Selected officials of Nassau County

(not intended to be complete)

James P. Niemann (District Attorney, 1899) Elvin N. Edwards (District Attorney, 1926-31) Leonard W. Hall (Sheriff, 1929-31) Leonard W. Hall (County Surrogate, 1952-57) A. Holly Patterson (County Executive, 1953-61) Eugene H. Nickerson (County Executive, 1962-70) Angelo D. Roncallo (County Controller, 1968-72) Peter T. King (County Comptroller, 1981-93)

Politicians who were born in Nassau County

• Cedarhurst, Long Island: Peter A. Peyser 1921
• Glen Cove, Long Island: William L. Vaughan 1866 Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. 1922 John Leboutillier 1953
• Great Neck, Long Island: James Ernest Truex 1913
• Hempstead, Long Island: Henry Southard 1747 E. H. Harriman 1848
• Lynbrook, Long Island: Donald R. Ackerson 1921
• Mineola, Long Island: Gerry E. Studds 1937
• Oceanside, Long Island: James D. Theberge 1930 Norman F. Lent 1931
• Old Westbury, Long Island: William W. Cocks 1861
• Oyster Bay, Long Island: Samuel Jones 1734 William W. Rose 1864 Theodore Roosevelt 1887 Leonard W. Hall 1900
• Oyster Bay, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: James W. Covert 1842
• Port Washington, Long Island: William S. Hults, Jr. 1906
• Rockville Centre, Long Island: John D. Bennett 1911
• Near Roslyn, Long Island: Ken Hechler 1914
• Sea Cliff, Long Island: John J. Burns 1913
• Uniondale, Long Island: A. Holly Patterson 1898
• Valley Stream, Long Island: Raymond J. McGrath 1942
• Westbury, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: Frederick C. Hicks 1872
• Near Westbury, Long Island: Jotham Post, Jr. 1771
• See also N.Y. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

