List of people buried in Arlington National Cemetery
View of the cemetery and the Pentagon in the background
This list includes famous people buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .
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- Creighton W. Abrams (1914–1974), General and 26th Chief of Staff of the Army
- George Whelan Anderson Jr. (1906–1992), Admiral and 16th Chief of Naval Operations
- Michael P. Anderson (1959-2003), NASA - Astronaut , with the Space Shuttle Columbia accident
- Thomas M. Anderson (1836–1917), Brigadier General in the US Army during the Philippine-American War
- Henry H. Arnold (1886–1950), commander of the US Army Air Force in World War II
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Omar Bradley (left) during his promotion to General of the Army by US President Harry Truman , September 22, 1950.
- Fay Bainter (1893–1968), actress and Oscar winner
- Bernt Balchen (1899–1973), Norwegian-born colonel in the US Army Air Force during World War II
- Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854–1923), American aviation pioneer
- Charles Bassett (1931–1966), American astronaut who died in an accident
- Gordon Beecher (1904-1973), Vice Admiral of the US Navy and Composer
- Charles Edward Bennett (1910–2003), Democratic MP in the US House of Representatives
- Constance Bennett (1904–1965), actress
- Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956), archaeologist, explorer and scientific discoverer of Machu Picchu , from 1924 to 1933 Republican senator for the state of Connecticut
- Harry A. Blackmun (1908–1999), Supreme Court Justice
- William HP Blandy (1890–1954), US Navy Admiral, Commander in Chief of Joint Task Force One during Operation Crossroads
- Jeremy M. Boorda (1939–1996), 25th Chief of Naval Operations
- Josephine Beatrice Bowman (1881–1971), 3rd Superintendent of the US Navy Nurse Corps
- Gregory Boyington (1912–1988), fighter pilot in the Pacific War
- Omar N. Bradley (1893–1981), 17th Chief of Staff of the Army and first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- William Joseph Brennan (1906–1997), Supreme Court Justice from 1956 to 1990
- Lewis H. Brereton (1890–1967), commander of the 1st Allied Airborne Army in World War II
- John R. Brooke (1838–1926), major general in the American Army in the American Civil War
- Jesse Brown (1944–2002), United States Secretary of War from 1993 to 1997
- Wilber M. Brucker (1894–1968), Secretary of the Army from 1955 to 1961
- William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925), US Secretary of State from 1913 to 1915
- Frank Buckles (1901–2011), war veteran of the First World War
- William F. Buckley (1928–1985), Central Intelligence Agency agent
- Warren E. Burger (1907-1995), 14th Chief Justice of the United States
- Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957), polar explorer and admiral in the US Navy
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- Marshall S. Carter (1909–1993), officer in the US Army and director of the National Security Agency from 1965 to 1969
- Clifton B. Cates (1893–1970), General in the Pacific War and 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967), naval officer and astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 disaster
- Leonard F. Chapman Jr. (1913–2000), General in the Pacific War and 24th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1968–1971)
- Claire Lee Chennault (1890–1958), commander of the “ Flying Tigers ” in the Pacific War
- Bennett Champ Clark (1890–1954), US Senator and Judge at the Washington Court of Appeal
- Joseph "Jocko" Clark (1893–1971), Admiral of the US Navy in World War II As a member of the Cherokee , in 1917 Clark was the first graduate of Native American origin at the US Naval Academy
- Powell Clayton (1833–1914), Brigadier General of the Union Army in the Civil War, US Senator and Governor of Arkansas
- Clark M. Clifford (1906–1998), 9th Secretary of Defense
- William Colby (1920–1996), Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976
- James Lawton Collins (1882–1963), Major General in the US Army and father of the Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins
- J. Lawton Collins (1896–1987), World War II general and second Chief of Staff of the Army
- Pete Conrad (1930–1999), astronaut and third person on the moon ( Apollo 12 )
- Clyde L. Cowan (1919–1974), physicist and co-discoverer of the neutrino
- Malin Craig (1875-1945), 14th Chief of Staff of the Army
- Lou Creekmur (1927–2009), US Army sergeant and American football player with the Detroit Lions
- George Crook (1828–1890), US Army officer in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
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- Dwight Filley Davis (1879–1945), 49th Secretary of War and initiator of the Davis Cup
- Catherine Crook de Camp (1907–2000), writer
- Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907–2000), writer, science fiction author and hobby historian
- James Devereux (1903–1988), Brigadier General of the US Marine Corps and commander of US troops in the Pacific War during the Battle of Wake
- Jacob L. Devers (1887–1979), commander of the US 6th Army Group in World War II and third chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission
- John Lesesne DeWitt (1880–1962), US Army general. During World War II he was responsible for interning US Americans of Japanese descent
- Nellie Jane DeWitt (1895–1978), first director of the US Navy Nurse Corps
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John Dill (1881–1944), Field Marshal and British representative of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II - William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959), Medal of Honor holderand head of the Office of Strategic Services from 1942 to 1945
- James Harold Doolittle (1896–1993), pilot in the US Army Air Forces in World War II, known for the " Doolittle Raid "
- Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), General of the Union Army in the Civil War and theosophist
- Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst
- John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), US Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959
- Henry Dworshak (1894–1962), US Senator from Idaho, sergeant in the air defense during World War I.
