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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March 24,
1754.
Son of Samuel Barlow and Esther (Hull) Barlow.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; writer; poet; U.S.
Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident.
Died, of pneumonia or exposure,
in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812 (age 58 years, 275
days).
Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
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Matthew Clay (c.1795-1827) —
of Alabama.
Born about 1795.
Son of Matthew
Clay (1754-1815).
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1820-22; member of Alabama
state senate, 1825-27; died in office 1827.
Died, of pneumonia, February, 1827
(age about
32 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) —
also known as Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y
Sáenz —
of Mérida, Yucatan;
La Porte, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Tecoh, Yucatan,
October
3, 1788.
Son of Anastasio de Zavala y Velázquez and Maria
Bárbara Sáenz y Castro.
Active in politics in Mexico, 1812-34; imprisoned
in 1814-17 by Mexican authorities over his advocacy
of democratic reforms; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Harrisburg, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Harrisburg, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836.
Died, of pneumonia, November
15, 1836 (age 48 years, 43
days).
Interment at de
Zavala Family Cemetery, La Porte, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Anastasio de Zavala y Velázquez and Maria Bárbara
Sáenz y Castro; married 1807 to Teresa
Correa y Correa (died 1831); married, November
12, 1831, to Emily West. |
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Tex. is named for him. |
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Son of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting
revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
The city of Austin, Texas, is named for
him.
Died of pneumonia, in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles City
County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Son of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor of
Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio state
senate, 1819-21; Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1820,
1824;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died of pneumonia, at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Daniel Dunklin (1790-1844) —
of Washington
County, Mo.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., January
14, 1790.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1828-32; Governor of
Missouri, 1832-36.
Died of pneumonia, August
25, 1844 (age 54 years, 224
days).
Interment at Daniel
Dunklin Grave State Historic Site, Herculaneum, Mo.
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John William Smith (1792-1845) —
also known as John W. Smith; William John Smith;
"El Colorado" —
of Ralls
County, Mo.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Virginia, March 4,
1792.
Son of John Smith and Isabel Smith.
Ralls
County Sheriff and Tax Collector, 1823-26; merchant;
surveyor;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1837-38, 1840-41, 1842-44; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1842-45; died in office
1845.
Catholic.
In 1836, he was the last messenger from the Alamo, San Antonio Tex.,
before it fell to the Mexican Army in the battle there.
Died, probably of pneumonia, in Washington, Washington
County, Tex., January
12, 1845 (age 52 years, 314
days).
Original interment at Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park, Washington, Tex.; reinterment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of John Smith and Isabel Smith; married 1821 to Harriet
Stone; married 1830 to Maria
de Jesús Delgado Curbelo. |
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Edward Burleson (1798-1851) —
of Texas.
Born in Buncombe
County, N.C., December
15, 1798.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Mina, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835;
general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bastrop, Gonzales and Fayette,
1838-39; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1841-44; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1844; member of Texas
state senate, 1846-51; died in office 1851.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., December
26, 1851 (age 53 years, 11
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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James Sevier Conway (1798-1855) —
of Arkansas.
Born December
9, 1798.
Governor
of Arkansas, 1836-40.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, March 3,
1855 (age 56 years, 84
days).
Interment at Conway
Cemetery State Park, Walnut Hill, Ark.
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Jedediah Morgan Grant (1816-1856) —
also known as Jedediah M. Grant; "Brigham's
Sledgehammer" —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Windsor, Broome
County, N.Y., February
21, 1816.
Mayor
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1851-56; died in office 1856.
Mormon.
Died, of pneumonia, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, December
1, 1856 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Samuel Brenton (1810-1857) —
of Indiana.
Born in Gallatin
County, Ky., November
22, 1810.
Minister;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1838-39, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1851-53, 1855-57;
defeated, 1852; died in office 1857.
Methodist.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died, of pneumonia, in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., March 29,
1857 (age 46 years, 127
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Washington Ingersoll (1803-1860) —
also known as G. W. Ingersoll —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in New Gloucester, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
20, 1803.
Son of Nathaniel Ingersoll and Sally (Haskell) Ingersoll.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1854-55; Maine
state attorney general, 1860; died in office 1860.
Died, of pneumonia, March 5,
1860 (age 56 years, 198
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Branch (1782-1863) —
of Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., November
4, 1782.
Son of Col. John Branch and Mary (Bradford) Branch.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1811, 1813-17, 1834; Governor of
North Carolina, 1817-20; federal
judge, 1822; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1823-29; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1831-33; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; Governor of
Florida Territory, 1844-45.
Episcopalian.
Died of pneumonia, in Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C., January
4, 1863 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Enfield, N.C.
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) —
also known as Sam Houston —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex.
Born near Lexington, Rockbridge
County, Va., March 2,
1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1823-27 (at-large 1823-25, 7th
District 1825-27); Governor of
Tennessee, 1827-29; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Nacogdoches, 1833;
delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Augustine,
1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Refugio, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836-38, 1841-44; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-59; Governor of
Texas, 1859-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia, in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., July 26,
1863 (age 70 years, 146
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Huntsville, Tex.; statue erected 1925 at Herman
Park, Houston, Tex.
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Simpson Harris Morgan (c.1821-1864) —
of Texas.
Born in Rutherford
County, Tenn., about 1821.
Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1864; died in office 1864.
While en route to a session of the Confederate Congress, died of
pneumonia at Monticello, Drew
County, Ark., December
15, 1864 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Simpson
H. Morgan Memorial Park, Clarksville, Tex.
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David Funsten (1819-1866) —
of Virginia.
Born in Clarke
County, Va., October
14, 1819.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1844; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1863-65.
Died of pneumonia, at Howard (unknown
county), Va., April 6,
1866 (age 46 years, 174
days).
Interment at Ivy
Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) —
also known as George W. Randolph —
of Virginia.
Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., March 10,
1818.
Son of Thomas
Mann Randolph.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1862.
Episcopalian.
After the collapse of the Confederacy,
fled
to Europe to avoid
capture; pardoned
in 1866.
Died of pulmonary pneumonia, near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., April 3,
1867 (age 49 years, 24
days). His portrait appeared on Confederate States $100
notes in 1862-64.
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
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Moses C. Martin (c.1811-1868) —
of Missouri.
Born in Kentucky, about 1811.
Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1866-68; died in office 1868.
Baptist.
Died of pneumonia, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., February
15, 1868 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) —
also known as Samuel F. B. Morse —
of New York.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 27,
1791.
Son of Jedidiah Morse.
Artist;
inventor
of the telegraph;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1841; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1854.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1872 (age 80 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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James Lawrence Orr (1822-1873) —
also known as James L. Orr —
of South Carolina.
Born in Craytonville, Anderson
County, S.C., May 12,
1822.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844-48; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1849-59 (2nd District
1849-53, 5th District 1853-59); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1857-59; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention, 1860; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1862; Senator
from South Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1865; Governor of
South Carolina, 1865-68; state court judge in South Carolina,
1868-70; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1872-73, died in office 1873.
Died of pneumonia in St. Petersburg, Russia,
May 5,
1873 (age 50 years, 358
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
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Thomas Henry Selby (1820-1875) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1820.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1869-71.
Died, of pneumonia, in San
Francisco, Calif., June 17,
1875 (age 55 years, 34
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hiram C. Martin (1833-1876) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Ohio, August
10, 1833.
Real
estate agent; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1869-70.
Died of typhoid
pneumonia, February
21, 1876 (age 42 years, 195
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Enoch Mather Marvin (1823-1877) —
also known as Enoch M. Marvin —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Warren
County, Mo., June 12,
1823.
Son of Wells E. Marvin.
Democrat. Methodist
bishop; chaplain of the Confederate Army during the Civil War; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1876.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Marvin College, Waxahachie, Tex., is named for
him.
Died, of pneumonia, in St.
Louis, Mo., November
26, 1877 (age 54 years, 167
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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E. H. Kennedy (c.1840-1878) —
of Houston
County, Minn.
Born about 1840.
Member of Minnesota
state senate 10th District, 1859-60; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 13th District, 1867.
Died, of pneumonia, in May, 1878
(age about
38 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Owatonna, Minn.
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Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791-1879) —
of New York.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
29, 1791.
Son of Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763-1846) and Catherine (Wynkoop)
Hasbrouck (born 1765).
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1825-27; college
professor; president
of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University), 1840-50.
Died, of pneumonia, in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., February
24, 1879 (age 87 years, 87
days).
Interment at First
Reformed Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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Edward T. Backhouse (1806-1884) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1806.
Fruit
merchant; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1851; president,
Kings County Fire
Insurance Company, 1861-84.
Died, of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
28, 1884 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Seth C. Hawley (1810-1884) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., February
10, 1810.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of New York
state assembly; railroad
builder; U.S. Consul in Nassau, 1863; chief clerk, New York City Police
Department; the New York Times called him "the brains of the
department.".
English
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1884 (age 74 years, 274
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Alfred W. Taliaferro (d. 1885) —
of San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif.
Born in Gloucester
County, Va.
Physician;
druggist;
member of California
state assembly 19th District, 1852-53; member of California
state senate.
Died, of pneumonia, 1885.
Interment at Mt.
Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, Calif.
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Epitaph: "His
virtue was generosity, his friends are legion, his enemies none
— one of nature's noblemen." |
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Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887) —
also known as Henry B. Stanton —
of Seneca Falls, Seneca
County, N.Y.
Born in Connecticut, June 27,
1805.
Son of Joseph Stanton and Susan M. (Brewster) Stanton.
Journalist;
orator;
lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 25th District, 1850-51, 1851; resigned 1851.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1887 (age 81 years, 201
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Samuel H. Blake (c.1807-1887) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born about 1807.
Republican. Banker; Maine
state attorney general, 1848; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1868.
Died of pneumonia, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 24,
1887 (age about 80
years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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Charles Edmund Boyle (1836-1888) —
also known as Charles E. Boyle —
of Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., February
4, 1836.
Son of Bernard Boyle (diedl 1839).
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; lawyer; Fayette
County District Attorney, 1863-65; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Fayette County, 1866-67;
candidate for Pennsylvania
state auditor general, 1868; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1876,
1880,
1888;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 21st District, 1883-87;
territorial court judge in Washington, 1888; died in office 1888.
Episcopalian.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Occidental Hotel,
Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
15, 1888 (age 52 years, 315
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Uniontown, Pa.
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John Alexander Martin (1839-1889) —
also known as John A. Martin —
of Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan.
Born in Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., March 10,
1839.
Son of James Martin and Jane Montgomery (Crawford) Martin.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; delegate to
Kansas state constitutional convention, 1859; member of Kansas
state senate, 1859; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Kansas, 1860,
1868
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; mayor
of Atchison, Kan., 1865; member of Republican
National Committee from Kansas, 1868-70, 1872-; Governor of
Kansas, 1885-89.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died of pleuro-pneumonia, in Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan., October
2, 1889 (age 50 years, 206
days).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kan.
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Orlow W. Chapman (1832-1890) —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Ellington, Tolland
County, Conn., 1832.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 24th District, 1868-71; U.S. Solicitor General,
1889-90; died in office 1890.
Died, of pneumonia and an ear
infection, in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1890 (age about 57
years).
Interment somewhere
in Binghamton, N.Y.
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Patrick McQuaid (c.1849-1892) —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Ireland,
about 1849.
Wholesale grain and
flour merchant; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1886-87, 1888-91; active community leader
during the 1888 yellow fever epidemic; on June 17, 1890, he was brutally
assaulted by City Marshal Stephen Wiggins, who clubbed him
repeatedly on the head until he lost consciousness.
Died, of pneumonia, in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
21, 1892 (age about 43
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892) —
also known as Laban T. Moore —
of Louisa, Lawrence
County, Ky.
Born in Virginia, 1829.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 9th District, 1859-61; member of Kentucky
state senate.
Died, of pneumonia, at Catlettsburg, Boyd
County, Ky., November
9, 1892 (age about 63
years).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, Ashland, Ky.
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George Henry Sanderson (1824-1893) —
also known as George H. Sanderson —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1824.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1891-93.
Died, of pneumonia, February
1, 1893 (age about 68
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Milo Stone (1827-1893) —
also known as William M. Stone —
of Knoxville, Marion
County, Iowa.
Born in Jefferson
County, N.Y., October
14, 1827.
District judge in Iowa, 1857-61 (11th District 1857-58, 6th District
1859-61); delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Iowa, 1864-68; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1878-79.
A friend of President Abraham
Lincoln, he was present at Ford's Theater when Lincoln was shot,
and helped carry the injured president across the street.
Died of pneumonia, July 8,
1893 (age 65 years, 267
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Knoxville, Iowa.
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Daniel Needham (1822-1895) —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., May 24,
1822.
Son of James Needham (1789-1844) and Lydia (Breed) Needham
(1795-1818).
Lawyer;
farmer;
aide (with rank of Colonel) to Gov. George
S. Boutwell, 1851-53; Massachusetts
Democratic state chair, 1853; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1854; member of
Vermont
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1857-58; member of
Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1859-61; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1866-67; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1868-69; director, Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.;
trustee, John Hancock Life
Insurance Co.; director, Peterborough and Shirley Railroad.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Humane
Society.
Died, of pneumonia, in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
20, 1895 (age 72 years, 272
days).
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Needham (1789-1844) and Lydia (Breed) Needham (1795-1818);
married, July 17,
1842, to Caroline A. Hall (1827-1879); married, October
7, 1880, to Ellen Mary Brigham (1848-1926). |
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Andrew Jackson Bentley (1827-1895) —
also known as Andrew J. Bentley —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., January
10, 1827.
Son of Leticia (Gardiner) Bentley (1784-1853) and Rev. David Niles
Bentley (1785-1885).
Sailor;
shipbroker;
lumber
business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives; mayor
of New London, Conn., 1894.
