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Gregory W. Abbott (b. 1957) —
also known as Greg Abbott —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Wichita Falls, Wichita
County, Tex., November
13, 1957.
Republican. Justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1995-2002; appointed 1995; Texas
state attorney general, 2002-; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 2008.
Injured in 1984 when a tree fell on him while jogging, partially
paralyzed, and confined to a wheelchair.
Still living as of 2009.
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David Christopher Ahearn (1879-1925) —
also known as David C. Ahearn —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Glenwood Springs, Garfield
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Rotherham, England,
November
4, 1879.
Son of John Ahearn and Mary (Kerwin) Ahearn.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1910-11; trustee, Framingham Hospital,
1910-16; selectman, Framingham, 1912-13; pioneer in Colorado oil shale
industry; founder and president of the Yarg Producing & Refining
Corporation.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Crippled as a boy, had minimal use of both legs, and used
canes or crutches.
Died in Denver,
Colo., November
30, 1925 (age 46 years, 26
days).
Interment somewhere
in Framingham, Mass.
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Arthur William Aleshire (1900-1940) —
also known as Arthur W. Aleshire —
of Springfield, Clark
County, Ohio.
Born near Luray, Page
County, Va., February
15, 1900.
Son of James William Aleshire and Ada Aleshire.
Democrat. Grocer; gasoline
station business; His legs were paralyzed as the result of
an accident in 1923; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 7th District, 1937-39; defeated, 1938.
Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Springfield, Clark
County, Ohio, March 11,
1940 (age 40 years, 25
days).
Interment at Ferncliff
Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio.
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Michela Alioto-Pier (b. 1968) —
also known as Michela A. Alioto —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March 29,
1968.
Daughter of Joseph Michael Alioto.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1996; Democratic
candidate for secretary of
state of California, 1998, 2002 (primary); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 2000.
Female.
Her legs were paralyzed in a 1981 ski-lift accident.
Still living as of 2007.
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Ephraim Foster Anderson (1838-1877) —
of Maryland.
Born in Bedford
County, Pa., 1838.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1865; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1868.
Crippled by wounds received during the Civil War.
Died April 5,
1877 (age about 38
years).
Original interment at Presbyterian
Church (which no longer exists), Anderson, Md.; reinterment to
unknown location.
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Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906) —
also known as Benjamin W. Arnett —
of Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born in Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., March 16,
1838.
Son of Samuel G. Arnett and Mary Louisa Arnett.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; ordained
minister; member of Ohio state
house of representatives from Greene County, 1886-87; first
black state legislator elected to represent a majority white
constituency; bishop; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1896.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African,
Scottish,
American
Indian, and Irish
ancestry.
Lost a leg due to a tumor in 1858.
Died, of uremia, in
Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio, October
9, 1906 (age 68 years, 207
days).
Interment at Tarbox
Cemetery, Wilberforce, Ohio.
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William Hollingsworth Attwood (1919-1989) —
also known as William Attwood —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Paris, France,
July
14, 1919.
Son of Frederic Attwood and Gladys (Hollingsworth) Attwood.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; newspaper
correspondent; newspaper
editor and publisher; U.S. Ambassador to Guinea, 1961-63; Kenya, 1964-66.
He became partially lame due to polio he caught in Africa.
Died, from heart
failure, in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 15,
1989 (age 69 years, 275
days).
Interment somewhere
in New Canaan, Conn.
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James Addams Beaver (1837-1914) —
of Bellefonte, Centre
County, Pa.
Born in Millerstown, Perry
County, Pa., October
21, 1837.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1880;
Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1887-91; defeated, 1882; superior court judge in
Pennsylvania, 1896-1906.
Presbyterian.
Lost a leg in the battle of Ream's Station, August 24, 1864.
Died in Bellefonte, Centre
County, Pa., January
31, 1914 (age 76 years, 102
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Bellefonte, Pa.
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Abraham Bernstein (1918-1990) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1918.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of New York
state senate, 1961-90 (28th District 1961-65, 36th District 1966,
32nd District 1967-90); died in office 1990.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Congress; Zionist
Organization of America; B'nai
B'rith.
One leg was amputated in 1977 due to phlebitis.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Albert Einstein Medical
Center, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., March 4,
1990 (age 71 years, 307
days).
Interment at New
Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin, N.J.
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Relatives:
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James Henderson Berry (1841-1913) —
also known as James H. Berry —
of Bentonville, Benton
County, Ark.
Born in Jackson
County, Ala., May 15,
1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
wounded at the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862, and lost
a leg; lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1866, 1872-74; Speaker of
the Arkansas State House of Representatives, 1874; circuit judge
in Arkansas, 1879-83; Governor of
Arkansas, 1883-85; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1885-1907.
Died in Bentonville, Benton
County, Ark., January
30, 1913 (age 71 years, 260
days).
Interment at Knights
of Pythias Cemetery, Bentonville, Ark.
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Roswell Peter Bishop (1843-1920) —
also known as Roswell P. Bishop —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Ludington, Mason
County, Mich.
Born in Sidney, Delaware
County, N.Y., January
6, 1843.
Son of Edward Bishop and Anna (Andrews) Bishop.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded
during the war at Lees Mills, Va., and lost his right arm; lawyer; Mason
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1877-80, 1885-86; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Mason County, 1883-84,
1893-94; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 1895-1907; defeated,
1906; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 26th District, 1907.
Died in Pacific Grove, Monterey
County, Calif., March 4,
1920 (age 77 years, 58
days).
Interment at El
Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Calif.
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Mark Harden Blandford (1826-1902) —
of Georgia.
Born in Warren
County, Ga., July 13,
1826.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1883-90.
Wounded during the Civil War, at McDowell, Va., and lost an
arm.
Died in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., January
31, 1902 (age 75 years, 202
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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Ellis Barkett Bodron (1923-1997) —
of Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss.
Born in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., October
25, 1923.
Member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1948-52; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1952-84; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1972.
Member, American Bar
Association; Lions; Jaycees.
Blind from childhood.
Died, of brain
cancer, in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., February
17, 1997 (age 73 years, 115
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Campbell Botkin (1842-1905) —
also known as Alexander C. Botkin —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., October
13, 1842.
Son of Alexander
Botkin.
Republican. Candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1882; Lieutenant
Governor of Montana, 1893-97; candidate for Governor of
Montana, 1896.
Suffered for twenty-five years from paralysis caused by
exposure in a storm in 1880.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
1, 1905 (age 63 years, 19
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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William Huggins Brawley (1841-1916) —
also known as William H. Brawley —
of Chester, Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C.; Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Chester, Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., May 13,
1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, Va., and lost an arm; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1882-90; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1891-94;
resigned 1894; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1894-1911; resigned 1911.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., November
15, 1916 (age 75 years, 186
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Near Charleston, Charleston County, S.C.
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George E. Brennan (b. 1865) —
also known as "Boss" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cayuga
County, N.Y., 1865.
Democrat. Insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1920,
1924,
1928;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1926.
Lost a leg as a boy.
Burial
location unknown.
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Maurice L. Britt (1919-1995) —
also known as Footsie Britt —
of Arkansas.
Born in Carlisle, Lonoke
County, Ark., June 29,
1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71; candidate for Governor of
Arkansas, 1986.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Rotary; Kiwanis.
Professional football
player for the Detroit Lions. Wounded during World War II and lost
his right arm. Received the Medal
of Honor for action at Mignano, Italy, in November 1943.
Died November
26, 1995 (age 76 years, 150
days).
Interment at National
Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Wilmot W. Brookings (1830-1905) —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Woolwich, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, October
23, 1830.