Politicians who lived in Nassau County

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  • Lived in No city given, 1900-1909: Palmer J. Jones - William G. Miller - Felix Reifschneider
  • Lived in No city given, 1910-1919: Henry A. Hollmann - William G. Miller - Elias Raff - Felix Reifschneider
  • Lived in No city given, 1920-1929: John F. Crosby - George H. Gregory - George D. Horton - George H. Jackson - Robert J. Ludlam - Raymond Malone - Ralph Marion - George E. Mulry - William A. Simonson - Fontaine N. Tallaferro - Francis B. Taylor - Edward C. Watson - Rufus L. Weaver - George V. Williams
  • Lived in No city given, 1930-1939: Thomas F. Barry - John H. Esquirol - Thomas R. Fay - Rudolph S. Garypie - Andrew R. Kennedy - Arvo Mattson - Charles McLaughlin - Florence Mulford - Guido Rohn - Edwin M. Waring
  • Lived in No city given, 1940-1949: Ambrose Cort - Stanley Faulkner - John S. Fells - Erwin Greenberg - Michael E. Hanrahan - Leo B. Harkins - Herman J. Herbert, Jr. - Charles L. Kessler - Theodore M. Lay - Edward K. Lebohner - Dominic J. Massa - John B. McDonald - Benjamin Rubenstein - Abraham Schlissel - Edward H. Waring - George W. Waters, Jr. - Lawrence Wise - Leonard Zuckerberg
  • Lived in No city given, 1950-1959: Charles W. Anderson - Vincent Baldizzone - Eastman Birkett - Eunice Bischof - Ray M. Brand - Irving Brick - Irving Cohen - Rose M. Cohen - Robert J. Connolly - Julius J. D'Amato - Andrew Demma - Irving E. Dickman - James W. Elder - Edwin J. Fehrenbach - Isabelle B. Friedman - David T. Gibbons - Gerald Grossman - Samuel Klotz - Allan Kornfeld - Joel L. Leef - Marx L. Lewis - William H. McCaffery, Jr. - William Merritt - Myrtle Munger - Jerome A. Perles - Paul Pincus - Rae Reiter - Peter P. Rocchio - Arthur Rosoff - John T. Rowan - Morris Sackman - Alfred F. Samenga - Benjamin Schaler - Paul Scheman - Bernard Sommer - Lawrence H. Strear - Anthony Sugameli
  • Lived in No city given, 1960-1969: Francis B. A'Hearn - Joseph F. Beaudette - Donald E. Belfi - Jerome Benanti - Timothy P. Donohue, Jr. - Frank E. Englert, Jr. - Benjamin L. Feld - Arthur V. Graseck, Jr. - Louis A. Jaret - Julius B. Kamhi - Seymour H. Kligler - George L. Marks - Peter A. McCabe - Eugene J. McHugh - Patrick J. Murphy - John F. Nelson - Murray F. Rosenthal - Allan C. Samuels - John J. Sandhaas, Jr. - William F. Sandhoff - Julius Schwartz - William W. Seiffert - Arthur Sinnott - Walter B. Stevens - Daniel P. Sullivan - Vincent A. Suozzi - Thomas J. Taglianetti - Michael J. Wallace - Francis M. Wells
  • Lived in No city given, 1970-1979: Donald E. Belfi
  • Lived in No city given, 1980-1989: Donald E. Belfi - Evelyn Derenze - Francis H. Gilroy - Fred Greenbaum - John P. Hagan - Jerome Jainchill - Elizabeth M. McPartland - Ted M. Rosen
  • Lived in No city given, 1990-1999: Donald E. Belfi
  • Lived in No city given, 2000-2008: Donald E. Belfi
• Albertson, Long Island: Angelo F. Orazio
• Baldwin, Long Island: Sherwin E. Allen - Thomas F. Dougherty - Linda M. Feldman - Joan M. Flatley - Justin V. Judd - Charles J. O'Shea - Benedict F. Romano
• Bellmore, Long Island: Cathyann Mooney - Herbert Sachs
• Cedarhurst, Long Island: William A. Hazard - Cortland A. Johnson - Bernard S. Meyer
• East Meadow, Long Island: Edward J. Speno
• East Merrick, Long Island: Elaine B. Horowitz
• East Norwich, Long Island: Don M. Mankiewicz - Richard T. Mayes
• East Rockaway, Long Island: Edward S. Betts - Irene C. Davison - Norman F. Lent - Charles L. Phipps
• East Williston, Long Island: Maureen C. O'Connell
• Elmont, Long Island: Anthony Barbiero
• Farmingdale, Long Island: John A. Britting - Howard T. Hogan - Elizabeth A. Ward
• Floral Park, Long Island: Corey B. Bearak - Raymond I. Bundrick - Louis A. Buttner - John L. Childs - George J. Farrell, Jr. - Frederick H. Heidtmann - Harold P. Herman - Edward P. Larkin - Walter D. Lawrence - William N. Lewis - John McNeill
• Franklin Square, Long Island: George H. Madison - Joseph F. McKnight - Anthony Salvati - Kenneth Sunshine
• Freeport, Long Island: Smith Cox - John F. DeLorme - Alvin Dorfman - Robert L. Doxsee - Elvin N. Edwards - Clinton M. Flint - Samuel D. Gerber - William F. Glacken - Marianela Jordan - Patrick James Kelly - Francine Mintz - Robert E. Patterson - Cyril C. Ryan - W. Irving Vanderpool - Worden E. Winne - David L. Zielenziger