Died, of pneumonia, March 18,
1895 (age 68 years, 67
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
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Elisha Peyre Ferry (1825-1895) —
also known as Elisha P. Ferry —
of Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Monroe
County, Mich., August 9,
1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
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;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Washington Territory, 1872-80; vice-president, Puget Sound
National Bank; Governor of
Washington, 1889-93.
Died of pneumonia and congestive
heart failure, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
14, 1895 (age 70 years, 66
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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George Tobey Anthony (1824-1896) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Mayfield, Fulton
County, N.Y., June 9,
1824.
Son of Benjamin Anthony and Anna (Odell) Anthony.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Kansas, 1877-79; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1885.
Died, of pneumonia, Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., August 5,
1896 (age 72 years, 57
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Henry Addison Fletcher (1839-1897) —
also known as Henry A. Fletcher —
of Proctorsville, Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt., December
11, 1839.
Son of Ryland
Fletcher.
Republican. Farmer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Cavendish, 1867-68, 1878-82;
member of Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1886-87; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1890-92.
Baptist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Proctorsville, Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt., 1897
(age about
57 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Mercer Beasley (1815-1897) —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1815.
Son of Rev. Frederick Beasley.
Lawyer;
Whig candidate for mayor of
Trenton, N.J., 1851; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1864-97; died in
office 1897.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
19, 1897 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
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Calvin Stewart Brice (1845-1898) —
also known as Calvin S. Brice —
of Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Denmark, Morrow
County, Ohio, September
17, 1845.
Son of Rev. William Kilpatrick Brice and Elizabeth (Stewart) Brice.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
active in railroad
law; president of railroad
companies; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1876,
1884;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1888;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1889-92; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1891-97.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
15, 1898 (age 53 years, 89
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Lima, Ohio.
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Willard B. Smith (1838-1899) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Orleans
County, N.Y., March 7,
1838.
Son of Dr. Ransom S. Smith (died 1876) and Emily B. (Burroughs) Smith
(died c.1840).
Republican. Physician;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1878-80, 1887-88.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, of pneumonia, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., 1899
(age about
61 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Ransom S. Smith (died 1876) and Emily B. (Burroughs) Smith
(died c.1840); married, November
14, 1863, to Sarah F. North (died 1897); married, October
5, 1898, to Jennie Phillips. |
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Edwin Parker (c.1830-1900) —
of Contra
Costa County, Calif.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Compton, Quebec,
about 1830.
Contra
Costa County District Attorney; member of California
state assembly 1st District, 1883-85; superior court judge in
California, 1887-88.
Methodist.
Died, probably of pneumonia, in San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif., June 8,
1900 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Frederick Smyth (1832-1900) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Galway, Ireland,
1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1876;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-1900; died in office
1900.
Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Suffered a debilitating attack
of vertigo, from which he never completely recovered, contracted
pneumonia, and died, in the Dennis Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
18, 1900 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Benjamin Douglas Silliman (1805-1901) —
also known as Benjamin D. Silliman —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., September
14, 1805.
Son of Gold Selleck Silliman (1777-1868).
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County, 1838; delegate to Whig National
Convention from New York, 1839 (speaker); Whig candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1843; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-66; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1872; Republican
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1873.
At the time of his death, he was the oldest practicing lawyer in New
York State, and the oldest graduate of Yale University.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
24, 1901 (age 95 years, 132
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) —
also known as "Little Ben"; "Kid
Gloves" —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in North Bend, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
20, 1833.
Son of John
Scott Harrison.
Republican. Indiana
reporter of state courts, 1861-63, 1865-69; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1876; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1881-87; President
of the United States, 1889-93; defeated, 1892.
Presbyterian.
English
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died of pneumonia, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 13,
1901 (age 67 years, 205
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives:
Great-grandson of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791); first cousin twice removed of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; grandson of William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841); son of John
Scott Harrison; second cousin once removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; married, October
20, 1853, to Caroline Lavinia Scott (died 1892); married, April 6,
1896, to Mary Scott Lord Dimmick (sister-in-law of Joseph
Benjamin Dimmick); father of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990). See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
Harrison Reeves
— Benjamin
Harrison Eaton
— Benjamin
H. Swig
— Benjamin
Harrison DeHart
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Grandfather's hat
fits Ben." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Benjamin Harrison: Rita
Stevens, Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President of the United States — Harry
J. Sievers, Benjamin
Harrison : Hoosier President: The White House and After,
1889-1901 — Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin
Harrison — Homer E. Socolofsky & Allan B. Spetter, The
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison — Susan Clinton, Benjamin
Harrison : Twenty-Third President of the United States (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Benjamin Harrison:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Daniel W. Guernsey (1835-1902) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.; Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stanford, Dutchess
County, N.Y., 1835.
Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Dutchess
County Judge, 1884-1892.
Died, of pleuro-pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1902 (age about 66
years).
Interment somewhere
in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Felix Campbell (1829-1902) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
28, 1829.
Democrat. Engineer;
banker;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1883-91 (4th District 1883-85, 2nd
District 1885-91).
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
8, 1902 (age 73 years, 253
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Frederic O. Macartney (c.1864-1903) —
Born about 1864.
Unitarian
minister; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1900-03; died in office 1903.
Died, of pneumonia, May 25,
1903 (age about 39
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819-1903) —
also known as Colin M. Ingersoll —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March 11,
1819.
Son of Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll and Margaret C. E. (Van den Huevel) Ingersoll
(1790-1878).
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1851-55; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1860,
1876;
Adjutant
General of Connecticut, 1867-71.
Died, of pneumonia, in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
13, 1903 (age 84 years, 186
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Mason D. Chatterton (1835-1903) —
of Meridian Township, Ingham
County, Mich.; Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Mt. Holly, Rutland
County, Vt., August 3,
1835.
Son of Daniel Chatterton and Betsy (Jewett) Chatterton.
Republican. Lawyer; Ingham
County Circuit Court Commissioner, 1864-69; Ingham
County Probate Judge, 1873-80; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1884;
president, Farmers' Bank,
1886-1903.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., October
27, 1903 (age 68 years, 85
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Okemos, Mich.
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William McKendree Springer (1836-1903) —
also known as William M. Springer —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Sullivan
County, Ind., May 30,
1836.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1860-62; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1871-72; defeated, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1875-95 (12th District 1875-83,
13th District 1883-95); U.S.
District Judge for Indian Territory, 1895-99.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., December
4, 1903 (age 67 years, 188
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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William Russell Grace (1832-1904) —
also known as William R. Grace —
of Callao, Peru;
New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland,
May
10, 1832.
Son of James Grace and Ellen Mary (Russell) Grace.
Democrat. Steamship
business; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1881-82, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1888.
Catholic.
Died, from pneumonia and kidney
problems, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 21,
1904 (age 71 years, 316
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Timothy John Campbell (1840-1904) —
also known as Timothy J. Campbell —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Cavan, Ireland,
January
8, 1840.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 6th District, 1868-73, 1875,
1883; member of New York
state senate 6th District, 1884-85; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1885-89, 1891-95 (8th District
1885-89, 1891-93, 9th District 1893-95); defeated (National
Democratic), 1896; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1888.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1904 (age 64 years, 90
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Jackson R. Decker (c.1862-1905) —
of Sparta, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born in Sparta, Sussex
County, N.J., about 1862.
Merchant;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1905; died in
office 1905.
Died, from typhoid
pneumonia, in Sparta, Sussex
County, N.J., January
8, 1905 (age about 43
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Wesley Wilcox (d. 1905) —
also known as John W. Wilcox; "The Mariposa
Blacksmith" —
of California.
Born in Kentucky.
Member of California
state assembly 5th District, 1863-67, 1871-73, 1875-77.
Died, of pneumonia, in San
Francisco, Calif., February
5, 1905.
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Wilson L. Cannon (d. 1905) —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.
Member of Delaware
state senate; elected 1858; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Delaware, 1868
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Died, of pneumonia, in Dover, Kent
County, Del., February
9, 1905.
Interment at Lakeside
Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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Relatives:
Father of Annie Jump Cannon (astronomer). |
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John Henninger Reagan (1818-1905) —
also known as John H. Reagan —
of Palestine, Anderson
County, Tex.
Born in Sevierville, Sevier
County, Tenn., October
8, 1818.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1847; district judge in Texas,
1852-57; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1857-61, 1875-87 (1st District
1857-61, 1875-83, 2nd District 1883-87); delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate
Postmaster General, 1861-65; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1887-91.
Methodist.
Arrested
by Union
troops in May 1865, along with Jefferson
Davis, and imprisoned
for several months.
Died of pneumonia in Palestine, Anderson
County, Tex., March 6,
1905 (age 86 years, 149
days).
Interment at East
Hill Cemetery, Palestine, Tex.
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M. J. Burke (c.1857-1905) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Carleton County, Ontario,
about 1857.
Newspaper
work; U.S. Consul in SAINT Thomas, 1897-1905, died in office 1905.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Thomas, Ontario,
March
15, 1905 (age about 48
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Schulum, Jr. (d. 1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Son of Joseph Schulum.
Democrat. Cigar
manufacturer; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1896-98.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
4, 1906.
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Emerson Barrett (1858-1906) —
also known as William E. Barrett —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
29, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1887-92; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1895-99;
defeated, 1893.
Died, from pneumonia, in West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
12, 1906 (age 47 years, 45
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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Frank Williams Hunt (1861-1906) —
also known as Frank W. Hunt —
of Lemhi
County, Idaho.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., December
16, 1861.
Son of Thomas B. Hunt and Eugenia A. Hunt.
Democrat. Member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1892; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Idaho, 1901-03; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Idaho, 1904.
Died, of pneumonia, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, November
25, 1906 (age 44 years, 344
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907) —
also known as B. F. Tilley —
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March 29,
1848.
Son of Benjamin Tilley and Sarah W. (Esterbrooks) Tilley.
U.S. Navy commander; Governor of
American Samoa; court
martialed in 1901 on charges
of immorality
and drunkenness;
tried
and found not guilty.
Died, of pneumonia, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 18,
1907 (age 58 years, 354
days).
Interment at Naval
Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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Edmund Gibson Ross (1826-1907) —
also known as Edmund G. Ross —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Ashland, Ashland
County, Ohio, December
7, 1826.
Republican. Delegate to
Kansas state constitutional convention, 1859; major in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1866-71; candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1880; Governor of
New Mexico Territory, 1885-89.
Presbyterian.
Thought to have cast the deciding vote in the Senate to acquit
President Andrew
Johnson. His grandson, Edmund Fessenden Cobb, was an actor who
appeared in over 200 movies and serials including Citizen Kane
and The Last Hurrah.
Died, of pneumonia, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., May 8,
1907 (age 80 years, 152
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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George Augustus Vare (1859-1908) —
also known as George A. Vare —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
7, 1859.
Son of Augustus Vare and Abigail (Stites) Vare.
Republican. Contractor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1892-96; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 1st District, 1897-1908; died in office 1908;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1904.
Died, from pneumonia and influenza,
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
28, 1908 (age 49 years, 21
days).
Entombed at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Eugene Semple (1840-1908) —
of Washington.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
of American parents, June 12,
1840.
Son of James
Semple.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; Oregon
state printer, 1870-73; Governor of
Washington Territory, 1887-89; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1889.
Died, of pneumonia, in a rest
home at San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., August
28, 1908 (age 68 years, 77
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Wright
Crematory and Columbarium, Seattle, Wash.
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Alonson T. Dominy (1863-1908) —
of Beekmantown, Clinton
County, N.Y.
Born in Beekmantown, Clinton
County, N.Y., November
14, 1863.
Republican. Clinton
County Sheriff; member of New York
state assembly from Clinton County, 1907-08; died in office 1908.
Died, from appendicitis
and pneumonia, September
9, 1908 (age 44 years, 300
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Martyn Livingston Agens (1855-1909) —
also known as M. Livy Agens —
of Ludington, Mason
County, Mich.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., June 17,
1855.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Mason County, 1905-09; died
in office 1909.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Grange; Odd
Fellows.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., March 30,
1909 (age 53 years, 286
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Jonathan McIntosh (1826-1909) —
also known as Jonathan McIntosh —
of Lodi, San Joaquin
County, Calif.
Born in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., November
6, 1826.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California
state assembly 16th District, 1880-81.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lodi, San Joaquin
County, Calif., April 19,
1909 (age 82 years, 164
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Woodbridge, Calif.
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Samuel June Barrows (1845-1909) —
also known as Samuel J. Barrows —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1845.
Republican. Secretary to William
H. Seward, 1867-69; pastor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1897-99;
defeated, 1898.
Unitarian.
Died, of pneumonia, in Presbyterian Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 21,
1909 (age 63 years, 330
days).
Cremated.
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Francis Wellington Cushman (1867-1909) —
also known as Francis W. Cushman; "Abe Lincoln of the
Pacific Coast" —
of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Brighton, Washington
County, Iowa, May 8,
1867.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1899-1909 (at-large 1899-1909,
2nd District 1909); died in office 1909.
Died, of pneumonia, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 6,
1909 (age 42 years, 59
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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Charles Henry Gaus (1840-1909) —
also known as Charles H. Gaus —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, September
1, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; druggist; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1902-08; New York
state comptroller, 1909; died in office 1909.
German
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in a hunting
lodge on Long Lake, in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec,
October
31, 1909 (age 69 years, 60
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Eugene Engley (1852-1910) —
of Colorado.
Born in Massachusetts, 1852.
Lawyer;
Colorado
state attorney general, 1893-94.
Died, of pneumonia, in Alamosa, Alamosa
County, Colo., April 18,
1910 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Alamosa
Cemetery, Alamosa, Colo.
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Charles Willoughby Dayton (1846-1910) —
also known as Charles W. Dayton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
3, 1846.