Lawyer;
in February 1858, he was out in a blizzard and lost both feet;
member
Dakota territorial council, 1862-63, 1867-69; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1868; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1863-66; Speaker
of the Dakota Territory House of Representatives, 1864-65; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1869-73; delegate to
South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1883, 1885.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1905
(age about
74 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of South Carolina.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August 5,
1819.
Son of Whitefield Brooks and Mary P. (Carroll) Brooks.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with a cane for the
rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an anti-slavery speech,
he went to the Senate and beat
Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe
injuries; an attempt to expel him
from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote, but
he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Elwood Brown (1834-1904) —
also known as Charles E. Brown —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, July 4,
1834.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1885-89; member of Ohio state
senate.
Wounded during the Civil War, while fighting in Georgia, 1864, and
lost a leg.
Died in College Hill, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 22,
1904 (age 69 years, 323
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Jesse Brown (b. 1944) —
Born March 27,
1944.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; U.S.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 1993; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1996.
His arm was partially paralyzed as a result of a combat injury
in Vietnam, 1965.
Still living as of 2001.
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Reagan V. Brown (c.1921-1999) —
of Texas.
Born about 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Texas
commissioner of agriculture, 1977-82.
Lost a finger in an accident when he was young.
Died in a farm
tractor accident, in Brazoria
County, Tex., November
16, 1999 (age about 78
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Boyd Brown, Sr. (1920-1998) —
also known as Walter Brown, Sr.; W. B.
Brown —
of Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C.
Born in Smallwood, Fairfield
County, S.C., May 16,
1920.
Son of Boyd
Brown.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1960,
1964,
1968;
first director of South Carolina Department of General Services;
vice-president of Norfolk Southern Corporation (formerly Southern Railway).
Presbyterian.
Blind in one eye. The Walter Boyd Brown Industrial Park was
named
for him.
Died, following a stroke, at
Fairfield Memorial Hospital,
Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C., March 9,
1998 (age 77 years, 297
days).
Interment at Bethel
Cemetery, Winnsboro, S.C.
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Thomas P. Burnett (1800-1845) —
of Mt. Hope Township, Grant
County, Wis.
Born in Pittsylvania
County, Va., September
3, 1800.
Son of John Burnett and Judith Burnett.
Lawyer;
walked with a limp due to a leg injury during a fire; present
for the surrender of Black Hawk (Indian chief), August 2, 1832; member
Wisconsin territorial council, 1836.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of typhoid,
in Mt. Hope Township, Grant
County, Wis., November
7, 1845 (age 45 years, 65
days).
Interment at Hermitage
Cemetery, Mt. Hope Township, Grant County, Wis.
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April 2,
1862.
Son of Henry L. Butler and Mary J. (Murray) Butler.
Republican. University
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1888;
President
of Columbia University, 1901-45; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1912; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920,
1928;
co-recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931; elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; blind in his later years.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of bronchio-pneumonia,
in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1947 (age 85 years, 249
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Allen Daniel Candler (1834-1910) —
also known as Allen D. Candler; "The One-Eyed
Ploughboy from Pigeon Roost" —
of Jonesboro, Clayton
County, Ga.; Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born in Auraria, Lumpkin
County, Ga., November
4, 1834.
Son of Nancy Caroline (Matthews) Candler and Daniel
Gill Candler.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
the battle of Jonesboro, 1864, he was wounded, and lost an
eye; railroad
president; mayor
of Gainesville, Ga., 1872; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1873-77; member of Georgia
state senate, 1878-79; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1883-91; secretary of
state of Georgia, 1894-98; Governor of
Georgia, 1898-1902.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., October
26, 1910 (age 75 years, 356
days).
Interment at Alta
Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga.
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William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) —
also known as William A. Chanler —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Paris, France.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 11,
1867.
Son of John
Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler (1838-1875).
Democrat. Explorer;
author;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1899-1901.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and lost a
lower leg.
Died in Mentone (Menton), France,
March
4, 1934 (age 66 years, 266
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Robert Keaton Christenberry (1899-1973) —
also known as Robert K. Christenberry —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.; Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Huntingdon, Carroll
County, Tenn., January
27, 1899.
Son of William Calvin Christenberry and Rebecca Arminta (Keaton)
Christenberry.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I;
lost his right hand and wrist in a grenade explosion; U.S.
Vice Consul in Vladivostok, 1919; hotel
manager and executive; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1957; New York City postmaster, 1958-66.
Presbyterian.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters.
Suffered a stroke,
and died two months later, in Methodist Hospital,
Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., April 13,
1973 (age 74 years, 76
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Maxwell Cleland (b. 1942) —
also known as Max Cleland —
of Lithonia, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
24, 1942.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; member of
Georgia
state senate, 1971-75; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1974; secretary of
state of Georgia, 1983-96; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1997-2003; defeated, 2002; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 2000.
Lost both legs and part of one arm in Vietnam.
Still living as of 2009.
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Louis P. Cooke (1811-1849) —
of Texas.
Born in Tennessee, 1811.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838-39, 1841-42; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1839-41.
Charged
in 1843 with the murder
of Captain Mark Lewis; at trial,
the jury deadlocked, and he escaped
before a second trial could be held. Wounded in an Indian raid on
Corpus Christi in 1844 and lost an eye.
Died, of cholera,
in Brownsville, Cameron
County, Tex., 1849
(age about
38 years).
Interment somewhere
in New Orleans, La.
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Thomas F. Cosgrove (b. 1892) —
of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 16,
1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; wounded in battle at
Argonne Forest, October 21, 1918, and lost a leg; member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County 1st District, 1920-23.
Interment at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Grassmere, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818-1875) —
also known as Edwin B. Crocker —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Jamesville, Onondaga
County, N.Y., April 26,
1818.
Son of Isaac Crocker and (mother) Crocker.
Lawyer;
justice
of California state supreme court, 1863; chief counsel, Central
Pacific Railroad,
1864-69.
Founder of the Crocker Art Museum; partially paralyzed
following an 1869 stroke.
Died in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., June 24,
1875 (age 57 years, 59
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.
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Robert H. Curry (1842-1892) —
of Bossier
Parish, La.
Born in Fairfield District (now Fairfield
County), S.C., November
26, 1842.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1887.
Presbyterian.
Member, Grange; Knights
of Pythias.
Shot in the right ankle during the Battle of Manassas, and
crippled for the rest of his life.
Died June 24,
1892 (age 49 years, 211
days).
Interment at Rocky
Mount Cemetery, Rocky Mount, La.
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Laurence Curtis (1893-1989) —
also known as Lawrence Curtis —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
3, 1893.
Son of Louis Curtis and Fanny Leland (Richardson) Curtis.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lost a
leg during Navy training exercises; lawyer;
secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1921-22; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1933-36; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1936-41; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1944
(alternate), 1960;
Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1947-48; defeated, 1948; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1953-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans; American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died July 11,
1989 (age 95 years, 311
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Booker Dalton (1869-1948) —
of Stuart, Patrick
County, Va.
Born, in a log
house, in Patrick
County, Va., December
13, 1869.
Son of Willis Dalton (1836-1909) and Lucy Ann (Howell) Dalton
(1844-1916).
Farmer;
District Commissioner of Revenue, 1910-12, 1923-26; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1913-15; Patrick
County Commissioner of Revenue, 1927-39.
Primitive
Baptist.
Lost one eye in an accident.
Died, from a stroke, in
Stuart, Patrick
County, Va., December
13, 1948 (age 79 years, 0
days).
