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William Shepherd Benson (b. 1855) —
also known as William S. Benson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., September
25, 1855.
Rear admiral and chief of naval operations, U.S. Navy; member, U.S.
Shipping Board, 1920-; chair, U.S. Shipping Board, 1920-21.
Catholic.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Aaron Benson and Catherine Elizabeth (Brewer) Benson;
married, August
6, 1879, to Mary Augusta Wyse. |
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Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1864-1924) —
also known as Frank B. Brandegee —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in New London, New London
County, Conn., July 8,
1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New London, 1889, 1899-1900;
Speaker
of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1899-1900;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1900;
member of Connecticut
Republican State Central Committee, 1901; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1902-05; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-24; died in office 1924.
Member, Union League.
Killed
himself by inhaling from
a gaslight, in Washington,
D.C., October
14, 1924 (age 60 years, 98
days). Five years later, U.S. Sen. Cole
Blease of South Carolina received a letter from a woman alleging
that Brandegee had been murdered;
the letter was turned over to a Senate committee to investigate the
mystery,
but nothing came of it.
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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John Wilbur Dwight (1859-1928) —
also known as John W. Dwight —
of Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y., May 24,
1859.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1888,
1892,
1900,
1904,
1920;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1902-13 (26th District 1902-03,
30th District 1903-13); president, Virginia Blue Ridge Railway,
1913-28.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1928 (age 68 years, 240
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton (1868-1953) —
also known as Charles A. Eaton;
"Doc" —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Toronto, Ontario;
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Watchung, North Plainfield, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Pugwash, Nova
Scotia, March
29, 1868.
Republican. Baptist
minister; magazine
editor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1920,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1925-53 (4th District 1925-33,
5th District 1933-53).
Baptist.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
23, 1953 (age 84 years, 300
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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James Madison Edmunds (1810-1879) —
also known as James M. Edmunds —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Niagara
County, N.Y., August
23, 1810.
Dry goods
merchant; supervisor
of Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, 1838-39; member of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1840-41; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County, 1846-47;
Whig candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1847; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850; lumber
business; Michigan
Republican state chair, 1855-61; Commissioner of the General Land
Office, 1861-66; postmaster at Washington,
D.C., 1869-79.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
14, 1879 (age 69 years, 113
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Wade H. Ellis (b. 1866) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., December
31, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Ohio
state attorney general, 1904-08; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1908.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Wade
Hampton |
| | | Relatives: Son of A. C. Ellis and Kate
(Blackburn) Ellis; married, October
3, 1894, to Dessie Corwin Chase. |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1908 |
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Will H. Parry (1864-1917) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 29,
1864.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; treasurer and manager, Moran Shipbuilding
Co., 1900-15; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1915-17; died in
office 1917.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union League.
Died, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., April
21, 1917 (age 52 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William M. Parry and Elizabeth (Gillette) Parry; married, January
15, 1891, to Harriet Phelps. |
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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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