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William S. Banowsky (b. 1936) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Abilene, Taylor
County, Tex., March 4,
1936.
Republican. Minister;
president, Pepperdine University, 1968-78; president,
University of Oklahoma, 1978-85; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1972;
member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1972-73; candidate for
Presidential Elector for California.
Church
of Christ.
Still living as of 2000.
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William Henry Harrison Beadle (1838-1915) —
also known as William H. H. Beadle —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.); Madison, Lake
County, S.Dak.
Born, in a log
cabin at Howard, Parke
County, Ind., January
1, 1838.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
U.S. Surveyor-General for Dakota Territory, 1869-71; member of
Republican National Committee from Dakota Territory, 1872-; member of
Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1877-79; Dakota
Territory superintendent of public instruction, 1879-86;
president, Madison State Normal School (now Dakota State
University), 1889-1906.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
15, 1915 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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Silas Walter Bond (1864-1939) —
also known as Silas W. Bond —
of Houghton, Allegany
County, N.Y.; Miltonvale, Cloud
County, Kan.; Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Nora, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., January
13, 1864.
Minister;
professor,
Houghton Seminary, Houghton, N.Y.; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1904;
president, Miltonvale Wesleyan College, Miltonvale, Kan.;
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1914; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Wesleyan
Methodist.
Died in Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif., December
3, 1939 (age 75 years, 324
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Williams Bond and Matilda (Shaw) Bond; married, August
11, 1896, to Harriet 'Hattie' West; married, November
26, 1931, to Jessie LaVinia Ward. |
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Charles Ernest Bunnell (1878-1956) —
also known as Charles E. Bunnell —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Dimock, Susquehanna
County, Pa., January
12, 1878.
Democrat. Candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1914; U.S.
District Judge for Alaska, 1914-21; first president of the
Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (later University of
Alaska), 1921-45.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, following a heart
attack, at a nursing
home in Burlingame, San Mateo
County, Calif., November
1, 1956 (age 78 years, 294
days).
Interment at Birch
Hill Cemetery, Fairbanks, Alaska; statue at University
of Alaska Campus, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Walton Bunnell and Ruth (Tingley) Bunnell; married, July 24,
1901, to Mary Anna Kline. |
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Walter Friar Dexter (1886-1945) —
also known as Walter F. Dexter —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
21, 1886.
Republican. President, Whittier College, 1923-34; secretary to
Gov. Frank
F. Merriam; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1932;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1937-45; appointed 1937;
died in office 1945.
Quaker.
Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Lions.
Died October
21, 1945 (age 58 years, 334
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Harry Dexter and Margaret (Bell) Dexter; married, August
25, 1910, to Ethel Lenore Smith. |
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Henry Durant (1802-1875) —
of Byfield, Newbury, Essex
County, Mass.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Acton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 18,
1802.
Pastor;
founder,
College of California; first president, University of
California, 1870-72; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1875 (age 72 years, 218
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) —
also known as Buell G. Gallagher —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Granite Springs, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rankin, Vermilion
County, Ill., February
4, 1904.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; college
professor; president, Talladega College, 1933-43;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1948.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in August, 1978
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Elmer David Gallagher and Elma Maryel (Poole) Gallagher;
married, September
1, 1927, to June Lucille Sampson. |
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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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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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George Richmond Grose (1869-1953) —
also known as George R. Grose —
of Leicester, Worcester
County, Mass.; Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Baltimore,
Md.; Greencastle, Putnam
County, Ind.; Peiping (Beijing), China;
Altadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Nicholas
County, W.Va., July 14,
1869.
Democrat. Pastor; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1912 ; president, DePauw University, 1912-1924; missionary
bishop in China, 1924-29; religious editor,
Pasadena Star-News.
Methodist.
Died in Altadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
1953 (age 83 years, 296
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Greencastle, Ind.
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John Stephen Horn (1931-2011) —
also known as Stephen Horn; Steve Horn —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in San Juan Bautista, San Benito
County, Calif., May 31,
1931.
