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Index to Locations
Carpinteria Carpinteria Cemetery
Santa Barbara Calvary Cemetery
Santa Barbara La Arcata Court
Santa Barbara Santa Barbara
Cemetery
Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Mission
Santa Maria Santa Maria Cemetery
Solvang Solvang Cemetery
Carpinteria
Cemetery
Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, California
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Thurmond Clarke (1902-1971) —
Born in Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif., June 29,
1902.
Lawyer;
municipal judge in California, 1932-35; superior court judge in
California, 1935-55; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1955-66;
U.S.
District Judge for the Central District of California, 1966-70;
took senior status 1970.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
28, 1971 (age 68 years, 244
days).
Interment at Carpinteria Cemetery.
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Robert Montgomery Clarke (1879-1943) —
also known as Robert M. Clarke —
of Ventura, Ventura
County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif., March 5,
1879.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly, 1901; superior court judge in California, 1909;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1912,
1920;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1926; California Insurance Commissioner,
1938; candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
15, 1943 (age 64 years, 255
days).
Interment at Carpinteria Cemetery.
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Calvary
Cemetery
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Phil Regan (1906-1996) —
also known as Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan;
"The Singing Cop" —
of Summerland, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 28,
1906.
Democrat. Detective;
singer;
performed, Democratic National Convention, 1944,
1948;
arrested
in January 1973, and charged
with attempting to bribe
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Frank J. Frost $1,000 for his support
of a controversial rezoning; pleaded not guilty; tried and convicted;
sentenced to prison;
released after one year.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., February
11, 1996 (age 89 years, 259
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery.
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La Arcata
Court
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony
Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice
Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry
Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone";
"Martha Careful"; "Benevolus";
"Caelia Shortface" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.
Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Deist.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented
bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at
Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La Arcata
Court; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who
married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary
Blechenden Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William
Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert
Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel
Baugh Brewster and Elise
du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles
James Folger, Benjamin
Dexter Sprague and Wharton
Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George
Hammond Parshall. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Williams |
| | | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Hallett
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Saffold
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half
dollar coin (1948-63). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Santa Barbara
Cemetery
901 Channel Drive
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Don Lee Gevirtz (1928-2001) —
also known as Don L. Gevirtz —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 1,
1928.
Democrat. Venture capitalist and philanthropist; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1968
(alternate), 1988;
U.S. Ambassador to Fiji, 1995-97; Nauru, 1995-97; Tonga, 1995-97; Tuvalu, 1995-97.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., April
22, 2001 (age 73 years, 52
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Scott Cordelle Bone (1860-1936) —
also known as Scott C. Bone —
of Alaska.
Born in Shelby
County, Ind., February
15, 1860.
Newspaper
editor; Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1921-25.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died of a heart
attack, in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
27, 1936 (age 75 years, 346
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Thomas More Storke (1876-1971) —
also known as Thomas M. Storke —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., November
23, 1876.
Democrat. Postmaster;
newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1924,
1932,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from California, 1938-39.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., October
12, 1971 (age 94 years, 323
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Walter Franklin Lineberger (1883-1943) —
also known as Walter F. Lineberger —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Whiteville, Hardeman
County, Tenn., July 20,
1883.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 9th District, 1921-27; candidate
for nomination for U.S.
Senator from California, 1926.
Died October
9, 1943 (age 60 years, 81
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Edward Bright Bruce (1879-1943) —
also known as Edward Bruce —
Born in Dover Plains, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April
13, 1879.
Lawyer;
artist;
lobbyist;
arts
administrator; member, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 1940-43.
Died in Hollywood, Broward
County, Fla., January
26, 1943 (age 63 years, 288
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Walter Holden Capps (1934-1997) —
also known as Walter H. Capps —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., May 5,
1934.
Democrat. University
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1996;
U.S.
Representative from California 22nd District, 1997; defeated,
1994; died in office 1997.
