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Franklin County
Idaho

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Franklin County


Index to Locations

  • Preston Unknown location
  • Whitney Whitney Cemetery


    Unknown Location
    Preston, Franklin County, Idaho
    Politicians buried here:
      William A. Shuldberg — of Idaho. Progressive. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Idaho 2nd District, 1924. Interment somewhere.


    Whitney Cemetery
    Whitney, Franklin County, Idaho
    Politicians buried here:
      Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) — Born in Whitney, Franklin County, Idaho, August 4, 1899. Son of George Taft Benson and Sarah (Dunkley) Benson. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953-61. Mormon. Member, Farm Bureau; Alpha Zeta. President of the Mormon Church 1985-94. Died, of congestive heart failure, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, May 29, 1994 (age 94 years, 298 days). Interment at Whitney Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Taft Benson and Sarah (Dunkley) Benson; distant relative of Robert Alphonso Taft, Robert Taft, Jr. and Robert Alphonso Taft II; married, September 10, 1926, to Flora Smith Amussen. See Taft family of Ohio.
      See also Wikipedia article


     

     


     
       
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