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Portus Baxter (1806-1868) —
of Vermont.
Born in Brownington, Orleans
County, Vt., December
4, 1806.
Merchant; candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 3rd District, 1861-67.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 4,
1868 (age 61 years, 91
days).
Interment at Strafford
Cemetery, Strafford, Vt.
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Elijah Brigham (1751-1816) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Westborough (part now in Northborough), Worcester
County, Mass., July 7,
1751.
Merchant; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1791-93; common pleas court judge
in Massachusetts, 1795-1811; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1796, 1798, 1801-05, 1807-10; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1799-1800, 1806; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1811-16 (10th District
1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 12th District 1815-16); died in office
1816.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1816 (age 64 years, 230
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Josiah Henry Brinker (1851-1920) —
of Sparta, Chickasaw
County, Miss.; West Point, Clay
County, Miss.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Houston, Chickasaw
County, Miss., October
2, 1851.
Democrat. Merchant; cotton
dealer; banker;
postmaster at West
Point, Miss., 1887; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Mississippi, 1892;
U.S. Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, 1913.
Baptist.
Died in 1920
(age about
68 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Harrison Brinker and Kezziah A. (Kilgore) Brinker; married,
December
8, 1870, to Mary A. Montgomery; married, July 17,
1911, to Henrietta (Thomas) Greenwood. |
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Lyman Rufus Casey (1837-1914) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Jamestown, Stutsman
County, N.Dak.
Born in York, Livingston
County, N.Y., May 6,
1837.
Republican. Merchant; manufacturer;
U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1889-93.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
26, 1914 (age 76 years, 265
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Chester Bidwell Darrall (1842-1908) —
also known as Chester B. Darrall —
of Brashear (now Morgan City), St. Mary
Parish, La.; Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La.
Born near Addison, Somerset
County, Pa., June 24,
1842.
Republican. Physician;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant; planter;
member of Louisiana
state senate, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1869-79, 1881-83;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1888.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1908 (age 65 years, 191
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin Franklin Deming (1790-1834) —
also known as Benjamin F. Deming —
of Vermont.
Born in Danville, Caledonia
County, Vt., August
12, 1790.
Merchant; Caledonia
County Clerk of Court, 1817-33; Caledonia
County Probate Judge, 1821-33; member of Vermont
Governor's Council, 1827-32; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 5th District, 1833-34; died in office
1834.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 11,
1834 (age 43 years, 333
days).
Interment at Danville
Green Cemetery, Danville, Vt.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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Augustine Heard (1827-1905) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., December
7, 1827.
Merchant; U.S. Minister to Korea, 1890-93.
Died on
board the steamship Konig Albert, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, en route from Naples to New York, December
14, 1905 (age 78 years, 7
days).
Interment at Highland Cemetery, Ipswich, Mass.
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Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835-1909) —
also known as Ethan A. Hitchcock —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., September
19, 1835.
Republican. Merchant; partner in China trade; president of manufacturing,
mining,
and railroad
companies; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1898-99; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1899-1907.
Died April 9,
1909 (age 73 years, 202
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Thomas Morris Johnston Jr. (1856-1930) —
also known as John T. M. Johnston —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ashland, Boone
County, Mo., March
17, 1856.
Democrat. Merchant; banker; minister;
pastor, First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Mo., 1887-97; chaplain
of Missouri Senate and Missouri State Prison; pastor, Delmar Avenue
Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo., 1897-1907; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1904 ; college
professor; president, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City,
1910-14; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1916.
Baptist.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., September
9, 1930 (age 74 years, 176
days).
Interment at New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Ashland, Mo.
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Tracy Hollingsworth Lay (b. 1882) —
also known as Tracy Lay —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala., November
5, 1882.
Newspaper
reporter; department store manager; U.S. Deputy Consul
General in London, 1912-14; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Dublin, 1914; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Paris, 1914-15; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1915-19; U.S. Consul General in Munich, 1923-25; Buenos Aires, 1926-28.
Methodist.
Member, American
Political Science Association; American
Economic Association; Sigma
Nu.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Patrick Lay and Laura Josephine (Hollingsworth) Lay;
married, October
5, 1921, to Marcia Bliss. |
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Bert Lord (1869-1939) —
of Afton, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in Sanford, Broome
County, N.Y., December
4, 1869.
