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Henry Tifft Gage (1852-1924) —
also known as Henry T. Gage —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y., November
25, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1888;
Governor
of California, 1899-1903; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1910.
Died August
28, 1924 (age 71 years, 277
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Calvary
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Milton Cline Garber (1867-1948) —
also known as Milton C. Garber —
of Enid, Garfield
County, Okla.
Born in Humboldt
County, Calif., November
30, 1867.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; co-founder, along with his father and brother, of
Garber, Okla.; Garfield
County Probate Judge, 1902-06; justice of
Oklahoma territorial supreme court, 1906-07; appointed 1906;
district judge in Oklahoma 20th District, 1908-12; mayor of
Enid, Okla., 1919-21; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1923-33; defeated,
1932.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Eagles.
Died in Alexandria, Douglas
County, Minn., September
12, 1948 (age 80 years, 287
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Enid, Okla.
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Samuel Whittier Gardiner (b. 1902) —
also known as Samuel W. Gardiner —
of San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif.
Born in Larkspur, Marin
County, Calif., September
28, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952;
chair
of Marin County Democratic Party, 1948-51.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary;
Elks; United
World Federalists.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Allen Gardiner and Adda E. (Holtz) Gardiner; married, June 26,
1927, to Susan M. Fenton. |
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Bertrand Wesley Gearhart (1890-1955) —
also known as Bertrand W. Gearhart; Bud
Gearhart —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., May 31,
1890.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War
I; delegate
to California convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; U.S.
Representative from California 9th District, 1935-49; defeated,
1948; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1948.
Member, Elks; American
Legion; Native
Sons of the Golden West; Sons of
the American Revolution; Zeta
Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Among the founders of the American Legion.
Died in a hospital
at San
Francisco, Calif., October
11, 1955 (age 65 years, 133
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Fresno, Calif.
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Thomas J. Geary (1854-1929) —
of Petaluma, Sonoma
County, Calif.; Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.; Nome, Nome
census area, Alaska; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
18, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; Sonoma
County District Attorney, 1883-84; U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1890-95.
Died in Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., July 6,
1929 (age 75 years, 169
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Calif.
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James Norris Gillett (1860-1937) —
also known as James N. Gillett —
of Eureka, Humboldt
County, Calif.
Born in Viroqua, Vernon
County, Wis., September
20, 1860.
Republican. Lawyer; member of California
state senate, 1897-1901; U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1903-06; Governor of
California, 1907-11.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., April
20, 1937 (age 76 years, 212
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Chapel
of the Chimes, Oakland, Calif.; cenotaph at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Aaron Frank Goldstein (1909-1999) —
also known as Aaron F. Goldstein —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
30, 1909.
Lawyer; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1934-36, 1939-40;
defeated (American Labor), 1937; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1970.
Died in a hospital
at Westwood, Lassen
County, Calif., October
27, 1999 (age 90 years, 270
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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Matthew Eduardo Gonzalez (b. 1965) —
also known as Matt Gonzalez —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in McAllen, Hidalgo
County, Tex., June 4,
1965.
Lawyer; as trial attorney for San Francisco Office of Public
Defender, was twice jailed
for contempt
of court; the contempt findings were overturned on appeal;
candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2003; Independent candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2008.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Louis Earl Goodman (1892-1961) —
also known as Louis E. Goodman —
of Atherton, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Lemoore, Kings
County, Calif., January
2, 1892.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of California, 1942-61;
died in office 1961.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., September
15, 1961 (age 69 years, 256
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Herbert Stewart Goold (1886-1971) —
also known as Herbert S. Goold —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
10, 1886.
Lawyer; U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1930-34; Helsingfors, 1934-36; Toronto, 1937; Casablanca, 1937-38.
Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., April
20, 1971 (age 84 years, 253
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Walter A. Gordon (1894-1976) —
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., 1894.
Athletic
coach; police
officer; lawyer; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1955-58; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1958-68.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; NAACP.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., April 1,
1976 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank H. Gould (1855-1918) —
of Mariposa
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Fayette
County, Iowa, August
29, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer; Mariposa
County Surveyor, 1883-86; member of California
state assembly, 1891-95 (67th District 1891-93, 57th District
1893-95); Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1893; California
Democratic state chair, 1894-96; U.S. Surveyor-General for
California, 1915.
Died, from heart
failure, in San
Francisco, Calif., January
26, 1918 (age 62 years, 150
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Calif.
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James Grant (1812-1891) —
of Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa.
Born near Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C., December
12, 1812.
Lawyer; member of Iowa
territorial House of Representatives, 1842-43; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Scott County, 1844;
delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Scott County, 1846;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1852-53; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1852-53; mayor
of Davenport, Iowa, 1854-55; president, Chicago and Rock Island
Railroad.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March
14, 1891 (age 78 years, 92
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Iowa.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr. (1852-1929) —
also known as Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.; Buck
Grant —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Bethel, Clermont
County, Ohio, July 22,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1896
(Convention
Vice-President), 1900;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Died of throat
cancer, in the Sandberg Lodge,
Sandberg, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
25, 1929 (age 77 years, 65
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Ulysses
Simpson Grant and Julia
Grant; brother of Frederick
Dent Grant; married, November
1, 1880, to Josephine Chaffee (daughter of Jerome
Bunty Chaffee); married, July 12,
1913, to America Workman Will; nephew of George
Wrenshall Dent and Lewis
Dent; first cousin thrice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin twice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin five times removed of
Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin thrice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop and Abel
Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of William
Rush Merriam. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Polin Gray (b. 1945) —
also known as James P. Gray; Jim Gray —
of Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
14, 1945.
Served
in the Peace Corps; lawyer; superior court judge in
California, 1989-2009; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from California 46th District, 1998; Libertarian
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 2004; Libertarian candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2012; candidate for Presidential
Elector for California.
Still living as of 2020.
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Roger Sherman Greene (1840-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1840.
Lawyer; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1870-79; chief
justice of Washington territorial supreme court, 1879-87;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1888; Prohibition candidate for
Governor
of Washington, 1890.
Baptist.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., February
17, 1930 (age 89 years, 65
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Barnes Grigsby (1874-1962) —
also known as George B. Grigsby —
of Nome, Nome
census area, Alaska; Ketchikan, Ketchikan
Gateway Borough, Alaska.
Born in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), December
2, 1874.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; U.S.
Attorney for the 2nd District of Alaska Territory, 1908-10; mayor
of Nome, Alaska, 1914; Alaska
territory attorney general, 1916-19; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1920-21; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Died in Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., May 9,
1962 (age 87 years, 158
days).
Interment at Golden
Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
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Melvin Bernard Grover (1921-2001) —
also known as Melvin Grover —
of California.
Born in Aspen, Pitkin
County, Colo., 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; police
officer; lawyer; superior court judge in California,
1983-97.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
18, 2001 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle (b. 1969) —
also known as Kimberly Guilfoyle —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March 9,
1969.
Republican. Lawyer; model;
television
personality; speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.
Female.
Irish
and Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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