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Roswell Beebe (1795-1856) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Dutchess
County, N.Y., December
22, 1795.
Lawyer;
president, Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company; mayor
of Little Rock, Ark., 1849-50.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
21, 1856 (age 60 years, 274
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August
7, 1833.
Republican. Engineer;
surveyor;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway; Governor of
Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872
(delegation chair), 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Harvey Crowley Couch (1877-1941) —
also known as Harvey C. Couch —
of Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark.
Born in Calhoun, Columbia
County, Ark., August
21, 1877.
Democrat. Founder of a telephone
company and of electric
utilities; acquired and expanded the Kansas City Southern
Railroad; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Arkansas, 1924,
1928
(alternate), 1936,
1940.
Died in Columbia
County, Ark., July 30,
1941 (age 63 years, 343
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Magnolia, Ark.
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James Thomas Elliott (1823-1875) —
also known as James T. Elliott —
of Arkansas.
Born in Monroe
County, Ga., April
22, 1823.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River Railroad, 1858;
circuit judge in Arkansas, 1865-66; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1869; defeated, 1868;
member of Arkansas
state senate, 1870; district judge in Arkansas 9th District,
1872-74.
Died in Camden, Ouachita
County, Ark., July 28,
1875 (age 52 years, 97
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Camden, Ark.
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Samuel Wesley Fordyce (1840-1919) —
also known as S. W. Fordyce —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, February
7, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; founder,
builder, president, receiver, and director of many railroads;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1884,
1892;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Arkansas, 1888; delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Arkansas, 1896.
Scottish
and Dutch
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
3, 1919 (age 79 years, 177
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Thomas J. O'Malley (1868-1936) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Menasha, Winnebago
County, Wis., 1868.
Democrat. Railway conductor; Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1933-36; died in office 1936.
Member, Order
of Railway Conductors.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., May 27,
1936 (age about 67
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Elias Rector (1853-1927) —
also known as J. Elias Rector —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Arkansas, September
20, 1853.
Republican. Railway mail clerk;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Arkansas, 1888,
1924
(alternate).
African
ancestry.
Nominated to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1872 (one of
the first five African-Americans to be nominated, and one of only 27
who were nominated during that century), but did not enter the
Academy.
Died October
4, 1927 (age 74 years, 14
days).
Interment at Oakland
and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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August Sundholm (b. 1856) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Sweden,
July
14, 1856.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; railway passenger agent; Vice-Consul
for Denmark in Little
Rock, Ark., 1889-1903; fire
insurance agent.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Burial location unknown.
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Maximilian Bethune Wellborn (1862-1957) —
also known as M. B. Wellborn —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Lewisville, Lafayette
County, Ark., January
22, 1862.
Democrat. President, First National Bank of
Anniston, 1905-14; director, Macon, Dublin and Savannah
Railroad; Calhoun
County Commissioner; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1912;
Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta, 1919-28; member of Alabama
state senate, 1933-36; delegate
to Alabama convention to ratify 21st amendment from Calhoun
County, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Died in Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala., November
28, 1957 (age 95 years, 310
days).
Interment at Edgemont Cemetery, Anniston, Ala.
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James Alexander Woodson (1848-1908) —
also known as J. A. Woodson —
of Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark.; Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., July 14,
1848.
Grocer; paving
contractor; railroad builder; mayor
of Little Rock, Ark., 1895-1900.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., October
19, 1908 (age 60 years, 97
days).
Burial location unknown.
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