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Ralph Hunter Daughton (1885-1958) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., September
23, 1885.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1933-44; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1944-47.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Lions.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., December
22, 1958 (age 73 years, 90
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clifford Davis (1897-1970) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Hazlehurst, Copiah
County, Miss., November
18, 1897.
Democrat. Lawyer;
city judge in Tennessee, 1923-27; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1940-65 (9th District 1940-43,
10th District 1943-53, 9th District 1953-65).
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons; Shriners;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Moose; Elks; Order of
Ahepa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 8,
1970 (age 72 years, 202
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, Tenn.
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Ewin Lamar Davis (1876-1949) —
also known as Ewin L. Davis —
of Tullahoma, Coffee
County, Tenn.
Born in Bedford
County, Tenn., February
5, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; circuit judge in
Tennessee, 1910-18; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1919-33; defeated,
1932; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1933-49; died in office 1949;
chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1935, 1940, 1945.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
23, 1949 (age 73 years, 260
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tullahoma, Tenn.
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Charles Coles Diggs Jr. (1922-1998) —
also known as Charles C. Diggs, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
2, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mortician;
member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1951-54; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1955-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968,
1976
(alternate); candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Elks;
Freemasons; American
Legion.
First
chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; charged
in March 1978 with taking kickbacks
from staff whose salaries he raised; convicted,
October 7, 1978, on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false
payroll forms; insisted he had done nothing wrong, and was re-elected
while awaiting sentencing; censured
by the House on July 31, 1979; sentenced
to three years in prison
and served 14 months.
Died, of a stroke,
at Greater Southwest Community Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., August
24, 1998 (age 75 years, 265
days).
Interment at Detroit
Memorial Park East, Warren, Mich.
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Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) —
also known as Everett M. Dirksen; "The Wizard of
Ooze" —
of Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill.
Born in Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill., January
4, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; merchant;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1933-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1940
(alternate), 1948,
1952
(speaker),
1956
(speaker),
1960
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1964
(delegation chair), 1968
(delegation chair); U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1951-69; died in office 1969.
Christian
Reformed. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Eagles;
Elks; Moose; American Bar
Association; Odd
Fellows; Izaak
Walton League.
Died, of lung
cancer, at the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1969 (age 73 years, 246
days).
Interment at Glendale
Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.
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Wesley Ernest Disney (1883-1961) —
also known as Wesley E. Disney —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.; Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Richland, Shawnee
County, Kan., October
31, 1883.
Democrat. Lawyer; Muskogee
County Attorney, 1911-15; member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1919-24; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 1st District, 1931-45; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1948.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Freemasons; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
26, 1961 (age 77 years, 146
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla.
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Paul Rand Dixon (1913-1996) —
also known as Paul R. Dixon —
of Washington,
D.C.; Brentwood, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
29, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1961-81; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1961-69, 1976.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Alpha
Tau Omega; American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died May 2,
1996 (age 82 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Nuckles Doak (1882-1933) —
also known as William N. Doak —
of Roanoke,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.; McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Rural Retreat, Wythe
County, Va., December
12, 1882.
Republican. Vice-president,
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, 1916-28; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Virginia, 1916
(alternate), 1932;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1924; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1930-33.
Methodist.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen; Freemasons; Shriners.
Died of heart
disease, in McLean, Fairfax
County, Va., October
23, 1933 (age 50 years, 315
days).
Entombed at Black Lick Cemetery, Near Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Va.
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Jesse Monroe Donaldson (1885-1970) —
also known as Jesse M. Donaldson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born near Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ill., August
17, 1885.
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1947-53.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., March
25, 1970 (age 84 years, 220
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Truman Library |
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; law
professor; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1948.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher — William
A. Norris |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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George Fiske Dudley (b. 1867) —
also known as George F. Dudley —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Centerville, Wayne
County, Ind., September
25, 1867.
Episcopal
priest; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912 ;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1932.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Lions; Loyal
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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James Henderson Duff (1883-1969) —
also known as James H. Duff; "Big
Red" —
of Carnegie, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Mansfield (now part of Carnegie), Allegheny
County, Pa., January
21, 1883.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1932,
1936
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1940,
1948
(speaker),
1952,
1956;
Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1943-47; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1947-51; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1951-57; defeated, 1956.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; Rotary;
Moose;
Eagles.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
20, 1969 (age 86 years, 333
days).