Son of Abraham C. Dayton.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1881; postmaster;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1907-10; defeated, 1901;
died in office 1910.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1910 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Edward Baldwin Whitney (1857-1911) —
also known as Edward B. Whitney —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., August
15, 1857.
Son of William Dwight Whitney.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1909-11; defeated, 1904,
1910; appointed 1910; died in office 1911.
Died, of pneumonia, in Cornwall, Litchfield
County, Conn., January
5, 1911 (age 53 years, 143
days).
Interment at Cornwall
Cemetery, Cornwall, Conn.
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John Henry Davidson (1841-1911) —
of Wheatland, Hickory
County, Mo.
Born near Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., June 26,
1841.
Son of Alfred Love Davidson (1817-1871) and Mary Jane (Adams)
Davidson (1819-1890).
Democrat. Farmer; lawyer;
candidate for Missouri
state house of representatives, 1874, 1876; candidate for Missouri
state senate, 1886.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in El Dorado Springs, Cedar
County, Mo., February
10, 1911 (age 69 years, 229
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
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Melville Reeves Hopewell (1845-1911) —
also known as Melville R. Hopewell —
of Tekamah, Burt
County, Neb.
Born in Monroe
County, Ind., March 27,
1845.
Son of Benjamin Charles Hopewell (1819-1901) and Sara J. (Reeves)
Hopewell (1821-1854).
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1875; district judge
in Nebraska, 1887-96; Lieutenant
Governor of Nebraska, 1907-11; died in office 1911; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, May 2,
1911 (age 66 years, 36
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Morse Shepard (1850-1911) —
also known as Edward M. Shepard —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 23,
1850.
Son of Lorenzo
Bingham Shepard.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Democratic Reform candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1901.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., July 28,
1911 (age 61 years, 5
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Image source:
American Monthly Review of Reviews, November 1901 |
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William Robeson Holloway (1836-1911) —
also known as William R. Holloway —
Born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., December
6, 1836.
Son of David
Pierson Holloway and Jane Ann (Paulson) Holloway.
Republican. Printer;
lawyer;
private secretary to Gov. Oliver
P. Morton, 1861; newspaper
editor; private secretary to Mayor Caleb
S. Denny, 1894-95; U.S. Consul General in SAINT Petersburg, 1897-98; Halifax, 1904-06.
Died, of pneumonia, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
30, 1911 (age 75 years, 24
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Andrew Jackson Clements (1832-1913) —
also known as A. J. Clements —
of Tennessee.
Born in Clementsville, Clay
County, Tenn., December
23, 1832.
Son of Christopher Clements and Mary Clements.
Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 3rd District, 1861-63; member of
Tennessee state legislature.
Died, of pneumonia, in Central State Hospital (a mental
hospital where he was confined due to senility),
Lakeland, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
7, 1913 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Interment at Glasgow
Cemetery, Glasgow, Ky.
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John B. Lynn (1840-1915) —
of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., January
26, 1840.
Mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1878-80.
Died, of pneumonia, in Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., February
14, 1915 (age 75 years, 19
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
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Henry Bacon (1846-1915) —
of Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 14,
1846.
Son of Daniel P. Bacon.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1886-89, 1891-93;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1892.
Died, of pneumonia, in Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y., March 25,
1915 (age 69 years, 11
days).
Interment at Slate
Hill Cemetery, Goshen, N.Y.
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Curtis Guild, Jr. (1860-1915) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
2, 1860.
Son of Curtis Guild (born 1827) and Sarah C. Guild.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1884; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1896;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1903-06; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1906-09; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1908;
U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1911-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Forestry Association.
In 1907, John A. Steele came to the State House with a revolver, and
attempted
to kill Gov. Guild; he was subdued and arrested after shooting
two people.
Died, of pneumonia, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 6,
1915 (age 55 years, 63
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Albert Heminway Michelson (1878-1915) —
also known as Albert H. Michelson —
Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., January
16, 1878.
U.S. Consular Agent in Charleroi, 1901-06; U.S. Consul in Turin, 1906-12; Hanover, 1912-15, died in office 1915.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Cologne (Köln), Germany,
June
9, 1915 (age 37 years, 144
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Lawrence Burnett (1838-1916) —
also known as Henry L. Burnett; "Lightning Eyes
Burnett" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, December
26, 1838.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1898-1906.
Investigated the assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln, and helped prosecute the conspirators.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1916 (age 77 years, 9
days).
Interment at Slate
Hill Cemetery, Goshen, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Agnes Suffern Tailer. |
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Theron Wilson Atwood (1854-1917) —
also known as Theron W. Atwood —
of Caro, Tuscola
County, Mich.
Born in White Oak, Ingham
County, Mich., January
3, 1854.
Son of H. P. Atwood.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer; Tuscola
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1886-94; member of Michigan
state senate 21st District, 1899-1902; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 21st District,
1907-08; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1912;
instrumental in building an electric
railroad connecting Jackson, Lansing, and Owosso.
Died, from pneumonia and complications of appendicitis,
in Caro, Tuscola
County, Mich., September
27, 1917 (age 63 years, 267
days).
Interment at Indianfields
Township Cemetery, Caro, Mich.
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John Daniel Crimmins (1844-1917) —
also known as John D. Crimmins —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 18,
1844.
Contractor;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 12th District, 1894;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1912
(alternate); National Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York, 1896.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Philanthropist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
9, 1917 (age 73 years, 175
days).
Entombed at Corpus
Christi Monastery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Augustus Peabody Gardner (1865-1918) —
also known as Augustus P. Gardner; Gussie
Gardner —
of Hamilton, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
5, 1865.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1900-01; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1902-17; resigned
1917; major in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Died, of pneumonia, while in the
military service at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
14, 1918 (age 52 years, 70
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James V. Coleman (c.1854-1919) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born about 1854.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1892,
1912
(speaker).
Died, of pneumonia, 1919
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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William Patterson Borland (1867-1919) —
also known as William P. Borland —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., October
14, 1867.
Son of William Patterson Borland and Elizabeth (Hassan) Borland.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
professor; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1909-19; died in
office 1919.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in U.S. Army Field Hospital
No. 31, near Coblenz (Koblenz), Germany,
February
20, 1919 (age 51 years, 129
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) —
also known as Roger A. Pryor —
of Petersburg,
Va.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie
County, Va., July 19,
1828.
Son of Rev. Theodorick Bland Pryor and Lucy (Atkinson) Pryor.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1859-61; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1876,
1888;
common pleas court judge in New York, 1890-95; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-99.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 14,
1919 (age 90 years, 238
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849-1919) —
also known as Robert S. McCormick —
of Illinois.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., July 26,
1849.
Son of William Sanderson McCormick (1815-1865) and Mary Ann (Grigsby)
McCormick (1828-1878).
Grain
brokerage business; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1901-02; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1902; Russia, 1902-05; France, 1905-07.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Hinsdale, DuPage
County, Ill., April 16,
1919 (age 69 years, 264
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Coit Spooner (1843-1919) —
also known as John C. Spooner; "The Tinker of
Legislation" —
of Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wis.; Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
6, 1843.
Son of Philip L. Spooner (judge) and Lydia (Coit) Spooner.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
private and military secretary to Gov. Lucius
Fairchild; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1872; general solicitor, Omaha Railroad,
1880; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1885-91, 1897-1907; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1888
(delegation chair), 1892
(delegation chair); candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1892.
Died, of pneumonia and apoplexy,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 11,
1919 (age 76 years, 156
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Frank L. Dowling (c.1865-1919) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1865.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1894; borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1918-19; died in office 1919.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
27, 1919 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Eugene A. Philbin (1857-1920) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 24,
1857.
Son of Stephen Philbin and Eliza (McGoldrick) Philbin.
Democrat. Lawyer; New
York County District Attorney, 1900; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1913-20; appointed 1913;
died in office 1920.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 14,
1920 (age 62 years, 264
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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John Bogart (c.1836-1920) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1836.
Son of John Henry Bogart.
Civil
engineer; New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1888-91.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 25,
1920 (age about 84
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1870
to Emma Cherrington Jefferis. |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
Son of William Cooper Howells and Mary (Dean) Howells.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author;
editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Alexander Samuel Bacon (1853-1920) —
also known as Alexander S. Bacon —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., November
20, 1853.
Son of John Arthur Bacon and Harriet (Smith) Bacon.
Lawyer;
lecturer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 9th District, 1887; candidate
for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1906 (Independence League),
1915 (American); vice-president and director, Webster Piano
Company.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Attorney for New York Gov. William
Sulzer at his impeachment trial in 1913.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 29,
1920 (age 66 years, 191
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Casimiro Barela (1847-1920) —
of Trinidad, Las Animas
County, Colo.
Born in Embudo, Rio Arriba
County, N.M., March 4,
1847.
Newspaper
publisher; member of Colorado
state senate, 1877-1913; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Colorado, 1888;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1912.
Died, from pneumonia, in Las Animas
County, Colo., December
18, 1920 (age 73 years, 289
days).
Interment at Catholic Cemetery, Trinidad, Colo.
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George Washington Fithian (1854-1921) —
also known as George W. Fithian —
of Newton, Jasper
County, Ill.
Born near Willow Hill, Jasper
County, Ill., July 4,
1854.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1889-95; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916,
1920;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1919.
Died of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., January
21, 1921 (age 66 years, 201
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Newton, Ill.
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Michael J. Dady (c.1850-1921) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1850.
Republican. Contractor;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1920.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Mary's Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 2,
1921 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Archibald Johnson Sampson (1839-1921) —
also known as Archibald J. Sampson; A. J.
Sampson —
of Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo.; Colorado; Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born near Cadiz, Harrison
County, Ohio, June 21,
1839.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Colorado
state attorney general, 1877-79; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1897-1905.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Died, from acute
nephritis and pneumonia, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., December
24, 1921 (age 82 years, 186
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Relatives:
Married 1866
to Kate I. Turner (died 1886); married 1891 to Frances
S. Wood. |
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Thomas Carmody (1859-1922) —
of Penn Yan, Yates
County, N.Y.; New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Milo, Yates
County, N.Y., October
9, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer; Yates
County District Attorney, 1889; chief examiner, New York State
Civil Service Commission, 1893-96; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912;
New
York state attorney general, 1911-14; resigned 1914.
Catholic.
Died, of pneumonia, in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
22, 1922 (age 62 years, 105
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Cemetery, Penn Yan, N.Y.
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Henry DeWitt Hotchkiss (1856-1922) —
also known as Henry D. Hotchkiss —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 2,
1856.
Son of Thomas Woodward Hotchkiss and Emma (Burrell) Hotchkiss.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1886; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 9th District, 1894;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1913-22; defeated, 1911;
died in office 1922; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court, 1913-15.
Episcopalian.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1922 (age 65 years, 247
days).
Interment somewhere
in Norwalk, Ohio.
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Samuel Fallows (1835-1922) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pendleton, Lancashire, England,
December
13, 1835.
Republican. Minister;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Wisconsin
superintendent of public instruction, 1870-74; president,
Wesleyan University, 1874; bishop; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Methodist;
later Reformed
Episcopal Church. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from pneumonia, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
5, 1922 (age 86 years, 266
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married to Lucy Bethia Huntington (1840-1916). |
| | | Personal motto: "Do with your might
what your hands find to do." |
| | | Epitaph: "He walked with God - God took
him." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Alexander P. Corbit (d. 1923) —
of Odessa, New Castle
County, Del.
Member of Delaware
state senate; president, New Castle County National Bank;
director, Delaware Railroad.
Died, of pneumonia, in Odessa, New Castle
County, Del., February
18, 1923.
Burial
location unknown.
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Patrick Murphy Pearsall (c.1859-1923) —
of Jones
County, N.C.; New Bern, Craven
County, N.C.
Born in Taylor's Bridge, Sampson
County, N.C., about 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1896.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., February
20, 1923 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924) —
also known as Edward E. McCall —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
6, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1903-13; resigned 1913;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1913; chair, New York State Public
Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from
office in November, 1915, because he owned
stock in a company under commission jurisdiction; president, New
Jersey Life
Insurance Company, 1916.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 12,
1924 (age 61 years, 66
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Edward
Everett |
| | | Relatives: Married 1886 to Ella
Frances Gaynor; brother of John A. McCall (president, New York Life
Insurance Company). |
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Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924) —
also known as Julian S. Carr; Jule Carr —
of Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., October
12, 1845.
Son of John Wesley Carr (1814-1889) and Elizabeth Pannill (Bullock)
Carr (1815-1906).
Democrat. Co-owner and president of the company which made "Bull
Durham" tobacco;
founder of the Durham Cotton
Manufacturing Company and Durham Hosiery
Mills; involved in railroads,
utilities,
and banking;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1888,
1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, of pneumonia, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 29,
1924 (age 78 years, 200
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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William Andrews Clark (1839-1925) —
also known as William A. Clark —
of Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont.
Born near Connellsville, Fayette
County, Pa., January
8, 1839.
Son of John Clark and Mary (Andrews) Clark.
Democrat. Banker; mine owner;
delegate
to Montana state constitutional convention, 1884, 1889; candidate
for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1888; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1892,
1904;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1899-1900, 1901-07; resigned 1900.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 2,
1925 (age 86 years, 53
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Charles Allen Culberson (1855-1925) —
also known as Charles A. Culberson —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa
County, Ala., June 10,
1855.
Son of Eugenia (Kimball) Culberson and David
Browning Culberson.
Democrat. Lawyer; Texas
state attorney general, 1890-94; Governor of
Texas, 1895-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Texas, 1896,
1904,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1899-1923.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March 19,
1925 (age 69 years, 282
days).
Interment at East
Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tex.
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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 (1817-1862) and Mary (Ferguson) LaFollette
(1817-1894).
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 (age 70 years, 4
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925) —
also known as James B. Duke; "Buck";
"Tobacco King" —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born near Durham, Durham
County, N.C., December
23, 1856.