• Freeport, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: George Wallace
• Garden City, Long Island: David Barnett - William R. Brennan, Jr. - Arnold Brown - Webster J. Caye, Jr. - H. Clinton Corwin - Thomas J. Cuff - Ralph L. Custer - John R. Dunne - George S. Emory - Kemp Hannon - George R. Murdock - W. Gordon Murphy - John C. Norris - Walter H. Page - Donald A. Petrie - Charles G. Reinhart, Jr. - Robert J. Rohan - LeRoy J. Weed - William J. White - Margery Wright - John W. Wydler
• Glen Cove, Long Island: Arthur Aitkenhead - James E. Burns - Franklin A. Coles - James T. Hallinan - David S. Hill, Jr. - Robert F. Kennedy - Chuck Schorr Lesnick - Harold F. Mason - Luke A. Mercadante - Joseph W. Muldoon - Joseph M. Reilly - H. Bogart Seaman - William H. Seaman - Horace K. T. Sherwood - Joseph A. Stanco - Joseph A. Suozzi - John B. C. Tappen
• Glen Head, Long Island: Jeanne R. Aronson - Rocco Campanaro - Henry U. Harris - Townsend Scudder
• Great Neck, Long Island: James V. Auditore - Klaus Bornemann - Mindy Bornemann - Sol C. Chaikin - Thomas L. Collins - Mordecai Dancis - Thomas P. DiNapoli - Raye Garfinkle - Bertram Harnett - Nathan S. Jonas - Jonathan Kaiman - Kim Kaiman - Madge Kaplan - John A. King - Irwin J. Landes - Joseph Liff - May W. Newburger - Charles Phillips - Donald Shaffer - Arthur Susswein - David L. Zielenziger - Robert Zimmerman
• Great Neck Station, Long Island: Thomas B. Maloney
• Hempstead, Long Island: Kevan Abrahams - Ernest A. Ashdown - Ethel Bedford - August Belmont - William H. Brown - W. Taylor Chamberlin - Myrtle Crawford - Thomas J. Cuff - George M. Estabrook - Robert W. Garrett - Dorothy Goosby - William O. Gulde - Wayne Hall - Earlene Hill Hooper - Milton Jonas - Herbert Mirschel - Natalie Murtari - A. Holly Patterson - Lorraine Phinn - Margery Wright
• Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: Philip J. A. Harper - Nathaniel Lawrence - Thomas Fortune Ryan
• Hewlett, Long Island: Jeffery Bloom - Steven P. Bloom - Edward P. Larkin
• Hewlett Harbor, Long Island: Frances Boehm
• Hicksville, Long Island: Ernest F. Francke - Edward J. Giannelli - Martin Ginsberg - Marc Herbst - Edward J. Morris
• Inwood, Long Island: George W. Doughty
• Island Park, Long Island: Alfonse M. D'Amato - Armand P. D'Amato - Penelope D'Amato
• Jericho, Long Island: Lathrop Brown - David B. Roosevelt
• Kings Point, Long Island: Robert S. Benjamin
• Lawrence, Long Island: Carol Berman - Palmer D. Farrington - Ferdinand I. Haber - Sol Handwerker - Abner Levine - Lidie McWhinney - Thomas A. McWhinney - Michael H. Reich - Herbert H. Segerman - J. Russel Sprague
• Levittown, Long Island: Francis P. McCloskey - Kathleen Murray - Bert Speer - Leonard W. Tuft
• Locust Valley, Long Island: Paul Bonynge - Carl Breuer - Townsend P. Cock - Catherine W. Crocker - Frank L. Crocker - John W. Davis - F. Trubee Davison - David Dows - Robert Lovett - Richard C. Patterson, Jr. - Susanne Seperson
• Long Beach, Long Island: Michael Berlin - Joseph F. Carlino - William J. Dalton - Louis F. Edwards - Jerome B. Fleischman - Frank Frankel - Charles Gold - Robert I. Kleiner - Philip B. Kohut - Arthur J. Kremer - Allard Lowenstein - Don M. Mankiewicz - Edward McCarthy - Edwin J. McCarthy - Theodore Ornstein - William H. Reynolds - Jacqueline Richman - Pearl Weill - Harvey Weisenberg
• Lynbrook, Long Island: Robert D. Barra - Frank J. Becker - Gregory R. Becker - David Gold - Fred A. Greis - Frank A. Gulotta - Jerome R. McDougal, Jr. - James P. Niemann - Mario Pittoni - Frederick W. Reihl - William K. Ross - Howard G. Wilson - Jeremiah Wood
• Malverne, Long Island: Francis T. Pullman
• Manhasset, Long Island: Frank F. Adel - John H. Dair - Norman F. Penny - Ralph Pulitzer - Carl T. Sigman - Henry Root Stern - Sol Wachtler - John Hay Whitney
• Massapequa, Long Island: Jeanne Angiulo - Patrick W. Doherty - Roberta Edelman - Steven Labriola - Edwin R. Lynde - C. Bruce Pearsall - Angelo D. Roncallo - Peter J. Schmitt - Katharine Smith
• Massapequa Park, Long Island: John W. Anderson - Samuel M. Barnhart - Peter F. Colleran
