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Telephone and Telegraph Politicians in Connecticut

Henry Alfred Bishop (1860-1934) — also known as Henry A. Bishop — of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., December 4, 1860. Democrat. Ticket agent, purchasing agent, and superintendent of several railroads; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Bridgeport, 1886; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1888 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization), 1912 (alternate); candidate for secretary of state of Connecticut, 1888; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1904; president, Clapp Fire Resisting Paint Co., Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey Power Co., and Reed Carpet Co.; vice-president, Brady Brass Co., Pacific Iron Works, Connecticut National Bank, and Consolidated Telephone Co.; director, Westchester Street Railway Co., Western Union Telegraph Co.; director, Bridgeport Hospital. Episcopalian. Member, Sons of the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars; Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Knights Templar; Psi Upsilon; Delta Kappa Epsilon. Died in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., October 22, 1934 (age 73 years, 322 days). Interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.   Relatives: Son of William Darius Bishop and Julia Ann (Tomlinson) Bishop; brother of Nathaniel Wheeler Bishop; married, February 6, 1883, to Jessie Alvord Trubee; nephew of Russell Tomlinson.   Political family: Bishop-Tomlinson family of Bridgeport, Connecticut.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Elmer Vernon Griggs (1887-1968) — also known as Elmer V. Griggs — of White Plains, Westchester County, N.Y.; West Cornwall, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Conn. Born May 31, 1887. Lawyer; assistant general patent attorney for Bell Telephone Laboratories; Dry candidate for delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Died, in Torrington Hospital, Torrington, Litchfield County, Conn., May 30, 1968 (age 80 years, 365 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married, November 26, 1912, to Lydia Moser (daughter of James Henry Moser).   William Franklin Henney (b. 1852) — also known as William F. Henney — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Enfield, Hartford County, Conn., November 2, 1852. Republican. Lawyer; director and counsel, Hartford Electric Light Co. and Southern New England Telephone Co.; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1904-08; member of Republican National Committee from Connecticut, 1913-16. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of John Henney and Mene (Barclay) Henney.   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.   Relatives: Son of Edward Lawrence Katzenbach and Marie Hilson Katzenbach; married, June 8, 1946, to Lydia King Phelps Stokes; nephew of Frank Snowden Katzenbach Jr.; third great-grandson of Moore Furman; fourth great-grandnephew of John Imlay; first cousin of Frank Snowden Katzenbach III; first cousin five times removed of James Henderson Imlay.   Political family: Katzenbach family of New Jersey.   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books by Nicholas de B. Katzenbach: Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ (2008)   Harris Pendleton (b. 1845) — of Guilford, New Haven County, Conn.; New London, New London County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 15, 1845. Telegraph operator; civil engineer; druggist; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Guilford, 1886; undertaker. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Harris Pendleton (1811-1890) and Sarah (Chester) Pendleton; brother of James Pendleton; married, November 8, 1871, to Mary Brewster Burtch; great-grandnephew of Nathan Pendleton (1754-1841); first cousin twice removed of Nathan Pendleton (1779-1827); second cousin once removed of Charles Marsh Pendleton, James Monroe Pendleton, Cyrus Henry Pendleton and Cornelius Welles Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of Daniel Burrows; third cousin of Calvin Crane Pendleton, Edward Wheeler Pendleton, Joseph Palmer Dyer, Charles Henry Pendleton, Chauncey C. Pendleton, Nathan William Pendleton and Eckford Gustavus Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Lorenzo Burrows and Claudius Victor Pendleton; fourth cousin of Enoch C. Chapman.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Charles C. Sholes (born c.1817) — of Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wis. Born in Connecticut, about 1817. Republican. Telegraph operator; mayor of Kenosha, Wis., 1852-56; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1855; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1860. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Orin Sholes.

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