• Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R59/S110.
• William Taylor (1788-1846), Representative Virginia. R54/S120.
• Benjamin Thompson (1798-1852), Representative Massachusetts. R54/S154.
• Hedge Thompson (1780-1823), Representative New Jersey, cenotaph only. R30/S49.
• Uriah Tracy (1755–1807), Representative and Senator — Connecticut, first Congressman buried in Congressional Cemetery. R24/S1.
• William A. Trimble (1786-1821), Senator Ohio. R29/S34.
• William Upham (1792–1853), Senator — Vermont, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, attorney. Burial with granite stone in a form similar to a cenotaph at R55/S163.
• David Walker (1763-1820), Representative Kentucky. R29/S21.
• Zalmon Wildman (1775-1835), Representative Connecticut, cenotaph only. R31/S69.
• James Wray Williams (1792-1842), Representative Maryland, cenotaph only. R54/S134.
• Lewis Williams (1882-1842), Representative North Carolina, cenotaph only. R56/S132.
• Henry Wilson (1778-1826), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R56/S117.
• Amos E. Wood (1810-1840), Representative Ohio, cenotaph only. R56/S163.
• Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845), Representative New Jersey, cenotaph only. R54/S126.

Congressmen buried without a cenotaph

• Joseph Anderson, (1757–1837), Senator — Tennessee, Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury. R31/S44.
• Philip Pendleton Barbour, (1783–1841), Representative — Virginia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
• Thomas Blount, (1759–1812) Representative — North Carolina, Revolutionary War prisoner of war. R25/S8.
• Lemuel Jackson Bowden, (1815–1864), Senator — Virginia; represented Virginia during the Civil War. R60/S60.
• John Edward Bouligny, (1824–1864), Representative — Louisiana; the only member of the Louisiana Congressional delegation to retain his seat after the state seceded during the Civil War. Unmarked grave at R37/S104.
• Jacob Broom, Representative — Pennsylvania. R 95/S95
• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck. Representative — Vermont. R41/S78
• Thomas Hartley Crawford, (1786-1863), Representative Pennsylvania, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Judge, no cenotaph. R39/S75.
• Charles Case, (1817-1883), Representative Indiana. R67/S287.
• William Pope Duval, (1784-1854), Representative Kentucky, R46/S4.
• John Dawson, (1762–1814), Representative — Virginia
• John Forsyth, (1780–1841), Representative and Senator — Georgia, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Secretary of State
• Elbridge Gerry, (1744–1814), Vice President and the only signer of the Declaration of Independence buried in Washington, D.C. R29/S10.
• Daniel Hiester, (1747–1804), Representative — Pennsylvania. R30/S69.
• William Helmick (1817-1888), Representative Ohio. R82/S348.
• Charles West Kendall, (1828–1914), Representative — Nevada, California State Assemblyman, attorney

• Tom Lantos, (1928–2008), Representative — California; Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress
• Charles H. Upton, (1812–1877), Representative — Virginia, consul to Switzerland

Senior Union Civil War officers

Army

• Henry Washington Benham
• William H. Emory
• Andrew A. Humphreys (1810-1883)
• Robert B. Mitchell
• Alfred Pleasonton
• Augustus Pleasonton
• Albin Francisco Schoepf
• Joseph G. Totten

Navy

• John J. Almy
• Louis M. Goldsborough
• Thomas H. Patterson
• Richard Wainwright

