Later Life
He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. Prior to his death, McLean had been the last surviving member of the Monroe and Adams Cabinets. His son, Nathaniel C. McLean, was a Union general in the American Civil War. His daughter Evelyn McLean married Joseph Pannell Taylor, brother of U.S.President Zachary Taylor.
During the Civil War, Camp John McLean, a Union Army training camp in Cincinnati, was named in his honor.
His remains are interred at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also interred there is Stanley Matthews, another Associate Justice.
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