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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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John Bird Finch (1852-1887) —
also known as John B. Finch —
of Nebraska; Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Lincklaen, Chenango
County, N.Y., March
17, 1852.
Orator;
Chairman of Prohibition National Committee, 1884-87.
Member, Good
Templars.
Died, in the Eastern Railroad Depot, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
3, 1887 (age 35 years, 200
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married to Uretta Lemira Coy and Frances E.
Manchester. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: American Prohibition Year
Book 1910 |
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of
slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel
near San Francisco in 1859; tried
for murder,
but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California; his wife Sarah Althea Hill
claimed to be the widow and heir of wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot
through the heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the
train station dining
room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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James Burnie Beck (1822-1890) —
also known as James B. Beck —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Dumfriesshire (now Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland,
February
13, 1822.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1867-75; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1877-90; died in office 1890.
Slaveowner.
Died suddenly, in the Baltimore & Potomac train station, Washington,
D.C., May 3,
1890 (age 68 years, 79
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) —
also known as Rutherford B. Hayes; "Rutherfraud B.
Hayes"; "His Fraudulency" —
of Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, October
4, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67; Governor of
Ohio, 1868-72, 1876-77; President
of the United States, 1877-81.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Stricken by a heart
attack at the railroad station in Cleveland, Ohio, and
died that night in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January
17, 1893 (age 70 years, 105
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 at Rutherford
B. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Rutherford Hayes, Jr. and Sophia (Birchard) Hayes; married, December
30, 1852, to Lucy
Webb Hayes; father of James
Webb Cook Hayes. |
| | | Political family: Hayes
family of Fremont, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Leopold
Markbreit — James
M. Comly — Joseph
P. Bradley |
| | | Hayes County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | Rutherford B. Hayes High
School, in Delaware,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The Presidente Hayes Department (province),
and its capital
city, Villa Hayes, in Paraguay,
are named for
him. — Hayes Hall
(built 1893), at Ohio State University,
Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "He serves his party
best who serves his country best." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Rutherford B. Hayes: Ari
Hoogenboom, Rutherford
B. Hayes: Warrior and President — Hans Trefousse, Rutherford
B. Hayes: 1877 - 1881 — William H. Rehnquist, Centennial
Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876 |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Isaac Newton Link (1849-1895) —
of Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in 1849.
Mayor
of Durham, N.C., 1880-81, 1894-95; died in office 1895.
Suffered a likely heart
attack and died, while waiting in a carriage at the train
station, Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., January
26, 1895 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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Samuel Lowry Biggers (1862-1899) —
also known as Samuel L. Biggers —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Old Orchard (now part of Webster Groves), St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., 1862.
Hardware
buyer; Consul
for Argentina in St.
Louis, Mo., 1895-98.
Died, from "quick consumption" (tuberculosis),
in Union Station, Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., 1899
(age about
37 years).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Nathaniel P. Burruss (1844-1905) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
17, 1844.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; banker; Vice-Consul
for Portugal in Norfolk,
Va., 1865-77, 1900-01; his bank failed in 1897.
While buying tickets at a railway office, he fell,
suffered a severe hip injury, and was hospitalized; this was two
hours before his daughter's scheduled wedding, on September 9, 1905;
the wedding venue was hastily changed to his bedside; died less than
30 days later, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
Norfolk,
Va., October
6, 1905 (age 60 years, 293
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Lewis J. Martin (1844-1913) —
of Newton, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born near Deckertown (now Sussex), Sussex
County, N.J., February
22, 1844.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1879-81;
county judge in New Jersey, 1881-96; member of New
Jersey state senate from Sussex County, 1898-1903; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 6th District, 1913; died in office
1913.
Dropped dead, from heart
disease, in Union Station, Washington,
D.C., May 5,
1913 (age 69 years, 72
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, N.J.
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Hayward Augustus Harvey (1870-1914) —
also known as Hayward A. Harvey —
of Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., November
3, 1870.
Republican. Steel
manufacturer; mining
business; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1896.
Presbyterian.
