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Politicians in Miscellaneous Occupations in the District of Columbia

Paul Case Aiken (1910-1974) — also known as Paul C. Aiken — of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Macksville, Stafford County, Kan.; Arlington, Arlington County, Va.; Washington, D.C. Born in Macksville, Stafford County, Kan., July 24, 1910. Democrat. Lawyer; business executive; Assistant U.S. Postmaster General, 1947-50; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1948; candidate for U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1950. Member, Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Phi Epsilon. Died, from multiple myeloma, in Washington, D.C., May 25, 1974 (age 63 years, 305 days). Cremated.   Relatives: Son of Robert Emmett Aiken and Florence Eva (Case) Aiken; married, August 20, 1933, to Camilla Lindsay.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William Warren Barbour (1888-1943) — also known as W. Warren Barbour; "The Champ" — of Rumson, Monmouth County, N.J.; Locust, Monmouth County, N.J. Born in Monmouth Beach, Monmouth County, N.J., July 31, 1888. Republican. Manufacturer; business executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1928 (member, Resolutions Committee); U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1931-37, 1938-43; appointed 1931; defeated, 1936; died in office 1943; delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large; elected 1933. Presbyterian. Member, Elks; Moose; Society of Colonial Wars. Amateur heavyweight boxing champion of the U.S. and Canada in 1910-11. Died, from coronary thrombosis, in Washington, D.C., November 22, 1943 (age 55 years, 114 days). Interment at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.   Relatives: Son of William J. Barbour and Julia Adelaide (Sprague) Barbour; married, December 1, 1921, to Elysabeth C. Carrere.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) — Born in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1822. Surveyor; explorer; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; led the experiment to use camels in the U.S. Army; during the Mexican War, made six trips between Washington, D.C. and the Pacific coast, relaying military information; thought to be the courier who brought news to Washington of the discovery of gold in California; Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada, 1853-56; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1876-77. Died in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1893 (age 71 years, 77 days). Interment at Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pa.   Relatives: Son of George Dixon Beale and Emily (Truxton) Beale; married 1849 to Mary Edwards (daughter of Samuel Edwards); father of Truxtun Beale.   Political families: Beale-Blaine-Edwards family of Chester, Pennsylvania; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Beale Air Force Base, near Marysville, California, is named for him.  — Beale Street, in San Francisco, California, is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial   Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Salem, New London County, Conn. Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, November 19, 1875. Republican. Explorer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1916 (alternate), 1920 (alternate), 1924, 1928 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1932, 1936 (vice-chair, Resolutions Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1923-25; Governor of Connecticut, 1925; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1924-33; defeated, 1932; censured by the U.S. Senate on November 4, 1929, for employing a paid lobbyist as his chief clerk. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., June 6, 1956 (age 80 years, 200 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of Rev. Hiram Bingham and Clara Minerva (Brewster) Bingham; married, November 20, 1900, to Alfreda Mitchell; married, June 28, 1937, to Suzanne Carroll Hill; father of Hiram Bingham Jr., Alfred Mitchell Bingham and Jonathan Brewster Bingham; second cousin five times removed of Benjamin Huntington; third cousin once removed of Bela Edgerton and Heman Ticknor; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew Griswold, Jonathan Brace, Joshua Coit, Augustus Seymour Porter, Samuel Lathrop and Peter Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Alfred Peck Edgerton and Joseph Ketchum Edgerton; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Abel, Calvin Fillmore, William Woodbridge, Henry Meigs, Isaac Backus, Samuel George Andrews, Martin Olds, Harrison Blodget and Henry Titus Backus.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Wiley Thomas Buchanan Jr. (1914-1986) — also known as Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr. — of Washington, D.C. Born in Myrtle Hill, Van Zandt County, Tex., January 4, 1914. Business executive; U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, 1953-56; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1956; Austria, 1975-77; chief of protocol, U.S. Department of State, 1957-61. Methodist. Died, from Alzheimer's disease, in a nursing home, February 16, 1986 (age 72 years, 43 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Wiley T. Buchanan and Lilla A. (Youngblood) Buchanan; married, April 12, 1940, to Ruth Elizabeth Hale (niece of Margaret Towsley; granddaughter of Herbert Henry Dow; first cousin of Margaret Ann Riecker).   Political family: Dow-Towsley-Hale-Buchanan family of Ann Arbor and Midland, Michigan.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary   Books by Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr.: Red Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the Eisenhower Administration (1964)   Einar W. Dieserud (b. 1892) — of Washington, D.C. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., October 25, 1892. Stenographer; advertising business; U.S. Vice Consul in Christiania, 1917-18. Burial location unknown.   Gustav Adolf Victor Hugo Dittmar (1845-1909) — also known as Gustav Dittmar — of Washington, D.C.; Alexandria, Va. Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin, Germany), June 14, 1845. Patent attorney; notary public; Consular Agent for Germany in Washington, D.C., 1899-1907. Died, in Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., September 29, 1909 (age 64 years, 107 days). Cremated.   Jay Paul Jameson (b. 1883) — also known as J. Paul Jameson — of Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., November 3, 1883. Stenographer; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1909-10; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1910-11; Hankow, as of 1914; U.S. Consul in Nanking, 1915-17. Burial location unknown.   Clifford Wayne McGlasson (1897-1939) — also known as Clifford W. McGlasson — of Washington, D.C. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, October 31, 1897. Stenographer; U.S. Vice Consul in Turin, 1924; Gothenberg, 1924-25; Prague, 1926-27, 1929; Port Said, 1927-29; Lausanne, 1929-32. Died in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia), 1939 (age about 41 years). Cremated; ashes interred at Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Clifford Howell McGlasson and Matilda (Veth) McGlasson; married, July 25, 1928, to Bozena Pospisilova.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Lester L. Schnare (b. 1884) — of Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.; Pensacola, Escambia County, Fla.; Washington, D.C.; Macon, Bibb County, Ga. Born in Mondovi, Buffalo County, Wis., May 15, 1884. School teacher; newspaper editor; stenographer; U.S. Vice Consul in Shanghai, 1916-17; Canton, 1917-18; Yokohama, 1918; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, 1920, 1921; Kobe, 1920-21, 1921-22; Swatow, 1922-23; Cartagena, 1923-27; Breslau, 1927-31; Hamburg, 1931-35; Milan, 1935-38. Member, Freemasons. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Henry W. Schnare and Anna M. (Hefling) Schnare; married, September 29, 1919, to Margaret B. Kloss.   Leonard William Schuetz (1887-1944) — also known as Leonard W. Schuetz — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Posen, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland), November 16, 1887. Democrat. Business executive; U.S. Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1931-44; died in office 1944. Died in Washington, D.C., February 13, 1944 (age 56 years, 89 days). Interment at St. Adalbert's Cemetery, Niles, Ill.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Frederick Simpich (1878-1950) — of Wenatchee, Chelan County, Wash. Born in Urbana, Champaign County, Ill., November 21, 1878. Stenographer; newspaper correspondent; U.S. Consul in Baghdad, 1909-11; Ensenada, 1911; Nogales, as of 1916-17; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Nogales, as of 1914. Suffered a heart attack at National Airport, where he was about to board a plane, and died soon after in Garfield Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1950 (age 71 years, 65 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Married to Margaret Edwards.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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