Very incomplete list!
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Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) —
also known as Ulysses S. Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant;
"Savior of the Union"; "Lion of
Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of American
Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender Grant";
"The Galena Tanner"; "The Silent
Soldier"; "The Silent General" —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.
Born in Point Pleasant, Clermont
County, Ohio, April
27, 1822.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; President
of the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died of throat cancer, at Mt. McGregor, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 23,
1885 (age 63 years, 87
days).
Interment at General
Grant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; married, August
22, 1848, to Julia
Boggs Dent (sister-in-law of Alexander
Sharp; sister of George
Wrenshall Dent and Lewis
Dent); father of Frederick
Dent Grant and Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr.; grandfather of Nellie Grant (who married William
Pigott Cronan); first cousin twice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed of
Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop, Abel
Huntington and William
Rush Merriam; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington and Henry
Scudder; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Theodore
Davenport, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Jesse
Monroe Hatch, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Warren
Delano Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
Porter — Ayres
Phillips Merrill — Robert
Martin Douglas — Thomas
L. Hamer — James
Arkell |
| | | Grant counties in Ark., Kan., La., Minn., Neb., N.M., N.Dak., Okla., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Ulysses
G. Palmer
— Ulysses
S. G. Bieber
— Ulysses
G. Denman
— Ulysses
G. Crandell
— Ulysses
S. G. Blakely
— S. U.
G. Rhodes
— Ulysses
G. Borden
— U.
Grant Mengel
— Ulysses
G. Foster
— Ulysses
G. Byers
— U.
S. Grant Leverett
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5
silver certificates in 1887-1927. |
| | | Personal motto: "When in doubt,
fight." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Ulysses S. Grant: Jean
Edward Smith, Grant —
Frank J. Scaturro, President
Grant Reconsidered — William S. McFeely, Grant —
Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses
S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 — Brooks
D. Simpson, Let
Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and
Reconstruction, 1861-1868 — James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses
S. Grant — Michael Korda, Ulysses
S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero — Edward H. Bonekemper,
A
Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military
Genius — Harry J. Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — H. W. Brands, The
Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and
Peace — Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant's
Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year —
Joan Waugh, U.
S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth |
| | | Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: Newt
Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Grant
Comes East — Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Never
Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Granville Henderson Oury (1825-1891) —
also known as Granville H. Oury —
of Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.; Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Florence, Pinal
County, Ariz.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., March
12, 1825.
Democrat. Delegate
from Arizona Territory to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Arizona
territorial House of Representatives; elected 1866, 1873, 1875;
Arizona
territory attorney general, 1869; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1881-85; defeated, 1878;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arizona Territory, 1884.
Died of throat cancer, in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., January
11, 1891 (age 65 years, 305
days).
Interment at Adamsville
Cemetery, Near Florence, Pinal County, Ariz.
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Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 30,
1850.
Army officer; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1889-93; New York City Police Commissioner,
1894-98; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Died, from throat cancer, April
11, 1912 (age 61 years, 317
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.
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Ivey Goodman Riddick (1861-1920) —
also known as Ivey G. Riddick —
of Franklin
County, N.C.
Born in Wake
County, N.C., December
3, 1861.
Physician;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Franklin County,
1903-04.
Died, from throat cancer, in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., January
1, 1920 (age 58 years, 29
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Willie Goodman Riddick and Annie Ivey (Jones) Riddick; married 1888 to Annie
Dunn. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Maecenas Eason Benton (1848-1924) —
also known as Maecenas E. Benton —
of Neosho, Newton
County, Mo.
Born near Dyersburg, Dyer
County, Tenn., January
29, 1848.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Newton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1878-82; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, 1885-89; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from Missouri 15th District, 1897-1905; defeated,
1904; candidate for Presidential Elector for Missouri; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention 18th District,
1922-23.
Died, from carcinoma of larynx, in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., April
27, 1924 (age 76 years, 89
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Neosho, Mo.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr. (1852-1929) —
also known as Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.; Buck
Grant —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Bethel, Clermont
County, Ohio, July 22,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1896
(Convention
Vice-President), 1900;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Died of throat cancer, in the Sandberg Lodge,
Sandberg, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
25, 1929 (age 77 years, 65
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Ulysses
Simpson Grant and Julia
Grant; brother of Frederick
Dent Grant; married, November
1, 1880, to Josephine Chaffee (daughter of Jerome
Bunty Chaffee); married, July 12,
1913, to America Workman Will; nephew of George
Wrenshall Dent and Lewis
Dent; first cousin thrice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin twice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin five times removed of
Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin thrice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop and Abel
Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of William
Rush Merriam. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Coleman du Pont (1863-1930) —
also known as T. Coleman du Pont —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., December
11, 1863.
