Notable Burials
Rock Creek Cemetery serves as the final resting place to some of Washington’s most notable residents including (in alphabetical order):
- Henry Adams, Author and diplomat
- Eugene Allen, White House butler for 34 years and inspiration for the 2013 movie, “The Butler”
- Abraham Baldwin, Signer of the U.S. Constitution
- Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General in Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet
- Charles Corby, Baking Innovator of “Wonderbread”
- Julius Garfinckel, Founder of Garfinckel’s Department Store
- Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Chairman of the National Geographic Society
- Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary Health and Human Services in Jimmy Carter’s Cabinet
- Charles Francis Jenkins, Inventor of the television
- Opha May Johnson, First Women in the U.S. Marine Corps
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, President’s daughter
- George McGovern, U.S. Senator, 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee
- George Washington Riggs, Founder of Riggs Bank
- Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States
- Upton Sinclair, Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State for Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Gore Vidal, Author, screenwriter, and essayist