Son of Washington Duke (1820-1905).
Republican. Organizer and president, American Tobacco
Company, which monopolized the tobacco
industry until it was broken up in 1911; organizer of electric
power companies; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1904.
Left a large trust fund which supported Duke University.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1925 (age 68 years, 291
days).
Entombed at Duke
University Chapel, Durham, N.C.
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George Kirkpatrick Denton (1864-1926) —
also known as George K. Denton —
of Indiana.
Born near Sebree, Webster
County, Ky., November
17, 1864.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1917-19; candidate for
justice
of Indiana state supreme court, 1924.
Died, from pneumonia, in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., January
4, 1926 (age 61 years, 48
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Henry Sherman Boutell (1856-1926) —
also known as Henry S. Boutell —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 14,
1856.
Son of Lewis Henry Boutell and Anna (Greene) Boutell.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1884; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1897-1911 (6th District 1897-1903,
9th District 1903-11); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1908;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1911-13; law
professor.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Loyal
Legion.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Sanremo, Italy,
March
11, 1926 (age 69 years, 362
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Mass.
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Martin Edward Trench (1869-1927) —
also known as Martin E. Trench —
Born in Dennison, Goodhue
County, Minn., November
30, 1869.
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 in office 1927.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., January
6, 1927 (age 57 years, 37
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Nathan Barnert (1838-1927) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Posen, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland),
September
20, 1838.
Democrat. Tailor; clothing
manufacturer; real estate
business; mayor
of Paterson, N.J., 1883-86, 1889-90; philanthropist.
Jewish.
Died, of pneumonia, in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., December
23, 1927 (age 89 years, 94
days).
Interment at Mt.
Neboh Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Relatives:
Married to Miriam Phillips (died 1901). |
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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928) —
also known as Woodbridge N. Ferris; "The Big Rapids
Schoolmaster"; "The Good Grey
Governor" —
of Big Rapids, Mecosta
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin near Spencer, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
6, 1853.
Son of John Ferris, Jr. and Estella (Reed) Ferris.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; founder and president,
Ferris Institute, later Ferris State University; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1892; candidate for
Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1902; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1907; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Michigan, 1913-16; defeated, 1904, 1920; president, Big Rapids
Savings Bank; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1923-28; died in office 1928.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March 23,
1928 (age 75 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
View Cemetery, Big Rapids, Mich.
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928) —
also known as Chauncey M. Depew —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., April 23,
1834.
Son of Isaac Depew (1800-1869) and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew
(1810-1885).
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1862-63; secretary of
state of New York, 1864-65; Westchester
County Clerk, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868,
1892,
1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
Liberal Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1872; president, later chairman, New York
Central Railroad;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1899-1911.
French
Huguenot, Dutch,
and English
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1928 (age 93 years, 348
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Charles Arnette Towne (1858-1928) —
also known as Charles A. Towne —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born near Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., November
21, 1858.
Son of Judson Towne and Laura (Fargo) Towne.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1895-97; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1900-01; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1904;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1905-07.
Died, from asthma and
pneumonia, in Southern Methodist Hospital,
Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., October
22, 1928 (age 69 years, 336
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Tucson, Ariz.
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William Charles Adamson (1854-1929) —
also known as William C. Adamson —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga.
Born in Bowdon, Carroll
County, Ga., August
13, 1854.
Son of John W. Adamson and Mary A. (McDaniel) Adamson.
Democrat. Lawyer; city
judge in Georgia, 1885-89; Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1892;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1897-1917; Judge of
U.S. Customs Court, 1926-28.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arcanum; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of pneumonia, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1929 (age 74 years, 143
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Carrollton, Ga.
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Otto Tremont Bannard (1854-1929) —
also known as Otto T. Bannard —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 28,
1854.
Son of John W. Bannard and Eliza Landon (Stone) Bannard.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
director, Niagara Fire
Insurance Co., Dolphin Jute
Mills, and Jersey United Gas and
Electric Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1909.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, on the ocean
liner President Cleveland, en route from Seattle to
Manila, in the North
Pacific Ocean, January
15, 1929 (age 74 years, 262
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Sandford Hunt Brownlee (d. 1929) —
Newspaper
correspondent; member of Utah state
house of representatives.
Died, of pneumonia, in Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y., April 6,
1929.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Andrew Burkamp (1873-1929) —
also known as William A. Burkamp —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., August 8,
1873.
Son of Henry Burkamp and Mary (Underholz) Burkamp.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928;
member of Kentucky
state senate.
German
ancestry.
Died, of lobar pneumonia and acute
myocarditis, in Fort Thomas, Campbell
County, Ky., November
6, 1929 (age 56 years, 90
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Southgate, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Rose M. Davidson. |
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Isaac Lee Patterson (1859-1929) —
also known as I. L. Patterson —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Benton
County, Ore., September
17, 1859.
Son of Francis Austin Patterson and Caroline (Tatom) Patterson.
Republican. Farmer; chair of
Marion County Republican Party, 1892; member of Oregon
state senate, 1895-98, 1919-21; Oregon
Republican state chair, 1924-26; Governor of
Oregon, 1927-29; died in office 1929; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; Woodmen;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Rotary.
Died, from pneumonia, in Marion
County, Ore., December
21, 1929 (age 70 years, 95
days).
Entombed at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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Charles Phelps Taft (1843-1929) —
also known as Charles P. Taft; Charlie
Taft —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
21, 1843.
Son of Alphonso
Taft and Fannie (Phelps) Taft (1823-1852).
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1871-73; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1895-97; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1900,
1908,
1912;
Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1904.
Philanthropist; owner, Chicago Cubs baseball
team.
Died, of pneumonia, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
31, 1929 (age 86 years, 10
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Stephen Hugh Claycomb (1847-1930) —
of Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Missouri, August
11, 1847.
Son of George W. Claycomb and Elizabeth Claycomb.
Democrat. Lawyer; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1889-93.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage and pneumonia, in Joplin, Jasper
County, Mo., June 6,
1930 (age 82 years, 299
days).
Interment at Ozark
Memorial Park, Joplin, Mo.
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William Barnes, Jr. (1866-1930) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Armonk, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
17, 1866.
Son of William Barnes, Sr. and Emily P. (Weed) Barnes.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1892-1914; U.S. Surveyor of Customs,
1899-1911; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1904,
1908,
1912;
New York
Republican state chair, 1911-14; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1912-16; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 28th District, 1915.
When Theodore
Roosevelt contended, in 1914, that Barnes was a crooked boss of
the Republican Machine, in league with the Democratic Machine, he
sued the former president for libel, and lost.
Died, of pneumonia, in Armonk, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 25,
1930 (age 63 years, 220
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930) —
also known as William B. Thompson —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia City, Madison
County, Mont., May 13,
1869.
Son of William Thompson and Anna M. (Boyce) Thompson.
Republican. Mining
magnate; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1912;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916,
1920;
director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; director, Metropolitan
Life Insurance
Co.
Died, from pneumonia, June 27,
1930 (age 61 years, 45
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Payne Studley (c.1846-1931) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Sharon, Litchfield
County, Conn., about 1846.
Son of Enoch Payne Studley and Sarah Studley.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1905; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1912.
Died, of pneumonia, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., January
20, 1931 (age about 85
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alfred Rider Page (1859-1931) —
also known as Alfred R. Page —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill., October
7, 1859.
Son of Charles Page and Angeline (Rider) Page.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 19th District, 1905-08; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1910-23; resigned 1923;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1916-23; law partner of George
L. Ingraham, 1923-25.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Chi Psi;
Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Southampton Hospital,
Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
3, 1931 (age 71 years, 119
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1886
to Elizabeth M. Rose. |
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Sam Baker Cook (1852-1931) —
also known as Sam B. Cook —
of Audrain
County, Mo.
Born in Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., July 11,
1852.
Son of William Cook.
Democrat. Banker; secretary of
state of Missouri, 1901-05; member of Missouri
state senate 27th District, 1919-20.
Died, from hypostatic pneumonia and coronary artery
disease, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., February
4, 1931 (age 78 years, 208
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Sylvester Baker Sadler (1876-1931) —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., September
29, 1876.
Son of Wilbur
Fisk Sadler.
District judge in Pennsylvania 9th District, 1916-20; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1921-31; died in office 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of pneumonia, in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 1,
1931 (age 54 years, 153
days).
Interment at Carlisle
Mausoleum, Carlisle, Pa.
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Nicholas Longworth (1869-1931) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
5, 1869.
Son of Nicholas Longworth (1844-1890) and Susan (Walker) Longworth
(1845-1922).
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives from Hamilton County, 1900; defeated,
1897; member of Ohio state
senate, 1901; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1903-13, 1915-31;
defeated, 1912; died in office 1931; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1925-31; died in office 1931.
Died, of pneumonia, in Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C., April 9,
1931 (age 61 years, 155
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Joseph Gray Armstrong (1867-1931) —
also known as Joseph G. Armstrong —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
2, 1867.
Republican. Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1914-18; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916,
1920,
1924;
chair
of Allegheny County Republican Party, 1927.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died, of pneumonia, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
19, 1931 (age 64 years, 290
days).
Interment at South
Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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John Proctor Clarke (1856-1932) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Florence, Italy,
of American parents, April 23,
1856.
Son of Isaac Edwards Clarke and Mary (Proctor) Clarke.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1900-26; appointed 1900;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1905-26.
Member, Union
League; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Murray Hill Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
12, 1932 (age 75 years, 264
days).
Interment somewhere
in Northampton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Edwards Clarke and Mary (Proctor) Clarke; married, June 25,
1884, to Sarah M. Parker (died 1924); married, July 8,
1924, to Ida (Hatch) Cambell (c.1875-1938; killed in automobile
accident). |
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John Wesley Langley (1868-1932) —
also known as John W. Langley —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.; Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky.
Born in Floyd
County, Ky., January
14, 1868.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1886-90; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kentucky, 1888,
1900,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1907-26; defeated,
1896; resigned 1926.
Convicted
in 1924 of conspiracy to transport
and sell liquor re-elected while his appeal was pending, but resigned
from Congress in 1926; sentenced
to a term in federal prison.
Granted clemency by President Calvin
Coolidge.
Died, of pneumonia, in Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky., January
17, 1932 (age 64 years, 3
days).
Interment at Langley
Cemetery, Middle Creek, Ky.
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Arthur Newton Holden (1850-1932) —
also known as Arthur N. Holden —
of North Clarendon, Clarendon, Rutland
County, Vt.
Born in Shrewsbury, Rutland
County, Vt., April 23,
1850.
Son of Eli Latinus Holden (1814-1899) and Eliza Arvilla (Crampton)
Holden (1829-1895).
Republican. Farmer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Clarendon, 1910.
Universalist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Clarendon, Rutland
County, Vt., January
31, 1932 (age 81 years, 283
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Bartholdt (1855-1932) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Schleiz, Germany,
November
2, 1855.
Son of Gottlob Bartholdt and Caroline (Wagner) Bartholdt.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1893-1915.
German
ancestry.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia, in St.
Louis, Mo., March 19,
1932 (age 76 years, 138
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Concordia
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Byron Harvey Combs (1853-1932) —
also known as Byron H. Combs —
of East Berkshire, Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt.
Born in Richford, Franklin
County, Vt., June 17,
1853.
Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1898; member of Vermont
state senate, 1902.
Methodist.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, in East Berkshire,
Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt., December
23, 1932 (age 79 years, 189
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, East Berkshire, Berkshire, Vt.
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Harry P. Hynds (d. 1933) —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Wyoming,
1932.
Died, of pneumonia, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., 1933.
Interment at Olivet
Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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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.
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 (age 51 years, 105
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Ore.
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William Stryker Gummere (1852-1933) —
also known as William S. Gummere —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 24,
1852.
Son of Barker Gummere and Elizabeth (Stryker) Gummere (1826-1898).
Republican. Circuit judge in New Jersey; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1895-1901; appointed
1895; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1901-.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
26, 1933 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Thomas Watt Gregory (1861-1933) —
also known as Thomas W. Gregory —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Crawfordsville (unknown
county), Miss., November
6, 1861.
Son of Francis Robert Gregory (killed in Civil War) and Mary Cornelia
(Watt) Gregory.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1904,
1912
(Honorary
Vice-President); U.S.
Attorney General, 1914-19.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
A gymnasium at the University of Texas was named for
him.
Died, of pneumonia, February
26, 1933 (age 71 years, 112
days).
Interment somewhere
in Austin, Tex.
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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.
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 (age 69 years, 49
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Charles Nathaniel Haskell (1860-1933) —
also known as Charles N. Haskell —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Leipsic, Putnam
County, Ohio, March 13,
1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; oil
business; delegate to
Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1907-11; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1928.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Skirvin Hotel,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., July 5,
1933 (age 73 years, 114
days).
Interment at Greenhill
Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.
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John J. Coyle (1863-1933) —
of Mahanoy City, Schuylkill
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Port Carbon, Schuylkill
County, Pa., November
10, 1863.
Son of Philip Coyle and Julia (Duffy) Coyle.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1892-94; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 30th District, 1895-98; founder and president,
American Catholic Union, 1897-1933; president, Pennsylvania Mutual Life
Insurance Company, 1914-33 president, Bell Union Coal and
Mining Company, 1914-33.
Catholic.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
4, 1933 (age 69 years, 298
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Melvin Alvah Traylor (1878-1934) —
also known as Melvin A. Traylor —
of Malone, Hill
County, Tex.; Ballinger, Runnels
County, Tex.; East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born, in a log
cabin near Breeding, Adair
County, Ky., October
21, 1878.
Son of James Milton Traylor and Kitty (Harvey) Traylor.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1928,
1932;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1932.
Died, of pneumonia, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
14, 1934 (age 55 years, 116
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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William Cooper Procter (1862-1934) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Glendale, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
25, 1862.
