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Thurman Wesley Arnold (1891-1969) —
also known as Thurman W. Arnold —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., June 2,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1921; mayor
of Laramie, Wyo., 1923-24; dean, College of Law, West
Virginia University, 1927-30; professor of law, Yale
University, from 1931; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1943-45; resigned
1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Lions.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died two months later, in Alexandria,
Va., November
7, 1969 (age 78 years, 158
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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Harry Morgan Ayres (1881-1948) —
also known as Harry M. Ayres —
of Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Woodbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Montclair Heights, Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., October
6, 1881.
Democrat. University professor; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Westport, 1923-24.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Modern
Language Association.
Died November
20, 1948 (age 67 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Morgan Willcox Ayres and Sarah Ella (Roe) Ayres; married, June 6,
1905, to Amy Wentworth Sawyer. |
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Charles Montague Bakewell (1867-1957) —
also known as Charles M. Bakewell —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., April
24, 1867.
Republican. University professor; member of Connecticut
state senate 8th District, 1921-24; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1932
(alternate), 1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1933-35; defeated, 1934.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Freemasons;
Elks; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
19, 1957 (age 90 years, 148
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) —
also known as Simeon E. Baldwin —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
5, 1840.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1867; law professor; justice of
Connecticut state supreme court, 1897-1907; chief
justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1907-10; Governor of
Connecticut, 1911-15; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1912;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1914.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; American
Historical Association; American
Political Science Association; American
Philosophical Society; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died January
30, 1927 (age 86 years, 359
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Roger
Sherman Baldwin and Emily (Perkins) Baldwin; brother of Henrietta
Perkins (who married Dwight
Foster); married, October
19, 1865, to Susan Mears Winchester; uncle of Edward
Baldwin Whitney; grandson of Simeon
Baldwin; great-grandson of Roger
Sherman; fifth great-grandnephew of Thomas
Welles; first cousin once removed of Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts, George
Frisbie Hoar and Henry
de Forest Baldwin; second cousin of Roger
Sherman Greene, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts, Arthur
Outram Sherman, Thomas
Day Thacher and Roger
Kent; second cousin once removed of Roger
Sherman Hoar; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Gager and Archibald
Cox; third cousin once removed of Samuel
R. Gager, Samuel
Austin Gager, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew and John
Frederick Addis; third cousin twice removed of Josiah
Cowles and John
Stanley Addis; fourth cousin of John
Adams Dix; fourth cousin once removed of James
Doolittle Wooster, Daniel
Upson, Walter
Booth, George
Bailey Loring, Charles
Page, Erwin
J. Baldwin, Ernest
Harvey Woodford, Francis
Everett Baldwin and Clement
Phineas Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edwin
Stark Thomas |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Audrey Phillips Beck (1931-1983) —
also known as Audrey P. Beck; Audrey Elaine
Phillips —
of Storrs, Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
6, 1931.
Democrat. University professor; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1967-75; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1975-83.
Female.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed
herself by slashing
her wrists, in a wooded area of Willington, Tolland
County, Conn., March 9,
1983 (age 51 years, 215
days).
Interment at New Storrs Cemetery, Storrs, Mansfield, Conn.
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William Henry Bishop (1847-1928) —
also known as William H. Bishop —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Connecticut, January
7, 1847.
Novelist;
university professor; U.S. Consul in Palermo, 1905-08.
Died in Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn., September
26, 1928 (age 81 years, 263
days).
Interment at Old Cemetery, East Haven, Conn.
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Philemon Bliss (1813-1889) —
Born in Canton, Hartford
County, Conn., July 28,
1813.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Ohio, 1848-51; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1855-59; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1861-65; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1868-72; law professor.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
25, 1889 (age 76 years, 28
days).
Interment at Columbia
Cemetery, Columbia, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss; brother of Albert
Asahel Bliss; married, November
16, 1843, to Martha W. Thorpe; third great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin four times removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold and Samuel
Clesson Allen; second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of Elisha
Hunt Allen and Judson
H. Warner; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer, Eli
Elmer, John
Allen, Elisha
Phelps, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Oliver
Ellsworth, Daniel
Chapin, Augustus
Seymour Porter, Daniel
Pitkin and Peter
Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Edmund
Holcomb, William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer, Chester
William Chapin, John
William Allen, Norman
A. Phelps, James
Samuel Wadsworth, George
Smith Catlin, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, John
Smith Phelps, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Kingman Brewster Jr. (1919-1988) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Oxford, England.
