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John Nichols Dalton (1931-1986) —
also known as John N. Dalton —
of Radford,
Va.
Born in Emporia,
Va., July 11,
1931.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1960,
1964
(alternate), 1972
(alternate); treasurer of
Virginia Republican Party, 1960-61; member of Virginia
state house of delegates 46th District, 1966-72; member of Virginia
state senate, 1972-73; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1974-78; Governor of
Virginia, 1978-82.
Baptist.
Member, Rotary; Jaycees;
Freemasons;
Shriners;
American
Legion; Moose; Odd
Fellows; Farm
Bureau; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Died in Radford,
Va., July 30,
1986 (age 55 years, 19
days).
Interment at Sunrise
Burial Park, Radford, Va.
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John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) —
also known as John W. Daniel; "The Lame Lion of
Lynchburg" —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., September
5, 1842.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1869-72; member of Virginia
state senate, 1875-81; Presidential Elector for Virginia, 1876;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1880,
1888,
1896
(Permanent
Chair); candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1881; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1885-87; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1887-1910; died in office 1910.
Died in Lynchburg,
Va., June 29,
1910 (age 67 years, 297
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. (1897-1981) —
also known as Colgate W. Darden, Jr. —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., February
11, 1897.
Son of Colgate Whitehead Darden (1867-1945) and Katherine Lawrence
(Pretlow) Darden (1870-1936).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I;
lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1930-33; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1933-37, 1939-41 (at-large 1933-35,
2nd District 1935-37, 1939-41); Governor of
Virginia, 1942-46; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1944;
president,
University of Virginia, 1947.
Episcopalian.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., June 9,
1981 (age 84 years, 118
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Southampton County, Va.
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Ralph Hunter Daughton (1885-1958) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., September
23, 1885.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1933-44; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1944-47.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Lions.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., December
22, 1958 (age 73 years, 90
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) —
also known as Joe Daviess —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., March 4,
1774.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Around 1801, he served as a second to John
Rowan in his duel
with James Chambers; after Chambers was killed, he fled
to avoid
prosecution as accomplice to murder,
and became a fugitive,
but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal
counsel.
Shot
and killed
in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Battlefield Park, Battle Ground, Ind.
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Cushman Kellogg Davis (1838-1900) —
also known as Cushman K. Davis —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Henderson, Jefferson
County, N.Y., June 16,
1838.
Son of Horatio
N. Davis.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the Union Army during the Civil
War; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 1st District, 1867; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1868-73; Governor of
Minnesota, 1874-76; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1887-1900; died in office 1900; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1900.
Helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American
War, and gave Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., November
27, 1900 (age 62 years, 164
days).
Originally entombed at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.; later interred in 1901 at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Dwight Filley Davis (1879-1945) —
also known as Dwight F. Davis —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., July 5,
1879.
Son of John Tilden Davis and Maria (Filley) Davis.
Lawyer; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1925-29; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1929-32.
Baptist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; American
Legion.
Founder of the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
28, 1945 (age 66 years, 146
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Horatio Davis (1840-1912) —
of Chatham, Pittsylvania
County, Va.; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., May 16,
1840.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
county judge in Virginia, 1880-86; mayor
of Gainesville, Fla., 1908-09.
Episcopalian.
Died in Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., June 12,
1912 (age 72 years, 27
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Gainesville, Fla.
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Westmoreland Davis (1859-1942) —
also known as Morley Davis —
of Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born, of American parents, at sea in the North
Atlantic Ocean, August
21, 1859.
Son of Thomas Gordon Davis and Annie Lewis (Morriss) Davis.
Democrat. Railway
clerk; lawyer; Governor of
Virginia, 1918-22; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died September
7, 1942 (age 83 years, 17
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Loudoun County, Va.
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John Dawson (1762-1814) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, 1762.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1786-89; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1788; delegate to
Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1797-1814 (at-large 1797-1807, 10th
District 1807-14); died in office 1814.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 31,
1814 (age about 51
years).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Marion Lindsay Dawson —
of Richmond,
Va.; Suffolk
County, N.Y.; Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Scottsville, Albemarle
County, Va.
Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1915-19; campaign manager for
Gov. Cary
A. Hardee.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Redmen.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1903
to Alice Taylor. |
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James Ozro Day (b. 1888) —
also known as James O. Day —
of Mississippi; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Decatur, Newton
County, Miss., November
30, 1888.
Son of Samuel Marion Day and Eliza P. (Clark) Day.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of
Mississippi
state senate 27th District, 1928-32; circuit judge in
Mississippi, 1933; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, 1942-45.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Lions.
Burial
location unknown.
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Parke Poindexter Deans (b. 1880) —
also known as Parke P. Deans —
of Windsor, Isle of
Wight County, Va.; Richmond,
Va.
Born in Isle of
Wight County, Va., August
23, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1912.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Lucy Saunderrs. |
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Charles Harvey Denby (1830-1904) —
also known as Charles H. Denby —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Mt. Joy, Botetourt
County, Va., June 16,
1830.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1857; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Indiana, 1876,
1884;
U.S. Minister to China, 1885-98.
Episcopalian.
Died in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., January
13, 1904 (age 73 years, 211
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Clement Cabell Dickinson (1849-1938) —
also known as Clement C. Dickinson —
of Clinton, Henry
County, Mo.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., December
6, 1849.
