Politicians Who Died of Heart Disease
Very incomplete list!
Circulatory system diseases except stroke.
in chronological order
- De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) — also known as
"Father of the Erie Canal" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Napanoch, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 2,
1769. Son of James
Clinton and Mary (De Witt) Clinton (1737-1795); nephew of George
Clinton; married, February
13, 1796, to Maria Franklin (died 1818); married, May 8,
1819, to Catherine Jones; sister of Mary Clinton Norton (who
married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)) and Katharine Clinton Norton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)); cousin of George
Clinton, Jr.; half-brother of James
Graham Clinton. Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1797-98; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1798-1802, 1805-11; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1801; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1802-03; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1811-13; candidate for President
of the United States, 1812; Governor of
New York, 1817-23, 1825-28; died in office 1828. Member, Freemasons.
Chief advocate for the Erie Canal,
completed 1825. His portrait appeared on the $1,000
U.S. Note from about 1898 to about 1905. Died, from heart
failure, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
11, 1828. Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Clinton counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Mo. and Pa., and DeWitt County,
Ill., are named for him.
- William Crawford Linton (1795-1835) — of Indiana.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., 1795.
Brother-in-law of Thomas
Holdsworth Blake. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1828-31; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1833. Presbyterian.
Died of a heart attack in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1835. Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
- John Maugridge Snowden (1776-1845) — also known as
John M. Snowden — of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1776.
Newspaper
publisher; mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1825-28; state court judge in Pennsylvania,
1840-45. Presbyterian.
Died of heart disease, April 2,
1845. Interment at Concord
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Carrick, Pa.
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) — also known as
"Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the First" —
of Tennessee. Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March 15,
1767. Son of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson;
married to Rachel (Donelson) Robards; uncle of Andrew
Jackson Donelson. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor of
Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37. Presbyterian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel,
May 30, 1806; also duelled
with Thomas
Hart Benton. Censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States. On January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot
at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a
house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity). Died,
of dropsy (congestive heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1910. His portrait appears on the
U.S. $20
bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait appeared on on U.S.
notes
and certificates of various denominations from $5
to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait appeared on Confederate States
$1,000
notes. Interment at The
Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La. Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him.
- Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair
- See also: congressional
biography; Wikipedia
article; NNDB
dossier; Find-A-Grave
page.
- Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert Vincent
Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson; Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832; Robert
Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845; Robert
Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821; Andrew
Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson; David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler,
Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire; Donald B.
Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson; H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times
- Thomas Stockton (1781-1846) — of Delaware. Born in
New
Castle County, Del., April 1,
1781. Second cousin of John
Stockton. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor of
Delaware, 1845-46; died in office 1846. Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati. Died, of heart disease, in New Castle
County, Del., March 1,
1846. Interment at Immanuel
Churchyard, New Castle, Del.
- Isaac Johnson (1803-1853) — of Louisiana. Born November
1, 1803. Uncle of Anna Ruffin Dawson (who married Robert
Charles Wickliffe). Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives; secretary of
state of Louisiana; Governor of
Louisiana, 1846-50; Louisiana
state attorney general. Episcopalian.
Died, of a heart attack, in a hotel at
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 15,
1853. Burial
location unknown.
- John Manners (1786-1853) — of Hunterdon
County, N.J. Born in Hunterdon
County, N.J., April 8,
1786. First cousin of David
Stout Manners; first cousin thrice removed of Horace
Griggs Prall. Member of New Jersey
state senate from Hunterdon County, 1850-52. Baptist.
Died, from "affection of the heart," in Clinton, Hunterdon
County, N.J., June 24,
1853. Interment at Mercer
Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
- Hosea Jefferson Dean (1806-1855) — also known as
H. J. Dean — of Spartanburg, Spartanburg District (now
Spartanburg
County), S.C. Born in Spartanburg District (now Spartanburg
County), S.C., July 11,
1806. Grandnephew of Samuel
Farrow; son of John Dean (1776-1852) and Mary (Farrow) Dean
(1780-1830); married, October
14, 1834, to Elizabeth Ellen Mills (1810-1838); married, August 9,
1840, to Mary Stewart Owen (1822-1886). Lawyer;
Spartanburg District Commissioner in Equity, 1832-44; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1850-52; Clerk, South
Carolina House of Representatives, 1853. Baptist.
Died, of heart disease, in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier
County, Va. (now W.Va.), August 3,
1855. Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- James Tillinghast Archer (1819-1859) — also known as
James T. Archer — of Florida. Born in Gillisonville, Jasper
County, S.C., May 15,
1819. Son of Hugh Archer and Susan Matilda (Tillinghast) Archer;
married to Mary Brown. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Florida, 1840; secretary of
state of Florida, 1845-48. The town of Archer, Florida is named for
him. Died, of heart disease, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., June 1,
1859. Interment at Old
City Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) — also known
as Mirabeau B. Lamar — of Texas. Born near Louisville,
Jefferson
County, Ga., August
16, 1798. Brother of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834); uncle of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893). Member of Georgia
state senate, 1829-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1832, 1834; colonel in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836-38; President
of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S.
Minister to Costa Rica, 1858-59; Nicaragua, 1858-59. Member, Freemasons.
Died of a heart attack, near Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., December
19, 1859. Interment at Morton
Cemetery, Richmond, Tex. Lamar County,
Tex. is named for him.
- Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) — also known as
"The Little Magician"; "Old
Kinderhook"; "Red Fox of Kinderhook";
"Matty Van"; "American Talleyrand";
"Blue Whiskey Van" — of Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y. Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
5, 1782. Son of Abraham Van Buren and Maria Hoes (Van Alen) Van
Buren; married to the sister-in-law of Moses
I. Cantine; half-brother of James
Isaac Van Alen; married, February
21, 1807, to Hannah Hoes (died 1819); father of John
Van Buren. Lawyer; Columbia
County Surrogate, 1808-13; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1812-20; New York
state attorney general, 1815-19; appointed 1815; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1821-28; Governor of
New York, 1829; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1829-31; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1831-32; Vice
President of the United States, 1833-37; President
of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840 (Democratic), 1848
(Free Soil); candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry. Died, reportedly due to asthma,
but more likely some kind of heart failure, in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 24,
1862. Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y. Van Buren County,
Ark., Van
Buren County, Iowa, Van Buren County,
Mich. and Van Buren County,
Tenn. are named for him.
- Charles Sweetser (1808-1864) — of Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio. Born in Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt., 1808.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1849-53. Died of heart
disease, April 14,
1864. Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Delaware, Ohio.
- Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828-1866) — of Nicholas
County, Ky. Born near Flemingsburg, Fleming
County, Ky., February
22, 1828. Delegate
to Kentucky secession convention, 1861; Representative
from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65. Died
suddenly, of heart disease, at the Southern Hotel, New
York, New York
County, N.Y., December
15, 1866. Original interment at Linden
Grove Cemetery, Covington, Ky.; reinterment in 1917 at Highland
Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Ky.
- William Patterson (1790-1868) — of Ohio. Born in
Maryland, 1790.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1833-37. Died of heart
disease, in Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio, August
17, 1868. Interment at Mansfield
Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio.
- Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) — also known as
Andrew J. Donelson — of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn. Born August
25, 1799. Nephew of Andrew
Jackson. Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Charge d'Affaires to Texas Republic, 1844-45; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1846-49; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1856. Died, of a heart
attack, in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., June 26,
1871. Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
- Digby Valentine Bell (1804-1871) — also known as
Digby V. Bell — of Ada, Kent
County, Mich. Born in St.
Christopher, November
10, 1804. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Ionia District, 1840; member
of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1842-43; Michigan
land commissioner, 1844-46; Michigan
state auditor general, 1846-48; resigned 1848. Died, of
coronary thrombosis, in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., October
28, 1871. Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich.
- John White Geary (1819-1873) — also known as John
W. Geary — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland
County, Pa., December
30, 1819. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; candidate for Governor of
California, 1849; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1850-51; Governor of
Kansas Territory, 1856-57; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1867-73. Methodist.
Died after suffering a heart attack, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
8, 1873. Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa. Geary County,
Kan. is named for him.
- Charles H. Clark (d. 1873) — of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y. Lawyer; mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1858. Died, of heart disease, in
Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
20, 1873. Burial
location unknown.
- Rix Robinson (1789-1875) — also known as
"Wabesha" — of Michigan. Born in 1789.
Circuit
judge in Michigan, 1844; member of Michigan
state senate, 1846-49 (5th District 1846, 7th District 1847-49);
Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1848;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850. Indian trader
in the 1820s and 1830s; became a close associate of the Ottawa Indian
tribe, and a negotiator on its behalf; he married two Ottawa women,
and was also known by an Ottawa name, "Wabesha". Died, of "dropsy"
(probably congestive heart failure), Ada, Kent
County, Mich., January
13, 1875. Interment at Ada
Cemetery, Ada, Mich.
- Edward Kent (1802-1877) — of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine. Born January
8, 1802. Father of Edward
Kent, Jr.. Mayor of
Bangor, Maine, 1836-37; Governor of
Maine, 1838-39, 1841-42; defeated, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1841;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856
(Speaker);
justice
of Maine state supreme court, 1859-73. Died of heart
failure, May 19,
1877. Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
- Eugene T. Bell (d. 1880) — U.S. Consul General in Budapest, 1880. Died suddenly, of heart disease, in
Vienna, Austria,
1880.
Burial
location unknown.
- James Richard Slack (1818-1881) — also known as
J. R. Slack — of Huntington, Huntington
County, Ind. Born in Bucks
County, Pa., September
28, 1818. Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1854, 1880; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1856;
member of Indiana
state senate; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
circuit judge in Indiana, 1872-78. General Slack Park in Huntington,
Ind. is named for him. Died, of a heart attack, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 28,
1881. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Huntington, Ind.
- Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884) — also known as
Judah P. Benjamin; Philippe Benjamin; "Poo Bah
of the Confederacy" — of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; London, England;
Paris, France.
Born in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin
Islands, August 6,
1811. Son of Philip Benjamin and Rebecca (de Mendes) Benjamin;
cousin of Henry
Michael Hyams; married 1833 to Natalie
St. Martin. Lawyer;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1842-44; delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1845; Presidential
Elector for Louisiana, 1848;
U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1853-61; Confederate
Attorney General, 1861; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1861-62; Confederate
Secretary of State, 1862-65. Jewish.
His portrait appeared on the Confederate States two-dollar
note in 1861-64. He fled
to Europe in 1865 to avoid
arrest by Union forces; he was suspected of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln. Fell from a
tram
car about 1880, and suffered multiple injuries; also developed kidney and
heart problems, and died in Paris, France,
May 6,
1884. Interment at Père
la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
- Henry Perrin Coon (1822-1884) — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born in Columbia
County, N.Y., September
30, 1822. Physician;
state court judge in California, 1856-60; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1863-67. Presbyterian.
Died of heart failure in the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., December
4, 1884. Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
- Cornelius Kingsland Garrison (1809-1885) — of San
Fernando, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born near West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., March 1,
1809. Banker; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1853-54. Died, of a heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1885. Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks (1819-1885) — also known as
Thomas A. Hendricks — of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind. Born near Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, September
7, 1819. Nephew of Thomas
Hendricks and William
Hendricks; son of John
Hendricks; cousin of Abram
Hendricks, William
Hendricks, Jr. and Abram
W. Hendricks; first cousin of William
Chalmers Hendricks. Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1848-49; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1851-55 (5th District 1851-53, 6th
District 1853-55); defeated, 1854; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1863-69; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1868,
1876,
1884;
Governor
of Indiana, 1873-77; defeated, 1860, 1868; Vice
President of the United States, 1885; defeated, 1876; died in
office 1885. Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $10
silver certificate in about 1887-1914. Died, apparently from a
heart attack, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., November
25, 1885. Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
- B. F. Cheatham (1821-1886) — of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn. Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., 1821.
Married 1867
to Anna Robertson. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
candidate for mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1857; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; postmaster. Died, from heart disease, in
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
4, 1886. Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
- John Thompson Hoffman (1828-1888) — also known as
John T. Hoffman — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Sing Sing (now Ossining), Westchester
County, N.Y., January
10, 1828. Son of Adrian Kissam Hoffman (physician). Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1866-68; Governor of
New York, 1869-72; defeated, 1866. Died, from heart
disease, in Wiesbaden, Germany,
March
24, 1888. Interment at Dale
Cemetery, Ossining, N.Y.
- Jacob Barker Ham (c.1824-1888) — also known as
Jacob B. Ham — of Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine. Republican. Mayor
of Lewiston, Maine, 1863-64. Died, of heart failure, September
4, 1888. Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine.
- John Cardwell (1837-1890) — of Austin, Travis
County, Tex. Born in Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga., January
28, 1837. Married, January
6, 1860, to Margaret Dunlap. Newspaper
editor; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1885-89. Died, of heart disease, in Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., April 17,
1890. Burial
location unknown.
- Lewis Findlay Watson (1819-1890) — also known as
Lewis F. Watson — of Pennsylvania. Born in Crawford
County, Pa., April 14,
1819. Republican. Lumber
business; oil
producer; railroad
builder; banker; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 27th District, 1877-79, 1881-83,
1889-90; died in office 1890. Died, of heart disease, at the
Shoreham Hotel, Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1890. Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Warren, Pa.
- William Worth Belknap (1829-1890) — also known as
William W. Belknap — of Iowa. Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., September
22, 1829. Son of William Goldsmith Belknap (Mexican War general)
and Ann (Clark) Belknap; married to Cora LeRoy, Carrie Thompson and
Mrs. John Bower; father of Hugh
Reid Belknap. Lawyer;
member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1857-58; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869-76. Impeached
in 1876 by the House of Representatives for taking
bribes; resigned
on March 2, 1876. Despite arguments that the Senate lacked
jurisdiction after his resignation, an impeachment trial was
held; on August 1, the Senate voted 35 to 25 for his conviction,
short of the necessary two-thirds. Died, of an apparent heart
attack, in Washington,
D.C., October
13, 1890. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
- William Windom (1827-1891) — of Winona, Winona
County, Minn. Born in Belmont
County, Ohio, May 10,
1827. Republican. U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1859-69 (at-large 1859-63, 1st
District 1863-69); member of Republican
National Committee from Minnesota, 1866-68; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1870-71, 1871-81, 1881-83; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1880;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1881, 1889-91; died in office 1891. Quaker.
His portrait appeared on the U.S. $2
silver certificate in the 1890s. Died, from heart disease,
at the annual
banquet of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, just
after finishing a speech, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
29, 1891. Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) — also known as
P. T. Barnum; "Prince of Humbugs" — of
Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn. Born in Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 5,
1810. Son of Philo Barnum; third cousin once removed of William
Henry Barnum. Republican. Entrepreneur, impressario,
museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus,
known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1865-66, 1877-79; mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1875-76. Died, of heart failure, in
Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 7,
1891. Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Seaside
Park, Bridgeport, Conn.
- Daniel Azro Millington (1823-1891) — of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan. Born in Hubbardton, Rutland
County, Vt., May 16,
1823. Mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1875-76. Died of heart failure, in
Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., May 7,
1891. Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
- William Allen (c.1822-1891) — of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass. Born in Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine. Grandson of John Wheelock (president, Dartmouth
College); son of Rev. William Allen Allen (president, Bowdoin
College). Lawyer;
superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1872-81; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1881-91; died in office 1891.
Died, from neuralgia of the heart, in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 4,
1891. Burial
location unknown.
- James Daly (1843-1892) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Ireland,
1843.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 14th District, 1874-75, 1878;
member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1882-87. Died, of grippe
and heart failure, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 20,
1892. Burial
location unknown.
- Daniel A. Cony (1837-1892) — of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine. Born May 5,
1837. Son of Samuel
Cony; married to Mary Jones. Republican. Grain
merchant; banker; mayor of
Augusta, Maine, 1875. Died, from heart disease, in
Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, July 23,
1892. Burial
location unknown.
- James Sidney Hinton (1834-1892) — of Indianapolis,
Marion
County, Ind. Born near Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., December
25, 1834. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1872;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1881. Black.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows. First
black member of the Indiana legislature. Died of a heart
attack while making a speech,
in Brazil, Clay
County, Ind., November
6, 1892. Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
- William H. Wickham (1832-1893) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Smithtown, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 30,
1832. Son of Daniel H. Wickham and Ruth Wickham. Democrat. Ticket
agent for a steamship
company; diamond
dealer; president of New-York Fire Department, 1860; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1875-76; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1876.
Died, of heart disease and Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
13, 1893. Interment somewhere
in Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y.
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) — also known
as Rutherford B. Hayes; "Rutherfraud B.
Hayes"; "His Fraudulency" — of Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, October
4, 1822. Married, December
30, 1852, to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes; father of Webb
Cook Hayes. Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67; Governor of
Ohio, 1868-72, 1876-77; President
of the United States, 1877-81. Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows. Stricken by a heart attack at the railroad
station in Cleveland, Ohio, and died that night in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January
17, 1893. Original interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 at Spiegel
Grove, Fremont, Ohio. Hayes County,
Neb. is named for him.
- Robert D. McKune (c.1823-1894) — of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.; Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of Scranton, Pa., 1877. While attempting to quell a riot in 1877,
he was attacked,
and his skull was fractured. Died, of heart failure, in
Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., October
9, 1894. Interment somewhere
in Scranton, Pa.
- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass (1817-1895)
— also known as Frederick Douglass — of Rochester,
Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C. Born in slavery
in Maryland, 1817.
Republican. Presidential Elector for New York, 1872;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo, 1889-91; U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1889-91. Black.
Lecturer and advocate of the abolition of slavery, starting in 1841.