Republican. Merchant; lumber
business; member of New York
state assembly from Chenango County, 1915-21, 1924-30; member of
New
York state senate 40th District, 1930-34; U.S.
Representative from New York 34th District, 1935-39; died in
office 1939.
Member, Freemasons;
Redmen;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1939 (age 69 years, 171
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Afton, N.Y.
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Alexander Macomb (1748-1831) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), 1748.
Fur trader;
merchant; land
speculator; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1788-89, 1790-91.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1831
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Paul Mahoney (1848-1889) —
also known as Peter P. Mahoney —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 25,
1848.
Democrat. Merchant; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1885-89.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
27, 1889 (age 40 years, 275
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) —
also known as Justin S. Morrill —
of Strafford, Orange
County, Vt.
Born in Strafford, Orange
County, Vt., April
14, 1810.
Republican. Merchant; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 2nd District, 1855-67; U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1867-98; died in office 1898.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
28, 1898 (age 88 years, 258
days).
Entombed at Strafford
Cemetery, Strafford, Vt.
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Rita L. Mullins (born c.1946) —
of Palatine, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Washington,
D.C., about 1946.
Antique dealer; village
president of Palatine, Illinois, 1989-97; candidate in Republican
primary for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1992; mayor
of Palatine, Ill., 2005-09; defeated, 2009.
Female.
Still living as of 2009.
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Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., November
24, 1740.
Merchant; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1776-85; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1784-85; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1787-88; Secretary of
the United States Senate, 1789-1814.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
22, 1814 (age 73 years, 149
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Otis (1702-1778) and Mary (Allyne) Otis; married, December
31, 1764, to Elizabeth Gray; married, March
28, 1782, to Mary (Smith) Gray; father of Harrison
Gray Otis (1765-1848); great-grandfather of James
Otis (1836-1898); third great-grandfather of Robert
Helyer Thayer; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; first cousin four times removed of Albert
Clinton Griswold; second cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis; second cousin twice removed of Oran
Gray Otis, Day
Otis Kellogg, Asa H.
Otis, Dwight
Kellogg, John
Otis, William
Shaw Chandler Otis, David
Perry Otis, Harris
F. Otis, James
Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison
Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Augustus Otis, Sr., George
Lorenzo Otis, John
Grant Otis, Norton
Prentiss Otis, Lauren
Ford Otis and Charles
Eugene Otis; second cousin four times removed of Ralph
Chester Otis; third cousin once removed of Chillus
Doty; third cousin twice removed of James
Duane Doty, George
Bailey Loring and Abraham
Lansing; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Doty. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Otis
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Richard Pollard (1790-1851) —
of Virginia.
Born in King and
Queen County, Va., 1790.
Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant; U.S.
Consul in Mexico City, 1833-34; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Chile, 1834-42.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
19, 1851 (age about 60
years).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Estate Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Va.
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John Schwartz (1793-1860) —
of Reading, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Sunbury, Northumberland
County, Pa., October
27, 1793.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;
merchant; iron
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1859-60; died in
office 1860.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 20,
1860 (age 66 years, 237
days).
Interment at Charles
Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Samuel W. Taylor (1833-1892) —
of Washington,
D.C.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
11, 1833.
Merchant; Prominent in Washington local politics.
Died, from apoplexy,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 31,
1892 (age 59 years, 171
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Williams (1731-1811) —
of Lebanon, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., April
28, 1731.
Merchant; pastor;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1757; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-79, 1784-1802.
Congregationalist.
Died August
2, 1811 (age 80 years, 96
days).
Interment at Trumbull
Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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George Washington Wright (1816-1885) —
also known as George W. Wright —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.; Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 4,
1816.
Merchant; banker; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Died in Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April 7,
1885 (age 68 years, 307
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.
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Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845) —
also known as Samuel G. Wright —
of Imlaystown, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Wrightstown, Burlington
County, N.J., November
18, 1781.
Whig. Merchant; owner of iron
furnaces; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1845; died in office
1845.
Quaker.
Died near Imlaystown, Monmouth
County, N.J., July 30,
1845 (age 63 years, 254
days).
Interment at East
Branch Cemetery, Cox's Corner, N.J.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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