Republican. Administrative assistant to Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell, 1959-60; legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Thomas
H. Kuchel, 1960-66; president, California State University
Long Beach, 1970-88; U.S.
Representative from California 38th District, 1993-2003; defeated
in primary, 1988.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died February
17, 2011 (age 79 years, 262
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Randolph Hubbard (1918-2011) —
also known as John R. Hubbard; Jack
Hubbard —
Born December
3, 1918.
University
professor; historian;
president, University of Southern California, 1970-80; U.S.
Ambassador to India, 1988-89.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., August
21, 2011 (age 92 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clark Kerr (1911-2003) —
Born in Pennsylvania, May 17,
1911.
Chancellor, University of California Berkeley, 1952-58
president, University of California, 1958-67; member,
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Died in El Cerrito, Contra
Costa County, Calif., December
1, 2003 (age 92 years, 198
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ira Landrith (1865-1941) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Milford, Ellis
County, Tex., March
23, 1865.
Presbyterian
minister; president, Belmont College, Nashville, 1904-12;
president, Ward-Belmont College, 1913-15; Prohibition
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; president, Intercollegiate
Prohibition Association, 1920-27; president, National Temperance
Council, 1928-31.
Presbyterian.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
11, 1941 (age 76 years, 202
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Martin Luther Landrith and Mary M. (Groves) Landrith; married, January
21, 1891, to Harriet C. Grannis. |
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Rex Edwin Lee (1935-1996) —
also known as Rex E. Lee —
of Tempe, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
27, 1935.
Republican. Lawyer; law
clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron
R. White, 1963-64; U.S. Solicitor General, 1981-85;
president, Brigham Young University, 1989-95.
Mormon.
Member, Rotary.
Died March
11, 1996 (age 61 years, 13
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Flavel Sweeten Luther (1850-1928) —
also known as Flavel S. Luther —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn., March
26, 1850.
Republican. School
teacher; college
professor; president, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
1904-19; member of Connecticut
state senate 1st District, 1907-08.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Died in 1928
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Flavel S. Luther and Jane (Lillie) Luther; married, November
2, 1871, to Isabel Blake Ely. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Legislative History and
Souvenir of Connecticut |
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Robert Enlow O'Brian (1895-1977) —
also known as Robert E. O'Brian —
of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.; Sioux City, Woodbury
County, Iowa; South Laguna, Laguna Beach, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Bryant, Fulton
County, Ill., July 22,
1895.
Democrat. Locomotive
fireman; automobile
mechanic; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; pastor;
president, Morningside College, 1931-36; Dry candidate for delegate
to Iowa convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; secretary
of state of Iowa, 1937-39; appointed 1937; defeated, 1938;
president, REO Foods, Inc. (operator of a meat packing
plant), 1944-59; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Delta Kappa; Alpha
Pi Zeta; Freemasons;
Rotary.
Killed when he was hit by a
car on the Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, Orange
County, Calif., October
25, 1977 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William O'Brian and Mary Catherine (Laemle) O'Brian; married 1920 to Mabel
Day. |
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Richard Foote Pedersen (b. 1925) —
also known as Richard F. Pedersen —
of California.
Born in 1925.
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 1973-75.
President of American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Still living as of 2006.
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Robert Gordon Sproul (1891-1975) —
also known as Robert G. Sproul —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 22,
1891.
Republican. President, University of California, 1930-58;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1948.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., September
10, 1975 (age 84 years, 111
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Sproul and Sarah Elizabeth (Moore) Sproul; married, September
6, 1916, to Ida Amelia Wittschen. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, October 6,
1947 |
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal, in 1851-65, of the Michigan State
Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich. (later Eastern Michigan
University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president, in
1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later Iowa
State University); college
professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949) —
also known as Ray L. Wilbur —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Boonesborough (now Boone), Boone
County, Iowa, April
13, 1875.
Republican. Physician;
dean of
Stanford University Medical School, 1911-16; president of
Stanford University, 1916-43; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1929-33.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Medical
Association; Newcomen
Society.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 26,
1949 (age 74 years, 74
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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