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Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts

Note: This is just one of 1,162 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. 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 much larger Three Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  Theodore Foster (1752-1828) — of Rhode Island. Born in Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass., April 29, 1752. Lawyer; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1776, 1812-16; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1790-1803. Died in Providence, Providence County, R.I., January 13, 1828 (age 75 years, 259 days). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
  Relatives: Brother of Dwight Foster (1757-1823); uncle of Alfred Dwight Foster; granduncle of Dwight Foster (1828-1884).
  Political family: Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts (subset of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Foster, Rhode Island, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Dwight Foster (1757-1823) — of Massachusetts. Born in Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass., December 7, 1757. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1791-92, 1808-09; Worcester County Sheriff, 1792; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-1800 (2nd District 1793-95, 3rd District 1795-97, at-large 1797-1800); resigned 1800; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1800-03; resigned 1803; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1803-11. Died in Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass., April 29, 1823 (age 65 years, 143 days). Interment at Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Mass.
  Relatives: Brother of Theodore Foster; father of Alfred Dwight Foster; grandfather of Dwight Foster (1828-1884).
  Political families: Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts; Baldwin-Greene-Upson-Hoar family of Connecticut (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863) — also known as Roger S. Baldwin — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., January 4, 1793. Whig. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state senate 4th District, 1837-38; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New Haven, 1840-41; Governor of Connecticut, 1844-46; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1847-51. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., February 19, 1863 (age 70 years, 46 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Simeon Baldwin and Rebecca (Sherman) Baldwin (1764-1795); married, October 25, 1820, to Emily Pitkin Perkins (1796-1874; niece of Timothy Pitkin); father of Henrietta Perkins Baldwin (who married Dwight Foster) and Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927); grandson of Roger Sherman; grandfather of Edward Baldwin Whitney; granduncle of Henry de Forest Baldwin; fourth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; first cousin of Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts and George Frisbie Hoar; first cousin once removed of Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts and Arthur Outram Sherman; first cousin twice removed of Roger Sherman Hoar; first cousin thrice removed of Archibald Cox; second cousin once removed of Samuel Gager; second cousin twice removed of Chauncey Mitchell Depew and John Frederick Addis; second cousin thrice removed of John Stanley Addis; third cousin of Samuel R. Gager and Samuel Austin Gager; third cousin once removed of Josiah Cowles and John Adams Dix; third cousin twice removed of Walter Booth, George Bailey Loring, Charles Page, Ernest Harvey Woodford and Clement Phineas Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Herman Arod Gager and Harry Andrews Gager; fourth cousin of James Doolittle Wooster and Daniel Upson; fourth cousin once removed of John Charles Birdsall, Francis William Kellogg, Ausburn Birdsall and Joseph Washburn Yates.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sherman family of Connecticut; Greene-Lippitt family of Providence, Rhode Island; Baldwin-Greene-Upson-Hoar family of Connecticut; Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts; Hoar-Sherman family of Massachusetts; Adams-Baldwin-Otis family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alfred Dwight Foster (1800-1852) — Born in 1800. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1840. Died in 1852 (age about 52 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Dwight Foster (1757-1823); father of Dwight Foster (1828-1884); nephew of Theodore Foster (1752-1828).
  Political family: Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts (subset of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  Dwight Foster (1828-1884) — of Worcester, Worcester County, Mass. Born in 1828. Republican. Lawyer; candidate for mayor of Worcester, Mass., 1856; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1861-64; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1866-69. Member, Skull and Bones. Died April 18, 1884 (age about 55 years). Interment at Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Alfred Dwight Foster; married, August 20, 1850, to Henrietta Perkins Baldwin (daughter of Roger Sherman Baldwin; sister of Simeon Eben Baldwin); grandson of Dwight Foster; grandnephew of Theodore Foster (1752-1828).
  Political family: Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts (subset of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) — also known as Simeon E. Baldwin — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., February 5, 1840. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for Connecticut state senate 4th District, 1867; law professor; justice of Connecticut state supreme court, 1897-1907; chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1907-10; Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1912; candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1914. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; American Bar Association; American Historical Association; American Political Science Association; American Philosophical Society; American Antiquarian Society. Died January 30, 1927 (age 86 years, 359 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily (Perkins) Baldwin (1796-1874); brother of Henrietta Perkins (who married Dwight Foster); married, October 19, 1865, to Susan Mears Winchester (1840-1931); uncle of Edward Baldwin Whitney; grandson of Simeon Baldwin; great-grandson of Roger Sherman; fifth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; first cousin once removed of Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts and George Frisbie Hoar; second cousin of Roger Sherman Greene, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts, Arthur Outram Sherman (born1864), Thomas Day Thacher and Roger Kent; second cousin once removed of Roger Sherman Hoar; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Gager and Archibald Cox; third cousin once removed of Samuel R. Gager, Samuel Austin Gager, Chauncey Mitchell Depew and John Frederick Addis; third cousin twice removed of Josiah Cowles and John Stanley Addis; fourth cousin of John Adams Dix; fourth cousin once removed of James Doolittle Wooster, Daniel Upson, Walter Booth, George Bailey Loring, Charles Page, Ernest Harvey Woodford and Clement Phineas Kellogg.
  Political families: Sherman family of Connecticut; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine; Hoar-Sherman family of Massachusetts; Baldwin-Greene-Upson-Hoar family of Connecticut (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Edwin Stark Thomas
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
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