Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) —
of Missouri.
Born near Ivy, Albemarle
County, Va., August
18, 1774.
Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1807-09; died in office 1809.
English
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with William
Clark to Oregon, 1803-04.
Died from gunshot
wounds under mysterious circumstances (murder or
suicide?)
at Grinder's Stand, an inn on
the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, Lewis
County, Tenn., October
11, 1809 (age 35 years, 54
days).
Interment at Meriwether
Lewis Park, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once
removed of Howell
Lewis, John
Walker, David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Francis
Walker and George
Rockingham Gilmer; first cousin five times removed of Arthur
Sidney Demarest; second cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George
Washington, Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Thomas
Walker Gilmer, David
Shelby Walker and Reuben
Handy Meriwether; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Robert
Brooke, Bushrod
Washington, George
Madison and Richard
Aylett Buckner; third cousin once removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke, Henry
St. George Tucker, John
Thornton Augustine Washington, Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm and Aylette
Buckner; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner, Charles
John Helm, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Hubbard
Dozier Helm; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman, Claude
Pollard and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson. |
| | | Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
F. Shannon |
| | | Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are
named for him; Lewis and Clark
County, Mont. is named partly for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Meriwether
Lewis Randolph
— Meriwether
Lewis Walker
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to
1927. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C.
Danisi, Uncovering
the Truth About Meriwether Lewis — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure |
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William H. Hunter (d. 1842) —
of Ohio.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1837-39.
Died under mysterious circumstances near Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio, 1842.
Interment at Cholera
Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio.
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Alexander Somervell (1796-1854) —
of Texas.
Born in Maryland, June 11,
1796.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Colorado and Austin, 1836-38.
Died under mysterious circumstances in 1854
(age about
58 years); his body was found lashed to the timbers of a capsized
boat.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Taylor Minor (1844-1889) —
also known as Thomas T. Minor —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now Sri
Lanka), February
20, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory,
1880;
mayor
of Port Townsend, Wash., 1880-83; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1887-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island, with others, on a duck huting
trip, and was never heard from again; presumed drowned
in a watercraft
accident, in Puget
Sound, December
2, 1889 (age 45 years, 285
days). His canoe was recovered, but his remains were not
found.
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Relatives: Son
of Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor; married, August
20, 1872, to Sarah Montgomery; grandfather of Thomas
Minor Pelly. |
| | | Political family: Moriarty-Minor
family of Seattle, Washington. |
| | | The T.T. Minor School
(built 1890, demolished 1940, rebuilt 1941, closed 2010, renovated
and reopened 2016), in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Minor Avenue,
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1864-1924) —
also known as Frank B. Brandegee —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in New London, New London
County, Conn., July 8,
1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New London, 1889, 1899-1900;
Speaker
of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1899-1900;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1900;
member of Connecticut
Republican State Central Committee, 1901; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1902-05; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-24; died in office 1924.
Member, Union
League.
Killed
himself by inhaling from
a gaslight, in Washington,
D.C., October
14, 1924 (age 60 years, 98
days). Five years later, U.S. Sen. Cole
Blease of South Carolina received a letter from a woman alleging
that Brandegee had been murdered;
the letter was turned over to a Senate committee to investigate the
mystery, but nothing came of it.
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Harold Merriman Deane (1891-1929) —
also known as Harold M. Deane —
of Connecticut; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., October
24, 1891.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, 1925-27; Montreal, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Found hanged
in his apartment -- the coroner's jury was unable to decide
whether his death was murder or
suicide
-- in Montreal, Quebec,
August
28, 1929 (age 37 years, 308
days).
Interment somewhere
in Waterbury, Conn.
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William Montross Inglis (1875-1932) —
also known as William M. Inglis —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Clyde Township, St. Clair
County, Mich., January
7, 1875.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Washington, 1924,
1928
(alternate).
Killed by a single gunshot
behind his ear, under mysterious circumstances, and
posthumously accused
of attempted murder, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
22, 1932 (age 57 years, 289
days). The only witness, Mary Nash, who shared the apartment,
said that he had been despondent and drinking
heavily; that she had hidden his pistol, but he had found it;
that without warning, he shot
her twice (she was badly injured but survived), and then
immediately killed
himself; investigators questioned her story, and thought he might
have been murdered,
but she was not charged.
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of John Jacob Inglis and Martha Ann (Montross) Inglis; married to
Anne Hughes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Vincent Luke Palmisano (1882-1953) —
also known as Vincent L. Palmisano —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Termini, Sicily, Italy,
August
5, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 1st District,
1914-15; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1927-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1940.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Foresters.
Disappeared from his home, and either died by suicide
or was murdered,
January
12, 1953 (age 70 years, 160
days). His body was recovered from Baltimore Harbor, March 5,
1953.
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (1914-1972) —
also known as Hale Boggs —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Long Beach, Harrison
County, Miss., February
15, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1941-43, 1947-72;
died in office 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1948,
1956,
1960,
1968;
Parliamentarian, 1964;
chair, Resolutions and Platform Committee, chair, 1968;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1952; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1957; member, President's
Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Amvets;
Catholic
War Veterans; Sons of
the American Revolution; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta
Theta Pi; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Disappeared while on a campaign
flight from Anchorage to Juneau, and presumed killed in a plane
crash, somewhere in Alaska, October
16, 1972 (age 58 years, 244
days). The wreckage was never
found.
Cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William Robertson Boggs and Claire Josephine (Hale) Boggs;
married, January
22, 1938, to Corinne
Claiborne; father of Barbara
Boggs Sigmund, Thomas
Hale Boggs Jr. and Cokie Roberts. |
| | | Boggs Peak
in the Chugach Mountains, Anchorage,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Thomas Hale Boggs: Gary
Boulard, The
Big Lie: Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander
Perez |
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Nicholas Joseph Begich (1932-1972) —
also known as Nick Begich —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., April 6,
1932.
Democrat. Member of Alaska
state senate, 1963-71; U.S.
Representative from Alaska at-large, 1971-72; died in office
1972; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alaska, 1972.
Alaska
Native and Croatian
ancestry.
Disappeared while on a campaign
flight from Anchorage to Juneau, and presumed killed in a plane
crash, somewhere in Alaska, October
16, 1972 (age 40 years, 193
days). The wreckage was never
found.
Cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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