Publisher of The North Star, an abolitionist paper. In 1848,
he attended the meeting in Seneca Falls, N.Y., which started the
women's rights movement. Died, of a heart attack, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1895. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.; statue erected 1899 at Highland
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
- Henry Woltman (d. 1895) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1867, 1869.
"Right-hand man" to Tammany leader Richard
Croker. Died, from heart disease, in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1895. Burial
location unknown.
- Elisha Peyre Ferry (1825-1895) — also known as
Elisha P. Ferry — of Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill. Born in Monroe
County, Mich., August 9,
1825. Democrat. Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1852;
village
president of Waukegan, Illinois, 1856-57; mayor
of Waukegan, Ill., 1859; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Lake County, 1862;
Governor
of Washington Territory, 1872-80; Governor of
Washington, 1889-93. Died of pneumonia
and heart failure, October
14, 1895. Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash. Ferry County,
Wash. is named for him.
- Theodore Runyon (1822-1896) — of Newark, Essex
County, N.J. Born in Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J., October
25, 1822. Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1864;
mayor
of Newark, N.J., 1864-66; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1865; U.S. Minister to Germany, 1893; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1893-96, died in office 1896. French
Huguenot ancestry. Died, of heart failure, in Berlin, Germany,
January
27, 1896. Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
- Philip Jacob Arcularius Harper (1824-1896) — also
known as Philip J. A. Harper — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y. Born October
21, 1824. Son of James
Harper; married, June 30,
1846, to Harriet Mead (1825-1856); married, June 29,
1858, to Augusta M. Thorne (died 1911). Member of the firm Harper
and Brothers, publishers;
village
president of Hempstead, New York. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from heart and kidney
trouble, in Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y., March 6,
1896. Burial
location unknown.
- John J. McAfee (1836-1896) — of Kentucky. Born in Mercer
County, Ky., 1836.
Son-in-law of Humphrey
Marshall. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871-73. Died, of heart
trouble, Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., April 4,
1896. Interment at New
Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Near McAfee, Mercer
County, Ky.
- James Mitchell Ashley (1824-1896) — of Lucas
County, Ohio. Born near Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
14, 1824. Great-grandfather of Thomas
William Ludlow Ashley. Republican. Delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1856
(Speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1859-69 (5th District 1859-63, 10th
District 1863-69); defeated, 1868, 1890, 1892; Governor of
Montana Territory, 1869. Unitarian.
Died of a heart attack in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., September
16, 1896. Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
- William D. Aldrich (c.1851-1897) — of Warrensburg,
Warren
County, N.Y. Born in Thurman, Warren
County, N.Y. Son of Daniel Aldrich and Catherine Aldrich. Member
of New
York state assembly from Warren County, 1888. Died, of heart
failure, 1897.
Interment somewhere
in Warrensburg, N.Y.
- Charles H. Scribner (1826-1897) — of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio. Born in Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn., 1826.
Democrat. Delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Lucas County, 1873;
circuit judge in Ohio 6th Circuit, 1888-97; died in office 1897.
Died, of heart disease, in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, February
25, 1897. Burial
location unknown.
- Maurice Carey Blake (1815-1897) — also known as
Maurice C. Blake — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born in Otisville (unknown
county), Maine, October
20, 1815. Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 5th District, 1857-58; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1881-83; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1884.
Died, of a heart attack, in San
Francisco, Calif., September
26, 1897. Interment at Mt.
Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, Calif.
- William Daniel (c.1821-1897) — of Maryland. Born in
Deal Island, Somerset
County, Md. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1853-57; member of Maryland
state senate, 1857; delegate to
Maryland state constitutional convention, 1864; Prohibition
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1884. Died, of heart
disease, in Mt. Washington, Baltimore,
Md., October
13, 1897. Burial
location unknown.
- M. G. Troup (c.1841-1898) — of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan. Born in Ohio. Mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1881-82. Died, of heart disease, in
Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., February
6, 1898. Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin (1839-1898) — of Kansas
City, Jackson
County, Mo. Born near Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., 1839.
Father of Alfred
Franklin. Democrat. Member of Kansas
state senate, 1860; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 8th District, 1875-79; U.S. Consul
in Hankow, 1885-90; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1896-97. Episcopalian.
Died of heart disease, May 18,
1898. Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Phoenix, Ariz.
- Isaac Cox (c.1825-1898) — of Josephine
County, Ore.; Siskiyou
County, Calif. Born in Massachusetts. Member of Oregon state
legislature, 1864-68. Died, from heart disease in the Sonoma
County Hospital,
Sonoma
County, Calif., July 16,
1898. Burial
location unknown.
- Abraham Oakey Hall (1826-1898) — also known as A.
Oakey Hall; "Elegant Oakey" — of New York,
New
York County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 26,
1826. Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1869-72; indicted
and tried in
1871-73 on charges
of covering up corruption during his mayoralty; acquitted. Presbyterian;
later Catholic.
English,
Welsh,
and French
ancestry. Died, of heart disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1898. Entombed at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
- Jonathan Russell Bullock (1815-1899) — also known as
J. Russell Bullock — of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.; Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I. Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., September
6, 1815. Lawyer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1844-46; member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1859-60; Lieutenant
Governor of Rhode Island, 1860-61; justice of
Rhode Island state supreme court, 1862-64; U.S.
District Judge for Rhode Island, 1865-69; resigned 1869. Died, of
heart disease, in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., May 7,
1899. Interment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
- Amos L. Rollins (1826-1900) — of Alton, Belknap
County, N.H. Born in Alton, Belknap
County, N.H., December
11, 1826. Member of New
Hampshire state senate 4th District, 1895-96. Died, of heart
failure, in Alton, Belknap
County, N.H., February
22, 1900. Burial
location unknown.
- Elliot Newman Bowman (1826-1900) — also known as
Elliot N. Bowman — of Fountain
County, Ind. Born in Greene
County, Tenn., October
11, 1826. Son of John Bowman and Rebecca (Newman) Bowman;
married, May 23,
1866, to Harriet A. (Spinning) Jarvis (1838-1901). Democrat. Lawyer; merchant;
hotel
owner; Fountain
County Circuit Court Clerk, 1871-78; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1891; deputy auditor, U.S. Navy,
1893; Sixth Auditor, U.S. Treasury. Died, from a heart attack,
in Covington, Fountain
County, Ind., May 21,
1900. Interment at Prescott
Grove Cemetery, Covington, Ind.
- Lorenzo Dow Lewelling (1846-1900) — of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan. Born in Salem, Henry
County, Iowa, December
21, 1846. Candidate for secretary of
state of Kansas, 1886; Governor of
Kansas, 1893-95; member of Kansas
state senate, 1896. Died of heart disease in Arkansas
City, Cowley
County, Kan., September
3, 1900. Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Kan.
- Charles Albert Busiel (1842-1901) — also known as
Charles A. Busiel — of Laconia, Belknap
County, N.H. Born in Meredith, Belknap
County, N.H., November
24, 1842. Married 1864 to Eunice
Elizabeth Preston. Manufacturer;
president, Laconia National Bank and
City Savings Bank;
president, Lake Shore Railroad;
director, Concord & Montreal Railroad;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1878-79; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1880;
mayor
of Laconia, N.H., 1893-95; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1895-97. Died, about two weeks after the drowning
of his six-year-old grandson and namesake, of heart disease,
August
29, 1901. Entombed in mausoleum at Union
Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.
- Charles Bartlett Andrews (1834-1902) — also known as
Charles B. Andrews — of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn. Born in Sunderland, Franklin
County, Mass., November
4, 1834. Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state senate 15th District, 1868-69; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1878; Governor of
Connecticut, 1879-81; superior court judge in Connecticut,
1881-89; chief
justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1889-1901; resigned 1901;
delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1902. Died, from
heart disease, in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., September
12, 1902. Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
- Alfred Eliab Buck (1832-1902) — also known as
Alfred E. Buck; A. E. Buck — of Alabama; Atlanta,
Fulton
County, Ga. Born in Foxcroft (now part of Dover-Foxcroft), Piscataquis
County, Maine, February
7, 1832. Married 1864 to Ellen
B. Boker. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1868;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1869-71; Georgia
Republican state chair, 1896; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Georgia, 1896;
U.S. Minister to Japan, 1897. Died suddenly, from paralysis of the heart,
while on an imperial duck
shoot, near Tokyo, Japan,
December
4, 1902. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
- John Beard Allen (1845-1903) — also known as John
B. Allen — of Seattle, King
County, Wash. Born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind., May 18,
1845. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Washington, 1875-85; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1889; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1889-93. Died, from angina
pectoris, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., January
28, 1903. Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
- George Addison Whiting (1827-1903) — also known as
George A. Whiting — of California. Born in Holliston, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
20, 1827. Member of California
state assembly 12th District, 1871-73. Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows. Died, of heart disease, in Holliston, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
14, 1903. Interment at Lake
Grove Cemetery, Holliston, Mass.
- Frederic René Coudert (1832-1903) — also
known as Frederic R. Coudert — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 1,
1832. Son of Charles Coudert; married to Elizabeth McCredy;
grandfather of Frederic
René Coudert, Jr.. Democrat. Lawyer;
government director, 1885-88, and receiver, 1892-98, of Union Pacific
Railroad;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896.
Catholic.
French
ancestry. Died, from heart and liver
troubles, in Washington,
D.C., December
20, 1903. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
- William Darius Bishop (1827-1904) — also known as
William D. Bishop — of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn. Born in Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J., September
14, 1827. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1857-59; defeated,
1858, 1902; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1860;
member of Connecticut
state senate 10th District, 1866, 1877-78; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1871. Died, of chronic
endocarditis, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
4, 1904. Cremated; ashes
interred at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
- James Philip Eagle (1837-1904) — also known as
James P. Eagle — of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark. Born in Maury
County, Tenn., August
10, 1837. Son of James Eagle and Charity (Swaim) Eagle; married
1882 to Mary
Kavanaugh Oldham (1854-1903) (sister of William
Kavanaugh Oldham). Colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; minister; planter; delegate to
Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1874; Governor of
Arkansas, 1889-93. Baptist.
Died, of heart failure, December
20, 1904. Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
- William Alvord (1833-1904) — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
3, 1833. Mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1871-73. Died, of heart failure
due to bronchial
troubles, in San
Francisco, Calif., December
21, 1904. Burial
location unknown.
- Charles Eugene Bentley (1841-1905) — of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb. Born in Warners, Onondaga
County, N.Y., April 30,
1841. Baptist
minister; Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1896. Baptist.
Died, from a heart attack, in a lodging
house at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
4, 1905. Interment at Blue
Valley Cemetery, Surprise, Neb.
- Jacob Worth (1838-1905) — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1838.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly, 1864-66, 1868, 1873-76, 1878 (Kings County 7th
District 1864-66, Kings County 6th District 1868, 1873-76, 1878);
member of New York
state senate 4th District, 1886-89; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1900. Died, of a
heart attack, at the Eastman Hotel, Hot
Springs, Garland
County, Ark., February
21, 1905. Interment at The
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Patrick Henry McCarren (c.1850-1909) — also known as
Patrick H. McCarren; "Friend of the Sugar
Trust" — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in East Cambridge, Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass. Married to Kate Hogan (died 1883). Democrat. Cooper;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1882-83, 1889;
member of New York
state senate, 1890-93, 1896-1909 (4th District 1890-93, 7th
District 1896-1909); died in office 1909; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1904.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Political boss who dominated Brooklyn politics for twenty
years. Died, from intestinal
degeneration, complicated by appendicitis
and myocarditis, in St. Catherine's Hospital,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
23, 1909. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
- Eben Alexander (1851-1910) — of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C. Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., March 9,
1851. Grandson of Adam
Rankin Alexander; son of Judge Ebenezer Alexander and Margaret
White (McClung) Alexander; married, October
15, 1874, to Marion Smith. University
professor; U.S. Minister to Greece, 1893-97; Romania, 1893-97; Serbia, 1893-97; U.S. Consul General in Athens, 1893-97; Bucharest, 1893-97; Belgrade, 1893-97. Died suddenly of heart disease, in
Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., March 12,
1910. Interment at Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
- Edward T. Rose (1857-1910) — of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio. Born August 8,
1857. Lawyer; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1888-90, 1899-1902. Died, of a heart
condition, March 27,
1910. Burial
location unknown.
- Edward B. Pond (1833-1910) — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born in Belleville, Jefferson
County, N.Y., September
7, 1833. Democrat. Mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1887-91; candidate for Governor of
California, 1890. Unitarian.
Died, of a heart attack, in San
Francisco, Calif., April 22,
1910. Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
- Edward Theodore Bartlett (1841-1910) — also known as
Edward T. Bartlett — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y., June 14,
1841. Great-grandson of Josiah
Bartlett; son of Dr. Levi Bartlett (physician) and Harriette
Elizabeth (Hopkins) Bartlett. Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1891; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1894-1910; died in office 1910. French and
English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union
League. Died, of heart disease, in Albany Hospital,
Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 3,
1910. Interment somewhere
in Skaneateles, N.Y.
- Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859-1910) — also known as
Lloyd W. Bowers — of Winona, Winona
County, Minn. Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., March 9,
1859. Son of Samuel Dwight Bowers (born 1825) and Martha Wheaton
(Dowd) Bowers (born 1834); married, September
7, 1887, to Louisa Bennett Wilson (died 1897) (daughter of Thomas
Wilson); married 1906 to
Charlotte Josephine (Lewis) Watson; father of Martha Wheaton Bowers
(1889-1958) (who married Robert
Alphonso Taft). Lawyer;
general counsel, Chicago & North Western Railway,
1893-1909; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1909-10; died in office 1910. Member, Skull and
Bones. Died, from a heart attack, while suffering from bronchitis,
in the Touraine Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
9, 1910. Burial
location unknown.
- Edwin Ames Jaggard (1859-1911) — also known as
Edwin A. Jaggard — of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn. Born in Altoona, Blair
County, Pa., June 21,
1859. Son of Clement Jaggard and Annie Jane (Wright) Jaggard;
married 1890
to Anna May Averill (daughter of John
Thomas Averill). District judge in Minnesota 2nd District,
1899-1904; justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1905-11; died in office 1911.
Died, of heart failure, in Hamilton, Bermuda,
February
13, 1911. Burial
location unknown.
- Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833-1911) — also known as
Cornelius N. Bliss — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., January
26, 1833. Son of Asahel Newton Bliss and Irene Borden (Luther)
Bliss; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Bliss; married, March 30,
1859, to Elizabeth Mary Plummer (1837-1923); father of Cornelius
Newton Bliss, Jr.. Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; New York
Republican state chair, 1887-89; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1892-1904; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1897-99; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1900,
1904.
English
ancestry. Member, Union
League. Died, from heart disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
9, 1911. Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
- George Roland Malby (1857-1912) — also known as
George R. Malby — of Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y. Born in Canton, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., September
16, 1857. Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1891-95 (St. Lawrence County 1st District
1891-92, St. Lawrence County 1893-95); delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912;
U.S.
Representative from New York 26th District, 1907-12; died in
office 1912. Died, from heart disease, in his room at the
Murray Hill Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1912. Interment at Ogdensburg
Cemetery, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
- Alfred James Brown (1856-1913) — of Colorado. Born
in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., March 23,
1856. Physician;
member of Colorado state legislature. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias. Died, of heart failure, at his drugstore
in Higbee, Randolph
County, Mo., February
17, 1913. Interment at Eel
River Cemetery, Columbia City, Ind.
- William Jay Gaynor (1848-1913) — also known as
William J. Gaynor — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in Whitestown, Oneida
County, N.Y., 1848.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1894-1907; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1910-13; died in office 1913. Shot
in the throat by a James J. Gallagher, a former city employee, on
August 9, 1910. Died, from a heart attack, on board the steamship
Baltic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
10, 1913. Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Joseph William Craven (1854-1913) — also known as
Joseph W. Craven — of Norwood (now part of Norwood Young
America), Carver
County, Minn. Born in Milford, Penobscot
County, Maine, March 19,
1854. Uncle of Thomas
David Craven. Democrat. Member of Minnesota
state senate 37th District, 1891-93; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Minnesota, 1904;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1904, 1910. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Died, of apoplexy (stroke),
with contributory arteriosclerosis, in Norwood (now part of
Norwood Young America), Carver
County, Minn., December
21, 1913. Interment at Catholic
Church Cemetery, Norwood, Minn.
- George Morgan Thomas (1828-1914) — also known as
George M. Thomas — of Vanceburg, Lewis
County, Ky. Born near Poplar Flat, Lewis
County, Ky., November
23, 1828. Son of Elijah H. Thomas and Mary Arminta (Boggs)
Thomas. Republican. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1859-63, 1872-73; county judge in
Kentucky, 1868; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1871; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1874-80;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1881-85; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kentucky, 1884;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 9th District, 1887-89; defeated,
1870. Died, reportedly from angina pectoris, in Vanceburg, Lewis
County, Ky., January
7, 1914. Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Vanceburg, Ky.
