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Samuel Adams (1722-1803) —
also known as "The Tribune of the People";
"The Cromwell of New England";
"Determinatus"; "The Psalm Singer";
"Amendment Monger"; "American
Cato"; "Samuel the Publican" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
27, 1722.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1803 (age 81 years, 5
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fifield) Adams; married 1749 to
Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to
Elizabeth Wells; uncle of Joseph
Allen; granduncle of Charles
Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married
Alfred
Cumming) and William
Vincent Wells; second cousin of John
Adams; second cousin once removed of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); second cousin twice removed of George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Chapin, Arthur
Laban Bates, Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass, Emerson
Richard Boyles and Thomas
Boylston Adams; third cousin of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel
H. Huntington and Caleb
Cushing; third cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin, Erastus
Fairbanks, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington, Charles
Adams Jr., James
Brooks and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Alphonso
Taft, Benjamin
W. Waite, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Franklin
Fairbanks, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington, Edgar
Weeks and Arthur
Newton Holden; third cousin four times removed of John
Quincy Adams (1848-1911). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Mount
Sam Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Samuel Adams (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Samuel Adams: Donald Barr
Chidsey, The
World of Samuel Adams |
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Daniel Brainard Ainger (1844-1913) —
also known as Daniel B. Ainger —
of Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio; Bryan, Williams
County, Ohio; Charlotte, Eaton
County, Mich.; Washington,
D.C.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Bellevue, Huron
County, Ohio, March 9,
1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1868,
1876;
member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1878, 1894; postmaster at Washington,
D.C., 1880-82; Adjutant
General of Michigan, 1887-91; Michigan state banking
commissioner, 1896-97.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., April 2,
1913 (age 69 years, 24
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Charlotte, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William W. Ainger and Nancy (Brainard) Ainger; married, November
29, 1866, to Fannie Rhodes; married 1896 to Kittie
Rose Savage. |
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Daniel Kahikina Akaka (1924-2018) —
also known as Daniel K. Akaka —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, September
11, 1924.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Hawaii, 1974; U.S.
Representative from Hawaii 2nd District, 1977-90; resigned 1990;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, 1980,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1990-; appointed 1990.
Congregationalist. Hawaiian
and Chinese
ancestry.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, April 6,
2018 (age 93 years, 207
days).
Interment at National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Island of Oahu,
Hawaii.
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John Miller Baer (1886-1970) —
of North Dakota.
Born in Black Creek, Outagamie
County, Wis., March
29, 1886.
Civil
engineer; farmer; cartoonist;
postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from North Dakota 1st District, 1917-21; defeated
(Non-Partisan League), 1920.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1970 (age 83 years, 326
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
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Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
22, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807.
Congregationalist. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
One of the founders,
and first president,
of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 4,
1807 (age 52 years, 102
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield
Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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George Bancroft (1800-1891) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
3, 1800.
Democrat. U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1832-34; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1844;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1844; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1845-46; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1846-49; Prussia, 1867-71; Germany, 1871-74.
Congregationalist.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1910.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
17, 1891 (age 90 years, 106
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) —
of Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass., November
21, 1729.
Physician;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775-76, 1778; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-84; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1779; common pleas court judge in New
Hampshire, 1779-82; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1782-90; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1790; President
of New Hampshire, 1790-93; candidate for Presidential Elector for
New Hampshire; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1793-94.
Congregationalist.
Died in Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H., May 19,
1795 (age 65 years, 179
days).
Interment at Plains
Cemetery, Kingston, N.H.; statue at Public
Square, Amesbury, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Max Sieben Baucus (b. 1941) —
also known as Max Baucus; "Mad
Max" —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., December
11, 1941.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1973-74; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1975-78; resigned 1978;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1978-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Montana, 1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
United Church of Christ.
Still living as of 2014.
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Carroll Lynwood Beedy (1880-1947) —
also known as Carroll L. Beedy —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Phillips, Franklin
County, Maine, August
3, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer; Cumberland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1917-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921-35; defeated, 1934.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
30, 1947 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) —
also known as James G. Blaine; "The Plumed
Knight"; "Belshazzar Blaine";
"Magnetic Man" —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in West Brownsville, Washington
County, Pa., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary); member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1859-62; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1863-76; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1869-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1876-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1881, 1889-92; candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Congregationalist. Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1893 (age 62 years, 362
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1920 at Blaine
Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and Maria Louise (Gillespie) Blaine; married,
June
30, 1850, to Harriet Stanwood; father of Harriet Blaine (who
married Truxtun
Beale); nephew of Ellen Blaine (who married John
Hoge Ewing); grandfather of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
G. Ingersoll |
| | | Blaine counties in Idaho, Mont., Neb. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Blaine, in Park
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The city
of Blaine,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James G. Blaine (built 1942 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: J.
