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George E. Taft (born c.1855) —
of Unionville, Farmington, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., about 1855.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Farmington, 1911-12.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Edward Talbot (1901-1966) —
also known as Joseph E. Talbot —
of Naugatuck, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Naugatuck, New Haven
County, Conn., March
18, 1901.
Republican. Lawyer; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Naugatuck, 1932, 1934; county
judge in Connecticut, 1935-37; Connecticut
state treasurer, 1939-41; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1942-47; candidate
for Governor of
Connecticut, 1946; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1950.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary;
Elks; Eagles;
Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
30, 1966 (age 65 years, 43
days).
Interment at St.
James' Cemetery, Naugatuck, Conn.
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Frederick Augustus Tallmadge (1792-1869) —
also known as Frederick A. Tallmadge —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., August
29, 1792.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member
of New
York state senate 1st District, 1837-40; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1847-49.
Died in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., September
17, 1869 (age 77 years, 19
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Tallmadge and Mary (Floyd) Tallmadge; married, May 22,
1815, to Elizabeth Hannah Canfield; father of Mary Floyd
Tallmadge (who married Edward
Woodruff Seymour); nephew of Nicoll
Floyd; grandson of William
Anson Floyd; fourth great-grandson of Thomas
Willett and William
Leete; first cousin of David
Gelston Floyd and John
Gelston Floyd; first cousin once removed of James
Tallmadge; second cousin of Matthias
Burnett Tallmadge, James
Tallmadge Jr., Joel
Tallmadge Jr., Charles
Albert Floyd and Nathaniel
Pitcher Tallmadge; second cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston, Maturin
Livingston, John
James Tallmadge, Isaac
Smith Tallmadge and Daniel
Webster Tallmadge; second cousin twice removed of Pierpont
Edwards, Millard
Ellsworth Lane and Charles
Dunsmore Millard; third cousin once removed of Aaron
Burr, Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; third cousin twice removed of Enoch
Woodbridge, Joseph
Silliman (1756-1829), George
Landon Ingraham, Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
H. Chittenden and Daniel
Phoenix Ingraham; fourth cousin once removed of Noah
Phelps, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Frederick
Wolcott, William
Woodbridge, Martin
Keeler and Joseph
Silliman (c.1786-1850). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George H. Taylor Jr. (1873-1958) —
of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn., 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; candidate for mayor
of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1911; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 9th District, 1923-43; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1940.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Injured in a fall at
home, and died two weeks later, in Lawrence Hospital,
Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
18, 1958 (age about 85
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George H. Taylor and Elizabeth (Newlin) Taylor. |
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Nelson Taylor (1821-1894) —
of Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; South Norwalk, Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in South Norwalk, Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn., June 8,
1821.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of
California
state senate, 1850-56; lawyer; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1865-67; defeated,
1860, 1866.
Died in South Norwalk, Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn., January
16, 1894 (age 72 years, 222
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn.
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Nathaniel Terry (1768-1844) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Enfield, Hartford
County, Conn., January
30, 1768.
Whig. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1804-15; county judge in
Connecticut, 1807-09; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1817-19; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1824-31.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., June 14,
1844 (age 76 years, 136
days).
Interment at Old
North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Charles Frederick Thayer (b. 1852) —
also known as Charles F. Thayer —
of Norwich, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Thompson, Windham
County, Conn., November
6, 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state senate 10th District, 1891-92; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1892, 1898, 1905;
mayor
of Norwich, Conn., 1900-08, 1911; Connecticut
Democratic state chair, 1901; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1906.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles D. Thayer and Lucy E. (Nichols) Thayer; married, October
22, 1884, to Mary Hewitt. |
| | | Campaign slogan: "No drafted men, but
only volunteers." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Hartford Courant,
September 13, 1906 |
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Edwin Stark Thomas (1872-1952) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Woodstock, McHenry
County, Ill., November
11, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Orange, 1899-1900; defeated,
1900; secretary of
Connecticut Democratic Party, 1902-12; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Connecticut, 1908
(alternate), 1912;
executive secretary to Gov. Simeon
Baldwin, 1911-13; U.S.
District Judge for Connecticut, 1913-39; resigned 1939.
During an investigation
of his financial affairs and actions in certain cases by a federal
grand jury, prompted by connections to the bribery
case of another federal judge, Martin
T. Manton, he resigned,
citing illness.
Died in Columbia, Tolland
County, Conn., January
21, 1952 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Interment at Grove
Cemetery, Eastford, Conn.
