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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.
![Joseph W. Fordney](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/321/80.81.jpg) |
Joseph Warren Fordney (1853-1932) —
also known as Joseph W. Fordney —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Blackford
County, Ind., November
5, 1853.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Michigan 8th District, 1899-1923; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908,
1924,
1928.
Died in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., January
8, 1932 (age 78 years, 64
days).
Interment at St.
Andrew's Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.
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![George J. Burke](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/290/98.35.jpg) |
George James Burke, Sr. (1885-1950) —
also known as George J. Burke —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Northfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., December
5, 1885.
Democrat. Lawyer; Washtenaw
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1911-14; law partner of Martin
J. Cavanaugh; president, Citizens Mutual Auto Insurance
Co.; counsel and director, International Radio Co.;
director, Ann Arbor Trust
Company, Farmers and Mechanics Bank,
Michigan Life
Insurance Co.; candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1916; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Michigan; candidate for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1923, 1926; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); served as a judge in the Nuremburg
war crimes trials.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Rotary.
Died, in his law
office, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., October
3, 1950 (age 64 years, 302
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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George James Burke Jr. (1914-1971) —
also known as George J. Burke, Jr. —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Howell, Livingston
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., October
12, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County 1st
District, 1950.
Catholic.
Died in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., October
3, 1971 (age 56 years, 356
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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