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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John Azro Prouty (1826-1900) —
also known as John A. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., December
26, 1826.
Lumber and
timber business; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1858-59, 1884.
Died in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., January
6, 1900 (age 73 years, 11
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Newton Prouty (1842-1916) —
of Spencer, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Spencer, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1842.
Republican. Boot and shoe
manufacturer; director, Spencer National Bank;
member of Massachusetts
state senate Fourth Worcester District, 1906-07.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., January
18, 1916 (age 73 years, 104
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery, Spencer, Mass.
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Charles Azro Prouty (1853-1921) —
also known as Charles A. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., October
9, 1853.
Lawyer;
Orleans
County State's Attorney, 1882-86; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Newport, 1888; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1896
(member, Credentials
Committee); member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1896-1914;
Progressive candidate for U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1914.
Died, from chronic
peritonitis and acute
pyelonephritis, in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., July 8,
1921 (age 67 years, 272
days).
Interment at East
Main Street Cemetery, Newport, Vt.
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George Herbert Prouty (1862-1918) —
also known as George H. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., March 4,
1862.
Republican. Lumber
business; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1896-97; member of Vermont
state senate, 1904; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1906-08; Governor of
Vermont, 1908-10; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Vermont, 1916.
Congregationalist.
Killed when the car
in which he was riding was hit by a
train, in dense
fog, at a grade crossing near Waterville, Quebec,
August
19, 1918 (age 56 years, 168
days).
Interment at East
Main Street Cemetery, Newport, Vt.
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Carlton Prouty (1864-1931) —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
20, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer; insurance
business; real estate
dealer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1908.
In May, 1913, he was fined
$500, and sentenced
to three months in the county
jail, for having violated the Illinois law which prohibits the remarriage
of divorced persons within one year; he had married his former
stenographer four days after being divorced from his first wife.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., December
10, 1931 (age 67 years, 20
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Willard Robert Prouty (b. 1872) —
also known as Willard R. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., December
22, 1872.
Republican. Lumber
manufacturer; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1917; member of Vermont
state senate from Orleans County, 1927; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Vermont, 1928
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Winston Lewis Prouty (1906-1971) —
also known as Winston L. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., September
1, 1906.
Republican. Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1941, 1945-47; Speaker of
the Vermont State House of Representatives, 1947; U.S.
Representative from Vermont at-large, 1951-59; U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1959-71; died in office 1971.
Congregationalist.
Died, of gastric
cancer, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
10, 1971 (age 65 years, 9
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Newport, Vt.
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