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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Newark, New Jersey)

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in the North Ward of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on the west bank of the Passaic River in Newark's Broadway neighborhood, opposite Kearny. It occupies approximately 40 acres and was designed by Horace Baldwin.

Notable burials
Peter Ballantine (1791–1883) • Seth Boyden (1788–1870), inventor of patent leatherJoseph Philo Bradley (1813–1892), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, served on the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential electionAmanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916), writer • John F. Dryden (1839–1911), United States Senator and founder of Prudential FinancialFrederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885), member of the United States Senate representing New Jersey and a United States Secretary of StateCharles Alling Gifford (1860–1937), architect • Edward W. Gray (1870–1942), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1915 to 1919 • George A. Halsey (1827–1894), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1867 to 1869 and 1871–1873 • Augustus A. Hardenbergh (1830–1889), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1875 to 1879 and 1881–1883 • Ray Liotta (1954–2022), actor • Franklin Murphy (1846–1920), 31st Governor of New JerseyCharles Wolcott Parker (1862–1948), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 1907 to 1947 • Thomas Baldwin Peddie (1808–1889), Mayor of NewarkAlexander C. M. Pennington (1810–1867), represented from 1853 to 1857 • William Pennington (1796–1862), 13th Governor of New Jersey and Speaker of the House during his single term in Congress • Nehemiah Perry (1816–1881), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, Mayor of Newark • Theodore Runyon (1822–1896), Civil War general, Newark mayor, and U.S. ambassador to Germany • Marcus Lawrence Ward (1812–1884), 21st Governor of New Jersey and represented the state in Congress for one term ==See also==
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