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Margaret Andrews (1901-1990) —
also known as Margaret Susanna Bringgold; Mrs. R. C.
Andrews —
of Lindstrom, Chisago
County, Minn.
Born in Pine Island, Goodhue
County, Minn., April
28, 1901.
Republican. Lawyer;
librarian; secretary of
Minnesota Republican Party, 1945-50; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1948,
1952
(alternate).
Female.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion Auxiliary.
Died October
1, 1990 (age 89 years, 156
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Lindstrom, Minn.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Jacob A. Bringgold, Jr. and Mary Alice (Finn) Bringgold;
married, June 30,
1927, to Raymond Charles Andrews. |
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Mother" |
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memorial |
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Hannah Diggs Atkins (b. 1923) —
of Oklahoma.
Born in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., November
2, 1923.
Reporter;
school
teacher; librarian; member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1969-80; secretary
of state of Oklahoma, 1987-91.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 1999.
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Relatives:
Daughter of James Thackeray Diggs and Mabel Kennedy Diggs; married to
Charles N. Atkins. |
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Frank W. Ballance Jr. (b. 1942) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Windsor, Bertie
County, N.C., February
15, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer;
librarian; college
professor; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1982-85; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1989-2002; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1996,
2000;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 2003-04;
resigned 2004; indicted
in federal court in September 2004 on federal money
laundering charges
for diverting
state funds through a charitable foundation; pleaded
guilty to one count, sentenced
to four years in prison,
fined
$10,000, ordered to pay restitution,
and disbarred.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Benjamin H. Barrows (1847-1910) —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born near Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa, December
30, 1847.
Newspaper
reporter; member of University
of Nebraska board of regents, 1875-76; U.S. Consul in Dublin, 1876-86; librarian; U.S. Surveyor of Customs,
1903-10; died in office 1910.
Died, from bronchitis
and heart
disease, in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., December
30, 1910 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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Relatives: Son
of Willard Barrows and Ann Barrows; brother of Caroline Barrows (who
married Joseph
Hopkins Millard); married 1878 to Lizzie
Phelan; married to Gertrude Carpenter Fitzpatrick. |
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family of Omaha, Nebraska. |
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Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) —
also known as S. G. W. Benjamin —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.; Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born, of American parents, at Argos, Greece,
February
13, 1837.
Librarian; author; artist;
U.S. Minister to Persia, 1883-85; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, as of 1883-85.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Forestry Association; Navy
League.
Died in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., July 19,
1914 (age 77 years, 156
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Laura Bush (b. 1946) —
also known as Laura Lane Welch —
Born, in Midland Memorial Hospital,
Midland, Midland
County, Tex., November
4, 1946.
Republican. School
teacher; librarian; First Lady of Texas, 1995-2000; First Lady
of the United States, 2001-09.
Female.
Still living as of 2022.
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Lillain Symes Clements —
also known as Lillian B. Symes —
of California.
Socialist. Librarian; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from California, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1938.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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Willye F. Clayton Dennis (1926-2012) —
also known as Willye Dennis —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., March
14, 1926.
Democrat. Librarian; civil rights leader; in December, 1989,
she was the target of attempted
murder when a mail bomb was sent to her office; she did not open
the package, and the bomb was defused; member of Florida
state house of representatives 15th District, 1993-99; resigned
1999; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1996.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Delta
Sigma Theta.
Died March 9,
2012 (age 85 years, 361
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (1846-1917) —
also known as Theodore F. Dwight —
of Washington,
D.C.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., June 11,
1846.
Librarian; director, Boston Public Library, 1892-94; U.S.
Consular Agent in Vevey, 1904-14.
Bisexual.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
3, 1917 (age 70 years, 237
days).
Interment at Harmony
Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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James Lorimer Graham (c.1832-1876) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1832.
Editor, Putnam's magazine;
librarian; U.S. Consul in Florence, 1869-76.
