Van Buren County
Michigan
PoliticalGraveyard.com
Van Buren County
Michigan
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Van Buren County
Index to Locations
| Politicians buried here: | ||||||||||
Grover Cleveland Dillman (1889-1979) —
also known as Grover C. Dillman —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Bangor Township, Van Buren
County, Mich., July 18,
1889.
Son of Henry Dillman (1860-1937) and Ada (Jaggers) Dillman
(1865-1925).
Republican. Engineer;
Michigan
state highway commissioner, 1929-33; appointed 1929; defeated,
1933; president,
Michigan Tech University.
German
ancestry.
Died in Flushing, Genesee
County, Mich., April 14,
1979 (age 89 years, 270
days).
Interment at Arlington Hill Cemetery.
| ||||||||||
| Politicians buried here: | ||||
George Ernest Foulkes (1878-1960) —
also known as George E. Foulkes —
of Hartford, Van Buren
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
25, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer; farmer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 4th District, 1933-35; defeated,
1934.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hartford, Van Buren
County, Mich., December
13, 1960 (age 81 years, 354
days).
Interment at Hartford Cemetery.
| ||||
| Politicians buried here: | |
|
Isaac W. Willard (1803-1879) —
of Paw Paw, Van Buren
County, Mich.
Born in Worcester
County, Mass., December
1, 1803.
Delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850.
Died in Paw Paw, Van Buren
County, Mich., April 8,
1879 (age 75 years, 128
days).
Interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
| |
| Politicians buried here: | |
|
Guy Joseph Wicksall (1872-1910) —
also known as Guy J. Wicksall —
of South Haven, Van Buren
County, Mich.
Born in Paw Paw, Van Buren
County, Mich., August
19, 1872.
Son of Joseph Wicksall.
Lawyer;
newspaper
publisher; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 8th District, 1907-08.
Died in South Haven, Van Buren
County, Mich., December
23, 1910 (age 38 years, 126
days).
Interment at Lake View Cemetery.
| |
|
|
||
|
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a
political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 |
 |
| The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 234,420 politicians, living and dead. | ||
|
The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President,
members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and
the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying
municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for
any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges;
(4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,
diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,
collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major
federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials,
including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in
national party nominating conventions. |
||
|
The listings are incomplete; development of the database
is a continually ongoing project. |
||
|
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this
site — is believed to be accurate, but is not
guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources
before relying on any information here. |
||
|
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/VB-buried.html. |
||
|
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page
are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes
change as the site develops. |
||
|
If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the
alphabetical index of
politicians. |
||
|
More information: FAQ;
privacy policy;
cemetery links. |
||
|
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard,
or if you have information to share, please see the
biographical checklist and
submission guidelines. |
||
| Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on May 12, 2012. | ||
| Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
 |
 |
 |
 |
![[Amazon.com]](http://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif) |