Interment at Chartiers
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Henry Clarence Dworshak (1894-1962) —
also known as Henry C. Dworshak —
of Burley, Cassia
County, Idaho.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., August
29, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
publisher; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 2nd District, 1939-46; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1946-49, 1949-62; defeated, 1948; died in
office 1962; delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho,
1948,
1960.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Rotary.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 23,
1962 (age 67 years, 328
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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C. Clifton Dyche Jr. (b. 1926) —
of Berkeley Springs, Morgan
County, W.Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 10,
1926.
Republican. Member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Morgan County, 1957-58.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Shriners;
Junior
Order.
Still living as of 1958.
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John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) —
also known as John H. Eaton —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Scotland Neck, Halifax
County, N.C., June 18,
1790.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815-16; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1818-21, 1821-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1829-31; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1834-36; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1836-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Resigned
from Cabinet in 1831 during the scandal
(called the "Petticoat Affair") over past infedelities
of his second wife, Peggy Eaton.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
17, 1856 (age 66 years, 152
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clyde Taylor Ellis (1908-1980) —
also known as Clyde T. Ellis —
of Bentonville, Benton
County, Ark.
Born near Garfield, Benton
County, Ark., December
21, 1908.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1933-35; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1935-39; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1939-43; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1940;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II.
Christian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Blue
Key; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1980 (age 71 years, 50
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joseph Wilson Ervin (1901-1945) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March 3,
1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1945; died in
office 1945.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
25, 1945 (age 44 years, 297
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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Simeon Davison Fess (1861-1936) —
also known as Simeon D. Fess —
of Yellow Springs, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born near Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, December
11, 1861.
Republican. University
professor; author; editor; president
of Ohio Northern University; president
of Antioch College 1907-17; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention, 1912; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1913-23 (6th District 1913-15, 7th
District 1915-23); U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1923-35; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1924,
1932;
Temporary Chair, 1928;
chair, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, chair, 1928;
speaker, 1928;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1930-32.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1936 (age 75 years, 12
days).
Interment at Glen
Forest Cemetery, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Fess and Barbara (Herring) Fess; married 1890 to Eva
Candice Thomas; father of Hamilton
Lehr Fess. |
| | | Epitaph: "A great teacher and orator
whoe life and character were a source of inspiration in the lives of
thousands. Authority on history and government, leader of his
colleagues and confidant of presidents. A genuine patriot whose
loyalty and unimpeachable integrity never yielded to expediency or
compromised a conviction." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) —
also known as Stephen J. Field —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
4, 1816.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of
California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested
in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges
of being party to the alleged murder
of David
S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to
be justifiable homicide.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1899 (age 82 years, 156
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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William Sinton Fitzgerald (1880-1937) —
also known as William Fitzgerald —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
6, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1920;
mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1920-21.
Member, Freemasons.
Died October
3, 1937 (age 56 years, 362
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (1859-1936) —
also known as Duncan U. Fletcher —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born near Americus, Sumter
County, Ga., January
6, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1893; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1893-95, 1901-03; Florida
Democratic state chair, 1905-08; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1909-36; died in office 1936.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 17,
1936 (age 77 years, 163
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Robert Virgil Fletcher (b. 1869) —
of Pontotoc, Pontotoc
County, Miss.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Grant
County, Ky., September
27, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer; Mississippi
state attorney general, 1907-08; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1908-09; general attorney,
Illinois Central Railroad,
1911-19.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John M. Fletcher and Mary (Luman) Fletcher; married, June 26,
1893, to Etta Childers. |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony
Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice
Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry
Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone";
"Martha Careful"; "Benevolus";
"Caelia Shortface" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.
Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Deist.
Member, Freemasons; American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented
bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at
Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La
Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who
married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary
Blechenden Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William
Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert
Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel
Baugh Brewster and Elise
du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles
James Folger, Benjamin
Dexter Sprague and Wharton
Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George
Hammond Parshall. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Williams |
| | | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Hallett
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Saffold
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half
dollar coin (1948-63). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Benjamin Brown French (1800-1870) —
also known as Benjamin B. French —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chester, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
4, 1800.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from District
of Columbia, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary; member, Credentials
Committee; speaker).
