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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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Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) —
also known as Stephen J. Field —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
4, 1816.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of
California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested
in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges
of being party to the alleged murder
of David
S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to
be justifiable homicide.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1899 (age 82 years, 156
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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David Josiah Brewer (1837-1910) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey,
June
20, 1837.
Lawyer;
county judge in Kansas, 1862-65; district judge in Kansas 1st
District, 1865-69; justice of
Kansas state supreme court, 1870-84; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1884-90; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1889-1910; died in office 1910.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1910 (age 72 years, 281
days).
Interment at Mt.
Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kan.
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George E. Whitney —
Member of California
state senate, 1880.
Burial location unknown.
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Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) —
also known as Anita Whitney —
of California.
Born about 1868.
Communist. Social
worker; in 1919, she gave a radical
speech in Oakland, California; as a result, she was arrested,
tried,
and found
guilty of violating the state's syndicalism
law; pardoned
by Governor C. C.
Young.; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist).
Female.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
4, 1955 (age about 87
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Wellington Wells (1868-1955) —
also known as Bill Wells —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Arlington, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
18, 1868.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate Fifth Suffolk District, 1923-24.
Baptist;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 23,
1955 (age 87 years, 35
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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