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Chemical Industry Politicians in the District of Columbia

Nancy E. Boyda (b. 1955) — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Born in St. Louis, Mo., August 2, 1955. Democrat. Chemist; school teacher; U.S. Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 2007-; defeated, 2004; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 2008. Female. Methodist. Still living as of 2014.   Relatives: Married to Steve Boyda.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Edwin Freemont Ladd (1859-1925) — also known as Edwin F. Ladd — of Fargo, Cass County, N.Dak. Born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, December 13, 1859. Republican. Chemist; college professor; president, North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University), 1916-21; U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1921-25; died in office 1925. Member, Phi Gamma Delta. Died in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., June 22, 1925 (age 65 years, 191 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of John Ladd and Rosilla (Locke) Ladd; married, August 16, 1893, to Rizpah Sprogle.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   John Governor Martin (b. 1929) — also known as John Martin — of Washington, D.C. Born in Aiken, Aiken County, S.C., January 4, 1929. Minister; chemist; Third World Assembly candidate for President of the United States, 1988. Baptist. African ancestry. Still living as of 1988.   Whitmell Pugh Martin (1867-1929) — also known as Whitmell P. Martin; Whit P. Martin — of Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La. Born near Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, La., August 12, 1867. Democrat. Chemist; lawyer; District Attorney, 20th District of Louisiana, 1900-06; district judge in Louisiana 20th District, 1906-14; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1912 (alternate), 1920; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1915-29; died in office 1929. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., April 6, 1929 (age 61 years, 237 days). Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.   Relatives: Son of Robert Campbell Martin and Margerite Chism (Littlejohn) Martin; married, April 14, 1896, to Amy Williamson.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Eugene Isaac Meyer (1875-1959) — also known as Eugene Meyer — of Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., October 31, 1875. Republican. Stockbroker; banker; instrumental in the merger of five chemical companies to create Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, 1920; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1928; Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1930-33; bought the Washington Post newspaper in 1933, and was its publisher until 1946; president, World Bank, 1946. Jewish. Died, from heart disease and cancer, at George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C., July 17, 1959 (age 83 years, 259 days). Interment at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Marc Eugene Meyer and Harriet (Newmark) Meyer; married 1910 to Agnes Elizabeth Ernst; father of Katherine Graham.   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Image source: Time Magazine, May 31, 1932   Alexander Buel Trowbridge III (1929-2006) — also known as Alexander B. Trowbridge; Sandy Trowbridge — of White Plains, Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Englewood, Bergen County, N.J., December 12, 1929. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; president, Esso Standard Oil Puerto Rico; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1967-68; vice-chairman, Allied Chemical Corporation. Presbyterian. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2006 (age 76 years, 136 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr. and Julia Stafford (Chamberlain) Trowbridge; married, July 2, 1955, to Nancy Horst; married, April 18, 1981, to Eleanor Joyce 'Ellie' (Kann) Hutzler; great-grandson of Luther Stephen Trowbridge; great-grandnephew of Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge; second great-grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer Trowbridge (1794-1859) and Alexander Woodruff Buel; second great-grandnephew of Charles Christopher Trowbridge; fourth great-grandson of Roger Sherman; first cousin twice removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer Trowbridge (1855-1891); first cousin four times removed of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts and George Frisbie Hoar; first cousin six times removed of Francis Dana; second cousin thrice removed of Simeon Eben Baldwin, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts and Arthur Outram Sherman; third cousin twice removed of Henry de Forest Baldwin and Roger Sherman Hoar; fourth cousin once removed of Archibald Cox.   Political family: Pitkin-Baldwin-Hoar family of Massachusetts (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial

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