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
12, 1870 (age 69 years, 342
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Leslie Coombs Garnett (1876-1958) —
also known as Leslie C. Garnett —
of Mathews, Mathews
County, Va.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Mathews, Mathews
County, Va., December
15, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia; Mathews
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1904-12; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1924;
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1934-37; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1936,
1940.
Member, Phi
Kappa Sigma; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1958 (age 81 years, 119
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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John Ralph Gasque (1913-2004) —
also known as J. Ralph Gasque —
of Washington,
D.C.; Marion, Marion
County, S.C.
Born near Mullins, Marion
County, S.C., May 16,
1913.
Democrat. Lawyer; farmer; real estate
developer; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Marion County,
1945-48; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1949-52, 1956-76 (Marion County 1949-52,
1956-66, 9th District 1967-68, 16th District 1969-72, 11th District
1972-76); resigned 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from South Carolina, 1960,
1964.
Member, Woodmen of
the World; Freemasons; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Sigma
Delta Kappa.
Died, in Marion Nursing
Center, Rains, Marion
County, S.C., April
26, 2004 (age 90 years, 346
days).
Interment at Devotion Gardens, Marion, S.C.; cenotaph at Little Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, Marion County, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Cordie Allison Gasque and Jennie (Price) Gasque. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: South Carolina
Legislative Manual 1964 |
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Albert Horwell Gerberich (1898-1965) —
also known as Albert H. Gerberich —
of Pennsylvania; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Williamstown, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
23, 1898.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1919-22; Bremerhaven, as of 1922-24; U.S. Consul in Maracaibo, 1924-25; college
professor.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1965 (age 67 years, 50
days).
Interment at Atglen
Methodist Cemetery, Atglen, Pa.
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Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1744.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1776-80, 1782-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1786; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1789-93; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1810-12; defeated, 1801, 1812; Vice
President of the United States, 1813-14; died in office 1814.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
The word gerrymander ("Gerry" plus "salamander") was coined to
describe an oddly shaped Massachusetts senate district his party
created in 1811, and later came to mean any unfair districting.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1814 (age 70 years, 129
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gerry; married, January
12, 1786, to Ann
Gerry; grandfather of Elbridge
Thomas Gerry; great-grandfather of Peter
Goelet Gerry; third cousin of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town
of Elbridge,
New York, is named for
him. — The town
of Gerry, New
York, is named for
him. — The town
of Gerry (now Phillipston,
Massachusetts), was named for
him until 1812. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Elbridge
G. Baldwin
— Elbridge
G. Knowlton
— Elbridge
G. Creacraft
— Elbridge
G. Spaulding
— Elbridge
G. Gale
— Elbridge
Gerry
— Elbridge
G. Lapham
— Eldridge
Gerry Pearl
— Elbridge
G. Moulton
— Elbridge
G. Cracraft
— Elbridge
G. Kelley
— Elbridge
G. Haynes
— Elbridge
G. Brown
— Elbridge
G. Davis
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Elbridge Gerry: George
Athan Billias, Elbridge
Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman |
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Paul Eugene Gillmor (1939-2007) —
also known as Paul E. Gillmor —
of Old Fort, Seneca
County, Ohio.
Born in Tiffin, Seneca
County, Ohio, February
1, 1939.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1967-88; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1986; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1989-2007; died in office
2007.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from an accidental fall down
stairs, in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., September
5, 2007 (age 68 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Carter Glass (1858-1946) —
also known as George Carter Glass; "Father of the
Federal Reserve"; "Pluck" —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., January
4, 1858.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; member of Virginia
state senate, 1899-1902; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention from Lynchburg city,
1901-02; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1902-18; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1940,
1944;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1916-28; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-20; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1920-46; died in office 1946; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1920.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in his room at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington,
D.C., May 28,
1946 (age 88 years, 144
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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Thomas Alan Goldsborough (1877-1951) —
also known as T. Alan Goldsborough —
of Denton, Caroline
County, Md.
Born in Greensboro, Caroline
County, Md., September
16, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer; Caroline
County State's Attorney, 1904-08; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1921-39; Judge
of U.S. District Court, 1939-41.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 16,
1951 (age 73 years, 273
days).
Interment at Denton
Cemetery, Denton, Md.
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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) —
Born in London, England,
January
27, 1850.
Democrat. Cigar
maker; Founder and
president, American Federation of Labor; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons; Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
13, 1924 (age 74 years, 321
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; memorial monument at Gompers Square, Washington, D.C.; statue at Gompers Park, Chicago, Ill.