• Merrick, Long Island: Joseph M. Baird - Eunice Carreau - Rene A. Carreau - Marvin D. Cristenfeld - Thomas S. Gulotta - Norman J. Levy - Thomas J. Portela - Betty G. Schlein - Peggy Ann Weinstein
• Mineola, Long Island: Paul Bonynge - Claire A. Brown - Joseph F. Carlino - George J. Farrell, Jr. - Stanley Harwood - Philip N. King - Philip N. Krug - Carolyn McCarthy - William D. Meisser - Joseph Nohowec - Norman F. Penny - Abe Seldin - Anthony Smolenski - Eli Wager - Clifford N. Williams - Thomas H. Wilson
• Mineola, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: Samuel V. Searing
• Muttontown, Long Island: Ralph J. Marino
• New Hyde Park, Long Island: Marcus G. Christ - Sharon Commissiong - Clinton G. Martin - Anne Weiland
• North Massapequa, Long Island: Carole A. Barnett - Melvin C. Brenner
• North Valley Stream, Long Island: Thomas W. Alfano
• Oceanside, Long Island: Linda Sherrie Drucker - Barbara Spadanuda
• Old Bethpage, Long Island: David Sidikman - Lewis J. Yevoli
• Old Westbury, Long Island: William W. Cocks - William L. Pfeiffer
• Oyster Bay, Long Island: Mrs. L. G. Cumming - Henry M. Curran - Edward Floyd-Jones - Leonard W. Hall - Ralph J. Marino - Thomas H. O'Keefe - Edward Robinson, Jr. - Angelo D. Roncallo - Theodore Roosevelt - Percy D. Stoddart
• Oyster Bay, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: Samuel Jones - Solomon S. Townsend - Samuel Youngs
• Plainview, Long Island: Michael N. Petito - Michael Polansky - Thomas Stivala
• Plandome, Long Island: John F. X. O'Malley - Genesta M. Strong
• Plandome Manor, Long Island: Vivian Burnett
• Port Washington, Long Island: Morton Bahr - Vincent R. Balletta, Jr. - Frederick C. Hicks - Bettie F. Holmes - William S. Hults, Jr. - Craig Johnson - Samuel Kaplan - Jan Pierce
• Rockville Centre, Long Island: Daniel G. Albert - Horace L. Allen - John A. Anderson - Edgar T. Beamish - Earl J. Bennett - John D. Bennett - George R. Brennan - Eleanor Chandler - Sanford A. Davison - Walter J. Halliday - Francis G. Hooley - W. Harry Lister - Salvatore A. Milone - Thomas E. Morrissey, Jr. - Lorraine Phinn - Morris Schneider - Dean G. Skelos - John S. Thorp - John S. Thorp, Jr. - Edwin W. Wallace
• Roosevelt, Long Island: Peter J. Byrne - Cherry Anne Huskins
• Roslyn, Long Island: Leonard Davis - Steven B. Derounian - Helen Getler - Eugene H. Nickerson - Thomas T. Pierce - Diana Centrella Prevete - Stephen Taber
• Roslyn Estates, Long Island: Delores Ehrlich - Mel Ehrlich
• Roslyn Harbor, Long Island: Helen Getler - Eugene H. Nickerson
• Roslyn Heights, Long Island: Joseph Calderon - Hazel N. Dukes - Michael J. Tully, Jr.
• Sea Cliff, Long Island: John J. Burns - Isabel R. Dodd - Milton Lipson - James Ernest Truex - Zelma-Jean Zurer
• Seaford, Long Island: Bradley Angel - Samuel J. Cole - Peter T. King - George A. Murphy - Joan G. O'Shaughnessy - Henry A. Rigali - Jennie A. Wanzer
• Seaford, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: George L. Weeks
• Syosset, Long Island: Ruth J. Brown - Lansdell Christie - John F. English - Harold Fertig - Lawrence J. O'Brien - Charles E. Russel
• Uniondale, Long Island: Joseph M. Margiotta
• Valley Stream, Long Island: James V. Auditore - Harold Berger - Robert M. Blakeman - Judith Guise - Henry K. Hendrickson - Raymond J. McGrath - Stephen C. McInnis - John McKenna - Thomas Metcalfe - Ferdinand A. Perissi - Henry Waldinger
• Wantagh, Long Island: William M. Cameron - John Garvey - Frederick E. Parola - Bernard M. Rodin
• West Hempstead, Long Island: Marilyn Cooper - John G. Herrmann - Mary F. Murphy - Rener H. Reed - Sinita Walker
• West Massapequa, Long Island: Arthur A. Snyder
• Westbury, Long Island: Robert L. Bacon - Virginia M. Bacon - Roger H. Corbin - Donna Ferrara - William H. Greene - F. Lansing Hunter - William V. Hussey - John E. Kingston - George B. Knipfing - Joan B. Lang - Alicia R. O'Connor - Evelyn Roth - Joan P. Schmutz - Beekman Winthrop - Henry Rogers Winthrop
• Williston Park, Long Island: Charles Kerrigan
• Woodmere, Long Island: Emanuel Austern - Harold Bobroff - Karen S. Burstein - Clarence Dickson - Harold Forma - Clarence G. Galston - Barbara P. Kaplan - Bernard S. Meyer - Stanley Rabinowitz - William Willett, Jr.
• See also N.Y. areas not assigned to counties.