Died April
30, 1876 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Porta
a Pinti or English Cemetery, Firenze, Italy.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathan Burr Graham, Jr. and Marie Antoinette (McCoskry)
Graham. |
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Robert Allen Haden (b. 1908) —
also known as R. Allen Haden —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Kiangyin (Jiangyin), China,
June
2, 1908.
Librarian; U.S. Vice Consul in Genoa, 1931-32; Singapore, 1932; Buenos Aires, as of 1938.
Burial location unknown.
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Eric Hass (1905-1980) —
of Oregon; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., 1905.
Socialist. Advertising
business; Socialist Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1936; editor
of The Weekly People, 1938-68; Industrial Government candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1944; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1949 (Industrial Government), 1957
(Socialist Labor), 1961 (Socialist Labor), 1965 (Socialist Labor);
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1950 (Industrial Government), 1958 (Socialist Labor),
1962 (Socialist Labor); Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964; librarian.
German
and Danish
ancestry.
Resigned or expelled from the Socialist Labor Party, 1969.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Community Hospital,
Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., October
2, 1980 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.), April 14,
1948 |
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Marie Hilson Katzenbach (1882-1970) —
also known as Marie H. Katzenbach; Marie Louise Hunt
Hilson —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., December
8, 1882.
Librarian; member, New Jersey State Board of Education,
1921-64; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Mercer County,
1947.
Female.
French
ancestry. Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Colonial
Dames.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
4, 1970 (age 87 years, 58
days).
Interment at Ewing
Cemetery, Ewing, N.J.
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Robert Woodrow Levering (1914-1989) —
also known as Robert W. Levering —
of Fredericktown, Knox
County, Ohio.
Born near Fredericktown, Knox
County, Ohio, October
3, 1914.
Democrat. Librarian; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 17th District, 1959-61; defeated, 1948,
1950, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1962; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1964.
Died in Fredericktown, Knox
County, Ohio, August
11, 1989 (age 74 years, 312
days).
Cremated.
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James Logue —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
School
principal; librarian; mayor
of Lexington, Ky., 1842-45.
Burial location unknown.
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Evelyn Silliman Malone (1905-1981) —
also known as Evelyn Malone; Evelyn I. Silliman;
Mrs. M. W. Malone —
of Windom, Cottonwood
County, Minn.
Born in Windom, Cottonwood
County, Minn., December
25, 1905.
Democrat. School
teacher; librarian; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1960;
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor state chair, 1960-62.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Order of the
Eastern Star; Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Struck
by a car while walking in Sun City, Arizona, and died soon after,
in a hospital
at Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., February
18, 1981 (age 75 years, 55
days).
Interment at Lakeview Cemetery, Windom, Minn.
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Thomas Herbert Norton (b. 1851) —
also known as Thomas H. Norton —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rushford, Allegany
County, N.Y., June 30,
1851.
Republican. Chemist;
newspaper
editor; university
professor; librarian; U.S. Consul in Harput, 1900-05; Smyrna, 1905-06; Chemnitz, 1906-14.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; American
Chemical Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Robert Norton and Julia Ann Granger (Horsford) Norton;
married, December
27, 1883, to Edith Eliza Ames. |
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Rosemary Mason Ogden (b. 1909) —
also known as Rosemary Ogden —
of Romeo, Macomb
County, Mich.
Born in Fairmont, Marion
County, W.Va., January
6, 1909.
Republican. Librarian; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1947-49.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Burial location unknown.
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Major Robert Odell Owens (1936-2013) —
also known as Major R. Owens —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Collierville, Shelby
County, Tenn., June 28,
1936.
Democrat. Librarian; member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1975-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1983-2007 (12th District 1983-93,
11th District 1993-2007).
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died, from renal
failure and heart
failure, in New York University Langone Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 2013 (age 77 years, 115
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Palmer (1907-1991) —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Sycamore, DeKalb
County, Ill., January
6, 1907.