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James William Good (1866-1929) —
also known as James W. Good; "Jimmy
Good" —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born near Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa, September
24, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1909-21; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1929; died in office 1929.
Presbyterian.
Swiss
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
18, 1929 (age 63 years, 55
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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William Raymond Green (1856-1947) —
also known as William R. Green —
of Audubon, Audubon
County, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa.
Born in Colchester, New London
County, Conn., November
7, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; economist;
district judge in Iowa 15th District, 1894-1911; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 9th District, 1911-28; Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1928-40.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons.
Died in Bellport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 11,
1947 (age 90 years, 216
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Walter Quintin Gresham (1832-1895) —
also known as Walter Q. Gresham —
of Indiana.
Born near Lanesville, Harrison
County, Ind., March
17, 1832.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1866, 1868; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1868;
U.S.
District Judge for Indiana, 1869-83; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1883-84; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1884; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1884-93; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 28,
1895 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Harold Royce Gross (1899-1987) —
also known as H. R. Gross —
of Waterloo, Black Hawk
County, Iowa.
Born in Arispe, Union
County, Iowa, June 30,
1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 3rd District, 1949-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
22, 1987 (age 88 years, 84
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Harold Christian Hagen (1901-1957) —
also known as Harold C. Hagen —
of Crookston, Polk
County, Minn.
Born in Crookston, Polk
County, Minn., November
10, 1901.
Newspaper
publisher; executive secretary to U.S. Rep. Richard
T. Buckler, 1935-42; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 9th District, 1943-55; defeated
(Republican), 1954, 1956.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, United
Commercial Travelers; Sons of
Norway; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks; Eagles;
Rotary.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1957 (age 55 years, 129
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Crookston, Minn.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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John Hancock (1737-1793) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4
electoral votes, 1789.
Congregationalist.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August
28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. |
| | | Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hancock,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — Mount
Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland,
Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles
Unger, John
Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow
Giles Unger, John
Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
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Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) —
also known as Winfield S. Hancock —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Montgomery
County, Pa., February
14, 1824.
Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1868,
1876;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1880.
Member, Freemasons; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Governor's Island, New York
County, N.Y., February
9, 1886 (age 61 years, 360
days).
Interment at Montgomery
Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.; statue erected 1896 at Hancock
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Byron Patton Harrison (1881-1941) —
also known as Pat Harrison —
of Gulfport, Harrison
County, Miss.
Born in Crystal Springs, Copiah
County, Miss., August
29, 1881.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 6th District, 1911-19; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1919-41; died in office 1941; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1920,
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940.
Methodist.
Member, Woodmen;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks;
Freemasons; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 22,
1941 (age 59 years, 297
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Gulfport, Miss.
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Dow Watters Harter (1885-1971) —
also known as Dow W. Harter —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, January
2, 1885.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1919-20; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1933-43.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; Eagles;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
4, 1971 (age 86 years, 245
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Belknap Henderson (1873-1954) —
also known as Charles B. Henderson —
of Elko, Elko
County, Nev.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 8,
1873.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Elko
County District Attorney, 1901-05; member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1905-07; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1918-21; appointed 1918; defeated, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1928,
1936;
president and director, Elko Telephone
and Telegraph Company; director, Western Pacific Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
8, 1954 (age 81 years, 153
days).
Interment at Elko
Cemetery, Elko, Nev.
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Leon Henderson (1895-1986) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Rocky Mount, Edgecombe
County, N.C.
Born in Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J., May 26,
1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; economist;
member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1939-41;
administrator, Office of Price Administration, 1941-42.
Member, American
Statistical Association; American
Economic Association; Delta
Upsilon; Freemasons.
Died in October, 1986
(age 91
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Thilman Hendrick (b. 1876) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn., November
12, 1876.
Democrat. Member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1920-21; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1920-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons; Chi Phi;
Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of David Stewart Hendrick and Pattie (Warfield) Hendrick; married, March
18, 1918, to Elizabeth Graff. |
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Ira Greenlief Hersey (1858-1943) —
also known as Ira G. Hersey —
of Houlton, Aroostook
County, Maine.
Born in Hodgdon, Aroostook
County, Maine, March
31, 1858.