Others

• Alexander Dallas Bache, (1806–1867), Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Charter member National Academy of Sciences. R32/S194.
• Henry Washington Benham, (1813–1884), Union Army general
• James G. Berret, (1815–1901), Mayor of Washington who was forced to resign at the outbreak of the Civil War
• Mathew Brady, (1822–1896), Civil War photographer
• Jacob Jennings Brown, (1775–1828), commanding general U.S. Army, hero of the War of 1812
• George Clinton, (1739–1812), Governor of New York, Vice President, reinterred in Kingston, New York in 1908
• Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, (1804–1889), architect and topographer
• John Carrington, (1871–1939), Fire Chief of Washington, D.C., hero of the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster
• Art Devlin, (1879–1948), Major League Baseball Player
• Owen Thomas Edgar, (1831–1929), longest surviving Mexican–American War veteran
• William H. Emory, (1811–1887), Army engineer, Western explorer, Civil War general
• Henry Stephen Fox, (1791–1846), British diplomat
• Mary Fuller, (1888–1973), silent film actress (unmarked)
• William Montrose Graham, Jr., (1834–1916), Major General in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War
• George Hadfield, architect; superintendent of construction for the U.S. Capitol
• Archibald Henderson, (1783–1859), the longest serving Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
• Charles Frederick Henningsen, (1815–1877), author, adventurer, filibuster, general.
• David Herold, (1842–1865), conspirator of the Abraham Lincoln assassination
• J. Edgar Hoover, (1895–1972), FBI Director
• Robertson Howard, (1847–1899), attorney, editor for West Publishing, and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
• Andrew A. Humphreys, (1810–1883), Army Engineer, Civil War general, prominent scientist
• Samuel Humphreys, (1778–1846), naval architect known as Chief Constructor of the Navy
• Adelaide Johnson, (1859–1955), sculptor, social reformer
• Horatio King, (1811–1897), U.S. Postmaster General
• Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), intellectual co-founder of the Harlem Renaissance, chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University, and the first African American Rhodes scholar
• Belva Ann Lockwood, (1830–1917), first woman attorney permitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Joseph Lovell, (1788–1836), Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
• Alexander Macomb, Jr., (1782–1841), War of 1812 Hero, Commanding General of the Army and namesake of Macomb County and Macomb Township, Michigan; Macomb, Illinois and Macomb Mountain in New York
• Leonard Matlovich, (1943–1988), gay-rights activist and Air Force veteran
• Edward Maynard, (1813–1891), prominent Washington, D.C. dentist and firearms innovator
• Robert Mills, (1781–1855), architect and designer of the Washington Monument
• Robert Adam Mosbacher, (1927–2010), U.S. Secretary of Commerce[3]
• Joseph Nicollet, (1786–1843), mathematician and explorer who mapped the upper Mississippi River; namesake of City of Nicollet, County of Nicollet and Nicollet Island in Minnesota.
• Daniel Patterson, (1786–1831) U.S. Navy commodore
• Thomas H. Patterson, (1820–1889), U.S. Navy rear admiral
• William Pinkney, (1764–1822), U.S. and Maryland Attorney General, Mayor of Annapolis, statesman and diplomat
• Alfred Pleasonton, (1824–1897), Union Army general
• James W. Pumphrey, (1832-1906), livery stable owner who rented a horse to John Wilkes Booth, used to escape Ford's Theatre.
• Push-Ma-Ta-Ha, (c. 1760 – 1824), Native American (Choctaw) chief
• John Philip Sousa, (1854–1932), composer of many noted military and patriotic marches and conductor of the U.S. Marine Band
• Chief Taza, (c. 1849 – 1876), Apache chief
• William Thornton, (1759–1828), physician, painter, designer and first Architect of the Capitol and superintendent of the U.S. Patent Office
  • His wife Anna Thornton (1775?-1865)
• Thomas Tingey, (1750–1829), U.S. Navy commodore
• John Payne Todd, son of Dolley Madison, stepson of President James Madison. R41/S230.
• Clyde Tolson, (1900–1975), associate director of the FBI. R20/S156.
• Joseph Gilbert Totten, (1788–1864), military officer, longtime Army Chief of Engineers, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, cofounder of the National Academy of Sciences and namesake of Fort Totten in Washington, D.C.
• Abel P. Upshur, (1790–1844), lawyer, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of State, died in the USS Princeton disaster of 1844.
• William Wirt, (1772–1834), U.S. Attorney General, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, author.
• William P. Wood, (1820-1904), first head of the United States Secret Service.

Temporary interments

• John Quincy Adams, President, Senator, and Representative, interred in the Public Vault in 1848. Also has a cenotaph.
• Louisa Catherine Adams, First Lady, interred in the Public Vault in 1852.
• George Clinton, Vice President, buried in 1812, reinterred in Kingston, New York in 1908. R31/S7.
• William Henry Harrison, President, interred in the Public Vault in 1841.
• Dolley Madison, First Lady, interred in the Public Vault 1849-1851, and in a nearby vault for another 6 years
• John Aaron Rawlins, Civil War General and U.S. Secretary of War, buried in 1869 and later moved to Arlington National Cemetery
• Zachary Taylor, President, interred in the Public Vault in 1850.