PoliticalGraveyard.com

Politicians in Automobile Services and Supplies in Connecticut

Allen F. Behnke (1916-1991) — of Addison, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Conn.; Manchester, Hartford County, Conn.; Coventry, Tolland County, Conn. Born May 6, 1916. Republican. Salesman; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Glastonbury, 1939-42; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; automobile service station manager. Congregationalist. Member, Rotary. Died in Coventry, Tolland County, Conn., September 23, 1991 (age 75 years, 140 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Manchester, Conn.   Relatives: Married to Jane Bantly.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Alfred L. Fox (born c.1882) — of Ivoryton, Essex, Middlesex County, Conn.; Westbrook, Middlesex County, Conn. Born in Connecticut, about 1882. Democrat. Automobile mechanic; machinist; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Essex, 1926. Burial location unknown.   Frederick L. Lamson — of Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn. Republican. Vice-president, Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co.; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1920. Burial location unknown.   Thomas O'Connor (born c.1875) — of Darien, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Ireland, about 1875. Republican. Automobile accessories merchant; trucking and warehousing business; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Darien, 1939-48. Burial location unknown.   Claudius Victor Pendleton (1885-1968) — also known as C. V. Pendleton — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., June 11, 1885. Republican. Automotive supplies merchant; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Norwich, 1921-22. Died in Volusia County, Fla., February 23, 1968 (age 82 years, 257 days). Interment at New Poquetanuck Cemetery, Poquetanuck, Preston, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Claudius Victor Pendleton (1850-1917) and Phoebe Jane (Bailey) Pendleton; married 1911 to Blanche Wilson Hall; grandson of Charles Marsh Pendleton; grandnephew of Cyrus Henry Pendleton; second great-grandnephew of David Hough and Nathan Pendleton (1754-1841); first cousin thrice removed of Nathan Pendleton (1779-1827); second cousin once removed of Edward Wheeler Pendleton, Charles Henry Pendleton, Chauncey C. Pendleton and Eckford Gustavus Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of James Monroe Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Daniel Burrows; second cousin four times removed of David Waterman and Elijah Abel; second cousin five times removed of Luther Waterman; third cousin once removed of Calvin Crane Pendleton, Joseph Palmer Dyer, Harris Pendleton, Nathan William Pendleton and James Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Lorenzo Burrows and David Edgerton; third cousin thrice removed of Bela Edgerton, Thomas Glasby Waterman, Heman Ticknor, Samuel Townsend Douglass and Silas Hamilton Douglas; fourth cousin of Cornelius Welles Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Enoch C. Chapman and Edward Franklin Bingham.   Political families: Douglas family of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Douglas family of Greensboro, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Maxsim H. Pepin Jr. (1908-1965) — of Griswold, New London County, Conn. Born in Griswold, New London County, Conn., August 26, 1908. Republican. Gasoline station manager; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Griswold, 1934, 1940. French Canadian ancestry. Died in New London, New London County, Conn., September 27, 1965 (age 57 years, 32 days). Interment at St. Mary Cemetery, Lisbon, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Maxime Pepin and Rosanna (Dugas) Pepin; married to Mabel Rowena Smith.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Asa Robert Scranton Jr. (1879-1960) — also known as Asa R. Scranton, Jr. — of South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham County, Conn. Born in South Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham County, Conn., July 25, 1879. Democrat. Blacksmith; mechanic; garage owner; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Woodstock, 1912; member of Connecticut state senate 28th District, 1937-42. Died in Woodstock, Windham County, Conn., August 13, 1960 (age 81 years, 19 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Asa R. Scranton, Sr. and Margaret S. (McNamara) Scranton; married, February 13, 1906, to Christina R. McGettigan.   Frank D. Spaulding (born c.1876) — of Brooklyn, Windham County, Conn. Born in Lisbon, New London County, Conn., about 1876. Republican. Automobile livery; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Brooklyn, 1921-22; defeated, 1922. Burial location unknown.   David A. Viets (born c.1890) — of East Granby, Hartford County, Conn. Born in East Granby, Hartford County, Conn., about 1890. Republican. Motor vehicle inspector; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from East Granby, 1921-22. Burial location unknown.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/autoservice.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
What is a "political graveyard"? See Political Dictionary; Urban Dictionary.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDLmi.com. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025.