Lawyer;
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1886; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1909-12; member of Maine
state senate, 1913-16; U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1917-29; Aroostook
County Probate Judge, 1934-42.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 6,
1943 (age 85 years, 36
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Houlton, Maine.
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Joseph Hewes (1730-1779) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., July 9,
1730.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1766-75, 1778-79; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774-77, 1779; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
10, 1779 (age 49 years, 124
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Samuel Billingsley Hill (1875-1958) —
also known as Samuel B. Hill; Sam B. Hill —
of Waterville, Douglas
County, Wash.
Born in Franklin, Izard
County, Ark., April 2,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer; Douglas
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1907-11; superior court judge in
Washington, 1917-23; U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1923-36; defeated,
1922; judge, U.S. Board of Tax Appeals (Tax Court), 1936-53.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March
16, 1958 (age 82 years, 348
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clyde Roark Hoey (1877-1954) —
also known as Clyde R. Hoey —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., December
11, 1877.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1899-1902; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1903-06; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1904,
1940,
1944
(speaker),
1948,
1952;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 9th District, 1919-21; Governor of
North Carolina, 1937-41; member of Democratic
National Committee from North Carolina, 1941-44; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1945-54; died in office 1954;
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-54; died in
office 1954.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Junior
Order; Knights
of Pythias; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Sigma
Chi.
Died from a stroke,
at his desk in his congressional office,
in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1954 (age 76 years, 152
days).
Interment at Sunset
Cemetery, Shelby, N.C.
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Ernest Frederick Hollings (1922-2019) —
also known as Ernest F. Hollings; Fritz Hollings;
"Foghorn Leghorn" —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., January
1, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1949-55; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1956,
1996,
2000,
2004;
Governor
of South Carolina, 1959-63; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1966-2005; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1984.
Lutheran.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Sertoma.
Died in Isle of Palms, Charleston
County, S.C., April 6,
2019 (age 97 years, 95
days).
Interment at Bethany Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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David Pierson Holloway (1809-1883) —
also known as David P. Holloway —
of Indiana.
Born in Waynesville, Warren
County, Ohio, December
7, 1809.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1843-44; member of Indiana
state senate, 1844-52; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1855-57; lawyer.
Quaker.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
9, 1883 (age 73 years, 276
days).
Original interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery (which no longer exists), Richmond, Ind.;
reinterment at Earlham
Cemetery, Richmond, Ind.
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Joseph Lawrence Hooper (1877-1934) —
also known as Joseph L. Hooper —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
22, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer; Calhoun
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1903-06; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1925-34; died in
office 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1934 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich.
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William Hooper (1742-1790) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 17,
1742.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of North Carolina state
legislature, 1777-78.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., October
14, 1790 (age 48 years, 119
days).
Original interment at Hillsborough
Old Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, N.C.; reinterment in 1894 at Guilford
Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.; memorial
monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Mills Houston (1890-1975) —
also known as John M. Houston —
of Newton, Harvey
County, Kan.; Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Formoso, Jewell
County, Kan., September
15, 1890.
Democrat. Actor;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lumber
dealer; mayor of
Newton, Kan., 1927-31; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 5th District, 1935-43; defeated, 1942;
member, National Labor Relations Board, 1943-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks; Lions.
Died in Laguna Beach, Orange
County, Calif., April
29, 1975 (age 84 years, 226
days).
Entombed at Melrose
Abbey Memorial Park, Anaheim, Calif.
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Perry Wilbon Howard Jr. (1877-1961) —
also known as Perry W. Howard —
of Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Ebenezer, Holmes
County, Miss., June 14,
1877.
Republican. College
professor; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1912,
1916,
1924,
1928
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1956;
member of Republican
National Committee from Mississippi, 1924-60.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Elks; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1961 (age 83 years, 232
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Jerome Klahr Huddle (1891-1959) —
also known as J. Klahr Huddle —
of Fort Recovery, Mercer
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bettsville, Seneca
County, Ohio, March
25, 1891.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Cologne, 1926-30; U.S. Consul General in Warsaw, 1930-35; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1947-50.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Washington,
D.C., March
16, 1959 (age 67 years, 356
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Harry Edward Hull (1864-1938) —
also known as Harry E. Hull —
of Williamsburg, Iowa
County, Iowa.
Born near Belvidere, Allegany
County, N.Y., March
12, 1864.
