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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William Duncan Connor (1864-1944) —
also known as William D. Connor —
of Marshfield, Wood
County, Wis.
Born near Stratford, Ontario,
March
24, 1864.
Republican. Wisconsin
Republican state chair, 1904-08; Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1907-09.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., November
20, 1944 (age 80 years, 241
days).
Interment somewhere
in Marshfield, Wis.
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Melvin Robert Laird Sr. (d. 1946) —
also known as Melvin R. Laird, Sr. —
of Marshfield, Wood
County, Wis.
Born near Griggsville, Pike
County, Ill.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; Presbyterian
minister; chaplain;
member of Wisconsin
state senate 24th District, 1941-46; died in office 1946;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin.
Presbyterian.
Died March
19, 1946.
Burial location unknown.
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Helen Connor Laird (b. 1891) —
also known as Helen Connor; Mrs. Melvin R. Laird,
Sr. —
of Marshfield, Wood
County, Wis.
Born in Grand Rapids (now Wisconsin Rapids), Wood
County, Wis., August
22, 1891.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1948.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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James Edward Doyle (1915-1987) —
also known as James E. Doyle —
Born in Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis., July 6,
1915.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice James
F. Byrnes, 1941-42; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
Wisconsin
Democratic state chair, 1951-53; candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1954; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, 1965-80;
senior judge, 1980-87.
Died in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., April 1,
1987 (age 71 years, 269
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ruth Bachhuber Doyle (1916-2006) —
also known as Ruth B. Doyle; Ruth
Bachhuber —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
14, 1916.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Dane County 1st District, 1949-52.
Female.
Died in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., May 6,
2006 (age 89 years, 204
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (1922-2016) —
also known as Melvin R. Laird —
of Marshfield, Wood
County, Wis.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., September
1, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Wisconsin
state senate 24th District, 1947-52; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956
(speaker),
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 7th District, 1953-69; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1969-73.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Freemasons;
Elks; United
Commercial Travelers; Purple
Heart.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1974.
Died in Fort Myers, Lee
County, Fla., November
16, 2016 (age 94 years, 76
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Edward Doyle (b. 1945) —
also known as James E. Doyle; Jim Doyle —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1945.
Democrat. Lawyer; served
in the Peace Corps; Dane
County District Attorney, 1977-82; Wisconsin
state attorney general, 1991-2003; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Wisconsin, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
Governor
of Wisconsin, 2003-11.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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