Politicians who died in Nassau County

• Baldwin, Long Island: George W. Loft 1943
• Bayville, Long Island: Daniel O'Reilly 1911
• Bellmore, Long Island: Harry H. Dale 1935
• East Rockaway, Long Island: Andrew Nicholas Petersen 1952
• Flower Hill, Long Island: Michael J. Tully, Jr. 1997
• Garden City, Long Island: Frederick E. Crane 1947 John Esposito 1997
• Glen Cove, Long Island: Ruth Baker Pratt 1965 James T. Hallinan 1969 Leonard W. Hall 1979
• Hempstead, Long Island: Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont 1908 Walter H. Jaycox 1927 A. Holly Patterson 1980
• Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island: Philip J. A. Harper 1896
• Inwood, Long Island: Sidney S. Hein 1972
• Lake Success, Long Island: Robert L. Bacon 1938
• Lawrence, Long Island: Russell Sage 1906
• Locust Valley, Long Island: Paul Bonynge 1937
• Lynbrook, Long Island: Frank J. Becker 1981
• Manhasset, Long Island: Frank F. Adel 1967 James C. Sheridan 1983 Meade H. Esposito 1993 Angelo C. Petromelis 1994
• Massapequa, Long Island: Peter Joseph Brennan 1996
• Mineola, Long Island: Martin W. Littleton 1934
• Oceanside, Long Island: Clarence H. Neal, Jr. 1957
• Old Westbury, Long Island: William W. Cocks 1932 Frank X. Altimari 1998
• Oyster Bay, Long Island: Theodore Roosevelt 1919
• Plandome Heights, Long Island: Genesta M. Strong 1972
• Near Port Washington, Long Island: Solomon R. Guggenheim 1949
• Rockville Centre, Long Island: Jeremiah Eaton Cary 1888 Harold W. Worzel 1950 John F. Carew 1951 Thomas E. Morrissey, Jr. 1975 John F. English 1987 Mario Pittoni 1997 Ralph J. Marino 2002
• Roslyn, Long Island: Thomas Taber II 1862 George J. Balbach 1996 Rosemary R. Gunning 1997 Murray Schwartz 2001
• Sea Cliff, Long Island: Milton Lipson 2003
• South Oyster Bay, Long Island: John Brownson 1865
• See also N.Y. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Nassau County

• Near Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island Memorial Cemetery
• East Norwich, Long Island Unknown location
• Elmont, Long Island Beth-David Cemetery
• Elmont, Long Island Maimonides Cemetery
• Garden City, Long Island Holy Rood Cemetery
• Glen Cove, Long Island Locust Valley Cemetery
• Glen Cove, Long Island Pratt Mausoleum
• Hempstead, Long Island Greenfield Cemetery
• Laurel Hollow, Long Island Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church
• Locust Valley, Long Island Locust Valley Cemetery
• Manhasset, Long Island Christ Church Cemetery
• Massapequa, Long Island Floyd-Jones Cemetery
• Oyster Bay, Long Island Youngs Memorial Cemetery
• Port Washington, Long Island Nassau Knolls Cemetery
• Roslyn, Long Island Roslyn Cemetery
• Westbury, Long Island Friends Cemetery
• Westbury, Long Island Quaker Cemetery