Son of William Alexander Procter and Charlotte Elizabeth (Jackson)
Procter.
Republican. President (1907-30) and chairman (1930-34), Proctor &
Gamble Company, where he established profit-sharing and pension
system; director, New York Central Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924,
1928.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Holmes Hospital,
Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 2,
1934 (age 71 years, 250
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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John Emory Andrus (1841-1934) —
also known as John E. Andrus; "The Millionaire
Strap-Hanger" —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
16, 1841.
Son of Rev. Loyal B. Andrus and Ann (Palmer) Andrus.
Republican. School
teacher; pharmaceutical
manufacturer; investor in real
estate, mining
claims, and the Standard Oil Company;
owned considerable stock in railroads
and utilities;
director, New York Life Insurance
Co.; president, New York Pharmaceutical
Association; treasurer, Arlington Chemical
Co.; director, National Fuel Gas
Co.; mayor of
Yonkers, N.Y., 1904; defeated, 1901; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1904
(alternate), 1908;
U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1905-13.
Methodist.
Philanthropist who founded the Surna Foundation and the Julia Dyckman
Andrus Memorial (orphanage). Even when he was one of the nation's
wealthiest men, he still took the subway to work.
Died, of pneumonia, in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
26, 1934 (age 93 years, 313
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) —
also known as "The Great Dissenter" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 8,
1841.
Son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Amelia Lee (Jackson)
Holmes.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1882-1902; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1899-1902; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1902-32; retired 1932.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1965.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March 6,
1935 (age 93 years, 363
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Married, June 17,
1872, to Fanny Bowditch Dixwell (1840-1929). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
Biddle — Laurence
Curtis — Lewis
Einstein — Erland
F. Fish |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — Judgepedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The
Common Law |
| | | Books about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
Gary J. Aichele, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. : Soldier, Scholar, Judge (out of
print) — G. Edward White, Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self —
Sheldon M. Novick, Honorable
Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Liva
Baker, The
Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell
Holmes — James Bishop Peabody, The
Holmes-Einstein Letters : Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and
Lewis Einstein 1903-1935 |
| | | Critical books about Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.: Albert W. Alschuler, Law
Without Values : The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice
Holmes |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, September 1902 |
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James E. Smith (d. 1935) —
also known as "The Stormy Petrel" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Phenix, West Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Son of Edward Smith and Bridget (Moynihan) Smith.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1899-1902;
assistant district attorney, New York County, 1910-22.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 18,
1935.
Interment at Holy
Rood Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Smith and Bridget (Moynihan) Smith; married to Sarah Quinn
(daughter of John
Quinn). |
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Harry Bennett Anderson (1879-1935) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Van Buren
County, Mich., November
5, 1879.
Son of Seneca Benjamin Anderson and Achsah Adelaide (Bennett)
Anderson.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
Republican State Executive Committee, 1904-10; Progressive
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1912;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1926-35;
died in office 1935.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; American
Legion.
Died, from a heart
ailment and pneumonia, in Crook Sanitarium,
Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., April 9,
1935 (age 55 years, 155
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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George W. Carroll (1855-1935) —
also known as "The Moneyless Millionaire of
Texas" —
of Beaumont, Jefferson
County, Tex.
Born in Mansfield, DeSoto
Parish, La., April 11,
1855.
Son of Frank L. Carroll and Sarah (Long) Carroll.
Lumber
business; banker; oil
millionaire; philanthropist; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Texas, 1902; Prohibition candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1904.
Baptist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Beaumont, Jefferson
County, Tex., December
14, 1935 (age 80 years, 247
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Beaumont, Tex.
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Roy Dikeman Chapin (1880-1936) —
of Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., February
23, 1880.
Son of Edwin C. Chapin and Ella (King) Chapin.
President, Hudson Motor Car
Company; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1932-33.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Died, from pneumonia, in Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
16, 1936 (age 55 years, 358
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Rasmus Björn Anderson (1846-1936) —
also known as Rasmus B. Anderson —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Albion, Dane
County, Wis., January
12, 1846.
Son of Björn Anderson Kvelve and Abel Catherie von Krogh.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1868;
university
professor; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1885-89; newspaper
editor and publisher; insurance
executive.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., March 2,
1936 (age 90 years, 50
days).
Interment at Lake
Ripley Cemetery, Near Cambridge, Dane County, Wis.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1865.
Son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original
stockholders of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson
(Goodsell) Jennings (1828-1908).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1920;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1923; director, U.S. Industrial
Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull and
Bones.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original stockholders
of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson (Goodsell) Jennings
(1828-1908); married 1896 to Mary
Dows Brewster; uncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; father of Benjamin Brewster Jennings
(1898-1968; president of Socony-Vacuum, which later became Mobil
Oil); granduncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III. See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
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Elihu Root (1845-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
15, 1845.
Son of Prof. Oren Root and Nancy Whitney (Buttrick) Root.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1883-85; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1899-1904; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904
(Temporary
Chair), 1912;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1909-15; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Union
League; American
Society for International Law; American Bar
Association; American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1937 (age 91 years, 358
days).
Interment at Hamilton
College Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y.
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John F. Jameson (1879-1937) —
also known as Bud Jameson —
of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 12,
1879.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 16th District, 1911; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died of broncho-pneumonia, May 14,
1937 (age 58 years, 2
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Grenville Temple Emmet (1877-1937) —
also known as Grenville T. Emmet —
of Katonah, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., August 2,
1877.
Son of Richard Stockton Emmet (1821-1902) and Catherine 'Kitty'
(Temple) Emmet (1842-1895).
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; law
partner of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, 1921-23; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1934-37; Austria, 1937, died in office 1937.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Hotel
Bristol, Vienna, Austria,
September
26, 1937 (age 60 years, 55
days).
Interment at St.
Matthew's Churchyard, Bedford, N.Y.
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Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (1878-1937) —
also known as Grayson M. P. Murphy —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
19, 1878.
Son of Howard Murphy and Anita (Mallet-Prevost) Murphy.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Commissioner
of the American Red Cross in Europe, 1917; financier;
director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company, Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, National Aviation
Corporation; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
18, 1937 (age 58 years, 303
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Frederick Hobbes Allen (1858-1937) —
also known as Frederick H. Allen —
of Pelham Manor, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, May 30,
1858.
Son of Elisha
Hunt Allen and Mary Harrod (Hobbes) Allen.
Democrat. Lawyer; economist;
village president of Pelham Manor, N.Y., 1904-06; chair of
Westchester County Democratic Party, 1904-14; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1908,
1920
(alternate); served in the U.S. Navy during World War I.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died, from pneumonia, in Newport Hospital,
Newport, Newport
County, R.I., December
3, 1937 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Francis Dore (1881-1938) —
also known as John F. Dore —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
11, 1881.
Son of John F. Dore and Mary E. (Hudson) Dore.
Newspaper
work; lawyer; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1932-34, 1936-38.
Died, from complications of pneumonia and influenza,
Seattle, King
County, Wash., April 18,
1938 (age 56 years, 128
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Andrew James Peters (1872-1938) —
also known as Andrew J. Peters —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 3,
1872.
Son of Andrew James Peters and Mary Richards (Whitney) Peters.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1904-05; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1907-14;
resigned 1914; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1914-18; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1918-22; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Died, of pneumonia, June 26,
1938 (age 66 years, 84
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Thomas Theodore Crittenden, Jr. (1863-1938) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born near Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
23, 1863.
Son of Thomas
Theodore Crittenden and Carrie Wheeler (Jackson) Crittenden.
Jackson
County Clerk, 1894-1900; mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., 1908-10.
Died, of bronchopneumonia, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., July 31,
1938 (age 74 years, 220
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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John Barrett (1866-1938) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Grafton, Windham
County, Vt.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Windham
County, Vt., November
28, 1866.
Son of Charles
Barrett and Caroline (Sanford) Barrett.
Newspaper
correspondent; newspaper
editor; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1894-98; Argentina, 1903-04; Panama, 1904-05; Colombia, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1894-98; director general, Pan American Union, 1907-20.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in a hospital
at Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt., October
17, 1938 (age 71 years, 323
days).
Interment at Grafton
Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.
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Albert W. Twiggar (c.1870-1938) —
of Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester
County, N.Y., about 1870.
Son of Walter Twiggar and Caroline (Tompkins) Twiggar.
Dentist;
village
president of Ossining, New York, 1923; Dry candidate for delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; Law
Preservation candidate for New York
state senate 26th District, 1934.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
30, 1938 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Dale
Cemetery, Ossining, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Augusta Meeks. |
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Nathan Lieberman (c.1888-1939) —
also known as Leonard Madden —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1912;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1921.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
In March 1939, he was charged,
along with two others, over a stock
fraud scheme; he pleaded not guilty and was released on bail;
meanwhile, in a separate case, he was indicted in Broome County.
Died, apparently of pneumonia while attempting to commit
suicide with poison, in
his room at the Tudor Hotel
(where he had registered under the assumed name "Leonard Madden"),
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 12,
1939 (age about 51
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Livingston Farrand (1867-1939) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 14,
1867.
Son of Samuel Ashbel Farrand and Louise (Wilson) Farrand.
Physician;
anthropologist;
psychologist;
university
professor; president,
University of Colorado, 1914-19; chairman, Central Committee of the
American Red Cross, 1919-21; president,
Cornell University, 1921-37; elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, American
Public Health Association; American
Psychological Association.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1939 (age 72 years, 147
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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South Strong (1880-1939) —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.
Born in Lost Creek, Breathitt
County, Ky., July 23,
1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to
Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1912; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1912.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of pneumonia, at Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., November
29, 1939 (age 59 years, 129
days).
Interment at Combs
Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Son of Heywood Cox Broun and Henriette (Brose) Broun.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Sportswriter;
columnist
for New York newspapers;
founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Harkness Pavilion of the
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Frederick Leslie Hay (1856-1940) —
also known as Frederick L. Hay —
of Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio.
Born in Girard, Erie
County, Pa., December
22, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Defiance, Ohio, 1888-92, 1932-34; Defiance
County Probate Judge, 1893-97; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1900; common pleas court
judge in Ohio, 1912-18.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, of pneumonia, in Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio, February, 1940
(age 83
years, 0 days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Defiance, Ohio.
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Arthur A. Will (1871-1940) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 22,
1871.
Republican. Builder;
mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1925-27.
Died, from pneumonia, in Pewee Valley, Oldham
County, Ky., October
8, 1940 (age 69 years, 139
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Roland N. Holsaple (1876-1940) —
also known as R. N. Holsaple —
of Litchfield, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Petoskey, Emmet
County, Mich.; Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich.; Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; South Dakota; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; Minnesota; Cass City, Tuscola
County, Mich.
Born in Monroeville, Allen
County, Ind., April 11,
1876.
Republican. Minister;
candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1940.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died, of pneumonia, in Pleasant Home Hospital,
Cass City, Tuscola
County, Mich., October
31, 1940 (age 64 years, 203
days).
Interment at Elkland
Township Cemetery, Near Cass City, Tuscola County, Mich.
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George Bliss Agnew (1868-1941) —
also known as George B. Agnew —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1868.
Son of Andrew Gifford Agnew and Mary Hervey (Bliss) Agnew.
Republican. Stockbroker;
director of mining
companies and railroads;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1900
(alternate), 1904
(alternate), 1908;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 27th District, 1903-06;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1907-10.
Presbyterian.
English,
French
Huguenot, Scottish,
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 21,
1941 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married 1908
to Emily D. Gruban. |
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John Thomas Browne (1845-1941) —
also known as John T. Browne; "The Fighting
Irishman"; "Honest John" —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Ballylanders, County Limerick, Ireland,
March
23, 1845.
Mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1892-96; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1897-99, 1907.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died, of pneumonia, in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
19, 1941 (age 96 years, 149
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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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.
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,
1916;
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 (age 64 years, 260
days).
Interment at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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John W. Farley (1878-1942) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born March 4,
1878.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1916; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Tennessee, 1916
(alternate), 1924.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Freemasons.
Led drive to establish
the West Tennessee Normal School (now University of Memphis) in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia and severe arthritis,
November, 1942
(age 64
years, 0 days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr. (1892-1943) —
also known as Joseph W. Bailey, Jr. —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Gainesville, Cooke
County, Tex., December
15, 1892.
Son of Joseph
Weldon Bailey and Ellen (Murray) Bailey.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas at-large, 1933-35; served in the U.S.
Marine Corps during World War II.
Presbyterian.
Died
in military service, of pneumonia following injuries he
suffered in a collision,
in the military hospital
at Camp Howze, near Gainesville, Cooke
County, Tex., July 17,
1943 (age 50 years, 214
days).
Original interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Gainesville, Tex.; reinterment in 1958 at Sparkman
Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Floyd W. Annabel (c.1886-1944) —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Howard, Steuben
County, N.Y., about 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1935; appointed 1935;
defeated, 1935.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of pneumonia, in Bath Hospital,
Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y., January
13, 1944 (age about 58
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Olive Dutcher. |
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John J. Curley (c.1873-1944) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born about 1873.
Democrat. Grocer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928;
Boston city treasurer, 1932; chairman, Massachusetts Public Utilities
Commission, 1936.
Died, of pneumonia, in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 26,
1944 (age about 71
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Abraham Reuben Garver (1860-1944) —
of Tipp City, Miami
County, Ohio.
Born in Bethel Township, Clark
County, Ohio, December
20, 1860.
Republican. Member of Ohio state
senate, 1915-17.
Methodist.
German
ancestry.
Owned the Garver Furniture
Factory in Tipp City, Ohio.
Died, of pneumonia, in Tipp City, Miami
County, Ohio, October
30, 1944 (age 83 years, 315
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Tipp City, Ohio.
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Elliott Northcott (1869-1946) —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., April 26,
1869.
