| GERRY (Soundex
G600)
— See also
GARRY,
GEAREY,
GEARY,
GERRI,
GERRIE,
GERY,
GREY,
GUERRY,
GYORY,
JERRY,
KERRY,
PERRY.
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See also
Gerry
L. Brewster —
Gerry
Brooks —
Elbridge
Gerry Brown —
Gerry
Byrne —
Gerry
Cofield —
Gerry
Cohen —
Gerry
Coonley —
Gerry
D'Amico —
Elbridge
Gerry Davis —
Alfred
Gerry Fairbanks —
Gerry
Finnegan —
Waldemar
John Gallman —
Gerry
Geer —
Gerry
Whiting Hazelton —
Gerry
Hildenbrand —
Gerry
Kamilos —
Elbridge
Gerry Lapham —
Gerry
Biggs Montgomery —
Robert
Adam Mosbacher, Sr. —
Gerry
L. Newby —
Gerry
B. Nutting —
Gerry
Parsky —
Eldridge
Gerry Pearl —
Gerry
Purcell —
Gerry
Senda —
Mrs.
Gerry Simmons —
Elbridge
Gerry Spaulding —
Gerry
Eastman Studds —
Gerry
Wahlheim —
Gerry
Welch —
D.
Gerry Wellington |
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Gerry, Ann (1763-1849) —
also known as Ann Thompson —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
12, 1763.
First Lady of Massachusetts, 1810-12; Second Lady
of the United States, 1813-14.
Female.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March
17, 1849 (age 85 years, 217
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Gerry, Arthur P. —
of Gilford, Belknap
County, N.H.
Delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Gilford,
1948.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Gerry, C. H. —
of York, York
County, Pa.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1912.
Burial location unknown.
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| | Gerry,
Commodore: See
Elbridge Thomas Gerry |
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Gerry, Curtis —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maine, 1956.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Gerry, David M. —
of Williamsport, Lycoming
County, Pa.
Democrat. Chair of
Lycoming County Democratic Party, 1937.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Peabody See Edwin Peabody
Gerry |
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Gerry, Edwin Peabody
(1846-1911) —
also known as E. Peabody Gerry —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Standish, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
2, 1846.
Republican. Physician;
candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1903.
Died in Phillipston, Worcester
County, Mass., June 22,
1911 (age 64 years, 232
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Gerry, Elbridge
(1744-1814) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1744.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1776-80, 1782-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1786; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1789-93; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1810-12; defeated, 1801, 1812; Vice
President of the United States, 1813-14; died in office 1814.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
The word gerrymander ("Gerry" plus "salamander") was coined to
describe an oddly shaped Massachusetts senate district his party
created in 1811, and later came to mean any unfair districting.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1814 (age 70 years, 129
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gerry; married, January
12, 1786, to Ann Gerry; grandfather of
Elbridge Thomas Gerry; great-grandfather of
Peter Goelet Gerry; third cousin of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town
of Elbridge,
New York, is named for
him. — The town
of Gerry, New
York, is named for
him. — The town
of Gerry (now Phillipston,
Massachusetts), was named for
him until 1812. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Elbridge
G. Baldwin
— Elbridge
G. Knowlton
— Elbridge
G. Creacraft
— Elbridge
G. Spaulding
— Elbridge
G. Gale
— Elbridge Gerry
— Elbridge
G. Lapham
— Eldridge
Gerry Pearl
— Elbridge
G. Moulton
— Elbridge
G. Cracraft
— Elbridge
G. Kelley
— Elbridge
G. Haynes
— Elbridge
G. Brown
— Elbridge
G. Davis
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Elbridge Gerry: George
Athan Billias, Elbridge
Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman |
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Gerry, Elbridge
(1813-1886) —
of Waterford, Oxford
County, Maine; Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Waterford, Oxford
County, Maine, December
6, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer; Oxford
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1842-45; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1846; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1849-51.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, April
10, 1886 (age 72 years, 125
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Gerry, Elbridge Thomas
(1837-1927) —
also known as Elbridge T. Gerry; "Commodore
Gerry" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlestown, Washington
County, R.I., December
25, 1837.
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; founder
and president, New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (said to be the "parent of all child protective
organizations in the world"); governor of New York Hospital,
1878-1912; chairman, New York State Commission on Capital Punishment
(replaced hanging with the electric chair), 1886-88; trustee, New
York Life
Insurance Co.; chairman, New York City Commission on Insanity,
1892.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Broke his hip in a fall, and
died two weeks later, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1927 (age 89 years, 55
days).
Entombed at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Gerry, Harvey S. —
U.S. Vice Consul in Buenos Aires, as of 1926; Asuncion, as of 1927.
Burial location unknown.
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Gerry, James (1796-1873) —
of Shrewsbury, York
County, Pa.
Born near Rising Sun, Cecil
County, Md., August
14, 1796.
Democrat. Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1839-43.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Shrewsbury, York
County, Pa., July 19,
1873 (age 76 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lutheran
Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Pa.
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Gerry, James O. —
of Madison, Carroll
County, N.H.
Democrat. Member of New
Hampshire state senate 5th District, 1911-14; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1920
(alternate), 1924
(alternate).
Burial location unknown.
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Gerry, John Francis
(1925-1995) —
of New Jersey.
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., November
17, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; superior court
judge in New Jersey, 1973-75; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1975-94.
Died, of liver
cancer, in Moorestown, Burlington
County, N.J., March
10, 1995 (age 69 years, 113
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis P. Gerry and Grace (Hendrickson) Gerry; married to Jean
Elberson. |
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Gerry, Louise Cuyler
(1883-1962) —
also known as Louise C. Gerry —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Snyder, Erie
County, N.Y.; Robbinston, Washington
County, Maine.
Born in Robbinston, Washington
County, Maine, June 12,
1883.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1936,
1940.
Female.
Congregationalist
or Presbyterian.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Zonta; Grange.
Died in Robbinston, Washington
County, Maine, June 21,
1962 (age 79 years, 9
days).
Interment at Brewer Cemetery, Robbinston, Maine.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Elbridge Joseph Gerry and Sophia Teresa (Jones)
Gerry. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Gerry, Melville B. —
of Colorado.
Justice
of Colorado state supreme court, 1888-89.
Burial location unknown.
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| | Gerry,
Peabody See Edwin Peabody
Gerry |
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Gerry, Peter Goelet
(1879-1957) —
also known as Peter G. Gerry —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1932;
U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1917-29, 1935-47; defeated, 1928,
1930; member of Democratic
National Committee from Rhode Island, 1932-36.
Episcopalian.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
31, 1957 (age 78 years, 43
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Louisa Matilda (Livingston) Gerry and Elbridge Thomas Gerry; married, May 26,
1910, to Mathilde Townsend (who later married Benjamin
Sumner Welles); married, October
22, 1925, to Edith Stuyvesant (Dresser) Vanderbilt;
great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, Ann Gerry and Maturin
Livingston; great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847); second great-grandson of Morgan
Lewis; second great-grandnephew of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813) and Edward
Livingston; third great-grandson of Francis
Lewis and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Robert
Walton Goelet and Ogden
Livingston Mills; second cousin once removed of Peter
Goelet; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and John
Jacob Astor III; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin once removed of William
Waldorf Astor; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Gerrit
Smith and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; third cousin thrice removed of Levi
Lincoln, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler and Robert
Reginald Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Gerry, Robert —
of Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine.
Mayor
of Ellsworth, Maine, 1896.
Burial location unknown.
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Gerry, Thomas R. —
U.S. Vice Consul in Malaga, as of 1899-1904.
Burial location unknown.
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