Born in Longmeadow, Hampden
County, Mass., June 17,
1919.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; President
of Yale University, 1963-77; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1977-81.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died, from a brain
hemorrhage, in John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, England,
November
8, 1988 (age 69 years, 144
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Guido Calabresi (b. 1932) —
of Woodbridge, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Milan, Italy,
October
18, 1932.
Lawyer;
law professor; dean, Yale Law School, 1985-94; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1994-2009; took
senior status 2009.
Italian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Charles Edward Clark (1889-1963) —
also known as Charles E. Clark —
of Woodbridge, New Haven
County, Conn.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbridge, New Haven
County, Conn., December
9, 1889.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Woodbridge, 1917-18; law
professor; dean, Yale Law School, 1929; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1939-63; died in
office 1963.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif.
Died December
13, 1963 (age 74 years, 4
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Orman Clark and Pauline C. (Marquard) Clark; married, October
9, 1915, to Dorothy E. Gregory. |
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Paul Joseph Cook (b. 1943) —
also known as Paul Cook —
of Yucca Valley, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn., March 3,
1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
college professor; mayor
of Yucca Valley, Calif., 1990; member of California
state assembly 65th District, 2006-12; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 2008;
U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 2013-.
Still living as of 2018.
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Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948) —
also known as Wilbur L. Cross —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., April
10, 1862.
Democrat. University professor; Governor of
Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1946.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
5, 1948 (age 86 years, 178
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Winthrop More Daniels (b. 1867) —
also known as Winthrop M. Daniels —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Saybrook, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, September
30, 1867.
University professor; member, Interstate Commerce Commission,
1914-23; trustee of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
1935.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Burial location unknown.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
law professor; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
1937-39; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1948.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher — William
A. Norris |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Joseph Daniel Duffey (b. 1932) —
also known as Joseph D. Duffey —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va., July 1,
1932.
Democrat. Professor and acting dean, Hartford Seminary,
1960-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut,
1968;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1970; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State
for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1977-78; chairman, National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1977-81; chancellor,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1982-1991; president,
University of Massachusetts system, 1990-91; president,
American University, 1991-93; dirctor, U.S. Information Agency,
1993-99.
United
Church of Christ.
Still living as of 2011.
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Henry Crosby Emery (b. 1872) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, December
21, 1872.
Economist;
university professor; chairman, U.S. Tariff Board, 1909-13.
Burial location unknown.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
29, 2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Francis Gillette (1807-1879) —
of Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn.; Bloomfield, Hartford
County, Conn.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor (part now in Bloomfield), Hartford
County, Conn., December
14, 1807.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1832, 1838 (Windsor 1832,
Bloomfield 1838); U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1854-55; lecturer.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
30, 1879 (age 71 years, 290
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Farmington, Conn.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Civil
engineer; college professor; author;
editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March
13, 1930 (age 82 years, 212
days).
Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.
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Charles Pinckney James (1818-1899) —
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 11,
1818.
Law professor; Associate
Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,
1879-92; retired 1892.
Died in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., August
9, 1899 (age 81 years, 90
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach (1922-2012) —
also known as Nicholas de B. Katzenbach —
of North Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
17, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1965-66; general counsel for IBM,
1969-86; director, MCI Communications,
2002-04; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died in Skillman, Somerset
County, N.J., May 8,
2012 (age 90 years, 112
days).
Cremated.
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Albert Levitt (1887-1968) —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbine, Carroll
County, Md., March
14, 1887.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; chaplain;
lawyer;
law professor; Independent Republican candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1930; Independent
candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1932; Independent Citizen candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1934; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1935-36; as judge in 1935,
ordered election officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands to allow women
to vote; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950; candidate in Republican primary
for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1960.
Died June 18,
1968 (age 81 years, 96
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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James Lukens McConaughy (1887-1948) —
also known as James L. McConaughy —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 1887.
Republican. College professor; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1939-41; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1947-48; died in office 1948.
Member, Rotary;
Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died March 7,
1948 (age 60 years, 138
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Monroe (1821-1898) —
of Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in Plainfield, Windham
County, Conn., July 18,
1821.
Republican. College professor; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1856-59; member of Ohio
state senate, 1860-62; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1860;
U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1862-70; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1871-81 (14th District 1871-73, 18th
District 1873-79, 17th District 1879-81).