Son of Robert Saunders Northcott (Civil War general) and Mary
(Cunningham) Northcott.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of West Virginia
Republican State Executive Committee, 1900-08; West Virginia
Republican state chair, 1904-08; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, 1905-09,
1922-27; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1909-10; Nicaragua, 1911; Venezuela, 1911-13; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1927-39.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Arcadia, DeSoto
County, Fla., January
3, 1946 (age 76 years, 252
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va.
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William Bernard Barry (1902-1946) —
also known as William B. Barry —
of St. Albans, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in County Mayo, Ireland,
July
21, 1902.
Son of Thomas J. Barry and Catherine J. (Hennelly) Barry.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1935-46 (2nd District 1935-45, 4th
District 1945-46); died in office 1946.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died, from pneumonia, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1946 (age 44 years, 91
days).
Interment at Mount
St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Frank Graham Finlayson (1864-1947) —
also known as Frank G. Finlayson —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia,
March
24, 1864.
Son of James Ross Finlayson and Elizabeth (Goodsir) Finlayson.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1893-94; superior court judge in California,
1911-19; Judge,
California Court of Appeal, 1919-26; justice of
California state supreme court, 1926.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, at Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
9, 1947 (age 82 years, 322
days).
Cremated.
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April 2,
1862.
Son of Henry L. Butler and Mary J. (Murray) Butler.
Republican. University
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1888;
President
of Columbia University, 1901-45; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1912; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920,
1928;
co-recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931; elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; blind
in his later years.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of bronchio-pneumonia, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1947 (age 85 years, 249
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Robert Lee Williams (1868-1948) —
also known as Robert L. Williams —
of Durant, Bryan
County, Okla.
Born near Brundidge, Pike
County, Ala., December
20, 1868.
Son of Jonathan Williams and Sarah Julia (Paul) Williams.
Democrat. Methodist
minister; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indian Territory, 1900;
member of Democratic National Committee from Indian Territory,
1904-07; delegate to
Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; justice of
Oklahoma state supreme court, 1907-14; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker);
Governor
of Oklahoma, 1915-19; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, 1919-37; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, 1937-39.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
The Durant public library is named for
him.
Died, of pneumonia, at Wilson N. Jones Hospital,
Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex., April 10,
1948 (age 79 years, 112
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Durant, Okla.
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John R. A. Crossland (1864-1950) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in 1864.
Republican. Physician;
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1902-03; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Missouri, 1908,
1916.
African
ancestry.
Died, from hypostatic pneumonia and senile
dementia, in the State Hospital,
St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., September
12, 1950 (age about 86
years).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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Charles Quinn Hildebrant (1864-1953) —
also known as Charles Q. Hildebrant —
of Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio.
Born in Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio, October
17, 1864.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1901-05; defeated, 1906;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1908,
1916;
secretary
of state of Ohio, 1915-17; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1926; mayor of Wilmington, Ohio, 1927-41.
Died of pneumonia, Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio, March 31,
1953 (age 88 years, 165
days).
Interment at Sugar
Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio.
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Daniel Thomas McCarty (1912-1953) —
also known as Dan McCarty —
of Florida.
Born in Fort Pierce, St. Lucie
County, Fla., January
18, 1912.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1937-41; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1941; served in the
U.S. Army during World War II; Governor of
Florida, 1953; defeated in primary, 1948; died in office 1953.
Died, of pneumonia following a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., September
28, 1953 (age 41 years, 253
days).
Interment at Palms
Cemetery, Near Ankona, St. Lucie County, Fla.
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Arthur Edson Blair Moody (1902-1954) —
also known as Blair Moody —
of Michigan.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
13, 1902.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1951-52; defeated, 1952, 1954; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1952.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, during his campaign
for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, of a heart
ailment and pneumonia, in University Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., July 20,
1954 (age 52 years, 157
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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John Carl Williams Hinshaw (1894-1956) —
also known as Carl Hinshaw —
of Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 28,
1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real
estate and insurance
business; U.S.
Representative from California, 1939-56 (11th District 1939-43,
20th District 1943-56); defeated, 1936; died in office 1956;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1948.
Died, of pneumonia and congestive
heart failure, in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., August 5,
1956 (age 62 years, 8
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Edward Davies (1876-1958) —
also known as Joseph E. Davies —
of Wisconsin; Washington,
D.C.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, Wis., November
29, 1876.
Son of Edward Davies and Rahel (Paynter) Davies.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Wisconsin, 1912; law partner of Timothy
T. Ansberry; member,
Federal Trade Commission, 1915-18; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1915-16; economic advisor to President Woodrow
Wilson at the Paris peace conference after World War I; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1936; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1936-38; Belgium, 1938-39; U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, 1938-39.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia following a stroke, in
Washington,
D.C., May 9,
1958 (age 81 years, 161
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Sands Point, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
5, 1882.
Son of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter and editor; received the Pulitzer
Prize in 1917 for a series of articles titled "Inside the German
Empire"; executive editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his
leadership, the newspaper won a Pulitzer
Prize for meritorious public service in 1922, for reporting on
the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1932,
1936,
1940;
elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
English,
German,
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, following surgery for an intestinal
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1958 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope (1872-1957;
president of General Electric, 1922-39); married 1912 to
Margaret Honeyman Powell (1890-1967). |
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article |
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer and
pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert Ephram Abell (1887-1963) —
also known as Robert E. Abell —
of Chester, Chester
County, S.C.
Born in Chester
County, S.C., October
12, 1887.
Son of Joshua L. Abell and Sophia (Erwin) Abell.
Democrat. Surgeon;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1940.
Died, from a suspected coronary
occlusion, due to emphysema
and pneumonia, in Memorial Hospital,
Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., March 9,
1963 (age 75 years, 148
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Chester, S.C.
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Gordon Hubert Butler (1889-1964) —
also known as Gordon H. Butler —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Scipio, Jennings
County, Ind., February
10, 1889.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; general
contractor; member of Minnesota
state senate 57th District, 1950-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
American
Legion; Rotary; Elks.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., August 1,
1964 (age 75 years, 173
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Joseph Russell Knowland (1873-1966) —
also known as Joseph R. Knowland —
of Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif., August 5,
1873.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of California
state assembly, 1899-1903; member of California
state senate, 1903-04; U.S.
Representative from California, 1904-15 (3rd District 1904-13,
6th District 1913-15); candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1914; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1928,
1932,
1944.
Died of pneumonia in Piedmont, Alameda
County, Calif., February
1, 1966 (age 92 years, 180
days).
Cremated.
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Garland Smith Garriss (1908-1968) —
also known as Garland S. Garriss —
of Troy, Montgomery
County, N.C.
Born in Margarettsville, Northampton
County, N.C., February
23, 1908.
Son of Walter Garriss and Mamie (Smith) Garriss.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1947-48, 1959-60, 1964-65.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary; American
Legion.
Died, of pneumonia and colon
cancer, in Moore Regional Hospital,
Pinehurst, Moore
County, N.C., July 21,
1968 (age 60 years, 149
days).
Interment at Glendon
Christian Church Cemetery, Glendon, N.C.
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Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969) —
also known as Allen W. Dulles;
"Spymaster" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., April 7,
1893.
Son of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith (Foster) Dulles.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 1953-61; member, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from influenza
and pneumonia, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 296
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Harry Richard Sheppard (1885-1969) —
also known as Harry R. Sheppard —
of Yucaipa, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., January
10, 1885.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California, 1937-65 (19th District 1937-43,
21st District 1943-53, 27th District 1953-63, 33rd District 1963-65);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1940,
1944,
1956,
1960.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
Died of pneumonia at George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April 28,
1969 (age 84 years, 108
days).
Interment at National
Memorial Park, Near Falls Church, Fairfax County, Va.
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Edgar Willard Hiestand (1888-1970) —
also known as Edgar W. Hiestand —
of Altadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
3, 1888.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 21st District, 1953-63; defeated,
1962; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1960.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Rotary; John
Birch Society.
Died, of a kidney
infection and pneumonia, at Huntington Memorial Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
19, 1970 (age 81 years, 259
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, Calif.
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James Kemp Doughton, Sr. (1884-1973) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., May 18,
1884.
Son of Rufus
A. Doughton.
Banker;
farmer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1948-57; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1951-57.
Methodist.
Indicted
for bank
fraud in 1928; tried and
acquitted.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C., March 17,
1973 (age 88 years, 303
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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Ray Louis Forshee (1884-1974) —
also known as Ray L. Forshee —
of Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Michigan, March 19,
1884.
Son of John R. Forshee and Virginia (Cowen) Forshee.
Democrat. Clothing
salesman; candidate for supervisor
of Pittsfield Township, Michigan, 1941.
Irish
and German
ancestry.
His legs were
amputated due to arteriosclerosis.
Died, of pneumonia, in Whitehall Convalescent
Center, Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
5, 1974 (age 89 years, 292
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of John R. Forshee and Virginia (Cowen) Forshee; married to Ida Lerg;
brother of Frank
J. Forshee. |
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Luis Miller Dunckel (1899-1975) —
also known as Miller Dunckel —
of Three Rivers, St. Joseph
County, Mich.
Born in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., February
11, 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; automobile
wholesaler; member of Michigan
state senate 6th District, 1935-38; defeated in primary, 1932; Michigan
state treasurer, 1939-40; candidate in primary for Governor of
Michigan, 1940.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
American
Legion; Eagles; Moose; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died of pneumonia in 1975
(age about
76 years).
Interment at Eternal
Hills, Oceanside, Calif.
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Image source:
Michigan Manual, 1939 |
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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith (1898-1976) —
also known as Gerald L. K. Smith —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Pardeeville, Columbia
County, Wis., February
27, 1898.
Son of Lyman Z. Smith and Sarah Smith.
Pastor;
orator;
political administrator and organizer for Huey P.
Long, 1934-35; as a white
supremacist, he joined and organized for William
Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts of America, an organization modeled
directly on Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1942 (Republican primary), 1942; founder
of the America First party; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; America First candidate for President
of the United States, 1944; founder of the Christian Nationalist
Crusade; advocated deportation from the U.S. of Jews and
African-Americans.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died, of pneumonia, in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 15,
1976 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at Christ
of the Ozarks Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Alice Lee
Roosevelt; "Princess Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt (1861-1884).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940;
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia, emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt (1861-1884);
married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; first cousin of Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) —
also known as Manny Celler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 6,
1888.
Son of Henry H. Celler and Josephine (Müller) Celler.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1923-73 (10th District 1923-45,
15th District 1945-53, 11th District 1953-63, 10th District 1963-73);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; United
World Federalists; American
Jewish Congress; American
Jewish Committee; B'nai
B'rith.
Died, from pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
15, 1981 (age 92 years, 254
days).
Interment at Mt.
Neboh Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Son of Edouard G. Hesselberg and Lena (Shackelford) Hesselberg.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 4,
1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1914-1986) —
also known as Jonathan B. Bingham; Jack
Bingham —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., April 24,
1914.
Son of Hiram
Bingham and Alfreda (Mitchell) Bingham.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; secretary to New York
Governor W.
Averell Harriman, 1955-59; candidate for New York
state senate 29th District, 1958; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1965-83 (23rd District 1965-73,
22nd District 1973-83).
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 3,
1986 (age 72 years, 70
days).
Interment at Bingham
Family Cemetery, Salem, Conn.
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Inzer B. Wyatt (1907-1990) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., March 29,
1907.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1962-77.
Died, of pneumonia and heart
failure, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
17, 1990 (age 82 years, 294
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Hope Johnston. |
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Sigurd Anderson (1904-1990) —
of Webster, Day
County, S.Dak.
Born in Arendal, Norway,
January
22, 1904.
Son of Karl August Anderson and Bertha (Broten) Anderson.
Republican. Lawyer; Day
County State's Attorney, 1939-40; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; South
Dakota state attorney general, 1947-51; member of South Dakota
Republican State Executive Committee, 1947-48; Governor of
South Dakota, 1951-55; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1955-64; circuit judge in South Dakota.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Farm
Bureau; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kiwanis;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Theta Phi; Pi
Kappa Delta.
Died, from prostate
cancer and pneumonia, in Lake Area Hospital,
Webster, Day
County, S.Dak., December
21, 1990 (age 86 years, 333
days).
Interment somewhere
in Webster, S.Dak.
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Frank G. Binswanger (1902-1991) —
of Elkins Park, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
12, 1902.
Republican. Real estate
broker; real estate
developer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1952
(alternate), 1956.
Died, from cancer, heart
disease, and pneumonia, in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
1, 1991 (age 88 years, 354
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Raymond Richard Guest (1907-1991) —
also known as Raymond R. Guest —
of Front Royal, Warren
County, Va.; Bayard, Warren
County, Va.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
25, 1907.
Son of Frederick E. Guest and Amy (Phipps) Guest.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
1940
(alternate), 1948;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Virginia
state senate, 1947-53; U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 1965-68.
Died of pneumonia, in Fredericksburg,
Va., December
31, 1991 (age 84 years, 36
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gale William McGee (1915-1992) —
also known as Gale W. McGee —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., March 17,
1915.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1959-77; defeated, 1976.
Died, of pneumonia, following surgery for a brain
aneurysm, in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 9,
1992 (age 77 years, 23
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Peter T. Farrell (1900-1992) —
of Corona, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
12, 1900.
Son of Thomas F. Farrell and Mary (Fitzpatrick) Farrell.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 3rd District, 1930-36; member
of New
York state senate 3rd District, 1937-43; resigned 1943; Judge of
Queens County Court, 1943-61; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 11th District, 1961-76.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
9, 1992 (age 91 years, 363
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edmund Burke, Jr. (1905-1993) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., February
5, 1905.
Son of Edmund Burke and Mabel Jeannette (Rule) Burke.