B. McLaughlin
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about James G. Blaine: Mark
Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Edward P. Crapol, James
G. Blaine : Architect of Empire — Richard B. Cheney &
Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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Stephen Bolles (1866-1941) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio; Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Janesville, Rock
County, Wis.
Born in Springboro, Crawford
County, Pa., June 25,
1866.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor and publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1928;
member of Wisconsin
Republican State Central Committee, 1936; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Congregationalist. Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis;
Grange.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 8,
1941 (age 75 years, 13
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
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Michael Drake Bradner (b. 1937) —
also known as Mike Bradner —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Washington,
D.C., 1937.
Democrat. Public
relations business; member of Alaska
state house of representatives 17th District, 1967-76; Speaker of
the Alaska State House of Representatives, 1975-76.
Congregationalist.
Still living as of 1976.
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David Josiah Brewer (1837-1910) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey,
June
20, 1837.
Lawyer;
county judge in Kansas, 1862-65; district judge in Kansas 1st
District, 1865-69; justice of
Kansas state supreme court, 1870-84; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1884-90; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1889-1910; died in office 1910.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1910 (age 72 years, 281
days).
Interment at Mt.
Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kan.
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Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) —
also known as Henry B. Brown —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in South Lee, Lee, Berkshire
County, Mass., March 2,
1836.
Lawyer;
circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1868; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1875-90; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1890-1906; resigned 1906.
Congregationalist.
Died in Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
4, 1913 (age 77 years, 186
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Hugh Alfred Butler (1878-1954) —
also known as Hugh A. Butler —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Missouri Valley, Harrison
County, Iowa, February
28, 1878.
Republican. Member of Republican
National Committee from Nebraska, 1936, 1947; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1941-54; died in office 1954.
Congregationalist. Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Modern
Woodmen of America.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 1,
1954 (age 76 years, 123
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Walter Eli Clark (1869-1950) —
also known as Walter E. Clark —
of Washington,
D.C.; Alaska; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Ashford, Windham
County, Conn., January
7, 1869.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; Governor
of Alaska District, 1909-12; Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1912-13; newspaper
editor.
Presbyterian
or Congregationalist. Member, Chi Psi.
Died of a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., February
4, 1950 (age 81 years, 28
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va.
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Homer Stillé Cummings (1870-1956) —
also known as Homer S. Cummings —
of Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
30, 1870.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1900,
1904,
1920
(alternate), 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker),
1948;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Connecticut, 1900-25; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1919-20; mayor
of Stamford, Conn., 1900-02, 1904-06; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1902; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1913-19; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1916; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1933-39; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Connecticut.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Eagles.
Died September
10, 1956 (age 86 years, 133
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Uriah C. Cummings and Audie Schuyler (Stillé) Cummings;
married to Cecilia Waterbury. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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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.
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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Howard Brush Dean III (b. 1948) —
also known as Howard Dean —
of Vermont.
Born in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
17, 1948.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1983-87; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1987-91; Governor of
Vermont, 1991-2003; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Vermont; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Vermont, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2004;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 2005-09.
Congregationalist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Proctor Lambert Dougherty (b. 1873) —
also known as Proctor L. Dougherty —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1873.
Republican. Engineer;
Manager, Otis Elevator Co., 1919-26; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1926-30.
Congregationalist; later Unitarian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of M. Angelo Dougherty and Mary Elizabeth (Proctor) Dougherty;
married, October
12, 1910, to Grace Cook Holmes. |
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William Ellery (1727-1820) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., December
22, 1727.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; justice of
Rhode Island state supreme court, 1785.
Congregationalist.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., February
15, 1820 (age 92 years, 55
days).
Interment at Common
Burying Ground, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Edward Hart Fenn (1856-1939) —
also known as E. Hart Fenn —
of Wethersfield, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
12, 1856.
Republican. Journalist;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Wethersfield, 1907-08,
1915-16; member of Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1909-12; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 1st District, 1921-31.