Democrat. Librarian; member of Michigan
state senate 13th District, 1933-37; resigned 1937; candidate for
Michigan
state house of representatives 59th District, 1972.
Died in 1991
(age about
84 years).
Interment at East
Lawn Memory Gardens, Okemos, Mich.
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Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) —
also known as James Whitelaw Reid;
"Agate" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cedarville, Greene
County, Ohio, October
27, 1837.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; librarian; cotton planter;
U.S. Minister to France, 1889-92; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1892; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1905-12, died in office 1912.
Died in London, England,
December
15, 1912 (age 75 years, 49
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Dorothy H. Rose (b. 1920) —
of Angola, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
21, 1920.
Democrat. Librarian; member of New York
state assembly, 1965-68 (Erie County 8th District 1965, 163rd
District 1966, 147th District 1967-68).
Female.
Catholic.
Member, League of Women
Voters; Grange;
Delta
Kappa Gamma.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Thomas A. Rose. |
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Byrd Fanita Sawyer (b. 1895) —
also known as Byrd Fanita Wall; Mrs. Harry W.
Sawyer —
of Fallon, Churchill
County, Nev.; Sparks, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Warrensburg, Johnson
County, Mo., May 5,
1895.
Democrat. School
teacher; librarian; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Nevada; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1948
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1952.
Female.
Member, American
Association of University Women; National
Education Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Gamma
Phi Beta; Beta
Sigma Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Henry J. Wall and Burd (McIlvaine) Wall; married, September
11, 1923, to Harry W. Sawyer. |
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Miles Osborne Sherill (b. 1841) —
of Catawba
County, N.C.
Born in Catawba
County, N.C., July 26,
1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lost a
leg at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, 1864; probate
judge in North Carolina, 1868; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1882-83; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1885-86, 1893-94; North Carolina state
librarian, 1913.
Methodist.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hiram Sherill and Sarah Sherill; married 1867 to Sarah
R. Bost. |
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Mary A. Sleeth (born c.1876) —
of Rushville, Rush
County, Ind.
Born in Indiana, about 1876.
Republican. Librarian; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1924,
1936;
farm administrator for Wendell
Willkie.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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Foster Waterman Stearns (1881-1956) —
also known as Foster Stearns —
of Hancock, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Hull, Plymouth
County, Mass., July 29,
1881.
Republican. Librarian; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1937; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1939-45; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1940
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1948.
Died June 4,
1956 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Interment at Exeter
Cemetery, Exeter, N.H.
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William Swift (b. 1794) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Massachusetts, 1794.
Candle
manufacturer; librarian; mayor
of Lexington, Ky., 1855-58.
English
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897) —
also known as J. Hammond Trumbull —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Stonington, New London
County, Conn., December
20, 1821.
Philologist;
Connecticut State Librarian, 1854-55; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1861-66.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., August
5, 1897 (age 75 years, 228
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Allura E. Ulch (1852-1936) —
of Ceres, Stanislaus
County, Calif.
Born in 1852.
Librarian; postmaster at Ceres,
Calif., 1901-05.
Female.
Died in 1936
(age about
84 years).
Interment at Ceres Memorial Park, Ceres, Calif.
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James William Zevely (1861-1927) —
also known as J. W. Zevely —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.; Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Linn, Osage
County, Mo., October
8, 1861.
Democrat. Librarian; secretary of
Missouri Democratic Party, 1888; Inspector in Charge for U.S.
Department of the Interior; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912,
1916;
as attorney for the Sinclair Consolidated Oil
Corporation, and for Harry F. Sinclair, he was a figure in the Teapot
Dome scandal of the 1920s.
Died, of pernicious
anemia and liver
cirrhosis, in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 10,
1927 (age 65 years, 245
days).
Interment somewhere
in Paris, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Thaddeus Zevely and Mary A. Zevely; married, June 23,
1908, to Janie C. Clay. |
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"Zev" (1920-1943) was named for
him by Harry F. Sinclair. |
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