Democrat. Lawyer; member, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1941-43; attorney for Texaco oil company.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., May 13,
1993 (age 88 years, 97
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, July 18,
1939, to Marion Hopkins McDonagh (died 1984). |
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Henry W. Maier (1918-1994) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, February
7, 1918.
Son of Charles Maier, Jr. and Marie L. (Knisley) Maier.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; insurance
business; member of Wisconsin
state senate 9th District, 1951-60; defeated, 1948; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1956; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Wisconsin, 1956;
mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1960-88.
Member, American
Legion; American
Federation of Teachers.
Died, of pneumonia, in Delafield, Waukesha
County, Wis., 1994
(age about
76 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Raymond Arthur Hare (1901-1994) —
also known as Raymond A. Hare —
of Goodman, Marinette
County, Wis.; Manchester, Delaware
County, Iowa; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., April 3,
1901.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Constantinople, 1927-29; Paris, 1931-32; Beirut, 1933; Teheran, 1933; U.S. Consul in Teheran, 1935; Cairo, 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1950-53; Lebanon, 1953-54; Egypt, 1956-58; United Arab Republic, 1958-59; Turkey, 1961-65; U.S. Minister to Yemen, 1950-53, 1959-60.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1994 (age 92 years, 312
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Domenick Gabrielli (1912-1994) —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
13, 1912.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; county judge in New
York, 1957-61; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1961-72; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1972-82.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, at Villa Mary Immaculate
Nursing
Home, Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March 25,
1994 (age 81 years, 102
days).
Interment somewhere
in Bath, N.Y.
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Richard A. Heyman (c.1935-1994) —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.
Born about 1935.
Mayor
of Key West, Fla., 1983-85, 1987-89.
Gay.
One of the first
openly gay public officials.
Died of AIDS-related
pneumonia, September
16, 1994 (age about 59
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Chester Earl Holifield (1903-1995) —
also known as Chet Holifield —
of Montebello, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Mayfield, Graves
County, Ky., December
3, 1903.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940,
1944,
1948
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1952
(alternate), 1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California 19th District, 1943-74; resigned
1974.
Died, of pneumonia, in Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif., February
5, 1995 (age 91 years, 64
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903-1995) —
also known as Philip W. Bonsal —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 22,
1903.
Son of Stephen Bonsal and Henrietta (Morris) Bonsal.
Executive in overseas telephone
companies; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1938; U.S. Consul in Madrid, 1947; Barcelona, 1947; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1955-57; Bolivia, 1957-59; Cuba, 1959-60; Morocco, 1961-62.
Died, while ill with pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., June 28,
1995 (age 92 years, 37
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Serrano Villard (1900-1996) —
also known as Henry S. Villard —
of New York.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 30,
1900.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Libya, 1952; U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1960-61; Mauritania, 1960.
Died of pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
21, 1996 (age 95 years, 297
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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MacNeil Mitchell (1905-1996) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 18,
1905.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1938-46 (New York County 10th District 1938-44,
New York County 1st District 1945-46); member of New York
state senate 20th District, 1947-64; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1960,
1964.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died of pneumonia at New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1996 (age 91 years, 152
days).
Interment at Salisbury
Cemetery, Salisbury, Conn.
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Cecil F. Poole (1914-1997) —
of California.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., July 25,
1914.
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1961-69; Judge of
U.S. District Court, 1976-79; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1979-96.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, in a nursing
home at San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif., 1997
(age about
82 years).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Sonoma County, Calif.
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Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) —
of Kew Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
19, 1913.
Son of Anna (Swanton) Halpern and Ralph
Halpern.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; advertising
business; candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 5th District, 1937; member of
New
York state senate, 1941-54 (2nd District 1941-44, 4th District
1945-54); U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-73 (4th District 1959-63, 6th
District 1963-73); Presidential Elector for New York, 1972.
Jewish.
Member, Elks; B'nai
B'rith; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died from complications of pneumonia, at Southampton Hospital,
Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
10, 1997 (age 83 years, 52
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Queens, N.Y.
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Paul Efthemios Tsongas (1941-1997) —
also known as Paul E. Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
14, 1941.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1975-79; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1979-85; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1992.
Greek
ancestry.
Died of liver
damage caused by cancer
treatment, and pneumonia, at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
18, 1997 (age 55 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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Frank Mariano Tejeda (1945-1997) —
also known as Frank Tejeda —
of Texas.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
2, 1945.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1977-86; member of Texas
state senate, 1987-92; U.S.
Representative from Texas 28th District, 1993-97; died in office
1997; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1996.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died of brain
cancer and pneumonia, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
30, 1997 (age 51 years, 120
days).
Interment at Fort
Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Tex.
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Ural Alexis Johnson (1908-1997) —
also known as U. Alexis Johnson —
of Washington,
D.C.; California.
Born in Falun, Saline
County, Kan., October
17, 1908.
Son of Carl Theodore Johnson and Ellen (Forsse) Johnson.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Seoul, 1938; Rio de Janeiro, 1943; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, 1947; U.S. Consul General in Yokohama, 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1953-58; Thailand, 1958-61; Japan, 1966-69; , 1973-77.
Survived a car
bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam.
Died, of pneumonia, in Rex Convalescent
Center, Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., March 24,
1997 (age 88 years, 158
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Leo Brent Bozell (c.1926-1997) —
also known as L. Brent Bozell —
of Maryland.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., about 1926.
Republican. Co-founded the Young Americans for Freedom; speechwriter
for Joseph
R. McCarthy and Barry
M. Goldwater; candidate for Maryland
state house of delegates, 1958; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1964.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom.
Died, of pneumonia, at a nursing
home in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 15,
1997 (age about 71
years).
Interment at St.
Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Patrick Layton Paulsen (1927-1997) —
also known as Pat Paulsen —
Born in South Bend, Pacific
County, Wash., July 6,
1927.
Actor;
comedian;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1972,
1976;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1996.
Ill with colon
and brain
cancer, he died of complications from pneumonia and kidney
failure, in Tijuana, Baja
California, April 24,
1997 (age 69 years, 292
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Benson Ellison Lane Timmons III (1916-1997) —
also known as Benson E. L. Timmons; Lane
Timmons —
of Florida.
Born in Sapulpa, Creek
County, Okla., 1916.
Rhodes
scholar; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign
Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, 1963-67.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of a stroke he
suffered while recovering from pneumonia, at Southampton Hospital,
Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 11,
1997 (age about 80
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Emmet Clarie (1913-1997) —
also known as T. Emmet Clarie —
of Danielson, Killingly, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Goodyear, Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., January
1, 1913.
Son of Thomas C. Clarie and Kathryn (Burns) Clarie.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Killingly, 1937-43; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1948;
U.S.
District Judge for Connecticut, 1961-82.
Died of viral pneumonia, at Day Kimball Hospital,
Putnam, Windham
County, Conn., September
24, 1997 (age 84 years, 266
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Danielson, Killingly, Conn.
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John Emerson Moss (1915-1997) —
also known as John E. Moss —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Hiawatha, Carbon
County, Utah, April 13,
1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1949-52; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California 3rd District, 1953-78.
Died, from complications of asthma and
pneumonia, in a hospital
at San
Francisco, Calif., December
5, 1997 (age 82 years, 236
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Lawrence Alioto (1916-1998) —
also known as Joseph L. Alioto —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., February
12, 1916.
Son of Guiseppe Alioto (1886-1961) and Domenica Mae (Lazio) Alioto
(1893-1971).
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1968-76; candidate in primary for Governor of
California, 1974.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Indicted
in 1971 on federal charges
of bribery,
conspiracy, and mail fraud; acquitted in 1972.
Died, of prostate
cancer and pneumonia, in San
Francisco, Calif., January
29, 1998 (age 81 years, 351
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.; cenotaph at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Samuel William Yorty (1909-1998) —
also known as Samuel W. Yorty; Sam Yorty;
"Traveling Sam" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., October
1, 1909.
Son of Frank Patrick Yorty and Johanna (Egan) Yorty.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1936, 1948; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1940 (primary), 1954; served in the U.S.
Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1951-55 (14th District 1951-53,
26th District 1953-55); mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1961-73; defeated, 1973, 1981; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
talk
show host.
Died of pneumonia, following a stroke, in
Studio City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
1998 (age 88 years, 247
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Floyd Kirk Haskell (1916-1998) —
also known as Floyd K. Haskell —
of Colorado.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., February
7, 1916.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1965-69; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1973-79; defeated, 1978.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died of pneumonia, a complication of a brain hemorrhage which
resulted from a fall on an
icy sidewalk, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1998 (age 82 years, 199
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (1907-1998) —
also known as Lewis F. Powell, Jr. —
of Virginia.
Born in Suffolk,
Va., September
19, 1907.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member of Virginia
state constitutional commission, 1967-68; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1972-87.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died of pneumonia, in Richmond,
Va., August
25, 1998 (age 90 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Albert Walter Johnson (1906-1998) —
also known as Albert W. Johnson —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Smethport, McKean
County, Pa., April 17,
1906.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from McKean County, 1947-63; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1963-77;
defeated, 1976.
Member, Moose.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, at Boca Raton Community
Hospital,
Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla., September
1, 1998 (age 92 years, 137
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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David Worth Dennis (1912-1999) —
also known as David W. Dennis —
of Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 7,
1912.
Republican. Member of Indiana state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1969-75.
Died, of pneumonia, in Reid Hospital,
Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., January
6, 1999 (age 86 years, 213
days).
Interment at Earlham
Cemetery, Richmond, Ind.
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Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr. (1914-1999) —
also known as Mills E. Godwin, Jr. —
of Suffolk,
Va.
Born in Nansemond County, Va. (now part of Suffolk,
Va.), November
19, 1914.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1948-52; member of Virginia
state senate, 1952-62; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1962-66; Governor of
Virginia, 1966-70, 1974-78.
Christian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Rotary.
Died of complications of pneumonia, January
30, 1999 (age 84 years, 72
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.
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Frank Minis Johnson, Jr. (1918-1999) —
also known as Frank M. Johnson, Jr. —
of Jasper, Walker
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Haleyville, Winston
County, Ala., October
30, 1918.
Son of Frank
Minis Johnson.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1948;
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1953-55; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, 1955-; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1979-81; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-92.
Legendary for civil rights decisions; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1995.
Died of pneumonia, in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., July 23,
1999 (age 80 years, 266
days).
Interment at Hill
Crest City Cemetery, Haleyville, Ala.
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William G. Kirkland (1913-1999) —
of Huntington Park, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
29, 1913.
Son of James Allen Kirkland (1882-1959) and Nora (Stevens) Kirkland
(1888-1985).
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; civil
engineer; mayor
of Huntington Park, Calif., 1952.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
in Martin
County, Fla., December
15, 1999 (age 86 years, 77
days).
Buried at sea in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Henry Hammill Fowler (1908-2000) —
also known as Henry H. Fowler; Joe Fowler —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., September
5, 1908.
Son of Mack Johnson Fowler and Bertha (Browning) Fowler.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi Kappa
Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Falls
Church, Va., January
3, 2000 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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David W. Williams (1910-2000) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March 20,
1910.
Republican. Lawyer;
municipal judge in California, 1956-62; superior court judge in
California, 1963-69; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1969-81.
African
ancestry.
First
black federal judge west of the Mississippi.
Died, of pneumonia, at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
2000 (age 90 years, 47
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lucy Phelps Patterson (c.1932-2000) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., about 1932.
Republican. Social
worker; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 24th District, 1982.
Female.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
First
black woman ever elected to Dallas city council.
Died, of pneumonia, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 15,
2000 (age about 68
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Wallace H. Savage (1912-2000) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born November
21, 1912.
Democrat. Mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1949-51; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1952;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 5th District, 1954.
Died, of pneumonia and a stroke, in
Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 20,
2000 (age 87 years, 212
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Merle C. Hufford (c.1909-2000) —
also known as "Hula Hips" —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.
Born in Milton-Freewater, Umatilla
County, Ore., about 1909.
Republican. Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1947-49; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1948.
Died, of pneumonia, in Puyallup, Pierce
County, Wash., August 6,
2000 (age about 91
years).
Interment at Milton-Freewater
Cemetery, Milton-Freewater, Ore.
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Sidney Richard Yates (1909-2000) —
also known as Sidney R. Yates —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
27, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 9th District, 1949-63, 1965-99;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1964,
1996.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Died, of kidney
failure and complications of pneumonia, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2000 (age 91 years, 39
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Walter Patrick McConaughy, Jr. (1908-2000) —
also known as Walter P. McConaughy, Jr. —
of Montevallo, Shelby
County, Ala.
Born in Montevallo, Shelby
County, Ala., September
11, 1908.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tampico, 1930-33; U.S. Consul in Kobe, 1938; Shanghai, 1948-50; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1950-52; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1957-59; South Korea, 1959-61; Pakistan, 1962-66; China (Taiwan), 1966-74.
Died, of pneumonia, November
10, 2000 (age 92 years, 60
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Vliet Lindsay (1921-2000) —
also known as John V. Lindsay —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1921.
Son of George Nelson Lindsay and Eleanor (Vliet) Lindsay.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1959-65; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1960,
1964;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1966-73; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1972;
candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1980.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease and pneumonia, in Hilton Head Island, Beaufort
County, S.C., December
19, 2000 (age 79 years, 25
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Maurice Schecter (1904-2001) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Creve Coeur, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., June 27,
1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1935-40; member of Missouri
state senate 13th District, 1961-76.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
B'nai
B'rith.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Missouri Baptist Medical
Center, Town and Country, St. Louis
County, Mo., January
31, 2001 (age 96 years, 218
days).
Interment at Chesed
Shel Emeth Cemetery No. 2, Creve Coeur, Mo.
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Gordon R. Hahn (1919-2001) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Kindersley, Saskatchewan,
April
5, 1919.
Republican. Real estate
business; member of California
state assembly, 1947-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 1948.
Christian.