Congregationalist. Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Grange.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1939 (age 82 years, 164
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Orin Fowler (1791-1852) —
of Plainfield, Windham
County, Conn.; Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., July 29,
1791.
Missionary;
minister;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1849-52 (9th District 1849-51,
2nd District 1851-52); died in office 1852.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
3, 1852 (age 61 years, 36
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Fall River, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Daniel Robert Graham (b. 1936) —
also known as Bob Graham —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.; Miami Lakes, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Coral Gables, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., November
9, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1967-71; member of Florida
state senate, 1971-79; Governor of
Florida, 1979-87; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1987-2005; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2004.
Congregationalist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Robert S. Hale (1889-1976) —
also known as Robert Hale —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
29, 1889.
Republican. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1923-30; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1943-59; defeated, 1958.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
30, 1976 (age 87 years, 1
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Lyman Hall (1724-1790) —
of Georgia.
Born in Wallingford, New Haven
County, Conn., April
12, 1724.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Georgia, 1783-84.
Congregationalist.
Died October
19, 1790 (age 66 years, 190
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Courthouse
Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Hancock (1737-1793) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4
electoral votes, 1789.
Congregationalist. Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August
28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. |
| | | Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hancock,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — Mount
Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland,
Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles
Unger, John
Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow
Giles Unger, John
Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
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Clyde LaVerne Herring (1879-1945) —
also known as Clyde L. Herring —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., May 3,
1879.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Iowa, 1924-28; Governor of
Iowa, 1933-37; defeated, 1920; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Iowa, 1936,
1940;
U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1937-43; defeated, 1922, 1942.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
15, 1945 (age 66 years, 135
days).
Interment at Glendale
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Joseph Lawrence Hooper (1877-1934) —
also known as Joseph L. Hooper —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
22, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer; Calhoun
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1903-06; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1925-34; died in
office 1934.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1934 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich.
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Samuel Huntington (1731-1796) —
of Norwich, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Windham, Windham
County, Conn., July 16,
1731.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Connecticut, 1773-85; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-83; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; Governor of
Connecticut, 1786-96; died in office 1796; received 2 electoral
votes, 1789.
Congregationalist.
Died in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., January
5, 1796 (age 64 years, 173
days).
Interment at Norwichtown
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Huntington (1691-1767) and Mehetabel (Thurston)
Huntington; married, January
5, 1761, to Martha Devotion; uncle and adoptive father of Samuel
H. Huntington; granduncle of Nathaniel
Huntington (1793-1828), James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington and Elisha
Mills Huntington; great-granduncle of Collins
Dwight Huntington and George
Milo Huntington; second great-granduncle of William
Barret Ridgely; third great-granduncle of Helen
Huntington Hull; first cousin once removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; second cousin once removed of John
Davenport, Ebenezer
Huntington, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Abel
Huntington and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; second cousin twice removed of William
Woodbridge, Zina
Hyde Jr., Jabez
Williams Huntington, Isaac
Backus, Theodore
Davenport, Charles
Phelps Huntington and Henry
Titus Backus; second cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway, Robert
Coit Jr., Thomas
Worcester Hyde, Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell, Abial
Lathrop, Roger
Wolcott and William
Clark Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Alexander
Hamilton Waterman, Matthew
Griswold, George
Douglas Perkins, Charles
Edward Hyde, Herman
Arod Gager, Josiah
Quincy, William
Brainard Coit, Henry
Arthur Huntington, John
Sedgwick Hyde, Edward
Warden Hyde, John
Leffingwell Randolph, Arthur
Evarts Lord and George
Leffingwell Reed; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Edmond
Otis Dewey, Austin
Eugene Lathrop, George
Martin Dewey, Schuyler
Carl Wells, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, John
Foster Dulles, James
Gillespie Blaine III, Allen
Welsh Dulles and Randolph
Appleton Kidder; third cousin of Samuel
Adams; third cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen, Chauncey
Goodrich, Elizur
Goodrich, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel
Nicholls Smallwood and Peter
Buell Porter; third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Lathrop, Bela
Edgerton, Willard
J. Chapin, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Phineas
Taylor Barnum and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Hard, Charles
Robert Sherman, Heman
Ticknor, Gideon
Hard, Norman
A. Phelps, Alphonso
Taft, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Emerson
Wight, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, William
Henry Barnum, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, William
Vincent Wells, Augustus
Frank, Edward
M. Chapin, Elizur
Stillman Goodrich, Rhamanthus
Menville Stocker and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); fourth cousin once removed of Martin
Keeler and Thaddeus
Betts. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan
family of Dexter, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Huntington
County, Ind. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article |
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Theodore Leonard Irving (1898-1962) —
also known as Leonard Irving —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., March
24, 1898.