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- John Porter East (1931–1986), Republican Senator
- Manton S. Eddy (1892–1962), Lieutenant General and Commander ofthe US Army's 9th Infantry Division in World War II
- Edward W. Eberle (1864–1929), Admiral and Third Chief of Naval Operations
- Robley D. Evans (1846–1912), Admiral and Commander of the Great White Fleet
- Medgar Evers (1925–1963), murdered African American civil rights activist from Mississippi
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- Frank Friday Fletcher (1855–1928), Admiral in the US Navy and in command of the occupation of the Mexican port city of Veracruz in April 1914
- Frank Jack Fletcher (1885–1973), nephew of Frank F. Fletcher and admiral in the US Navy in the sea battles in the Coral Sea and the Midway Islands during the Pacific War
- Marion Bayard Folsom (1893–1976), US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare from 1955 to 1958 and Captain of the US Army in World War I.
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Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom , Ed White and Roger Chaffee (from left) who died in the Apollo 1 catastrophe .
- Roy S. Geiger (1885–1947), General in the US Marine Corps in the Pacific War. During the Battle of Okinawa he commandedthe 10th US Army after the death of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, Jr.
- John Gibbon (1827–1896), Brigadier General in the US Army with stations in the Mexican-American and American Civil Wars as well as in the Indian Wars
- George M. Grant (1897–1982), longtime Alabama representative in the House of Representatives
- Cary T. Grayson (1878-1938), Rear Admiral and doctor medical service of the US Navy and later the personal physician of the US president Theodore Roosevelt , William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson
- Wallace M. Greene (1907–2003), General in the US Marine Corps and 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps (1964–1967)
- Walter Q. Gresham (1832–1895), statesman and lawyer , postal minister , 35th finance minister and 33rd foreign minister
- Gus Grissom (1926–1967), Air Force officer , second American in space and also the first person to travel twice into space. He died during the Apollo 1 disaster .
- Alfred M. Gruenther (1899–1983), General in the US Army and third Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1953 to 1956
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- David Haskell Hackworth (1930–2005), Colonel in the US Army , veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and prominent military journalist
- William F. Halsey (1882–1959), Fleet Admiral in the US Navy and commander of the US 3rd Fleet in the Pacific War
- Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), writer and crime writer a. a. from The Thin Man
- Thomas C. Hart (1877–1971), US Navy admiral, first in command of the ABDA fleet in the Pacific War
- Floyd K. Haskell (1916–1998), Major in the US Army in World War II, US Senator for Colorado
- Ira Hayes (1923–1955), US Marine Corps soldierin the Battle of Iwojima in the Pacific War. He became famous for the photo taken on February 23, 1945 by photographer Joe Rosenthal , in which American soldiers hoist the US flag on Mount Suribachi as a symbol of the conquest of the island. This photo later won the Pulitzer Prize .
