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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
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not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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John Adams (1735-1826) —
also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of
Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old
Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of
Independence"; "Father of the American
Navy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826 (age 90 years, 247
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams (1699-1797);
married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail Smith (1744-1818; aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813; who married
William
Stephens Smith) and John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); grandfather of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur
Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel
Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen; second cousin twice removed of John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William
Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass and Emerson
Richard Boyles; third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason and George
Bailey Loring; third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams, Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Caleb
Stetson (1801-1885), Oakes
Ames, Oliver
Ames, Jr., Benjamin
W. Waite, Alfred
Elisha Ames, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph
Washburn Yates, Augustus
Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin
Fairbanks, Erskine
Mason Phelps, Arthur
Newton Holden, John
Alden Thayer, Irving
Hall Chase, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Giles
Russell Taggart. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams
family of Connecticut and New York; Kidder
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | Mount
Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: John
Adams Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about John Adams: John Ferling,
John
Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams — David McCullough, John
Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James
Grant, John
Adams : Party of One |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Brown (1736-1803) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., January
27, 1736.
Merchant;
banker;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1782-84; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1799-1801.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., September
20, 1803 (age 67 years, 236
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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Benjamin Brown (1756-1831) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Swansea, Bristol
County, Mass., September
23, 1756.
Physician;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1809, 1811-12, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 16th District, 1815-17.
Died in Waldoboro, Lincoln
County, Maine, September
17, 1831 (age 74 years, 359
days).
Interment at Waldoboro
Cemetery, Waldoboro, Maine.
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John Brown Francis (1791-1864) —
of Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 31,
1791.
Democrat. Member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1821; member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1831, 1845-56; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1833-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Rhode Island, 1840;
U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1844-45.
Died in Warwick, Kent
County, R.I., August
9, 1864 (age 73 years, 70
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799-1887) —
also known as Chauncey F. Cleveland —
of Hampton, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Canterbury, Windham
County, Conn., February
16, 1799.
Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hampton, 1826-29, 1832,
1835-36, 1838; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1835-36, 1863; Governor of
Connecticut, 1842-44; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1849-53; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1856
(Convention
Vice-President; speaker),
1860.
Died in Hampton, Windham
County, Conn., June 6,
1887 (age 88 years, 110
days).
Interment at South
Cemetery, Hampton, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Silas Cleveland (1756-1840) and Lois (Sharpe) Cleveland
(1757-1811); married, December
13, 1821, to Diantha Hovey (1800-1867; first cousin once removed
of Alfred
Avery Burnham (1819-1879)); married, January
22, 1869, to Helen Cornelia Litchfield; father of Delia Diantha
Cleveland (1825-1853; who married Alfred
Avery Burnham (1819-1879)); first cousin once removed of Henry
Sabin; second cousin once removed of Ira
Chandler Backus and William
Dean Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Ephraim
Safford, Isaiah
Kidder, Joshua
Perkins, Edward
Green Bradford, Bailey
Frye Adams, Orestes
Cleveland, Lee
Randall Sanborn and Nelson
Appleton Miles; third cousin twice removed of Lyman
Kidder, Ezra
Kidder, David
Kidder, Augustus
Sabin Chase, Marden
Sabin, Joseph
Spalding, Edward
Green Bradford II and James
L. Sanborn; third cousin thrice removed of Irving
Hall Chase, Walter
Keene Linscott, Edward
Green Bradford, Jr., Elizabeth
Bradford du Pont Bayard, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Grover
Fredrick Cleveland; fourth cousin of Jonathan
Usher, Jedediah
Sabin, Caleb
Blodgett, John
Larkin Payson, Charles
Stetson, James
Safford, Luther
Kidder and Isaiah
Stetson (1812-1880); fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills, Alvan
Kidder, Francis
Kidder, Ira
Kidder, Arba
Kidder, Joseph
Souther Kidder, Pascal
Paoli Kidder, John
Appleton, Jefferson
Parish Kidder, John
Palmer Usher, William
Henry Barnum, Francis
Landon Cleveland, Delos
Abiel Blodgett, Charles
Payson, Isaac
Newton Blodgett, Robert
Crawford Safford, Abner
Coburn Cleveland, Robert
Cleveland Usher, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Edward
Williams Hooker. |
| | Political families: Kidder
family of Connecticut; Greene
family of Providence, Rhode Island; DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Thayer-Capron-Aldrich-Stetson
family; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams
family of Connecticut and New York; Stetson
family of New York and Massachusetts (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Sprague (1799-1856) —
of Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Cranston, Providence
County, R.I., November
3, 1799.