Killed by self-inflicted
gunshot,
in the Lackawanna Railroad station, Orange, Essex
County, N.J., February
25, 1914 (age 43 years, 114
days).
Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Orange, N.J.
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John Morton Eshleman (1876-1916) —
also known as John M. Eshleman; Jack
Eshleman —
of California.
Born in Villa Ridge, Pulaski
County, Ill., June 14,
1876.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly 52nd District; elected 1906; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1912;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1915-16; died in office 1916.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a train station at at Indio, Riverside
County, Calif., February
28, 1916 (age 39 years, 259
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Sunset
View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Calif.
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Joseph McCrum Belford (1852-1917) —
also known as Joseph M. Belford —
of Riverhead, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Mifflintown, Juniata
County, Pa., August
5, 1852.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1897-99; defeated,
1898; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1900.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died suddenly in Grand Central Station, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1917 (age 64 years, 271
days).
Interment at Riverhead
Cemetery, Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y.
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Edward Russell Kellogg (1864-1923) —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April
22, 1864.
Artist;
U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, 1918-23, died in office 1923.
Died suddenly, from heart
disease, in the New York Central railroad station,
Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., July 3,
1923 (age 59 years, 72
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Scriba town, Oswego County, N.Y.
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George A. Myers (1859-1930) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., March 5,
1859.
Republican. Barber;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1892,
1900;
member of Ohio
Republican State Executive Committee, 1897-98.
African
ancestry.
Died at the New York Central Railroad ticket office in
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
17, 1930 (age 70 years, 318
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Richard Nathaniel Lower (1850-1933) —
also known as R. N. Lower —
of Longwood Township, Pettis
County, Mo.
Born in Oldham
County, Ky., January
15, 1850.
Republican. Farmer; banker;
member of Missouri
state senate 15th District, 1925-28.
Presbyterian.
Member, Woodmen;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Struck
by a train and killed, at the Missouri Pacific railroad
station, in Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo., March
29, 1933 (age 83 years, 73
days).
Interment at Longwood
Cemetery, Longwood, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of George Lower and Margaret Lower; brother-in-law of Fred MacChesney
(nephew by marriage of James
Peter Walker); married to Nancy Margaret Godby; married, June 15,
1892, to Anna Jane McChesney. |
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Samuel Insull (1859-1938) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; near Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in London, England,
November
11, 1859.
Republican. Associate of Thomas Edison and executive of electric
utilities; one of the founders of the company that became General
Electric; also had major holdings in railroads;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1904;
when his utility holding company collapsed, wiping out the
stockholders, he fled
the country; indicted
in 1932 on fraud
and embezzlement
charges;
ultimately extradited
from Turkey in 1934; tried in
Chicago and found not guilty.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
Died from a heart
attack, in the Place de la Concorde station on the Paris
Métro subway system, Paris, France,
July
16, 1938 (age 78 years, 247
days).
Interment at Putney
Vale Cemetery, London, England.
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Louis B. Ward (c.1892-1942) —
of Michigan.
Born about 1892.
Business representative for "radio priest" Charles Coughlin;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1936 (Democratic primary), 1936 (The Third
Party), 1940 (Democratic primary).
Died, of a heart
attack, in the New York Central railroad station,
Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., April
20, 1942 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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Vito Anthony Marcantonio (1902-1954) —
also known as Vito Marcantonio —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
10, 1902.
Lawyer;
campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, 1924-32; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1935-37, 1939-51 (20th District
1935-37, 1939-45, 18th District 1945-51); defeated, 1936 (Republican,
20th District), 1950 (American Labor, 18th District); American Labor
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1949; New York American Labor Party state
chair, 1949.
Catholic.
Member, United
World Federalists; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Fell dead, after coming up the stairs from a subway station,
on Broadway by City Hall Park, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
9, 1954 (age 51 years, 242
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Jeremiah B. Bloom (1913-1983) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 25,
1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1957-78 (12th District 1957-65, 21st District 1966,
17th District 1967-72, 19th District 1973-78); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1978.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Jewish
War Veterans.
Suffered a heart
attack at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and died soon
after, in St. Clare's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
2, 1983 (age 70 years, 130
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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