Interment at Stuart
Cemetery, Stuart, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Willis Dalton (1836-1909) and Lucy Ann (Howell) Dalton
(1844-1916); married, February
14, 1894, to Lilla Susan Shockley (1875-1970); father of Grady
W. Dalton. |
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Gerald DeRuiter —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Kentwood, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Wyoming Township (now Wyoming), Kent
County, Mich.
Republican. Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1972;
mayor
of Kentwood, Mich., 1981-92; resigned 1992.
Injured in a hunting accident in 1969, and lost a leg.
Still living as of 1992.
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Roscoe D. Dix (1839-1912) —
of Berrien Springs, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Jefferson
County, N.Y., June 11,
1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
permanently disabled by injuries suffered in the battle at
Knoxville, November 24, 1863; real estate
business; banker; Michigan
land commissioner, 1887-90; Michigan
state auditor general, 1897-1900.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died September
5, 1912 (age 73 years, 86
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Berrien Springs, Mich.
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Frank Murray Dixon (1892-1965) —
also known as Frank M. Dixon —
of Alabama.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., July 25,
1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; injured during the war
and lost his right leg; delegate to
Alabama convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large, 1933; Governor of
Alabama, 1939-43; defeated in primary, 1934.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Kiwanis.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., October
11, 1965 (age 73 years, 78
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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William Wade Dudley (b. 1842) —
of Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Weathersfield Bow, Weathersfield, Windsor
County, Vt., August
27, 1842.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded
at the battle of Gettysburg, 1863, and lost his right leg; Wayne
County Clerk of Courts, 1866-74; milling
business; lawyer; banker;
U.S. Marshal, District of Indiana, 1879-81; U.S. Commissioner of
Pensions, 1881-85; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1888.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1864
to Theresa Fiske. |
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Matthew Anthony Dunn (1886-1942) —
also known as Matthew A. Dunn —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Braddock, Allegheny
County, Pa., August
15, 1886.
News
dealer; insurance
broker; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County 12th
District, 1926-32; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 34th District, 1933-41.
Lost sight in his left eye at age 12; became blind with
when he lost sight in his right eye at age 20.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
13, 1942 (age 55 years, 182
days).
Interment at Homewood
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Nehemiah Hezekiah Earll (1787-1872) —
of New York.
Born in Whitehall, Washington
County, N.Y., October
5, 1787.
Democrat. County judge in New York, 1823-31; U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1839-41; defeated,
1840.
Blind for many years.
Died in Mottville, Onondaga
County, N.Y., August
26, 1872 (age 84 years, 326
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.
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John Porter East (1931-1986) —
also known as John P. East —
of North Carolina.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 5,
1931.
Republican. Candidate for secretary of
state of North Carolina, 1968; Presidential Elector for North
Carolina, 1972;
U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1981-86; died in office 1986.
Presbyterian.
His legs were paralyzed due to polio.
Committed suicide,
in Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C., June 29,
1986 (age 55 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Matthew Duncan Ector (1822-1879) —
Born in Putnam
County, Ga., February
28, 1822.
Member of Georgia state legislature; member of Texas state
legislature, 1855; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; Judge, Texas Court of
Appeals, 1866-79; died in office 1879.
Wounded during the Civil War, and lost a leg.
Died October
29, 1879 (age 57 years, 243
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Marshall, Tex.
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Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Franklin Mill (unknown
county), Ohio, December
27, 1831.
Son of Jairus
C. Fairchild.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded
at the battle of Gettysburg, 1863, and lost an arm; secretary of
state of Wisconsin, 1864-66; Governor of
Wisconsin, 1866-72; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1880-81; Presidential Elector for Wisconsin, 1888.
Died May 23,
1896 (age 64 years, 148
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Paul Farthing (b. 1887) —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Odin, Marion
County, Ill., April 12,
1887.
Son of William D. Farthing and Sarah Boyd (Phillips) Farthing.
Democrat. Lawyer; St.
Clair County Judge, 1930-33; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1933-42; defeated, 1924; chief
justice of Illinois state supreme court, 1937-38; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1936.
Presbyterian.
Member, Optimist
Club; Sons of
the Revolution; Redmen.
Blind.
Burial
location unknown.
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Louis Fechter, Sr. (1851-1921) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France,
1851.
Republican. Employed on Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad;
lost an arm in an 1877 railroad accident; carting
business; organized Buffalo Rendering
Co.; manager, Buffalo Fertilizer
Co.; president, Minnehaha Mining and
Smelting
Co.; president, Fechter-Elliott Agency, real
estate and insurance;
member of New York
state senate 48th District, 1905-06.
Catholic.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., April 16,
1921 (age about 69
years).
Interment at United
German and French Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Larry Flynt (b. 1942) —
also known as "The King of Smut" —
of California.
Born in Salyersville, Magoffin
County, Ky., November
1, 1942.
Democrat. Owner of night
clubs; publisher of Hustler, a pornographic
magazine;
convicted
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 on obscenity
and organized
crime charges,
and sentenced
to 25 years in prison,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; shot by a
sniper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, and paralyzed from the
waist down; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Ray Louis Forshee (1884-1974) —
also known as Ray L. Forshee —
of Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Michigan, March 19,
1884.
Son of John R. Forshee and Virginia (Cowen) Forshee.
Democrat. Clothing
salesman; candidate for supervisor
of Pittsfield Township, Michigan, 1941.
Irish
and German
ancestry.
His legs were amputated due to arteriosclerosis.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Whitehall Convalescent
Center, Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
5, 1974 (age 89 years, 292
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of John R. Forshee and Virginia (Cowen) Forshee; married to Ida Lerg;
brother of Frank
J. Forshee. |
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Benjamin Wynn Fortson, Jr. (b. 1904) —
also known as Ben W. Fortson, Jr. —
of Wilkes
County, Ga.
Born in Tignall, Wilkes
County, Ga., December
19, 1904.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state senate, 1939-42; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Wilkes County, 1943-46; secretary of
state of Georgia, 1946-79.
Methodist.
Member, Pi
Sigma Alpha; Freemasons;
Moose.
Confined to a wheelchair since an automobile accident in 1929.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Oramel B. Fuller (1858-1935) —
of Ford River, Delta
County, Mich.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., January
22, 1858.
Republican. Lumber
business; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Delta District, 1893-98;
member of Michigan
state senate 30th District, 1901-04, 1907-08; injured in a fall
at the entrance to his home, about 1905, and paralyzed; used a
wheelchair for the rest of his life; Michigan
state auditor general, 1909-32; defeated, 1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., November
4, 1935 (age 77 years, 286
days).
Interment somewhere
in Muskegon, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married 1887
to Jennie L. Van Zalingen (died 1922). |
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1911 |
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Samuel Jameson Gholson (1808-1883) —
of Mississippi.
Born near Richmond, Madison
County, Ky., May 19,
1808.
Democrat. Member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1835; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1836-37, 1837-39; federal
judge, 1839; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Wounded during the Civil War and lost an arm.
Died in Aberdeen, Monroe
County, Miss., October
16, 1883 (age 75 years, 150
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Aberdeen, Miss.
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Thomas Pryor Gore (1870-1949) —
also known as Thomas P. Gore —
of Lawton, Comanche
County, Okla.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born near Embry, Webster
County, Miss., December
10, 1870.
Son of Tom M. Gore and Carrie E. (Wingo) Gore.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1898; member
Oklahoma territorial council, 1903-05; U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1907-21, 1931-37; defeated, 1920, 1936;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(speaker),
1928;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1912-16.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Woodmen;
Elks.
Blind due to an accident suffered when he was a boy; first
blind member of the U.S. Senate.
Died March 16,
1949 (age 78 years, 96
days).