- Richard Helms (1913–2002), Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973
- Thomas C. Hennings (1903–1960), Lieutenant Commander of the Navy Reserve in World War II, US Senator for Missouri
- Matthew Henson (1866–1955), Afro-American polar explorer who, together with Robert Peary, were the first people to reach the North Pole .
- Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969), Rear Admiral of the US Navy and geologist and one of the pioneers of the theory of plate tectonics .
- Lenah Higbee (1874-1941), from 1911 to 1922, the Superintendent of the United States Navy Nurse Corps .
- Thomas Holcomb (1879-1965), 17th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 to 1943 and the first Marine toachievethe rank of General .
- Oliver Wendell Holmes junior (1841–1935), legal scholar and Supreme Court Justice of the United States from 1902 to 1932
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), computer scientist , computer pioneer and former Rear Admiral in the US Navy
- Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), first female fighter pilot in the US Navy
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- William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), photographer , painter, and adventurer. He became famous primarily for his photos of the American West.
- René Joyeuse (1920–2012), resistance fighter and doctor
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- Edward C. Kalbfus (1877–1954), Admiral of the US Navy, two-time President of the Naval War College and member of the Naval Court of Inquiry, which investigated the circumstances of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from 7. December 1941, examined.
- Edward Kennedy (1932–2009), American Senator and Democratic Party leader
- John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), officer in the US Navy and the 35th President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994), journalist and editor and the wife of the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy and the First Lady of the United States from January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), 64th US Attorney General, presidential candidate, and brother of John F. Kennedy
- Paul Joseph Kilday (1900–1968), Democratic politician in the US House of Representatives and supporter of racial integration in public institutions
- Alan G. Kirk (1888–1963), Admiral in the US Navy a. a. during the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944 and diplomat
- Frank Knox (1874–1944), volunteer with Theodore Roosevelt's " Rough Riders " and penultimate US Secretary of the Navy
- Walter Krueger (1881–1967), General in the US Army of German descent. Under his command he led the US 6th Army during the Pacific War.
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- William Daniel Leahy (1875–1959), first Fleet Admiral in the US Navy and Chief of Naval Operations from 1937 to 1939
- Willis A. Lee (1888–1945), Vice Admiral of the US Navy in World War II, marksman and multiple medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.
- Lyman L. Lemnitzer (1899–1988), General in the US Army , from 1959 to 1960 the 21st Chief of Staff of the Army , from 1960 to 1962 the fourth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and from 1963 to 1969 the fifth Supreme Allied Commander Europe .
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Pierre L'Enfant (1754–1825), French artist and scientist, and the city planner of Washington, DC . - Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926), the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln and the only of four sons of the former president to reach adulthood. From 1881 to 1885 he was the 36th US Secretary of War and from 1889 to 1893 US Ambassador to Great Britain .
- Paul Linebarger (1913–1966), psychologist and well-known writer under the pseudonyms Felix C. Forrest , Carmichael Smith and Cordwainer Smith .
- Joe Louis (1914-1981), several times world boxing champion in the heavyweight division in the 1930s and 1940s and u. a. also opponents of Max Schmeling .
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- Arthur MacArthur (1845–1912), Lieutenant General in the US Army, veteran of the American Civil War and the Filipino-American War, Military Governor of the Philippines from 1900 to 1901and father of the future General Douglas MacArthur .
- George W. Malone (1890–1961), Republican politician and member of the United States Senate
- George C. Marshall (1880–1959), General of the Army , Chief of Staff of the Army during the Second World War, US Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from 1953. One of his best-known acts as a politician is the Marshall Plan named after him.
- Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), first African American judge on the US Supreme Court . He served from 1967 to 1991.
- Lee Marvin (1924–1987), US Marine Corps soldier in the Pacific War and well-known film actor of the 1960s and 1970s.
- Bill Mauldin (1921–2003), famous cartoonist and caricaturist
- Anthony McAuliffe (1898–1975), US Army General. He temporarily commanded the 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of Bastogne during the German Ardennes offensive in World War II.
- John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (1884–1945), Admiral in the US Navy, major commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific War and father of John Sidney McCain Jr.