- Fred A. Busse (1866-1914) — of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 3,
1866. Married 1908 to
Josephine Lee. Republican. Hardware
business; coal
dealer; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1895-98; member of Illinois
state senate, 1899-1900; Illinois
state treasurer, 1903-05; member of Illinois
Republican State Committee, 1905; postmaster; mayor of
Chicago, Ill., 1907-11; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1908;
member of Illinois
Republican State Central Committee, 1910. German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, from valvular heart disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 9,
1914. Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
- Arthur Orin Bement (1847-1915) — also known as
Arthur O. Bement — of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich. Born in Fostoria, Seneca
County, Ohio, May 22,
1847. Republican. Mayor of
Lansing, Mich., 1892-93. Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Grand
Army of the Republic. Founder, with his father, of the E. Bement
Sons implement and stove manufacturing
firm. Died, of heart trouble, in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., January
26, 1915. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
- George Madison Roberts (1830-1915) — also known as
George M. Roberts — of San Benito
County, Calif. Born in Mercer
County, Ky., June 11,
1830. Democrat. Member of California
state assembly 6th District, 1875-77. Member, Odd
Fellows. Died, of congestive heart failure, in San Jose,
Santa
Clara County, Calif., December
26, 1915. Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Hollister, Calif.
- Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
24, 1832. Grandson of George
Choate (1760?-?); son of George
Choate (1796-1880) and Margaret Manning (Hodges) Choate; nephew
of Rufus
Choate; brother of William
Gardner Choate; married, October
16, 1861, to Caroline Dutcher Sterling. Lawyer; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain, 1899-1905. English
ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American Bar
Association; Union
League. Died, of a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1917. Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
- Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917) — of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born in Washington
County, Ohio, February
10, 1837. Second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Alleyne Otis and Ralph
Chester Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison
Gray Otis (1765-1848) and Norton
Prentiss Otis; son of Sarah (Dyer) Otis (1789-1879) and Stephen
Otis (born 1784); second cousin of Oran
Gray Otis and David
Perry Otis; third cousin of Asa H.
Otis; fourth cousin of John
Otis, William
Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris
F. Otis and James
Otis; married, September
11, 1859, to Eliza A. Wetherby (died 1904); second cousin once
removed of Lauren
Ford Otis. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention
from Kentucky, 1860;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War. Died, from a rupture of the heart, in Hollywood, Los
Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 30,
1917. Burial
location unknown.
- John Joseph Adams (1848-1919) — also known as
John J. Adams — of New York. Born in Douglas Town, New
Brunswick, September
16, 1848. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1883-87 (8th District 1883-85, 7th
District 1885-87). Died suddenly, of heart disease (a year
after suffering a stroke of
paralysis), in the Ansonia Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
16, 1919. Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919) — also known as
"Viscount Astor" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 31,
1848. Son of John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890); married, June 6,
1878, to Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858-1894). Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1878; member
of New
York state senate 10th District, 1880-81; U.S. Minister to Italy, 1882-85; renounced his American citizenship and became a
British subject in 1899; became a Baron in 1916 and a Viscount in
1917; member of the British House of Lords. Heir to Astor family
fortune of about $100 million; moved to England in 1890 and became a
British subject. Died, of heart disease, in Brighton, England,
October
18, 1919. Cremated.
- Jacob H. Marks (1864-1920) — of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., 1864.
Republican. Member of Illinois
Republican State Central Committee, 1910. Jewish.
Member, Maccabees.
Died, of endocarditis, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 6,
1920. Interment at Ridgelawn
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
- Roger C. Sullivan (1861-1920) — of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Belvidere, Boone
County, Ill., February
3, 1861. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Illinois, 1904,
1912,
1916;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914. Died, of heart failure, in
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 14,
1920. Interment at Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, Riverside, Ill.
- Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) — also known as
Theodore N. Vail — of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt. Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845. First cousin of George
Vail; son of Davis Vail and Phebe (Quinby) Vail; married, August 3,
1869, to Emma Louisa Righter (1844-1905); married, July 27,
1907, to Mabel Rutledge Sanderson (died 1950). Republican.
General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service, 1876-79;
president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union
League. Died, from kidney and
cardiac complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April 16,
1920. Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
- August Henry Bolte (1854-1920) — also known as
August H. Bolte — of Franklin
County, Mo. Born September
23, 1854. Democrat. Lawyer; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1897-1901. German
ancestry. Died, from valvular heart disease and nephritis,
in St.
Louis, Mo., June 24,
1920. Interment somewhere
in Washington, Mo.
- Franklin Knight Lane (1864-1921) — of San
Francisco, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born near Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, July 15,
1864. Son of Dr. C. S. Lane and C. W. H. Lane; married, April 11,
1893, to Anne Wintermute. Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
candidate for Governor of
California, 1902; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1906-13; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1913-20. Died, of a heart
attack 12 days after appendicitis
surgery, at the Mayo Hospital,
Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., May 18,
1921. Cremated.
- George Washington Stone (1849-1921) — also known as
George W. Stone — of Michigan. Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., August
27, 1849. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Michigan
state auditor general, 1891-92. Died of a heart attack
while playing the drum in an Armistice Day parade,
in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., November
11, 1921. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
- James Alfred Emerson (1865-1922) — also known as
James A. Emerson — of Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y. Born in Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y., April 25,
1865. Son of Albert Emerson; brother of Louis
Woodard Emerson. Republican. Lumber
business; clothing
manufacturer; steamboat
business; hotel
owner; banker;
member of New York
state senate, 1907-18 (32nd District 1907-08, 33rd District
1909-18); as an opponent of alcohol prohibition in 1918, he was
called "wringing wet" (in contrast to prohibition advocates, who were
"desert dry"). Became ill, from heart disease and gastritis,
while on
board the steamship Porto Rico, and died soon after, in
Long Island Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
31, 1922. Interment at Warrensburg
Cemetery, Warrensburg, N.Y.
- George Washington Aldridge (1856-1922) — also known
as George W. Aldridge — of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y. Born in Michigan City, LaPorte
County, Ind., December
28, 1856. Married to Mary Mack (c.1855-1935). Republican. Manufacturer;
mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1894; New York State Superintendent of Public
Works, 1895-99; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1910; U.S. Collector of Customs for
New York, N.Y., 1921-22; died in office 1922. Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias. Died suddenly, from heart attack or stroke,
while golfing at
the Biltmore Country Club, near Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 13,
1922. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
- Garret James Garretson (1847-1922) — also known as
Garret J. Garretson — of Newtown, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Elmhurst, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y. Born in Newtown, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., 1847.
Married 1876
to Eliza L. Eastman (died 1888); married 1897 to Sara
Wilson. Republican. Queens
County School Commissioner, 1873-75; Queens
County Surrogate, 1880; Queens
County Judge, 1886-96; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1897-1913. Died, from a
heart attack, in Amagansett, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 9,
1922. Burial
location unknown.
- Claude B. Terrell (1871-1922) — of Bedford, Trimble
County, Ky. Born in Trimble
County, Ky., 1871.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1904,
1912;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives. Died, of heart disease, in
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 18,
1922. Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Trimble County, Ky.
- Edgar Backus Schermerhorn (1851-1923) — also known
as Edgar B. Schermerhorn — of Galena, Cherokee
County, Kan. Born in Channahon, Will
County, Ill., November
19, 1851. Founder, city of Galena; organizer, Citizens Bank of
Galena; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1903-05; Chairman, Kansas Board
of Control, 1905-11. Episcopalian.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Ancient
Order of United Workmen. Schermerhorn Park (land he donated) is
named
for him. Died, of heart failure, in Galena, Cherokee
County, Kan., February
1, 1923. Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Joplin, Mo.
- John M. C. Smith (1853-1923) — of Charlotte, Eaton
County, Mich. Born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), February
6, 1853. Married 1887 to Lena
Parkhurst. Republican. Lawyer; Eaton County
Prosecuting Attorney, 1885-88; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 15th District,
1907-08; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1911-21, 1921-23; died
in office 1923. Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Died, of heart disease, in Charlotte, Eaton
County, Mich., March 30,
1923. Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Charlotte, Mich.
- Michael H. Kiley (1861-1923) — of Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y. Born in Horicon, Warren
County, N.Y., August
28, 1861. Republican. Lawyer; Madison
County District Attorney, 1899; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 6th District, 1913-23; died in office
1923. Died, of heart disease, in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., May 19,
1923. Burial
location unknown.
- Francis Elisha Baker (1860-1924) — of Goshen, Elkhart
County, Ind. Born in Goshen, Elkhart
County, Ind., October
20, 1860. Son of John
Harris Baker and Harriet (Defrees) Baker; nephew of Lucien
Baker; married, February
21, 1888, to May Irwin. Lawyer; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1899-1902; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1902-24; died in
office 1924. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa. Died, from endocarditis, March 15,
1924. Interment somewhere
in Goshen, Ind.
- Marcus Aurelius Smith (1851-1924) — also known as
Marcus A. Smith; Mark A. Smith — of Tombstone, Cochise
County, Ariz.; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz. Born near Cynthiana, Harrison
County, Ky., January
24, 1851. Democrat. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1887-95, 1897-99,
1901-03, 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1912-21; defeated, 1920. Died, from
heart disease, in his hotel room
at Washington,
D.C., April 7,
1924. Interment at Battle
Grove Cemetery, Cynthiana, Ky.
- Henry C. Schock (1858-1924) — of Mount Joy, Lancaster
County, Pa. Born November
19, 1858. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920.
Died, from a heart attack, in Mount Joy, Lancaster
County, Pa., September
29, 1924. Interment at Mount
Joy Cemetery, Mount Joy, Pa.
- Leopold David (1878-1924) — of Anchorage,
Alaska. Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1920-23; trustee, Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines (now University of Alaska), 1923-25. Jewish.
Died, of heart failure, November
21, 1924. Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
- Theodore Frank Appleby (1864-1924) — also known as
T. Frank Appleby — of Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J. Born in Old Bridge, Middlesex
County, N.J., October
10, 1864. Son of Theodore Frelinguysen Appleby and Margaret
Susanna (Mount) Appleby; married, April 10,
1889, to Alice C. Hoffman; father of Stewart
Hoffman Appleby. Republican. Real
estate and insurance
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1896;
mayor
of Asbury Park, N.J., 1908-12; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of heart trouble, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., December
15, 1924. Interment at Chestnut
Hill Cemetery, Old Bridge, N.J.
- James Edwin Campbell (1843-1924) — also known as
James E. Campbell — of Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio. Born in Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio, July 7,
1843. Nephew of Lewis
Davis Campbell. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1884-89 (7th District 1884-85, 3rd
District 1885-87, 7th District 1887-89); defeated, 1906; Governor of
Ohio, 1890-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1912,
1924.
Died, of chronic myocarditis, in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, December
17, 1924. Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
- Ben Franklin Caldwell (1848-1924) — of Chatham, Sangamon
County, Ill. Born near Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill., August 2,
1848. Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1882-86; member of Illinois
state senate, 1890-94; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1899-1905, 1907-09 (17th District
1899-1903, 21st District 1903-05, 1907-09); defeated, 1904; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1912.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of miocarditis, in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
29, 1924. Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
- Charles Francis Craver (1842-1925) — of Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Harvey, Cook
County, Ill.; Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla. Born in Franklinville, Gloucester
County, N.J., September
3, 1842. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Iowa
state house of representatives, 1876. Methodist.
One of the founders of Craver & Steele, farm equipment manufacturers;
invented
the first
successful twelve-foot binder for cutting and binding small grain;
later, he was an oil producer
based in Oklahoma. Died, of heart trouble, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., May 12,
1925. Interment at Rose
Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Okla.
- Nelson Appleton Miles (1839-1925) — also known as
Nelson A. Miles — Born in Westminster, Worcester
County, Mass., August 8,
1839. Nephew by marriage of William
Tecumseh Sherman and John
Sherman; married 1868 to Mary
Hoyt Sherman. Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil
War; received the Medal
of Honor in 1892 for action at the battle of Chancellorsville,
1863; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1904.
Suffered a heart attack and died, while attending a circus,
in Washington,
D.C., May 15,
1925. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
- Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925) — also known as
Thomas R. Marshall — of Columbia City, Whitley
County, Ind. Born in North Manchester, Wabash
County, Ind., March 14,
1854. Son of Daniel M. Marshall and Martha A. (Patterson)
Marshall; married, October
2, 1895, to Lois Irene Kimsey and Lois
Irene Kimsey (1873-1958). Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Indiana, 1909-13; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1912;
Vice
President of the United States, 1913-21. Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Gamma Delta. Coined the saying: "What this country needs is a
good five-cent cigar.". Died, from the effects of a heart
attack, in his room at the Willard Hotel, Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1925. Entombed at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
- Robert Marion LaFollette (1855-1925) — also known as
Robert M. LaFollette; "Fighting Bob";
"Battling Bob" — of Madison, Dane
County, Wis. Born in Primrose, Dane
County, Wis., June 14,
1855. Son of Josiah LaFollette and Mary (Furgeson) LaFollette;
married, December
31, 1881, to Belle Case (first woman to graduate from the
University of Wisconsin law school); father of Robert
Marion LaFollette, Jr. and Philip
Fox LaFollette; grandfather of Bronson
Cutting LaFollette. Lawyer; Dane County
District Attorney, 1880-84; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1885-91; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1896,
1904;
Governor
of Wisconsin, 1901-06; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1906-25; died in office 1925; candidate
for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916;
Progressive candidate for President
of the United States, 1924. French
ancestry. Died of heart disease complicated by asthma and
pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., June 18,
1925. Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
- John A. McCurdy (1841-1925) — of Ohio. Born in
Staunton Township, Miami
County, Ohio, March 26,
1841. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1897. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Junior
Order. Died, of cardiac decompensation, in Troy, Miami
County, Ohio, August
26, 1925. Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Troy, Ohio.
- Julius M. Mayer (1865-1925) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
5, 1865. Son of J. Daniel Mayer and Fannie M. (Marshuetz) Mayer.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908;
New
York state attorney general, 1905-06; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1912-21; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1921-24. Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from heart disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1925. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
- Benjamin Britton Chandler (1854-1925) — of Henry, Williamsburg
County, S.C. Born in South Carolina, November
7, 1854. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1924-25; died in office
1925. Suffered a heart attack, and died soon after, at Henry,
Williamsburg
County, S.C., December
13, 1925. Interment at Union
United Methodist Church Cemetery, Near Hemingway, Georgetown
County, S.C.
- Martin Behrman (1864-1926) — of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
14, 1864. Democrat. Delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898, 1921; Louisiana
state auditor, 1904-05; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1904-20, 1925-26; defeated, 1920; died in
office 1926; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1912,
1924;
Louisiana
Democratic state chair, 1925. Died, of heart disease, in
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
12, 1926. Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
- Charles Roswell Henry (1856-1926) — also known as
Charles R. Henry — of Au Sable, Iosco
County, Mich.; Alpena, Alpena
County, Mich. Born in Lake Ridge, Macon Township, Lenawee
County, Mich., December
29, 1856. Father of Carl R.
Henry. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate 29th District, 1885. Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of apoplexy (cerebral
hemorrhage), after a period of heart trouble, in Alpena,
Alpena
County, Mich., February
26, 1926. Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Alpena, Mich.
- Alton Brooks Parker (1852-1926) — also known as
Alton B. Parker — of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.; Esopus, Ulster
County, N.Y. Born near Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y., May 14,
1852. Son of John Brooks Parker and Harriet F. (Stratton) Parker;
married, October
16, 1873, to Mary Louise Schoonmaker (died 1917); married, January
16, 1923, to Amelia Day Campbell. Democrat. Lawyer; Ulster
County Surrogate, 1877-85; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1884,
1908,
1912;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 3rd District, 1885-97; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1897-1904; resigned 1904;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1904; law partner of William
F. Sheehan and Edward
W. Hatch, 1905-12. Member, American Bar
Association. Died, from heart disease, while riding in his
automobile through Central Park, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 10,
1926. Interment at Wiltwyck
Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y.
- Albert Baird Cummins (1850-1926) — also known as
Albert B. Cummins — of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa. Born near Carmichaels, Greene
County, Pa., February
15, 1850. Son of Thomas Layton Cummins and Sarah (Baird) Cummins;
married, June 24,
1874, to Ida L. Gallery. Republican. Lawyer;
member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1888; member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1896-1900; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Iowa, 1896,
1924;
Governor
of Iowa, 1902-08; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1908-26; died in office 1926; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Congregationalist.
Died of a heart attack, in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, July 30,
1926. Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
- Robert Wodrow Archbald (1848-1926) — also known as
Robert W. Archbald — of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa. Born in Carbondale, Lackawanna
County, Pa., September
10, 1848. Son of James Archbald and Augusta (Frothingham)
Archbald; married, January
21, 1875, to Elizabeth B. Cannon. Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1884-88; district judge in
Pennsylvania, 1888-1901; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1901-11;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1911-13; removed
1913. Impeached
by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1912 on conflict
of interest charges; convicted
(removed
from office) by the U.S. Senate on four articles of impeachment.
Died, from a heart attack, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
19, 1926. Burial
location unknown.
- Walter Husted Jaycox (1863-1927) — also known as
Walter H. Jaycox — of Patchogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Wassaic, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
3, 1863. Son of Lorin R. Jaycox and Hannah A. (Darling) Jaycox;
married, December
3, 1890, to Inez Leaming. Republican. Lawyer; Suffolk
County District Attorney, 1893-99; Suffolk
County Judge, 1902-05; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1905-27; appointed 1905;
died in office 1927; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1921-27; died in office 1927.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Sons of
the Revolution. Died, of heart disease, en route to his
home, in
the automobile of Justice Leander
B. Faber, in Hempstead, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
3, 1927. Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Patchogue, Long Island, N.Y.
- William Joseph Fallon (1886-1927) — also known as
William J. Fallon; "The Great Mouthpiece";
"Broadway's Cicero" — of Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1886.