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William Laurence Tierney (1876-1958) —
also known as William L. Tierney —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn., August
6, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1931-33; defeated,
1932.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died April
13, 1958 (age 81 years, 250
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn.
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William Laurence Tierney Jr. (1907-1989) —
also known as William L. Tierney, Jr. —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Rumson, Monmouth
County, N.J., June 4,
1907.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; superior
court judge in Connecticut, 1968-77.
Catholic.
Died, in Greenwich Hospital,
Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., January
6, 1989 (age 81 years, 216
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn.
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Daniel Rose Tilden (1804-1890) —
also known as Daniel R. Tilden —
of Ravenna, Portage
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., November
5, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer; Portage
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1838-41; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1843-47; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Ohio, 1848, 1852; Cuyahoga
County Probate Judge, 1855-88.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, March 4,
1890 (age 85 years, 119
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Patricia G. Tilley (b. 1944) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Connecticut, January
31, 1944.
Lawyer; Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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John Quillin Tilson (1866-1958) —
also known as John Q. Tilson —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Clearbranch, Unicoi
County, Tenn., April 5,
1866.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New Haven, 1905-08; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1907-08; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut, 1909-13, 1915-32 (at-large
1909-13, 3rd District 1915-32); defeated, 1912; resigned 1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1932;
Parliamentarian, 1936.
Baptist.
Member, Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in New London, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
14, 1958 (age 92 years, 131
days).
Interment at Tilson Cemetery, Clearbranch, Tenn.
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John Quillin Tilson Jr. (1911-2002) —
also known as John Q. Tilson, Jr. —
of Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., August
27, 1911.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1953; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1956
(alternate), 1964;
lobbyist.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in North Branford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
1, 2002 (age 91 years, 66
days).
Interment at Tilson Cemetery, Clearbranch, Tenn.
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Lyman Twining Tingier (1862-1920) —
also known as Lyman T. Tingier —
of Rockville, Vernon, Tolland
County, Conn.
Born in Webster, Worcester
County, Mass., June 9,
1862.
Democrat. Lawyer; bank
director; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1896;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Vernon, 1909-12; mayor
of Rockville, Conn., 1912-13; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1913-15; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1914.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Foresters.
Died in 1920
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Tod (1779-1830) —
of Bedford, Bedford
County, Pa.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., 1779.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1810-13; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 14th District, 1815-17; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1821-24 (8th District 1821-23,
13th District 1823-24); common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania 16th
District, 1824-27; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1827.
Died in Bedford, Bedford
County, Pa., March
27, 1830 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Bedford
Cemetery, Bedford, Pa.
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Gideon Tomlinson (1780-1854) —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Stratford, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
31, 1780.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state legislature,
1817; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1819-27; Governor of
Connecticut, 1827-31; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1831-37.
Slaveowner.
Died October
8, 1854 (age 73 years, 281
days).
Interment at Congregational
Burying Ground, Stratford, Conn.
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Benjamin Tonkonow (c.1893-1940) —
of Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born about 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Meriden, 1933-40.
Died in 1940
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Chevra
Bnai Abraham, Meriden, Conn.
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David Torrance (1840-1906) —
of Derby, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
March
3, 1840.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; law
partner of William
B. Wooster, 1868-85; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Derby, 1871-72; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1879-81; superior court judge in
Connecticut, 1885-89; justice of
Connecticut state supreme court, 1889-1900; chief
justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1901-06; died in office
1906.
Congregationalist.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Derby, New Haven
County, Conn., September
5, 1906 (age 66 years, 186
days).
Interment at Oak
Cliff Cemetery, Derby, Conn.
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Isaac Toucey (1792-1869) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Newtown, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
5, 1792.
Democrat. Lawyer; law partner of Dwight
W. Pardee; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut, 1835-39 (at-large 1835-37, 1st
District 1837-39); Governor of
Connecticut, 1846-47; defeated, 1845; U.S.
