Note: This is just one of
1,164
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.
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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Hezekiah Alexander Gudger (1849-1917) —
also known as Hezekiah A. Gudger —
of Madison
County, N.C.; Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Marshall, Madison
County, N.C., May 27,
1849.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Madison County,
1872-78; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1885; candidate for Presidential Elector
for North Carolina; U.S. Consul General in Panama, 1897-1905; justice, Canal Zone Supreme Court, 1905-14;
chief justice, 1909-14.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Beaverdam, Buncombe
County, N.C., September
22, 1917 (age 68 years, 118
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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James Madison Gudger Jr. (1855-1920) —
also known as James M. Gudger, Jr. —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Madison
County, N.C., October
22, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate; elected 1900; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1903-07,
1911-15.
Died February
29, 1920 (age 64 years, 130
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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John Wesley Langley (1868-1932) —
also known as John W. Langley —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.; Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky.
Born in Floyd
County, Ky., January
14, 1868.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1886-90; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kentucky, 1888,
1900,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1907-26; defeated,
1896; resigned 1926.
Convicted
in 1924 of conspiracy to transport
and sell liquor re-elected while his appeal was pending, but resigned
from Congress in 1926; sentenced
to a term in federal prison.
Granted clemency by President Calvin
Coolidge.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky., January
17, 1932 (age 64 years, 3
days).
Interment at Langley
Cemetery, Middle Creek, Ky.
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Katherine Gudger Langley (1888-1948) —
also known as Kate G. Langley; Katherine Gudger;
Mrs. John W. Langley —
of Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky.
Born near Marshall, Madison
County, N.C., February
14, 1888.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1920
(alternate), 1924,
1928,
1944
(alternate); vice-chair of
Kentucky Republican Party, 1920-22; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1927-31; defeated,
1930; Kentucky
railroad commissioner 3rd District, 1939-42.
Female.
Member, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Died in Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky., August
15, 1948 (age 60 years, 183
days).
Interment at Johnson
Memorial Cemetery, Pikeville, Ky.
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