Son of Joseph M. Fallon; married to Agnes Rafter. Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1918; charged
in 1924 with bribing
a juror;
tried
and acquitted. Died, of heart disease, in the Hotel
Oxford, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 29,
1927. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
- Herbert Wolcott Bowen (1856-1927) — also known as
Herbert W. Bowen — of New York; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1856. Son of Henry Chandler Bowen and Lucy Maria (Tappan)
Bowen; married, January
25, 1902, to Carolyn Mae Clegg; brother of Grace Aspinwall Bowen
(who married Arthur
Sherburne Hardy). Lawyer; U.S.
Consul in Barcelona, 1890-95; U.S. Consul General in Barcelona, 1895-98; last American official to leave Spain
before the Spanish American War; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1899-1901; Venezuela, 1901-05. English
ancestry. Died, of heart disease, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., May 29,
1927. Burial
location unknown.
- Joseph Blanchard LaChapelle (1860-1927) — of
Ashland, Saunders
County, Neb. Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., December
30, 1860. Member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1927. Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias. Died, of heart trouble, in Ashland, Saunders
County, Neb., September
6, 1927. Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Glenwood, Iowa.
- George W. Baker (1863-1928) — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
12, 1863. Son of George Baker and Sarah (Randell) Baker; married
to Isabel C. Huggins. Republican. Shoe
manufacturer; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1921. Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from heart disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
20, 1928. Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- William Nash Everett (1864-1928) — of North
Carolina. Born in Rockingham, Richmond
County, N.C., December
29, 1864. Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1917; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1919; secretary of
state of North Carolina, 1923-28; died in office 1928. Died of a
heart attack in his room at the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel,
Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
7, 1928. Interment at Everett
Cemetery, Rockingham, N.C.
- James Ambrose Gallivan (1866-1928) — also known as
James A. Gallivan — of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
22, 1866. Son of James S. Gallivan and Mary (Flynn) Gallivan;
married to Louise A. Burke. Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives; member of Massachusetts
state senate; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 12th District, 1914-28; died in
office 1928; candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1917. Staunch opponent of alcohol prohibition.
Died, from heart disease, in Ring Hospital,
Arlington, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 3,
1928. Interment at Holyhood
Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
- James Harrison Oliver (1857-1928) — also known as
J. H. Oliver — of Charles
City County, Va. Born in Houston
County, Ga., 1857.
As a naval commander, he was arrested
and court-martialed
over his
role in a 1904 collision in Delaware Bay; acquitted and
reinstated; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands. Died, of heart disease, in Charles City
County, Va., April 6,
1928. Burial
location unknown.
- John Alden Dix (1860-1928) — also known as John
A. Dix — of Thomson, Washington
County, N.Y.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif. Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., December
25, 1860. Nephew of John
Adams Dix; son of James Lawton Dix and Laura (Stevens) Dix;
married 1889
to Gertrude Thomson. Democrat. Banker; lumber
business; paper
manufacturer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1904,
1912;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1908; New York
Democratic state chair, 1910; Governor of
New York, 1911-12. Died, from heart disease, in Harbor Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1928. Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
- William J. Behan (1840-1928) — of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La. Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1840. Son of John Holland Behan and Katherine Behan; married,
June
7, 1866, to Kate Walker; father of Louis
Joseph Behan. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; merchant;
manufacturer;
grocery
business; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1882-84; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1896;
Louisiana
Republican state chair, 1900-12; Republican candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1904. Irish
ancestry. Member, United
Confederate Veterans. Died, from a heart attack, in New
Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 4,
1928. Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
- Tirey L. Ford (1857-1928) — also known as T. L.
Ford — of California. Born in Monroe
County, Mo., 1857.
California
state attorney general, 1899-1902. Charged
with offering a
bribe; tried and
acquitted in 1907. Died, of a heart attack, in San
Francisco, Calif., June 26,
1928. Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
- George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864-1928) — also
known as George Harvey — of Deal, Monmouth
County, N.J. Born in Peacham, Caledonia
County, Vt., February
16, 1864. Son of Duncan Harvey and Margaret S. (Varnum) Harvey;
married, October
13, 1887, to Alma A. Parker. Newspaper
reporter; New Jersey Insurance Commissioner, 1890-91; builder and
president of electric
railroads, 1894-98; editor and
publisher, North American Review and Harper's
Weekly; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23. Died, from a heart attack and asthma, in
Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., August
20, 1928. Interment at Peacham
Cemetery, Peacham, Vt.
- Robert Lansing (1864-1928) — of Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y. Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., October
17, 1864. Son of John Lansing and Maria L. (Dodge) Lansing;
married, January
15, 1890, to Eleanor Foster (daughter of John
Watson Foster). Lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1915-20. Member, American
Political Science Association; Psi
Upsilon. Died, of myocarditis, in Washington,
D.C., October
30, 1928. Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
- Sanford W. Smith (1869-1929) — of Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y. Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., August
19, 1869, reportedly in the same house where President Martin
Van Buren was born in 1782. Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1901; member of New York
state senate, 1906-08 (24th District 1906, 25th District
1907-08); Judge of New York Court of Claims, 1918-27; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1924;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 3rd District, 1928; appointed 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias. Died, of a heart attack, in Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y., January
24, 1929. Interment at Chatham
Cemetery, Chatham, N.Y.
- Walter Roscoe Stubbs (1858-1929) — also known as
W. R. Stubbs — of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan. Born near Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., November
7, 1858. Son of John T. Stubbs and Esther (Bailey) Stubbs;
married 1886
to Stella Hostettler. Republican. Rancher;
member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1903-07; Speaker of
the Kansas State House of Representatives, 1905-06; Kansas
Republican state chair, 1904-08; Governor of
Kansas, 1909-13; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1912. Quaker.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, after a short illness and some heart trouble, in Topeka,
Shawnee
County, Kan., March 25,
1929. Interment at Lawrence
Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
- Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929) — also known as
Myron T. Herrick — of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. Born in Huntington, Lorain
County, Ohio, October
9, 1854. Son of Timothy R. Herrick and Mary L. Herrick; married,
June
30, 1880, to Carolyn M. Parmely (died 1918). Republican. Lawyer; banker;
secretary-treasurer and president, Society for Savings,
Cleveland; director and board chairman of railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1888,
1892,
1896,
1904,
1908,
1920;
Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1892;
member of Republican
National Committee from Ohio, 1901; Governor of
Ohio, 1904-06; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1912-14, 1921-29, died in office 1929; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1916. Member, American
Bankers Association. Died of a heart attack in Paris, France,
March
31, 1929. Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
- W. B. Phillips (1860-1929) — of Mt. Vernon, Jefferson
County, Ill. Born in Franklin
County, Ill., February
5, 1860. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives 56th District, 1919-29; died in
office 1929. Member, Woodmen;
Knights
of Pythias. Died of a heart attack, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson
County, Ill., April 19,
1929. Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Ill.
- John Franklin Alexander Strong (1856-1929) — also
known as J. F. A. Strong — of Iditarod, Yukon-Koyukuk
census area, Alaska. Born in Salmon Center, New
Brunswick, October
15, 1856. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alaska Territory, 1912;
Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1913-18. Died of a heart attack, in
Seattle, King
County, Wash., July 27,
1929. Cremated.
- John W. Bailey (1859-1929) — of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich. Born in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., 1859.
Democrat. Mayor
of Battle Creek, Mich., 1890, 1909-11, 1913-15, 1927-29; died in
office 1929; member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1917-19; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1918; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1920,
1924
(alternate), 1928;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1928. Died, from heart disease, in
Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., August 9,
1929. Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich.
- Charles Howard Thomas (1870-1929) — also known as
Charles H. Thomas — of Hastings, Barry
County, Mich. Born in Yankee Springs Township, Barry
County, Mich., 1870.
Lawyer;
Barry
County Prosecuting Attorney; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 15th District,
1907-08. Member, Maccabees.
Died, of stomach
cancer and heart problems, in Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich., November
20, 1929. Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hastings, Mich.
- Maurice Bloch (c.1891-1929) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y. Married 1923 to
Madelaine Neuberger. Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1915-29 (New York County 22nd District 1915-17,
New York County 16th District 1918-29); died in office 1929; campaign
manager for U.S. Senator Robert
F. Wagner, 1926. Jewish.
Member, Elks; B'nai
B'rith; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Tammany
Hall. Died, from an embolus of the heart, following a appendicitis
surgery, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
5, 1929. Interment at Cypress
Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Herbert Bronson Shonk (1881-1930) — also known as
Herbert B. Shonk — of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in Plymouth, Luzerne
County, Pa., October
28, 1881. Son of George
Washington Shonk; married 1907 to
Gertrude Knight (daughter of Erastus
Cole Knight). Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1923-30;
died in office 1930. Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa. Died, following a heart attack, in White
Plains Hospital,
White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., 1930.
Interment at St.
James the Less Cemetery, Scarsdale, N.Y.
- Martin J. Cavanaugh (1866-1930) — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich. Born in Manchester Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., July 23,
1866. Son of Mathew Cavanaugh (died 1891) and Mary (Dealy)
Cavanaugh; married, November
6, 1889, to Mary C. Seery; brother of Thomas
J. Cavanaugh. Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of William
W. Wedemeyer, and later George
J. Burke; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 22nd Circuit, 1899; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 10th District,
1907-08; candidate for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1909. Irish
ancestry. Died, from a coronary occlusion, January
23, 1930. Burial
location unknown.
- John Beal Smith (1846-1930) — of Texas. Born in
Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga., March 28,
1846. Son of John
Titus Smith. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Texas state legislature, 1911. Presbyterian.
Died, of valvular heart disease, February
8, 1930. Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Crockett, Tex.
- James Peter Glynn (1867-1930) — also known as
James P. Glynn — of Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn. Born in Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
12, 1867. Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1915-23, 1925-30;
defeated, 1922; died in office 1930. While traveling back to
Washington from the funeral of Rep. J. A.
Hughes in Huntington, W.Va., suffered a heart attack in
the smoking car on the
train, and died, near Brandy Station, Culpeper
County, Va., March 6,
1930. Interment at New St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Winsted, Conn.
- Clinton J. Sharrett (c.1877-1930) — of Port
Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y. Republican. Chair of
Richmond County Republican Party, 1923-30; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1928.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of heart disease, Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., March 6,
1930. Burial
location unknown.
- D. Harry Ralston (1863-1930) — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in Baltimore,
Md., January
22, 1863. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1904
(alternate), 1908
(alternate), 1924;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 1st District, 1907. Member, Elks. Died,
from a heart ailment and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 4,
1930. Burial
location unknown.
- J. E. T. Bowden (c.1857-1930) — of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla. Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C. Democrat. Promoter of the Corbett-Mitchell boxing
match in Jacksonville, January 25, 1894; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1899-1901, 1915-17; taxicab
owner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,
1904,
1908,
1916,
1920,
1924.
Died, of a heart attack, in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., November
19, 1930. Burial
location unknown.
- William Philip Boland (1863-1931) — also known as
William P. Boland — of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa. Born in County Sligo, Ireland,
January
6, 1863. Brother of Christopher
G. Boland; first cousin of Patrick
Joseph Boland. Progressive. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1924. Catholic.
Member, Elks. Died,
of a heart condition, at Clara Barton Hospital,
Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
27, 1931. Interment at St.
Catherine's Cemetery, Moscow, Pa.
- Bird J. Vincent (1880-1931) — of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich. Born in Brandon Township, Oakland
County, Mich., March 6,
1880. Married to L. Maud Hinds. Republican. Saginaw
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 8th District, 1923-31; died in
office 1931. Died, from heart disease, aboard
ship, the naval transport Henderson en route from Hawaii
to San Francisco, in the North
Pacific Ocean, July 18,
1931. Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.
- Cornelius T. Driscoll (c.1845-1931) — of New Haven,
New
Haven County, Conn. Mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1899-1901. Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus. One of the founders of the Knights of Columbus.
Died, from heart disease, in Milford, New Haven
County, Conn., August
15, 1931. Burial
location unknown.
- Silas E. Hedges (1847-1931) — of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio. Born in Ohio, September
26, 1847. Mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1907-10. Died, of a heart attack, September
11, 1931. Burial
location unknown.
- Peter Joseph Dooling (1857-1931) — also known as
Peter J. Dooling — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
15, 1857. Father of James
J. Dooling. Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state senate 16th District, 1903-05; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1913-21 (16th District 1913-19,
15th District 1919-21); defeated, 1920; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930. Member, Tammany
Hall. Died, from arteriosclerosis, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
18, 1931. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (1871-1931) — also known
as Thaddeus H. Caraway — of Jonesboro, Craighead
County, Ark. Born in Stoddard
County, Mo., October
17, 1871. Son of Dr. Tolbert F. Caraway and Mary Ellen (Scales)
Caraway; married, February
5, 1902, to Hattie
Ophelia Wyatt. Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1912,
1924
(member, Platform
Committee); U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1913-21; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1921-31; died in office 1931. Member, Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American Bar
Association. Died, from heart disease, in a hospital
at Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., November
6, 1931. Interment at West
Lawn Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark.
- Fred Prehn (1860-1932) — of Marathon City, Marathon
County, Wis. Born in Manitowoc
County, Wis., May 5,
1860. Father of Arthur
William Prehn. Republican. Merchant;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1905-07. Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Died, from heart disease, in Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis., 1932.
Interment at St.
Mathew's Lutheran Cemetery, Marathon City, Wis.
- Moses Alexander (1853-1932) — of Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo.; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho. Born in Germany,
November
13, 1853. Son of Nathan Alexander and Emma Alexander; married, December
4, 1876, to Helena Keastner. Democrat. Clothing
merchant; mayor
of Chillicothe, Mo., 1887; mayor of
Boise, Idaho, 1897-99, 1901-03; Governor of
Idaho, 1915-19; defeated, 1908; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Idaho, 1924.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
B'nai
B'rith. Died, of a heart attack, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, January
4, 1932. Interment at Morris
Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
- Samuel Arthur Beardsley (1856-1932) — also known as
Samuel A. Beardsley — of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
1, 1856. Son of Arthur Moore Beardsley and Louise Howland (Adams)
Beardsley; married, September
14, 1881, to Elizabeth Ann Hopper (died 1916); married 1927 to Lillian
Valérie Ella Walpole-Moore. Democrat. Lawyer;
incorporated New York Gas, Electric
Light, Heat & Power Co., which later became the New York Edison
Co.; director of several other utilities;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1889-92; secretary of
New York Democratic Party, 1889-92; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Redmen.
Died, from a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 28,
1932. Burial
location unknown.
- George Moultrie Napier (1863-1932) — also known as
George M. Napier — of Monroe, Walton
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga. Born in Lafayette, Walker
County, Ga., March 28,
1863. Son of Nathan Campbell Napier and Julia Louise (Sharpe)
Napier; married, December
16, 1905, to Frances Nunnally. Democrat. Lawyer; Georgia
state attorney general, 1921-32; died in office 1932. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of a heart attack, in Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga., May 4,
1932. Interment at Rest
Haven Cemetery, Monroe, Ga.
- Oramel Hinckley Simpson (1870-1932) — of Louisiana.
Born in Washington, St. Landry
Parish, La., March 20,
1870. Son of Samuel F. Simpson and Mary Esther (Beer) Simpson;
married 1899
to Louise E. Pichet (1874-1944). Democrat. Lawyer; Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana, 1924-26; Governor of
Louisiana, 1926-28; defeated in primary, 1928. Methodist.
Died, from a heart seizure, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., November
17, 1932. Entombed at Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
- Alfred Gaither Allen (1867-1932) — also known as
Alfred G. Allen — of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio. Born near Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio, July 23,
1867. Son of Isaac B. Allen and Eliza W. (Gaither) Allen;
married, December
10, 1901, to Clara B. Forbes. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1911-17; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1920.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Elks. Died
of angina pectoris, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
9, 1932. Interment at Sugar
Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio.
- John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) — also known as
Calvin Coolidge; "Silent Cal";
"Cautious Cal" — of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass. Born in Plymouth, Windsor
County, Vt., July 4,
1872. Cousin of William
Wallace Stickney; married, October
4, 1905, to Grace Anna Goodhue (1879-1957); fourth cousin of Richard
B. Coolidge and Arthur
William Coolidge; father of John Coolidge (son-in-law of John
Harper Trumbull). Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907; mayor
of Northampton, Mass., 1910-11; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1912-15; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1916-19; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1919-21; Vice
President of the United States, 1921-23; President
of the United States, 1923-29. Congregationalist.
English
ancestry. Died of coronary thrombosis in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
5, 1933. Interment at Plymouth
Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Vt.
- John L. Miller (c.1863-1933) — of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y. Born in Woodhull, Steuben
County, N.Y. Republican. Mayor of
Corning, N.Y., 1903-04, 1930-33; died in office 1933; member of
New
York state assembly from Steuben County 1st District, 1909-10.
Died, from a heart ailment, in Sayre, Bradford
County, Pa., January
6, 1933. Burial
location unknown.
- Robert Reyburn Butler (1881-1933) — also known as
Robert R. Butler — of Condon, Gilliam
County, Ore.; The Dalles, Wasco
County, Ore. Born in Butler, Johnson
County, Tenn., September
24, 1881. Grandson of Roderick
Randum Butler. Republican. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Oregon, 1908,
1916;
circuit judge in Oregon, 1909-11; member of Oregon
state senate, 1913-17, 1925-28; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 2nd District, 1928-33; died in office
1933. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon. Died of heart disease and pneumonia,
at Providence Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
7, 1933. Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Ore.
- Henry A. Huber (1869-1933) — also known as
"The Great Pacificator" — of Stoughton, Dane
County, Wis. Born in Evergreen, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
6, 1869. Republican. Lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1904; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1913-25; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1924;
Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1925-33. Died, of a heart ailment,
at Madison General Hospital,
Madison, Dane
County, Wis., January
31, 1933. Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Stoughton, Wis.
