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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David Theodore Wilentz (1894-1988) —
also known as David T. Wilentz —
of Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia),
December
21, 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; chair of
Middlesex County Democratic Party, 1928; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
member, Platform and Resolutions Committee, 1944;
member, Arrangements Committee, 1964;
delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large;
elected 1933; New
Jersey state attorney general, 1934-44.
Jewish.
Latvian
ancestry.
Died in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., July 6,
1988 (age 93 years, 198
days).
Interment at Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, N.J.
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Meyer Kestnbaum (1896-1960) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1896.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; president, Hart,
Schaffner and Marx, clothing
manufacturers, from 1941; director, Chicago and North Western Railway;
chair, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1954-55; special
assistant to Pres. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 1955-60; accompanied Vice President Richard
M. Nixon on an official visit to Moscow, 1959.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his office,
in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
14, 1960 (age 64 years, 44
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Warren W. Wilentz (1924-2010) —
of New Jersey; Edison, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., March
29, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; Middlesex
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1956-60; Middlesex
County Attorney, 1960-67; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1966.
Jewish.
Latvian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Edison, Middlesex
County, N.J., March
18, 2010 (age 85 years, 354
days).
Interment at Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, N.J.
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Robert Nathan Wilentz (1927-1996) —
also known as Robert N. Wilentz —
of Deal, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., February
17, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1966-69 (Middlesex County
1966-67, District 7-C 1968-69); chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1979-96; retired 1996.
Jewish
and Latvian
ancestry.
Died July 23,
1996 (age 69 years, 157
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Constance H. Williams (b. 1944) —
also known as Connie Williams; Constance
Hess —
of King of Prussia, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., June 27,
1944.
Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives 149th District, 1997-2001;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 2000,
2004,
2008;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 17th District, 2001-08; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Pennsylvania.
Female.
Still living as of 2020.
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Lawrence Kestenbaum (b. 1955) —
also known as Larry Kestenbaum —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
13, 1955.
Democrat. Lawyer; Ingham
County Commissioner 8th District, 1983-88; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives 52nd District, 1998; Washtenaw
County Commissioner 4th District, 2000-02; Washtenaw
County Clerk and Register of Deeds, 2005-.
Jewish.
Hungarian,
German,
Polish,
and Norwegian
ancestry. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American Civil
Liberties Union; Grange;
Sierra
Club; NAACP.
Creator of The Political Graveyard web site.
Still living as of 2022.
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