Originally entombed at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Okla.; later interred in 1949 at
Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Robert Budd Gould (1937-1997) —
of Montana.
Born in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 10,
1937.
Member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1974-81, 1985-91.
Blinded by diabetes in 1970.
Died of complications of diabetes.
June
2, 1997 (age 60 years, 23
days).
Interment at Missoula
Cemetery, Missoula, Mont.
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Denmark Groover, Jr. (1922-2001) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Quitman, Brooks
County, Ga., June 30,
1922.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Bibb County, 1953-57,
1963-65, 1971-75, 1983-95.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America.
During World War II, served as a pilot in the "Black Sheep Squadron";
an injury left his right arm partially paralyzed. Sponsored
the bill to put the Confederate battle flag on the Georgia state flag
in 1956; supported the removal of the emblem in 2001.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 18,
2001 (age 78 years, 292
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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David McKee Hall (1918-1960) —
of Sylva, Jackson
County, N.C.
Born in Sylva, Jackson
County, N.C., May 16,
1918.
Son of David M. Hall and Edith (Moore) Hall.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1955; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 12th District, 1959-60; died
in office 1960.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Rotary.
Paraplegic.
Died in Sylva, Jackson
County, N.C., January
29, 1960 (age 41 years, 258
days).
Interment at Webster
Methodist Church Cemetery, Webster, N.C.
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Wade Hampton III (1818-1902) —
also known as "Savior of South
Carolina" —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 28,
1818.
Son of Wade Hampton and Ann (FitzSimons) Hampton.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1858; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
South Carolina, 1876-79; defeated, 1865; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1879-91; U.S. Railroad Commissioner,
1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate
Medal of Honor. Lost a leg in an accident in 1878.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April 11,
1902 (age 84 years, 14
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Henry Baldwin Harshaw (1842-1900) —
also known as Henry B. Harshaw —
of Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Argyle, Washington
County, N.Y., June 14,
1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Wisconsin
state treasurer, 1887-91.
Member, Elks; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Wounded at the battle of Laurel Hill, Va., 1864, and lost his left
arm as a result.
Died, of tongue
cancer, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., December
25, 1900 (age 58 years, 194
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Riverside
Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wis.
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David Bremner Henderson (1840-1906) —
also known as David B. Henderson —
of Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa.
Born in Scotland,
March
14, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 3rd District, 1883-1903; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1899-1903; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1888,
1896
(speaker).
Wounded during the Civil War, in 1863, and lost a leg.
Died in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, February
25, 1906 (age 65 years, 348
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.
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Charles H. Houghton —
of Metuchen, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New York.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lost a leg in
a Civil War battle; U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1875-82.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Arrested
in May 1882, and charged
with embezzlement,
fraud,
and forgery;
tried,
convicted,
and fined.
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel Ken Inouye (b. 1924) —
also known as Daniel K. Inouye —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, September
7, 1924.
Son of Hyotaro I. Inouye and Kame Imanaga Inouye.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1954-58; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1956;
member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1958-59; U.S.
Representative from Hawaii at-large, 1959-63; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, 1960,
1972,
1980,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008
(delegation chair); Co-Chair, 1984;
U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1963-.
Methodist.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Disabled
American Veterans; Phi
Delta Phi; Lions.
Lost his right arm as the result of a combat injury in Italy
during World War II. His Distinguished Service Cross was upgraded in
2000 to a Medal
of Honor. First
American of Japanese descent to serve in Congress.
Still living as of 2012.
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Thomas Jordan Jarvis (1836-1915) —
of Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C.
Born in Jarvisburg, Currituck
County, N.C., January
18, 1836.
Son of Rev. B. H. Jarvis and Elizabeth Jarvis.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lost his
right arm; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1865, 1875;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1868-71; Presidential
Elector for North Carolina, 1868,
1872;
Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1877-79; Governor of
North Carolina, 1879-85; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1885-88; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1894-95; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1896.
Died June 17,
1915 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Interment at Cherry
Hill Cemetery, Greenville, N.C.
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Harry Francis Kelly (1895-1971) —
also known as Harry F. Kelly; Henry Francis
Kelly —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Gaylord, Otsego
County, Mich.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., April 19,
1895.
Son of Henry Michael Kelly (1865-1946) and Mollie (Morrissey) Kelly
(1869-1950).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lost part
of his left leg in France; lawyer; La
Salle County State's Attorney, 1919-23; secretary of
state of Michigan, 1939-42; Governor of
Michigan, 1943-46; defeated, 1950; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1944;
justice
of Michigan state supreme court, 1954-70.
Died February
8, 1971 (age 75 years, 295
days).
Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, Mich.
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John Worth Kern, Jr. (1900-1971) —
also known as John W. Kern —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., July 7,
1900.
Son of John
Worth Kern and Araminta
Cooper Kern.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superior court judge in Indiana, 1931-34; mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1935-37; resigned 1937.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta; Freemasons.
At age 8, his legs were paralyzed by polio.
Died January
29, 1971 (age 70 years, 206
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Joseph Robert Kerrey (b. 1943) —
also known as Bob Kerrey —
of Nebraska.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., August
27, 1943.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; Governor of
Nebraska, 1983-87; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1989-; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1992.
Congregationalist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Lions; Sertoma.
Received the Medal
of Honor for action at Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam, 1969, when he
lost a leg.
Still living as of 2009.
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Robert Charles Killough, Jr. (1906-1961) —
also known as Robert C. Killough, Jr. —
of Watervliet, Albany
County, N.Y.; Loudonville, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Watervliet, Albany
County, N.Y., November
8, 1906.
Son of Robert C. Killough (1880-1914) and Anna E. (Iverson) Killough
(1883-1941).
Republican. Lawyer;
exempted from military service because childhood polio resulted in
atrophy of lower leg muscles and feet, though he learned to
walk almost normally using orthopedic shoes; candidate for New York
state assembly from Albany County 3rd District, 1930; Assistant
Commissioner for Professional Education, New York State Education
Department.
Presbyterian.
Irish
and English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of cancer, in
Loudonville, Albany
County, N.Y., November
14, 1961 (age 55 years, 6
days).
Interment at St.
Agnes Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married, April 3,
1937, to Margaret Agnes Casey (1908-1994). |
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Elaine King-Miller —
of Amarillo, Potter
County, Tex.
Democrat. Certified clinical mental health
counselor; visually impaired; candidate for Texas
state senate 31st District, 2004.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2006.
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John T. Kostuck (b. 1892) —
of Stevens Point, Portage
County, Wis.
Born in Stevens Point, Portage
County, Wis., October
7, 1892.
Democrat. Piano
dealer; piano
tuner; candidate for Wisconsin
state assembly from Portage County.
A blasting accident made him blind at age 14.
Burial
location unknown.
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John D. Kruse (1893-1971) —
also known as Jack Kruse —
of Manistee, Manistee
County, Mich.
Born in Manistee, Manistee
County, Mich., June 24,
1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Manistee
County Clerk, 1921-30; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1943-54 (Manistee County 1943-44,
Manistee District 1945-54); defeated in primary, 1954.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Eagles; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Crippled by an injury in 1919.
Died in 1971
(age about
78 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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James R. Langevin (b. 1964) —
also known as Jim Langevin —
of Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., April 22,
1964.
Democrat. Member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1988-94; secretary of
state of Rhode Island, 1995-2001; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 2001-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Paralyzed from the waist down due to an accidental shooting in
1980.
Still living as of 2009.
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Henry E. Lanius (c.1885-1943) —
of York
County, Pa.
Born in York
County, Pa., about 1885.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1913-20; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 28th District, 1923-43; died in office 1943.