Democrat. Railroad
work; theater
manager; hotel
manager; construction
worker; president
and business
agent, Local 264, Construction and General Laborers Union; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1949-53; defeated,
1952.
Congregationalist. Member, Eagles.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1962 (age 63 years, 349
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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Donald Lester Jackson (1910-1981) —
also known as Donald L. Jackson —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ipswich, Edmunds
County, S.Dak., January
23, 1910.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1947-61; member,
Interstate Commerce Commission, 1969-72.
Congregationalist. Member, Elks; Eagles;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Reserve
Officers Association; Marine
Corps League.
Died at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 27,
1981 (age 71 years, 124
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Franklin Knox (1874-1944) —
also known as Frank Knox —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1874.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1920
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); candidate for nomination for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1924; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1940;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44; died in office 1944.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Legion.
Died, following a series of heart
attacks, in Washington,
D.C., April
28, 1944 (age 70 years, 118
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Irvine Luther Lenroot (1869-1949) —
also known as Irvine L. Lenroot —
of Superior, Douglas
County, Wis.
Born in Superior, Douglas
County, Wis., January
31, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Douglas County 1st District, 1901-07; Speaker of
the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1903-07; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1908;
U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 11th District, 1909-18; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918-27; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1920;
Associate
Judge of U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1929-44;
retired 1944.
Congregationalist. Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
26, 1949 (age 79 years, 361
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Superior, Wis.
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Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) —
of Princeton, Bureau
County, Ill.
Born in Albion, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
6, 1811.
Republican. Minister;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1854-56; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1856
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1857-64 (3rd District 1857-63, 5th
District 1863-64); died in office 1864.
Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
25, 1864 (age 53 years, 79
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Princeton, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Edward Magoon (1861-1920) —
also known as Charles E. Magoon —
of Nebraska.
Born in Owatonna, Steele
County, Minn., December
5, 1861.
U.S. Minister to Panama, 1905-06.
Congregationalist.
Died, two days after surgery for acute appendicitis,
in Washington,
D.C., January
14, 1920 (age 58 years, 40
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb.
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Edwin Webb Martin (1917-1991) —
also known as Edwin W. Martin —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Madura (Madurai), India
of American parents, August
31, 1917.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Hamilton, 1941-44; Léopoldville, 1944; Peiping, 1946-48; Hankow, 1948-49; U.S. Consul in Taipei, 1949-50; Rangoon, 1957-61; U.S. Consul General in Ankara, 1964-67; Hong Kong, 1967-70; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1971-73.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, following surgery for an aortic
aneurysm, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., October
5, 1991 (age 74 years, 35
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George William Miller (1925-2006) —
also known as G. William Miller —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Sapulpa, Creek
County, Okla., March 9,
1925.
Democrat. Lawyer;
executive with Textron, Inc.; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Rhode Island, 1968;
chairman of Federal Reserve, 1978-79; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1979-81.
Congregationalist.
Died, from idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis, in Washington,
D.C., March
17, 2006 (age 81 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) —
also known as Justin S. Morrill —
of Strafford, Orange
County, Vt.
Born in Strafford, Orange
County, Vt., April
14, 1810.
Republican. Merchant;
U.S.
Representative from Vermont 2nd District, 1855-67; U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1867-98; died in office 1898.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
28, 1898 (age 88 years, 258
days).
Entombed at Strafford
Cemetery, Strafford, Vt.
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Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (b. 1961) —
also known as Barack Obama; "The Messiah";
"Renegade"; "The Loin
King" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, August
4, 1961.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state senate 13th District, 1997-2004; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 2004
(speaker),
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2005-08; resigned 2008; President
of the United States, 2009-17; received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2009.