Died in Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio, July 6,
1898 (age 76 years, 353
days).
Interment at Westwood
Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio.
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Ralph Nader (b. 1934) —
of Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
27, 1934.
Lawyer;
university professor; consumer advocate; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996 (Green), 2000 (Green), 2004
(Independent), 2008 (Independent).
Lebanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2020.
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Thomas Burr Osborne (1798-1869) —
also known as Thomas B. Osborne —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Weston (part now in Easton), Fairfield
County, Conn., July 8,
1798.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Fairfield, 1836, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1839-43; member of
Connecticut
state senate 10th District, 1844; county judge in Connecticut,
1844; probate judge in Connecticut, 1851; law professor.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
2, 1869 (age 71 years, 56
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Edward John Phelps (1822-1900) —
of Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt., July 11,
1822.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Vermont state constitutional convention, 1870; candidate for
Governor
of Vermont, 1880; law professor; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1885-89.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March 9,
1900 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Greenmount
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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William B. Pruner (born c.1867) —
of Rocky Hill, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Abington, Montgomery
County, Pa., about 1867.
Republican. College lecturer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Rocky Hill, 1901-02.
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene Lyman Richards (1879-1964) —
also known as Eugene L. Richards —
of Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn.; Wilton, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., March
30, 1879.
College lecturer; Prohibition candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1904 (Goshen), 1906 (Goshen),
1908 (Goshen), 1910 (Wilton); Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1918.
Methodist.
Died in Southington, Hartford
County, Conn., October
14, 1964 (age 85 years, 198
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Elbert S. Richards and Delphine Parthenia (Howe) Richards;
married, August
16, 1905, to Elizabeth Orcelia Stock. |
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Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in North Stratford (now Trumbull), Fairfield
County, Conn., August
8, 1779.
Republican. Lawyer; chemist;
university professor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Connecticut, 1856.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
24, 1864 (age 85 years, 108
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; statue erected 1884 at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory Grounds, Yale University, New
Haven, Conn.
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Roscoe B. Turner Steffen (1893-1976) —
also known as Roscoe Steffen —
of Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., April 9,
1893.
Democrat. Law professor; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hamden, 1932, 1934.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., June 8,
1976 (age 83 years, 60
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Step-son of William L. Turner; son of John Bonard Steffen and Grace
May (Brazelton) Turner; married 1919 to Ona
Belle Raymond. |
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Lawrence Henry Summers (b. 1954) —
also known as Lawrence H. Summers; Larry
Summers —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
30, 1954.
Economist;
university professor; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001; president
of Harvard University, 2001-06.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Still living as of 2020.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1890-92; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1892-1900; resigned
1900; law professor; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30; resigned 1930.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull
and Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft; half-brother of Charles
Phelps Taft; brother of Henry
Waters Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen
Louise Herron (daughter of John
Williamson Herron; sister-in-law of Henry
Frederick Lippitt; niece of William
Collins; aunt of Frederick
Lippitt; granddaughter of Ela
Collins); father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft III; second cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin; fourth cousin once removed of William
Warner Hoppin, John
Milton Thayer, Edward
M. Chapin and George
Franklin Chapin. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | The former community
of Taft, now part of Lincoln
City, Oregon, was named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in San
Antonio, Texas, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in Bronx, New
York (closed 2008), was named for
him. — Taft High
School, in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School (opened 1960; became charter school 2013-14), in Los
Angees, California, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft — Lewis L. Gould, The
William Howard Taft Presidency |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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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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Frederick Whittlesey (1799-1851) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in New Preston, Washington, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 12,
1799.
Lawyer;
Monroe
County Treasurer, 1829-30; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1831-35 (27th District 1831-33,
28th District 1833-35); Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1847-48; law professor.
Died in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., September
19, 1851 (age 52 years, 99
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.; cenotaph at New Preston Village Cemetery, New Preston, Washington, Conn.
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Chase Going Woodhouse (1890-1984) —
also known as Chase Going; Mrs. E. J.
Woodhouse —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.; Baltic, Sprague, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Victoria, British
Columbia, of American parents, March 3,
1890.
Democrat. Economist;
college professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1941-43; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1945-47, 1949-51;
defeated, 1946, 1950; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1965.
Female.
Member, League of Women
Voters; American
Association of University Women; Altrusa;
Pi
Lambda Theta; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
12, 1984 (age 94 years, 284
days).
Cremated.
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