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Edward Biddle (1738-1779) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1738.
Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1767-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-75.
Died in Chatsworth, Baltimore
County, Md., September
5, 1779 (age about 41
years).
Interment at Old
St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of William Biddle and Mary (Scull) Biddle; brother of Charles
Biddle; married, June 6,
1761, to Elizabeth Ross (sister of George
Ross); uncle of James
Biddle, John
Biddle (1792-1859) and Richard
Biddle; granduncle of Edward
MacFunn Biddle, James
Stokes Biddle and Charles
John Biddle; great-granduncle of John
Biddle (1859-1936); second great-granduncle of Boies
Penrose, Edward
MacFunn Biddle Jr. and Spencer
Penrose; third great-granduncle of Anthony
Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.; fourth great-granduncle of Angier
Biddle Duke; first cousin of John
Scull; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Bingham Penrose, John
Cadwalader (1805-1879), Edward
Scull and Thomas
Biddle; first cousin thrice removed of John
Cadwalader (1843-1925), George
Ross Scull and Robert
Spencer Scull; first cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Elam Scull; third cousin once removed of Jabez
Huntington and Samuel
Scull; third cousin thrice removed of David
Thayer Bunker, Wallace
Raymond Crumb and David
Scull; fourth cousin of Jedediah
Huntington and Ebenezer
Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Jabez
Williams Huntington, John
Appleton, Jane
Pierce and Joshua
Perkins. |
|  | Political families: Biddle
#1 family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Biddle
#2 family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Scull-Biddle
family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles Biddle (1745-1821) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
24, 1745.
Served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War; Vice-President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-87; secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1787-91; member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1810-14.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 4,
1821 (age 75 years, 101
days).
Entombed at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Biddle III and Mary (Scull) Biddle; brother of Edward
Biddle; married, November
25, 1778, to Hannah Shepard; father of James
Biddle, John
Biddle (1792-1859) and Richard
Biddle; grandfather of James
Stokes Biddle and Charles
John Biddle; granduncle of Edward
MacFunn Biddle; great-grandfather of John
Biddle (1859-1936); second great-granduncle of Boies
Penrose, Spencer
Penrose and Edward
MacFunn Biddle Jr.; third great-grandfather of Anthony
Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.; fourth great-grandfather of Angier
Biddle Duke; first cousin of John
Scull; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Bingham Penrose, John
Cadwalader (1805-1879), Edward
Scull and Thomas
Biddle; first cousin thrice removed of John
Cadwalader (1843-1925), George
Ross Scull and Robert
Spencer Scull; first cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Elam Scull; third cousin once removed of Jabez
Huntington and Samuel
Scull; third cousin thrice removed of David
Thayer Bunker, Wallace
Raymond Crumb and David
Scull; fourth cousin of Jedediah
Huntington and Ebenezer
Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Jabez
Williams Huntington, John
Appleton, Jane
Pierce and Joshua
Perkins. |
|  | Political families: Biddle
#1 family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Biddle
#2 family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Scull-Biddle
family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Biddle (1783-1848) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
18, 1783.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; U.S. Special
Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1822.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
1, 1848 (age 65 years, 226
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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John Biddle (1792-1859) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 2,
1792.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1827-28; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1829-31; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 1st District, 1835;
candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1835; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County, 1841; Speaker of
the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1841; banker;
president, Michigan Central Railroad.
Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier
County, Va (now W.Va.), August
25, 1859 (age 67 years, 176
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Richard Biddle (1796-1847) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
25, 1796.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1837-40 (22nd District 1837-39,
32nd District 1839-40).
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., July 6,
1847 (age 51 years, 103
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Edward MacFunn Biddle (1808-1889) —
also known as Edward M. Biddle —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 27,
1808.
Lawyer;
Adjutant
General of Pennsylvania, 1861-62; railroad
president.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., May 13,
1889 (age 80 years, 290
days).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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James Stokes Biddle (1818-1900) —
also known as James S. Biddle —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
15, 1818.
Democrat. Candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1871.
Died in Bucks
County, Pa., July 26,
1900 (age 82 years, 192
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Charles John Biddle (1819-1873) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
30, 1819.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1861-63.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
28, 1873 (age 54 years, 151
days).
Interment at Old
St. Peter's Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Thomas Biddle (1827-1875) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born January
2, 1827.
U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1866; U.S. Minister to Salvador, 1871-73.
Died in Ecuador,
April
7, 1875 (age 48 years, 95
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925) —
also known as James B. Duke; "Buck";
"Tobacco King" —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born near Durham, Durham
County, N.C., December
23, 1856.
Republican. Organizer and president, American Tobacco
Company, which monopolized the tobacco
industry until it was broken up in 1911; organizer of electric
power companies; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1904.
Left a large trust fund which supported Duke University.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1925 (age 68 years, 291
days).
Entombed at Duke
University Chapel, Durham, N.C.
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John Biddle (1859-1936) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
2, 1859.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1901-07.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
18, 1936 (age 76 years, 350
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.
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Edward MacFunn Biddle Jr. (1865-1955) —
also known as Edward M. Biddle, Jr. —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Irvine, Warren
County, Pa., October
4, 1865.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916,
1924;
common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania 9th District, 1921-29.
Died, from chronic
myocarditis, in Carlisle Hospital,
Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March
25, 1955 (age 89 years, 172
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930) —
also known as William B. Thompson —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia City, Madison
County, Mont., May 13,
1869.
Republican. Mining
magnate; banker;
Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1912;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916,
1920;
director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; director, Metropolitan
Life Insurance
Co.
Died, from pneumonia,
June
27, 1930 (age 61 years, 45
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Nathan Lynn Bachman (1878-1937) —
also known as Nathan L. Bachman —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.
Born in Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn., August
2, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Tennessee 6th District, 1908-12; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1918-24; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1933-37; died in office 1937.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, from a heart
attack in his room at the Continental Hotel, Washington,
D.C., April
23, 1937 (age 58 years, 264
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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James Henry Roberts Cromwell (1896-1990) —
also known as James H. R. Cromwell —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.; Weehawken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 4,
1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; vice-president,
Peerless Motor Car
Company; U.S. Minister to Canada, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New Jersey, 1940;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940; president, Chemwood Corporation,
pulp
and paper manufacturers.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Military
Order of the World Wars; Marine
Corps League; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died in 1990
(age about
94 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1897-1961) —
also known as A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
17, 1897.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; shipping
business; U.S. Minister to Norway, 1935-37, 1941-42; Netherlands, 1941-42; Yugoslavia, 1941; Czechoslovakia, 1941-43; Greece, 1941-42; U.S. Ambassador to Poland, 1937-43; Belgium, 1941-43; Netherlands, 1942-43; Norway, 1942-43; Yugoslavia, 1942; Greece, 1942-43; Czechoslovakia, 1943; Spain, 1961.
Died, from lung
cancer and a heart
attack, in Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., November
13, 1961 (age 63 years, 331
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; cenotaph at Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Angier Biddle Duke (1915-1995) —
of Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1915.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1952-53; Spain, 1965-68; Denmark, 1968-69; Morocco, 1979-81.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Chancellor
of Southampton College.
Hit by a car
while rollerblading,
and died as a result, in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
29, 1995 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Entombed at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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Robin Chandler Duke (1923-2016) —
also known as Grace Esther Tippett; Robin
Chandler —
of New York.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., October
13, 1923.
Democrat. Model;
journalist;
stockbroker;
U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 2000-01.
Female.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
6, 2016 (age 92 years, 116
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Carolina Memorial Park, North Charleston, S.C.
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