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family groupings listed on
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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
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.
![William N. Brown](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/652/11.21.jpg) |
William Nelson Brown (b. 1848) —
also known as William N. Brown —
of Concord Township, Iroquois
County, Ill.; Woonsocket, Sanborn
County, S.Dak.
Born in Anderson
County, Tenn., June 17,
1848.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 14th District, 1903-06.
Burial location unknown.
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Nathaniel Beazaleel Early (1866-1947) —
also known as Nathaniel B. Early —
of Dawsonville, Greene
County, Va.; Ruckersville, Greene
County, Va.
Born in Earlysville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 30,
1866.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Greene & Madison counties,
1897-1907; member of Virginia
state senate, 1908-33 (17th District 1908-23, 27th District
1924-33); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
1916,
1924.
Died in Greene
County, Va., August
15, 1947 (age 81 years, 16
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Holmes Overton (1875-1948) —
also known as John H. Overton —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La., September
17, 1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
chief counsel defending Huey
Long during his 1929 impeachment trial; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1931-33; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1933-48; died in office 1948; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1936.
Member, Sigma
Nu; Phi
Kappa Phi; Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; American Bar
Association; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 14,
1948 (age 72 years, 240
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Episcopal Cemetery, Pineville, La.
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Thomas Overton Brooks (1897-1961) —
also known as Overton Brooks —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born near Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., December
21, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1937-61; died in
office 1961.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., September
16, 1961 (age 63 years, 269
days).
Interment at Forest
Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Nathaniel B. Early Jr. (1902-1979) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., March 4,
1902.
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Virginia, 1941-47.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
12, 1979 (age 77 years, 253
days).
Interment at Graham
Cemetery, Orange, Va.
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