Politicians buried here:

• Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1950) — also known as Henry L. Stimson — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., September 21, 1867. Republican. Candidate for Governor of New York, 1910; U.S. Secretary of War, 1911-13, 1940-45; delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916, 1920, 1932; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Secretary of State, 1929-33. Presbyterian. Member, Skull and Bones. Died in Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., October 20, 1950. Interment at Memorial Cemetery.
  • See also: Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile.
  • Books about Henry L. Stimson: Godfrey Hodgson, The Colonel : The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950; David F. Schmitz, Henry L. Stimson : The First Wise Man
  
  
• George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) — of Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 26, 1862. Son of Peter C. Cortelyou, Jr. and Rose (Seary) Cortelyou; married, September 15, 1888, to Lily Morris Hinds. Republican. U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-04; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1904-07; U.S. Postmaster General, 1905-07; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-09; president, Consolidated Gas Co., New York, 1909-35. Died October 23, 1940. Interment at Memorial Cemetery.
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• David Franklin Houston (1866-1940) — also known as David F. Houston — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Monroe, Union County, N.C., February 17, 1866. Son of William H. Houston and Cornelia Anne (Stevens) Houston; married, December 11, 1895, to Helen Beall (1873-1940). Superintendent of schools; university professor; president, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1902-05; president, University of Texas, 1905-08; chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1908-16; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1920-21; vice president, American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and president, Bell Telephone Securities Co.; president, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 1930-1940; director, United States Steel Corporation. Member, American Economic Association. Died, from heart disease, at the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., September 2, 1940. Interment at Memorial Cemetery.
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• Frederic René Coudert, Jr. (1898-1972) — also known as Frederic R. Coudert, Jr. — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 7, 1898. Great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin Tracy; grandson of Frederic René Coudert; son of Frederic R. Coudert (c.1871-1955) and Alice T. (Wilmerding) Coudert; married to Mary K. Callery (sculptor; divorced 1931); married 1931 to Paula Murray. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1956; member of New York state senate, 1939-46 (17th District 1939-44, 20th District 1945-46); U.S. Representative from New York 17th District, 1947-59; campaign chair for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s campaign for Mayor of New York City, 1965. Member, American Bar Association. Died, of congestive heart failure, in Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York County, N.Y., May 21, 1972. Interment at Memorial Cemetery.
  • See also Coudert-Tracy family of New York
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• James Hinds (1833-1868) — of Arkansas. Born near Salem, Washington County, N.Y., December 5, 1833. Republican. U.S. Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1868; died in office 1868. Shot and killed by George A. Clark, who was drunk at the time, near Indian Bay, Monroe County, Ark., October 22, 1868. Interment somewhere; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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• Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (1923-1983) — also known as Benjamin S. Rosenthal — of New York. Born in New York City (unknown county), N.Y., June 8, 1923. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York, 1962-83 (6th District 1962-63, 8th District 1963-83, 7th District 1983); died in office 1983. Jewish. Died in Washington, D.C., January 4, 1983. Interment at Beth-David Cemetery.
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• Albert Berger Rossdale (1878-1968) — also known as Albert B. Rossdale — of New York. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 23, 1878. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 23rd District, 1921-23; defeated, 1922, 1924; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924. Jewish. Died in Eastchester, Westchester County, N.Y., April 17, 1968. Interment at Maimonides Cemetery.
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• John Waldemar Wydler (1924-1987) — also known as John W. Wydler — of Garden City, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., June 9, 1924. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Representative from New York, 1963-81 (4th District 1963-73, 5th District 1973-81); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1972. Episcopalian. Member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Freemasons; Elks; Lions; Order of Ahepa. Died in Washington, D.C., August 4, 1987. Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery.
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• John Stanislaus Thorp — also known as John S. Thorp — of Rockville Centre, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Father of John Stanislaus Thorp, Jr.. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936 (alternate), 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952 (alternate); chair of Nassau County Democratic Party, 1939-42; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District, 1944. Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery.
  