Became blind in 1903.
Died May 30,
1943 (age about 58
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Larrabee (1832-1912) —
of Iowa.
Born in Ledyard, New London
County, Conn., January
20, 1832.
Son of Adam Larrabee (1787-1869) and Hannah Gallup (Lester) Larrabee
(1798-1837).
School
teacher; grain miller;
banker;
member of Iowa state
senate, 1867; Governor of
Iowa, 1886-90.
Methodist.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Blinded in his right eye by a gun accident at age 15.
Died November
16, 1912 (age 80 years, 301
days).
Interment at God's
Acre Cemetery, Clermont, Iowa.
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Orin Lehman (1920-2008) —
also known as "Father Nature" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
14, 1920.
Son of Allan Sigmund Lehman (1885-1952) and Evelyn 'Eve' (Schiffer)
Lehman (c.1892-1970).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; injured during
the Battle of the Bulge and lost a leg; newspaper
publisher; chairman, Colgreen Broadcasting
Group, owner of radio
stations; founder, Just One Break, Inc., not-for-profit
employment service for people with disabilities; campaign manager, John
J. Burns for Lieutenant Governor, 1962; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1966; producer
of several popular off-Broadway plays; New York State Commissioner of
Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, 1975-93.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Urban
League; NAACP.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 2008 (age 88 years, 39
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Nelson Lester (1824-1892) —
of Georgia.
Born in Abbeville District (now Abbeville
County), S.C., March 13,
1824.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1858; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; Georgia
state attorney general, 1890-92; died in office 1892.
Wounded during the Civil War, in Kentucky, 1862, and lost an
arm.
Died March 30,
1892 (age 68 years, 17
days).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, Marietta, Ga.
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John Lind (1854-1930) —
of New Ulm, Brown
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Kanna, Smaland, Sweden,
March
25, 1854.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1887-93, 1903-05 (2nd District
1887-93, 5th District 1903-05); served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
Minnesota, 1899-1901; defeated (Democratic), 1896, 1900;
Prohibition candidate for Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1916.
Unitarian.
Swedish
ancestry.
Lost his left hand in a boyhood accident.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., September
18, 1930 (age 76 years, 177
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Harold Clayton Lloyd (1893-1971) —
also known as Harold Lloyd —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Burchard, Pawnee
County, Neb., April 20,
1893.
Son of James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elizabeth (Fraser) Lloyd.
Republican. Actor,
comedian,
film
producer; appeared in over 200 motion
pictures; one of the founders,
in 1927, of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1948,
1952.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Lost two fingers in a 1919 accident.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
1971 (age 77 years, 322
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Dean Long (1841-1902) —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee
County, Mich., June 14,
1841.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; in the battle of
Wilmington Island, Georgia, April 16, 1862, he lost his left
arm; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1888-1902; died in office 1902.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died June 27,
1902 (age 61 years, 13
days).
Interment somewhere
in Flint, Mich.
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Melvin Joseph Maas (1898-1964) —
also known as Melvin J. Maas —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., May 14,
1898.
Son of Frank Newton Maas and Rose (Brady) Maas.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; insurance
business; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1927-33, 1935-45;
defeated, 1932 (Independent, at-large), 1944 (Republican, 4th
District); served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.
Catholic.
Member, Military
Order of the World Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Knights
of Columbus; Woodmen;
Moose;
Eagles.
Stricken with total blindness in August 1951.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 13,
1964 (age 65 years, 335
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert D. Mahoney (b. 1921) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
16, 1921.
Democrat. Salesman;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1955-72 (Wayne County 3rd
District 1955-64, 6th District 1965-72); defeated in primary, 1972.
Catholic.
Member, Moose.
Blind from the age of 16.
Still living as of 1972.
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Relatives:
Married 1941
to Jennie Kubinger. |
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Zophar Mack Mansur (1843-1914) —
also known as Zophar M. Mansur —
of Island Pond, Brighton, Essex
County, Vt.
Born in Morgan, Orleans
County, Vt., November
23, 1843.
Son of Warren Mansur (1800-1885) and Jane (Morse) Mansur (1808-1891).
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lost
his right arm in the battle of Opequon Creek, Virginia; lawyer; postmaster;
lumber
business; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Brighton, 1886; member of Vermont
state senate from Essex County, 1888; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1894-96; director and president, Derby Line
National Bank.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Island Pond, Brighton, Essex
County, Vt., March 12,
1914 (age 70 years, 109
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1867
to Ellen L. Newhill. |
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Charles W. Masterson (c.1862-1958) —
of Washington.
Born about 1862.
Democrat. Piano
tuner; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington 4th District, 1916.
Blind from age eight, due to an overdose of quinine (used to
treat cholera).
Died in Walla Walla, Walla Walla
County, Wash., 1958
(age about
96 years).
Interment somewhere
in Walla Walla, Wash.
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Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900) —
also known as Dabney H. Maury —
of Virginia.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., May 21,
1822.
Son of John Minor Maury (1795-1823) and Elizabeth (Herndon) Maury.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1886-89.
His left arm was crippled by a Mexican War injury. Founder in
1868 of the Southern Historical Society.
Died in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., January
11, 1900 (age 77 years, 235
days).
Interment at Fredericksburg
City and Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Va.
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O. C. Maxwell (1837-1871) —
of Ohio.
Born in Franklin, Warren
County, Ohio, February
7, 1837.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; wounded
in the leg at Perryville, and crippled for life; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1868.
Died, in a state of desperation from financial difficulties, from a
self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, December
5, 1871 (age 34 years, 301
days).
Interment at Lebanon
Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio.
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James McCleery (1837-1871) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Mecca Township, Trumbull
County, Ohio, December
2, 1837.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1871; died in office
1871.
Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, and lost his
right arm.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
5, 1871 (age 33 years, 338
days).
Interment at Christian
Church Cemetery, Cortland, Ohio.
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Joseph Wayne Mercer (1845-1906) —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Platte
County, Mo., February
25, 1845.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Missouri
state treasurer, 1875-77; mayor
of Independence, Mo., 1891.
Wounded during the Civil War, and lost his right arm.
Died in Independence, Jackson
County, Mo., March 13,
1906 (age 61 years, 16
days).
Interment at Mt.
Washington Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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William David Meyering (b. 1892) —
also known as William Meyering —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
10, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Cook
County Sheriff, 1930-34; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1932.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus.
Wounded in action during World War I and lost his right hand.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Jennings Miller (1899-1950) —
also known as William J. Miller —
of Wethersfield, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., March 12,
1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; insurance
business; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 1st District, 1939-41, 1943-45,
1947-49; defeated, 1940, 1944, 1948.
Member, American
Legion; Rotary.
Injured in an airplane crash in 1918 and lost both legs.
Died in Wethersfield, Hartford
County, Conn., November
22, 1950 (age 51 years, 255
days).
Interment at Jordan
Cemetery, Waterford, Conn.
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Allen Benton Morse (1839-1921) —
also known as Allen B. Morse —
of Ionia, Ionia
County, Mich.
Born in Otisco, Ionia
County, Mich., January
7, 1839.
Son of John
L. Morse.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Ionia
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1867-71; member of Michigan
state senate 27th District, 1875-76; candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1878; mayor of
Ionia, Mich., 1882; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1885-92; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1885, 1892; candidate
for Governor of
Michigan, 1892; U.S. Consul in Glasgow, 1893-97; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives, 1906.
Wounded during the Civil War, and lost his left arm.
