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Stephen Bolles (1866-1941) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio; Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Janesville, Rock
County, Wis.
Born in Springboro, Crawford
County, Pa., June 25,
1866.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor and publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1928;
member of Wisconsin
Republican State Central Committee, 1936; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis;
Grange.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 8,
1941 (age 75 years, 13
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
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Edgar Bernard Brossard (b. 1889) —
also known as Edgar B. Brossard —
of Utah; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oxford, Bannock
County, Idaho, April 1,
1889.
Republican. College
professor; economist;
member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1925-45; chair, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1930.
Mormon.
Member, American
Economic Association; Grange; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Zeta; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Amable Alphonse Brossard and Mary Catherine (Hobson) Brossard;
married, August
25, 1915, to Laura P. Crowley. |
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Harold Hitz Burton (1888-1964) —
also known as Harold H. Burton —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho; East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 22,
1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
assistant attorney, Utah Power &
Light Company and Utah Light &
Traction
Company, 1914-16; attorney, Idaho Power
Company and Boise Valley Traction
Company, 1916-17; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member
of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1929; mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1931-32, 1936-41; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1944;
speaker, 1936;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1941-45; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1945-58; took senior status 1958.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Eagles;
Grange; Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Exchange
Club.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
28, 1964 (age 76 years, 128
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Highland Hills, Ohio.
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John Anthony Danaher (1899-1990) —
also known as John A. Danaher —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Portland, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn., January
9, 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1933-35; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1939-45; defeated, 1944; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1953-.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Grange; Beta
Theta Pi.
Died in Litchfield
County, Conn., September
22, 1990 (age 91 years, 256
days).
Interment at Sacred
Heart Cemetery, Meriden, Conn.
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Edward Hart Fenn (1856-1939) —
also known as E. Hart Fenn —
of Wethersfield, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
12, 1856.
Republican. Journalist;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Wethersfield, 1907-08,
1915-16; member of Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1909-12; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 1st District, 1921-31.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Grange.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1939 (age 82 years, 164
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) —
of Millbrook, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 3,
1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1969-95 (28th District 1969-73,
25th District 1973-83, 21st District 1983-93, 19th District 1993-95);
defeated, 1966; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1984.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Grange; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 23,
1996 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Grace (Chapin) Fish; father of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; grandson of Alfred
Clark Chapin and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); grandnephew of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902); great-grandson of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second great-grandson of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833); second great-grandnephew of Chester
William Chapin; third great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); third great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and James
Alexander; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); sixth great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant and Pieter
Van Brugh; sixth great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
de Peyster; descendant *** of Lewis
Morris; first cousin twice removed of John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of Nicholas
Bayard, David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Johannes
DePeyster, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; second cousin once removed of Charles
Mann Hamilton and Robert
Winthrop Kean; second cousin four times removed of James
Jay, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and William
Jay; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin of Thomas
Howard Kean; third cousin once removed of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and Arthur
Beebe Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, David
Edgerton and John
Jay II. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sue
W. Kelly |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Thomas Stephen Foley (1929-2013) —
also known as Thomas S. Foley; Tom Foley —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., March
26, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1965-95; defeated,
1994; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1989-95; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Washington, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1997-2001.
Member, Grange; Elks; Moose; Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Died, from pneumonia
and complications of a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., October
18, 2013 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Anson
County, N.C., April
24, 1837.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1866; newspaper
editor; North
Carolina commissioner of agriculture, 1877-80; national president
of the Farmers' Alliance.
Baptist.
Member, Grange.
Founder of Polkton, N.C. Elected to the North Carolina Agricultural
Hall
of Fame in 1957.
Died from a bladder
hemorrhage, in Washington,
D.C., June 11,
1892 (age 55 years, 48
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks;
Grange; Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
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appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1877-1952) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth, Jr. —
of Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
12, 1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1905-10; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1906-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1915-27; defeated, 1926; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1933-51 (39th District 1933-45,
41st District 1945-51); delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grange; United
Spanish War Veterans; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Union
League; Skull
and Bones.
The U.S. Senate's leading opponent of woman suffrage and alcohol
prohibition.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1952 (age 74 years, 314
days).
Interment at Temple
Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Wolcott Wadsworth and Mary Louisa (Travers) Wadsworth; married,
September
30, 1902, to Alice Hay (daughter of John
Milton Hay); father of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Evelyn Wadsworth (who married William
Stuart Symington); nephew of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; grandson of James
Samuel Wadsworth; grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; great-grandson of Reverdy
Johnson; great-grandnephew of Thomas
Fielder Bowie; second great-grandson of John
Johnson; second great-grandnephew of Robert
William Bowie (1787-1848); third great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott and Robert
William Bowie (1750-1818); third great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr., Benjamin
Mackall IV, Walter
Bowie and Thomas
Mackall; fourth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin four times removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Margaret
Taylor; second cousin once removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; fourth cousin once removed of Eli
Coe Birdsey, George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Munsey's Magazine, June
1919 |
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