United Church of Christ. Kenyan
ancestry.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. and Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama; married,
October
18, 1992, to Michelle
LaVaughn Robinson. |
| | | Cross-reference: Joe
Wilson — Philip
J. Berg — Rod
Blagojevich — Timothy
W. Jones |
| | | Barack Obama Elementary
School (formerly J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School; renamed 2018),
in Richmond,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (2008): "Yes We
Can!" |
| | | Campaign slogan (2008): "Change We Can
Believe In." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Barack Obama: Dreams
from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
(2004) — The
Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaimig the American Dream
(2006) |
| | | Books about Barack Obama: Steve
Dougherty, Hopes
and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama — David Mendell,
Obama:
From Promise to Power — John K. Wilson, Barack
Obama: This Improbable Quest — Shelby Steele, A
Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't
Win — Joseph Vogel, The
Obama Movement: Why Barack Obama Speaks to America's
Youth — Jodi Kantor, The
Obamas — David Maraniss, Barack
Obama: The Making of the Man — Jonathan Alter, The
Promise: President Obama, Year One — Pete Souza, The
Rise of Barack Obama — Jonathan Alter, The
Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies — Chuck Todd, The
Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House |
| | | Critical books about Barack Obama:
Webster Griffin Tarpley, Obama
- The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian
Candidate — Gordon Heslop, The
Hope of Audacity: Barack Obama, A Bad Choice — Edward
Klein, The
Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House — Michelle
Malkin, Culture
of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and
Cronies — David Limbaugh, The
Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic —
David Limbaugh, Crimes
Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack
Obama — Dinesh D'Souza, The
Roots of Obama's Rage — David Freddoso, Gangster
Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington
Thugocracy — Stanley Kurtz, Radical-in-Chief:
Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American
Socialism — Jerome R. Corsi, The
Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of
Personality — Jack Cashill, Deconstructing
Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern
President — Kate Obenshain, Divider-in-Chief:
The Fraud of Hope and Change — Dinesh D'Souza, Obama's
America: Unmaking the American Dream — Dinesh D'Souza,
The
Roots of Obama's Rage — Phyllis Schlafly & George
Neumayr, No
Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom |
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Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) —
of Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
11, 1731.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1777; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1777-90; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1790-1804.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 12,
1814 (age 83 years, 62
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; statue at Church
Green, Taunton, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Paine; married to Sarah Cobb;
great-grandson of Robert
Treat; second great-grandfather of Robert
Treat Paine Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John
Condit, Eli
Thacher Hoyt, Aurelius
Buckingham and Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland; second cousin thrice removed of Silas
Condit, Ira
Chandler Backus, Joshua
Perkins, Edward
Green Bradford, Philo
Beecher Buckingham, Bailey
Frye Adams, Henry
Sabin, Lee
Randall Sanborn, Alanson
B. Treat, Charles
M. Hotchkiss and David
Leroy Treat; second cousin four times removed of Albert
Pierson Condit, Edward
Green Bradford II, James
L. Sanborn and Warren
Walter Rich; second cousin five times removed of Clarence
Sidney Merrill, Simeon
Harrison Rollinson, Edward
Green Bradford Jr., Elizabeth
Bradford du Pont Bayard and Joseph
Clark Baldwin III; third cousin twice removed of Gershom
Birdsey, Benjamin
Hard and Alonzo
Sidney Upham; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli
Coe Birdsey, Lorenzo
Burrows, Nathan
Belcher, Russell
Sage, Gilbert
Carlton Walker, John
Ransom Buck and Benjamin
Baker Merrill; fourth cousin of Luther
Waterman; fourth cousin once removed of David
Waterman and Jonathan
Brace. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Channing Emery Phillips (1928-1987) —
also known as Channing E. Phillips —
of Washington,
D.C.; New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
23, 1928.
Democrat. Minister;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1968;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1968.
United Church of Christ. African
ancestry.
Died, from cancer,
at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
11, 1987 (age 59 years, 233
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Jacob Rogers (1881-1925) —
also known as John J. Rogers —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
18, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1913-25; died in
office 1925; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1924.
Congregationalist.
Sponsor and longtime advocate of legislation to reform the U.S.
foreign service, finally enacted in 1924.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1925 (age 43 years, 222
days).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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Roger Sherman (1721-1793) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
19, 1721.
Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1766-89; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-81, 1783-84;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1784-93; died in office 1793; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1791-93; died in office 1793.
Congregationalist.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 23,
1793 (age 72 years, 95
days).