- Fred Atwater (c.1871-1933) — of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn. Born in Birmingham (now part of Derby), New Haven
County, Conn. Son of Henry Atwater and Josie (Wells) Atwater.
Democrat. Founder and president, Columbia Nut and Bolt Company; mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1921-23; defeated, 1927; member of Connecticut
state senate 21st District, 1931; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Kiwanis.
Died, from diabetes
and a heart ailment, in Bridgeport Hospital,
Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
23, 1933. Burial
location unknown.
- Thomas James Walsh (1859-1933) — also known as
Thomas J. Walsh — of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont. Born in Two Rivers, Manitowoc
County, Wis., June 12,
1859. Son of Felix Walsh and Bridget (Comer) Walsh; married, August
15, 1889, to Eleanor C. McClements (died 1917). Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Montana, 1906; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Montana, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1913-33; died in office 1933. Member, American Bar
Association. While en route to Washington to accept appointment
as U.S. Attorney General, died suddenly of a heart attack, on a
train of the Atlantic Coast Line near Wilson, Wilson
County, N.C., March 2,
1933. Interment at Resurrection
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
- Robert Beecher Howell (1864-1933) — also known as
Robert B. Howell — of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb. Born in Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich., January
21, 1864. Son of Andrew
Howell; married to Alice (Chase) Cullingham. Republican. Served
in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; member of Nebraska
state senate, 1902-04; member of Republican
National Committee from Nebraska, 1912-24; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1914; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1923-33; died in office 1933. Died, from
pneumonia
and a heart attack, in Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March 11,
1933. Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
- Clay Stone Briggs (1876-1933) — of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex. Born in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., January
8, 1876. Son of George Dempster Briggs and Olive (Branch) Briggs;
married, August
17, 1927, to Lois Slayton Woodworth. Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1906-08; district judge in Texas
10th District, 1909-19; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1919-33; died in office
1933. Episcopalian.
Died of a heart attack, in Washington,
D.C., April 29,
1933. Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.
- Wallace Rider Farrington (1871-1933) — of Hawaii.
Born in Orono, Penobscot
County, Maine, May 3,
1871. Married to Catherine McAlpine Crane (died 1953); father of
Joseph
Rider Farrington. Governor of
Hawaii Territory, 1921-29. Congregationalist.
Farrington Hall at the University of Hawaii is named for
him. Died of heart disease in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
6, 1933. Burial
location unknown.
- William Nuckles Doak (1882-1933) — also known as
William N. Doak — of Roanoke,
Va.; McLean, Fairfax
County, Va. Born in Rural Retreat, Wythe
County, Va., December
12, 1882. Son of Canaro Draton Doak and Elizabeth (Dutton) Doak;
married, October
15, 1908, to Emma Marie Cricher. Republican. Vice-president,
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, 1916-28; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Virginia, 1916
(alternate), 1932;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1924; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1930-33. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died of heart disease, in McLean, Fairfax
County, Va., October
23, 1933. Interment at Methodist
Church Cemetery, Rural Retreat, Va.
- John Henry McCooey (1864-1934) — also known as
John H. McCooey; "Tammany's Uncle John"
— of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 18,
1864. Son of John H. McCooey and Anna (Hanlon) McCooey; married,
January
17, 1899, to Catharine I. Sesnon (sister-in-law of James
J. Byrne); father of John
Henry McCooey, Jr.. Democrat. Shipyard
worker; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1909; chair of Kings
County Democratic Party, 1910-34; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930; member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1933-34; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Died, of myocarditis, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
21, 1934. Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Daniel Phoenix Ingraham (1874-1934) — also known as
Phoenix Ingraham — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
23, 1874. Grandson of Daniel
Phoenix Ingraham (1804-1881); son of George
Landon Ingraham. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1924-34; died in office
1934. Member, Freemasons;
Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Tammany
Hall. Died, from a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 30,
1934. Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
- Simon Louis Adler (1867-1934) — also known as
Simon L. Adler — of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y. Born in Seneca Falls, Seneca
County, N.Y., August
30, 1867. Son of Lewis Adler and Anne (Zalinksi) Adler.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 2nd District, 1911-26; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of New York, 1927-34;
died in office 1934. Jewish.
Suffered a heart attack at breakfast, and died soon after, in
Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., May 23,
1934. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
- Robert Duncan Coombs (1873-1934) — also known as
Robert D. Coombs — of Paramus, Bergen
County, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
15, 1873. Married to Harriet Lord. Republican. Engineer;
mayor
of Paramus, N.J., 1933-34; died in office 1934. Died, of heart
disease, in Paramus, Bergen
County, N.J., October
22, 1934. Burial
location unknown.
- George Breisacher (c.1865-1934) — of Bergenfield, Bergen
County, N.J. Mayor
of Bergenfield, N.J., 1912-13; postmaster. Died, from heart
disease, in Bergenfield, Bergen
County, N.J., November
28, 1934. Burial
location unknown.
- George Wylie Paul Hunt (1859-1934) — also known as
George W. P. Hunt — of Globe, Gila
County, Ariz. Born in Huntsville, Randolph
County, Mo., November
1, 1859. Son of George Washington Hunt and Sarah Elizabeth
(Yates) Hunt; married, February
24, 1904, to Helen Duett Ellison (died 1931). Democrat. Rancher; merchant;
member of Arizona
territorial legislature, 1892-1900, 1904-10; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arizona Territory, 1900;
delegate
to Arizona state constitutional convention, 1910; Governor of
Arizona, 1912-17, 1917-19, 1923-29, 1931-33; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1920-21. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows. Died, from a heart attack, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., December
24, 1934. Interment at Papago
Park, Phoenix, Ariz.
- David Monroe Barnwell (1875-1935) — of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif. Born in Comanche
County, Tex., October
20, 1875. Democrat. Fresno
County Clerk, 1910-33; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
U.S. Comptroller of Customs, San Francisco, 1933. Died, of a heart
attack, in Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., 1935.
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Fresno, Calif.
- Anthony Jerome Griffin (1866-1935) — also known as
Anthony J. Griffin; "Altair" — of New
York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1866. Son of James A. Griffin and Ann (Zeluiff) Griffin; married
1895 to
Katharine L. Byrne. Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor; member of New York
state senate 22nd District, 1911-14; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 22nd District, 1915;
U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1917-35; died in
office 1935. Member, American Bar
Association. Died, of heart disease, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
13, 1935. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
- Frank E. Clark (c.1859-1935) — of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn. Democrat. Mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1895-97. Died, from a heart ailment,
in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., January
14, 1935. Burial
location unknown.
- Franklin Swift Billings (1862-1935) — also known as
Franklin S. Billings — of Woodstock, Windsor
County, Vt. Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., May 11,
1862. Son of Franklin Noble Billings and Nancy (Swift) Billings;
married, July 12,
1892, to Bessie Hewitt Vail (died 1917); married 1919 to
Gertrude (Curtis) Todd. Republican. Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1910-12, 1910, 1921-23; Speaker of
the Vermont State House of Representatives, 1921-23; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1923-25; Governor of
Vermont, 1925-27; delegate to
Vermont convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Episcopalian.
Died, of a heart attack, in Joseph Carbino's repair
shop, Woodstock, Windsor
County, Vt., January
16, 1935. Burial
location unknown.
- Robert Livingston Beeckman (1866-1935) — also known
as R. Livingston Beeckman — of Newport, Newport
County, R.I. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 15,
1866. Descendant of Robert
Livingston, Philip
Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston; son of Gilbert Livingston Beeckman and Margaret
Atherton (Foster) Beeckman; married, October
8, 1902, to Eleanor Thomas (died 1920); married 1923 to Edna
(Marston) Burke; uncle of Katherine Steward (who married of Hallett
C. Johnson). Republican. Stockbroker;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1909-11; member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1912-14; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Rhode Island, 1912,
1924;
Governor
of Rhode Island, 1915-21; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1922. Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of apparently of a heart attack, in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
21, 1935. Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
- Walter Marion Chandler (1867-1935) — also known as
Walter M. Chandler — of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Yazoo
County, Miss., December
8, 1867. Son of King David Chandler and Mary Frances (Harrison)
Chandler. Republican. Cowboy; school
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1913-19, 1921-23;
defeated, 1922, 1924. Died, from a heart attack and intestinal
malady, in Post-Graduate Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 16,
1935. Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
- Edwin Porch Morrow (1877-1935) — also known as
Edwin P. Morrow — of Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky. Born in Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky., November
28, 1877. Son of Thomas
Zantzinger Morrow; nephew of William
O'Connell Bradley; first cousin of Christine
Bradley South. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, 1911-14; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1916,
1920,
1928
(alternate), 1932;
Governor
of Kentucky, 1919-23; defeated, 1915; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1934. Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks. Died
of a heart attack, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., June 15,
1935. Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
- Paul M. Crandell (c.1877-1935) — of New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y. Lawyer; mayor
of New Rochelle, N.Y., 1934-35; appointed 1934; nominated, but
died before the election 1935; died in office 1935. After completing
a speech at a meeting
of the New Rochelle Teachers Club, at Albert Leonard Junior High
School, suffered a heart attack and died, from coronary
thrombosis, in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
23, 1935. Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
- Frank Henry Cooney (1872-1935) — also known as
Frank H. Cooney — of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont. Born in Norwood, Ontario,
December
31, 1872. Son of John W. Cooney and Mary (O'Callaghan) Cooney;
married, December
27, 1899, to Emma May Poindexter. Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Montana, 1933; defeated, 1924; Governor of
Montana, 1933-35; died in office 1935. Catholic.
Died of heart failure in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., December
15, 1935. Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Missoula, Mont.
- Louis F. Haffen (1854-1935) — of Melrose,
Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y. Born in Melrose, Westchester County (now part of
Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., November
6, 1854. Son of Mathias Haffen and Catherine (Hayes) Haffen;
married 1886
to Caroline Kurz. Democrat. Civil
engineer; engineer, New York City Department of Parks, 1883-93;
commissioner of street improvement in Annexed Territory (Bronx),
1893-98; borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1898-1909; removed 1909; removed from
office by Gov. Charles
Evans Hughes over maladministration
charges,
1909; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 22nd District, 1915;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930. Catholic.
German
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Royal
Arcanum; Tammany
Hall. Haffen Park, Bronx, is named for
him. Died, from arteriosclerosis, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., December
25, 1935. Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
- Charles A. Buffum (1870-1936) — of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born in La Fayette, Stark
County, Ill., January
30, 1870. Merchant;
mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1921-24. Died, of a heart ailment,
in October, 1936.
Burial
location unknown.
- Wesley Lloyd (1883-1936) — of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash. Born in Arvonia, Osage
County, Kan., July 24,
1883. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Washington 6th District, 1933-36; died in
office 1936. Member, Freemasons;
Eagles;
Elks.
Died of a heart attack in Washington,
D.C., January
10, 1936. Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
- John F. Hylan (1868-1936) — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in Hunter, Greene
County, N.Y., April 20,
1868. Son of Thomas H. Hylan; married to Marian O'Hara. Democrat.
Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1918-25; defeated in primary, 1925. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Died of a heart attack in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., January
12, 1936. Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
- Harvey Parnell (1880-1936) — of Dermott, Chicot
County, Ark. Born near Orlando, Cleveland
County, Ark., February
28, 1880. Member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1919-22; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1923-26; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1927-28; Governor of
Arkansas, 1928-33. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
In 1928, he was charged
with violating the Corrupt Practices Act (early campaign
finance law) by spending more than $5,000 on his campaign; the
charges were later dropped. Died, following two heart attacks,
in St. Vincent's Infirmary,
Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., January
16, 1936. Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.
- Scott Cordelle Bone (1860-1936) — of Alaska. Born in
Shelby
County, Ind., February
15, 1860. Newspaper
editor; Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1921-25. Disciples
of Christ. Died of a heart attack, in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
27, 1936. Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
- Charles Curtis (1860-1936) — also known as
"Square Shooter"; "The Whisperer"
— of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan. Born in a log
cabin at Eugene (now part of Topeka), Shawnee
County, Kan., January
25, 1860; his mother was one-quarter blood Kansa/Osage Indian.
Great-great-great-grandson of "White Hair" Pawhuska (Great
Osage chief for whom Pawhuska, Okla. is named); son of Oren A. Curtis
and Helen (Pappan) Curtis; married, November
27, 1884, to Annie E. Baird (1861-1924). Republican. Lawyer; Shawnee
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1884-88; U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1893-1907 (4th District 1893-99, 1st
District 1899-1907); resigned 1907; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1907-13, 1915-29; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kansas, 1908;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1924;
Vice
President of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932. Protestant.
English,
French,
and Kansa/Osage
Indian ancestry. Died of a heart attack, in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1936. Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
- Wilson G. Sarig (1874-1936) — of Pennsylvania. Born
in Lenhardtsville, Berks
County, Pa., March 7,
1874. School
teacher; Speaker of
the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1935-36. Died of
a heart ailment, March 14,
1936. Interment at Laureldale
Cemetery, Laureldale, Pa.
- John Hammill (1875-1936) — of Britt, Hancock
County, Iowa. Born in Linden, Iowa
County, Wis., October
14, 1875. Republican. Lawyer;
member of Iowa state
senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1921-25; Governor of
Iowa, 1925-31; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1930; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1936.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of a heart attack, in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., April 6,
1936. Interment somewhere
in Britt, Iowa.
- Abram Piatt Andrew, Jr. (1873-1936) — also known as
A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. — of Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass. Born in LaPorte, LaPorte
County, Ind., February
12, 1873. Son of Abram Piatt Andrew and Helen (Merrell) Andrew.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1921-36; died in
office 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924,
1928.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Military
Order of the World Wars. Died, from influenza
and arteriosclerosis, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 3,
1936. Cremated; ashes
scattered.
- Donn M. Roberts (1867-1936) — of Indiana. Born in
Annapolis, Crawford
County, Ill., September
28, 1867. Mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1913-15. Convicted
of bribery
in 1915 and spent three and a half years in prison;
convicted
of embezzlement
in 1936 and sentenced
to prison.
Released from prison following a heart attack, and died a few
days later, in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., August 3,
1936. Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
- Elijah Sherman Grammer (1868-1936) — of Washington.
Born in Quincy, Hickory
County, Mo., April 3,
1868. Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1932-33. Died of coronary
thrombosis, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., November
19, 1936. Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
- Fred Warren Green (1871-1936) — also known as
Fred W. Green — of Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich. Born in Manistee, Manistee
County, Mich., October
19, 1871. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1912,
1920,
1928,
1932,
1936;
mayor
of Ionia, Mich., 1913-22; treasurer of
Michigan Republican Party, 1915-19; Governor of
Michigan, 1927-30. Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary.
Died, following a heart attack, at Munising Hospital,
Munising, Alger
County, Mich., November
30, 1936. Entombed in mausoleum at Highland
Park Cemetery, Ionia, Mich.
- Jerome Taylor Congleton (1876-1936) — also known as
Jerome T. Congleton — of Newark, Essex
County, N.J. Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
25, 1876. Son of Joseph Norton Congleton and Mary Isabel (Wade)
Congleton; married, October
16, 1901, to Jessie Oakley Tobin. Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Newark, N.J., 1928-33. Methodist
or Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks. Died,
from a heart attack, while sitting in his
car, in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
10, 1936. Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Hillside, N.J.
- James S. Parker (1872-1937) — of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich. Born near Corunna, Shiawassee
County, Mich., January
15, 1872. Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Genesee
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1909-13; circuit
judge in Michigan 7th Circuit, 1925-37; died in office 1937.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Knights
of Pythias. Died, of a heart ailment, in Owosso Memorial
Hospital,
Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., January
13, 1937. Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Flint, Mich.
- Lamartine Griffin Hardman (1856-1937) — of Commerce,
Jackson
County, Ga. Born in Commerce, Jackson
County, Ga., April 14,
1856. Son of William Benjamin Johnson Hardman and Sarah Elizabeth
(Colquitt) Hardman; married, March 26,
1907, to Emma Wiley Griffin; father of Josephine Staten Hardman
(who married Linton
McGee Collins) and Josephine
Collins. Democrat. Physician;
business
executive; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1902-07; member of Georgia
state senate, 1908-10; Governor of
Georgia, 1927-31. Baptist.
Member, American Medical
Association. Died of a heart ailment, February
18, 1937. Interment at Gray
Hill Cemetery, Commerce, Ga.
- Benjamin Baker Moeur (1869-1937) — also known as
Benjamin B. Moeur — of Tempe, Maricopa
County, Ariz. Born in Decherd, Franklin
County, Tenn., December
22, 1869. Son of John Baptist Moeur and Esther Kelley (Knight)
Moeur. Democrat. Physician;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arizona, 1924;
Governor
of Arizona, 1933-37. Died, from coronary thrombosis, in
Tempe, Maricopa
County, Ariz., March 16,
1937. Interment at Double
Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Ariz.
- David Glenn Moore (1873-1937) — also known as D.
Glenn Moore — of Pennsylvania. Born in Lawrence, Washington
County, Pa., November
1, 1873. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1924-30; Dry candidate for delegate to
Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Presbyterian.
Died of a heart attack or stroke
when he went down to check the furnace on a chilly morning, in
Washington, Washington
County, Pa., April 5,
1937. Interment at City
Cemetery, Washington, Pa.
- Nathan Lynn Bachman (1878-1937) — also known as
Nathan L. Bachman — of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn. Born in Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn., August 2,
1878. Son of Dr. Jonathan Waverly Bachman (minister) and Eva D.
Bachman; married, January
7, 1904, to Pearl McMannen Duke. Democrat. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Tennessee, 1908-12; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1918-24; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1933-37; died in office 1937. Died, from
a heart attack in his room at the Continental Hotel, Washington,
D.C., April 23,
1937. Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
- John J. Nolan (c.1860-1937) — of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind. Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1889; mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1909-10. Catholic.