Died, of respiratory
failure from pneumonia, in Torrance, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 29,
2001 (age 81 years, 358
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jaime Benitez Rexach (1908-2001) —
also known as Jaime Benitez —
of San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Vieques, Vieques
Municipio, Puerto Rico, October
29, 1908.
Lawyer;
university
professor; chancellor
of the University of Puerto Rico, 1942-66; president
of the Puerto Rico University System, 1966-71; Resident
Commissioner to U.S. Congress from Puerto Rico, 1973-77;
defeated, 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Puerto Rico, 1976.
Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, May 30,
2001 (age 92 years, 213
days).
Interment at Cementerio
de Santa Maria Magdalena, Santa Maria, Puerto Rico.
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Robert Moody McKinney (1910-2001) —
also known as Robert M. McKinney —
of New Mexico.
Born in Shattuck, Ellis
County, Okla., August
28, 1910.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; newspaper
publisher; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1961-63.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
During World War II, he helped develop the Tiny Tim rocket, which was
used against German tanks in the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944.
Editor and publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper
for 52 years.
Died, of pneumonia, at New York
Hospital, New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 24,
2001 (age 90 years, 300
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Marshall Bagley, Sr. (1927-2001) —
also known as Richard M. Bagley, Sr.; Dick
Bagley —
of Hampton,
Va.
Born in Hampton,
Va., May 14,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1966-85.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Jesters;
Shriners;
Omicron
Delta Kappa; American
Legion; Elks.
Died, of pneumonia, at a hospital
in Newport
News, Va., December
13, 2001 (age 74 years, 213
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Hampton, Va.
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Edwin McCammon Martin (1908-2002) —
also known as Edwin M. Martin —
of Ohio; Paris, France.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, May 21,
1908.
Son of Harry Judson Martin and Clara (McCammon) Martin.
Economist;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1964-68.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Audubon
Society; Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 2002 (age 93 years, 236
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Byron Raymond White (1917-2002) —
also known as Byron R. White;
"Whizzer" —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Fort Collins, Larimer
County, Colo., June 8,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1960;
Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-93.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Professional football
player for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1938 and for the Detroit Lions
in 1940; lead the league in rushing both years; his $15,800 salary
was then the highest ever paid a player in the National Football
League.
Died, of complications from pneumonia, in Denver,
Colo., April 15,
2002 (age 84 years, 311
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St.
John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, Colo.
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Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002) —
also known as Patsy T. Mink; "Patsy
Pink" —
of Waipahu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii; Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Paia, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, December
6, 1927.
Democrat. Member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1956-58; member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1958-59; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Hawaii, 1960,
1980,
1996,
2000;
member of Hawaii
state senate, 1962-64; U.S.
Representative from Hawaii, 1965-77, 1990-2002 (at-large 1965-71,
2nd District 1971-77, 1990-2002); died in office 2002; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1976; candidate in primary for Governor of
Hawaii, 1986; candidate for mayor
of Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988.
Female.
Protestant.
Asian/Pacific
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of pneumonia, at the Straub Clinic and Hospital,
Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, September
28, 2002 (age 74 years, 296
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908-2002) —
also known as Walter H. Annenberg —
of Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., March 13,
1908.
Son of Moses Annenberg and Sarah Annenberg.
Vice-president of his father's company, which published the Racing
Form and other newspapers;
he and his father were indicted
for tax
evasion in 1939, but the charges against him were dismissed as
part of a plea bargain; inherited the company when his father died;
founder of Seventeen and TV Guide; owner of radio and
television stations; philanthropist; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1969-74.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Newcomen
Society; Phi
Sigma Delta; Sigma
Delta Chi; Zeta
Beta Tau.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1986.
Died, of pneumonia, in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
1, 2002 (age 94 years, 202
days).
Interment at Sunnyland
Estate, Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) —
also known as Bill Mauldin —
of New York.
Born in Mountain Park, Otero
County, N.M., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist,
starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times
newspapers,
winning the Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945 and 1959; appeared as an
actor
in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge of
Courage; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1956.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease and pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., January
22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frank Edward Moss (1911-2003) —
also known as Frank E. Moss; Ted Moss; "The
Conscience of the Senate" —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Holladay, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
23, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952
(alternate), 1972;
candidate for Governor of
Utah, 1956; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1959-77; defeated, 1976.
Mormon.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions.
The Federal courthouse in Salt Lake City is named for
him.
Died, from pneumonia, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
29, 2003 (age 91 years, 128
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Milford Frank Vanik (1906-2003) —
also known as Mel Vanik —
of Bellevue, King
County, Wash.
Born July 29,
1906.
Aeronautical
engineer;
mayor
of Bellevue, Wash., 1977-78.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, at Cascade Vista Convalescent
Center, Redmond, King
County, Wash., January
30, 2003 (age 96 years, 185
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Thacher Longstreth (1920-2003) —
also known as W. Thacher Longstreth —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Haverford, Delaware
County, Pa., November
4, 1920.
Son of William Collins Longstreth and Nella (Thacher) Longstreth.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; advertising
business; candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1955, 1971.
Quaker.
Member, Urban
League.
Died, of a pulmonary
embolism, while hospitalized for pneumonia and suffering
from Parkinson's
disease, in Naples Community Hospital,
Naples, Collier
County, Fla., April 11,
2003 (age 82 years, 158
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Luis Alberto Ferré (1904-2003) —
also known as Luis A. Ferré; "Don
Luis" —
of Ponce, Ponce
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Ponce, Ponce
Municipio, Puerto Rico, February
17, 1904.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Puerto
Rico, 1964;
Governor
of Puerto Rico, 1969-73.
French
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia and respiratory
failure, in a hospital
at San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, October
21, 2003 (age 99 years, 246
days).
Interment somewhere
in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Ramona Lee Etta Barnes (1938-2003) —
also known as Ramona Barnes —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Pikeville, Bledsoe
County, Tenn., July 7,
1938.
Republican. Member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1979-84, 1987-2000; defeated,
2000; Speaker of
the Alaska State House of Representatives, 1993-94.
Died, of pneumonia, in Providence Alaska Medical
Center, Anchorage,
Alaska, November
26, 2003 (age 65 years, 142
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alphonzo Edward Bell, Jr. (1914-2004) —
also known as Alphonzo Bell —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
19, 1914.
Son of Alphonso Edward Bell, Sr. (1875-1947; real estate developer,
oil millionaire, tennis champion).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
president, Bell Oil Company,
1947-59; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1956;
California
Republican state chair, 1956-59; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1956-59; U.S.
Representative from California, 1961-77 (16th District 1961-63,
28th District 1963-75, 27th District 1975-77); candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1969; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1976.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in St. John's Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 25,
2004 (age 89 years, 219
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Son of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional actor
in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films
including Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe
Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning
Team; president of
the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
Presidential Elector for California, 1968;
President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot
and wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman (actress;
divorced 1948); married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress);
father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years |
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Samuel Schwartzkopf (1916-2004) —
also known as Sam Schwartzkopf —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., January
12, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor of
Lincoln, Neb., 1967-75; defeated, 1975.
Died, from complications related to a stroke, diabetes,
and pneumonia, June 5,
2004 (age 88 years, 145
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
City of Lincoln |
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Paul Henry Nitze (1907-2004) —
also known as Paul H. Nitze —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
16, 1907.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1986-89.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., October
19, 2004 (age 97 years, 277
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Charles County, Md.
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Relatives:
Married 1932
to Phyllis Pratt (died 1987); married 1993 to
Elizabeth Scott Porter. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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Robert Takeo Matsui (1941-2005) —
also known as Robert T. Matsui —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., September
17, 1941.
Son of Yasuji Matsui and Alice (Nagata) Matsui.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2005 (3rd District 1979-93,
5th District 1993-2005); died in office 2005; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988
(speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004.
Methodist.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, Rotary; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, of pneumonia and myelodysplastic
syndrome, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
1, 2005 (age 63 years, 106
days).
Interment at East
Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Calif.
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George Crews McGhee (1912-2005) —
also known as George C. McGhee —
of Texas.
Born in Waco, McLennan
County, Tex., March 10,
1912.
Rhodes
scholar; geologist;
oil
producer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Turkey, 1952-53; Germany, 1963-68; , 1968-69.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from pneumonia, in Loudoun Hospital
Center, Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., July 4,
2005 (age 93 years, 116
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Ross Roybal (1916-2005) —
also known as Edward R. Roybal —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., February
10, 1916.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1954; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1988
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-93 (30th District 1963-75,
25th District 1975-93).
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; Optimist
Club.
Died, from respiratory
failure and pneumonia, in Huntington Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
24, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Son of Herman Weinberger.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1969-70; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade Commission; director, U.S.
Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia, in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March 28,
2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Son of William Archibald 'Archie' Galbraith and Catherine (Kendall)
Galbraith.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia, in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 29,
2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948-2006) —
also known as Win Paul Rockefeller —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
17, 1948.
Son of Winthrop
Rockefeller and Barbara (Sears) Rockefeller.
Republican. Rancher; Arkansas
Republican state chair, 1994; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1996-2006; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 2004.
Methodist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Died, from a blood
disorder and complications of pneumonia, in Little Rock,
Pulaski
County, Ark., July 16,
2006 (age 57 years, 302
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924-2006) —
also known as Pat Lawford; Patricia
Kennedy —
of Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 6,
1924.
Daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1960;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1960.
Female.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in a hospital
at Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 2006 (age 82 years, 134
days).
Interment at Southampton
Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Granddaughter of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy; sister of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, April 24,
1954, to Peter Lawford (1923-1984; actor);
mother of Christopher Lawford (actor);
aunt of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-). See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joel Thomas Broyhill (1919-2006) —
also known as Joel T. Broyhill —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Hopewell,
Va., November
4, 1919.
Son of Marvin Talmadge Broyhill and Nellie Magdalene (Brewer)
Broyhill.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; taken
prisoner by the German forces in the Battle of the Bulge; escaped
after six months; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1953-75; defeated,
1974; delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1960,
1964.
Lutheran.
Member, Optimist
Club; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Amvets; Reserve
Officers Association; Freemasons;
Moose;
Elks; Eagles; Izaak
Walton League; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, of congestive
heart failure and pneumonia, in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., September
24, 2006 (age 86 years, 324
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Calvin William Verity, Jr. (1917-2007) —
also known as C. William Verity —
Born in Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio, January
26, 1917.
Son of Calvin William Verity, Sr. and Elizabeth (O'Brien) Verity.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; chief executive officer,
Armco (steel
industry), 1971-82; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1987-89.
Episcopalian.
Died, of pneumonia, in Beaufort, Beaufort
County, S.C., January
3, 2007 (age 89 years, 342
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Frederick Drinan (1920-2007) —
also known as Robert F. Drinan; "Our Father Who Art In
Congress" —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
15, 1920.
Son of James J. Drinan and Ann (Flanigan) Drinan.
Democrat. Catholic
priest; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1971-81 (3rd District 1971-73,
4th District 1973-81); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1972;
law
professor.
Catholic.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from pneumonia and congestive
heart failure, in Sibley Memorial Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 2007 (age 86 years, 74
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Steven Boghos Derounian (1918-2007) —
also known as Steven B. Derounian —
of Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria,
April
6, 1918.
Son of Boghos Derounian and Eliza Derounian.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1953-65 (2nd District 1953-63, 3rd
District 1963-65); delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(alternate), 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1969-81.
Episcopalian.
Armenian
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., April 17,
2007 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Parren James Mitchell (1922-2007) —
also known as Parren J. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April 29,
1922.
Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Sr. and Elsie (Davis) Mitchell.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1971-87.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Greater Baltimore Medical
Center, Baltimore,
Md., May 28,
2007 (age 85 years, 29
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Anne Claghorn Longstreth (c.1921-2008) —
also known as Anne C. Longstreth; Nancy Longstreth;
Anne Strawbridge Claghorn —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born about 1921.
Republican. Real estate
agent; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1960.
Female.
Died, of pneumonia, in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
10, 2008 (age about 87
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Orin Lehman (1920-2008) —
also known as "Father Nature" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
14, 1920.
Son of Allan Sigmund Lehman (1885-1952) and Evelyn 'Eve' (Schiffer)
Lehman (c.1892-1970).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; injured during
the Battle of the Bulge and lost a
leg; newspaper
publisher; chairman, Colgreen Broadcasting
Group, owner of radio
stations; founder, Just One Break, Inc., not-for-profit
employment service for people with disabilities; campaign manager, John
J. Burns for Lieutenant Governor, 1962; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1966; producer
of several popular off-Broadway plays; New York State Commissioner of
Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, 1975-93.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Urban
League; NAACP.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 2008 (age 88 years, 39
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Sumiko Biderman (1924-2009) —
also known as Su Biderman; Sumiko Fujii —
of McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif., June 10,
1924.
Daughter of Rutaro Fujii.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
1996,
2000
(alternate).
Female.
Japanese
ancestry.
Died, of postobstructive pneumonia, in Virginia Hospital
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., March 2,
2009 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1948
to Albert D. Biderman (1923-2003; social scientist). |
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John Logan Cashin, Jr. (1928-2011) —
also known as John L. Cashin, Jr. —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., April 16,
1928.
Dentist;
candidate for mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1964; National Democratic candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
of theft and
perjury
in 1982; served 17 months in federal
prison.
Died, of renal
failure and pneumonia, in Specialty Hospital
of Washington-Hadley, Washington,
D.C., March 21,
2011 (age 82 years, 339
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (1930-2011) —
also known as Lawrence Eagleburger; Larry Eagleburger;
"The Eagle" —
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August 1,
1930.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1977-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1992-93; director, Phillips Petroleum
corporation, 1993-2000.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Died, of pneumonia, in the University of Virginia Medical
Center, Charlottesville,
Va., June 4,
2011 (age 80 years, 307
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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