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James Garland was a nineteenth-century politician, military officer, planter, lawyer and judge from Virginia.

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Thomas Griffin was an eighteenth and nineteenth century politician, planter, lawyer and judge from Virginia.

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James Jones was a medical doctor, Virginia legislator, and U.S. Representative from Virginia.

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Armistead Thomson Mason, the son of Stevens Thomson Mason, was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817. Mason was also the second-youngest person to ever serve in the US Senate, at the age of 28 and 5 months, even though the age requirement for the US Senate in the constitution is 30 years old.

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Foxhall Alexander Parker Sr. was an officer in the United States Navy. He was Commander-in-Chief of the East India Squadron, commanded the Home Squadron, and was commander of the USS Constitution.

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Lawrence Taliaferro was a United States Army officer best known for his service as an Indian agent at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1820 through 1839 and also as an individual who played a part in the saga of the famous African American slave Dred Scott.

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John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845 after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with president William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights, including regarding slavery, and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states. His unexpected rise to the presidency posed a threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other politicians, and left Tyler estranged from both major political parties.

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John Baker White was a 19th-century American military officer, lawyer, court clerk, and civil servant in the U.S. state of Virginia.