Whig. Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1832-35; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1835-37; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1838-39; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1842-44; Presidential Elector for
Rhode Island, 1848.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
19, 1856 (age 56 years, 351
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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John Appleton (1804-1891) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in New Ipswich, Hillsborough
County, N.H., July 12,
1804.
Lawyer;
justice
of Maine state supreme court, 1852-62; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1862-83.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, February
7, 1891 (age 86 years, 210
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of John Appleton (1763-1849) and Elizabeth (Peabody) Appleton
(1778-1809); married 1834 to Sarah
Newcomb Allen (1810-1874); married 1876 to Annie
Greely; first cousin once removed of Nathan
Appleton, James
Appleton, William
Appleton and Nathan
Dane Appleton (1794-1861); first cousin twice removed of Arthur
Taggard Appleton; second cousin of John
Appleton (1815-1864); second cousin twice removed of John
Brown; second cousin thrice removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and Randolph
Appleton Kidder; second cousin four times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Parrish Witter; fourth cousin of Jabez
Williams Huntington, John
Brown Francis and Joshua
Perkins; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
Biddle, Charles
Biddle, Enoch
Woodbridge, John
Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas
Appleton, Timothy
Pitkin, George
Douglas Perkins and Albert
Lemando Bingham. |
| | Political families: Kidder
family of Connecticut; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) —
also known as Salmon P. Chase; "Old Mr.
Greenbacks" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H., January
13, 1808.
Republican. Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1849-55, 1861; Governor of
Ohio, 1856-60; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1864-73; died in office 1873.
Episcopalian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1873 (age 65 years, 114
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Ithamar Chase (1762-1817) and Janette Chase (1777-1832); married
to Eliza Ann Smith (1821-1845); father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase
(1840-1899; who married William
Sprague (1830-1915)); nephew of Dudley
Chase; cousin *** of Dudley
Chase Denison. |
| | Political families: Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Chase
family of Vermont (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Chase County,
Kan. is named for him. |
| | Chase Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard
University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Salmon P. Chase (built 1942, scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | Politician named for him: Chase
S. Osborn
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on various U.S. currency, including $1 and $10 notes in
the 1860s, and the $10,000 bill from 1918 to 1946.
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Salmon P. Chase: Frederick
J. Blue, Salmon
P. Chase : A Life in Politics — John Niven, Salmon
P. Chase : A Biography — Albert B. Hart, Salmon
P. Chase — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln |
| | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Eli Thayer (1819-1899) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Mendon, Worcester
County, Mass., June 11,
1819.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1853-54; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1857-61;
defeated, 1872; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
15, 1899 (age 79 years, 308
days).
Interment at Hope
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Augustus Brown Reed Sprague (1827-1910) —
also known as Augustus B. R. Sprague —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 7,
1827.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; furniture
merchant; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1896-97.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., May 17,
1910 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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William Sprague (1830-1915) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Narragansett, Washington
County, R.I.
Born in Cranston, Providence
County, R.I., September
12, 1830.
Republican. Governor of
Rhode Island, 1860-63; resigned 1863; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1863-75.
Died, from meningitis,
in Paris, France,
September
11, 1915 (age 84 years, 364
days).
Entombed at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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George Buckingham Beecher (1841-1925) —
also known as George B. Beecher —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Hillsboro, Highland
County, Ohio.
Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, September
7, 1841.
Republican. Minister;
offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1876.
Presbyterian.
Died in Hillsboro, Highland
County, Ohio, April 1,
1925 (age 83 years, 206
days).