Died, of heart disease, June 26,
1937. Interment at St.
Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
- Caleb Howard Baumes (1865-1937) — also known as
Caleb H. Baumes — of Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y. Born in Bethlehem, Albany
County, N.Y., March 31,
1865. Son of Peter H. Baumes and Mary E. (Wiltsie) Baumes;
married, March 17,
1883, to Carrie S. Ten Eyck. Republican. School
teacher; bookkeeper;
lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Orange County 1st District, 1909-13; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 25th District, 1915;
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1919-30; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias. Author of "Baumes Law" which provided for mandatory
life sentences for fourth felony offenders. Died, of a heart
attack, on a New York Central train,
near Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
25, 1937. Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Newburgh, N.Y.
- Ogden Livingston Mills (1884-1937) — also known as
Ogden L. Mills — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August
23, 1884. Married 1911 to
Margaret S. Rutherfurd (divorced 1920); married 1924 to Dorothy
(Randolph) Fell. Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1921-27; candidate
for Governor of
New York, 1926; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33. Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1937. Interment at St.
James Churchyard, Staatsburg, N.Y.
- William Forte Willett, Jr. (1869-1938) — also known
as William Willett, Jr. — of Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Woodmere, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
27, 1869. Son of William Willett and Marion Willett; married 1895 to Marie
R. Van Tassel. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1907-11; defeated,
1904; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1911; indicted
in 1912 on charges
that he bought
the nomination for Supreme Court justice; tried and
convicted
in 1914, sentenced
to one year in prison
and fined
$1,000; released on parole in 1916. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks. Died,
from a heart attack, in his room at the Hotel
McAlpin, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1938. Interment at The
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- David King Udall (1851-1938) — of St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz. Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
7, 1851. Son of David Udall and Eliza (King) Udall; married, February
1, 1875, to Eliza Luella Stewart (1855-1937) (sister of William
Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married 1882 to Ida
Frances Hunt (1858-1915) (granddaughter of Jefferson
Hunt); married 1903 to Mary
Ann (Linton) Morgan (widow of John
Hamilton Morgan); brother of Mary Ann Udall (who married William
Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)); father of John
Hunt Udall, Levi
Stewart Udall, Jesse
Addison Udall and Don
Taylor Udall; grandfather of John
Nicholas Udall, Stewart
Lee Udall and Morris
King Udall; great-grandfather of Thomas
S. Udall, Mark
E. Udall and Gordon
Harold Smith. Member of Arizona
territorial legislature, 1899. Mormon. Indicted
in 1884 on charges of polygamy
and unlawful cohabitation;
not convicted because his second wife Ida could not be found to
testify against him. Convicted
in 1885 of perjury
in connection with a land claim, and sentenced
to three years in prison.
On December 12, 1885, he received a "full and unconditional pardon"
from President Grover
Cleveland, Cleveland, and was released from prison. Died, as
a result of an accidental
fall and myocardial insufficiency, in St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz., February
18, 1938. Interment at St.
Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz.
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy (1867-1938) — also known as
B. Frank Murphy — of Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio. Born in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, December
24, 1867. Son of Charles F. Murphy and Mary E. (Beasley) Murphy;
married to Mame M. Barcus. Republican. Shoe store
owner; real estate
business; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1919-33; defeated, 1932,
1934; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936.
Methodist.
Died, of myocarditis, in Takoma Park, Montgomery
County, Md., March 6,
1938. Interment at Union
Cemetery, Steubenville, Ohio.
- Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1870-1938) — also known as
Benjamin N. Cardozo — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
1870. Son of Albert
Cardozo and Rebecca Washington (Nathan) Cardozo (died 1879). Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1914-17; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1914-26; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1927-32; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1932-38. Jewish.
Suffered a heart attack in 1937, and a stroke in
early 1938, and died a few months later, in Port Chester, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 9,
1938. Interment at Beth
Olom Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
- Samuel Insull (1879-1938) — of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; near Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill. Born in London, England,
November
11, 1879. Son of Samuel Insull and Emma (Short) Insull; married,
May
24, 1899, to Margaret A. Bird. Republican. Associate of Thomas
Edison and executive of electric
utilities; one of the founders of the company that became General
Electric; also had major holdings in railroads;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1904;
when his utility holding company collapsed, wiping out the
stockholders, he fled
the country; indicted
in 1932 on fraud and
embezzlement
charges;
ultimately extradited
from Turkey in 1934; tried in
Chicago and found not guilty. Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League. Died from a heart attack, in the Place de la
Concorde station
on the Paris Métro subway system, Paris, France,
July
16, 1938. Interment at Putney
Vale Cemetery, London, England.
- Robert Low Bacon (1884-1938) — also known as
Robert L. Bacon — of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 23,
1884. Son of Martha Waldron (Cowdin) Bacon and Robert
Bacon; married, April 14,
1913, to Virginia
Murray; brother of Gaspar
Griswold Bacon. Republican. Banker;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1920;
U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1923-38; died in
office 1938. Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose.
Died, of a heart attack, at the state police barracks, Lake
Success, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
12, 1938. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
- William Louis Boatright (1876-1938) — also known as
William L. Boatright — of Golden, Jefferson
County, Colo. Born in Gentry
County, Mo., June 14,
1876. Son of James B. Boatright and Hattie A. (Christian)
Boatright; married, February
7, 1898, to Minnie E. Stump. Republican. Lawyer; Colorado
state attorney general, 1925-28; candidate for Governor of
Colorado, 1928. Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Woodmen;
Kiwanis;
American Bar
Association. Died, of a heart ailment, in Golden, Jefferson
County, Colo., November
25, 1938. Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
- Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) — also known as
Robert Herrick — Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 21,
1868. Son of William Augustus Herrick; married, June 19,
1894, to Harriett Peabody Emery. Novelist;
university
professor; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-38; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935. Died, from a heart attack, in
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, December
23, 1938. Burial
location unknown.
- Edward Codrington Carrington, Jr. (1872-1938) — also
known as Edward C. Carrington, Jr. — of Baltimore,
Md.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Washington,
D.C., April 10,
1872. Grandson of Edward
Carrington; son of Edward Codrington Carrington and Florida
Troupe (Harrison) Carrington; married, October
5, 1899, to Ethel Stuart Coyle (divorced 1919); married 1920 to Anna
Walsh Snyder (divorced 1927); married 1936 to Alice
W. Preston (daughter of James
Harry Preston). Republican. Lawyer; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1912;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1914; candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1931. Episcopalian.
Died, following a heart attack, in Baltimore,
Md., December
30, 1938. Burial
location unknown.
- Emery R. Beal (1865-1939) — of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich. Born in Plainfield, Kent
County, Mich., December
5, 1865. Son of Joseph Beal and Martha Beal; married to Minnie
Beal. Republican. Druggist; mayor
of Ypsilanti, Mich., 1922-23; defeated, 1928. Died, from heart
disease, in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich., March 3,
1939. Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Mich.
- Joseph S. Hofman (1873-1939) — of Seward, Kenai
Peninsula Borough, Alaska. Born in Austria,
May
14, 1873. Democrat. Hotelier;
member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 3rd District, 1933-36; Speaker
of Alaska Territory House of Representatives, 1935-36; member of
Alaska
territorial senate 3rd District, 1939; died in office 1939. Died,
of a heart attack, in Seward, Kenai
Peninsula Borough, Alaska, March 29,
1939. Burial
location unknown.
- James Hamilton Lewis (1863-1939) — also known as
J. Hamilton Lewis; "Pink Whiskers" — of
Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Danville,
Va., May 18,
1863. Son of John Cable Lewis (Major in Confederate Army in Civil
War; died from war wounds); married 1896 to Rose
Lawton Douglas. Lawyer;
member of Washington
territorial legislature, 1887-88; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1892; U.S.
Representative from Washington at-large, 1897-99; defeated
(People's), 1898; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice
President, 1900,
1920;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1908, 1920 (Democratic); U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1913-19, 1931-39; defeated (Democratic),
1918; died in office 1939; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Illinois, 1928,
1936.
Died, of coronary thrombosis, at Garfield Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1939. Originally entombed at Abbey
Mausoleum (which no longer exists), Arlington, Va.; reinterment
to unknown location.
- Will C. Wood (c.1881-1939) — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born in Elmira, Solano
County, Calif. Republican. California
superintendent of public instruction, 1919-27; resigned 1927;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Native
Sons of the Golden West. Died, of a heart ailment, in
Piedmont, Alameda
County, Calif., May 15,
1939. Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
- Sadie Koenig (c.1876-1939) — also known as Sadie
Prince — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Married, June 26,
1898, to Samuel
S. Koenig. Republican. Presidential Elector for New York, 1920;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1930. Female. Jewish.
Died, from a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 18,
1939. Interment at Union
Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.
- William Henry Langdon (1873-1939) — also known as
William H. Langdon — of San
Francisco, Calif.; Modesto, Stanislaus
County, Calif. Born in Alameda
County, Calif., September
25, 1873. Republican. Superior court judge in California,
1915-19; Judge,
California Court of Appeal 1st District, 1919-27; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1920;
justice
of California state supreme court, 1927-39; died in office 1939.
Died of a heart attack, in Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif., August
10, 1939. Burial
location unknown.
- John Taylor Adams (1862-1939) — also known as
John T. Adams — of Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa. Born in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, December
22, 1862. Son of Shubael
P. Adams and Diana R. (Taylor) Adams; married, May 19,
1902, to Winifred Rose. Republican. Door and sash manufacturer;
member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1912-24; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1921-24; Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1917-21. Died, following a
heart attack, in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, October
28, 1939. Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.
- J. Henry Bacheller (1869-1939) — also known as
Harry Bacheller — of Newark, Essex
County, N.J. Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
1, 1869. President, Fidelity Union Trust Co.;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1900-02; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Essex County, 1903-05. Baptist.
English,
Scottish,
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, of heart disease, in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
12, 1939. Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
- William Irving Sirovich (1882-1939) — also known as
William I. Sirovich — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in York, York
County, Pa., March 18,
1882. Son of Jacob Sirovich and Rose (Weinstock) Sirovich. Physician;
playwright;
Independence League candidate for New York
state treasurer, 1908, 1910; superintendent, Peoples Hospital,
1911-29; president, Industrial National Bank; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1927-39; defeated
(Democratic), 1924; died in office 1939. Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows. Died, of a heart attack, while taking a bath at
home, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1939. Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
- Wallace Edgar Pierce (1881-1940) — also known as
Wallace E. Pierce — of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y. Born in Black Brook, Clinton
County, N.Y., December
9, 1881. Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Clinton County, 1917-19; chair of
Clinton County Republican Party, 1927-40; U.S.
Representative from New York 31st District, 1939-40; died in
office 1940. Died, from a heart attack, in the Congressional
physician's
office, in the U.S.
Capitol, Washington,
D.C., January
3, 1940. Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
- Edward Walter Curley (1873-1940) — also known as
Edward W. Curley — of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y. Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., May 23,
1873. Democrat. Builder;
president, Stanley Hoist and Machine Company; U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1935-40; died in
office 1940. Member, Eagles.
Died, from a heart attack, while seriously ill from a throat
ailment, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
6, 1940. Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
- Henry Robertson Barrett (1869-1940) — also known as
Henry R. Barrett — of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
19, 1869. Nephew of William
Henry Robertson; son of Joseph Barrett and Emma (Robertson)
Barrett; married to Anna R. Parker (died 1914) and Elizabeth J.
Endriss. Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 24th District, 1915;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916,
1924
(alternate), 1932
(alternate). Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Elks. Died,
from a heart attack, in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
4, 1940. Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
- Allan Louis Benson (1871-1940) — also known as
Allan L. Benson — of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in Plainwell, Allegan
County, Mich., November
6, 1871. Son of Adelbert L. Benson and Rose (Morris) Benson;
married, November
19, 1899, to Mary Hugh. Socialist. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; candidate for President
of the United States, 1916. Resigned from the Socialist Party in
1918 over its non-support of American participation in World War I.
Died, of coronary thrombosis, in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
19, 1940. Burial
location unknown.
- David Franklin Houston (1866-1940) — also known as
David F. Houston — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Monroe, Union
County, N.C., February
17, 1866. Son of William H. Houston and Cornelia Anne (Stevens)
Houston; married, December
11, 1895, to Helen Beall (1873-1940). Superintendent
of schools; university
professor; president,
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1902-05; president,
University of Texas, 1905-08; chancellor,
Washington University, St. Louis, 1908-16; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1920-21; vice president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co. and president, Bell Telephone
Securities Co.; president, Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York, 1930-1940; director, United States
Steel
Corporation. Member, American
Economic Association. Died, from heart disease, at the
Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
2, 1940. Interment at Memorial
Cemetery, near Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
- George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) — also known as
George B. Cortelyou — of Huntington Bay, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 26,
1862. Son of Peter C. Cortelyou, Jr. and Rose (Seary) Cortelyou;
married, September
15, 1888, to Lily Morris Hinds. Republican. Financier;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-04; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1904-07; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1905-07; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-09; president, Consolidated
Gas Co., New York, 1909-35. Died, following two heart
attacks, in Huntington Bay, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
23, 1940. Interment at Memorial
Cemetery, near Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
- Key Pittman (1872-1940) — of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska; Tonopah, Nye
County, Nev. Born in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., September
19, 1872. Son of William Buckner Pittman and Catherine (Key)
Pittman; married, July 7,
1900, to Mimosa June Gates; brother of Vail
Montgomery Pittman. Democrat. Went to
the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1913-40; defeated, 1910; died in office
1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1916,
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon. It was rumored for years that he died before his
final election in 1940, and that party leaders kept his body on ice
in a hotel bathtub until he was re-elected; this story has been
disproven. In fact, he suffered a severe heart attack before
the election, at the Riverside Hotel, and
died after the election at the Washoe General Hospital,
Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., November
10, 1940. Entombed in mausoleum at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
- Charles Henry Bartlett (1872-1941) — also known as
Charles H. Bartlett — of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., September
4, 1872. Lawyer; mayor
of Evanston, Ill., 1925-37. Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Rotary; Sigma
Chi. Died, of a heart attack, in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., January
21, 1941. Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
- Kenneth Farrand Simpson (1895-1941) — also known as
Kenneth F. Simpson — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 4,
1895. Married 1922 to Helen
Louise Knickerbacker Porter. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; chair of New
York County Republican Party, 1935-40; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1936,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1941; died in office
1941. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Skull and
Bones; American
Legion; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick. Died, from a heart attack, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
25, 1941. Interment at Hudson
City Cemetery, Hudson, N.Y.
- Commodore Bruce Roberts (1875-1941) — also known as
C. B. Roberts — of Fortine, Lincoln
County, Mont.; Shelby, Toole
County, Mont. Born in Newcastle Township, Fulton
County, Ind., December
9, 1875. Son of George Wilson Roberts (1849-1920) and Lavinia
Jane (Eley) Roberts (1849-1918); nephew of Ning
S. Eley; married, August
30, 1903, to Annis Elliott (1880-1963). Republican. Lumber
business; realtor;
banker;
member of Montana
state senate, 1915-18. Died, of a heart attack, in
LaPorte, LaPorte
County, Ind., June 3,
1941. Burial
location unknown.
- Francis Eugene Bouck (1873-1941) — also known as
Francis E. Bouck — of Leadville, Lake
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1873. Son of Dr. Francis Anthony Bouck and Pauline Emilie
(Raefle) Bouck; married, November
29, 1900, to Mabel Frankland Worcester (died); married, August
20, 1917, to Harriet Wolcott Vaile. Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Colorado 5th District, 1918-33; justice of
Colorado state supreme court, 1933-41; died in office 1941; chief
justice of Colorado Supreme Court, 1941; died in office 1941. Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Elks; Royal
Arcanum. Died, from a heart ailment, in Denver,
Colo., November
24, 1941. Burial
location unknown.
- James Alphonsus Hamill (1877-1941) — also known as
James A. Hamill — of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J. Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., March 30,
1877. Son of Alexander Hamill and Meave Hamill; married 1907 to Mary
Mylott. Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1902-07; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1907-21 (10th District 1907-13,
12th District 1913-21); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1908;
corporation counsel of Jersey City, 1927-41. Member, American Bar
Association; Elks. Died,
from pneumonia
and thrombosis, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
15, 1941. Interment at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
- Michael J. Gillen (1884-1942) — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1884.
Married, February
4, 1917, to Mary
Agnes Burke. Democrat. Insurance
business; real estate
broker; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1926-42; died in
office 1942. Member, Elks. Died,
of a heart attack, in an automobile
as he was leaving a dance, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
1, 1942. Burial
location unknown.
- Louis B. Ward (c.1892-1942) — of Michigan. Business
representative for "radio priest" Charles Coughlin; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1936 (Democratic primary), 1936 (The Third
Party), 1940 (Democratic primary). Died, of a heart attack, in
the New York Central railroad
station, Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., April 20,
1942. Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan (1870-1942) — also known
as Christopher D. Sullivan — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 14,
1870. Married to Nell Donohue (died 1910). Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state senate, 1907-16 (13th District 1907-08, 11th District
1909-16); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1916,
1924
(alternate), 1928,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1917-41; leader of New
York County Democratic Party, 1940-41. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall. Died, of a heart attack, in his office at
the Second Assembly District Tammany Club, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 3,
1942. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
- Carolyn Caldwell (1871-1943) — of Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y. Born in Walden, Orange
County, N.Y., October
15, 1871. Daughter of Frederick Sedelmeyer and Gertrude (Mehew)
Sedelmeyer; married to George Caldwell. Democrat. Restaurant
owner; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1942. Female.