  
• James C. Sheridan (1896-1983) — also known as Jim Sheridan — of Long Island City, Queens, Queens County, N.Y. Born in Queens, Queens County, N.Y., November 14, 1896. Democrat. Chair of Queens County Democratic Party, 1934-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Died, of cancer, in Manhasset, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., April 1, 1983. Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery.
  
  

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• John William Davis (1873-1955) — also known as John W. Davis — of Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Locust Valley, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va., April 13, 1873. Son of John James Davis and Anna (Kennedy) Davis; married, June 20, 1899, to Julia T. McDonald (died 1900); married, January 2, 1912, to Ellen G. Bassel (died 1943); first cousin of Cyrus Roberts Vance. Democrat. Lawyer; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1899; candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, 1900; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1904; U.S. Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S. Solicitor General, 1913-18; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1918-21; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1920; candidate for President of the United States, 1924; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928, 1932. Member, American Bar Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Freemasons; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Psi. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., March 24, 1955. Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery.
  • See also Davis-Vance family of West Virginia
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• Ruth Baker Pratt (1877-1965) — also known as Ruth Sears Baker; Mrs. John T. Pratt — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Ware, Hampshire County, Mass., August 24, 1877. Daughter of Edwin Howard Baker; married, January 6, 1903, to John Teele Pratt (1873-1927). Republican. Presidential Elector for New York, 1920; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 (alternate); U.S. Representative from New York 17th District, 1929-33; member of Republican National Committee from New York, 1929-43; delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Female. Episcopalian. Died in Glen Cove, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., August 23, 1965. Interment at Pratt Mausoleum.
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Politicians buried here:

• Daniel F. Tiemann — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Nephew by marriage of Peter Cooper. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1858-60; member of New York state senate 8th District, 1872-73. Interment at Greenfield Cemetery.
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• Alfred M. Wood (1825-1895) — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born April 19, 1825. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1864-65. Died July 28, 1895. Interment at Greenfield Cemetery.
  
  
• John Alexander Searing (1805-1876) — also known as John A. Searing — of New York. Born in New York, 1805. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly from Queens County, 1854; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1857-59. Died in 1876. Interment at Greenfield Cemetery.
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• Archibald Holly Patterson (1898-1980) — also known as A. Holly Patterson; "Mr. Republican" — of Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Uniondale, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., May 31, 1898. Son of Archibald G. Patterson. Republican. Lawyer; banker; Nassau County Executive, 1953-61; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1956, 1960; Presidential Elector for New York, 1972. Died, following a heart attack, in Hempsted General Hospital, Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., September 20, 1980. Interment at Greenfield Cemetery.
  
  

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• Leonard Wood Hall (1900-1979) — also known as Leonard W. Hall — of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., October 2, 1900. Son of Franklyn H. Hall and Mary A. Hall; married, May 10, 1934, to Gladys Dowsey. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1927-28, 1934-38; Nassau County Sheriff, 1929-31; U.S. Representative from New York, 1939-52 (1st District 1939-45, 2nd District 1945-52); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1944 (alternate), 1948, 1952, 1956; Nassau County Surrogate, 1952-57; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1953-57; Presidential Elector for New York, 1972. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Elks. Died in Glen Cove, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., June 2, 1979. Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church.
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• Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. (1900-1949) — Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., October 22, 1900. U.S. Secretary of State, 1944-45; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1945-46. Died in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., October 31, 1949. Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery.
  
  
• Ralph John Marino (1928-2002) — also known as Ralph J. Marino; "Mumbles" — of Muttontown, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., January 2, 1928. Married 1954 to Ethel Bernstein. Republican. Member of New York state senate 5th District, 1969-95; resigned 1995. Died, from tongue cancer, in Mercy Medical Center, Rockville Centre, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., April 6, 2002. Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery.
  
