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Politician Writers in Delaware

Alfredo Lutz Demorest (1881-1934) — also known as Alfredo L. Demorest — of Wilmington, New Castle County, Del.; Washington, D.C. Born in Santiago, Chile, of American parents, February 13, 1881. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; artist; author; U.S. Vice Consul in Trinidad, 1922-34, died in office 1934. Died in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, November 15, 1934 (age 53 years, 275 days). Interment at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.   Relatives: Son of Isaac N. Demorest and Lyda (Morris) Demorest.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Elizabeth Walker Field (born c.1947) — of Wilmington, New Castle County, Del. Born about 1947. Republican. Writer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 2004. Female. Still living as of 2004.   Relatives: Cousin *** of George Walker Bush.   Political family: Bush family of Texas and Massachusetts. Levin Irving Handy (1861-1922) — also known as L. Irving Handy — of Newark, New Castle County, Del. Born in Berlin, Worcester County, Md., December 24, 1861. Democrat. School teacher and principal; Kent County Superintendent of Free Schools, 1887-90; lawyer; Delaware Democratic state chair, 1892-96; newspaper editorial writer; lecturer; U.S. Representative from Delaware at-large, 1897-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, 1900, 1904 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business; speaker), 1908; candidate for Delaware state attorney general, 1904. Died in Wilmington, New Castle County, Del., February 3, 1922 (age 60 years, 41 days). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery, Smyrna, Del.   Relatives: Son of Rev. William Collins Handy and Marie (Breckinridge) Handy; married, January 25, 1887, to Mary Corbit Bell; nephew of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; grandson of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; grandnephew of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston and John Smith Preston; great-grandson of John Breckinridge and Francis Smith Preston; great-grandnephew of James Patton Preston; second great-grandson of William Preston and William Campbell; second great-grandnephew of William Cabell and Patrick Henry; first cousin of Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of John Cabell Breckinridge and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin twice removed of James Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, James McDowell, John Buchanan Floyd and George Rogers Clark Floyd; first cousin thrice removed of William Cabell Jr. and William Henry Cabell; second cousin of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Valentine Wood Southall, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and Edward Carrington Cabell; third cousin of Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John William Leftwich, Stephen Valentine Southall and Earle Cabell; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel Carroll and Charles Carroll of Carrollton; fourth cousin of Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945); fourth cousin once removed of Reuben Handy Meriwether.   Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)

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