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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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Gabriel Bie Ravndal (1866-1950) —
also known as G. Bie Ravndal —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.; Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Born in Norway,
June
22, 1866.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; newspaper
publisher; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 10th District, 1893-94;
U.S. Consul in Beirut, 1898-1905; Dawson, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1906-10; Constantinople, 1910-17, 1919-24; St. Nazaire, 1917-18; Nantes, 1918-19; Zurich, as of 1926-27; Hamburg, as of 1929; Berlin, 1930.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla., March
23, 1950 (age 83 years, 274
days).
Interment at Highland Prairie Lutheran Church Cemetery, Near Peterson,
Fillmore County, Minn.
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Wilhelm Christian Magelssen (1873-1919) —
also known as William C. Magelssen —
of Bratsberg, Fillmore
County, Minn.
Born in Bratsberg, Fillmore
County, Minn., October
19, 1873.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Beirut, 1899-1905; in Beirut, in August 1903, he was shot
at but not injured; press reports incorrectly reported that he
was dead; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Beirut, 1905-06; U.S. Consul in Baghdad, 1906-09; Colombo, 1909-11; Melbourne, 1911-17.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, on board the steamship
Sonoma, in the North
Pacific Ocean, October
17, 1919 (age 45 years, 363
days).
Interment at Highland Prairie Lutheran Church Cemetery, Near Peterson,
Fillmore County, Minn.
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Christian Magelssen Ravndal (1899-1984) —
also known as Christian M. Ravndal —
of Iowa.
Born in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon)
of American parents, January
6, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Vienna, as of 1922-24; U.S. Consul in Frankfort, 1924-26; Cologne, 1928-29; Toronto, 1929-30; Vancouver, 1935-37; Buenos Aires, as of 1938; Stockholm, 1943-47; U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay, 1949-51; Ecuador, 1956-60; Czechoslovakia, 1960-61; U.S. Minister to Hungary, 1951-56.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died in Vienna, Austria,
November
6, 1984 (age 85 years, 305
days).
Interment at Friedhof Hietzing, Vienna, Austria.
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