  

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• John Hay Whitney (1904-1982) — also known as Jock Whitney — of Manhasset, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, August 17, 1904. Grandson of John Milton Hay and William Collins Whitney; son of Payne Whitney and Helen (Hay) Whitney; married, March 1, 1942, to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt (1908-1998) (ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; financier; publisher of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1956; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1957-61. Died in 1982. Interment at Christ Church Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
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• David Richard Floyd-Jones (1813-1871) — also known as David R. Floyd-Jones — of New York. Born April 6, 1813. Member of New York state senate 1st District, 1844-47; member of New York state assembly from Queens County, 1857; secretary of state of New York, 1860-61; Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1863-64. Died January 8, 1871. Interment at Floyd-Jones Cemetery.
  
  

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• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) — also known as "T.R."; "Teddy"; "The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan Hill"; "The Rough Rider"; "Trust-Buster"; "The Happy Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 27, 1858. Great-great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch; nephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831-1878) and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt (1835-1884); married, October 27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee (died 1884); married, December 2, 1886, to Edith Kermit Carow; fourth cousin once removed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945); uncle of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) (who married Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)) and Corinne Robinson Alsop; father of Alice Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas Longworth) and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; granduncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and John DeKoven Alsop; great-grandfather-in-law of William Floyd Weld. Member of New York state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884, 1900; candidate for mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of New York, 1899-1901; Vice President of the United States, 1901; President of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916. Christian Reformed. Dutch ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Union League; Alpha Delta Phi; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa. Received the Medal of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee, Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1950. Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., January 6, 1919. Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery. Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are named for him.
  • Cross-reference: Gifford Pinchot; David J. Leahy; William Barnes, Jr.; Oliver D. Burden
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography; Wikipedia article; Internet Movie Database profile; Find-A-Grave page.
  • Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America; H. W. Brands, T.R : The Last Romantic; Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex; Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; John Morton Blum, The Republican Roosevelt; Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895; Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt; James Chace, 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country; Patricia O'Toole, When Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White House; Candice Millard, The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey; Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt : His Mind in Action (out of print)
  
  
• Samuel Youngs (born c.1813) — of Oyster Bay, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island, N.Y.; Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif.; Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nev. Born in Queens, Queens County, N.Y. Member of New York state assembly from Queens County, 1843-44; city council member, Sacramento, Calif.; member of Nevada territorial legislature, 1862; delegate to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; Esmeralda County Commissioner. Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery.
  
  

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• John E. Kingston (1920-1996) — also known as Jack Kingston — of Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in 1920. Republican. Member of New York state assembly, 1960-74 (Nassau County 3rd District 1960-65, 16th District 1966, 17th District 1967-72, 15th District 1973-74); district judge in New York, 1990-94; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1995. Died May 5, 1996. Interment at Nassau Knolls Cemetery.
  
  

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• Stephen Taber (1821-1886) — of Roslyn, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Dover, Dutchess County, N.Y., March 7, 1821. Son of Thomas Taber II. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly from Queens County 1st District, 1860-61; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1865-69. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., April 23, 1886. Interment at Roslyn Cemetery.
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• William Willets Cocks (1861-1932) — also known as William W. Cocks — of Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., July 24, 1861. Son of Isaac H. Cocks and Mary T. (Willets) Cocks; married, July 24, 1901, to Caroline R. Hicks (died 1901); brother of Frederick Cocks Hicks. Republican. Member of New York state senate 2nd District, 1901-02; member of New York state assembly from Queens County 3rd District, 1904; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1905-11. Quaker. Died in Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., May 24, 1932. Interment at Friends Cemetery.
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• Thomas Taber II (1785-1862) — of New York. Born in Dover, Dutchess County, N.Y., May 19, 1785. Father of Stephen Taber. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly, 1826; U.S. Representative from New York 5th District, 1828-29. Died in Roslyn, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., March 21, 1862. Interment at Friends Cemetery.
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Politicians formerly buried here:

• Benjamin Albertson Willis (1840-1886) — of New York. Born in New York, 1840. Democrat. U.S. Representative from New York 11th District, 1875-79. Died in 1886. Original interment at Friends Cemetery; reinterment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Politicians buried here:

• Frederick Cocks Hicks (1872-1925) — also known as Frederick C. Hicks; Frederick Hicks Cocks — of Port Washington, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Westbury, Queens County (now Nassau County), Long Island, N.Y., March 6, 1872. Brother of William Willets Cocks. Republican. U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1915-23; defeated, 1912. Quaker. Member, Phi Kappa Psi. Died in 1925. Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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