Died, of chronic myocarditis, in Glens Falls Hospital,
Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., 1943.
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Warrensburg, N.Y.
- Clifford Brittin Wilson (1879-1943) — also known as
Clifford B. Wilson — of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Weston, Fairfield
County, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
2, 1879. Son of James A. Wilson (died 1897) and Mary E. (Wordin)
Wilson (died 1915); married, November
10, 1914, to Anastasia C. Dorsey. Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1911-21; defeated, 1921, 1935; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1915-21. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Sons
of Veterans (later SUVCW). Died, from a heart attack, in
Weston, Fairfield
County, Conn., January
1, 1943. Burial
location unknown.
- Vincent A. Scully (1896-1943) — of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn. Born in 1896.
Son of Martin
A. Scully; married to Mary Deeley. Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1940-43; died in office 1943. Member, Elks. Died,
five days after a heart attack, in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., January
9, 1943. Burial
location unknown.
- Peter H. Ruvolo (c.1895-1943) — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in Italy.
Married to Catherine E. Foran. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 22nd District, 1938; member of
New
York state senate, 1939; resigned 1939; municipal judge in New
York, 1940-43. Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Died, of a heart ailment, in Lutheran Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
27, 1943. Burial
location unknown.
- Louis Henry Fead (1877-1943) — also known as
Louis H. Fead — of Newberry, Luce
County, Mich.; Pleasant Ridge, Oakland
County, Mich. Born in Lexington, Sanilac
County, Mich., May 2,
1877. Son of John Lawrence Fead and Augusta (Walther) Fead;
married 1919
to Marion McPherson. Republican. Lawyer; Luce County
Prosecuting Attorney, 1901-12; vice-president, Newberry State Bank; circuit
judge in Michigan 11th Circuit, 1913-28; resigned 1928; worked
with the Red Cross in France during and after World War I; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1928-37; appointed 1928; defeated,
1937; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1928, 1937. Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Lions.
Died, from a heart attack while suffering from throat
cancer, in the University Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
4, 1943. Interment at Deepdale
Memorial Park, Near Lansing, Eaton County, Mich.
- Franklin Ely Atwood (1878-1943) — also known as
Frank Ely Atwood — of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo.; Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo. Born in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo., October
5, 1878. Son of Jacob Smith Atwood and Nancy (Goodson) Atwood;
married, October
22, 1908, to Agnes Rea Luscombe. Republican. Lawyer; Carroll
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1915-19; delegate to
Missouri state constitutional convention, 1922; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1925-35. Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi. Died, from coronary thrombosis, in Atwood Hospital,
Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo., March 5,
1943. Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Carrollton, Mo.
- Harry Lane Englebright (1884-1943) — also known as
Harry L. Englebright — of Nevada City, Nevada
County, Calif. Born in Nevada City, Nevada
County, Calif., January
2, 1884. Son of William
Fellows Englebright and Kittie F. (Holland) Englebright; married,
December
14, 1912, to Marie Grace Jackson. Republican. Mining engineer;
U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1926-43; died in
office 1943. Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Eagles; Redmen; Native
Sons of the Golden West. Died, of an acute heart
condition, at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 13,
1943. Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Nevada City, Calif.
- Edwin Taylor Pollock (1870-1943) — also known as
E. T. Pollock — Born in Mt. Gilead, Morrow
County, Ohio, October
25, 1870. Married, December
5, 1893, to Beatrice E. Law Hale. Served in the U.S. Navy during
the Spanish-American War; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;
Governor
of American Samoa. Died, from cardiac arrythmia and
auricular fibrillation, in Washington,
D.C., June 6,
1943. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
- Thomas Raymond Ball (1896-1943) — also known as
Thomas R. Ball — of Old Lyme, New London
County, Conn. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1896. Son of Thomas Watson Ball and Alice Lynde (Raymond)
Ball; married, December
18, 1934, to Elvira Urisarri de Polo. Republican. Served in the
U.S. Army during World War I; architect;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1927-37; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1939-41; defeated,
1940. Episcopalian.
Member, American
Institute of Architects; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Grange; Society
of Colonial Wars. Died, of a heart attack, in Old Lyme, New London
County, Conn., June 16,
1943. Interment at Duck
River Cemetery, Old Lyme, Conn.
- John Calhoun Phillips (1870-1943) — also known as
John C. Phillips — of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz. Born in Vermont, Fulton
County, Ill., November
13, 1870. Son of William Henry Phillips and Elizabeth (Wood)
Phillips. Republican. Lawyer; Governor of
Arizona, 1929-31. Suffered a heart attack, while fishing
on Lake Mary, and died soon after, in Flagstaff Hospital,
Flagstaff, Coconino
County, Ariz., June 25,
1943. Interment somewhere
in Prescott, Ariz.
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry (1871-1943) — also known as
Timothy T. Ansberry — of Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C. Born in Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio, December
24, 1871. Son of Edmond Ansberry and Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick)
Ansberry; married 1904 to Nelle
Kettenring. Democrat. Lawyer; Defiance
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1895-1903; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1907-15; defeated, 1904;
Judge,
Ohio Court of Appeals, 1915-16; Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1916;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1924
(alternate), 1928;
law partner of Joseph
E. Davies. Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus. Died following a gall
bladder operation complicated by heart disease, in Doctors
Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1943. Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Nathaniel Jarrett Webb (1891-1943) — also known as
N. J. Webb — of Newport
News, Va. Born in Prince
George County, Va., April 25,
1891. Son of James Duncan Webb (1848-1933) and Helen Howerton
(Rives) Webb (1851-1930); married to Lalie Lett (1899-1992) (niece of
Robert
Walker Perkins). Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World
War I; school
teacher; athletic
coach; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1936-39. Methodist.
Died, of a heart attack, in Isle of
Wight County, Va., July 18,
1943. Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Newport News, Va.
- Philas Stratton Jones (1867-1943) — also known as
Philas S. Jones — of Wilburton, Latimer
County, Okla.; Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla. Born in Kentucky, September
30, 1867. Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 3rd District, 1922; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Oklahoma, 1924.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of arteriosclerosis, in a hospital
at Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla., July 27,
1943. Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.
- Friend William Richardson (1865-1943) — also known
as Friend W. Richardson; William Richardson — of
California. Born in Michigan, December
1, 1865. Son of William Richardson and Rhoda (Dye) Richardson;
married to Augusta Felder. Republican. Newspaper
publisher; California
state treasurer, 1915-23; Governor of
California, 1923-27. Quaker.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died, of a heart ailment, in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., September
5, 1943. Cremated; ashes
interred at Chapel
of the Chimes, Oakland, Calif.
- Anson F. Keeler (c.1888-1943) — of South Norwalk,
Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War
I; laundry
owner; mayor of
Norwalk, Conn., 1927-31; member of Connecticut
state senate 26th District, 1931; Connecticut
state comptroller, 1933-35. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Redmen.
Died, from a heart ailment, in Veterans Hospital,
Newington, Hartford
County, Conn., September
29, 1943. Burial
location unknown.
- Charlotte Sleeth Farrar (d. 1943) — also known as
Charlotte Farrar; Charlotte Sleeth — of
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Rushville, Rush
County, Ind. Daughter of George
Sleeth; married to Herbert Farrar; sister of Mary
Sleeth. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1924,
1932
(alternate); member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1930; Presidential Elector for New
York, 1940.
Female.
Died, of heart trouble, in New York Infirmary
for Women and Children, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
15, 1943. Interment at East
Hill Cemetery, Rushville, Ind.
- Thomas Arthur Turner (1878-1943) — also known as
Arthur Turner — of Jonesboro, Craighead
County, Ark.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif. Born in Corydon, Henderson
County, Ky., February
11, 1878. Grandson of James
Albert Turner. Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state senate, 1908-11. Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, of arteriosclerosis, in a hospital
at San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., October
22, 1943. Interment at Glen
Abbey Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
- Peter B. Carey (1886-1943) — of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
3, 1886. Married to Mary Frances Angsten. Democrat. President,
Chicago Board of Trade, 1932-35; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936,
1940;
delegate
to Illinois convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; Cook County
Sheriff, 1942-43. Died, amidst a scandal
in his department, from a heart ailment, in Sacred Heart Sanitarium,
Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., November
1, 1943. Burial
location unknown.
- William Warren Barbour (1888-1943) — also known as
W. Warren Barbour; "The Champ" — of
Rumson, Monmouth
County, N.J.; Locust, Monmouth
County, N.J. Born in Monmouth Beach, Monmouth
County, N.J., July 31,
1888. Son of William J. Barbour and Adelaide (Sprague) Barbour;
married, December
1, 1921, to Elysabeth C. Carrere. Republican. Manufacturer;
business
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1928;
U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1931-37, 1938-43; appointed 1931;
defeated, 1936; died in office 1943. Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Moose; Society
of Colonial Wars. Amateur heavyweight boxing champion of the U.S.
and Canada in 1910-11. Died, from coronary thrombosis, in Washington,
D.C., November
22, 1943. Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
- Henry Bascom Steagall (1873-1943) — also known as
Henry B. Steagall — of Ozark, Dale
County, Ala. Born in Clopton, Dale
County, Ala., May 19,
1873. Son of William
Collinsworth Steagall and Mary Jane (Peacock) Steagall; married,
December
27, 1900, to Sallie Mae Thompson (died). Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1906-07; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alabama, 1912
(alternate), 1940;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1915-43; died in office
1943. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Woodmen.
Died, of a heart ailment, November
22, 1943. Interment at City
Cemetery, Ozark, Ala.
- J. Sidney Bernstein (1877-1943) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born May 9,
1877. Son of Joseph Bernstein and Jeanette Bernstein; married, January
1, 1905, to Idalia Rosenblum. Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 31st District, 1906;
defeated, 1904; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 19th District, 1915;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1940-43. Jewish.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Redmen.
Died, from a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
9, 1943. Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
- George Otis Smith (1871-1944) — of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine. Born in Hodgdon, Aroostook
County, Maine, February
22, 1871. Son of Joseph O. Smith and Emma (Mayo) Smith; married,
November
18, 1896, to Grace M. Coburn (1871-1931). Republican. Geologist;
director, U.S. Geological Survey, 1907-30 (except 1922-23); chair, Federal Power
Commission, 1930-33; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1936.
Baptist.
Member, American
Forestry Association; Phi
Beta Kappa. Suffered a heart attack during a meeting
of the board of directors of the Central Maine Power Company, and
died soon after, in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
10, 1944. Interment at Southside
Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
- Clarence V. Mooney (c.1888-1944) — of Asbury Park,
Monmouth
County, N.J. Born in Spring Lake, Monmouth
County, N.J. Police
officer; mayor
of Asbury Park, N.J., 1941-44; died in office 1944. Suffered a
heart attack, and died soon after, in Fitkin Hospital,
Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
13, 1944. Burial
location unknown.
- James Berg (c.1876-1944) — of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in Reading, Berks
County, Pa. Married 1904 to Adeline
Brommer. Republican. Minister; mayor
of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1928-31; defeated, 1911; resigned 1931;
executive secretary, Westchester Sanitary Commission, 1931-39. Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Patriotic
Order Sons of America. Died, from a heart attack, during
services at the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., March 19,
1944. Burial
location unknown.
- Eaton Dudley Sargent (1870-1944) — also known as
Eaton D. Sargent — of Nashua, Hillsborough
County, N.H. Born in Bradford, Orange
County, Vt., August
13, 1870. Democrat. Mayor of
Nashua, N.H., 1924-27; candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1926, 1928; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1928;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1930. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died of heart failure while pruning an orange tree, in
Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla., March 27,
1944. Interment at Edgewood
Cemetery, Nashua, N.H.
- William Dennison Stephens (1859-1944) — also known
as William D. Stephens — of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born in Eaton, Preble
County, Ohio, December
26, 1859. Married, June 17,
1891, to Flora Rawson (died 1931). Republican. Merchant;
mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1909; U.S.
Representative from California, 1911-16 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-16); resigned 1916; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1912;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1916-17; Governor of
California, 1917-23. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar. Died, from a heart ailment, in the Santa Fe Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 25,
1944. Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
- James Oliver II (1885-1944) — of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind. Born November
3, 1885. Son of Joseph
Doty Oliver and Anna Gertude (Wells) Oliver; married to Louise
Yarrington. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1936
(alternate), 1940.
Suffered a heart attack and died, at the Claypool Hotel,
Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 19,
1944. Entombed at Riverview
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
- John Stephen Shea (d. 1944) — also known as John
S. Shea; "The Sheriff" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1916.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Died, of a heart attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 3,
1944. Burial
location unknown.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887-1944) — of Oyster Bay,
Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
13, 1887. Great-great-great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; grandnephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; son of Theodore
Roosevelt and Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt; half-brother of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth); married, June 20,
1910, to Eleanor Butler Alexander. Republican. Farmer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1920-21; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924,
1928,
1940;
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1924; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1929-32; general in the U.S. Army during World War
II. Member, American
Legion. Principal founder of the American Legion in 1919.
Participated in the invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on D-Day, June
6, 1944, and received a posthumous Medal
of Honor for his actions that day; died
a month later, of exhaustion and heart failure, in Normandy,
France,
July
12, 1944. Interment at Normandy
American Cemetery, Collevelle-sur-Mer, France.
- Neil L. Lora (1895-1944) — of Lima, Allen
County, Ohio. Born in Rockport, Allen
County, Ohio, April 4,
1895. Lawyer; piano
player; played in his own band
in the 1920s; municipal judge in Ohio, 1932-39; common pleas court
judge in Ohio, 1939-44. Methodist.
Died, from a coronary thrombosis, in Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, September
4, 1944. Interment at Rockport
Cemetery, Rockport, Ohio.
- Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944) — also known as
Wendell L. Willkie — of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio. Born in Elwood, Madison
County, Ind., February
18, 1892. Son of Herman Francis Willkie and Henrietta (Trisch)
Willkie; married to Edith Wilk; father of Philip
H. Willkie. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1924;
Republican candidate for President
of the United States, 1940. Episcopalian.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, of complications from a heart attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
8, 1944. Interment at East
Hill Cemetery, Rushville, Ind.
- Smith Wildman Brookhart (1869-1944) — also known as
Smith W. Brookhart — of Washington, Washington
County, Iowa. Born near Arbela, Scotland
County, Mo., February
2, 1869. Son of Abram Colar Brookhart and Cynthia (Wildman)
Brookhart; married, June 22,
1897, to Jennie Hearne. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; school
teacher; lawyer; farmer; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1922-26, 1927-33. Member, Farm
Bureau; American
Legion; National Rifle
Association; Knights
of Pythias. Died, from heart disease, in the Veterans
Administration hospital
in Whipple, Yavapai
County, Ariz., November
15, 1944. Interment at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Washington, Iowa.
- Frank Murphy (1897-1944) — of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich. Born in Rensselaer, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., May 15,
1897. Married to Constance Kirchner. Democrat. Accountant;
Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1941-42; defeated, 1942; charged
with bribery
in 1944; pleaded
guilty. Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Gamma
Eta Gamma. Died, from a heart ailment, December
25, 1944. Burial
location unknown.
- John Reynard Todd (c.1868-1945) — also known as
John R. Todd — of Summit, Union
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Johnstown (unknown
county), Wis. Son of Rev. James Doeg Todd and Susan (Webster)
Todd; married to Alice Peck Bray (c.1866-1956); father of Webster
Bray Todd; grandfather of Christine
Todd Whitman. Republican. Lawyer;
president of the Todd Robertson Todd construction
and engineering
firm; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1928,
1932,
1940.
Member, Union
League. Died, of a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 12,
1945. Burial
location unknown.
- Andrew Jackson Stewart (1872-1945) — of Bluefield,
Mercer
County, W.Va. Born near Louisa, Lawrence
County, Ky., November
26, 1872. Son of Leander Cox Stewart and Ellen Frances (Savage)
Stewart; married, October
1, 1896, to Lola Montry Boyd. Coal mine
superintendent; mayor
of Bluefield, W.Va., 1924-28. Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Kiwanis.
Died, from asthma and
a heart condition, in Bluefield, Mercer
County, W.Va., June 12,
1945. Interment at Monte
Vista Park Cemetery, Bluefield, W.Va.
- John Donnan Fredericks (1869-1945) — also known as
John D. Fredericks — of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born in Burgettstown, Washington
County, Pa., September
10, 1869. Son of James T. Fredericks and Mary (Patterson)
Fredericks; married 1896 to Agnes
M. Blakeley. Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Los Angeles
County District Attorney, 1903-15; candidate for Governor of
California, 1914; U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1923-27. Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died, following a heart attack, at Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
26, 1945. Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
- Irving Lehman (1876-1945) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1876. Son of Mayer Lehman and Babette (Newgass) Lehman;
married, June 26,
1901, to Sissie Straus (sister of Nathan
Straus, Jr.); brother of Herbert
Henry Lehman. Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1900-24; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1924-39; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1940-45. Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association. Died, of a heart ailment, in Port Chester, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
22, 1945. Interment at Cypress
Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Leonard Fish Wing (1893-1945) — also known as
Leonard F. Wing — of Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt. Born in Ira, Rutland
County, Vt., November
12, 1893. Son of David E. Wing and Dora M. (Fish) Wing.
Republican. Vermont
Republican state chair, 1926; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Vermont, 1940;
general in the U.S. Army during World War II. Died, of a heart
attack, in Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt., December
19, 1945. Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Rutland, Vt.