Suffered a heart
attack while on a
flight from California to Washington, D.C., and died shortly
afterward in a hospital
at Reston, Fairfax
County, Va., October
28, 1997 (age 63 years, 176
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Curtis Harvey Castle (1848-1928) —
also known as Curtis H. Castle —
of Merced, Merced
County, Calif.
Born near Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., October
4, 1848.
U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1897-99.
Died July 21,
1928 (age 79 years, 291
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Charles A. Storke (1847-1936) —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Branchport, Yates
County, N.Y., November
19, 1847.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of California
state assembly, 1883-85, 1889-91 (3rd District 1883-85, 74th
District 1889-91); mayor
of Santa Barbara, Calif., 1900-02.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., December
6, 1936 (age 89 years, 17
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Erle Roy Dickover (1888-1963) —
also known as Erle R. Dickover —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1888.
Bookkeeper;
manager of an auto
livery company, 1909; interpreter;
U.S. Vice Consul in Dairen, 1916; Kobe, 1916-21; U.S. Consul in Kobe, 1921-32; U.S. Consul General in Melbourne, as of 1943.
Episcopalian.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died April
18, 1963 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Horace Binney Sargent (1821-1908) —
also known as Horace B. Sargent —
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 30,
1821.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Greenback candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1880.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
8, 1908 (age 86 years, 192
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1865-1945) —
also known as Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor; Hobart Chatfield
Taylor; Hobart C. Taylor —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
24, 1865.
Author;
novelist;
biographer;
Consul
for Spain in Chicago,
Ill., 1892-98.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
16, 1945 (age 79 years, 298
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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John M. Days (1831-1901) —
of Grass Valley, Nevada
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Hull, England,
January
30, 1831.
Republican. Tailor;
lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 21st District, 1867-69, 1871-73; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1868;
member of California
state senate 13th District, 1885; defeated, 1875.
Died in Summerland, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., December
16, 1901 (age 70 years, 320
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Russell Heath (c.1825-1911) —
of Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born about 1825.
Lawyer;
Santa
Barbara County Sheriff, 1854-58; member of California
state assembly, 1858-59, 1887-89 (2nd District 1858-59, 74th
District 1887-89).
Died in Carpinteria, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., December
11, 1911 (age about 86
years).
Entombed at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Milie Bunnell (1861-1929) —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Goodrich, Genesee
County, Mich., December
4, 1861.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1916,
1920.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
26, 1929 (age 67 years, 53
days).
Entombed at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Samuel Prescott Calef (1865-1952) —
also known as Samuel P. Calef —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.; Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
1, 1865.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1900;
rancher.
Died in Medical Lake, Spokane
County, Wash., March
12, 1952 (age 86 years, 132
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Charles A. Storke (1911-1998) —
of California.
Born July 31,
1911.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1932.
Died December
6, 1998 (age 87 years, 128
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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Santa Barbara
Mission
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Ygnacio Sepulveda (1842-1916) —
of Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 1,
1842.
Member of California
state assembly 2nd District, 1863-65; superior court judge in
California, 1880.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
2, 1916 (age 74 years, 154
days).
Interment at Santa Barbara Mission.
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Santa Maria
Cemetery
Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, California
Solvang
Cemetery
Solvang, Santa Barbara County, California
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Mads Hansen Madsen (1863-1944) —
also known as Mads H. Madsen —
of Kimballton, Audubon
County, Iowa; Solvang, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Denmark,
March
28, 1863.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; farmer; inventor;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 9th District, 1924.
Danish
ancestry.
Patented several farm
implements, including a wagon brake (1894), a corn-husking
machine (1899), a hay-handling mechanism (1909), a manure spreader
(1914), and a corn-planter dropper mechanism (1917).
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
21, 1944 (age 81 years, 24
days).
Interment at Solvang Cemetery.
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Epitaph:
"KÆMP FOR ALT HVAD DU HAR KÆRT" ("Fight for everything
you hold dear", from a Danish hymn) |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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