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