- John Sidney McCain Jr. (1911–1981), US Navy Admiral, Submarine Commander in World War II, Commander of the United States Pacific Command from 1968 to 1972, son of John S. McCain, Sr. and father of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain .
- David McCampbell (1910–1996), with 34 kills in World War II, the pilot with the most kills in the US Navy.
- Francis Xavier "Frank" McCloskey (1939–2003), American politician.
- James P. McGranery (1895–1962), lawyer, Democratic politician, and 61st US Attorney General
- Nelson Appleton Miles (1839–1925), officer and commander of the US Army
- Sherman Miles (1882-1966), US General and head of Miles mission
- William E. Miller (1914–1983), Congressman and candidate for the US Vice Presidency in 1964
- John N. Mitchell (1913–1988), US attorney general from 1969 to 1972 and so far the only US attorney general who has been proven to be involved in illegal activities and therefore convicted and imprisoned.
- Marc Andrew Mitscher (1887–1947), Admiral in the US Navy and well-known commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific War.
- William A. Moffett (1869–1933), Rear Admiral and "father" of naval aviation in the US Navy.
- Thomas H. Moorer (1912-2004), US Navy Admiral, 18th Chief of Naval Operations and the seventh Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff .
- Audie Murphy (1925–1971), well-known film actor (who is not awarded ) and the most decorated US soldier of the Second World War (including the Medal of Honor ).
- Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), Democratic politician, Governor of Maine , US Senator and US Secretary of State from 1980 to 1981.
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- Lauris Norstad (1907–1988), General in the US Air Force and from 1956 to 1963 Supreme Allied Commander Europe .
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Simon Newcomb (1835–1909), Canadian -US astronomer and mathematician . - Arthur Nicholson (1947–1985), Major, is considered the last victim of the Cold War.
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- William O'Dwyer (1890–1964), Brigadier General in the US Army and Mayor of New York City .
- Jesse B. Oldendorf (1887–1974), Admiral of the Pacific Fleet in World War II.
- Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818–1883), US Army officer, veteran of the American Civil War, the Seminole and Indian Wars, and designer of Fort Sam Houston .
- Robert Franklyn Overmyer (1936-1996), US astronaut.
- Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909), Major General in the US Army and Military Governor of the Philippinesfrom 1898 to 1900.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), Polish pianist , composer and politician . Between January and November 1919 he was the third Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland . Paderewski died in New York City in June 1941and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Only after the fall of the Iron Curtain were his remains laidto reston July 3, 1992 in the St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw . - Randolph M. Pate (1898–1961), General in the US Marine Corps . Commandant of the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War and from 1956 to 1959 he was the 21st Commandant of the Marine Corps .
- Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), US Navy officer, engineer and polar explorer . With his expedition he reached with u. a. Matthew Henson as "first" to the geographic North Pole .
- John J. Pershing (1860–1948), US Army officer and General of the Armies . He achieved greater fame in World War I as Commander in Chief of US troops on the Western Front. Between 1921 and 1924 he was the 10th Chief of Staff of the Army .
- Charles E. Potter (1916–1979), Major in the US Army in World War II, later US Senator for Michigan
- John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), researcher and leader of the expedition to explore the Colorado River and ultimately the Grand Canyon .
- Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), captain of the US Air Force and pilot of the U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
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Manuel Quezon (1878–1944), President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. Quezon died in August 1944 in his US exile and was temporarily buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In July of the following year, his body was returned to his homeland.
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- Arthur W. Radford (1896–1973), was a US Navy admiral in the Pacific War, commander of the United States Pacific Command, and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff .
- Barbara Allen Rainey (1948–1982), former Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy and first female pilot in the Navy.
- John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), Union Army generalduring the American Civil War, confidante of Ulysses S. Grant and 29th Secretary of War between March and September 1869.
- David A. Reed (1880–1953), US Army officer in World War I and US Senator for Pennsylvania.
- Walter Reed (1851–1902), US Army officer and bacteriologist . One of his most important discoveries is that yellow fever is not transmitted through direct contact, but through the bite of a mosquito (Aedes aegypti). The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington is named after him.
