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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.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) —
also known as Cyrus H. McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., February
15, 1809.
Democrat. One of the inventors
of the McCormick reaper, and the founder of the farm
implement manufacturing company which became International
Harvester; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1862; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1876.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 13,
1884 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Joseph Meharry Medill (1823-1899) —
also known as Joseph Medill —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near St. John, New
Brunswick, April 6,
1823.
Editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune newspaper;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 59th District,
1869-70; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1871-73.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., March
16, 1899 (age 75 years, 344
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; cenotaph at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio.
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George B. Lake —
of Douglas
County, Neb.
Justice
of Nebraska state supreme court, 1867-84; chief
justice of Nebraska state supreme court, 1873-78, 1882-84; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1871.
Burial
location unknown.
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Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902) —
also known as J. Sterling Morton —
of Otoe
County, Neb.
Born in Adams, Jefferson
County, N.Y., April
22, 1832.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1855-57; secretary
of Nebraska Territory, 1858-61; Governor
of Nebraska Territory, 1858-59, 1861; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1866, 1882; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1888;
U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Member, Chi Psi.
Died in Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill., April
27, 1902 (age 70 years, 5
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Nebraska City, Neb.
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) —
also known as Marcus A. Hanna; Mark Hanna;
"Dollar Mark" —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, September
24, 1837.
Republican. Partner in wholesale
grocery; head of M. A. Hanna and Co., coal
dealers; director, Globe Ship
Manufacturing Co.; president, Union National Bank;
president, Cleveland City Railroad
Co. president, Chapin Mining Co.;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1896-1904; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1897-1904; died in office 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1904 (age 66 years, 144
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849-1919) —
also known as Robert S. McCormick —
of Illinois.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., July 26,
1849.
Grain
brokerage business; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1901-02; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1902; Russia, 1902-05; France, 1905-07.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Hinsdale, DuPage
County, Ill., April
16, 1919 (age 69 years, 264
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Paul Morton (1857-1911) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 22,
1857.
Republican. Vice-president, Santa Fe Railroad;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1904-05; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1904.
Episcopalian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
19, 1911 (age 53 years, 273
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Mark Morton (b. 1858) —
of Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., November
22, 1858.
Mayor
of Lake Forest, Ill., 1902-03.
Burial
location unknown.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861-1949) —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
2, 1861.
Republican. Mining, smelting,
and railroad
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1924.
Jewish.
Founder of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Died near Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
3, 1949 (age 88 years, 274
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Simon Guggenheim (1867-1941) —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
30, 1867.
Republican. Mining and
smelting
business; Presidential Elector for Colorado, 1904;
U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1907-13; member of Republican
National Committee from Colorado, 1912; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Colorado, 1912.
Jewish.
Died November
2, 1941 (age 73 years, 307
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) —
also known as Medill McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 16,
1877.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee); member of Illinois state legislature, 1910; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1917-19; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1919-25; died in office 1925.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died by suicide,
through an overdose of
barbiturates (reported at the time as a heart attack), in his
room at the Hotel
Hamilton, Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1925 (age 47 years, 285
days).
Interment at Middlecreek
Cemetery, Byron, Ill.
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Dwight Filley Davis (1879-1945) —
also known as Dwight F. Davis —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., July 5,
1879.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1925-29; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1929-32.
Baptist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; American
Legion.
Founder of the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
28, 1945 (age 66 years, 146
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joseph Medill Patterson (1879-1946) —
also known as Joseph M. Patterson —
of Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
6, 1879.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1903; editor
of the Chicago Tribune, 1910-25; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; founder (1919) and publisher
of the New York Daily News, the first successful American
tabloid newspaper.
Died, from a liver
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1946 (age 67 years, 140
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ruth Hanna McCormick (1880-1944) —
also known as Ruth Hanna; Mrs. Medill McCormick;
Ruth Hanna Simms; Mrs. Albert G. Simms —
of Byron, Ogle
County, Ill.; Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, March
27, 1880.
Republican. Member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1924-28; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1928;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1929-31; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1930; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Mexico, 1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1944.
Female.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
31, 1944 (age 64 years, 279
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880-1955) —
also known as Robert R. McCormick; Robert Sanderson
McCormick, Jr.; "Colonel McCormick";
"Colonel McCosmic" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 30,
1880.
Republican. Lawyer;
longtime publisher, Chicago Tribune newspaper;
creator of the Tribune's paper
manufacturing and aluminum
mining operations in Canada; president, Chicago Sanitary
Commission (which built the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
connecting Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system); delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1912,
1940,
1948,
1952;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died April 1,
1955 (age 74 years, 245
days).
Interment at Cantigny
Estate, Wheaton, Ill.
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Albert Gallatin Simms (1882-1964) —
also known as Albert G. Simms —
of Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M.
Born in Washington, Hempstead
County, Ark., October
8, 1882.
Republican. Accountant;
lawyer;
banker;
member of New
Mexico state house of representatives, 1925-27; U.S.
Representative from New Mexico at-large, 1929-31; member of Republican
National Committee from New Mexico, 1932-34; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Mexico, 1940
(alternate), 1948,
1952.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., December
29, 1964 (age 82 years, 82
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Meyer Robert Guggenheim (1885-1959) —
also known as M. Robert Guggenheim —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1885.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; executive, American Smelting and
Refining Corporation; U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1953-54.
Died in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., November
16, 1959 (age 74 years, 183
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Pauline Morton Sabin (1887-1955) —
also known as Pauline M. Sabin; Pauline Morton;
Pauline Smith; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin; Mrs. Dwight F.
Davis —
of Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
23, 1887.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1924,
1928;
member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1924-28; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Episcopalian.
A leader of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
27, 1955 (age 68 years, 248
days).
Interment somewhere
in Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971) —
also known as Harry F. Guggenheim —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in West End, Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., August
23, 1890.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining and
smelting
business; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1929-33; co-founder, with his wife Alicia, of
Newsday, the daily newspaper
of Long Island, New York.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer,
in Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
22, 1971 (age 80 years, 152
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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V. Henry Rothschild II (1908-1991) —
of Piermont, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1956;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 9th District, 1959.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Pi
Lambda Phi.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1991 (age 82 years, 348
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William McCormick Blair, Jr. (1916-2015) —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
24, 1916.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
administrative and executive assistant to Adlai
E. Stevenson, 1950-55; U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, 1961-64; Philippines, 1964-67.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in New York, August
28, 2015 (age 98 years, 308
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Madeleine Korbel Albright (b. 1937) —
also known as Madeleine K. Albright; Marie Jana
Korbelova; Madeleine Korbel —
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia),
May
15, 1937.
University
professor; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1993; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1997-2001.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Czech
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
First
woman to serve as Secretary of State. Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1998.
Still living as of 2020.
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