Republican. Engineer;
president, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder
Co., 1902-15; president, Central Coal and Iron Co.,
and other mining firms; director, Union National Bank;
owner of hotels;
Delaware
Republican state chair, 1904-12; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Delaware, 1908
(alternate), 1920
(speaker),
1924,
1928;
member of Republican
National Committee from Delaware, 1908-30; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1916;
U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1921-22, 1925-28; appointed 1921;
defeated, 1922; resigned 1928.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died, from cancer of the larynx, in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., November
11, 1930 (age 66 years, 335
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Du
Pont de Nemours Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Joseph Emile Harley (1880-1942) —
also known as J. E. Harley —
of Barnwell, Barnwell
County, S.C.
Born in Williston, Barnwell
County, S.C., September
14, 1880.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1904-08, 1927-30; mayor
of Barnwell, S.C., 1912-22; law partner of Solomon
Blatt, 1917-34; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Carolina, 1928;
Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1931-41; Governor of
South Carolina, 1941-42; died in office 1942.
Died, from throat cancer, in the South Carolina Governor's
Mansion, Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., February
27, 1942 (age 61 years, 166
days).
Interment at Barnwell Baptist Church Cemetery, Barnwell, S.C.
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Louis Henry Fead (1877-1943) —
also known as Louis H. Fead —
of Newberry, Luce
County, Mich.; Pleasant Ridge, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Lexington, Sanilac
County, Mich., May 2,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer; Luce
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1901-12; vice-president, Newberry
State Bank; circuit
judge in Michigan 11th Circuit, 1913-28; resigned 1928; worked
with the Red Cross in France during and after World War I; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1928-37; appointed 1928; defeated,
1937; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1928, 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Lions.
Died, from a heart
attack while suffering from throat cancer, in the
University Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
4, 1943 (age 65 years, 278
days).
Interment at Deepdale
Memorial Park, Delta Township, Eaton County, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of John Lawrence Fead and Augusta (Walther) Fead; married, September
19, 1919, to Marion McPherson. |
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Charles Henry Abegg (1864-1958) —
also known as Charles Abegg; Carl Abegg —
of New York.
Born in Zurich, Switzerland,
April
15, 1864.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Consular Agent in Port de Paix, 1896-1924.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died, from cancer of the larynx, in Port de Paix, Haiti,
June
12, 1958 (age 94 years, 58
days).
Interment at Cemetery of Port de Paix, Port de Paix, Haiti.
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Edward F. Clark (1898-1963) —
also known as Howie Clark —
of Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J., May 1,
1898.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,
1948
(alternate), 1952,
1956
(alternate); mayor
of Bayonne, N.J., 1951-55.
Catholic.
Member, Kiwanis;
Elks.
Died, of throat cancer, in Pollak Hospital,
Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
27, 1963 (age 65 years, 240
days).
Interment at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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John Bartlow Martin (1915-1987) —
of Illinois.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, August
3, 1915.
Journalist;
author;
speechwriter for Adlai
E. Stevenson, John
F. Kennedy, Robert
F. Kennedy, and Hubert
Humphrey; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1962-63.
Died, from throat cancer, in Highland Park Hospital,
Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., January
3, 1987 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Herman
Cemetery, Herman, Mich.
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Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) —
also known as Samuel George Davis —
Born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
8, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; singer; dancer; actor;
injured in an automobile accident in 1954, and lost his
left eye; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Jewish.
African
and Cuban
ancestry.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1968.
Died, from complications of throat cancer, in Beverly Hills,
Los
Angeles County, Calif., May 16,
1990 (age 64 years, 159
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Curt Flood (1938-1997) —
also known as Charles Curtis Flood —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
18, 1938.
Democrat. Professional baseball
player in 1959-71; sued to overturn the reserve clause and make
players free agents; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1988.
African
ancestry.
Died, from throat cancer and pneumonia,
in UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1997 (age 59 years, 2
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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Robert F. Brachtenbach (1931-2008) —
of Selah, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Sidney, Cheyenne
County, Neb., January
28, 1931.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1962-66; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Washington, 1968;
justice
of Washington state supreme court, 1972-94.
Died, of throat cancer, in Cottage Grove, Lane
County, Ore., May 2,
2008 (age 77 years, 95
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Tom Chambers (1943-2013) —
Born in Wapato, Yakima
County, Wash., October
11, 1943.
Lawyer;
justice
of Washington state supreme court, 2001-12.
Died, from throat cancer, in Issaquah, King
County, Wash., December
11, 2013 (age 70 years, 61
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
TomChambers.com |
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