Died July 5,
1921 (age 82 years, 179
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Ionia, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of John
L. Morse; married 1874 to Frances
Marion Van Allen (died 1884); married 1888 to Anna
Babcock. |
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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877) —
also known as Oliver P. Morton —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Salisbury, Wayne
County, Ind., August 4,
1823.
Republican. Circuit judge in Indiana, 1852; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1861; Governor of
Indiana, 1861-67; defeated, 1856; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1867-77; died in office 1877; member of Republican
National Committee from Indiana, 1872-; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1876.
His legs were paralyzed after a stroke in 1865; suffered
another stroke in
1877, and died soon after, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., November
1, 1877 (age 54 years, 89
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.; statue at Vicksburg
National Military Park, Vicksburg, Miss.; statue at Statehouse
Grounds, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Henry Martin Nevius (1841-1911) —
also known as Henry M. Nevius —
of Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Freehold, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
30, 1841.
Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New Jersey
state senate from Monmouth County, 1888-90.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Wounded several times during the Civil War and lost his left
arm.
Died, of a stroke, January
30, 1911 (age 70 years, 0
days).
Interment at Fair
View Cemetery, Middletown, N.J.
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Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (1834-1912) —
also known as Francis T. Nicholls —
of Napoleonville, Assumption
Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La., August
20, 1834.
Democrat. Lawyer;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lost an
arm in the battle of Winchester, Va.; lost a foot at
Chancellorsville; Governor of
Louisiana, 1877-80, 1888-92; chief
justice of Louisiana state supreme court, 1892-1904; appointed
1892; justice of
Louisiana state supreme court, 1904-11; resigned 1911.
Died near Thibodaux, Lafourche
Parish, La., January
4, 1912 (age 77 years, 137
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.
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Eugene H. Nickerson (1918-2002) —
of Roslyn Harbor, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., August 2,
1918.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan
F. Stone; Nassau
County Executive, 1962-70; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1964,
1972;
Judge
of U.S. District Court, 1977.
His right arm was paralyzed by polio in his youth. Nassau
Beach Park was named for
him in 2002.
Died, from complications of ulcer
surgery, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
1, 2002 (age 83 years, 152
days).
Interment somewhere
in Nassau County, N.Y.
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Mike O'Callaghan (1929-2004) —
also known as Donal Neil O'Callaghan —
of Henderson, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., September
10, 1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; hit by
a mortar round and lost his lower left leg; legislative aide
to U.S. Sen. Howard
W. Cannon; Governor of
Nevada, 1971-79; executive editor, Las Vegas Sun newspaper.
Catholic.
Suffered a heart
attack at St. Viator Catholic Church,
and died soon after in a hospital,
Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., March 5,
2004 (age 74 years, 177
days).
Interment at Southern
Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Boulder City, Nev.
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David Alexander Paterson (b. 1954) —
also known as David A. Paterson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 20,
1954.
Son of Basil
Alexander Paterson.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1996,
2004,
2008;
member of New York
state senate 30th District; elected 2002, 2004; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 2007-08; Governor of
New York, 2008-10.
African
ancestry.
Legally blind.
Still living as of 2010.
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Jason Elihu Payne (1874-1941) —
also known as Jason E. Payne —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Clay
County, S.Dak., January
22, 1874.
Son of Byron Spencer Payne (1839-1925) and Charlotte Elizabeth
(Woodworth) Payne (1846-1926).
Republican. Lost his right arm as a youth, in an accident with
a runaway team of horses; college
instructor; lawyer; law
professor; member of South
Dakota state senate 2nd District, 1903-06.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Theta Phi; American Bar
Association.
An enraged litigant, Ozzie Kirby, tried to
kill him in in 1940; Kirby also shot and killed Payne's law
partner.
Injured in an automobile
accident, and died several weeks later as a result, in a hospital
at Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., September
11, 1941 (age 67 years, 232
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Byron Spencer Payne (1839-1925) and Charlotte Elizabeth
(Woodworth) Payne (1846-1926); married, July 20,
1905, to Iwae E. Sheppard; brother of Byron
Samuel Payne. |
| | | Image source: South Dakota Legislative
Manual, 1903 |
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Reino A. Perala (1915-2002) —
of Superior, Douglas
County, Wis.; South Range, Douglas
County, Wis.
Born in Maple, Douglas
County, Wis., August
28, 1915.
Democrat. Blind; lawyer; hotelier;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Douglas County 1st District, 1953-68.
Died February
25, 2002 (age 86 years, 181
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Marshall Tate Polk (1831-1884) —
also known as M. T. Polk —
of Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn.
Born in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., 1831.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1876;
Tennessee
state treasurer, 1877-83.
Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, during the Civil War, and lost a
leg. In 1883, a $400,000 shortfall was was discovered
in the state treasury. Polk fled
to Texas, was arrested
there, and brought back to Nashville for trial.
Charged
with embezzlement,
he pleaded not guilty -- his lawyer argued he was only guilty of
"default of pay" -- but was convicted,
sentenced
to twenty years in prison,
and fined.
Imprisonment was delayed pending his appeal.
Died in Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn., February
20, 1884 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Polk
Cemetery, Bolivar, Tenn.
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John Pope (1770-1845) —
also known as "One-Arm Pope" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Springfield, Washington
County, Ky.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1770.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1800,
1820;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802, 1806-07; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1807-13; secretary of
state of Kentucky, 1816-19; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1825-29; Governor of
Arkansas Territory, 1829-35; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1837-43.
Lost his right arm as a youth.
Died in Springfield, Washington
County, Ky., July 12,
1845 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Springfield
Cemetery, Springfield, Ky.
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Charles Edward Potter (1916-1979) —
also known as Charles E. Potter —
of Cheboygan, Cheboygan
County, Mich.
Born in Lapeer, Lapeer
County, Mich., October
30, 1916.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1947-52; resigned
1952; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1952-59; defeated, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Elks; Eagles; Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets.
Wounded in World War II, and lost his legs.
Died in Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1979 (age 63 years, 24
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (1945-1994) —
of Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Jacksonville, Onslow
County, N.C., August
18, 1945.
Son of Lewis Burwell Puller (1898-1971) and Virginia Montague (Evans)
Puller (1908-2006).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
lost both legs in the explosion of an improvised land mine in
South Vietnam, 1968; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1978; received a Pulitzer
Prize in 1992 for his autobiography, Fortunate Son: The
Healing of a Vietnam Vet.
Killed by a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., May 11,
1994 (age 48 years, 266
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Euclid Rains, Sr. (c.1921-2000) —
also known as T. Euclid Rains —
of Alabama.
Born about 1921.
Broom
manufacturer; member of Alabama
state house of representatives 26th District, 1979-91.
Methodist.
Member, Lions.
Became blind when he lost both eyes in an accident with a pair
scissors as a boy. He was the only totally blind baseball coach in
Little League history.
Killed in an automobile
accident, when the car in which he was a passenger went off a
bridge in heavy
rain, near Geraldine, Marshall
County, Ala., August
27, 2000 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Asbury
Methodist Church Cemetery, Near Albertville, Marshall County, Ala.
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Christopher D'Olier Reeve (1952-2004) —
also known as Christopher Reeve —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
25, 1952.
Son of Franklin D'Olier Reeve and Barbara Pitney (Lamb) Reeve.
Democrat. Actor;
paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1996.
Died, from heart
failure while being treated for an infection,
in Northern Westchester Hospital,
Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
10, 2004 (age 52 years, 15
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Arthur Waggener Rhorer (1885-1966) —
also known as Arthur W. Rhorer —
of Middlesboro, Bell
County, Ky.
Born in Columbia, Adair
County, Ky., January
30, 1885.
Son of Moses
Hoover Rhorer.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1920.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks.
