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William Farrington Aldrich (1853-1925) —
also known as William F. Aldrich —
of Aldrich, Shelby
County, Ala.
Born in Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y., March
11, 1853.
Republican. Civil engineer; mining
business; manufacturer;
postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1896-97, 1898-99,
1900-01; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1900,
1904.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., October
30, 1925 (age 72 years, 233
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Miller Baer (1886-1970) —
of North Dakota.
Born in Black Creek, Outagamie
County, Wis., March
29, 1886.
Civil engineer; farmer; cartoonist;
postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from North Dakota 1st District, 1917-21; defeated
(Non-Partisan League), 1920.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1970 (age 83 years, 326
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
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William Hannum Grubb Bullard (1866-1927) —
also known as William H. G. Bullard —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Media, Delaware
County, Pa., December
6, 1866.
Electrical
engineer; served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American
War; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S. Navy Admiral;
authority on radio
communications; member, Federal Radio Commission, 1927; died in
office 1927.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
24, 1927 (age 60 years, 353
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Michael Carmody (1881-1963) —
also known as John M. Carmody —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Towanda, Bradford
County, Pa., 1881.
Democrat. Engineer; labor relations executive in coal
industry; editor of Coal Age trade
journal; member, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-36;
administrator, Rural Electrification Administration, 1937-39;
director, Federal Works Agency, 1939-41; member, U.S. Maritime
Commission, 1941-46.
Died November
10, 1963 (age about 82
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael John Carmody and Catherine 'Kate' (Collins) Carmody;
married, October
4, 1913, to Margaret Cross. |
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August
7, 1833.
Republican. Engineer; surveyor;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872
(delegation chair), 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Whitney Cooke (b. 1856) —
of Bowman's Creek, Wyoming
County, Pa.; Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.
Born in Wyoming
County, Pa., October
3, 1856.
Engineer; surveyor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1891.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C.
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Relatives:
Married to Emma Florence Clark. |
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Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven (b. 1893) —
also known as T. A. M. Craven —
of Washington,
D.C.; Virginia.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; radio
engineer; member, Federal Communications Commission, 1937-44,
1956-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven; married, September
25, 1915, to Josephine La Tourette; married 1931 to Emma
Stoner. |
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Proctor Lambert Dougherty (b. 1873) —
also known as Proctor L. Dougherty —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1873.
Republican. Engineer; Manager, Otis Elevator Co., 1919-26; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1926-30.
Congregationalist;
later Unitarian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of M. Angelo Dougherty and Mary Elizabeth (Proctor) Dougherty;
married, October
12, 1910, to Grace Cook Holmes. |
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William Ward Duffield (b. 1823) —
also known as William W. Duffield —
of Michigan; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., November
19, 1823.
Democrat. Civil engineer; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1879-80; chief engineer for railways;
superintendent, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1894-98.
Burial location unknown.
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Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887-1976) —
Born in Parkerville, Morris
County, Kan., April
17, 1887.
Engineer; Major General, U.S. Army; Governor of
Panama Canal Zone, 1940-44.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1976
(age about
89 years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Milton Fessenden (1804-1883) —
also known as John M. Fessenden —
Born in Warren, Bristol
County, R.I., December
21, 1804.
Civil engineer; worked on canals
and railroads;
U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1850-54.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1883 (age 78 years, 49
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Fessenden and Abigail Miller (Child) Fessenden; married, May 21,
1834, to Mary Pierce Bumstead; married, June 25,
1868, to Sarah Ann Murphy; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake; third cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin once removed of William
Pitt Fessenden, Walter
Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen, Joseph
Palmer Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); third cousin twice removed of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Peter
Rawson Taft, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor and Charles
Grenfill Washburn. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Philip Bond Fouke (1818-1876) —
also known as Philip B. Fouke —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., January
23, 1818.
Democrat. Civil engineer; newspaper
publisher; lawyer;
prosecuting attorney for 2nd circuit, 1846-50; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1851; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1859-63; colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
3, 1876 (age 58 years, 254
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Garcia (1933-2017) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
9, 1933.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; computer
engineer; member of New York
state assembly, 1966-67 (83rd District 1966, 77th District 1967);
resigned 1967; member of New York
state senate 30th District, 1967-78; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1978-90 (21st District 1978-83,
18th District 1983-90); resigned 1990; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984,
1988;
indicted
in 1988, along with his wife, on federal bribery
and extortion
charges;
convicted
in October 1989 and sentenced
to three years in prison
(served 104 days); the conviction was reversed on appeal; retried
and again convicted
in 1991; the second conviction was also overturned, and prosecutors
dropped the case.
Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Died in San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, January
25, 2017 (age 84 years, 16
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South
Africa; Washington,
D.C.; Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March
31, 1855.
Republican. Mining
engineer; worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked
for Cecil Rhodes; in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, an attempt
to overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; was arrested
with other leaders and sentenced
to be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventually
released to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1908;
chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from coronary
occlusion, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 8,
1936 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Mahone (1826-1895) —
of Virginia.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., December
1, 1826.
Civil engineer; president, chief engineer, superintendent,
Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; president,
Norfolk and Western Railroad;
U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1881-87.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
8, 1895 (age 68 years, 311
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) —
also known as Mike Mansfield —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
16, 1903.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining
engineer; university
professor; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; defeated in
primary, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Montana, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Martyn Robert (1837-1923) —
Born in Robertville, Jasper
County, S.C., May 2,
1837.
Engineer; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; author of Robert's
Rules of Oreder; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1890-91.
Died in Hornell, Steuben
County, N.Y., May 11,
1923 (age 86 years, 9
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joseph Thomas Robert and Adeline Elizabeth (Lawton) Robert;
married 1860 to Helene
Marie Thresher; married to Isabel Livingston
Hoagland. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Worthington Russell (1859-1944) —
also known as William W. Russell —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
3, 1859.
Civil engineer; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1904-05; Venezuela, 1905-09; Dominican Republic, 1910-13, 1915-25; Siam, 1925-27.
Died in 1944
(age about
84 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Hoval A. Smith (1876-c.1954) —
of Arizona.
Born in Iowa, 1876.
Republican. Mining
engineer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1911.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Advocated the annexation of Sonora from Mexico to the U.S.
Died about 1954 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married to Nina R. Smith. |
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John Stewart (1822-1904) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Perth, Scotland,
March
22, 1822.
Civil engineer; Consul-General
for Paraguay in Washington,
D.C., 1884-1904.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
6, 1904 (age 82 years, 259
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John George Stewart (1890-1970) —
also known as J. George Stewart —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., June 2,
1890.
Republican. Civil engineer; U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1935-37; defeated, 1936;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee).
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1970 (age 79 years, 356
days).
Interment at Lower
Brandywine Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Owls Nest, Del.
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Henry Clifford Stuart (1864-1952) —
also known as Henry C. Stuart; "Stuart
X" —
of Denver,
Colo.; Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
10, 1864.
Mining
engineer; real estate
investor; author;
director-general, Guaremala Central Railroad;
U.S. Vice Consul General in Guatemala City, 1885-86; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1893.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 21,
1952 (age 87 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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