- William Olin Burgin (1877-1946) — also known as
William O. Burgin — of Lexington, Davidson
County, N.C. Born near Marion, McDowell
County, N.C., July 28,
1877. Married to Edith Leigh Greer. Democrat. Mayor
of Thomasville, N.C., 1906-10; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1931; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1933; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1939-46; died in
office 1946. Died, of a heart ailment, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., April 11,
1946. Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, N.C.
- Jacob Franklin Spears, Sr. (1899-1946) — also known
as J. Franklin Spears — of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.; Tarpon Springs, Pinellas
County, Fla. Born in Darlington
County, S.C., October
6, 1899. Son of James
Monroe Spears. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor
of Tarpon Springs, Fla., 1921; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1934-36; member of Texas
state senate, 1937-46. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Eagles; Redmen; Odd
Fellows. Died, from a heart attack, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., May 29,
1946. Interment at Mission
Burial Park South, San Antonio, Tex.
- Alexander Biemeret (1877-1946) — of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis. Born in Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis., February
28, 1877. Son of John B. Biemeret and Catherine (LaHaye)
Biemeret. Mayor
of Green Bay, Wis., 1938-45. Died, following a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis., May 29,
1946. Burial
location unknown.
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) — also known as
Carrie Lane; Carrie Chapman — of Mason City, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa; New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in Ripon, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., January
9, 1859. Daughter of Lucius Lane and Maria (Clinton) Lane;
married, February
12, 1885, to Leo Chapman (died 1886); married, June 10,
1890, to George Catt (died 1905). School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; president, National American Woman Suffrage
Association, 1900-04 (succeeding Susan B. Anthony) and 1915-20;
founder of the League of Women Voters; Dry candidate for delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters. Died, from a heart attack, in New
Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., March 9,
1947. Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
- John Harvey Tolan (1877-1947) — also known as
John H. Tolan — of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif. Born in Minnesota, 1877.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1935-47. Suffered a
heart attack when his 2-year-old granddaughter disappeared
from the family's summer vacation home; she was found unharmed, one
mile from the cabin, but he died the next day at Westwood General Hospital,
Westwood, Lassen
County, Calif., June 30,
1947. Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward, Calif.
- William Rock Painter (1863-1947) — also known as
William R. Painter — of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo. Born in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo., August
27, 1863. Son of Samuel Lee Painter and Sallie Ann (Rock)
Painter; married to Cora Herndon (1865-1944). Democrat. Civil
engineer; printing
business; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1913-17; member of Missouri
state senate 8th District, 1917-29. Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died, from a myocardial infarction, in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo., July 1,
1947. Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Carrollton, Mo.
- James H. Hudson (c.1878-1947) — of Guilford, Piscataquis
County, Maine. Born in Guilford, Piscataquis
County, Maine. Son of Henry Hudson; married 1904 to Mary
McKown. Republican. Piscataquis
County Attorney, 1913-19; probate judge in Maine; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1933-47; died in office 1947. Member,
Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Delta
Kappa Epsilon. Suffered a heart attack, and died three
days later, in Augusta General Hospital,
Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, August
21, 1947. Burial
location unknown.
- Lauritz Selmer Swenson (1865-1947) — also known as
Lauritz S. Swenson — of Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn. Born in New Sweden, Nicollet
County, Minn., June 12,
1865. Son of Swen
Swenson; nephew of Lars
Swenson; brother of Carl
Ludvig Swenson and Oscar
Adolph Swenson. Republican. Delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1908
(alternate); U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1897-1905; Switzerland, 1910-11; Norway, 1911-13, 1921-30; Netherlands, 1931-34. Lutheran.
Died, of heart disease, in a hospital
at Oslo, Norway,
November
3, 1947. Interment at Norseland
Lutheran Cemetery, Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County, Minn.
- Robert Ailshie (1908-1947) — of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho. Born in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, February
16, 1908. Son of James
Franklin Ailshie and Lucie (Bundren) Ailshie (c.1867-1947).
Republican. Lawyer; Idaho
state attorney general, 1947; died in office 1947. Protestant.
Member, American Bar
Association. Died, of a heart attack, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, November
16, 1947. Burial
location unknown.
- Frank E. McAllister (c.1888-1948) — of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich. Mayor
of Kalamazoo, Mich., 1939-41. Died of a heart attack, on a
train in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., 1948.
Burial
location unknown.
- Eva McCall Hamilton (1871-1948) — also known as
Eva M. Hamilton — of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich. Born in Memphis, St. Clair
County, Mich., December
13, 1871. Niece of Thomas
W. McCall. Republican. Member of Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1921-22; defeated in primary, 1922.
Female.
First
woman elected to Michigan Senate. Died, of heart failure, in
Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., January
28, 1948. Cremated.
- Ralph Emerson Bailey (1878-1948) — of Sikeston, Scott
County, Mo. Born in Cainsville, Harrison
County, Mo., July 14,
1878. Son of John L. Bailey and Honora (Reeves) Bailey.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 14th District, 1925-27. Died, from
acute vascular collapse as a result of an adverse
reaction to a blood transfusion, in St. Francis Hospital,
Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., April 8,
1948. Interment at City
Cemetery, Sikeston, Mo.
- Jerome H. Kohn (c.1900-1948) — of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y. Married to Alice Bussy. Democrat. Tobacco
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1944,
1948.
Jewish.
While serving as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, he
died, apparently of a heart attack, in his hotel room
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 12,
1948. Interment at Beth
Israel Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
- Alice Smith Merrill Horne (1868-1948) — also known
as Alice Merrill Horne — of Utah. Born in Fillmore, Millard
County, Utah, January
2, 1868. School
teacher; member of Utah state
house of representatives, 1898. Female. Mormon.
Horne Hall at Brigham Young University is named for
her. Died, of a heart attack, October
7, 1948. Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) — also known as
William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis — of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass. Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868. Son of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis;
married, September
26, 1896, to Elizabeth Baker. Republican. As a student at
Harvard, was the first
black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902. Black. Baptist;
later Catholic.
Died, of heart failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949. Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
- George M. Barnard (1881-1949) — of New Castle, Henry
County, Ind. Born in New Castle, Henry
County, Ind., June 6,
1881. Son of William O. Barnard and Mary V. (Ballenger) Barnard;
married, October
4, 1911, to Marion Hannah Dingee. Republican. Lawyer; Henry County
Prosecuting Attorney, 1906-10; mayor
of New Castle, Ind., 1910-14; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1944-49; died in office 1949. Quaker.
Died, from a heart attack, in Washington,
D.C., January
2, 1949. Interment at Longwood
Cemetery, Longwood, Pa.
- Harlan Besson (1887-1949) — of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.; Frenchtown, Hunterdon
County, N.J. Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., July 1,
1887. Son of Samuel Austin Besson (c.1854-1937) and Arabella
(Roseberry) Besson; cousin of J.
W. Rufus Besson; married, May 14,
1913, to Addie Case. Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 11th District, 1912; served in the
U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 1932-35. Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Upsilon; Freemasons;
Reserve
Officers Association. Died, of heart disease, in
Frenchtown, Hunterdon
County, N.J., January
9, 1949. Burial
location unknown.
- Edward Newton Ament (1860-1949) — also known as
Edward N. Ament — of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif. Born in Arcata, Humboldt
County, Calif., July 30,
1860. Mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 1932-39. Methodist;
later Congregationalist.
Member, Lions.
Died, of heart failure, in his dentist's
waiting room, Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., February
24, 1949. Interment at Sunset
View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Calif.
- Joseph Melville Broughton (1888-1949) — also known
as J. Melville Broughton — of Wake
County, N.C. Born in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., November
17, 1888. Son of Joseph Melville Broughton and Sallie (Harris)
Broughton; married, December
14, 1916, to Alice Harper Willson; father of Joseph
Melville Broughton, Jr.. Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1927-29; Presidential Elector for
Nebraska, 1936;
Governor
of North Carolina, 1941-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1944,
1948;
U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1948-49; died in office 1949. Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Woodmen;
Junior
Order. Died, of a heart attack, in Washington,
D.C., March 6,
1949. Interment at Montlawn
Memorial Park, Raleigh, N.C.
- Sol Bloom (1870-1949) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill., March 9,
1870. Son of Garrison Bloom and Sara Bloom; married 1897 to Evelyn
Hechheimer (1876-1941). Democrat. Play
producer; entertainment
manager; songwriter;
furniture
business; real estate
business; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1923-49 (19th District 1923-45,
20th District 1945-49); died in office 1949; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1944.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Redmen.
Died, from a heart attack, in the U.S. Naval
Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March 7,
1949. Interment at Mt.
Eden Cemetery, Westchester Hills, N.Y.
- James William Cherry (1872-1949) — also known as
James W. Cherry — of Utah; Mesa, Maricopa
County, Ariz. Born in Hancock
County, Ill., April 5,
1872. Son of A. N. Cherry and Mary (Banks) Cherry. Republican. Justice of
Utah state supreme court, 1923-33; chief
justice of Utah state supreme court, 1929-33. Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cardiac asthma, in
Mesa, Maricopa
County, Ariz., March 23,
1949. Cremated; ashes
interred at Manti
City Cemetery, Manti, Utah.
- Robert Simpson Wood (1887-1949) — of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio. Born in Athens, Athens
County, Ohio, 1887.
Nephew of James
Perry Wood. Dairy
farmer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1930-31. Died, of an apparent heart attack,
in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, April 19,
1949. Burial
location unknown.
- Charles Lewis Hoover (1872-1949) — also known as
Charles L. Hoover — of Edgemont, Fall River
County, S.Dak.; Springfield, Greene
County, Mo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Oskaloosa, Mahaska
County, Iowa, January
11, 1872. Son of Samuel A. Hoover and Miriam J. (Beardsley)
Hoover; married to Harriet White (died 1898); married, October
1, 1901, to Helen E. Lowrie; distant cousin of Herbert
Clark Hoover. Superintendent
of schools; botanist;
linguist;
divisional superintendent of schools, Philippine Islands, 1902-09;
U.S. Consul in Madrid, 1909-12; Carlsbad, 1912-14; Prague, 1914-16; Sao Paulo, 1916-20; Danzig, 1922; Batavia, 1926; U.S. Consul General in Amsterdam, 1928-32. Presbyterian.
Died, from a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 30,
1949. Burial
location unknown.
- Frank Murphy (1890-1949) — also known as William
Francis Murphy; Francis William Murphy — of Detroit,
Wayne
County, Mich. Born in Sand Beach (now Harbor Beach), Huron
County, Mich., April 13,
1890. Son of John
F. Murphy and Mary (Brennan) Murphy. Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1920; recorder's court
judge in Michigan, 1924-30; resigned 1930; mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1930-33; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1933-35; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1936;
Governor
of Michigan, 1937-38; defeated, 1938; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Philippine Islands, 1936;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1939-40; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1940-49; died in office 1949. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Died, from a heart attack, at Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 19,
1949. Interment at Our
Lady of Lake Huron Cemetery, Harbor Beach, Mich.
- Richard Joseph Welch (1869-1949) — also known as
Richard J. Welch — of San
Francisco, Calif. Born in New York, 1869.
Republican. Insurance
broker; real estate
business; member of California
state senate, 1901-13; U.S.
Representative from California 5th District, 1926-49; died in
office 1949. Catholic.
Member, Moose; Elks; Eagles.
While traveling by
train, suffered a heart attack, and died the next day, in
a hospital
at Needles, San
Bernardino County, Calif., September
10, 1949. Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
- Robert Emmet Hannegan (1903-1949) — also known as
Robert E. Hannegan — of St.
Louis, Mo. Born in St.
Louis, Mo., June 30,
1903. Son of John Patrick Hannegan and Anna (Holden) Hannegan;
married, November
14, 1929, to Irma Protzmann. Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1940;
U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1943; Chairman of
Democratic National Committee, 1944-47; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1945-47; part owner of the St. Louis
Cardinals baseball
team, 1947-49. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma Nu
Phi. Died suddenly from a heart ailment, in St.
Louis, Mo., October
6, 1949. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
- Robert Tyng Bushnell (1896-1949) — also known as
Robert T. Bushnell — of West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 9,
1896. Son of Robert Stowe Bushnell and Mary Rockland (Tyng)
Bushnell; married, June 30,
1924, to Sylvia P. Folsom. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; lawyer; Middlesex
County District Attorney, 1927-31; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1941-45. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows. Died, from a heart attack, in his suite at the
Royalton Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
23, 1949. Burial
location unknown.
- Walter Eli Clark (1869-1950) — also known as
Walter E. Clark — of Washington,
D.C.; Alaska; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va. Born in Ashford, Windham
County, Conn., January
7, 1869. Son of Oren Andrus Clark and Emily Jeannette (Jones)
Clark; married, June 15,
1898, to Lucy Harrison Norvell. Newspaper
reporter; Governor of
Alaska District, 1909-12; Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1912-13; newspaper
editor. Presbyterian
or Congregationalist.
Member, Chi Psi.
Died of a heart attack, in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., February
4, 1950. Burial
location unknown.
- James Everett Sanders (1882-1950) — also known as
Everett Sanders — of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind. Born in a log
cabin near Coalmont, Clay
County, Ind., March 8,
1882. Son of James Sanders and Melissa Everal (Stark) Sanders;
married, December
13, 1903, to Ella Neal; married to Hilda Sims. Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1917-25; secretary to
President Calvin
Coolidge, 1925-29; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1932-34. Baptist.
Member, Elks. Died,
from a heart ailment, in his law
office, in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1950. Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
- Frederick M. Ahern (c.1886-1950) — also known as
Fred M. Ahern — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 10th District, 1911-12, 1914-17.
Catholic.
Died, of a heart attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1950. Burial
location unknown.
- Dudley Field Malone (1882-1950) — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Westwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 3,
1882. Son of William C. Malone and Rose (McKenny) Malone; married
1908 to May
O'Gorman (daughter of James
Aloysius O'Gorman); married, December
14, 1921, to Doris Stevens (writer, economist); married, January
29, 1930, to Edna Louise Johnson (actress).
Lawyer;
U.S. Collector of Customs
for New York, N.Y., 1913-17; resigned 1917; resigned to protest
Wilson Administration's failure to advocate Woman Suffrage Amendment;
Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor of
New York, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1932;
legal counsel for Twentieth Century-Fox movie
studio; played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie
Mission to Moscow. Catholic.
Died, from a heart attack, in Culver City Hospital,
Culver City, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
5, 1950. Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Calif.
- Thomas Day Thacher (1881-1950) — also known as
Thomas D. Thacher — of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J., September
10, 1881. Great-great-grandson of Roger
Sherman; grandnephew of Sherman
Day; second cousin of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar and Maxwell
Evarts; son of Thomas Thacher and Sarah McCulloh (Green) Thacher;
married to Eunice Booth Burrall (died 1943); married, July 20,
1945, to Eleanor M. Lloyd; first cousin of Roger
Kent. Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1925-30; U.S. Solicitor General,
1930-33; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1943-48; appointed 1943. Died, of
coronary thrombosis, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
12, 1950. Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
- Thomas Ray Hamer (1864-1950) — also known as
Thomas R. Hamer — of St. Anthony, Fremont
County, Idaho. Born in Vermont, Fulton
County, Ill., May 4,
1864. Nephew of Thomas
Lyon Hamer; son of Thomas Hamer. Republican. Lawyer;
member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1896; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from Idaho at-large, 1909-11; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I. Died, from heart disease, in Butler
Rest
Home in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., December
22, 1950. Cremated.
- Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle (1867-1950) — also known
as Sumner E. W. Kittelle — Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 14,
1867. Married to Elizabeth R. De Laney. Served in the U.S. Navy
during the Spanish-American War; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War I; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands. Died probably from a heart attack, in
Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1950. Burial
location unknown.
- John Taylor Brown (1876-1951) — also known as
John T. Brown — of Mechanicsburg, Champaign
County, Ohio. Born in Plain City, Madison
County, Ohio, March 14,
1876. Republican. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1921-28; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1929-31; defeated, 1930; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Grange;
Farm
Bureau. Enshrined in Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, 1968. Died,
of heart failure, in Mechanicsburg, Champaign
County, Ohio, January
18, 1951. Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
- Malcolm E. Nichols (1876-1951) — of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass. Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 8,
1876. Son of Edwin T. Nichols and Helen J. G. (Pingree) Nichols;
married, December
16, 1915, to Edith M. Williams (died 1925). Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907-09; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1914, 1917-19; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1926-29; defeated, 1933, 1937, 1941. Swedenborgian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died, of a heart attack, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
7, 1951. Burial
location unknown.
- Frank Eugene McKee (1877-1951) — also known as
Frank E. McKee — of North Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
22, 1877. Republican. Member of Michigan
state senate 23rd District, 1943-44, 1951; defeated in primary,
1944; died in office 1951. Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish,
Swiss,
German,
and English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary.
Frank E. McKee School in North Muskegon is named for
him. Died, of a heart attack, in a room at the Porter Hotel,
Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., February
13, 1951. Interment at Evergreen-Lakeside
Cemetery, Muskegon, Mich.
- Arthur William Prehn (1884-1951) — also known as
Arthur W. Prehn; A. W. Prehn — of Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis. Born in Marathon City, Marathon
County, Wis., December
1, 1884. Son of Fred
Prehn. Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1912,
1936,
1944;
Marathon
County District Attorney, 1922-25; member of Wisconsin
Republican State Central Committee, 1936. Presbyterian.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Moose; Eagles.
Died, of heart failure, in Indian Rocks Beach, Pinellas
County, Fla., March 24,
1951. Interment at