Lost a leg as a young boy.
Died in Middlesboro, Bell
County, Ky., September
24, 1966 (age 81 years, 237
days).
Interment at Middlesboro
Cemetery, Middlesboro, Ky.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt
(1854-1941).
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange; Knights
of Pythias.
Served as president during the Depression and World War II. His
portrait appears on the U.S. dime
(ten
cent coin).
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April 12,
1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara
(Delano) Roosevelt (1854-1941); fourth cousin once removed of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; married, March 17,
1905, to Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who
married William
Phillips); first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — Karen
Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
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George Washington Roosevelt (1844-1907) —
also known as George W. Roosevelt —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Chester, Delaware
County, Pa., February
14, 1844.
Son of Solomon Roosevelt (1807-1900) and Elizabeth (Morris) Roosevelt
(1811-1859).
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consular Agent in
Sydney, 1877-78; U.S. Consul in Auckland, 1878-79; SAINT Helena, 1879-80; Matanzas, 1880-81; Bordeaux, 1881-89; Brussels, 1889-1905; U.S. Consul General in Brussels, 1906.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1887 for action at Bull Run, Va., August 30, 1862,
and at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; severely wounded and lost a
leg.
Died in Brussels, Belgium,
April
14, 1907 (age 63 years, 59
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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J. H. St. Lawrence —
also known as "The Blind Musician"; "The
Blind Optimist"; "The Blind
Orator" —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Blind; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1896.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas David Schall (1878-1935) —
also known as Thomas D. Schall —
of Excelsior, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Reed City, Osceola
County, Mich., June 4,
1878.
Son of David Schall and Mary Ellen (Jordan) Schall.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 10th District, 1915-25; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1925-35; defeated in primary, 1923; died
in office 1935.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Blinded by an electric shock from a cigar lighter, 1907.
Hit by
an automobile, on the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard, near
Cottage City, Maryland, suffered severe injuries, and died three days
later, in Casualty Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
22, 1935 (age 57 years, 201
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Albert George Schmedeman (1864-1946) —
also known as Albert G. Schmedeman —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., November
25, 1864.
Son of Henry Schmedeman and Wilhelmina (Camien) Schmedeman.
Democrat. U.S. Minister to Norway, 1913-21; mayor of
Madison, Wis., 1926-32; Governor of
Wisconsin, 1933-35; defeated, 1928, 1934.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
One leg was amputated as a result of gangrene infection in
1934.
Died November
26, 1946 (age 82 years, 1
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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George F. Shannon (c.1785-1836) —
also known as "Peg Leg" —
of St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Mo.
Born in a log
cabin in Washington
County, Pa., about 1785.
Youngest member of the Lewis
and Clark
expedition, 1804-06; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1820-24; circuit judge in
Kentucky; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1829-34.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Wounded in a skirmish with Indians in 1807 and lost a leg.
Shannon's Creek, a tributary of the Yellowstone River, is named for
him.
Died, in a hotel at
Palmyra, Marion
County, Mo., August
30, 1836 (age about 51
years).
Interment at Massey
Mill Cemetery, Near Palmyra, Marion County, Mo.
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Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) —
also known as Daniel E. Sickles; "Devil
Dan" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1847; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1857-61, 1893-95 (3rd District
1857-61, 10th District 1893-95); defeated, 1894; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1869-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1892.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Shot and killed
Philip
Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the
national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged
with murder,
but with the help of his attorney Edwin
M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first
successful plea of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2,
1863; lost a leg in that battle; his amputated leg was
displayed at the Army Medical Museum, where he frequently visited it
in later years.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1914 (age 94 years, 195
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Barbara Boggs Sigmund (1939-1990) —
also known as Barbara B. Sigmund; "Mayor
Barbara" —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born May 27,
1939.
Daughter of Thomas
Hale Boggs, Sr. and Corinne
Claiborne Boggs.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,
1980;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1982; mayor
of Princeton, N.J., 1983-90.
Female.
Lost her left eye to cancer in 1982.
Died October
10, 1990 (age 51 years, 136
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Dayton Burleigh Smalley (1878-1958) —
of Vermont.
Born in Waterbury, Washington
County, Vt., April 13,
1878.
Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1937-39; member of Vermont
state senate, 1941.
Went blind while in office.
Died in 1958
(age about
80 years).
Interment at Lamoille
View Cemetery, Johnson, Vt.
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Anastasia Somoza —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Born with cerebral palsy and uses a
wheelchair; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 2004,
2008
(alternate).
Female.
Descendant of the Somoza family which ruled Nicaragua.
Still living as of 2008.
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Doug Spade —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Democrat. Blind; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 57th District; elected 1998.
Still living as of 1998.
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Stephen J. Stilwell (1866-1942) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, May 10,
1866.
Son of Mary Delia (Archer) Stilwell (1833-1925) and William Jewitt
Stilwell.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 21st District, 1909-13; removed 1913; charged
in 1913 with extorting
a bribe
of $3,500 from George H. Kendall, president of the New York Bank Note
company, over a bill that Kendall supported; tried in
the State Senate and found not guilty on April 15 by a vote of 28 to
21; indicted
on May 12 by a grand jury for soliciting
a bribe; tried
soon after, and convicted
on May 24; this removed him from office; sentenced
to four to eight years in prison;
after his release, he moved to Mamaroneck and entered the real
estate business; indicted
in 1934 on charges that he defrauded
his former stenographer of $9,000 when she came to him seeking a
Naval Academy appointment for her son, but the case did not go to
trial; arrested
in March 1941 and indicted
in April on charges that he attempted to bribe a
Mamaroneck village trustee $1,000 to obtain a police job for an
associate; pleaded
guilty, but never sentenced; while incarcerated, his legs were
amputated.
Died, while a prisoner
awaiting sentence, in Grasslands Hospital,
Valhalla, Westchester
County, N.Y., April 20,
1942 (age 75 years, 345
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Bennett Stone (1823-1895) —
also known as James B. Stone —
of Calhoun
County, Fla.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ala., November
29, 1823.
Son of David Cruger Stone and Lucinda (Evans) Stone.
Farmer;
sawmill
owner; Calhoun
County Sheriff, 1855-59; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1868-70, 1877; delegate to
Florida state constitutional convention, 1885.
He lost a leg in a sawmill accident.
Died in Calhoun
County, Fla., February
25, 1895 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Old
Shiloh Cemetery, Calhoun County, Fla.
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John Strong, Jr. (1830-1913) —
also known as "Honest John" —
of South Rockwood, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born, in a log
cabin, in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1830.
Son of John
Strong, Sr..
Farmer;
merchant;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1861-62, 1879-80 (Wayne County
2nd District 1861-62, Monroe County 2nd District 1879-80); member of
Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1881-84; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1891-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1892,
1912
(alternate); National Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector
for Michigan, 1896.
Member, Freemasons.
Founder of South Rockwood, Mich. Lost two fingers on his
right hand in a sawmill accident.
Died in South Rockwood, Monroe
County, Mich., April 2,
1913 (age 82 years, 360
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, South Rockwood, Mich.
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John Burley Swainson (1925-1994) —
also known as John B. Swainson —
of Plymouth, Wayne
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manchester, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Windsor, Ontario,
July
31, 1925.
Son of John
A. C. Swainson.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate 18th District, 1955-58; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1959-60; Governor of
Michigan, 1961-62; defeated, 1962; member of Democratic
National Committee from Michigan, 1963; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1965-70; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1971-75; resigned 1975.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Delta
Theta Phi; Amvets; Purple
Heart; Lions; Elks.
