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.
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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Alfred Mossman Landon (1887-1987) —
also known as Alf M. Landon —
of Independence, Montgomery
County, Kan.; Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in West Middlesex, Mercer
County, Pa., September
9, 1887.
Republican. Oil
producer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Kansas
Republican state chair, 1928; Governor of
Kansas, 1933-37; candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kansas, 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944,
1948.
Methodist.
English
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; American
Legion.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., October
12, 1987 (age 100 years,
33 days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) —
also known as Everett M. Dirksen; "The Wizard of
Ooze" —
of Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill.
Born in Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill., January
4, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; merchant;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1933-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1940
(alternate), 1948,
1952
(speaker),
1956
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1960
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1964
(delegation chair), 1968
(delegation chair); U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1951-69; died in office 1969.
Christian
Reformed. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Eagles;
Elks; Moose; American Bar
Association; Odd
Fellows; Izaak
Walton League.
Died, of lung
cancer, at the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1969 (age 73 years, 246
days).
Interment at Glendale
Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.
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Theo Landon (1898-1996) —
also known as Theo Cobb —
Born in 1898.
Republican. First Lady of Kansas, 1933-37.
Female.
Died in 1996
(age about
98 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Irene Bailey Baker (1901-1994) —
also known as Edith Irene Bailey —
of Tennessee.
Born in Sevierville, Sevier
County, Tenn., November
17, 1901.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 2nd District, 1964-65.
Female.
Died in Loudon
County, Tenn., April 2,
1994 (age 92 years, 136
days).
Interment at Sherwood
Memorial Gardens, Alcoa, Tenn.
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Howard Henry Baker (1902-1964) —
also known as Howard H. Baker —
of Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn.
Born in Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky., January
12, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1929-30; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1938; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1940
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1948,
1952,
1956
(delegation chair), 1960
(delegation chair); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1940; board chairman, First National Bank of
Oneida; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 2nd District, 1951-64; died in
office 1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of
the Coif; Sigma
Nu; Phi
Alpha Delta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died, following a heart
attack, at Fort Sanders Presbyterian Hospital,
Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., January
7, 1964 (age 61 years, 360
days).
Interment at Sherwood
Memorial Gardens, Alcoa, Tenn.
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Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1925-2014) —
also known as Howard H. Baker —
of Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn.
Born in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., November
15, 1925.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1967-85; defeated, 1964; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Tennessee, 1972;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
White House Chief of Staff, 1987-88; Republican Presidential Elector
for Tennessee, 2000
(voted for George
W. Bush and Richard
B. Cheney); U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 2001-05.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Pi
Kappa Phi.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1984.
Died in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., June 26,
2014 (age 88 years, 223
days).
Interment at Mossop Cemetery, Huntsville, Tenn.
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Nancy Kassebaum Baker (b. 1932) —
also known as Nancy Josephine Landon; Nancy Landon
Kassebaum —
of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., July 29,
1932.
Republican. U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1978-97; appointed 1978.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2014.
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