Son of Asa Dupuy Dickinson and Sallie Cabell (Irvine) Dickinson.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; Henry
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1876-82; Presidential Elector for
Missouri, 1896;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1900-02; member of Missouri
state senate, 1902-06; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1910-21, 1923-29, 1931-35 (6th
District 1910-21, 1923-29, 1931-33, at-large 1933-35); defeated,
1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1928.
Died in Clinton, Henry
County, Mo., January
14, 1938 (age 88 years, 39
days).
Interment at Englewood
Cemetery, Clinton, Mo.
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Armistead Mason Dobie (1881-1962) —
of Charlottesville,
Va.
Born in Norfolk,
Va., April 15,
1881.
Son of Richard Augustus Dobie and Margaret Kearns (Cooke) Dobie.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1939-56.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 1962
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (1858-1910) —
also known as Jonathan P. Dolliver —
of Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa.
Born near Kingwood, Preston
County, Va. (now W.Va.), February
6, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Iowa, 1888,
1904;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 10th District, 1889-1900; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1900-10; died in office 1910.
Died in Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa, October
15, 1910 (age 52 years, 251
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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Owen Joseph Donley (d. 1995) —
also known as Owen J. Donley —
of Elk Point, Union
County, S.Dak.; Alexandria,
Va.; Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born in Elk Point, Union
County, S.Dak.
Democrat. Lawyer; Union
County State's Attorney; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from South Dakota, 1960;
chief of staff to U.S. Sen. George
McGovern, 1963-71; also worked on the Senator's campaigns for
U.S. Senate and President.
Catholic.
Died while recovering from heart
surgery, in Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., June 20,
1995.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1954
to Mary Carole Scott (died 1982); married 1992 to Martha
Anne Meek; father of Kerry
J. Donley. |
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William Joseph Donovan (1883-1959) —
also known as William J. Donovan; "Wild
Bill" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
1, 1883.
Son of Timothy P. Donovan and Anna (Lennon) Donovan.
Republican. Lawyer; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War
I; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1922; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of New York, 1922-24; candidate
for Governor of
New York, 1932; general in the U.S. Army during World War II;
U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1953-54.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Received the Medal
of Honor for action during World War I. During World War II, he
founded and led the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, which later
became the Central Intelligence Agency.
Died at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1959 (age 76 years, 38
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
law
professor; member, U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Blackburn Barrett Dovener (1842-1914) —
also known as Blackburn B. Dovener —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Tays Valley, Cabell
County, Va. (now W.Va.), April 20,
1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1883-84; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia, 1895-1907 (1st District
1895-97, at-large 1897-99, 1st District 1899-1907); defeated, 1890.
Died May 9,
1914 (age 72 years, 19
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Nelms Downing (1919-2001) —
also known as Thomas N. Downing —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born in Newport
News, Va., January
2, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1959-77.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Lions; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from complications of intestinal surgery, in a hospital
at Newport
News, Va., October
23, 2001 (age 82 years, 294
days).
Interment at Peninsula
Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
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Clyde Gilman Doyle (1887-1963) —
also known as Clyde Doyle —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; South Gate, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., July 11,
1887.
Son of Thomas Doyle and Nettie (Gilman) Doyle.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1945-47, 1949-63 (18th District
1945-47, 1949-53, 23rd District 1953-63); defeated, 1946; died in
office 1963; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1948,
1960.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Kiwanis.
Died of a heart
attack in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., March 14,
1963 (age 75 years, 246
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Draper (1794-1834) —
of Virginia.
Born in Draper Valley, Pulaski
County, Va., December
25, 1794.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; member
of Virginia
state senate, 1828-30; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 22nd District, 1830-31, 1832-33.
Died in Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va., June 10,
1834 (age 39 years, 167
days).
Interment at Oglesbies
Cemetery, Draper Valley, Va.
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Patrick Henry Drewry (1875-1947) —
also known as Patrick H. Drewry —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., May 24,
1875.
Son of Dr. E. A. Drewry and Alta L. (Booth) Drewry.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state senate, 1912-20; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1916,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1920-47 (4th District 1920-33,
at-large 1933-35, 4th District 1935-47); died in office 1947.
Methodist.
Member, American
Historical Association; Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Sigma
Chi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Died in Petersburg,
Va., December
21, 1947 (age 72 years, 211
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Edward Richard Dudley (1911-2005) —
also known as Edward R. Dudley —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in South Boston, Halifax
County, Va., March 11,
1911.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1948-49; U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, 1949-53; borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1961-64; appointed 1961;
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1965-85.
African
ancestry.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
10, 2005 (age 93 years, 336
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Rae Oley. |
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer; major in the U.S. Army during World War I;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer and
pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Clifford Judkins Durr (b. 1899) —
also known as Clifford J. Durr —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., March 2,
1899.
Son of John Wesley Durr and Lucy (Judkins) Durr.
Democrat. Lawyer; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1941-48.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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David Patterson Dyer (1838-1924) —
also known as David P. Dyer —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Henry
County, Va., February
12, 1838.
Son of David
Dalton Dyer.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Missouri, 1868
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1888,
1900;
U.S.
Representative from Missouri 9th District, 1869-71; candidate for
Governor
of Missouri, 1880; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1902-07; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1907.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., April 29,
1924 (age 86 years, 77
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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