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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Jotham Post Jr. (1771-1817) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 4,
1771.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1793-97; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1813-15.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 15,
1817 (age 46 years, 41
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Erastus Foster Post (1859-1937) —
also known as Erastus F. Post —
of Quogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Quogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 3,
1859.
Farmer;
banker;
member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 1st District, 1896-98.
Died, from angina
pectoris and liver
cancer, on board a train
near Rocky Mount, Edgecombe
County, N.C., March
30, 1937 (age 77 years, 270
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Oliver Post and Harriet (Foster) Post; married, November
12, 1885, to Anna Grace Foster; third cousin twice removed of Jotham
Post Jr.. |
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family of New York City, New York. |
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Regis Henri Post (1870-1944) —
also known as Regis H. Post —
of Bayport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1870.
Progressive. Member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1899-1900; Puerto
Rico auditor, 1903-04; Puerto Rico
secretary of state, 1904-07; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1907-09; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1914.
Died in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., October
5, 1944 (age 74 years, 251
days).
Interment somewhere in Sayville, Long Island, N.Y.
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Langdon Ward Post (1899-1981) —
also known as Langdon W. Post —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., April
10, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1929-32;
defeated, 1927 (Democratic), 1932 (Independent Citizen); Republican
candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1933; U.S. Assistant Federal
Relief Administrator, 1933; Chairman, New York City Housing Authority
and Tenement House Commissioner, 1934-38; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1948.
Died, of heart
disease, in San
Francisco, Calif., September
2, 1981 (age 82 years, 145
days).
Burial location unknown.
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