Attorney General, 1848-49; member of Connecticut
state senate 1st District, 1850; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1852; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1852-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1857-61.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., July 30,
1869 (age 76 years, 267
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Albert Haller Tracy (1793-1859) —
also known as Albert H. Tracy —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., June 17,
1793.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1819-25 (21st District 1819-21, 2nd
District 1821-23, 30th District 1823-25); member of New York
state senate 8th District, 1830-37.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
19, 1859 (age 66 years, 94
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Philemon Tracy and Abigail (Trott) Tracy; brother of Phineas
Lyman Tracy; first cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799); first cousin four times removed of Roger
Wolcott; second cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse and Roger
Griswold; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott, Oliver
Wolcott Sr. and Edward
Russell Kellogg; third cousin of Zina
Hyde Jr. and Henry
Titus Backus; third cousin once removed of William
Woodbridge, Isaac
Backus, John
William Allen, George
Griswold Sill, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Thomas
Worcester Hyde; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Frederick
Wolcott, George
Frederick Stone, Charles
Edward Hyde, Herman
Arod Gager, John
Sedgwick Hyde and Edward
Warden Hyde; third cousin thrice removed of George
Leffingwell Reed and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of Nathan
Read, Elijah
Abel, Thomas
Hale Sill, Bela
Edgerton, Frederick
William Lord and Theodore
Sill; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Gideon
Hard, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, John
Arnold Rockwell, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Alexander
Hamilton Waterman and Augustus
Frank. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Uriah Tracy (1755-1807) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Franklin, New London
County, Conn., February
2, 1755.
Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1788-93; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1793-96; resigned 1796;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1796-1807; died in office 1807.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 19,
1807 (age 52 years, 167
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Trumbull (1750-1831) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Westbury, New Haven County (now Watertown, Litchfield
County), Conn., April
24, 1750.
Lawyer; poet;
superior court judge in Connecticut, 1801-19.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 10,
1831 (age 81 years, 16
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., December
7, 1782.
Lawyer; banker;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1832; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut, 1834-35, 1839-43 (at-large
1834-35, 1st District 1839-43); Governor of
Connecticut, 1849-50.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., August
4, 1861 (age 78 years, 240
days).
Interment at Old
North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Alfred Tweedy (1880-1967) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Noroton, Darien, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
24, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer; probate judge in Connecticut, 1930; member
of Connecticut
state senate 26th District, 1945-46.
Died in November, 1967
(age 87
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Putnam Tyler (1798-1875) —
also known as Daniel P. Tyler —
of Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn., July 17,
1798.
Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Brooklyn, 1838; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1844-46; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Connecticut, 1856.
Died in Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn., November
6, 1875 (age 77 years, 112
days).
Interment at South Cemetery, Brooklyn, Conn.
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Rollin Usher Tyler (1864-1948) —
also known as Rollin U. Tyler —
of Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., September
8, 1864.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1908,
1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1926.
Died in Rocky Hill, Hartford
County, Conn., January
11, 1948 (age 83 years, 125
days).
Interment at Shailerville Tylerville Cemetery, Haddam, Conn.
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Charles Upson (1821-1885) —
of Constantine, St. Joseph
County, Mich.; Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.
Born in Marion, Southington, Hartford
County, Conn., March
19, 1821.
Lawyer; St.
Joseph County Clerk, 1849-50; St.
Joseph County Prosecuting Attorney, 1853-54; member of Michigan
state senate, 1855-56, 1881-82 (17th District 1855-56, 10th
District 1881-82); village
president of Coldwater, Michigan, 1859-60; Michigan
state attorney general, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1863-69; bank
director; circuit
judge in Michigan 15th Circuit, 1869-73; resigned 1873; member
of Michigan
state constitutional commission 3rd District, 1873; mayor
of Coldwater, Mich., 1877-78.
Died in Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich., September
5, 1885 (age 64 years, 170
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Lydia (Webster) Upson and Asahel Upson; brother of Gad
Ely Upson; married, August
4, 1852, to Sophia Montgomery Upham; great-grandson of Josiah
Cowles; second cousin of Calvin
Josiah Cowles and Christopher
Columbus Upson; second cousin once removed of Charles
Holden Cowles; second cousin twice removed of Daniel
Upson; second cousin thrice removed of John
Strong; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Andrew
Seth Upson and Evelyn
M. Upson; third cousin once removed of William
Hanford Upson; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Champion, Epaphroditus
Champion, Daniel
Chapin, Samuel
Strong and Ela
Collins; third cousin thrice removed of Moses
Seymour and Simeon
Baldwin; fourth cousin of Harvey
Washington Upson; fourth cousin once removed of Graham
Hurd Chapin, George
Seymour, William
Collins, William
Sheffield Cowles, James
Wesley Upson and William
Hazlett Upson. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
| | | Image source: History and Biographical
Record of Branch County (1906) |
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