- William H. Rehnquist (1924–2005), lawyer and presiding judge of the Supreme Court of the United States ( Chief Justice of the United States ). In 1998 he chaired the Senate sessions on impeachment proceedings against then US President Bill Clinton . One of his last public acts in January 2005 was the swearing in of President George W. Bush for his second term.
- Elliot L. Richardson (1920–1999),US Army medical officer in World War II, lawyer and Republican politician. Under Presidents Nixon and Ford , he was Minister of Health, Education and Welfare (1970–1973), Minister of Defense (January to May 1973), Attorney General (May to October 1973) and Minister of Commerce (1976–1977).
- Hyman Rickover (1900–1986), Admiral in the US Navy and "Father of the Nuclear Navy".
- Matthew Ridgway (1895-1993), General of the US Army during the Second World War (commander of the 82nd Airborne Division ) and the Korean War. Between 1952 and 1953 he was Supreme Allied Commander Europe and later 19th Chief of Staff of the Army .
- Kenneth A. Roberts (1912–1989), Democratic politician and Alabama representative in the US House of Representatives
- Samuel Robison (1867–1952), Admiral of the US Navy, Commander in Chief of the US Navy from 1925 to 1926 and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy (1928–1931).
- William P. Rogers (1913–2001), Republican politician, US Attorney General (1957–1961) and Secretary of State (1969–1973).
- Finn Ronne (1899–1980), Norwegian -American Antarctic explorer .
- Stuart Roosa (1933-1994), former officer in the US Air Force and astronaut of NASA . On Apollo 14 , the sixth manned flight to the moon, he served as the pilot of the command module .
- William Starke Rosecrans (1819–1898), General in the Union Army in the American Civil War.
- William H. Rupertus (1889–1945), Major General in the US Marine Corps in the Pacific War and commander of the 1st Marine Division during Operation Dexterity and the Battle of Peleliu . He also became famous as the author of the so-called Rifleman's Creed .
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- William Thomas Sampson (1840–1902), Admiral in the US Navy. He became famous for his victory in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War .
- John McAllister Schofield (1831–1906), officer in the American Civil War, later US Secretary of War (1868–1869) and Commander in Chief of the US Army.
- Dick Scobee (1939-1986), an officer in the US Air Force and astronaut of NASA , which the Challenger accident died in January 1986th
- Elliot See (1927–1966), astronaut in the Gemini program . He died in a plane crash before makinghis first space flightwith Gemini 9 .
- Thomas E. Selfridge (1882–1908), US Army officer and the first casualty in motorized aviation .
- Lemuel C. Shepherd junior (1896–1990), General in the US Marine Corps, commander of the 6th Marine Division in the Battle of Okinawa . From 1952 to 1955 he was the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps and the first Marine in the Joint Chiefs of Staff .
- Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), Union Army general in the American Civil War. The saying Only a dead Indian is a good Indian should come from him.
- David M. Shoup (1904–1983), General in the US Marine Corps, recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Pacific War and 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps (1960–1963)
- Charles Dwight Sigsbee (1845–1923), Rear Admiral in the US Navy. He became known as the commander of the battleship USS Maine , whichexploded and sank in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. This so-called Maine incident was one of the causes of the Spanish-American War.
- Cyrus Rowlett Smith (1899–1990), two-time CEO of American Airlines (1934–1968, 1973–1974) and US Secretary of Commerce from 1968 to 1969.
- Michael John Smith (1945–1986), US Navy officer and NASA astronaut, who died in the Challenger disaster in January 1986.
- Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), US Army General, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during his tenure as Commander in Chief of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force , US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1949,and Director of the CIA from 1950 to 1953.
- George E. Spencer (1836–1893), Captain of the US Army, promoted to Brigadier General after the Civil War, US Senator for Alabama.
- Frank Julian Sprague (1857–1934), US Navy officer and inventor . In the USA he is known as the "father of electric traction ". He made significant contributions to the development of electric motors , electric trains and elevators .
- Robert Stethem (1961–1985), Petty Officer Second Class in the US Navy. He was traveling aboard TWA Flight 847 from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy when it waskidnappedby Hezbollah terrorists.