Lost both legs in a land mine explosion on November 15, 1944,
near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, during World War II. Charged
in 1975 with accepting a
bribe; found not guilty, but convicted
of perjury
over his testimony to the grand jury.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manchester, Washtenaw
County, Mich., May 13,
1994 (age 68 years, 286
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Manchester, Mich.
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Peleg Tallman (1764-1840) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Tiverton, Newport
County, R.I., July 24,
1764.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 16th District, 1811-13; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1821-22.
Lost an arm during Revolutionary War service.
Died in Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, March 12,
1840 (age 75 years, 232
days).
Original interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine; reinterment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) —
also known as Benjamin R. Tillman; "Pitchfork
Ben"; "The One-Eyed Plowboy" —
of Trenton, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield
County, S.C., August
11, 1847.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lost an eye in 1864; farmer; Governor of
South Carolina, 1890-94; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1895; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1895-1918; died in office 1918;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916;
member of Democratic
National Committee from South Carolina, 1912-16.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 3,
1918 (age 70 years, 326
days).
Interment at Ebenezer
Cemetery, Trenton, S.C.; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Morris King Udall (1922-1998) —
also known as Morris K. Udall; Mo Udall —
of Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz., June 15,
1922.
Son of Levi
Stewart Udall and Louise (Lee) Udall.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; played
professional basketball
with the Denver Nuggets, 1948-49; lawyer;
co-founder and director, Bank of
Tucson; Pima
County Attorney, 1953-54; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arizona, 1956,
1972;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
U.S.
Representative from Arizona 2nd District, 1961-91; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1976.
Mormon.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Legion; Phi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Lost an eye in an accident when he was a boy. Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1996.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease, in the Veterans Administration Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1998 (age 76 years, 180
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Pima County, Ariz.; cenotaph at St.
Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz.
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Clarence C. Vam Bell (born c.1910) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1910.
Republican. Insurance
broker; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 3rd District, 1942, 1944,
1954, 1955, 1956, 1957; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1952; Presidential
Elector for New York, 1956,
1972;
candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 25th District, 1966;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1972.
Became blind in the 1930s from an accident while playing
semi-professional baseball.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Corley Wallace, Jr. (1919-1998) —
also known as George C. Wallace —
of Clayton, Barbour
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Clio, Barbour
County, Ala., August
25, 1919.
Son of George C. Wallace and Mozell (Smith) Wallace.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1947-53; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alabama, 1948
(alternate), 1956;
circuit judge in Alabama, 1953-58; Governor of
Alabama, 1963-67, 1971-72, 1972-79, 1983-87; defeated in
Democratic primary, 1958; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1964,
1972,
1976;
American Independent candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Moose;
Elks; Woodmen;
Civitan;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans.
Worked as a professional boxer in
the late 1930s. While campaigning in Maryland on May 15, 1972, was shot
by Arthur Bremer; the injury paralyzed both legs. Along with
Ohio's James
A. Rhodes, he was the longest serving state governor in U.S.
history.
Died in Jackson Hospital,
Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., September
13, 1998 (age 79 years, 19
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of George C. Wallace and Mozell (Smith) Wallace; married, May 21,
1943, to Lurleen
Burns; married, June 4,
1971, to Cornelia Ellis Snively (divorced 1978; niece of James
Elisha Folsom; first cousin of James
Elisha Folsom, Jr.); married 1981 to Lisa
Taylor (divorced 1987); father of George
C. Wallace, Jr.. See Wallace-Folsom
family of Alabama. |
| | | Cross-reference: Seybourn
H. Lynne |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about George C. Wallace: Stephan
Lesher, George
Wallace : American Populist — Dan T. Carter, The
Politics of Rage : George Wallace, the Origins of the New
Conservatism, and the Transformation of American
Politics — Lloyd Rohler, George
Wallace : Conservative Populist |
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Thomas William Ward (1807-1872) —
also known as "Peg Leg" —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Ireland,
1807.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; mayor of
Austin, Tex., 1840-41, 1853, 1865; Texas
Republic Land Office Commissioner, 1840-46.
Lost a leg in the storming of Bexar, 1835; lost his right
arm while firing a cannon to celebrate Texas independence, 1841.
Died of typhoid
fever, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., November
25, 1872 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Daniel E. Whitmore (b. 1825) —
of Marathon, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbus, Chenango
County, N.Y., January
6, 1825.
Son of Luther Whitmore (1792-1869) and Elsie (Perkins) Whitmore.
School commissioner; wholesale produce
dealer; fire
insurance business; member of New York
state assembly from Cortland County, 1875.
Presbyterian.
Lost a limb in an accident at age 10.
Burial
location unknown.
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Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000) —
also known as Hosea Williams —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Attapulgus, Decatur
County, Ga., January
5, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; walked with
a cane due to wartime injury; ordained
minister; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1972; member of Georgia
state house of representatives 54th District, 1975-85; candidate
for mayor of
Atlanta, Ga., 1989.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Phi
Beta Sigma; Elks; Freemasons;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion.
Civil rights leader; active in sit-ins
and protest
marches in Savannah and elsewhere; arrested
at least 135 times. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "field general"
in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the 1965
Selma-to-Montgomery march which helped galvanize support for black
voting rights. In 1968, he was present at the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tenn., when King was assassinated. Convicted
in 1981 of leaving the
scene of an accident, and jailed
for six months.
Died, of cancer, at
Piedmont Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
16, 2000 (age 74 years, 316
days).
Entombed at Lincoln
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Bell Williams (1918-1983) —
of Raymond, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Raymond, Hinds
County, Miss., December
4, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1947-68 (7th District 1947-53,
4th District 1953-63, 3rd District 1963-68); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Mississippi, 1948,
1956,
1960;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1968-72.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Lost his lower left arm in a bomber crash during World War II.
Died in Brandon, Rankin
County, Miss., March 25,
1983 (age 64 years, 111
days).
Interment at Raymond
Cemetery, Raymond, Miss.
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Warren Wing (b. 1842) —
of Fremont Township, Isabella
County, Mich.; Dushville (now Winn), Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Chautauqua
County, N.Y., May 5,
1842.
Son of Wesley Wing and Salana (Wilcox) Wing.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; during the battle of
the Wilderness, suffered a crippling wound to his elbow; farmer; Isabella
County Drain Commissioner; member of Michigan People's Party
State Central Committee, 1899.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1865
to Lucinda Burt. |
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John Witherspoon (1723-1794) —
of Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Gifford, Haddingtonshire, Scotland,
February
5, 1723.
Presbyterian
minister; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1783, 1789.
Presbyterian.
Became blind in 1792.
Died near Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., November
15, 1794 (age 71 years, 283
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Daniel Fooks Wolcott (b. 1909) —
also known as Daniel F. Wolcott —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., January
20, 1909.
Son of Josiah Oliver Wolcott and Mary Rebecca (Fooks) Wolcott.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Delaware, 1948;
chair
of New Castle County Democratic Party, 1950; justice of
Delaware state supreme court, 1957.
Episcopalian.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Lost his right leg during World War II, while commanding a
combat demolition unit.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Sasha Zimmerman (1896-1983) —
also known as Charles Zimmerman; Alexander
Ubsushone —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Talna, Russia (now Talne, Ukraine),
1896.
Communist. Garment
worker; Workers candidate for New York
state assembly, 1925 (Bronx County 7th District), 1926 (Bronx
County 5th District), 1928 (Bronx County 4th District); expelled from
Communist Party, 1929; broke with Communism by mid-1930s, and became
anti-Communist by 1946; vice-president,
International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 1934-72; became
blind in 1966.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died June 3,
1983 (age about 86
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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