Interment at Hillsboro
Cemetery, Hillsboro, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of George Beecher (1809-1843) and Sarah Sturges (Buckingham) Beecher
(1817-1901); married, November
20, 1873, to Ann Price 'Nannie' O'Hara (1850-1929); nephew of
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896; author of the novel Uncle Tom's
Cabin); second cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer and Eli
Elmer; second cousin four times removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott, Sr. (1726-1797); third cousin once removed of Leveret
Brainard; third cousin twice removed of Amaziah
Brainard and Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Wolcott, Jr., Roger
Griswold, John
Allen and Frederick
Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of Ambrose
Tuttle, Joseph
H. Elmer, George
Frederick Stone, Walter
Keene Linscott, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Frances
Payne Bolton. |
| | Political families: Wolcott-Wadsworth
family of Connecticut and Maryland; Conger-Hungerford
family; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams
family of Connecticut and New York; Bolton-Whitney-Brainard-Wolcott
family of Cleveland, Ohio; Wolcott-Packwood-Griswold
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Daniel Parrish Witter (1852-1930) —
also known as Daniel P. Witter —
of Berkshire, Tioga
County, N.Y.
Born in Richford, Tioga
County, N.Y., July 2,
1852.
Republican. Farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1896-1900, 1916-29.
Died in Berkshire, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
9, 1930 (age 77 years, 191
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Berkshire, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Asa Witter (1798-1884) and Delia (Torrey) Witter (1819-1909);
married, March 1,
1876, to Sarah M. Belden (1857-1937); first cousin six times
removed of William
Greene; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Austin Gager; second cousin twice removed of Abel
Madison Scranton; second cousin four times removed of John
Brown; second cousin five times removed of William
Greene, Jr. and Andrew
Adams; third cousin of Howkin
Bulkley Beardslee; third cousin twice removed of John
Appleton (1804-1891); third cousin thrice removed of Waightstill
Avery, Ebenezer
Huntington, Elijah
Hunt Mills and Gideon
Hard; fourth cousin of George
Mortimer Beakes and Chauncey
C. Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Babbitt, Albert
Bliss, Joshua
Perkins, Bradford
Kirk Durfee, Samuel
Willard Beakes and Charles
W. Durfee. |
| | Political families: Kidder
family of Connecticut; Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams
family of Connecticut and New York; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Jennings
family of Michigan; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Image source: New York Red Book
1924 |
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Menzo Clinton Beardsley (1859-1946) —
also known as Menzo C. Beardsley —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Catharine (now Watkins Glen), Schuyler
County, N.Y., October
5, 1859.
Insurance
agent; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1902 (19th District), 1910 (33rd
District); Prohibition candidate for New York
state assembly, 1911 (Chemung County), 1914 (Chemung County),
1920 (Queens County 4th District); Prohibition candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York, 1916.
Died in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
23, 1946 (age 86 years, 322
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Walter Keene Linscott (1872-1933) —
also known as Walter K. Linscott —
Born in Washington
County, Iowa, April
14, 1872.
U.S. Consular Agent in Coatzacoalcos, as of 1898-99.
Died January
19, 1933 (age 60 years, 280
days).
Interment at Holton
Cemetery, Holton, Kan.
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Sidney Smythe Linscott (1883-1968) —
also known as Sidney S. Linscott —
of Erie, Neosho
County, Kan.
Born in Holton, Jackson
County, Kan., November
20, 1883.
Democrat. Banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1944.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Erie, Neosho
County, Kan., April
12, 1968 (age 84 years, 144
days).
Interment at Holton
Cemetery, Holton, Kan.
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Arthur Taggard Appleton (1884-1961) —
also known as Arthur T. Appleton —
of Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H.
Born in Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 8,
1884.
Republican. Electrical
contractor; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council 4th District; elected 1938.
Died in Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., August
16, 1961 (age 77 years, 100
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Francis Appleton (1856-1943) and Lillian Gertrude (Jones)
Appleton (1857-1932); married, September
26, 1908, to Alice Ethel Fox (1883-1972); first cousin twice
removed of John
Appleton (1804-1891); first cousin thrice removed of Nathan
Appleton, James
Appleton, William
Appleton and Nathan
Dane Appleton; second cousin twice removed of John
Appleton (1815-1864); second cousin four times removed of John
Brown and Erastus
Fairbanks; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Horace
Fairbanks, Franklin
Fairbanks and John
Mason, Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and Randolph
Appleton Kidder. |
| | Political families: Kidder
family of Connecticut; Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams
family of Connecticut and New York; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Jennings
family of Michigan; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Charles Arthur Sprague (1887-1969) —
also known as Charles A. Sprague —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan., November
12, 1887.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; Governor of
Oregon, 1939-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Rotary.
Died in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., March
13, 1969 (age 81 years, 121
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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