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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Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851-1928) —
also known as Thomas F. Ryan —
of Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Oak Ridge, Nelson
County, Va.
Born in Lovingston, Nelson
County, Va., October
17, 1851.
Democrat. Financier;
organizer and consolidator of streetcar
companies in New York City; owned controlling interest in Equitable
Life
Assurance Society; co-founder, American Tobacco
Company; engaged in mining
development in Africa; one of the richest men in America at the time;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1904,
1912.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
23, 1928 (age 77 years, 37
days).
Entombed at Oak
Ridge Estate Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Va.
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DeLancey Nicoll (1854-1931) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Shelter Island, Suffolk
County, N.Y., June 24,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for American Tobacco
Company; New
York County District Attorney, 1891-93; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 7th District, 1894;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 14th District, 1915.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
31, 1931 (age 76 years, 280
days).
Interment at Nichols Cemetery, Shelter Island, N.Y.
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Courtlandt Nicoll (c.1880-1938) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1880.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1912;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1915;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1918, 1925-26; defeated, 1926.
Episcopalian.
Died in Water Mill, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
20, 1938 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Southampton
Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Ione Nicoll (d. 1940) —
also known as Ione Page —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1924;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Episcopalian.
One of the leaders of the Women's Organization for National
Prohibition Reform; bolted the Republican Party over the prohibition
issue in 1932.
Jumped
or fell
sixteen stories to her death, from her room at New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
9, 1940.
Interment at Southampton
Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Allan Aloysius Ryan Jr. (b. 1903) —
also known as Allan A. Ryan, Jr. —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1903.
Republican. Stockbroker;
owner of mining
interests; member of New York
state senate 28th District, 1939-42; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II.
Catholic.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Allan A. Ryan and Sarah (Tack) Ryan; married, February
6, 1929, to Janet Newbold; married, January
19, 1937, to Eleanor Barry; married, August
5, 1941, to Priscilla St. George; grandson of Thomas
Fortune Ryan. |
|  | Political family: Ryan-Nicoll
family of New York City, New York. |
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Clendenin James Ryan (1905-1957) —
also known as Clendenin Ryan —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Allamuchy, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 16,
1905.
Republican. Aide to Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia, 1938-39; New York City Commissioner of Commerce, 1939;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1948;
Independent Voters candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1953.
Catholic.
Died by self-inflicted
gunshot,
in the same East 70th Street townhouse where his father killed
himself in 1939, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1957 (age 52 years, 58
days).
Interment at Culinary Institute of America Grounds, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Clendenin James Ryan (1882-1939) and Caroline (O'Neil) Ryan;
married 1937 to Jean
Harder; grandson of Thomas
Fortune Ryan. |
|  | Political family: Ryan-Nicoll
family of New York City, New York. |
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