Republican. Grain
business; mayor of Williamsburg, Iowa, 1889-1901; postmaster;
president, Williamsburg Telephone
Company; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1915-25.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
16, 1938 (age 73 years, 310
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Iowa.
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) —
also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the
First" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March
15, 1767.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37; censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States; on January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot
at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a
house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel,
May 30, 1806; also dueled
with Thomas
Hart Benton and Waightstill
Avery. Elected in 1910 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died, of dropsy (congestive
heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845 (age 78 years, 85
days).
Interment at The
Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson;
married, January
17, 1794, to Rachel (Donelson) Robards (aunt of Andrew
Jackson Donelson). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Caffery
family of Louisiana (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair |
| | | Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Andrew
J. Donelson
— Andrew
Jackson Miller
— Andrew
J. Faulk
— Andrew
Jackson Titus
— Andrew
Jackson Isacks
— Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
— Andrew
J. Harlan
— Andrew
J. Kuykendall
— Andrew
J. Thayer
— Elam
A. J. Greeley
— Andrew
Jackson Ingle
— Andrew
J. Ogle
— Andrew
Jackson Carr
— Andrew
J. Waterman
— Andrew
J. Bentley
— Andrew
J. Rogers
— William
A. J. Sparks
— Andrew
Jackson Poppleton
— Andrew
J. Hunter
— Andrew
Jackson Bryant
— Andrew
J. Beale
— A.
J. Clements
— Andrew
Jackson Baker
— Andrew
J. Felt
— A. J.
King
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
Jackson Greenfield
— Andrew
Jackson Caldwell
— Andrew
Jackson Gahagan
— Andrew
Jackson Biship
— Andrew
Jackson Houston
— Andrew
Jackson Speer
— Andrew
J. Cobb
— Andrew
J. Montague
— Andrew
J. Barchfeld
— Andrew
J. Balliet
— Andrew
J. Kirk
— Andrew
J. Livingston
— A.
J. Sherwood
— Andrew
Jackson Stewart
— Andrew
J. May
— Andrew
J. McConnico
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
J. Brewer
— Andrew
J. Dunning, Jr.
— Andrew
Bettwy
— Andrew
J. Transue
— Andrew
Jackson Graves
— Andrew
Jackson Gilbert
— Andrew
J. Goodwin
— Andrew
J. Hinshaw
— Andy
Young
— Andrew
Jackson Kupper
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $20 bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
appeared on on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $5 to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes.
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Let the people
rule." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert
Vincent Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 —
Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy,
1833-1845 — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 —
Andrew Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson — David S. Heidler & Jeanne
T. Heidler, Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for
Empire — Donald B. Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson — H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times — Jon Meacham, American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Andrew
Jackson, Hero |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Jesse Louis Jackson (b. 1941) —
also known as Jesse L. Jackson;
"Thunder" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., October
8, 1941.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1972;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1984,
1988;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1996.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Council on
Foreign Relations; Omega
Psi Phi.
Civil rights leader; associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.;
recipient of the Spingarn
Medal in 1989.
Still living as of 2021.
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Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892-1954) —
also known as Robert H. Jackson —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.; McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Spring Creek, Warren
County, Pa., February
13, 1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936;
U.S. Solicitor General, 1938-40; U.S.
Attorney General, 1940-41; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-54; died in office 1954.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1954 (age 62 years, 238
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Frewsburg, N.Y.
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William Darius Jamieson (1873-1949) —
of Shenandoah, Page
County, Iowa.
Born near Wapello, Louisa
County, Iowa, November
9, 1873.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Iowa
state senate, 1907-08; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 8th District, 1909-11; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1920.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
18, 1949 (age 76 years, 9
days).
Interment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Henry Lincoln Johnson (1870-1925) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., July 27,
1870.
Republican. Blacksmith;
lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1912-16; member of Republican
National Committee from Georgia, 1920-24.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, and died a few days later in Freedmen's Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., September
10, 1925 (age 55 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, September
28, 1903, to Georgia Douglas Camp. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Louis Arthur Johnson (1891-1966) —
also known as Louis A. Johnson —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., January
10, 1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1917-18;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1924;
National Commander, American Legion, 1932-33; Assistant Secretary of
War, 1937-40; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1949-50.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Chi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Freemasons; Elks; Rotary.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
24, 1966 (age 75 years, 104
days).
Interment at Elkview
Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
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