Original interment at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment in 1821 at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mehitable (Wellington) Sherman and William Sherman; married, November
17, 1749, to Elizabeth Hartwell; married, May 12,
1763, to Rebecca Prescott; father of Rebecca Sherman (who married
Simeon
Baldwin (1761-1851)), Elizabeth Sherman (who married Simeon
Baldwin (1761-1851)) and Sarah Sherman (who married Samuel
Hoar); grandfather of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; great-grandfather of Roger
Sherman Greene, Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; second great-grandfather of Henry
Sherman Boutell, Edward
Baldwin Whitney, Henry
de Forest Baldwin, Thomas
Day Thacher, Roger
Sherman Greene II, Roger
Sherman Hoar and Roger
Kent; second great-granduncle of Chauncey
Mitchell Depew and John
Frederick Addis; third great-grandfather of Archibald
Cox; third great-granduncle of John
Stanley Addis; ancestor *** of George
Sherman Batcheller; first cousin thrice removed of John
Adams Dix; second cousin five times removed of Horace
Bemis and Lorin
Andrews Lathrop. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town
of Sherman,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The town
and village
of Sherman,
New York, are named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Sterling (1851-1930) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Redfield, Spink
County, S.Dak.; Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born near Amanda, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
20, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1889; member of
South
Dakota state senate 30th District, 1889-90; dean,
college of law, University of South Dakota, 1901-11; U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1913-25; delegate to Republican
National Convention from South Dakota, 1916.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; American Bar
Association; American
Political Science Association.
Died in 1930
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Thomas Weston Tipton (1817-1899) —
also known as Thomas W. Tipton —
of Brownville, Nemaha
County, Neb.
Born in Cadiz, Harrison
County, Ohio, August
5, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1845; ordained
minister; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1859, 1867; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1867-75; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1880.
Methodist;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
26, 1899 (age 82 years, 113
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Litchfield West (1859-1940) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Factoryville, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., August
20, 1859.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1902-10.
Methodist;
later Congregationalist. English
ancestry.
Died in West Haven, Dorchester
County, Md., September
3, 1940 (age 81 years, 14
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Athow West and Elizabeth (Cook) West; married, July 25,
1882, to Mary Hope White. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in America
(1906) |
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William Whipple (1730-1785) —
of Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Kittery, York
County, Maine, January
14, 1730.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-77; member of New Hampshire
state legislature, 1780; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1783-85.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., November
28, 1785 (age 55 years, 318
days).
Interment at North
Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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William Williams (1731-1811) —
of Lebanon, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., April
28, 1731.
Merchant;
pastor;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1757; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-79, 1784-1802.
Congregationalist.
Died August
2, 1811 (age 80 years, 96
days).
Interment at Trumbull
Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Wilson (1812-1875) —
also known as Jeremiah Jones Colbaith —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Farmington, Strafford
County, N.H., February
16, 1812.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1841-42; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1844-46, 1850-52; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1848; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1852; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1853; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1855-73; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1856 ;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868;
Vice
President of the United States, 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died, of a stroke,
in the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., November
22, 1875 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Dell
Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass.
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Oliver Wolcott Sr. (1726-1797) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., December
1, 1726.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-78, 1780-84;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; Governor of
Connecticut, 1796-97; died in office 1797.
Congregationalist.
Died in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., December
1, 1797 (age 71 years, 0
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Erastus
Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799)); married, January
21, 1755, to Laura Collins; father of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey
Goodrich) and Frederick
Wolcott; uncle of Roger
Griswold; great-grandfather of Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); great-granduncle of John
William Allen, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott and Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); second great-granduncle of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott; third great-granduncle of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; fourth great-granduncle of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-granduncle of James
Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, William
Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund
Holcomb, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson
H. Warner, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Henry
Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander
Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William
Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Daniel
Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James
Hillhouse and Timothy
Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Henry
Ward Beecher, Leveret
Brainard, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney and John
Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph
Pomeroy Root, George
Griswold Sill, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, George
Buckingham Beecher, Luther
S. Pitkin and Claude
Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus
Brandegee, George
Frederick Stone, Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin, Harry
Kear Wolcott, Eldred
C. Pitkin, Henry
Merrill Wolcott, Frances
Payne Bolton and Harold
B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John
Arnold Rockwell and Oliver
Morgan Hungerford. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town
of Wolcott,
Vermont, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Jesse Arthur Younger (1893-1967) —
also known as J. Arthur Younger —
of San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Albany, Linn
County, Ore., April
11, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from California, 1953-67 (9th District 1953-63,
11th District 1963-67); died in office 1967; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1956.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Legion; Rotary;
Freemasons;
Shriners;
Newcomen
Society; Delta
Upsilon.
Died, of leukemia,
at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., June 20,
1967 (age 74 years, 70
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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