Note: This is just one of
1,325
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 Four 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.
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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 Francis Dodge (1864-1920) —
also known as John F. Dodge —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Niles, Berrien
County, Mich., October
25, 1864.
Republican. Early automobile
manufacturer; made parts for Oldsmobile and Ford in the early
20th century; co-founder of Dodge Brothers Motor Car
Company in 1914, manufacturer of Dodge cars and trucks; the Dodge
operation became part of Chrysler Corporation in 1928; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1916.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1920 (age 55 years, 81
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Rugg Dodge and Maria Duval (Casto) Dodge; married, September
22, 1892, to Ivy Hawkins; married, December
9, 1903, to Isabelle Smith; married, December
10, 1907, to Matilda
Rausch; uncle of Horace
Elgin Dodge Jr.. |
|  | Political family: Dodge-Duke-Cromwell
family of Detroit, Michigan (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Matilda Rausch Dodge Wilson (1883-1967) —
also known as Matilda R. Wilson; Matilda Rausch;
Matilda Rausch Dodge; Mrs. Alfred Wilson —
of Rochester, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Walkerton, Ontario,
October
19, 1883.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1928;
member of Michigan
state board of agriculture; elected 1931; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1940.
Female.
Presbyterian.
German
ancestry.
Left her estate, Meadow Brook Hall, to Oakland University.
Died in Brussels, Belgium,
September
18, 1967 (age 83 years, 334
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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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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Horace Elgin Dodge Jr. (1900-1963) —
also known as Horace E. Dodge —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
2, 1900.
Republican. Founder, Dodge Boat
Works, 1923; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Died, from liver
cirrhosis, at Jennings Memorial Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
22, 1963 (age 63 years, 142
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Horace Elgin Dodge and Anna (Thomson) Dodge; brother of Delphine
Ione Dodge (who married James
Henry Roberts Cromwell); married, June 21,
1921, to Lois Virginia Knowlson; married, May 17,
1928, to Muriel Sisman; married, May 16,
1940, to Martha 'Mickey' Devine; married, May 26,
1945, to Clara Mae Tinsley; married, February
14, 1953, to Gregg Sherwood; nephew of John
Francis Dodge (who married Matilda
Rausch). |
|  | Political family: Dodge-Duke-Cromwell
family of Detroit, Michigan (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Douglas MacArthur II (1909-1997) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., July 5,
1909.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Vancouver, as of 1935; Naples, as of 1937-38; Paris, 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1957-61; Belgium, 1961-65; Austria, 1967-69; Iran, 1969-72.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, after a stroke
and heart
attack, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., November
15, 1997 (age 88 years, 133
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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