Who was responsible for the Arlington national cemetery?

Answer 1

George Washington Parke Custis acquired the land that now is Arlington National Cemetery in 1802, and began construction of Arlington House. The estate was passed down to Custis' only surviving child Mary Anna Custis Lee wife of Robert E. Lee, who was a West Point graduate and United States Army officer.The government had acquired Arlington at tax sale in 1864 for $26,800 after Mrs. Lee had not appeared in person to pay and the government had turned away her agent attempting to timely pay $92.07 in property taxes assessed the estate. In 1877, Custis Lee, heir under his grandfather's will passing the estate in trust to his mother, sued the United States claiming ownership of Arlington. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Lee's favor in 1882 that Arlington was confiscated without due process in 1864, Congress returned the estate to him. The next year Custis Lee sold it back to the government for $150,000 at a signing ceremony with Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War.

Answer 2

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna Lee, a great grand-daughter of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.

Answer 3

George Washington Parke Custis acquired the land that now is Arlington National Cemetery in 1802, and began construction of Arlington House. The estate was passed down to Custis' only surviving child Mary Anna Custis Lee wife of Robert E. Lee, who was a West Point graduate and United States Army officer.The government had acquired Arlington at tax sale in 1864 for $26,800 after Mrs. Lee had not appeared in person to pay and the government had turned away her agent attempting to timely pay $92.07 in property taxes assessed the estate. In 1877, Custis Lee, heir under his grandfather's will passing the estate in trust to his mother, sued the United States claiming ownership of Arlington. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Lee's favor in 1882 that Arlington was confiscated without due process in 1864, Congress returned the estate to him. The next year Custis Lee sold it back to the government for $150,000 at a signing ceremony with Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War.

Answer 4

As an active military cemetery, Arlington -- like all such cemeteries -- is administered by the National Cemetery Administration, which is part of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 6

John F Kennedy