- Potter Stewart (1915–1985), founding member of the America First Committee and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to July 1981.
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- William Howard Taft (1857–1930), Republican politician, United States Solicitor General (1890–1892), Secretary of War (1904–1908), 27th President of the United States from March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1913, and Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930).
- Maxwell D. Taylor (1901-1987), General of the US Army and diplomat. He was commander of the 101st Airborne Division in World War II, commander of the Allied Forces in Berlin (1949-1951), Chief of Staff of the Army (1955-1959), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1962-1964) and in the years 1964 and 1965 US ambassador to South Vietnam .
- Lauri Törni (1919–1965), Finnish officer in the Winter and Continuation War. Later member of the Waffen SS and as Larry Thorne with the Green Berets in the Vietnam War .
- William H. Tunner (1906–1983), General in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and organizer of the Berlin Airlift .
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- Cyrus Vance (1917–2002), Democratic politician, Army Secretary of State from 1962 to 1964and US Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980under President Jimmy Carter
- Alexander A. Vandegrift (1887–1973), General in the US Marine Corps . During the Pacific War he commanded the 1st U.S. Marine Division in the Battle of Guadalcanal . From 1944 to 1947 he was the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps .
- Hoyt S. Vandenberg (1899–1954), General in the US Air Force. He was Air Force Commander in Europe during World War II, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1946/47and Chief of Staff of the Air Force from 1948 to 1953.
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- Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883–1953), US Army General in the Pacific War. As the commanding general of the US-Philippine troops in the Philippines, he surrendered to the Japanese on May 6, 1942. He took part in the subsequent death march from Bataan and spent the remainder of the war as the highest-ranking US officer in Japanese captivity.
- David M. Walker (1944–2001), US Navy officer and NASA astronaut on four space shuttle missions.
- Walton Walker (1889–1950), US Army general, veteran of both World Wars and first commander of the US 8th Army in the Korean War .
- Vernon A. Walters
- Earl Warren (1891–1974), Republican politician and lawyer, Governor of California (1943–1953) and Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969). He became known as chairman of the Warren Commission to investigate the Kennedy assassination.
- James Edwin Webb (1906-1992), was NASA's second administrator from 1961 to 1968.
- Herman Welker (1906–1957), Republican Senator for Idaho State
- Ovington Weller (1862–1947), Republican Senator for the State of Maryland
- Joseph R. West (1822–1898), Brigadier General of the Union Army in the Civil War and Republican Senator for the state of Louisiana
- George Westinghouse (1846–1914), American inventor , engineer and industrialist. He received 360 patents, founded 60 factories (including what would later become Westinghouse Electric Corporation ) and employed 50,000 people. He was one of the biggest employers of his time.
- Earle Wheeler (1908–1975), US Army general, 23rd Chief of Staff of the Army and sixth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff .
- John P. Wheeler (1944–2010), American military expert on the staff of several US presidents.
- Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), Confederate Generalin the Civil War and MP in the House of Representatives for the State of Alabama , brigade commander in the Spanish-American and Filipino-American Wars
- Charles Wilkes (1798–1877), US Navy admiral and polar explorer . It was through him that the so-called Trent Affair was triggeredin the American Civil War.
- Charles Willeford (1919-1988), American literary critic and crime - writer (u a.. Cockfighter , Miami Blues and The Woman Chaser ).
- Clifton Williams (1932–1967), US Marine Corps officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut .
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Orde Wingate (1903–1944), British Major General during World War II and commander of the legendary Chindits in the Burma campaign and the Special Night Squads during the Arab uprising .
- Leonard Wood (1860–1927), Major General of the US Army, Chief of Staff of the Army from 1910 to 1914and later Governor General of the Philippines.
Additional information
See also
Web links
Commons : Arlington National Cemetery - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
- Arlington National Cemetery website (Engl.)
- Official Homepage (English)
- Arlington buried personalities by category (English)
Coordinates: 38 ° 52 ′ 37 ″ N , 77 ° 4 ′ 21 ″ W.